Kerry Picket: A Whistleblower Reveals that James Comey Ordered and Directed an "Off-the-Books" Operation, Before Any Official Criminal Investigation, Into Trump, Sending "Honey Pot" Spies Into His Campaign in 2015

The House Judiciary Committee is examining a new whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation.
An FBI agent involved in the probe revealed the off-the-books criminal investigation on Tuesday in a protected disclosure sent to the committee.
The whistleblower disclosure said that two female FBI undercover agents successfully infiltrated Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as "honey pots" while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail.

See the whole article for more. It's short, and I can't excerpt more. It's worth the full read, promise.

Is this legit? Is the whistleblower for real?

I don't know. It sure does comport with what we know about the viperine "former" communist James Comey.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:11 PM

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1 Guess I'll go call 'em?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:11 PM (O7YUW)

2 Comey may have ordered but one of his minions came up with the idea. According to PDT, Comey is an idiot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:12 PM (tT6L1)

3 Comport? Viperine?

Shit's getting fancy.

Posted by: Monosyllabic Prefer at October 29, 2024 01:12 PM (y+Syu)

4 viperine communist James Comey.

GASSSSS HIM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 29, 2024 01:12 PM (G8YqU)

5 Nooding duties performed.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:12 PM (O7YUW)

6 Somebody is sensing where the winds are blowing, and are positioning themselves for success when the new crew comes to town.

DOGE has a LOT of work to do.

Posted by: itzWicks at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (VlFBK)

7 I'm impressed by Picket's charge!

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (krQz2)

8 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (wrmXa)

9 Time for most of the Nat Sec leadership to spend some decades in prison

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (oZhjI)

10 I can't excerpt more.

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We believe in you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

11 Seems far-fetched. Enough people would have needed to know about it to make it difficult to keep under wraps.
But...
I wouldn't put it past them.
The real question...where are the operatives today?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (W/lyH)

12 Gonna have to go get my dictionary.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (CIS44)

13 Who names these operations? Do they use those poetry fridge magnets and throw a few on the floor?

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (pZEOD)

14 so did they ever take the anti-commie rules off the books?

If not, we can clean house really quick, no?

Posted by: bensdad00 at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (F/35S)

15 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (wrmXa)
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You didn't even wait til the midnight hour.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (krQz2)

16 Also: COBs: This spammer { posting id (G0sZM) } is back again today and has hit all four of the first threads, starting with the Tech Thread.

Honestly, it's always the same advertised website, and maybe that website should just go on the "permanently prevents the post from being made" list.

Die spammers, die.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (O7YUW)

17 So the self righteous and morally perfect did that?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (kTd/k)

18 It sure does comport with what we know about the viperine communist James Comey.

Viperine, rodential, whatevs.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (xCA6C)

19 Reminder: this is the designated hour for praying Horde to spend some time asking God to stop the corruption in America. There was another aspect that it was suggested to pray about, but unfortunately I've forgotten what it was.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (s9EYN)

20 So... everything we all knew in our gut was happening, happened.

We need to stop calling them conspiracy theories and just start calling them prophecy.

The Left isn't smart or clever or creative, they are only persistent.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (0thIS)

21 Remember all the stuff the left claimed the FBI was doing to them in the 60s? Odd isn't it that they did all those same things as soon as they acquired the power to do so

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (oZhjI)

22 The FBi using agents as honeytraps? Wouldn't surprise me but it also strikes me as something that's probably illegal and quite immoral.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (tT6L1)

23 Viperine
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Hey, that's the name of my mouthwash!

Posted by: Kamala at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (hmOfI)

24 I wish we could win next week so they might pay a price. But I'm doubting it.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (1bNHn)

25 Is the whistleblower for real?

I'm gonna guess that they've met all the years needed for max retirement so their conscience finally got their attention.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

26 I can't excerpt more.
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Somebody put a coat over this man and lead him off the stage.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (krQz2)

27 A lot of sunlight finding a lot of shitbirds as we inch closer to the election. I expect this to continue to build.

Posted by: scampydog at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (2bFN5)

28 1. Pics or it didn't happen.

2. Did they have big tits?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 29, 2024 01:16 PM (ufFY8)

29 The FBi using agents as honeytraps? Wouldn't surprise me but it also strikes me as something that's probably illegal and quite immoral.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (tT6L1)

They tried the SS, but only had Agent Fupa.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 01:16 PM (CIS44)

30 All these calls are for naught unless the investigation and the charges are filed in North Dakota.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:16 PM (rj6Yv)

31 Does this make it Pickett's Charge?

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:16 PM (0thIS)

32 Viperine, rodential, whatevs.

Turns out rodentine is also a word:

Adv., pertaining to or describing the skittish, rodent-like behaviors of social outcasts and the lower echelon leeching off their perceived superiors.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 01:16 PM (xCA6C)

33 More and more stuff is coming out about what intelligence agencies have been up to. It's almost like the people inside the agencies are tired of the stupidity and begging for someone to be out of bubblegum and start kicking ass.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

34 I’d better temper my responses going forward. Not only does Ace know Mollie, but she calls him!
I am impress, chief.

Posted by: RI Red at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (sGZEA)

35 Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (v6JzV)

36 Trump up 49 to 48 in MI, per far-right wing extremist pollster Emerson.

Even more Hitlerist is he's 50/50 on likable.
While Joy is 49/51 ... likable.

Polls are racist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (5BIGS)

37 June 2015, huh? And yet they still got nothing.

Maybe we have a clear insight into how and why so many "Republicans" turn? And why Trump was backstabbed so often? And why I believe I have to make my point with question marks?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (hmOfI)

38 there is a theory that COviD was an op that coalesced around an anti-Trump IC op starting much earlier. It ramped up so fast in social media and news censorship because the foundations were right there.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (D7oie)

39 Honestly, it's always the same advertised website, and maybe that website should just go on the "permanently prevents the post from being made" list.

Die spammers, die.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:14 PM (O7YUW)

Send the link to Tim Walz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (RdRoZ)

40 32.

I feel seen.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (0thIS)

41 Just doing their patriotic duty to stop Hitler.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (ArbhN)

42 36 Trump up 49 to 48 in MI, per far-right wing extremist pollster Emerson.

Even more Hitlerist is he's 50/50 on likable.
While Joy is 49/51 ... likable.

Polls are racist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (5BIGS)

========

If I were to try and use polls to predict things at this point, the issue results probably give a better insight into the state of the race than topline numbers that are well, well inside the margin of error.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

43 >>>4 viperine communist James Comey.
GASSSSS HIM

can you stop with this, man?

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (KRtlO)

44 Is this legit? Is the whistleblower for real?

Revealed seven years after the fact.

Color me doubtful.

Posted by: SEC Official at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (aD39U)

45 If they were honey pots, were they successful? Who in Trump's organization was involved. Do we know.
Better yet, were they ladies turned?
(Two can play that game too ya know.)

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (W/lyH)

46 dammit

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (aD39U)

47 So, Pennsylvania early voting really is in-person absentee ballot voting. Weird.

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (RHGPo)

48 Ace, a suggestion for a different term next time you write about low-crawling evil ones:

Viperous

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (aBgBM)

49 Comey is a loathsome scumbag slime-o shitmonger. He can join Clapper in my 10th Circle of Hell with poisonous spiders gnawing on his uterine tract for all eternity.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

50 Hmmm, a lot of this stuff is coming out now, maybe to get ahead of a Trump win when he forces all the books to be opened up? Would have been more helpful to the country if these facts were brought out, say, 2016 or so.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (AqGFD)

51 Sorry, but I never bought the "just the summer of 2016" crap, because the fed involvement just seemed to come earlier and earlier.

And some good journalists indicated that Crossfire Hurricane was only the sacrificial victim of investigations into Trump. It was the one they admitted to, to make it all seem late and at least thinly "justified".

Paul Sperry said he had some indicators that the thread extended into 2015.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (krQz2)

52 One of my favorite adjectives relating to an animal is "hystricine."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (v6JzV)

53 >>>Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Don't I know it!

https://tinyurl.com/49aske2v

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (KRtlO)

54 *twitches*

Posted by: Mjölnir at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (aD39U)

55 47 So, Pennsylvania early voting really is in-person absentee ballot voting. Weird.
Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (RHGPo)

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Not doing things obviously and easily is a clear sign of a state that keeps things clean, dontchaknow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

56 Trump is jumping off the top rope now. Threatening to seize the cartels' money and assets to create a fund for the victims of illegal alien crime while simultaneously attacking Kamala on X for mistreating Crooked Joe. Too funny.

Posted by: jmel at October 29, 2024 01:20 PM (RWHIh)

57 My view of Comey comes from Bush's AG , Gonzales who documented what a lying weasel Comey was based on Comey's delusional version of their meeting with Ashcroft in the hospital.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:20 PM (ndoNK)

58 can you stop with this, man?
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM (KRtlO)

Note: ace always sounds incredibly thoughtful and reasonable three seconds before he doesn't.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:20 PM (hmOfI)

59 53 >>>Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Don't I know it!

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1850714056266764439
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (KRtlO)

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That girl is so backwards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

60 It sure does comport with what we know about the viperine communist James Comey.

Viperine, rodential, whatevs.
Posted by: Archimedes
......

I thought he was a pine-scented Druid philosopher.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

61
* flexes in double biceps pose *

* owns Thread, walks away, having completed work here today *

Posted by: David Hogg at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (a3Q+t)

62 8 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (wrmXa)

Given the season;

Bobby Boris Pickett > Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett

Posted by: browndog doing the Monster Mash at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (TTAGa)

63 Comey and Christopher Wray have nary a shred of decency between them.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (kTd/k)

64 So the IC " community" running an op inside the united states against Trump and for the dems.

Seems like Tapper might want report on this. He seemed concerned about shit like this happening when he "interviewed vance". He's just an honest to goodness impartial reporter dontcha know.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (uBBbP)

65 eyebrows. Those are really aggressive eyebrows, ace.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (D7oie)

66 Ace's radioactivity blew his own margins with an x link

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (hmOfI)

67 Trump up 49 to 48 in MI, per far-right wing extremist pollster Emerson.
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Benson controls our elections. Not happening.

Even if Trump wins it on Day X, she is the only person in Michigan who can contest the election. She will and Kamal will be crowned the winner.

There would have to be a pretty big Too Big To Rig margin, and 1% is nothing.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (krQz2)

68 Remember all the stuff the left claimed the FBI was doing to them in the 60s? Odd isn't it that they did all those same things as soon as they acquired the power to do so
Posted by: 18-1

They only objected to it being done to them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (/lPRQ)

69 https://tinyurl.com/49aske2v

I don't know what the hell this girl just said but whatever it was, I agree

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (KRtlO)

70 Alrighty. Who blew the fucking margins.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (zgRls)

71 I think you could add some credence to this by considering that Trump is likely not going to accept the "standard" transition team funds from the Fed Govt. this time around and go about his prep on his own.

If you go down the 2016 transition team listing you will find a shit ton of people that made a point to stab him in the back at every opportunity throughout his first term. The DOJ representatives in particular.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (dIske)

72 @53/ace: My only complaint about what she said is she wants people out there voting for Trump early. This gives advance information to the enemy as to exactly how much they need to cheat.

Vote in person, on voting day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (O7YUW)

73 Mike Nelliss, former campaign adviser to Harris, says it's Rogan that needs Harris on his podcast, that he needs her to "go more mainstream."

That kind a brilliant insight was cut from Team Joy in Your Face?

She must have real crackerjack genius to not need him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (5BIGS)

74 47 So, Pennsylvania early voting really is in-person absentee ballot voting. Weird.

yeah it's really dumb

we don't have "early voting"

everything is a mess here after that asinine "vote reform" bill that Doug Mastriano helped pass (which is odd, isn't it?).

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (s3qiR)

75 67 Benson controls our elections. Not happening.

Even if Trump wins it on Day X, she is the only person in Michigan who can contest the election. She will and Kamal will be crowned the winner.

There would have to be a pretty big Too Big To Rig margin, and 1% is nothing.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (krQz2)

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WI is probably going to go Trump, and that's the election.

MI could end up going Trump if they decide to hold back in the face of defeat they can't reverse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

76 One has to wonder why, seemingly all of a sudden, shit that we've suspected or 'known' about is now being validated. There are a lot of people that should end up under the proverbial bus.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (Q4IgG)

77 >>> Ace's radioactivity blew his own margins with an x link

it did? Seems like a short enough link. It's only about 100 characters

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (KRtlO)

78 -
He's just asking for her phone number.
Absolutely not!
C'mon. The fbi would give him twins.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (xI6JS)

79 Better yet, were they ladies turned?
(Two can play that game too ya know.)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 01:18 PM

--

That depends. Were counter-Paolos deployed?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (wzAuc)

80 Brings back memories of double naught agents horse face and what his name talking about insurance policies.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (uBBbP)

81 I saw Off the Books Honey Pots open for the Pussycat Dolls at Caesar's Palace in '07.

Posted by: brak at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (NGHTx)

82 Listen, listen, none of this originated with Comey, Comey is a f**king lackey and does the bidding of the people running the show.

Remember, Sally Yates said that it was Joe Biden during a White House meeting with her, Comey, Obama and Biden, that suggested using the Logan Act to go after General Flynn, and what you know it, that's just what they did.

So I can guarandamntee you that Trump was under heavy investigation by all parts of the LE/IC apparatus well before 2015, and probably dating back to Birthergate, which again was a Hillary Clinton instigated hit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (XV/Pl)

83 Wasn't James Comey the one that let Hillary get off scot-free with actual crimes against the US - the "No Reasonable Prosecutor" standard? For a crime with actual secret information that was not properly secured. And it wasn't a "Mens Rea" kind of crime either.

Wonder what the statute of limitations is for that, AND for the cover-up.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (QNMaY)

84 Ace, there’s this cool app called Bitly …

Posted by: RI Red at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (sGZEA)

85 Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Don't I know it!
https://tinyurl.com/49aske2v

Dayum. And I like that the subtitles are right at cleavage level.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (v6JzV)

86 They tried the SS, but only had Agent Fupa.
Posted by: BruceWayne
_____

80s cop show, I think. Fupa and Gunt. Agent Fupa helped Det. Gunt solve cases. At the end of the episode they retired to their shared apartment for some tea. IIRC

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (AqGFD)

87 The chickens are coming home to roost, and quite a few of them should be thrown on a spit and roasted over a fire.

You want to throw Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail for Contempt of Congress? I wonder what people like Comey and Clapper deserve?

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (Jiopi)

88 eyebrows. Those are really aggressive eyebrows, ace.

Right?
*fans self*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (xCA6C)

89 @70: Good bet it was Kamala Harris, she'll blow anything.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (O7YUW)

90 Of course he did. He had to "Save Democracy."

Posted by: Holmes at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (zhWvq)

91 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (QfVgE)

92 i replaced the link with a tinyurl one

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (KRtlO)

93 ace you probably meant the vipering "former" commie Brennan? Comey's a typically totally unfit unqualified sub-mediocrity who rose to dizzying heights starting with the Clinton era. But Brennan's the lightweight nutcase who actually claimed to vote for the CPUSA in 1980.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (GcNJ2)

94 How was the FBI able to get any good looking Dem honeypots? They are very rare.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (ndoNK)

95 So the IC " community" running an op inside the united states against Trump and for the dems.

Seems like Tapper might want report on this. He seemed concerned about shit like this happening when he "interviewed vance". He's just an honest to goodness impartial reporter dontcha know.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM (uBBbP)

In cahoots with the British.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)

96 eyebrows. Those are really aggressive eyebrows, ace.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:21 PM

Can we mark you down as a Hardwoodian?

Posted by: David Hogg at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (a3Q+t)

97 One has to wonder why, seemingly all of a sudden, shit that we've suspected or 'known' about is now being validated. There are a lot of people that should end up under the proverbial bus.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (Q4IgG)
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Intelligent rats deserting a sinking ship and knowing they can provide sacrificial targets.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (krQz2)

98 @83

>>Wasn't James Comey the one that let Hillary get off scot-free with actual crimes against the US - the "No Reasonable Prosecutor" standard? For a crime with actual secret information that was not properly secured. And it wasn't a "Mens Rea" kind of crime either.

Again, in no functioning government does the head of the FBI make the charging determination, it not his f**king role.

As stated above, he's the lackey and sneakly little shit they sent out there to do Loretta Lynch's job.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (XV/Pl)

99 53 >>>Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Don't I know it!

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (KRtlO)
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Nice sweater. Somehow I had trouble following what she said, though.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (1bNHn)

100 https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1850714056266764439

I don't know what the hell this girl just said but whatever it was, I agree
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM

Brb....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (ZANHd)

101 How was the FBI able to get any good looking Dem honeypots? They are very rare.

Plenty of attractive women will do literally anything for money you know.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (oZhjI)

102
If they were honey pots, were they successful?

__________

They sent Lena Dunham as bait.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (EsZUh)

103 Vote in person, on voting day.

so at least from my perspective here in PA, you can't win either way. there are OFTEN problems at voting centers on Election Day here. not just with PDJT before him too.

like, if you're in an R district, the power goes out. or they run out of paper. etc etc

there were ALWAYS weird problems and people not getting to vote - especially in the morning and after work, when people with jobs would be voting, ergo "not the people we want voting" according to our Dems

btw the reason I registered D in the first place was that my older boyfriend at the time was registered R and every time he tried to vote there was some problem - he wasn't on the list, some issue. he seemed to never be able to vote! he'd have to go to some judge who would send him on his way (this was in Center City Philadelphia).

then I registered D and it was like we'd both go in, same address, and I was on the registry and he never was. every cycle he'd have to fight it again.

PA is a "rotten borough" as Black Adder would say.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (s3qiR)

104 Remember when Comey exonerated Hillary's homebrew server/family money washing machine, and Hilary said it ruined her campaign?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (wBaIH)

105 Seems like ace has decided to settle family business a week before the election.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (jOCuK)

106 98 Again, in no functioning government does the head of the FBI make the charging determination, it not his f**king role.

As stated above, he's the lackey and sneakly little shit they sent out there to do Loretta Lynch's job.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (XV/Pl)

========

If I remember correctly, the statute didn't allow for that kind of allowance on Comey's part anyway. He essentially broke the law by choosing to not pursue charges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

107 rhomboid, Comey said that he had at times been both a communist and "a Reaganite."

Press X to doubt on the latter.

https://www.newyorker.com/news
/news-desk/james-comeys-intellectual-history

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (KRtlO)

108 Wait...the Feds sent hookers to Trump?

On other news, I am announcing today my campaign for President

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (RRZXB)

109 @92/ace:

Another trick you can use is to just separate the link with a carriage return like this:

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/
status/1850714056266764439

When highlighted in Firefox, you can still right click and select "Open Link in new tab" and Firefox knows to put the two pieces back together and open the link. No trouble at all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (O7YUW)

110 My only complaint about what she said ...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM

--

I have to go back and turn on the sound.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (wzAuc)

111 How was the FBI able to get any good looking Dem honeypots? They are very rare.
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Naomi Wolf used to be a leftie.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (krQz2)

112 >>> Hot girls are waiting for you at
Trump campaign HQ. Don't I know it!

Love it! Hitler also got to see the Nazis at the Trump rallies, and was NOT impressed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZZU4xXtqE

I think he'd gas everyone in that building.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (QAK8m)

113 Wasn't James Comey the one that let Hillary get off scot-free with actual crimes against the US - the "No Reasonable Prosecutor" standard? For a crime with actual secret information that was not properly secured. And it wasn't a "Mens Rea" kind of crime either.

Wonder what the statute of limitations is for that, AND for the cover-up.
Posted by: Another Anon at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (QNMaY)

And Hillary just blamed Right wing Trump supporter Comey for her loss in 2016.

Mentally ill and evil is a hell of a combo.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:26 PM (ndoNK)

114 I'm going to need details about the recruitment and training of official US Government honey trap agents. Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (pIfcn)

115 How was the FBI able to get any good looking Dem honeypots? They are very rare.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:24 PM (ndoNK)

Is Wussion invention.

Posted by: Pavel Chekov at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (aD39U)

116 Honey Pots are waiting for you.

Posted by: Homely Comey at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (63Dwl)

117 Yo, today is children's day at the freak-off!

Dress yo little honey pots up in white and bring em round!

10'll get you 20...or more!

Posted by: P Diddy at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (Ofh+n)

118 I'm probably the last to find this out, but JD will be on Rogan's podcast tomorrow.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (efuu+)

119 Can the President order the Attorney General to order the head of the FBI to change FBI rules of operation such that all FBI interrogations and other interactions must be audio and video recorded?

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (i0F8b)

120 please stop reposting my long link, people are saying it blew the margins and I have to keep zapping it in people's re-posts

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (KRtlO)

121 Gassing Comey would be perfectly fine, once he's been convicted of treason in a duly-constituted court of law.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (RdRoZ)

122 So. If a bunch of folks vote before the actual election, doesn't that make it easier to know how many votes need to be manufactured to make up
The difference? And if we all vote early, we won't be getting the Election Day bounce we normally do.

We aren't going to beat the cheat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (XDi3x)

123 If they were honey pots, were they successful?
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Oh bother!

Posted by: Winnie at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (krQz2)

124 @107/ace: Never mind, I see you already know that trick.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (O7YUW)

125 https://tinyurl.com/49aske2v

I don't know what the hell this girl just said but whatever it was, I agree
Posted by: ace
.......

I watched it twice with the sound off, then one more time for a few seconds with the sound on.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (v0R5T)

126 They sent Lena Dunham as bait.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2024 01:25 PM (EsZUh)

Catfish bait

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (NtVYv)

127 8 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (wrmXa)

Said he was going to come and jam with us, but did he show? No! Tosser.

Posted by: Jimmy Rabbitt, ex-Commitments Manager at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (LxER7)

128
Anyone remember "bu$hitler?"

The hitler bullshit didn't start in 2016.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (rTJOi)

129 Wasn't James Comey the one that let Hillary get off scot-free with actual crimes against the US - the "No Reasonable Prosecutor" standard? For a crime with actual secret information that was not properly secured. And it wasn't a "Mens Rea" kind of crime either.

Wonder what the statute of limitations is for that, AND for the cover-up.
Posted by: Another Anon at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (QNMaY)

Comey had no power to do anything, and all he had to do was say, "can't find nuttin' we can charge" and drop the mic and Hillz would have been back in abusing the staff with the best of them. What he did instead was enumerate actual crimes and indications of a few buried bodies, and walk off.
I do believe this was to kneecap Hillz and sideline her forever, which it did for the political end of things.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (D7oie)

130 Newsflash: my native chinese friend who taught me many moons ago about the Cultural Revolution but doesn't recognize what's happening in this country and used to send me John Oliver links about Climate Change all the time, just... voted Trump.

He said he thinks Democrats have gotten "too extreme". This is very new. I don't know what happened.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:29 PM (hmOfI)

131 President Trump should give the Press Corps little honey pots as a Christmas gift right before he revokes their credentials.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:29 PM (hXyUD)

132 Comey didn't learn anything from the email debacle. He had to say something, because he was forced into it, due the existence of the server becoming widely known. Comey let Hillary off the hook, but, Hillary still pilloried Comey.

Yet, Comey remains ever the lackey.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:29 PM (tT6L1)

133 Evidently, the Deep State knew early what a threat Trump was to their sand box. They started work immediately trying to undermine him.

Trump was outmatched in his first term. Maybe he has learned enough to be a bigger danger to the Deep State this time.

Posted by: Ralph at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (TysyT)

134 So. If a bunch of folks vote before the actual election, doesn't that make it easier to know how many votes need to be manufactured to make up
The difference? And if we all vote early, we won't be getting the Election Day bounce we normally do.

We aren't going to beat the cheat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (XDi3x)
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What I remember from 2020 is that most states have to wait until after the election day count is made in order to start counting the early votes.

So, it's the reverse. When conservatives insisted on voting day of, the Dems knew exactly how many had to be counted on subsequent days to overtake.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (krQz2)

135 it did? Seems like a short enough link. It's only about 100 characters
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (KRtlO)

On my phone it did. Unless it was something above you. Some do some don't.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (hmOfI)

136 @112/LizLem: Oh that's PERFECT.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (O7YUW)

137 Thanks ace, didn't know that, and surprised. Brennan was obviously a special kind of freak from the first time one encountered him. Comey comes off as a run of the mill Beltway nothing who gets power and wealth by burrowing into stupid Dem networks.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (GcNJ2)

138
Jennifer Rubin’s hot...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (5hfjS)

139 Comey had no power to do anything, and all he had to do was say, "can't find nuttin' we can charge" and drop the mic and Hillz would have been back in abusing the staff with the best of them. What he did instead was enumerate actual crimes and indications of a few buried bodies, and walk off.
I do believe this was to kneecap Hillz and sideline her forever, which it did for the political end of things.

These people remind me of an old flashlight kept outside. It looks normal on the outside, but it won't light, and when you open it up, it's a mass of corrosion and decay.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (xCA6C)

140 Comey pretty much tied an anchor around the first Trump Presidency.
Wonder who PDT has in mind to run the FBI and cover his back?

Posted by: DAN at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (/Zc2s)

141 130 Newsflash: my native chinese friend who taught me many moons ago about the Cultural Revolution but doesn't recognize what's happening in this country and used to send me John Oliver links about Climate Change all the time, just... voted Trump.

He said he thinks Democrats have gotten "too extreme". This is very new. I don't know what happened.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:29 PM (hmOfI)

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Well, replacing "moderate" Biden (a lie) with radical leftist from San Francisco Kamala Harris might have been a sign.

Also, by doing it without the people in the Democrat Party getting a vote on it.

Also...the love affair with trannyism...and antifa...and Palestine...and all the other things...

In all fairness, the signs were very well hidden!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

142 Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (D7oie

The FBI director didn't have the power to do anything? Definitely sounds like a position that can be eliminated. /s

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (ndoNK)

143 Jake tapper looks like he was injected with Botoxoplasmosis!!!!!

Now resembles a cross between Randi Weingarten and rosa Delauro.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (vpvXb)

144 Good theme today for election season . Our Government and its Propaganda Ministries are a Bunch of Scumbags.
Not that we didn't know that but it's good to get the specifics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (aRslG)

145 Comey pretty much tied an anchor around the first Trump Presidency.
Wonder who PDT has in mind to run the FBI and cover his back?
Posted by: DAN at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (/Zc2s)

Shutter it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (CIS44)

146 >>>Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Don't I know it!

https://tinyurl.com/49aske2v
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:19 PM (KRtlO)
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I will need to see more before I can ummm express an opinion

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (RRZXB)

147 >>> I'm probably the last to find this out, but JD will be on Rogan's podcast tomorrow.

God loves me and wants me to have nice things!

Kamala refuses to do longer than an hour and schlep herself to Texas (despite taking a government jet to go THREE MILES, from Andrews to Reagan airports), so Rogan is refusing to interview her. Keep it up libs!

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (QAK8m)

148 - Blew the margins?
What are you talking about?
I'm on a fairly small phone and no effect.
Unless that's sarcasm directed at a certain individual then,,, go for it.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (xI6JS)

149 I don't think it was Comey who was the "former" communist, it was one of the heads of the CIA, John Brennan.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (jfvTO)

150 Ace, serious question: what are the "rules" for pull quotes? How much can you use, and what is the 'controlling authority'?

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (NMT5x)

151 it did? Seems like a short enough link. It's only about 100 characters
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (KRtlO)

On my phone it did. Unless it was something above you. Some do some don't.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (hmOfI)

Wasn't the standard line of text 80 characters? (hobbles off on cane)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (RdRoZ)

152 22 The FBi using agents as honeytraps? Wouldn't surprise me but it also strikes me as something that's probably illegal and quite immoral.
Posted by: blake
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Spy tactic which the IC uses. That indicates that the FBI is not now a law enforcement agency but rather a federal political police.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (ctrM5)

153 Amazing (and scary) thing for me is that I feel like I just do NOT know, or ever knew, anyone in my personal or professional life that could do this level of evil and sleep well at night, yet our professional senior government class seems to have no problems with this level of treachery at all!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (hOUT3)

154 Comey had no power to do anything, and all he had to do was say, "can't find nuttin' we can charge" and drop the mic and Hillz would have been back in abusing the staff with the best of them. What he did instead was enumerate actual crimes and indications of a few buried bodies, and walk off.
I do believe this was to kneecap Hillz and sideline her forever, which it did for the political end of things.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (D7oie)

And let's not forget US AG Loretta Lynch's part in this Devil's Parade.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (rj6Yv)

155 We aren't going to beat the cheat.

I've got a shipping container full of non postmarked ballots we can count for days after the election that says you're right

Posted by: Nevada at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (NGHTx)

156 @128/Soothsayer: Anyone remember "bu$hitler?"

All too well.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (O7YUW)

157 134 What I remember from 2020 is that most states have to wait until after the election day count is made in order to start counting the early votes.

So, it's the reverse. When conservatives insisted on voting day of, the Dems knew exactly how many had to be counted on subsequent days to overtake.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (krQz2)

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It's a state by state rule, and some of those have changed.

I think FL counts before election day. GA will start counting on election day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

158 Repost:

Textbook

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (i24o9)

159 75 TJM

Pretty compelling evidence that NC may be triage for Harris.

Per an article at Red State, she's withdrawing ad time she'd previously reserved. Documented. Same article analyzes early voting, & it's all bad for Harris. AA vote is down substantially from 2020; GOP early vote is way up from 2020.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (NLIak)

160 Jennifer Rubin’s hot...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (5hfjS)

...and smart!

Posted by: Judith Miller at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (v0R5T)

161 Based on this post and the one downstairs, there has better be prosecutions, convictions, and hangings or this country is lost if it is not already.

Whether Trump has the guts to do what must be done remains to be seen.

Hopefully Elon, Vivek, J.D. and the rest have the backbone. They have the smarts but what happened in the first term must not only NOT HAPPEN AGAIN in a second term but NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (RIvkX)

162 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

He said something about them getting rid of standardized testing and then something about, shocker, illegals. He doesn't understand why illegals are getting all our money. And he's basically become a bleeding heart idiot in his latter years. Good to see he ain't lost his sense totally.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (hmOfI)

163
Did Liz Lem find her iphone?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (rTJOi)

164 I do believe this was to kneecap Hillz and sideline her forever, which it did for the political end of things.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 01:28 PM (D7oie)
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Not exactly. The New York field office pressured Comey that if he didn't come forward with the evidence from the Weiner laptop, they would.

Comey tried to save Hillary, the boss he anticipated, the best the could. But she was undeniably guilty as the new evidence showed.

Comey was not in a position to determine what prosecution should go forward, but put forth his pronouncement anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (krQz2)

165 "Jake Tapper is the smartest most straight shooting reporter in the business "

- Some pansy who posted here yesterday.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (1bNHn)

166 @106

>>If I remember correctly, the statute didn't allow for that kind of allowance on Comey's part anyway. He essentially broke the law by choosing to not pursue charges.

The specific statues in question have no intent component, ie regardless of if you didn't intend to be a criminal scumbag operating a wide open bathroom server crammed with top secret material you had no right to possess which you had your lackeys, who themselves did not have sufficient security clearance to even see, collect from air gapped systems and sent to you via non-approved communication methods, you should have been facing the criminal indictment, no matter what some Curtain Hiding Lurch Motherf**ker says.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (XV/Pl)

167 Anyone remember "bu$hitler?"

I preferred Chimpy McHitlerburton

Posted by: brak at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (NGHTx)

168 Fuck this noise. If the DOJ can imprison people for praying outside abortion mills, Trump can lock these treacherous assholes up

Posted by: UGAdawg at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (tRd71)

169 I wonder how many pets and kids the FBI shot during that honeypot sting investigation.

Had to have been a few.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (hXyUD)

170 >>>Ace, serious question: what are the "rules" for pull quotes? How much can you use, and what is the 'controlling authority'?

I don't think there's a well defined amount. It obviously can't be the whole piece. I would say it really shouldn't be more than one "part" of the article, though what a "part" is is hard to define.

I know I've been sloppy on way over-quoting people lately.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (KRtlO)

171 159 75 TJM

Pretty compelling evidence that NC may be triage for Harris.

Per an article at Red State, she's withdrawing ad time she'd previously reserved. Documented. Same article analyzes early voting, & it's all bad for Harris. AA vote is down substantially from 2020; GOP early vote is way up from 2020.
Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (NLIak)

=======

Theory:

NC was never close. The race was set in May, and the whole replace Biden with Kamala gambit only ever moved the needle on the ground in the wrong direction for the Democrat Party.

Instead, Democrats believed their pollsters that they paid for polls showing them close in NC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

172 We aren't going to beat the cheat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (XDi3x)
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I believe there are a couple of things in play here:

One: GOTV has been problematic for the GOPe. By problematic, I mean it's something the GOPe traditionally avoided doing.

Two: By getting people to vote early, it avoid congestion at polling places and, by extension, removes the "we were overwhelmed and had to turn people away" excuse for why a Republican under performed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (tT6L1)

173 Could it be that, all along, the FBI has been compromising politicians in the best tradition of J. Edgar Hoover? Could it be then a long shot that panderers like Epspein and Combs have been operating under the protection and at the behest of the FBI and I.C.????

Posted by: Augusto Perez at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (iFJ2f)

174 141 130 Newsflash: my native chinese friend who taught me many moons ago about the Cultural Revolution but doesn't recognize what's happening in this country and used to send me John Oliver links about Climate Change all the time, just... voted Trump.

He said he thinks Democrats have gotten "too extreme". This is very new. I don't know what happened.
Posted by: ...
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That is why there is always hope no matter how dark the skies appear. Ninevah was saved by the residents recognizing Jonah's call to repent--etc etc.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (ctrM5)

175 It's a state by state rule, and some of those have changed.

I think FL counts before election day. GA will start counting on election day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

Still not difficult to run ballots through a machine.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (9mfKN)

176 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (wrmXa)
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You didn't even wait til the midnight hour.
Posted by: Axeman
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[rummages in desk for slide rule]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

177 134 So. If a bunch of folks vote before the actual election, doesn't that make it easier to know how many votes need to be manufactured to make up
The difference? And if we all vote early, we won't be getting the Election Day bounce we normally do.

We aren't going to beat the cheat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (XDi3x)
---
What I remember from 2020 is that most states have to wait until after the election day count is made in order to start counting the early votes.

So, it's the reverse. When conservatives insisted on voting day of, the Dems knew exactly how many had to be counted on subsequent days to overtake.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:30 PM (krQz2)

VA does not count until the election closes. But since all ballots are counted by an electric machine (backed up by the paper ballots inside), it's a very rapid count on election night.

Dems always dominate early voting. If we all early vote, that certainty of early voting dominance is gone and they have no idea how much they need to cheat on election day...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (exHjb)

178 Trump is up in AZ, GA, NC, and NV.

If he takes NH, that's 272.

Re: NV saying that they can count ballots received up to 3 days after Election Day.
Yes, but these are ballots that they have already mailed weeks ago.
Meaning, 1) they sent out all the ballots they could have sent already, 2) they sent far less than 2020, 3) Republicans are pushing close to a 50k lead now vs. down 81k in 2020.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (5BIGS)

179 Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (xI6JS)

No I am being legit. Depends on browser and resolution settings.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (hmOfI)

180 165.

It is possible to be the cleanest turd in the punch bowl while remaining a turd.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (hXyUD)

181 >>>Wasn't the standard line of text 80 characters?

huh, I dunno.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (KRtlO)

182 162 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

He said something about them getting rid of standardized testing and then something about, shocker, illegals. He doesn't understand why illegals are getting all our money. And he's basically become a bleeding heart idiot in his latter years. Good to see he ain't lost his sense totally.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (hmOfI)

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"Illegals are getting all the welfare because the Democrat Party wants them to get all the welfare. It's what you voted for. It's what the Democrat Party campaigned on for years. Are you stupid?"
-all out of shits for people realizing in current year that Dems are insane

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

183 You want to throw Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail for Contempt of Congress? I wonder what people like Comey and Clapper deserve?
Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (Jiopi)

There are all those cells for the Jan 6 group. We even have precedent that you can keep them there without bail and charges while we investigate.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (n7h9X)

184 Instead, Democrats believed their pollsters that they paid for polls showing them close in NC.

==

We only charge for the work we perform !

---DNC pollsters

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (V13WU)

185 I believe there are a couple of things in play here:

One: GOTV has been problematic for the GOPe. By problematic, I mean it's something the GOPe traditionally avoided doing.

Two: By getting people to vote early, it avoid congestion at polling places and, by extension, removes the "we were overwhelmed and had to turn people away" excuse for why a Republican under performed.

Posted by: blake
=========
All true and good observations.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (ctrM5)

186 That girl is so backwards.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

Oooo!!!!
I love lefties!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (W/lyH)

187 For the Qassem discussion in the last thread...there were some good ones.

This headline from MSN is hilarious! """Hezbollah’s Fiery New Leader Vows ‘Long Battle’ with Israel as Tensions Explode After Nasrallah’s Assassination"""

Fiery new leader? Why yes, yes he will be!

Tensions explode? Balls...balls exploded.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (NMT5x)

188 Then: Genocidal Maniac Dick Cheney wants to use the FBI to spy on people that dissent from the government line!

Now: We need to use the FBI to spy on people that dissent from the government line!

Also Now: We love Dick. And Dick Cheney!

Posted by: The left at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (oZhjI)

189 159 75 TJM

Pretty compelling evidence that NC may be triage for Harris.

Per an article at Red State, she's withdrawing ad time she'd previously reserved. Documented. Same article analyzes early voting, & it's all bad for Harris. AA vote is down substantially from 2020; GOP early vote is way up from 2020.
Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:32 PM (NLIak)
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Yes. I live in NC, and my normal doom and gloom isn't operative here. I think we'll win. My only concern is that the respectable Republicans have torpedoed Robinson. Well, they'll never get my vote again.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (1bNHn)

190 Wasn't the standard line of text 80 characters?

huh, I dunno.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (KRtlO)

Old CRT monitors were 25 lines by 80 columns

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (n7h9X)

191 Still not difficult to run ballots through a machine.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
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We're all over this.

Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

192
Marine LePen was taking victory laps before the election, too...

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (rTJOi)

193 I don't think there's a well defined amount. It obviously can't be the whole piece. I would say it really shouldn't be more than one "part" of the article, though what a "part" is is hard to define.

I know I've been sloppy on way over-quoting people lately.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (KRtlO)

As long as it is clearly attributed, does it not constitute "fair use"? You are giving the guy exposure he would not otherwise get. That is valuable to him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (RdRoZ)

194 178 Trump is up in AZ, GA, NC, and NV.

If he takes NH, that's 272.

Re: NV saying that they can count ballots received up to 3 days after Election Day.
Yes, but these are ballots that they have already mailed weeks ago.
Meaning, 1) they sent out all the ballots they could have sent already, 2) they sent far less than 2020, 3) Republicans are pushing close to a 50k lead now vs. down 81k in 2020.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (5BIGS)

=======

I don't put it past the D party of NV to just create tens of thousands of ballots, count them as fast as possible before any court order, and then dare courts to invalidate real votes mixed in with the obviously fake ones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

195 "Could it be then a long shot that panderers like Epspein and Combs have been operating under the protection and at the behest of the FBI and I.C.????"

Whitey Bulger has entered the chat.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (hXyUD)

196 "Jake Tapper is the smartest most straight shooting reporter in the business "

- Some pansy who posted here yesterday.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (1bNHn)

I'm pretty sure that pansy was Jake Tapper.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (lCppi)

197 - hmmm
Maybe some folks using a much larger font than my 70yr old eyes need?
Orrr, maybe holding phone verticle?

Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (xI6JS)

198
After DEI at the FBI, the dead giveaway that a female agent is a honey trap is they can stand and pee at the urinal.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (+oR7L)

199 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024

***
Gary Pickett and the Union Gap

(Oh. Wait. That was *Puckett." Never mind.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (J2vNu)

200 You should watch MAGA girl with the sound off. The subtitles are right at cleavage level.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (v6JzV)

201 So. If a bunch of folks vote before the actual election, doesn't that make it easier to know how many votes need to be manufactured to make up
The difference? And if we all vote early, we won't be getting the Election Day bounce we normally do.

We aren't going to beat the cheat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 01:27 PM (XDi3x)

If 2020 showed us anything, it showed us that they'll just keep adding votes until they get the number they need. People talk about them generating ballot for people who didn't vote but how many "votes" exist in Georgia for ballots which don't exist? What about Detroit? Trying to game the system to make it so that they cannot cheat is a losers game.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (ExV1e)

202 I am skeptical, mostly because of the honeypot allegation. But after the last 8 years I guess I would not be surprised?

Posted by: Candidus at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (eqAj8)

203 I don't put it past the D party of NV to just create tens of thousands of ballots, count them as fast as possible before any court order, and then dare courts to invalidate real votes mixed in with the obviously fake ones.

I don't put it past the D party of every swing state to do this

Posted by: brak at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (NGHTx)

204 Theory:

NC was never close. The race was set in May, and the whole replace Biden with Kamala gambit only ever moved the needle on the ground in the wrong direction for the Democrat Party.

Instead, Democrats believed their pollsters that they paid for polls showing them close in NC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

Assuming that's also true in TX Senate race, b/c if we lose that, the Senate may be lost...so we can't lose that...

Everyone should assume the polls are close, and get out for Cruz b/c Mitch is backstabbing him. If you need any more evidence Cruz is with us and not against us, that's it!

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (exHjb)

205 189 Yes. I live in NC, and my normal doom and gloom isn't operative here. I think we'll win. My only concern is that the respectable Republicans have torpedoed Robinson. Well, they'll never get my vote again.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (1bNHn)

=======

Robinson may come through. I could imagine a shy Tory effect around him.

I wouldn't predict it. Too many polls (spit) for too long showing him losing outside the margin of error.

I'm open to there being a polling miss, especially with D underperformance in early voting in the state, but enough to save his candidacy? I can only hope, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

206 191 Still not difficult to run ballots through a machine.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
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We're all over this.
Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

I meant it in the sense that it’s fast to count by running them through the machine.

But also what you wrote.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (9mfKN)

207 @151/Alberta Oil Peon: Wasn't the standard line of text 80 characters? (hobbles off on cane)

Yep, and it came from punched cards where two rows of 40 characters were encoded as an 80 character line of data.

Now on a VT52 or VT100 terminal, if you wanted to be sure to avoid wrap, you limited to 79.

Then there was the TRS-80 model 1 and 3 that only displayed 64 characters per line.

I'll just grab my cane and join you for that walk.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (O7YUW)

208 149 tank

Correct. Brennan said it was just a one-off protest vote.

Sanders honeymooned in Khrushchev's USSR. Walz visits China so often you'd think his mom lives there.

I place great store on these kind of things telling us who the person really IS.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (NLIak)

209 What about Detroit? Trying to game the system to make it so that they cannot cheat is a losers game.

The 2016 recount by some leftwing fringe candidate ended immediately when she started finding just how many of these types of votes there were.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (oZhjI)

210 Also Now: We love Dick

Posted by: The left at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (oZhjI)
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Not news.

The bag is a giveaway.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (krQz2)

211
flowerpots teapots crockpots copperpots cat pots pisspots honeypots saucepots greasepots stockpots crackpots

honeypots for sale

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (y9nCu)

212 The honeypot story is new but we went over two years into the Trump administration before the FBI admitted they had spied on candidate Trump .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (ndoNK)

213 June 2015, huh? And yet they still got nothing.

Maybe we have a clear insight into how and why so many "Republicans" turn? And why Trump was backstabbed so often? And why I believe I have to make my point with question marks?
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:17 PM (hmOfI)

Oh! Could that explain Romney tanking? And McCain basically withdrawing? Hmmm?

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (lCppi)

214
I don't put it past the D party of NV to just create tens of thousands of ballots, count them as fast as possible before any court order, and then dare courts to invalidate real votes mixed in with the obviously fake ones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
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I think it will depend on the casinos. Harry Reid would have lost his re-election bid to a TEA party person a decade ago or so, if not for help from LV casinos. If the casinos decide Trump is the better bet, Trump wins.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (tT6L1)

215 Can someone please remove that honeypot pic from the home page's right sidebar?

This has been a public service announcement.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (0nnuA)

216 Yes. I live in NC, and my normal doom and gloom isn't operative here. I think we'll win. My only concern is that the respectable Republicans have torpedoed Robinson. Well, they'll never get my vote again.
Posted by: Eeyore
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On a local scale, Robinson has been just as targeted as Trump on a national scale. I've actually had door-knockers handing out anti-Robinson literature.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (XeU6L)

217 170 >>>Ace, serious question: what are the "rules" for pull quotes? How much can you use, and what is the 'controlling authority'?

I don't think there's a well defined amount. It obviously can't be the whole piece. I would say it really shouldn't be more than one "part" of the article, though what a "part" is is hard to define.

I know I've been sloppy on way over-quoting people lately.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (KRtlO)
________
Doesn't that cause trouble for Jonah Goldberg?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (1bNHn)

218 Could it be that, all along, the FBI has been compromising politicians in the best tradition of J. Edgar Hoover? Could it be then a long shot that panderers like Epspein and Combs have been operating under the protection and at the behest of the FBI and I.C.????
Posted by: Augusto Perez at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (iFJ2f)

They could have, you know, stayed clean. Even without the FBI it has been obvious that the MSM would destroy a GOP that did anything under the table and was a threat to the deep state.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (n7h9X)

219 That girl is so backwards.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell
......

I like doggy style.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (v0R5T)

220 209 What about Detroit? Trying to game the system to make it so that they cannot cheat is a losers game.

The 2016 recount by some leftwing fringe candidate ended immediately when she started finding just how many of these types of votes there were.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (oZhjI)

========

The greatest failing of the Trump administration was not taking up the suit after Stein dropped it.

Imagine a 2020 where Michigan cleaned up its elections. Not enough to swing it overall, but...different.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

221 I'm pretty sure that pansy was Jake Tapper.

Let me tell you about the greatest person who ever lived-- John Kerry...

Posted by: John Kerry at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (1Idb6)

222 Jen Rubin ... looks absolutely horrible. She was never a babe, but she wasn't hideous either. She's aged 25 years in 5. She's 62 but looks 10 years older at least. The fact that she's a pitch-faced scolding self-gassing Jew and bitter cat lady makes her even more odious.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

223 186 That girl is so backwards.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

Oooo!!!!
I love lefties!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (W/lyH)

I'm sorry ...

I read that as "I love titties"

Was that wrong?

Posted by: browndog jumps on the tables at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (TTAGa)

224 And he thinks Trump is a racist for calling it the "Chinese Virus". He felt targeted.

Still voted for him though.

I guess standardized testing is a "kitchen table issue".

Or Trump convinced him about illegals which is what I REALLY think happened. That's all Trump talked about in both debates. He was talking to people like my friend. Not us.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (hmOfI)

225 Everyone should assume the polls are close, and get out for Cruz b/c Mitch is backstabbing him. If you need any more evidence Cruz is with us and not against us, that's it!
Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (exHjb)

But GOLDMAN-SACHS!

Kidding, I’m only kidding.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (9mfKN)

226 Yep, and it came from punched cards where two rows of 40 characters were encoded as an 80 character line of data.

Now on a VT52 or VT100 terminal, if you wanted to be sure to avoid wrap, you limited to 79.

Then there was the TRS-80 model 1 and 3 that only displayed 64 characters per line.

I'll just grab my cane and join you for that walk.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (O7YUW)

I'll see my way off your lawn.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (i24o9)

227 Is this legit? Is the whistleblower for real?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

I don't care. At this point, it's up to the Alphabets to prove each and every accusation against them is false. The benefit of the doubt is revoked.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (fkTBe)

228 "Jake Tapper is the smartest most straight shooting reporter in the business "

- Some pansy who posted here yesterday.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:33 PM (1bNHn)

I'm pretty sure that pansy was Jake Tapper.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:36 PM (lCppi)

Tapper has to be a reader here, as many times as Ace has ripped his ass

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (NtVYv)

229 They broke every law, regulation, policy, procedure, process, norm and practice to get Trump.

And had only lies they manufactured in the end.

But they still think they are the good guys.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (5BIGS)

230 229 They broke every law, regulation, policy, procedure, process, norm and practice to get Trump.

And had only lies they manufactured in the end.

But they still think they are the good guys.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (5BIGS)

=======

"There's a human skull on our hats."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

231 149 tank

Correct. Brennan said it was just a one-off protest vote.

Sanders honeymooned in Khrushchev's USSR. Walz visits China so often you'd think his mom lives there.

I place great store on these kind of things telling us who the person really IS.
Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (NLIak)

I believe Bill Clinton was also an attempted recruit by the KGB when he was at Oxford earning his 0.0 grade average and traveled to Russia.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (ndoNK)

232 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (XeU6L)

233 Quite a day for news.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (LkLld)

234 I don't put it past the D party of NV to just create tens of thousands of ballots, count them as fast as possible before any court order, and then dare courts to invalidate real votes mixed in with the obviously fake ones.

I don't put it past the D party of every swing state to do this
Posted by: brak at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (NGHTx)

They do this every year since Boss Tweed in every state. That action is baked into the cake already. Now they have to do EXTRA cheating with days to cook it up.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (n7h9X)

235 85 Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.

Don't I know it!
https://tinyurl.com/49aske2v

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (v6JzV

Well, she inspired me!
Probably has sharp elbows.

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (jvJvP)

236 I suspect the left knew Trump wasn't Putin buddy boy but after decades of working in real estate in NY they expected they'd be able to get him for mob ties and...nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (oZhjI)

237 What about Detroit? Trying to game the system to make it so that they cannot cheat is a losers game.

---
Wayne County has always been like that.

In my youth, Wayne was the first to report. To make conservatives in Michigan feel like it was useless to still go to the polls.

Then all of a sudden, Wayne became the last to report. Waiting until all the polls closed down in Northern Michigan and UP counties--still Trump ended up winning that one by a narrow margin.

But Wayne is the place where Jill Stein's auditors (before being shut down) found boxes saying "2000 Clinton votes" and finding 200 some actual ballots there.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (krQz2)

238 Still not difficult to run ballots through a machine.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM (9mfKN)

Can't do that until you know the right cheat codes to enter!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (hOUT3)

239
Youtube/Google was hiding Rogan's podcast completely from search results.

Now it shows up...way down the page, after all the negative reaction videos of the podcast.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (rTJOi)

240 They broke every law, regulation, policy, procedure, process, norm and practice to get Trump.

And had only lies they manufactured in the end.

But they still think they are the good guys.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (5BIGS)

It's the Left's /Commie motto.

The Ends Justice the Means

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (ndoNK)

241 What type of honeypot would you need to trap Walz?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (kTd/k)

242 232 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (XeU6L)
________
All of whom we saw in "white dudes for Harris".

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (1bNHn)

243 I have no doubt they put girls in Trump's campaign to try to make the pee dossier a reality, but when that didn't work they just made some edits to the story line and went with it anyway.

I'm dying to know who the two women are.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (lCppi)

244 What type of honeypot would you need to trap Walz?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (kTd/k)
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13 year old pre-pubescent male?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (tT6L1)

245 Can't do that until you know the right cheat codes to enter!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at October 29, 2024 01:42 PM (hOUT3)

Only 1 cheat code to know:

UUDDLRLRBA *start*

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (9mfKN)

246 >>What type of honeypot would you need to trap Walz?

David Hogg.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (LkLld)

247 Wikipedia has officially declared Trump a fascist.

Now we know it's true, because it's on Wikipedia!

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (M7vhK)

248 Anymore, I just assume anyone that tries to "talk me up" is an agent of something, somewhere. I've gotten very guarded in my revealing any information about me, my wife and/or family. I don't discuss where I live either. Not with any specifics.

It is very Soviet. By design.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (Q4IgG)

249 Can't do that until you know the right cheat codes to enter!

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A start

(though sometimes it's up, up, down, down, L, R, L, R, B, A, start)

Posted by: Lifeforce McGradius at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (1Idb6)

250 https://tinyurl.com/3hnj2x9h

And more…

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (pZEOD)

251 What type of honeypot would you need to trap Walz?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA
......

I think a jar of creamy peanut butter might do it.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 01:43 PM (v0R5T)

252 Fire. Everyone.

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (/6GbT)

253 TJM,

Kamala has more money than can probably be spent wisely because the biggest ad buys in the world will not sell a crappy product.

Helmut Northpol, poli sci guy at SUNY Stony Brook, and predictor of Trump's 2016 win called in based on fundamentals somewhere that spring. And others like Lichtman and his keys, etc. have that argument that campaigns essentially don't matter much and that the race is set by structural variables before much of the race begins. Other poli sci people disagree in that small little subfield of predicting presidential races. They focus on campaigns themselves and the lore surrounding it.

I know a little about that field because one of my profs in grad school taught it. Another taught about presidential primary races, and another on congressional campaigns. Helped that I had prior campaign experience before I took that classes.

Fun fact, Harvard's Institute of Politics invites the winning and losing campaign managers of each presidential race to come and talk. A book is made from those managers comments of each prezzie election going back to at least 1972.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

254 What about Detroit? Trying to game the system to make it so that they cannot cheat is a losers game.

The 2016 recount by some leftwing fringe candidate ended immediately when she started finding just how many of these types of votes there were.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (oZhjI)

========

The greatest failing of the Trump administration was not taking up the suit after Stein dropped it.

Imagine a 2020 where Michigan cleaned up its elections. Not enough to swing it overall, but...different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:39 PM (GBKbO)
________________

I think even if Trump had taken up the Stein lawsuit the odds of MI getting cleaned up by 2020 are somewhere around zero-point-zero. Certainly lower odds than me going home tonight and finding the 10 hottest Cowboys cheerleaders in their underwear moaning "take me, Elric, take me now!"

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

255 What type of honeypot would you need to trap Walz?

David Hogg.

/Looks at current photo

TOO OLD

Posted by: Pedo Walz at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (oZhjI)

256 PAGE: trump's not ever going to become President, right? RIGHT?!

STRZOK: No he won't. We'll stop it.

The FBI and the Justice Dept. Ladies and gentlemen. That's your federal government at work.

Posted by: Memory lane at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (Mn6U+)

257 22 The FBi using agents as honeytraps? Wouldn't surprise me but it also strikes me as something that's probably illegal and quite immoral.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:15 PM (tT6L1)

In the movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant's character gives the CIA director guy a pretty good dressing down when he learns exactly who Eva Marie Saint's character is and what she's supposed to do.

But...back then we were a proper country.

A few weeks ago wife and I were at Mt. Rushmore. They do a really patriotic. mostly non-woke evening lighting ceremony. We also went to the cafeteria but it doesn't look like it did in the movie. Maybe that scene was a set? Or they remodeled in the intervening 60+ years.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (QGaXH)

258 232 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (XeU6L)

Him? LOL.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (DJ7uY)

259 We're all over this.
Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at October 29, 2024 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

I meant it in the sense that it’s fast to count by running them through the machine.

But also what you wrote.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (9mfKN)

its even faster to put one ballot in a box and put 500 votes for Biden on a label on the inside, which they did last time.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (n7h9X)

260 How much do you think RFK Jr knows about where the bodies are buried? I would think that would give the Blob some sleepless nights too

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (gfViB)

261 I really can't say which is more corrupt. Sometimes, I would swear it's Philadelphia, but other times it seems plain as day that Wayne County, Michigan is.

I generally thing Philadelphia does enough to edge Wayne County out, though.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (krQz2)

262 Certainly lower odds than me going home tonight and finding the 10 hottest Cowboys cheerleaders in their underwear moaning "take me, Elric, take me now!"

Hi there big boy

Posted by: The new tranny cheerleaders at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (oZhjI)

263 Now on a VT52 or VT100 terminal, if you wanted to be sure to avoid wrap, you limited to 79.

Then there was the TRS-80 model 1 and 3 that only displayed 64 characters per line.

I'll just grab my cane and join you for that walk.

Then there was the TRS-80 model 1 and 3 that only displayed 64 characters per line.

I'll just grab my cane and join you for that walk.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (O7YUW)
--------------

I still make regular use of a Tandy Model 100, 40 chars.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (XeU6L)

264 Robinson may come through. I could imagine a shy Tory effect around him.

I wouldn't predict it. Too many polls (spit) for too long showing him losing outside the margin of error.

I'm open to there being a polling miss, especially with D underperformance in early voting in the state, but enough to save his candidacy? I can only hope, I think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

I live in NC, too. Although I spend very little time watching local news, I've received a bunch of anti-Robinson flyers in the mail. The Dems are still deathly afraid of him, the internet ads arrive in torrents.

And you know what, I think the Dems and the Left have overdone it. Bigly. Ugly pictures of Robinson to the point where it's becoming a persecution of a Black Man instead of a political opponent. The Dems are using Race-based advertising with an intensity far beyond anything Jesse Helms' campaigns produce. The backlash, I think, will be intense. Robinson has a good chance of winning this race.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (rj6Yv)

265 I love everyone who beat me to the old Contra cheat code.

nohomo

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (hXyUD)

266 ! Could that explain Romney tanking? And McCain basically withdrawing? Hmmm?
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:38 PM (lCppi)

Could. If they weren't already owned.

What was really odd to me about Romney who I kind of liked at one time when it was just him and McCain, was that he was pretty much feck less in 2008 and then on the day he withdrew from the race he gave this super patriotic Reaganesque speech and it was like "where the fuck was this guy?"

Raised my hackles bigly.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (hmOfI)

267 Justifies = Justice

Musk needs to write a replacement autocorrect program.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (ndoNK)

268 How fuckable were they?

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (q177U)

269 How much do you think RFK Jr knows about where the bodies are buried? I would think that would give the Blob some sleepless nights too
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (gfViB)
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RFK is pretty sure Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill his father.

And is probably just an idiot patsy they handed the gun to on the way out the door.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (krQz2)

270 Quite a day for news.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (LkLld)

It seems like the day before the night of the long knives.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (lCppi)

271 229 They broke every law, regulation, policy, procedure, process, norm and practice to get Trump.

And had only lies they manufactured in the end.

But they still think they are the good guys.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Some do, others emulate Nietzsche's conscienceless Superman, they believe they are beyond good and evil. I hope they end up like him--in an asylum, crazed, and drinking their own urine.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (ctrM5)

272 The real William Blythe died in a Soviet gulag in 1974.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (aD39U)

273 - Okay, thanks ...
I just use the chrome and its setup my phone came with.
Close to 80 characters.
Yes, yes, I know. Chrome.
And yes, pretty much everything pixy says in the morning might as well be hieroglyphics to me.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (xI6JS)

274 McCain was owned by the Deep State after Keating.

I was too stupid to realize it until fairly recently.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:46 PM (tT6L1)

275 Homely Pots for David Hogg

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (ndoNK)

276 I read the name as Kelly Pickler and got excited for a moment.

Posted by: Mishdog at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (MIg38)

277 RFK is pretty sure Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill his father.

My son did absolutely not kill me, you loon.

Posted by: Zombie Sirhan Sirhan, Sr. at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (1Idb6)

278 264 And you know what, I think the Dems and the Left have overdone it. Bigly. Ugly pictures of Robinson to the point where it's becoming a persecution of a Black Man instead of a political opponent. The Dems are using Race-based advertising with an intensity far beyond anything Jesse Helms' campaigns produce. The backlash, I think, will be intense. Robinson has a good chance of winning this race.
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (rj6Yv)

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Theory:

What if black underperformance in the early vote in NC is partially explained by the anti-Robinson narrative?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

279 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (XeU6L)

Trannies, all of them.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (6PUpl)

280 Another trick you can use is to just separate the link with a carriage return like this:

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/
status/1850714056266764439

When highlighted in Firefox, you can still right click and select "Open Link in new tab" and Firefox knows to put the two pieces back together and open the link. No trouble at all.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024

***
Doesn't work in Brave. But if you go into the URL and remove the "%20" just before "status," which designates the space the browser inserted, then it opens fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (J2vNu)

281 Viperine, hmm, historically vipers are dealt with by decapitation with a spade or a f*cking shovel (Nun joke).

Posted by: Ciampino - not pretty at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (i0xsb)

282 >>It seems like the day before the night of the long knives.

I'd love to know what Bezos was thinking before he made the no endorsement call.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (LkLld)

283 PAGE: trump's not ever going to become President, right? RIGHT?!

STRZOK: No he won't. We'll stop it.

The FBI and the Justice Dept. Ladies and gentlemen. That's your federal government at work.
Posted by: Memory lane at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (Mn6U+)
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It was an INVESTIGATION OF THE FIB!!

Posted by: Fake Tap-her at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (krQz2)

284 " Trump is up in AZ, GA, NC, and NV.

If he takes NH, that's 272."

==========

Red alert in PA: in Pennsylvania, Republicans make up 30% of the early vote, up from 20% in 2020. Democrats made up 70% of the pre-election vote at this point in 2020; in 2024, they only account for 59%.

Posted by: Jay in PA at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (i7Q7S)

285 Dems always dominate early voting. If we all early vote, that certainty of early voting dominance is gone and they have no idea how much they need to cheat on election day...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM

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And not knowing would necessitate an unreconcilable volume of cheating in thousands of polling places, in every conceivably close state. It would have to be as widespread as they say it isn't.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (wzAuc)

286 What type of honeypot would you need to trap Walz?

A six pack of Seabiscuit

Posted by: MR ED at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (/Zc2s)

287 Then all of a sudden, Wayne became the last to report. Waiting until all the polls closed down in Northern Michigan and UP counties--still Trump ended up winning that one by a narrow margin.

But Wayne is the place where Jill Stein's auditors (before being shut down) found boxes saying "2000 Clinton votes" and finding 200 some actual ballots there.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (krQz2)

Same thing happened in Milwaukee, Philadelphia and other cities. Also the infamous Indian tribes late reporting in the Dakotas. Not to mention only cities keeping the polls open late due to unspecified issues.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (n7h9X)

288 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.
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I think he meant actual pots of honey. And he fell for them all.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (hmOfI)

289 284 Red alert in PA: in Pennsylvania, Republicans make up 30% of the early vote, up from 20% in 2020. Democrats made up 70% of the pre-election vote at this point in 2020; in 2024, they only account for 59%.
Posted by: Jay in PA at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (i7Q7S)

========

The case of the missing Democrat electorate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

290 Teri Garr has died at 79.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)

291 Voted this morning. My county has been overrun by NYC leftists so I don't think my vote will matter. Voted straight Republican. The only chance we have is that the Republican congressional candidate Alison Esposito is giving the Dem incumbent Pat Ryan, a good race.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (aRslG)

292 @128/Soothsayer: Anyone remember "bu$hitler?"

Yes. Libs are just so clever. There was also a crude phrase that was use by liberal feminists back in 2004, that denigrated Bush but also used the expression of bush as slang for ladybits. Something like "hands off my Bush," but obviously not that. It's been lost to time, but I wish I could remember it.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (QAK8m)

293 (though sometimes it's up, up, down, down, L, R, L, R, B, A, start)
Posted by: Lifeforce McGradius
___________

That's my move!

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (OIg9i)

294 8 Wilson Pickett > Kerry Pickett

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 01:13 PM (wrmXa)

Well past 100, so here an off-topic recommendation. The free full-length YouTube movie/documentary Muscle Shoals is a masterpiece. It's the history, told by the participants, of how the tiny Alabama town became the world-wide go-to location for R&B and rock music production. Hundreds of a-list groups from all over the world traveled there to record. If you're a music buff, you really don't want to miss it.

Posted by: Philip at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (Ap4Nn)

295 83 Wasn't James Comey the one that let Hillary get off scot-free with actual crimes against the US - the "No Reasonable Prosecutor" standard? For a crime with actual secret information that was not properly secured. And it wasn't a "Mens Rea" kind of crime either.

Wonder what the statute of limitations is for that, AND for the cover-up.
Posted by: Another Anon at October 29, 2024 01:23 PM (QNMaY)

Even if we are within the statute of limitations, a conviction is probably out of the question because Comey, instead of getting sub-peonas or warrants and seizing some of Cankle's aides' computers, asked them to voluntarily hand them over. Which they did, with the stipulation that all information on them get destroyed, which it was. So, now much of the evidence no longer exists because Comey purposefully turned the FBI into an accessory after the fact.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (jfvTO)

296 PAGE: trump's not ever going to become President, right? RIGHT?!

STRZOK: No he won't. We'll stop it.

The FBI and the Justice Dept. Ladies and gentlemen. That's your federal government at work.
Posted by: Memory lane at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (Mn6U+)
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It was an INVESTIGATION OF THE FIB!!
Posted by: Fake Tap-her at October 29, 2024 01:48 PM (krQz2

And they both got big payouts and Wray got his pension back with interest and attorney fees paid.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (ndoNK)

297 Welcome to the People's Republic...

Giant 15-foot skeleton spotted in Boston's Beacon Hill

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (TGPs7)

298 Teri Garr has died at 79.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)
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Ah, that's too bad. Always liked the roles she played.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (tT6L1)

299 PAGE: trump's not ever going to become President, right? RIGHT?!

STRZOK: No he won't. We'll stop it.

The FBI and the Justice Dept. Ladies and gentlemen. That's your federal government at work.
Posted by: Memory lane at October 29, 2024 01:44 PM (Mn6U+)

Back when I still believed the FBI and CIA were the good guys. Boy, that seems like a hundred years ago.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (lCppi)

300 I think he meant actual pots of honey. And he fell for them all.

Can't really fault him for that.

Posted by: Winnie the Pooh at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (lUFok)

301 Trump vs. the Cartels would be an awesome fight.

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (q177U)

302 (though sometimes it's up, up, down, down, L, R, L, R, B, A, start)
Posted by: Lifeforce McGradius
___________

Select, Start gets ya infinite lives for 2 Player

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (CIS44)

303 >>It seems like the day before the night of the long knives.

I'd love to know what Bezos was thinking before he made the no endorsement call.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (LkLld)

1) they might be coming for me when they win due to my election interference

2) No way in hell I want to pretend I think Harris is a good choice for President.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (n7h9X)

304 Pouring one out for Teri Garr.

A fine person by all accounts.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (hXyUD)

305 Back when I still believed the FBI and CIA were the good guys. Boy, that seems like a hundred years ago.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (lCppi)

Grew up as a Tom Clancy fan. Now… just disheartened.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (9mfKN)

306 274 McCain was owned by the Deep State after Keating.

I was too stupid to realize it until fairly recently.
Posted by: blake
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Before that. McCain was totes connected via his father and grandfather. I remember when he won the seat of a retiring John Rhodes (minority leader) in the House) which began his political career.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

307 @289 - yep.

She may very well lose PA by 300,000 votes plus if the cheating is minimally held to Philly.

Posted by: Jay in PA at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (i7Q7S)

308 NV Governor Joe Lombardo is a MAGA Republican. I don't think Sheriff Joe would stand idly by, and smile away a yuuge vote fraud operation right under his nose.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (NLIak)

309 Teri Garr has died at 79.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)
-m

78 /79 whatever it takes

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (ndoNK)

310 Homely Pots for David Hogg
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Carolyn Ellison

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (v6JzV)

311 303 1) they might be coming for me when they win due to my election interference

2) No way in hell I want to pretend I think Harris is a good choice for President.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (n7h9X)

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3) What if Trump decides to start cancelling AWS/federal government contracts?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

312 I was considering moving to NC but only if Robinson wins

I would not understand or get along with an electorate smart enough to vote Trump but at the same time thinking golly ghee whiz this greaseball pasty white fuckface commie lawyer fella seems the perfect choice for guv!

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (M7vhK)

313 Giant 15-foot skeleton spotted in Boston's Beacon Hill

As opposed to a normal-sized 15-foot skeleton?

(i'm here all week-- try the veal!)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (1Idb6)

314 Rest in peace, Roberta Lincoln.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (aD39U)

315 >>> Teri Garr has died at 79.

RIP. Definitely watching Young Frankenstein for Halloween then!

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (QAK8m)

316 I don't know what the hell this girl just said but whatever it was, I agree
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 01:22 PM (KRtlO)

I watched it 6 times on a loop before I even realized there was audio.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (JRP2U)

317 >>Giant 15-foot skeleton spotted in Boston's Beacon Hill

That's just John Kerry.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (LkLld)

318 That article says honeypot #2 is now highly placed executive at the FBI.

Surely Trumps campaign mgr can identify who the two agents are.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (rAsBA)

319 We'll be lucky if we know who the next prez will be before inauguration day.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2024 01:52 PM (g8Ew8)

320 But they still think they are the good guys.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (5BIGS)

I don't think they do. They say they do but that's different.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:52 PM (hmOfI)

321 McCain was owned by the Deep State after Keating.

I was too stupid to realize it until fairly recently.
Posted by: blake

You couldn't have been dumber than McCain. He was the ultimate useful idiot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:52 PM (ndoNK)

322 Trump vs. the Cartels would be an awesome fight.
Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2024 01:50 PM (q177U)
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Trump vs. the Cartels > Yoshimi vs. The Pink Robots

Posted by: Fake Tap-her at October 29, 2024 01:52 PM (krQz2)

323 Off topic.

But if anyone from Chinese intelligence agencies are reading this, I'd like you to know I'd happily sell out Canada for 25 million Canadian and three years of group sex with 4 Chinese biologically female honeypots.

Ages 18 to 21. Preferably Alina Li and Evelyn Lin look alikes. Have to look great in Japanese schoolgirl uniforms.

Thanks.

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 01:52 PM (jvJvP)

324 The R's are ahead by 38,000 in Nevada.

The Dems are quickly running out of scenarios where they can win. If there is a massive Dem vote dump on Friday, they will probably find enough "ballots" to steal it.

Posted by: Jay in PA at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (i7Q7S)

325 It's going to be a long week. But you can relax.

Posted by: Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (hXyUD)

326 312 I was considering moving to NC but only if Robinson wins

I would not understand or get along with an electorate smart enough to vote Trump but at the same time thinking golly ghee whiz this greaseball pasty white fuckface commie lawyer fella seems the perfect choice for guv!
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (M7vhK)

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Funnily enough, I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Josh Stein.

Also, the Republican supermajority in the legislature is not going away this year. Stein winning the governorship won't end up manifesting in terms of any kind of policy wins. The legislature will just keep passing laws over his veto like they did with Cooper.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

327 @252/A dude in MI: Fire. Everyone.

Put me in coach, I'm ready to play!

Posted by: M132 APC flamethrower at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (O7YUW)

328 JD Vance is supposed to do an interview with Joe Rogan, this is exactly what the Trump campaign should be doing. Bypass the old media.

Posted by: Lacra at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (4pwAx)

329 NV Governor Joe Lombardo is a MAGA Republican. I don't think Sheriff Joe would stand idly by, and smile away a yuuge vote fraud operation right under his nose.
Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (NLIak)

Joe Arpaio? He is in Arizona, not Nevada, and he is retired, and quite elderly now. I did get to meet him once, and bought his book.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (RdRoZ)

330 Doesn't work in Brave. But if you go into the URL and remove the "%20" just before "status," which designates the space the browser inserted, then it opens fine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (J2vNu)

Can copy the strings into a dumb editor like Notepad, fix it up then paste the new string into the browser.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (n7h9X)

331 I'd love to know what Bezos was thinking before he made the no endorsement call.

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

he's thinking ya know...

maybe I should reflect on my supporting a party that was ready to seize 95% of my unrealized wealth, thereby forcing me to move to DeSantis Florida just to flee from that fucking insanity

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (M7vhK)

332 >>> Teri Garr has died at 79.

RIP. Definitely watching Young Frankenstein for Halloween then!
Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 01:51 PM (QAK8m)
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It was going to be my view tonight. Doubly so, now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 01:54 PM (U1w17)

333 McCain was owned by the Deep State after Keating.

I was too stupid to realize it until fairly recently.
Posted by: blake

You couldn't have been dumber than McCain. He was the ultimate useful idiot.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 29, 2024 01:52 PM (ndoNK)

Owned or just already on board and protected.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:54 PM (n7h9X)

334 298 Teri Garr has died at 79.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)
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Ah, that's too bad. Always liked the roles she played.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (tT6L1)
________
"Would you like a roll in the hay?"

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 01:54 PM (1bNHn)

335 en Rubin ... looks absolutely horrible. She was never a babe, but she wasn't hideous either. She's aged 25 years in 5. She's 62 but looks 10 years older at least. The fact that she's a pitch-faced scolding self-gassing Jew and bitter cat lady makes her even more odious.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade
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You just want to date her...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2024 01:54 PM (5hfjS)

336 When highlighted in Firefox...
Please don't do that shit...doesn't work in any other browser and is a giant pain on a phone. Just use tinyurl FGS.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2024 01:54 PM (ckQml)

337 What if black underperformance in the early vote in NC is partially explained by the anti-Robinson narrative?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

That's part of it. Josh Stein isn't covering himself with glory, either. That Effer is just coasting beneath a MSM shroud of silence. When people in NC vote in change elections, they overwhelmingly vote straight ticket. I can't put into words how much I loathe the Left's anti-Robinson campaign, especially after what Mark has done to support western NC while Stein sat on his hands.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (rj6Yv)

338 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:41 PM (XeU6L)
________

Yes, these honeypots were the rentboys Hogg was soliciting in gay brothels

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

339 302 (though sometimes it's up, up, down, down, L, R, L, R, B, A, start)
Posted by: Lifeforce McGradius
___________

Select, Start gets ya infinite lives for 2 Player

It does vary by game-- 30 lives (at the title screen) in Contra and Life Force; full power-ups (during play) for Gradius, but self-destructs your ship in Super Gradius (but not if you use the L/R-button variant).

Anyway, just Konami games (at least back in the day). IIRC there was some non-Konami game that gave a message "I AM NOT KONAMI" or something if you used it.

Man, the late 80's/early 90's were great, huh?

Posted by: Old Man Lance McCormick at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (1Idb6)

340 The legislature will just keep passing laws over his veto like they did with Cooper.

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

STEIN will NOT come!

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (M7vhK)

341 Damn. Love Garr in Young Frankenstein.

Pretty women with comedy chops are a huge... interest to me.

I mean Audrey Meadows in The Honeymooners is just searing.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (hmOfI)

342 @296

>>And they both got big payouts and Wray got his pension back with interest and attorney fees paid.

All of these scumbags sort of blend into a human centipede of corruption , but it was McCabe, not Wray.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (aKBD5)

343 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (lCppi)

344 285 Dems always dominate early voting. If we all early vote, that certainty of early voting dominance is gone and they have no idea how much they need to cheat on election day...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2024 01:34 PM

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And not knowing would necessitate an unreconcilable volume of cheating in thousands of polling places, in every conceivably close state. It would have to be as widespread as they say it isn't.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

I think both of you have figured out the Trump rationale for pushing people to early vote. Also coincides with teh GOTV drive being handed in places to Elon Musk and co. I live in a swing state and the number of robocalls, fliers, etc. are way down this year probably because I am figured by whoever does the targeting, that I am likely to vote anyway.

That means (I hope) on the GOP side, much better targeting than the GOPe consultants normally do (which pads their commissions coincidentally).

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

345 Teri Garr has died at 79.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)

Pubescent aged Doof remembers her well

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (ik452)

346 Teri Garr...

Damn. Star Trek...looked amazing.

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (jvJvP)

347 343 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (lCppi)

Fine, fine.

OK EVERYONE - LET’S NOT START THE CIRCLE-JERK YET!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (9mfKN)

348 >>>Doesn't work in Brave. But if you go into the URL and remove the "%20" just before "status," which designates the space the browser inserted, then it opens fine.

You want to know what also works with Brave? Copying the linked url and posting it into the url field.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (Y1sOo)

349 If Trump wins, tell the criminals they have 48 hours to leave the country. Then hunt them down with Seal Team 6.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (E3FnI)

350 337 That's part of it. Josh Stein isn't covering himself with glory, either. That Effer is just coasting beneath a MSM shroud of silence. When people in NC vote in change elections, they overwhelmingly vote straight ticket. I can't put into words how much I loathe the Left's anti-Robinson campaign, especially after what Mark has done to support western NC while Stein sat on his hands.
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (rj6Yv)

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Well, Robinson is Lieutenant governor. Stein is just some guy. Cooper has also just sat on his hands, and he's governor.

But, we'll see. NC has seen some bad polling misses in the last few cycles. This could be another.

Having a black, VERY anti-abortion candidate win a governorship in a swing state would be a wonderful narrative for the Democrats to have to explain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

351 329

What I said. NV Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV).

I didn't say anything about Arpaio.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (NLIak)

352 >>> >>Giant 15-foot skeleton spotted in Boston's Beacon Hill

Those are fun, but I'm not paying $200 for a halloween decoration. The 15 foot Jack Skellington ones, just add a santa hat to it after halloween, and boom! Christmas decoration is good to go.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (QAK8m)

353 Teri Garr has died at 79.

What knockers !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (tA1/w)

354
Teri Garr has died at 79.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM

another grim milestone for the harris administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (bEb2S)

355 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.

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

Trump will absolutely win this election, bigly

Whether he can beat the margin of steal/fraud this time, well that's another thing

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (M7vhK)

356 I prefer sloppy over pulls anyway.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (NMT5x)

357 @280/Wolfus Aurelius: Doesn't work in Brave. But if you go into the URL and remove the "%20" just before "status," which designates the space the browser inserted, then it opens fine.

Good to know, Wolfus, and timely too, thank you. I've been thinking about giving the Brave browser a spin around the block just to see how I like it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (O7YUW)

358 Giant 15-foot skeleton spotted in Boston's Beacon Hill

==

whose is it, I wonder ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (V13WU)

359 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (lCppi)

Who unzipped already??

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (ik452)

360 So, now much of the evidence no longer exists because Comey purposefully turned the FBI into an accessory after the fact.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (jfvTO)

Destroying government records is a felony. Conspiracy to do the same, or destroying it himself is also a felony.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (n7h9X)

361 I think both of you have figured out the Trump rationale for pushing people to early vote. Also coincides with teh GOTV drive being handed in places to Elon Musk and co. I live in a swing state and the number of robocalls, fliers, etc. are way down this year probably because I am figured by whoever does the targeting, that I am likely to vote anyway.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (ctrM5)
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I think the real clincher for me was somebody pointing out all the day-of-election "snafus" happening where blues governed and didn't want reds to vote.

Posted by: Fake Tap-her at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (krQz2)

362 @326

>>The legislature will just keep passing laws over his veto like they did with Cooper.

But why as an electorate would you want to create that kind of situation.

Makes no sense whatsoever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (aKBD5)

363 Destroying government records is a felony. Conspiracy to do the same, or destroying it himself is also a felony.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (n7h9X)

Not if there’s no one to police the police.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (9mfKN)

364 I didn't say anything about Arpaio.
Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (NLIak)

Ah. You said "Sheriff Joe". I took that to mean Arpaio, because that's how he was known for years.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (RdRoZ)

365 Fine, fine.

OK EVERYONE - LET’S NOT START THE CIRCLE-JERK YET!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM (9mfKN)
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*sigh*

***Puts pudding cups back in pantry***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (7fElN)

366
Carolyn Ellison
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Is she out of prison yet?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (XeU6L)

367 Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 01:29 PM (hmOfI) How are you Mrs. ... ?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (Vvh2V)

368 Destroying government records is a felony. Conspiracy to do the same, or destroying it himself is also a felony.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (n7h9X)

Uh, the next sentence, however, is "unless Democrat".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

369 362 But why as an electorate would you want to create that kind of situation.

Makes no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (aKBD5)

========

"Robinson is icky."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

370 >>We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.

Does anyone really believe Trump would waste a few years of his life including getting shot in the head just to fall for the old banana in the tail pipe trick again?

There isn't a person on earth who knows better than Trump that Democrats lie and cheat and stole the 2020 election and he seems absolutely convinced he's going to beat them this time no matter what. When he starts saying he can't win then I'll believe it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (LkLld)

371 But why as an electorate would you want to create that kind of situation.

easier to steal one gov election then a bunch of state house/senate elections

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (oZhjI)

372 343 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.
Posted by: LASue
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Heh, last thread shows that doom and gloom is still present and I can be blamed for at least part of it.

Part of it is that with 2016, we have sailed beyond the map, with what is happening domestically. Arguably it began in 2006-2008 or even 2000.

What it means for older folks like me, is that the rules we all thought were in existence have proven since then to not apply at all.

Many of us have become strangers in a strange land in our own country and history so to speak.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (ctrM5)

373 @263/Mike Hammer: I still make regular use of a Tandy Model 100, 40 chars.

I remember those well. You can't kill those things. I'm delighted to hear someone still uses one!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (O7YUW)

374 Tapper has to be a reader here, as many times as Ace has ripped his ass
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2024 01:40 PM (NtVYv)

Ass-ripping? Anderson Cooper's gonna be jealous!

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (RMjVS)

375 359 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (lCppi

I'm only going to celebrate when all of the votes are finally counted in mid December.

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (jvJvP)

376 I like Mark Robinson but I think he could be a long shot due to his fervent religious convictions, which I don't have a problem with but secular moderates do.
NC has a lot of those.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (MeG8a)

377 Teri Garr has died at 79.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)
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I remember she liked a roll in the hay.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (krQz2)

378 I've said for a long time that a lot of highly placed people in this joke of a country got very fuckin' sloppy back in '15/'16, in their headlong rush to ingratiate themselves to the (inevitable) Queen Hillary.

And that explains the extremely febrile, sloppy nature of their subsequent multiple coup attempts. They never thought he'd win, so they took very few precautions during their illegal operations against the campaign, and suddenly had to do something, anything RIGHT NOW to cover it all up, buy time, and protect the hive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (7oYYI)

379 >>The legislature will just keep passing laws over his veto like they did with Cooper.

But why as an electorate would you want to create that kind of situation.

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Propaganda works.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (XeU6L)

380 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Maybe they paid them time and a half.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (L/fGl)

381 All those hours reflexively defending Bush from their bs even though I didn't like him feel like time I could have spent counting my wife's toenail fragments that are under the couch.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (hmOfI)

382 Teri Garr is gone? Damn. When I first saw her on that Trek episode, I thought she was cute, but nothing more memorable than a dozen other blondes who did "scatterbrained" well on film. But she lasted a lot longer than most.

Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (J2vNu)

383 376 I like Mark Robinson but I think he could be a long shot due to his fervent religious convictions, which I don't have a problem with but secular moderates do.
NC has a lot of those.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (MeG8a)

=======

And registered Independents in NC are, apparently, more libertarian on average than anything (Ron Paul apparently is popular amongst the group).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

384 Not if there’s no one to police the police.

quid custodiet quondam semper ubi sub ubi

Posted by: Lancius McCormicus at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (1Idb6)

385 Does anyone really believe Trump would waste a few years of his life including getting shot in the head just to fall for the old banana in the tail pipe trick again?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (LkLld)

“You wouldn’t believe how many people fall for the banana in the tail pipe again!”

~ Axel Foley

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (9mfKN)

386 360 So, now much of the evidence no longer exists because Comey purposefully turned the FBI into an accessory after the fact.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (jfvTO)

Destroying government records is a felony. Conspiracy to do the same, or destroying it himself is also a felony.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (n7h9X)

Worse? Barr, contrary to what was argued here at the time, was PART OF THE PROBLEM... so never investigated any of the allegations. Thus, the statute of Limitations has expired, and nothing will ever be done.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (QAkQ3)

387 Mmmmmmmm honey pots.

Did I ever tell you about the time I got my head stuck in one.

Well she said her name was Loosey Goosey, but well you get the picture.

Posted by: Winnie the Pooh at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (uBBbP)

388 Didn't Robinson step up after Helene where Cooper was MIA? I suspect Robinson showing he's a capable administrator may have helped.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (tT6L1)

389 Teri Garr is gone? Damn. When I first saw her on that Trek episode, I thought she was cute, but nothing more memorable than a dozen other blondes who did "scatterbrained" well on film. But she lasted a lot longer than most.

Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (J2vNu)

And Kathleen Turner as Chandler's DAD.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (CIS44)

390 I think the real clincher for me was somebody pointing out all the day-of-election "snafus" happening where blues governed and didn't want reds to vote.
Posted by: Fake Tap-her
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2022 in AZ was a perfect example of that. It was purposeful and people still need to go to jail over it including most of the election supervisors. That, in part, is something that causes people to go deeper into the cheat because they realize if discovered, they might go to jail.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (ctrM5)

391 James Comey = Lavrentyi Beria

Show me the man and I will show you his crimes.

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (klw0w)

392 Trump will lose and it will be glorious.

Posted by: Uncle Floyd at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (b6adP)

393 Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (J2vNu)

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Getting Kathleen Turner to play Chandler's dad was a miss, though.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (DRSnL)

394 >>I've said for a long time that a lot of highly placed people in this joke of a country got very fuckin' sloppy back in '15/'16, in their headlong rush to ingratiate themselves to the (inevitable) Queen Hillary.

You mean like when Hillary said "If that bastard wins we'll all hang from ropes!"?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (LkLld)

395 I recall David Hogg claiming that he had been the target of honeypots. I still find that amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

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But all they needed for him was actually pots of honey.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (krQz2)

396 388 Didn't Robinson step up after Helene where Cooper was MIA? I suspect Robinson showing he's a capable administrator may have helped.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (tT6L1)

=======

He did.

He's probably going to carry western NC pretty easily.

Charlotte may disagree, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

397 344

TPUSA Action* is also doing a lot of Trump's GOTV this year. Their effort is large, targeted & impressive.

*Turning Point USA Action is the PAC of TPUSA.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (NLIak)

398
I remember those well. You can't kill those things. I'm delighted to hear someone still uses one!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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26 hrs. of continuous operation on 4 AA Nimh batteries.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (XeU6L)

399 Kerry Picket is a patriot. Solid reporter.

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (kmh+J)

400 And Kathleen Turner as Chandler's DAD.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (CIS44)

And Burt Reynolds as a cradle robber, er… Monica’s boyfriend.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (9mfKN)

401 Jen Rubin ... looks absolutely horrible. She was never a babe, but she wasn't hideous either. She's aged 25 years in 5. She's 62 but looks 10 years older at least. The fact that she's a pitch-faced scolding self-gassing Jew and bitter cat lady makes her even more odious.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade

So that's really her? I thought it was a joke.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (lCppi)

402 JD Vance is supposed to do an interview with Joe Rogan, this is exactly what the Trump campaign should be doing. Bypass the old media.
Posted by: Lacra at October 29, 2024 01:53 PM (4pwAx)

Its gonna be lit. He was on Tim Dillon's show and went toe-to-toe with Dillon's insanity.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (D7oie)

403 359 We're starting to sound WAY too confident here. Remember, morons, doom and gloom is who we are.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 01:55 PM (lCppi)

Who unzipped already??
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 01:57 PM (ik452)
________
As I said yesterday, it's starting to look like a San Francisco Pride Parade.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (1bNHn)

404 Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (J2vNu)
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Kathleen Turner as Chandler's Dad was also hilarious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (tT6L1)

405 Makes no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 01:58 PM (aKBD5)

———-

Well when you have opposition ads of Mark Robinson saying people need killing, it has an effect. Also Robison has near zero campaign ads.

I half expect that YouTube is just sending his ads to the garbage bin, how would anyone know?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (E3FnI)

406
I remember those well. You can't kill those things. I'm delighted to hear someone still uses one!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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I have two, a Model 100, and a Model 102.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (XeU6L)

407 James Comey = Lavrentyi Beria

Show me the man and I will show you his crimes.
Posted by: Danimal28 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (klw0w)
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Beria got a lot more extorted-wife ass though.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (krQz2)

408 Teri Garr has died at 79.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)
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I remember she liked a roll in the hay.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (krQz2)

Letterman's best guest ever.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (rAsBA)

409 And Burt Reynolds as a cradle robber, er… Monica’s boyfriend.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (9mfKN)

Tom Selleck, not Turd Fergusen.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (CIS44)

410 How are you Mrs. ... ?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (Vvh2V)

Hi! Mrs. Ellipsis is trending upward since her trip to the ER last week, thanks Tamm. She has also quit smoking now since it's not good for COPD and she's beginning to figure that out. Hope you are good.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (hmOfI)

411 26 hrs. of continuous operation on 4 AA Nimh batteries.

I though that was a secret?

Posted by: Lance McCormick at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (1Idb6)

412 And Burt Reynolds as a cradle robber, er… Monica’s boyfriend.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (9mfKN)

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Tom Selleck. Wrong mustache hunk.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (DRSnL)

413 Teri Garr is gone? Damn. When I first saw her on that Trek episode, I thought she was cute, but nothing more memorable than a dozen other blondes who did "scatterbrained" well on film. But she lasted a lot longer than most.

Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (J2vNu)

Interesting inclusion of the word "masterstroke" -- you're a moron's moron!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (ik452)

414 Having a black, VERY anti-abortion candidate win a governorship in a swing state would be a wonderful narrative for the Democrats to have to explain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You know better than that. Robinson will become a white supremacist Christian Nationalist by the media in the blink of an eye.

They will even lighten his skin to prove it in photos.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

415 @280/Wolfus Aurelius: Doesn't work in Brave. But if you go into the URL and remove the "%20" just before "status," which designates the space the browser inserted, then it opens fine.
*
Good to know, Wolfus, and timely too, thank you. I've been thinking about giving the Brave browser a spin around the block just to see how I like it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024

***
G & R, as another commenter pointed out, you can simply copy the entire URL and post it into the URL field in a new tab. It does not insert the "%20" if you do it that way -- apparently, it does so only if you select the link, then right click and choose "Go to [that URL]."

Brave has given me no trouble, and you can block ads easily.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (J2vNu)

416 And Burt Reynolds as a cradle robber, er… Monica’s boyfriend.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (9mfKN)

Wut?

Posted by: Tom Selleck at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (LxER7)

417 Getting Kathleen Turner to play Chandler's dad was a miss, though.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (DRSnL)
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I see we disagree on that one. But, you're young. You'll get wiser as you get older.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (tT6L1)

418 405 Well when you have opposition ads of Mark Robinson saying people need killing, it has an effect. Also Robison has near zero campaign ads.

I half expect that YouTube is just sending his ads to the garbage bin, how would anyone know?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (E3FnI)

========

I've always questioned the effectiveness of ads, and this election is making me question them even more.

I see and hear almost nothing but pro-Kamala, anti-Trump ads, and NC is not going to be close at the presidential level. Kamala is running 7 points behind Beasley 2 years ago in the Senate race against Budd, if early voting is any indication.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

419 Teri Garr's Inga in Young Frankenstein will be classic forever. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (aRslG)

420 And Burt Reynolds as a cradle robber, er… Monica’s boyfriend.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:02 PM (9mfKN)

Tom Selleck, not Turd Fergusen.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (CIS44)
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My favorite: Bruce Willis was a "Neat Guy".

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (krQz2)

421 Russia is literally a s*** show.

https://tinyurl.com/57h6t7z8

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (xCA6C)

422 Heh, last thread shows that doom and gloom is still present and I can be blamed for at least part of it.

Part of it is that with 2016, we have sailed beyond the map, with what is happening domestically. Arguably it began in 2006-2008 or even 2000.

What it means for older folks like me, is that the rules we all thought were in existence have proven since then to not apply at all.

Many of us have become strangers in a strange land in our own country and history so to speak.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (ctrM5)

Agree. My observation also.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (g8Ew8)

423 I really can't say which is more corrupt. Sometimes, I would swear it's Philadelphia, but other times it seems plain as day that Wayne County, Michigan is.

I generally thing Philadelphia does enough to edge Wayne County out, though.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:45 PM (krQz2)

Chicago.

I lived in inner city Chi for a decade and never saw a voter at the polls but me. On the north side my brother was told he was the only person registered in a large block of apartment buildings. Aldermen win elections with 1500 votes.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (n7h9X)

424 414 You know better than that. Robinson will become a white supremacist Christian Nationalist by the media in the blink of an eye.

They will even lighten his skin to prove it in photos.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

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That dude is Amistad black.

More than likely, they'll ignore it and pretend NC was never a swing state and then never mention it as a battleground in 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

425 Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (QAkQ3)

You mean FIGHTIN Billy Barr was never actually on our side even though he made good Federalist speeches and sipped his water funny in Hearings? HOW DARE YOU

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (hmOfI)

426 I see we disagree on that one. But, you're young. You'll get wiser as you get older.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (tT6L1)

=====

I was personally hoping for Nathan Lane.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (DRSnL)

427 407 James Comey = Lavrentyi Beria

Show me the man and I will show you his crimes.
Posted by: Danimal28
====
Let's hope he shares the same fate as Beria, squealing like the cowardly little creep he was as he was being executed. Comey's ridiculous account of hiding in the draperies from Trump indicates to me that he is a moral and physical coward.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

428 Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024
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Kathleen Turner as Chandler's Dad was also hilarious.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024

***
Things like that, plus very funny dialog, was what made the show a classic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (J2vNu)

429 You mean FIGHTIN Billy Barr was never actually on our side even though he made good Federalist speeches and sipped his water funny in Hearings? HOW DARE YOU

Barr's father gave Epstein his first job.

What a coincidence.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (oZhjI)

430 My favorite: Bruce Willis was a "Neat Guy".
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (krQz2)

Brad Pitt as Will, Ross's former fat friend that hates Rachel. When they were married.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (CIS44)

431 Tom Selleck. Wrong mustache hunk.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (DRSnL)

Yeesh, a rookie mistake on my part. On the other hand, I’m not yet 29, so mustache dudes from the 70’s is technically before my time.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (9mfKN)

432 I would’ve loved to take a roll in the hay with Terri Garr.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 29, 2024 02:07 PM (E3FnI)

433 So, they are saying that the Durham investigation and report were incomplete ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2024 02:07 PM (RHGPo)

434 Interesting inclusion of the word "masterstroke" -- you're a moron's moron!
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024

***
I swear I was not doing a double entendre! Swearsies!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:07 PM (J2vNu)

435 Looked around for quips by evil clown Rubin. She'd like to burn us all alive, figuratively, I'm sure (right Jen)

https://tinyurl.com/ybwafw6v

Posted by: Enough Bull at October 29, 2024 02:07 PM (2NXcZ)

436 377 Teri Garr has died at 79.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)
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I remember she liked a roll in the hay.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 01:59 PM (krQz2)

Teri liked enormous schwanzstuckers too ...

She has something in common with Nurse it seems.

***please to read this morning's Art Thread***

Posted by: browndog's a grower at October 29, 2024 02:07 PM (TTAGa)

437 >>OK EVERYONE - LET’S NOT START THE CIRCLE-JERK YET!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at October 29, 2024 01:56 PM
--

Seared in my memory is a moment from the rosy few hours of election night 2020 when Trump was coasting-- before the agonizing steal--when a commenter here posted:

"Gentlemen,
(unzips)
it's time."

Anyone remember who that was?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 02:08 PM (wzAuc)

438 Brad Pitt as Will, Ross's former fat friend that hates Rachel. When they were married.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (CIS44)

=====

I think every one of Jennifer Aniston & Courteney Cox's boyfriends/husbands were on the show at one time or another.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:08 PM (DRSnL)

439 You mean FIGHTIN Billy Barr was never actually on our side even though he made good Federalist speeches and sipped his water funny in Hearings? HOW DARE YOU
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 02:05 PM (hmOfI)

Neither were Sessions, Rosenstein, or Horowitz.

Posted by: Enough Bull at October 29, 2024 02:08 PM (2NXcZ)

440 Interesting inclusion of the word "masterstroke" -- you're a moron's moron!
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024

***
I swear I was not doing a double entendre! Swearsies!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:07 PM (J2vNu)

That just means it's part of who you are without even trying. The sign of a true Moron!!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (ik452)

441 I think every one of Jennifer Aniston & Courteney Cox's boyfriends/husbands were on the show at one time or another.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:08 PM (DRSnL)

I HATE her Ross, I HATE HER!

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (CIS44)

442 In 2020, Trump lost NY state by 23 points. The RCP avg of NY polls this year shows Trump down 18.

That's a big swing, obviously. It's consistent with Trump outperforming his 2020 results elsewhere.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (NLIak)

443 I've always questioned the effectiveness of ads, and this election is making me question them even more.

I see and hear almost nothing but pro-Kamala, anti-Trump ads, and NC is not going to be close at the presidential level. Kamala is running 7 points behind Beasley 2 years ago in the Senate race against Budd, if early voting is any indication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Observational equivalence problem---if a candidate wins--is it because of ads simply reflect a competent political team and a good candidate or because of the ad spending.

Poli sci, like most social sciences, flounders in a sea of bad data with only inadequate statistical methods to try to determine the signal amidst all the noise.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (ctrM5)

444 Well, as long as I'm here, who wants to talk about reverse mortgages?

Posted by: Tom Selleck at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (LxER7)

445 Worse? Barr, contrary to what was argued here at the time, was PART OF THE PROBLEM... so never investigated any of the allegations. Thus, the statute of Limitations has expired, and nothing will ever be done.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (QAkQ3)

But if you're a democrat you can reinterpret the statute of limitations, can't ya? Then so can we.

Posted by: Enough Bull at October 29, 2024 02:10 PM (2NXcZ)

446 Terri Garr was the one I would have banged in Tootsie.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:10 PM (krQz2)

447 Interesting inclusion of the word "masterstroke" -- you're a moron's moron!
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024

***
I swear I was not doing a double entendre! Swearsies!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024
*
That just means it's part of who you are without even trying. The sign of a true Moron!!
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024

***
Then I'll thank the Academy and go back to my seat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:10 PM (J2vNu)

448 >>> Having her play Phoebe's real mother on Friends was as much of a masterstroke as getting Marlo Thomas to play Rachel's. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:00 PM (J2vNu)
And Kathleen Turner as Chandler's DAD.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (CIS44)

I'm so amused how Friends has a second life with gen z, after the creators were forced to apologize to the woke mob for all the jokes that are no longer acceptable to them. And for the things they now find cringe that were at the time pushing the envelope in a good way. It's now rebellious to watch it, hah.

They want to cancel the Chandler's dad storyline as insensitive, but I thought Kathleen Turner did a good job with the part.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (QAK8m)

449 Seared in my memory is a moment from the rosy few hours of election night 2020 when Trump was coasting-- before the agonizing steal--when a commenter here posted:

"Gentlemen,
(unzips)
it's time."

Anyone remember who that was?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 02:08 PM (wzAuc)

I seem to recall that it wasn't merely a commenter.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (ik452)

450 Brad Pitt as Will, Ross's former fat friend that hates Rachel. When they were married.

George Clooney and Noah Wyle (that guy from ER who was hot for a bit) were also on.

I do that too!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (xCA6C)

451 Terri Garr was the one I would have banged in Tootsie.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:10 PM (krQz2)

=====

Well, he did, actually.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (DRSnL)

452 Terri Garr ... sigh

A major babe. Good looking and funny.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (rj6Yv)

453 442 In 2020, Trump lost NY state by 23 points. The RCP avg of NY polls this year shows Trump down 18.

That's a big swing, obviously. It's consistent with Trump outperforming his 2020 results elsewhere.
Posted by: mnw
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Swing analysis never really hit it big in the US while it is a staple of parliamentary elections throughout the world.

Part of it, perhaps. is election districting features of our EV and our house races.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (ctrM5)

454 443 Observational equivalence problem---if a candidate wins--is it because of ads simply reflect a competent political team and a good candidate or because of the ad spending.

Poli sci, like most social sciences, flounders in a sea of bad data with only inadequate statistical methods to try to determine the signal amidst all the noise.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (ctrM5)

========

And marketing professionals have no incentive to come to the conclusion that ads aren't very effective.

If they're not, then what's the point of their entire industry?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

455 Punky Brewster (Soleil Moonfrye) also guest stared on Friends, as the girl who hits Joey.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (CIS44)

456 Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (hmOfI)

So glad to hear she's improved! And connecting dots! 😉

Have you stopped flaring?

I'm ok, thank you for asking!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (Vvh2V)

457 I HATE her Ross, I HATE HER!

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:09 PM (CIS44)
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Yeah, that *was* funny.

Still when Ross confronts Elizabeth's father (Willis) and relates that he, too, is a "Neat guy", it's just delightful cringe.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (krQz2)

458 Terri Garr...she was in one of the Star Trek time travel episodes.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (V13WU)

459 407 James Comey = Lavrentyi Beria

Show me the man and I will show you his crimes.
Posted by: Danimal28
====
Let's hope he shares the same fate as Beria, squealing like the cowardly little creep he was as he was being executed. Comey's ridiculous account of hiding in the draperies from Trump indicates to me that he is a moral and physical coward.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

Comey's only skill was looking like a Hollywood FBI agent. Aside from that he was a dunce.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (n7h9X)

460 stranger in a strange land

Join the club.

RE: Terry Garr passing:

I don't like to hear about people who're only 79 dying! Damn.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2024 02:13 PM (NLIak)

461 I see and hear almost nothing but pro-Kamala, anti-Trump ads, and NC is not going to be close at the presidential level. Kamala is running 7 points behind Beasley 2 years ago in the Senate race against Budd, if early voting is any indication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

———

Robinson won the most votes in 2020 in NC, beating Trump and Cooper in totals.

If he loses in 2024, what else could it be other than ads?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 29, 2024 02:13 PM (E3FnI)

462 Yeah, that *was* funny.

Still when Ross confronts Elizabeth's father (Willis) and relates that he, too, is a "Neat guy", it's just delightful cringe.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (krQz2)

I'm just a love machine GRRRRRRR

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:13 PM (CIS44)

463 Nood

Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2024 02:14 PM (jfvTO)

464 Punky Brewster (Soleil Moonfrye) also guest stared on Friends, as the girl who hits Joey.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (CIS44)

She has aged quite nicely.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 02:14 PM (ik452)

465 Terri Garr...she was in one of the Star Trek time travel episodes.
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (V13WU)

It was the one with Gary Seven and his cat, that exposed herself to be a hot gal in disguise to Terri.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 02:14 PM (n7h9X)

466 James Comey = Lavrentyi Beria

Show me the man and I will show you his crimes.
Posted by: Danimal28
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And bang his wife if she doesn't want him to get too raped and beat up in prison.

Posted by: Lavrentyi Beria at October 29, 2024 02:14 PM (krQz2)

467 I'm so amused how Friends has a second life with gen z, after the creators were forced to apologize to the woke mob for all the jokes that are no longer acceptable to them. And for the things they now find cringe that were at the time pushing the envelope in a good way. It's now rebellious to watch it, hah.

They want to cancel the Chandler's dad storyline as insensitive, but I thought Kathleen Turner did a good job with the part.
Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024

***
It still works because (a) the basic six characters are people who (in the story and in real life) liked each other, and you'd like to know them if you could (except, maybe, Ross . . .); and the dialog was actually funny as well as reflecting the characters. Chandler's lines still work today.

"Joey? When you put the Q-tip in? You're supposed to *stop* when you meet resistance!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:14 PM (J2vNu)

468 George Clooney and Noah Wyle (that guy from ER who was hot for a bit) were also on.

I do that too!

The line is actually: I use my breasts to get other people's attention.

We both do that.

https://tinyurl.com/4t6frvuh

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2024 02:15 PM (xCA6C)

469 461 Robinson won the most votes in 2020 in NC, beating Trump and Cooper in totals.

If he loses in 2024, what else could it be other than ads?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 29, 2024 02:13 PM (E3FnI)

========

I think Lt. Gov's in political races are essentially non-entities, Generic Candidates that receive no attention from the public.

You saw this in KY when their black, Republican Lt. Gov ran for governor and then lost handily to the white Democrat.

Most voters probably have never seen a picture of any Lt. Gov. candidate. The governor, though, is the headliner and gets attention. So, it's not necessarily ads, but general media environment that defines them at levels that don't happen to lower ticket races.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

470 I thought Teri Garr was super hot from the first time I saw here, and that if she were mine and I had some strange compulsion to construct mysterious geological formations in my house with mashed potatoes and landscaping materials to such an extent that she would leave me, I would get my shit squared away.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 02:16 PM (wzAuc)

471 And marketing professionals have no incentive to come to the conclusion that ads aren't very effective.

If they're not, then what's the point of their entire industry?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

Probably kickbacks to the campaign to launder contributions into hidden income. Most campaign ads are so awful you couldn't convince anyone they help.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 02:16 PM (n7h9X)

472 Terri Garr...she was in one of the Star Trek time travel episodes.
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 02:12 PM (V13WU)
*
It was the one with Gary Seven and his cat, that exposed herself to be a hot gal in disguise to Terri.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024

***
It was intended by Roddenberry as a backdoor pilot to a new series in case Trek was canceled that year, which NBC did and then changed their minds after (I'm told) the colossal letter-writing campaign from the fans. I wonder, had the show gone to series, if they would have kept Teri as the girl.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 02:17 PM (J2vNu)

473 >>> Letterman's best guest ever.
Posted by: TexasDan at October 29, 2024 02:03 PM (rAsBA)

I bet Terri Garr was lovely on any talk show! I'll have to look some up in her honor.

I found out that when Letterman had Demi Moore on to talk about her new movie Striptease, she actually wore a stripper outfit for the interview. And Letterman instructed the crew to always have a mike positioned to block the shot of his crotch from the cameras, because he kept having a huge boner.

(If I have to have that gross mental image in my head, I figured I shouldn't be the only one! Thanks for suffering with me.)

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 02:17 PM (QAK8m)

474 And marketing professionals have no incentive to come to the conclusion that ads aren't very effective.

If they're not, then what's the point of their entire industry?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I had a funny professor of economics for undergrad, Greek and more or less a communist due to his experience with the military junta growing up. He would ask students in his classes what their major was. One person piped up--'Marketing' in a sing song voice, he replied "Marketing is for cheerleaders!!!".

Very good on econometrics though and was hated (and hated) another Greek economist on the faculty who was on the opposite side of the Greek situation (Cypriot Greek). Others on the faculty were public choice free market types, socialists, and a good economic history of economic thought prof.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:19 PM (ctrM5)

475 Worse? Barr, contrary to what was argued here at the time, was PART OF THE PROBLEM... so never investigated any of the allegations. Thus, the statute of Limitations has expired, and nothing will ever be done.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2024 02:01 PM (QAkQ3)

But if you're a democrat you can reinterpret the statute of limitations, can't ya? Then so can we.
Posted by: Enough Bull at October 29, 2024 02:10 PM (2NXcZ)

he took government funds for the investigations and didn't complete them? Misuse of funds, malfeasance, possibly treason. We can start with those.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 02:20 PM (n7h9X)

476
The FBI has honey pot operatives? That goes against the narrative of the square-jawed resolute agents and their integrity. It's something the CCP does.

Do the FBI honeypots actually have sex with their marks? Are they essentially prostitutes? What GS level and job title is "FBI whore?"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 29, 2024 02:20 PM (biznJ)

477 If they're not, then what's the point of their entire industry?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

Probably kickbacks to the campaign to launder contributions into hidden income. Most campaign ads are so awful you couldn't convince anyone they help.
Posted by: Oldcat
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No need, ad placement commission in politics are absurd something like 20 or more percent or so off the top. GOTV commissions on spending are something like 7-8 percent.

That is why GOPe campaign consultants on TV cannot be taken seriously. They get serious grift from their little iron triangle of donors, party administrators, and candidates. Party requires the candidates to hire a team for support, the team is funded by grifter whale donors, and the party admin types gets a rakeoff.

Dems used to run that scam too but Techlords decided to create new organizations outside the party to make sure their donated dollars actually were used wisely instead of for insider grifting.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:23 PM (ctrM5)

478 Have you stopped flaring?

I'm ok, thank you for asking!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29,

Awwwh thanks for remembering, that's sweet of you to ask. I'm touch and go, but definitely a little better today.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 02:25 PM (hmOfI)

479 476
The FBI has honey pot operatives? That goes against the narrative of the square-jawed resolute agents and their integrity. It's something the CCP does.

Do the FBI honeypots actually have sex with their marks? Are they essentially prostitutes? What GS level and job title is "FBI whore?"
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
======
Really? They do that shit all the time with their various informers, undercover types, etc. Sometimes, it gets out like FBI agents having affairs with their witnesses, and so forth.

Back in teh day, no less than Hoover, disliked any undercover operations requiring agents to infiltrate organizations because it made the agents into criminals. He preferred running informants with agents as handlers as opposed to using the agents themselves to do dirty work.

The CIA types in embassies follow the same path with their NOCs allowed to do the dirty work of undercover ops.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 02:27 PM (ctrM5)

480 time to take a bragg page and re-charge all these time expired criminals. Obamas top DOJ and Barr too. let them experience GITMO

Posted by: timmy from Baltimore at October 29, 2024 02:28 PM (FAQlI)

481 I think it will depend on the casinos. Harry Reid would have lost his re-election bid to a TEA party person a decade ago or so, if not for help from LV casinos. If the casinos decide Trump is the better bet, Trump wins.
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Its not as if Trump doesn't have casino friends in LV.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 03:04 PM (AdHga)

482 Whoever put that nice comment about teri garr directly on top of Jake tappers picture in the sidebar. Please do something to correct that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 29, 2024 03:14 PM (2ivqB)

483 Brennan's the former Communist, as I recall. Comey's scum, but not a card-carrying Commie like his co-conspirators.

Posted by: Born Free at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (raD1m)

484 Hot girls are waiting for you at Trump campaign HQ.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 29, 2024 01:17
****
Now they tell me.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (slx38)

485 Can the FBI field a Mother -daughter team FTW?

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (slx38)

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