Under Far Right Wing Leadership of Javier Milei, Argentina Finally Exits Recession With a Quarter of Growth

CNN actually avoids calling him "far right wing" for once.

But that's because he's accomplished something good and important -- and CNN doesn't want to associate success with "the far right wing."

So for this article, and this story alone, he's "libertarian."

Argentina exits recession in win for libertarian president Milei

Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country's unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping -- and painful -- reforms in Latin America's third-largest economy.
Gross domestic product grew 3.9% in the July-to-September quarter compared with the previous three months, Argentina's statistics agency said Monday. The agriculture and mining sectors drove the expansion, with consumer spending also growing strongly. But manufacturing and construction suffered sharp declines in output.
The news of the economic rebound comes a year after Milei was elected on a ticket to tackle chronic hyperinflation and overhaul the long-suffering economy. He has slashed government spending, reducing sky-high inflation and helping repair the country's finances. But these measures have also pushed up unemployment and the poverty rate.

Doubt it.

You don't grow nearly 4% with rising unemployment. Nor are people more impoverished in a growing economy than in a failing one.

The economist has won praise from US President-elect Donald Trump, whose government efficiency tsars, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appear keen to replicate his budget cuts in the United States.

Argentina's flagship Merval stock index, which tracks around two dozen of the country's most valuable listed companies, closed more than 7% higher Monday. So far this year, the index is up 174% as investors have welcomed Milei's radical reforms.
Milei inherited an economy in crisis, racked by hyperinflation that reached 211% last December and which was fueled by previous governments' money printing to fund spending. According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's biggest creditor, he has delivered "better-than-expected results."
The IMF, which approved a bailout for Argentina in 2018, the fund's biggest ever, sees the economy shrinking by 3.5% overall this year, following a 1.6% contraction last year. Projected growth of 5% next year will, in simple terms, just about reverse those declines.

LOL. What you're reading is the script they have prepared for Trump. When the economy finally starts growing for real again, and inflation finally cools off, CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole, not building a mound.

Posted by: Ace at 02:22 PM

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1 St

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (/6GbT)

2 Winning

Posted by: Beartooth at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (3Ev2O)

3 Viva la revolucion!!

or are we the counter-revolution?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (Cus5s)

4 Well some people say that filling a hole … OK, never mind!

Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (1mz4r)

5 Milei inherited an economy in crisis, racked by hyperinflation that reached 211% last December and which was fueled by previous governments' money printing to fund spending.

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But our government's doing the same thing has no negative side effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

6 Milei will be attending Trump's inauguration in Jan.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (aQxSt)

7 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

8 LOL. What you're reading is the script they have prepared for Trump. When the economy finally starts growing for real again, and inflation finally cools off, CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole, not building a mound.

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What they did post-Obama, too.

Obama was taking credit for Trump's economy on the campaign trail this year.

All of Trump's policies, including deregulation? No effect. It was just the natural progression of Obama's policies, including over regulation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

9 Painful reforms? For whom? the government jackasses who regulated the Argentinian economy and the people into penury?

Who writes this drivel?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (tT6L1)

10 Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appear keen to replicate his budget cuts in the United States.

I wish I could say I think they'll succeed, but I doubt they will. Argentina has had a declining SOL for decades, and I suspect they were willing to try Milei because it was the last possibility. We aren't there yet in this country.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (xCA6C)

11 Under Far Right Wing Leadership of Javier Milei, Argentina Finally Exits Recession With a Quarter of Growth
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BUT THE FASCISM!!

Posted by: The Society For Not Knowing What The Word Fascist Means at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (krQz2)

12 7 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

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Vance gets a mullet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

13 Canada will need the jabs to eliminate our government service 'people.'

I'm increasingly indifferent to that.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (jvJvP)

14 But Milei laid off a whole bunch of government employees (sob)!

Posted by: Government Employees! at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (uxCna)

15 Reagan had Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. Trump has Musk and Milei.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (aQxSt)

16 11 Under Far Right Wing Leadership of Javier Milei, Argentina Finally Exits Recession With a Quarter of Growth
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BUT THE FASCISM!!
Posted by: The Society For Not Knowing What The Word Fascist Means at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (krQz2)

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The fascism of smaller government with less power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

17 7 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

We don't want Boris Johnson back as the British PM, do we? Though he can't be worse than the clown they have right now.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (EmT/E)

18 All the economic bad news the media has been hiding for 4 years will be all over every story starting in January. Then they will hide any good news Trump's policies bring about. Just the way it is.

Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (KQk9m)

19 I want Garrett to have Milei's babies!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (d9fT1)

20 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Not always.

Posted by: Boris Johnson at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (xCA6C)

21 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

Harry Potter? Cousin Itt?

Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (1mz4r)

22 None of this would be possible without what Biden and Harris did for the world.

Posted by: The Media at December 19, 2024 02:25 PM (vFG9F)

23 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Or perhaps some really distinctive facial hair.

Posted by: Adolf Schickelgruber at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (xCA6C)

24 OT but related. I see there are reports that Dr Jill wants Joey to go scorched Earth on the Dems who forced him out. Barky, Nanzi, the Clinton's are named. If he does I would actually support Trump pardoning the dementia patient

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (DopAq)

25 21 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

Harry Potter? Cousin Itt?
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (1mz4r)

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"Everything floats, Georgie."
-IT

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

26 BUT THE FASCISM!!
Posted by: The Society For Not Knowing What The Word Fascist Means at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (krQz2)

He's the real tricky kind of Fascist who makes government smaller and cuts the military budget dramatically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (wyMQY)

27 Viva Melei!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (N1DT3)

28 Obama was taking credit for Trump's economy on the campaign trail this year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
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When Paul Krugman, award-winning economist, did a pouty and said that the economy would NEVER recover from Trump!

Joke was on him, "Trump's economy" never kicked in until 40+ states had to be "shut down", like in Bill Maher's proposal to just tank the economy to get Trump out of office.

Posted by: The Society For Not Knowing What The Word Fascist Means at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (krQz2)

29 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell
*
Harry Potter? Cousin Itt?
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024

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Harry's hair was pretty normal. I'm thinking Dr. Pretorious from Bride of Frankenstein!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (J2vNu)

30 >> LOL. What you're reading is the script they have prepared for Trump. When the economy finally starts growing for real again, and inflation finally cools off, CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole, not building a mound. — ace

Heh. We all know the first rule of holes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (ANuwa)

31 But these measures have also pushed up unemployment and the poverty rate.

Doubt it.
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The admin state is unemployed now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (uW67Z)

32 24 OT but related. I see there are reports that Dr Jill wants Joey to go scorched Earth on the Dems who forced him out. Barky, Nanzi, the Clinton's are named. If he does I would actually support Trump pardoning the dementia patient
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (DopAq)

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I mourn the impending passing of Jill Biden by suicide by garrote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

33 I see there are reports that Dr Jill wants Joey to go scorched Earth on the Dems who forced him out. Barky, Nanzi, the Clinton's are named.

I think he's already been doing that, and that's why the Dem PTB set him up by having him "sign" pardons for heinous criminals.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:27 PM (xCA6C)

34 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

Harry Potter? Cousin Itt?
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (1mz4r)

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"Everything floats, Georgie."
-IT
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Also IT:

We can send somebody on Tuesday to look at it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:27 PM (krQz2)

35 Milei inherited an economy in crisis, racked by hyperinflation

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WRACKED, motherfuckers. It's WRACKED.

W-R-A-C-K-E-D.

Do you write for a living or do you rite for a living? Fuckin' inexcusable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 02:27 PM (BI5O2)

36 28 Joke was on him, "Trump's economy" never kicked in until 40+ states had to be "shut down", like in Bill Maher's proposal to just tank the economy to get Trump out of office.
Posted by: The Society For Not Knowing What The Word Fascist Means at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (krQz2)

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America was so mad at Trump for New York shutting down its economy that the Democrats had to shut down ballot counting in the middle of the night in six states at the same time to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

37 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

So, you're saying I have a chance?

Posted by: Don King at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (c0tJM)

38 None of this would be possible without what Biden and Harris did ~~for~~ TO the world.
Posted by: The Media at December 19, 2024

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Fixed

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (J2vNu)

39 I see there are reports that Dr Jill wants Joey to go scorched Earth on the Dems who forced him out. Barky, Nanzi, the Clinton's are named.
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So, they might already have done a number on Nancy....

Perhaps *that* was in the pardon to the "Mississippi Mob" members.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (krQz2)

40 Argentina could be an economic powerhouse if it was run correctly. Except for a few bright years, it has been let down by its govt.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (wyYfL)

41 CNN actually avoids calling him "far right wing" for once.
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It is interesting to search, 'Milei + far right'. Pages of results.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (XeU6L)

42 23 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Or perhaps some really distinctive facial hair.
Posted by: Adolf Schickelgruber at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (xCA6C)

I'd rather the political leaders have wild hairstyles than spiffy military uniforms with chests full of medals.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (1gLn1)

43 Milei will be at PDT's inauguration. I assume PDT invited Milei. Gosh, I wonder if the presence of Milei is a warning shot across the bow of our government?

Nah, PDT doesn't think that way...just a go along to get along sort of guy.......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (tT6L1)

44 Grown out blue and purple hair for Trump and Vance.

So the lefties know they are on their side.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (jvJvP)

45 Harry's hair was pretty normal. I'm thinking Dr. Pretorious from Bride of Frankenstein!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

:-))
In the movies. In the books, it’s an unkempt mess.

Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (1mz4r)

46 Earlier today, the national archivist preemptively stated that she would not legally certify the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution.

By taking this unprecedented step, she is wrongfully inserting herself into a clear constitutional process, though her role is purely ministerial.

Our argument has the support of legal experts, twenty-three attorneys general, the League of Women Voters, and the American Bar Association. I remain undaunted, and will continue to urge President Biden to direct the archivist to certify and publish the ERA and codify equality in the Constitution.

While the ERA has been ratified by 38 states, it had only been ratified by 35 before expiration of the ratification deadline in 1982. Lawmakers in 5 states have since voted to rescind their earlier approvals and the DOJ has upheld that the ratification period had ended.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (RHGPo)

47 I'd rather the political leaders have wild hairstyles than spiffy military uniforms with chests full of medals.

Dang!
*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Nork Generals at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (xCA6C)

48 CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole
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Might have gotten him in trouble before.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (QcVoh)

49 Note the spelling of "tsar" over the more common "czar." That isn't an accident or happenstance.

Posted by: holygoat at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (0G20A)

50 37 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

So, you're saying I have a chance?
Posted by: Don King at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (c0tJM)

Maybe.

Posted by: James Traficant at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (PiwSw)

51 I don't get it. Javier Milei is a trained economist. Before being elected he 1) Accurate described the problem 2) described an exact solution to the problem 3) predicted exactly what would happen when the solution was implemented.

And here we are, a year later. He was precisely right on all three counts.

Going forward I suspect Argentina will become very prosperous.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (nLFEI)

52 > I see there are reports that Dr Jill wants Joey to go scorched Earth on the Dems who forced him out.

DailyMail article here:
https://t.co/LUVmcpAmNP

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (Odg76)

53 23 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Animal from the Muppets.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (LxER7)

54 Seeing Milei doing the Trump Dance was one of many highlights that made me happy

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Actively Searching for Mistletoes Hanging Over Wagshambas at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (HYKHz)

55 CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole
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Filling a hole?! He RAPED E. Jean Carroll!!

Posted by: Somebody Named George at December 19, 2024 02:31 PM (krQz2)

56 Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appear keen to replicate his budget cuts in the United States.

I wish I could say I think they'll succeed, but I doubt they will. Argentina has had a declining SOL for decades, and I suspect they were willing to try Milei because it was the last possibility. We aren't there yet in this country.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (xCA6C)

Its not just the budget reduction, but the fact that he wiped out garbage departments to do it. There's no bloat at a department that isn't there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:31 PM (n7h9X)

57 Didn’t Madonna lead Argentina sometime in the past. I saw a movie about it I think

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:31 PM (ANuwa)

58 14 But Milei laid off a whole bunch of government employees (sob)!
Posted by: Government Employees!
_____

What kind of jobs can otherwise unemployable people get, if they can't get government jobs.

I hope we find out here in the USA!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (fs1hN)

59 >When the economy finally starts growing for real again, and inflation finally cools off, CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole

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exactly

"Biden's Economic Plan Finally Pays Off"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (/7KEl)

60 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Animal from the Muppets.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (LxER7)

Nobody needs Boris Johnson back.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (n7h9X)

61 34 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

Harry Potter? Cousin Itt?
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (1mz4r)

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"Everything floats, Georgie."
-IT
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Also IT:

We can send somebody on Tuesday to look at it.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:27 PM (krQz2)

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Alternatively:

Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (OGOaV)

62 Do you write for a living or do you rite for a living? Fuckin' inexcusable.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

** pours a shot of strong but delicious spirits through the USB port to YD **

Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (1mz4r)

63 Speaking of wild hair

Trailer for the new Superman movie, the new Superman's hair looks like they took a dead muskrat and glued it on his head

I'm predicting another flop

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Actively Searching for Mistletoes Hanging Over Wagshambas at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (HYKHz)

64 How can Trump fix the Greatest Economy in History?

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (QcVoh)

65 CNN will gripe that Trump is merely filling in a hole
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Filling a hole?! He RAPED E. Jean Carroll!!
Posted by: Somebody Named George at December 19, 2024 02:31 PM (krQz2)

Our annual trollbots get more views than CNN

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (n7h9X)

66 60 Nobody needs Boris Johnson back.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (n7h9X)

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I still want to be on Team Boris Johnson.

I'm not because he can't be trusted and is a snake and proved to be spineless.

But I still want him to be the Boris Johnson we all thought he was.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

67 How many migrants did they absorb to achieve this miracle?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

68 I swear to G-d, if I'm ever in charge, illiterate, amoral moralizing "writers" who misspell stuff are getting their tongues and fingers removed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

69 >>But these measures have also pushed up unemployment and the poverty rate.
>>Doubt it.

What I have read on other web sites, comments from people in Brazil when asked about this, is that poverty *is* up, and many people are hurting, but they see it as a first step toward fixing things.

I think this is why Milei makes such a big deal of his small victories (inflation down to only 30% a year, etc.) because he needs to keep people convinced to "stay the course."

He also says they need foreign investment to create jobs. Like most economies, there are areas where things have greatly improved -- rents are down, construction is up, but also a lot of people who do not see that (yet.)

We fool ourselves if we think these austerity programs are a magic bullet that does not suffer a J-curve of first causing a lot of pain. The thing is, Milei has broad support and even those who are not seeing the improvement yet still have hope.

Posted by: Just asking at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (T4+cP)

70 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Or perhaps some really distinctive facial hair.
Posted by: Adolf Schickelgruber at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (xCA6C)

I am ready and able to serve.

Posted by: Zombie Martin Van Buren at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (F2xQR)

71 What kind of jobs can otherwise unemployable people get, if they can't get government jobs.

I hope we find out here in the USA!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (fs1hN)

University Jobs, paid by Government Grants.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (n7h9X)

72 I would vote for him for his sideburns alone. Trump needs to grow some mutton chops.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (aD39U)

73 Henry Rodgers reports:
Sources on Capitol Hill, including both lawmakers and their staff, told the @DailyCaller that Mike Johnson may have cost himself the Speaker’s job with the poorly-received gambit right before Christmas.

http://tiny.cc/hb32001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (Odg76)

74 I would vote for him for his sideburns alone. Trump needs to grow some mutton chops.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (aD39U)
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A couple of tats too.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (krQz2)

75 60 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Animal from the Muppets.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (LxER7)

Go on

Posted by: Jim Traficant's Sentient Toupee at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (pIfcn)

76 I would vote for him for his sideburns alone. Trump needs to grow some mutton chops.

So, you're an Ambrose Burnside for President! type?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (xCA6C)

77 What I have read on other web sites, comments from people in Brazil when asked about this, is that poverty *is* up, and many people are hurting, but they see it as a first step toward fixing things.

Posted by: Just asking at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (T4+cP)

What to Brazilians know about the situation in Argentina?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (n7h9X)

78 Going forward I suspect Argentina will become very prosperous.
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The Argentinian soccer team received criticism that they lacked dark skinned players. They responded by saying that Argentina is a country, not a Disney movie.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (fs1hN)

79 By the way, the primary cause of the recession and rising unemployment was Milei laying off government employees.

Once they got other jobs, the economy started growing.

If a government employee is fired and gets a private job, you reduce government spending on their wages AND increase the real GDP (i.e. the part that pays the taxes). It's why inflation suddenly disappears, and growth starts.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (nLFEI)

80 ELON MUSK for Speaker of the house!!

Posted by: DBCooper at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (3oMnW)

81 50 37 All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

So, you're saying I have a chance?
Posted by: Don King at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (c0tJM)

Maybe.
Posted by: James Traficant at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (PiwSw)

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It's my time to shine, baby!

Posted by: Heat Miser at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (OGOaV)

82 They get Milei and we get Milley.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (63Dwl)

83 73 Henry Rodgers reports:
Sources on Capitol Hill, including both lawmakers and their staff, told the @DailyCaller that Mike Johnson may have cost himself the Speaker’s job with the poorly-received gambit right before Christmas.

http://tiny.cc/hb32001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (Odg76)

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Press X for doubt.

Inertia will win that fight. He'll be Speaker because it takes either courage or craziness to depose a king without a succession plan in place, and Gaetz is gone. So, that's the crazy gone. Where's the courage?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

84 Going forward I suspect Argentina will become very prosperous.
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I'm not going to cry for it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:36 PM (krQz2)

85 Jim Traficant would have made a better President than most of these swine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 02:36 PM (BI5O2)

86 74 I would vote for him for his sideburns alone. Trump needs to grow some mutton chops.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (aD39U)
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A couple of tats too.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:34 PM (krQz2)

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Two tear drop tattoos to reflect that time he was in prison for his mugshot.

He killed two guys with shivs in the shower while he was there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

87 "Wrack and rack are etymologically distinct, meaning they come from different words. Many usage guides will advise that you should use wrack for meanings such as "to utterly ruin," and rack for "to cause to suffer torture, pain, anguish, or ruin."

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrack

Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2024 02:36 PM (Cus5s)

88 I saw a Tweet a few weeks ago that was a photoshop showing Trump with a shaved head and a goatee a la Walter White. I think he should do it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (ANuwa)

89 Inertia will win that fight. He'll be Speaker because it takes either courage or craziness to depose a king without a succession plan in place, and Gaetz is gone.

The SotH doesn't have to be a sitting member of Congress, and at this point, Gaetz appears to have no FTG. I would support him.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

90 University Jobs, paid by Government Grants.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Ah, crap. You are correct. I was hoping the answer was digging canals.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (fs1hN)

91 Another race hoax:
A message stating, “F*ck N****rs, Trump Rules” was found on Rhodes College campus. The individual who reported the message just admitted the whole thing was fabricated.

http://tiny.cc/ob32001

If racism is such an issue, why are all the high profile incidents hoaxes?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Odg76)

92 I swear to G-d, if I'm ever in charge, illiterate, amoral moralizing "writers" who misspell stuff are getting their tongues and fingers removed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

** looks over future career choices **

***Returns to writing bad poetry ***

Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (1mz4r)

93 The Argentinian soccer team received criticism that they lacked dark skinned players. They responded by saying that Argentina is a country, not a Disney movie.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (fs1hN)

Sick burn

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (QcVoh)

94 I swear to G-d, if I'm ever in charge, illiterate, amoral moralizing "writers" who misspell stuff are getting their tongues and fingers removed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Don't fret, AI 'editors' will take care of this.

Posted by: Autocucumber at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (XeU6L)

95 New rule: All leaders of nations must have wild hair styles.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

This sounds like an unreleased Key & Peel sketch.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (IG4Id)

96 Trump WOULD be building a mound if the current commies hadn't dug such a deep hole.

Obama did say shovel ready. He just didn't mean what we thought he meant. Whoops!

Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (L0nJW)

97 Trump's Fight Fight and subsequent win has opened the floodgates on sense the world over it would seem.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (QcVoh)

98 WRACKED, motherfuckers. It's WRACKED.

W-R-A-C-K-E-D.

Do you write for a living or do you rite for a living? Fuckin' inexcusable.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

So, if I'm racking my brain, does that mean it's being wrecked on the rack?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage deplorable, uneducated woman at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (W2Pud)

99 57 Didn’t Madonna lead Argentina sometime in the past. I saw a movie about it I think
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:31 PM (ANuwa)

No no no, that's Maradona you're thinking of ... world Cup.

Hand of God fame ...

Posted by: Peter Shilton at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (TTAGa)

100 Vance gets a mullet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Point me toward the petition. I want to sign bigly!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (b1qe9)

101 If racism is such an issue, why are all the high profile incidents hoaxes?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Odg76)
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Because they have to convince the public who are realizing that conservatism isn't about pining for the shackles.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (krQz2)

102 89 Inertia will win that fight. He'll be Speaker because it takes either courage or craziness to depose a king without a succession plan in place, and Gaetz is gone.

The SotH doesn't have to be a sitting member of Congress, and at this point, Gaetz appears to have no FTG. I would support him.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

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Gaetz started the process last time. I'm saying that he's the crazy that started it, not the guy to replace Johnson. Though, I don't care who replaces Johnson and Gaetz couldn't be worse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (GBKbO)

103 Don't fret, AI 'editors' will take care of this.
Posted by: Autocucumber

Their really gud at speling. Thre really gud at making stuff up two.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (QCSQH)

104 Obama did say shovel ready. He just didn't mean what we thought he meant. Whoops!
Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (L0nJW)

I think he meant "shove ready". He leaves off the last L for lubrictant.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (QcVoh)

105 I swear to G-d, if I'm ever in charge, illiterate, amoral moralizing "writers" who misspell stuff are getting their tongues and fingers removed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Do you WANT to put copy editors out of work?

Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (L0nJW)

106
EM GRAPEFRUIT FOADDY-SEBEN!!1!1!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (c0tJM)

107 If racism is such an issue, why are all the high profile incidents hoaxes?
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Demand for race hoaxes far exceeds supply.

Posted by: Evergreen at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (fs1hN)

108 So, if I'm racking my brain, does that mean it's being wrecked on the rack?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage deplorable, uneducated woman at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (W2Pud)
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I'm racking my brain.

Your break.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (krQz2)

109 104 Obama did say shovel ready. He just didn't mean what we thought he meant. Whoops!
Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 02:38 PM (L0nJW)

I think he meant "shove ready". He leaves off the last L for lubrictant.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:39 PM (QcVoh)

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There's video of him from about 2011 laughing with his donors about how only idiots believed in shovel ready jobs.

The American right didn't believe it, by the way. The American left true believers did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

110
Maybe.
Posted by: James Traficant at December 19, 2024 02:30 PM (PiwSw)

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It's my time to shine, baby!
Posted by: Heat Miser at December 19, 2024 02:35 PM (OGOaV)

Beam me up, Scotty!

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (1gLn1)

111
Their really gud at speling. Thre really gud at making stuff up two.
Posted by: rickb223
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Fabulists

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (XeU6L)

112 What to Brazilians know about the situation in Argentina?
Posted by: Oldcat at

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I have no idea what happened in my brain that made me type Brazil.

Obviously I meant Argentina.

Posted by: Just asking at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (T4+cP)

113 80 ELON MUSK for Speaker of the house!!
Posted by: DBCooper

Howdy there, stranger!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage deplorable, uneducated woman at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (W2Pud)

114 >Going forward I suspect Argentina will become very prosperous.
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whose side are they on, geopolitically speaking?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (/7KEl)

115 63 Speaking of wild hair

Trailer for the new Superman movie, the new Superman's hair looks like they took a dead muskrat and glued it on his head

I'm predicting another flop

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Actively Searching for Mistletoes Hanging Over Wagshambas at December 19, 2024 02:32 PM (HYKHz

Gunn has made some asshole right wing jokes so I'm good. If I get in the mood for superhero stuff, I'll try anime.

And they need to green light that black Superman movie. If they don't spend $500 million on it, they are just racist.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (jvJvP)

116 Given the Johnson has (possibly!) had a true Come to Jesus moment, he might go forth and sin no more …

Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (1mz4r)

117 What to Brazilians know about the situation in Argentina?
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What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (fs1hN)

118 When I was in HS, facial hair was a 'Senior Privilege', but sideburns didn't count so there were a lot of Duane Allmans walking around.

We also wore an onion on our belts which was the style at the time.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 02:42 PM (aD39U)

119 OK somebody beat me to a Traficant reference

well-played

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:42 PM (/7KEl)

120 Given the Johnson has (possibly!) had a true Come to Jesus moment, he might go forth and sin no more …

I've wondered the same thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:42 PM (xCA6C)

121 The Argentinian soccer team received criticism that they lacked dark skinned players. They responded by saying that Argentina is a country, not a Disney movie.

They should look like the British cricket team.

When Britain plays the West Indies team, the West Indies team consists of players from the West Indies, and the British team consists of players whose families moved to Britain from the West Indies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (uxCna)

122 whose side are they on, geopolitically speaking?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (/7KEl)

Sides ...SIDES?

We're on nobody's side, because nobody's on our side.

Posted by: The Ents at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (TTAGa)

123 >What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?
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that they are quick and painful

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (/7KEl)

124 Buy Trump is inheriting the best economy ever, except perhaps the one he inherited from Obama.

Also, those stories do not mention the sufferings of the LGBTQ+, who remain unseen.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (1bNHn)

125 55
‘ Posted by: Somebody Named George’

I missed that thread but I want to say how much I hate that sniveling little fairy.
He wasn’t humiliated enough.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (jbnUc)

126 116 Given the Johnson has (possibly!) had a true Come to Jesus moment, he might go forth and sin no more …
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (1mz4r)

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It's much more likely that the House passes the clean version, the Senate passes the pork-laden version, and then the House passes the Senate version at the last second because the grandmas who work at the Pentagon will have to start a bake sale to maintain our stealth fighters keeping us safe over Ukraine if we don't pass it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

127 OK somebody beat me to a Traficant reference

well-played
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:42 PM (/7KEl)
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Isn't there a meme of John C. O'Reilly as Traficant?

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (krQz2)

128 OT but related. I see there are reports that Dr Jill wants Joey to go scorched Earth on the Dems who forced him out. Barky, Nanzi, the Clinton's are named. If he does I would actually support Trump pardoning the dementia patient
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:26 PM (DopAq)

If he does, then the legacy media will finally admit what they've known all along - he has dementia.

Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:43 PM (bCtg+)

129 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (fs1hN)

That Brenda's Beaver Needs a Barber?

Posted by: Scarymary at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (F2xQR)

130 Given the Johnson has (possibly!) had a true Come to Jesus moment, he might go forth and sin no more …
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (1mz4r)

Which Johnson? The idiot speaker of the House? Or the Brit that combs his hair with a balloon?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (4XwPj)

131 When Britain plays the West Indies team, the West Indies team consists of players from the West Indies, and the British team consists of players whose families moved to Britain from the West Indies.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Exactly like the US math team that beat the Chinese math team!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (QCSQH)

132 120 Given the Johnson has (possibly!) had a true Come to Jesus moment, he might go forth and sin no more …

I've wondered the same thing.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson? Highlight the issue, engage the troops, get early victory and signal which direction we are heading. Johnson takes the temporary L in exchange for future greatness?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (fs1hN)

133 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (fs1hN)
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Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (krQz2)

134 That Brenda's Beaver Needs a Barber?
Posted by: Scarymary at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (F2xQR)

That's such wonderful alliteration ...

Posted by: zombie E.B. White at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (TTAGa)

135 Harry Potter's hair was pretty normal. I'm thinking Dr. Pretorious from Bride of Frankenstein!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
:-))
In the movies. In the books, it’s an unkempt mess.
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024

***
In fairness, my hair at eleven was probably just as much a mess as Harry's at that age. By the time I graduated from high school, though, the pelt was as well-groomed (and just as completely present) as you see it today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (J2vNu)

136 Maybe Milei can make a play to the UK and purchase the Falklands, for his next accomplishment.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (Vyll1)

137 The American right didn't believe it, by the way. The American left true believers did.

Like the MIT professor mocking the rubes for believing ObamaCare's promises when ObamaCare was passed.

He wasn't referring to conservatives.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (uxCna)

138 Jim Traficant was the most quotable politician since Churchill.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

139 Given the Johnson has (possibly!) had a true Come to Jesus moment, he might go forth and sin no more …
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 19, 2024 02:41 PM (1mz4r)

Which Johnson? The idiot speaker of the House? Or the Brit that combs his hair with a balloon?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Big Swinging Johnson!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (QCSQH)

140 35
‘ Do you write for a living or do you rite for a living? Fuckin' inexcusable.’

Fucking inexcusable.

Posted by: Unnecessary Pedantry at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (jbnUc)

141 132 Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson? Highlight the issue, engage the troops, get early victory and signal which direction we are heading. Johnson takes the temporary L in exchange for future greatness?
Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (fs1hN)

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Is it really easier to believe a weirdly complex conspiracy theory like this rather than Congress just behaving as normal and getting caught, only pulling back when the richest man in the world threatens them with funding for primary challenges?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

142 Maybe Milei can make a play to the UK and purchase the Falklands, for his next accomplishment.

Given how Britain is going, the Falklands might vote to voluntarily join Argentina.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:46 PM (uxCna)

143 Ace, I think you got that headline wrong. *Pre-election*, Milei was "far-right" or "extreme far-right radical." However, now that he has an undeniably successful track record of implementing policies that leverage the ironclad laws of economics, to Argentina's tremendous benefit, he is simply a "libertarian."

Posted by: Alex Hessell at December 19, 2024 02:46 PM (UJaka)

144 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question

Carnival!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 02:46 PM (QCSQH)

145 137 The American right didn't believe it, by the way. The American left true believers did.

Like the MIT professor mocking the rubes for believing ObamaCare's promises when ObamaCare was passed.

He wasn't referring to conservatives.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (uxCna)

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The establishment thinks all of us rubes are morons.

They only ever seem to note examples of the left believing their bullshit, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

146 Excuse me whilst I remove my sock.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:46 PM (fs1hN)

147 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024

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That they live next door and speak a language that almost nobody outside of S. America understands?

Oh. Wait. *Those* kind of Brazilians. Okay.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:46 PM (J2vNu)

148 I hope Argentina will stay with Milei long enough to get real growth and that the U.S. can follow. And there probably is some new poverty where Milei halted gub'mint handouts. But money handouts aren't too useful when there is hyperinflation and by the nature of bureaucracy the mandarins in charge of the handouts don't want people to get back to being independent. I'm so old I remember when R's would go on TV and talk about the safety net being a snare that kept people down.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (UKUm3)

149 And they need to green light that black Superman movie.
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I thought they'd already made a movie about Muhammed Ali.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (fzQGK)

150 It's much more likely that the House passes the clean version, the Senate passes the pork-laden version, and then the House passes the Senate version at the last second because the grandmas who work at the Pentagon will have to start a bake sale to maintain our stealth fighters keeping us safe over Ukraine if we don't pass it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher

It’s a Christmas Miracle !!!

Posted by: Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthey. . . at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (1mz4r)

151 Good for Argentina

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (fwDg9)

152 From GatewayPundit on Dr. Jill.

"The hatred the Bidens share for Pelosi and also Barack Obama is now so intense that Democratic mega-donor Floridian attorney John Morgan believes that Biden deliberately forced Harris just to spite them.

“Biden basically had the palace coup from all directions, from George Clooney to Pelosi. I think he got pissed off and said, ‘F*** you’, and gave us Harris,” Morgan told the Mail.

“Pelosi had told her delegation that there would be a convention and a nominating process. And Barack Obama did not endorse her (Harris) for five days,” he added.

This news perfectly tracks TGP’s reporting on the coup and Biden’s response."

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (jvJvP)

153 For all the people (not on this site) surprised by this, the formula has been well known for 250+ years:

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."

-Adam Smith, 1755

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (N1DT3)

154 141 132 Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson? Highlight the issue, engage the troops, get early victory and signal which direction we are heading. Johnson takes the temporary L in exchange for future greatness?
Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (fs1hN)

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Is it really easier to believe a weirdly complex conspiracy theory like this rather than Congress just behaving as normal and getting caught, only pulling back when the richest man in the world threatens them with funding for primary challenges?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

Trump publicly still solidly backing Johnson does give weight to the theory...as I said yesterday, trial balloon to see if we're engaged, so it's a message to the RINOs/Uniparty (b/c true Rs are outnumbered) that things must change, even now...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (exHjb)

155 132
‘ Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson?’

I wondered the same thing but I couldn’t see Johnson taking one for the team like that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (jbnUc)

156 In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, they give Bruce Lee a line that he would make Muhammed Ali a cripple if they were to fight for real.

Did he actually say anything like that?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (oZhjI)

157 Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson? Highlight the issue, engage the troops, get early victory and signal which direction we are heading. Johnson takes the temporary L in exchange for future greatness?

I'd like to think so, but Occam's Razor suggests otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 02:49 PM (xCA6C)

158 154 Trump publicly still solidly backing Johnson does give weight to the theory...as I said yesterday, trial balloon to see if we're engaged, so it's a message to the RINOs/Uniparty (b/c true Rs are outnumbered) that things must change, even now...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (exHjb)

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Trump supported McCarthy until he was ousted because Trump is playing the DC game.

He's not trying to make enemies he doesn't think he can unseat based on a few tweets. Sometimes he's wrong, like with McCarthy, but most of the time he's right. He's been railing against McConnell for years, but McConnell is still in the Senate and his lieutenant has replaced him as leader.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

159 91 Another race hoax:
A message stating, “F*ck N****rs, Trump Rules” was found on Rhodes College campus. The individual who reported the message just admitted the whole thing was fabricated.

http://tiny.cc/ob32001

If racism is such an issue, why are all the high profile incidents hoaxes?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Odg76)

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Why, to raise awareness, of course!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 19, 2024 02:49 PM (OGOaV)

160 Is it really easier to believe a weirdly complex conspiracy theory like this rather than Congress just behaving as normal and getting caught, only pulling back when the richest man in the world threatens them with funding for primary challenges?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

Trump publicly still solidly backing Johnson does give weight to the theory...as I said yesterday, trial balloon to see if we're engaged, so it's a message to the RINOs/Uniparty (b/c true Rs are outnumbered) that things must change, even now...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (exHjb)

Occam’s razor is a thIng

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:49 PM (ANuwa)

161 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Well, I'm sure many Argentinian women like to look fashionable down below you know?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 02:49 PM (oZhjI)

162 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024
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Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024

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Yeah, but it's summertime down there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:50 PM (J2vNu)

163 Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appear keen to replicate his budget cuts in the United States.

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Vivek for Speaker Of The House!

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (5jVSZ)

164 The hatred the Bidens share for Pelosi and also Barack Obama is now so intense that Democratic mega-donor Floridian attorney John Morgan believes that Biden deliberately forced Harris just to spite them.

That was obvious when he did it.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (uxCna)

165 In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, they give Bruce Lee a line that he would make Muhammed Ali a cripple if they were to fight for real.

Did he actually say anything like that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (oZhjI)
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I don't believe so, no.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (fzQGK)

166 Meet the new boss, same as the ol(record scratch). LOLGF!

Posted by: Doge inc at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (/6GbT)

167 Is it really easier to believe a weirdly complex conspiracy theory like this rather than Congress just behaving as normal and getting caught, only pulling back when the richest man in the world threatens them with funding for primary challenges?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher
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Certainly easier to believe that Congress is doing what Congress does.

But didn't you ask yourself why Johnson was in those pictures with Trump and Elon, even though he looked totally out of place? What is Johnson's only job between now and inauguration? The CR wasn't a topic of conversation?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

168 We fool ourselves if we think these austerity programs are a magic bullet that does not suffer a J-curve of first causing a lot of pain. The thing is, Milei has broad support and even those who are not seeing the improvement yet still have hope.
Posted by: Just asking at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (T4+cP)

I always say this in relation to phasing out social security. It's gonna suck. If we do anything to fix structure economic, it will suck and it will be hard. But better that then sucking and being hard when it collapses.

Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (bCtg+)

169 What do Argentinians know about Brazilians?

Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024
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Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024

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Yeah, but it's summertime down there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:50 PM (J2vNu)
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Heard an Aussie talking about beach, barbeque and campfires on Christmas.

They'd get snow sometimes in July....

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (krQz2)

170 164 The hatred the Bidens share for Pelosi and also Barack Obama is now so intense that Democratic mega-donor Floridian attorney John Morgan believes that Biden deliberately forced Harris just to spite them.

That was obvious when he did it.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (uxCna)

Funny enough, Harris could have turned the offer down...but her ego was too big for that (which Jill knew)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 02:52 PM (exHjb)

171 155 132
‘ Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson?’

I wondered the same thing but I couldn’t see Johnson taking one for the team like that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2024 02:48 PM (jbnUc)

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He's had a taste of what it's like to sit at the cool kid's table and being invited to events where he's cheered as a hero.

I'd bet he doesn't want to give that up.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 02:53 PM (L0nJW)

172 167 Certainly easier to believe that Congress is doing what Congress does.

But didn't you ask yourself why Johnson was in those pictures with Trump and Elon, even though he looked totally out of place? What is Johnson's only job between now and inauguration? The CR wasn't a topic of conversation?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

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Read up about how Senate Majority leader Henry Anthony treated US Grant when Grant first became president.

All smiles and politeness during their meetings, and then stabbing him in the back through official proceedings.

This is the way of Congress, especially with outsider presidents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

173 Turnarounds can be done. Milie has proved it. The Left wants you to believe they're not only impossible to achieve but evil and immoral even to consider. They must hate Milie as bad as they hate Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 19, 2024 02:54 PM (h/ffs)

174 > This news perfectly tracks TGP’s reporting on the coup and Biden’s response.

If true, this also explains why Biden was positively giddy after Trump won.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:54 PM (Odg76)

175 171 He's had a taste of what it's like to sit at the cool kid's table and being invited to events where he's cheered as a hero.

I'd bet he doesn't want to give that up.
Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 02:53 PM (L0nJW)

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Johnson will most likely have the mentality of most people in leadership in Congress:

"I'll be around a lot longer than current POTUS."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

176 Funny enough, Harris could have turned the offer down...but her ego was too big for that (which Jill knew)...

Obama kept bleating about his precious "mini-primary" for several days after Biden's endorsement of Harris, before he acknowledged that there was no way that Harris could be replaced by a white person.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (uxCna)

177 I predict Trump is going to get hit with Logan Act charges the moment he assumes office. It's why Trudeau went down to mar-a-lago. Any world leader that interacts with him is probably in on the scheme.

Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (bCtg+)

178 Revenge is a dish best served cold ... like the morgue.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (krQz2)

179 Heard an Aussie talking about beach, barbeque and campfires on Christmas.

They'd get snow sometimes in July....
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024

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Sometimes we have weather close to that on Christmas. I've known 12/25 to be 80-something degrees F., and humid too.

I've also known it to be 30-something, even below freezing . . . but that is rare. Xmas Eve in '83 went down to 13 F., and in '89 we had a snowfall just before Xmas where the stuff stayed on the ground for three days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (J2vNu)

180 176 Funny enough, Harris could have turned the offer down...but her ego was too big for that (which Jill knew)...

Obama kept bleating about his precious "mini-primary" for several days after Biden's endorsement of Harris, before he acknowledged that there was no way that Harris could be replaced by a white person.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (uxCna)

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Because Harris wanted it, and she did something completely out of her character:

She worked to get the support of the delegates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

181 He has slashed government spending, reducing sky-high inflation and helping repair the country's finances. But these measures have also pushed up unemployment and the poverty rate.

-

Only among government employees.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (MwgXM)

182 He burned the m*therf*cker down and look what was hiding under all that regulation and graft- an economy that had signs of life when it could breathe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (HsOwE)

183 Incredible how quickly things have shifted. And, Trump's enemies, too, are falling like dominoes. McConnell and Pelosi have both physically fallen, Fanni and Stephanopolous have both fallen professionally in the past two weeks.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (C53IZ)

184 But better that then sucking and being hard when it collapses.
Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (bCtg+)

We really don't do that phrasing thing anymore, do we?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (4XwPj)

185 If the Dems had a better candidate than Harris in mind why didn't they include in *Bidens* tweet that he wanted a selection process or that he endorsed candidate Y?

Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (UKUm3)

186 And they need to green light that black Superman movie.
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I thought they'd already made a movie about Muhammed Ali.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 02:47 PM (fzQGK)

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Not to mention Shaft!

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (5jVSZ)

187 But better that then sucking and being hard when it collapses.
Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (bCtg+)

We really don't do that phrasing thing anymore, do we?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (4XwPj)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (HsOwE)

188 Heard an Aussie talking about beach, barbeque and campfires on Christmas.

I was once in New Zealand for Christmas, and was worried about passing out due to the heat singing carols in a Presbyterian church.

That was a novel Christmas experience.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 02:57 PM (uxCna)

189 NaCLy gets the coveted 'fluffer comment of the day' award.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:58 PM (HsOwE)

190 I always say this in relation to phasing out social security. It's gonna suck. If we do anything to fix structure economic, it will suck and it will be hard. But better that then sucking and being hard when it collapses.
Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (bCtg+)

Blah Blah says that the way to fix social security is to take more from the young people who don't need it since most of them live at home with their parents and only need enough for video games and weed and won't feel any pain regardless. The extra monies collected can then go to us elderly folks as a cost of a living increase since we have to stretch our fixed income to pay for our home and vacation homes in Manhattan, Miami and Hawaii.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at December 19, 2024 02:58 PM (rqga2)

191 Pardon, InZona.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:59 PM (HsOwE)

192 If the Dems had a better candidate than Harris in mind why didn't they include in *Bidens* tweet that he wanted a selection process or that he endorsed candidate Y?

Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2024 02:56 PM (UKUm3)

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They wanted the failure theater performance of an "open convention" to "save our precious democracy" and provide a "mandate" ... or something.

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 19, 2024 02:59 PM (5jVSZ)

193 I never really believed the 12 dimensional chess that Trump was supposedly playing in his first term. Results were good, but could have been better. But I do think adding Musk, Vivek and Kennedy could mean that strategic plays like the Johnson Christmas CRapnibus feint is possible. We'll find out soon enough depending on what actually comes out of the House of Ill Repute.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:59 PM (fs1hN)

194 I always say this in relation to phasing out social security. It's gonna suck. If we do anything to fix structure economic, it will suck and it will be hard. But better that then sucking and being hard when it collapses.

Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 02:51 PM (bCtg+)
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I can relate to the sucking and hard.

Posted by: Kamala at December 19, 2024 02:59 PM (krQz2)

195 I was once in New Zealand for Christmas, and was worried about passing out due to the heat singing carols in a Presbyterian church.

That was a novel Christmas experience.

I went to Hawaii for Christmas recently. That Mele Kalikimaka song was playing everywhere!

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:59 PM (Odg76)

196 Heard an Aussie talking about beach, barbeque and campfires on Christmas.

I was once in New Zealand for Christmas, and was worried about passing out due to the heat singing carols in a Presbyterian church.

That was a novel Christmas experience.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024

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And parts of NZ, the South Island, are at a higher latitude than any point of AU. On the other hand, the Southern Hemisphere tends to be warmer overall: more water than land, and the Earth is closest to the sun on Jan. 2.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:00 PM (J2vNu)

197 They wanted the failure theater performance of an "open convention" to "save our precious democracy" and provide a "mandate" ... or something.

Remember, the Dems also rigged the 2016 and 2020 primaries to keep Bernie Sanders from winning.

They have no intention of letting mere voters select the Democratic candidate.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 03:00 PM (uxCna)

198 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:00 PM (IXZGh)

199 I went to Hawaii for Christmas recently. That Mele Kalikimaka song was playing everywhere!
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 02:59 PM (Odg76)
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As long as it's not that hyperactive version of "Up on the Housetop" featuring some castrato.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (fzQGK)

200 There's an episode of Bluey set on Christmas.

They have a pool party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

201 Libertarian? I haven't heard him mention anything about legalizing weed every 3 minutes........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (IXZGh)

202 Remember, the Dems also rigged the 2016 and 2020 primaries to keep Bernie Sanders from winning.

They have no intention of letting mere voters select the Democratic candidate.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 03:00 PM (uxCna)
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That's what the "superdelegates" have long been there for.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (krQz2)

203 I suspected Sundowner went for Kamaunist to fk with those who pulled that Coup D'etat

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (fwDg9)

204 I went to Hawaii for Christmas recently. That Mele Kalikimaka song was playing everywhere!
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024

***
I wonder what the Hawaiian version of "Feliz Navidad" would be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (J2vNu)

205 201 Libertarian? I haven't heard him mention anything about legalizing weed every 3 minutes........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (IXZGh

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More Milton Friedman and less...every other libertarian you've ever heard of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

206 202 That's what the "superdelegates" have long been there for.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (krQz2)

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The cleanest way to an open convention would have been having Biden decline the nomination after the first ballot at the convention.

Then the superdelegates regain all of their power and choose whomever they want.

But Biden didn't want to do it that way, for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

207 Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country's unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping -- and painful -- reforms in Latin America's third-largest economy.

Unorthodox? EABOD.

Painful? For whom? Only the lazy, useless f*cks that were fired, I'm guessing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:03 PM (IXZGh)

208 milei is a classical liberal, with some eccentricitiies, more doctrinaire than say menem, who was a former peronist, who
tried to fix argentina and it worked for a while,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (dJR17)

209 I predict Trump is going to get hit with Logan Act charges the moment he assumes office. It's why Trudeau went down to mar-a-lago. Any world leader that interacts with him is probably in on the scheme.

They've had a long time to try that. You'd think they wouldn't wait until they were out of power everywhere.

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (QHWjA)

210 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (/7KEl)

211 The most obvious news of the last 4 years:

"JUST IN - White House aides hid Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1869830795030081618

Posted by: Thrawn at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (uGhsv)

212 But Biden didn't want to do it that way, for some reason.

Remember, Biden was ousted in a coup.

If he was nominated on the first ballot, he probably would have taken it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (uxCna)

213 There's an episode of Bluey set on Christmas.

They have a pool party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

Gashes and slashes and cock, OH MY!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (IXZGh)

214 Johnson will most likely have the mentality of most people in leadership in Congress:

"I'll be around a lot longer than current POTUS."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

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How old will Johnson be after two terms of Vance and two terms of Barron Trump in 25 years?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (5jVSZ)

215 210 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (/7KEl)

Trump needs to "convince" Him

Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (VE6XX)

216 202
‘ That's what the "superdelegates" have long been there for.’

I wonder how pressure they’ll be under from now on to only nominate a Vagina-American or candidate of color.
I hope it’s tremendous.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (jbnUc)

217 210 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
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This should be fun.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (jFCkp)

218 210 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (/7KEl)

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Name me one cabinet official he voted against in Biden's cabinet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

219 It's kind of wonky, but there is a mathematical definition of the word "dictatorship". (Pauses to allow for fleeing)

A dictatorship is any faction whose vote eclipses all other factions combined.

Superdelegates are a dictatorship of representatives "of the Party".

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:05 PM (krQz2)

220 But Biden didn't want to do it that way, for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

Because someone wanted him to be the candidate/puppet. After the first debate that they could not slip and other events, my guess is they did not think the ruse would be playsible- especially since they would have to repeat his numbers from 2020 again in order for it not to have been even more blatantly obvious that they cheated.

I am still surprised they just did not do it though. I wonder if they just planned to do it with Kamala and make the 81 million the new floor for dem candidates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 03:06 PM (HsOwE)

221 The cleanest way to an open convention would have been having Biden decline the nomination after the first ballot at the convention.

Then the superdelegates regain all of their power and choose whomever they want.

But Biden didn't want to do it that way, for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024

***
I still suspect DOCTOR Jill whispered in Joe's ear about all this, and convinced him. I have trouble imagining him to be that crafty when half his mind is on ice cream or little girls. Or little girls eating ice cream.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:06 PM (J2vNu)

222
"JUST IN - White House aides hid Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

*Roll endless loop of Joe Scarborough expressing this Biden is the Best Biden Ever here*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:06 PM (IXZGh)

223 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 03:04 PM (/7KEl)

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PRIMARY HIS ASS!

/Phrasing?

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 19, 2024 03:06 PM (5jVSZ)

224 Trump needs to pull Johnson in and get him to pull MAGA

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (fwDg9)

225 The media lies
Always
About everything

Never forget this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (x00s4)

226 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services

I wonder how many of the secret payouts by Congress to settle sexual harassment accusations involve Miss Lindsey.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (uxCna)

227 There's an episode of Bluey set on Christmas.

They have a pool party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

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Never heard of that one. I'm trying to remember if the Wiggles ever did a Christmas special.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (LxER7)

228 "JUST IN - White House aides hid Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

No, they didn't!

Posted by: Everyone In The World at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (GN7By)

229 228 "JUST IN - White House aides hid Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

This is my shocked face.. No really.. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating

Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (VE6XX)

230 The media lies
Always
About everything

Never forget this.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (x00s4)
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I am not perfect, but I strive forward.

With each passing day, I try to hate them more.

It is not enough.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (krQz2)

231 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Service

—-

What if RFK promises to invade a Middle East country? Maybe that’ll change Miss Lindsey’s mind.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (x00s4)

232 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services

It's a shame about all the bribes he's taken from Ukraine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (uxCna)

233 I have two outdoor cats still sleeping inside.

We're slightly below freezing.

But they may be resting up for tonight's 12am, 3am and 6am playing sessions.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (jvJvP)

234 Has anyone heard from Donna of the Ampresands recently?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (HsOwE)

235 The IMF told Milei that his mission, when he chose to accept it, was to kill all the hogs at the spending trough. The tape then self-destructed in 10 seconds.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (z+ik4)

236 I still suspect DOCTOR Jill whispered in Joe's ear about all this, and convinced him.

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OUT: Lady MacBeth.
IN: Lady Wormtongue.

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (5jVSZ)

237 "JUST IN - White House aides ~~hid~~ tried to hide Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency and failed, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

Fixed

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (J2vNu)

238 BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham will OPPOSE Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Service

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If I have to guess, it's probably an ADM tie.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (krQz2)

239

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (J2vNu)

240 This is my shocked face.. No really.. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (VE6XX)

They glossed over his misplaced, unrecognizable words and scatterbrained speeches for 6 years.

F*ck them. Credibility: -50

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:09 PM (IXZGh)

241 >Name me one cabinet official he voted against in Biden's cabinet.
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wasn't Miss Lindsey the one who said (during the obama times) that a President was 'entitled' to have his nominees confirmed?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:10 PM (/7KEl)

242 wasn't Miss Lindsey the one who said (during the obama times) that a President was 'entitled' to have his nominees confirmed?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:10 PM (/7KEl)

He's such a worthless fag.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:11 PM (IXZGh)

243 >it's probably an ADM tie.
--

I don't know what that is

Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:11 PM (/7KEl)

244
wasn't Miss Lindsey the one who said (during the obama times) that a President was 'entitled' to have his nominees confirmed?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:10 PM (/7KEl)

For the first 44 presidents the senate was pretty much a rubber stamp. There were occasional exceptions but a nominee had to be really shitty to get voted down.

All that changed with Trump of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2024 03:11 PM (x00s4)

245 Scarborough saying Biden is the best Biden ever may actuallyhave a point. For the first 45 years of his political career Biden was a blithering idiot. Now he's demented. Being a blithering idiot is biden's fault dementia aint

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 03:12 PM (DopAq)

246 "Biden basically had the palace coup from all directions, from George Clooney to Pelosi. I think he got pissed off and said, ‘F*** you’, and gave us Harris,” Morgan told the Mail."

The angry vindictive part of Joe may be the only part of his brain to survive the dementia.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2024 03:12 PM (Cus5s)

247 Funny I didn't have Demented Biden out smarting Pelosi and Obozo on my Bingo card.

Three dimensional checkers master!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 19, 2024 03:12 PM (wBaIH)

248 it's probably an ADM tie.
--

I don't know what that is
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:11 PM (/7KEl)

All
Dicks
Munched
?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:12 PM (IXZGh)

249 241 wasn't Miss Lindsey the one who said (during the obama times) that a President was 'entitled' to have his nominees confirmed?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:10 PM (/7KEl)

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Yup.

He thinks Merrick Garland at DOJ is better than RFK at HHS.

I wonder if this will finally be enough to get a serious primary going against him and overcome the whole, "He helped my momma with her Medicare issues, so I have to vote for him," constituent services office that he inherited from Strom Thurmond.

I'm not hopeful, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

250 227
‘ I'm trying to remember if the Wiggles ever did a Christmas special.’

They did as a matter of fact.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2024 03:12 PM (jbnUc)

251 243 >it's probably an ADM tie.
--

I don't know what that is
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:11 PM (/7KEl)

Archer Daniels Midland. Yuuuge agribusiness concern.

Posted by: GrandVezir at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (kWDme)

252 Funny I didn't have Demented Biden out smarting Pelosi and Obozo on my Bingo card.

Three dimensional checkers master!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 19, 2024

***
"King me!"
( -- a grinning, demented Biden)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (J2vNu)

253 archer daniels midland, bob dole say bob dole,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (dJR17)

254 Well that's pretty much a wrap for work this year.

https://tinyurl.com/3tmfynct

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (LkLld)

255 We're slightly below freezing.

But they may be resting up for tonight's 12am, 3am and 6am playing sessions.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (jvJvP)

One of ours is definitely a night shifter, he's constantly looking out windows and relocating positions..kitty overwatch.

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (/6GbT)

256 Joe Biden is the alternate universe Godfather where Fredo wins in the end.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (IXZGh)

257 There's an episode of Bluey set on Christmas.

They have a pool party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO

The Bluey episode with Facey Time is pretty funny. Even for those who are 29.

Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (L/uqf)

258 Remember, Miss Lindsey screwed the Republicans in the 2022 election by proposing a nationwide abortion ban right before the election, thereby giving the Democrats an enormously important talking point.

He'd much rather control a minority party than lose control over a majority party.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (uxCna)

259 it's probably an ADM tie.
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I don't know what that is
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:11 PM (/7KEl)
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Archer Daniels Midland - one of the largest factory farm businesses in America. They do a lot of corn and soybeans. Both are not good sources of oil. And ADM has a lot at stake in HFCS, the Devil's Sugar.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (krQz2)

260 Munching on a nice Brie on baguette slices. Life can be good.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 03:14 PM (fzQGK)

261 229 228 "JUST IN - White House aides hid Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

This is my shocked face.. No really.. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating

Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2024 03:08 PM (VE6XX)

++++

Yeah, we saw pretty much from day-one that he was incapacitated. He was sitting at a desk fumbling around with pens as he signed executive orders and was heard to say "What am I signing?"

Posted by: washrivergal at December 19, 2024 03:15 PM (C53IZ)

262 Munching on a nice Brie on baguette slices. Life can be good.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 03:14 PM (fzQGK)

Momma said, if I wanna be a lesbian, I gotta munch this rug.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:15 PM (IXZGh)

263 Is Argentina welcoming to immigrants? Legal ones, I mean. They'd want me to prove I had my own support, naturally, and I guess I'd have to learn to speak Spanish as well as (sort of) read it. But do they like to have solvent Americans relocating there?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (J2vNu)

264 260 Munching on a nice Brie on baguette slices. Life can be good.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

add a granny smith apple slice

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage deplorable, uneducated woman at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (W2Pud)

265 He was sitting at a desk fumbling around with pens as he signed executive orders and was heard to say "What am I signing?"
Posted by: washrivergal at December 19, 2024 03:15 PM (C53IZ)

"Salute the Marines......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (IXZGh)

266 The southern hemisphere should have Christmas in July

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

267 "MY BUTT'S BEEN WIPED!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (IXZGh)

268 But do they like to have solvent Americans relocating there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (J2vNu)
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You can live like a king in Patagonia.

Posted by: The Dread Pirate Roberts (original) at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (fzQGK)

269 Lindsey Graham is a duplicitous old queen.

Every six years he campaigns as a hardcore conservative, and the people of S Carolina line up and vote for him again.

Than he reverts to his jackass persona.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (/7KEl)

270 "Ar-gen-teen-ah?"
( -- Blue Meanie, asked where his kind will go now, at the end of Yellow Submarine)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (J2vNu)

271 One of the best things Trump could do with respect to gov't and the economy (aside from gutting regulations) is to work with Congress to define what baskets of goods define "inflation" for the American people so they can no longer lie their a**es off about it. I'm OK with making it 3 or 4 measures, but put it in law how they are named and how the gov't calculates them.

Posted by: GWB at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (WlvCt)

272 Miles is awesome, the crazy hair, etc. add to the charm!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 03:18 PM (Hkcdp)

273 Every six years he campaigns as a hardcore conservative, and the people of S Carolina line up and vote for him again.

Than he reverts to his jackass persona.
Posted by: Don Black.

Maybe it's time to blame the voters.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 19, 2024 03:18 PM (N0o0F)

274 But do they like to have solvent Americans relocating there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024
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You can live like a king in Patagonia.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Roberts (original) at December 19, 2024

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Is that next door to Tierra del Fuego?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:18 PM (J2vNu)

275 "Ar-gen-teen-ah?"
( -- Blue Meanie, asked where his kind will go now, at the end of Yellow Submarine)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (J2vNu)
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That was hilarious. Me and my friends were 10 at the time, and we got it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 19, 2024 03:19 PM (fzQGK)

276
If racism is such an issue, why are all the high profile incidents hoaxes?

Posted by: bonhomme
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Why, to raise awareness, of course!
Posted by: No One of Consequence

And to start a conversation.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2024 03:19 PM (63Dwl)

277 267 "MY BUTT'S BEEN WIPED!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (IXZGh)

++++

And Jill has the gall to be red-hot angry that they pushed him out, knowing full well how bad he was and is. That's rich.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 19, 2024 03:19 PM (C53IZ)

278 JUST IN - White House aides hid Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, explosive report reveals - NY Post"

This is my shocked face.. No really.. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating
Posted by: It's me donna at

I think it's a WSJ article linked by NY Post.

Might be wrong

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 19, 2024 03:19 PM (FxH7T)

279 Biden made that “what am I signing?” comment on Day One of his presidency, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 03:20 PM (Hkcdp)

280 201 Libertarian? I haven't heard him mention anything about legalizing weed every 3 minutes...
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Or bringing in 10 million illegals because magic dirt!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 03:20 PM (hovnC)

281 266 The southern hemisphere should have Christmas in July
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

That's only for Crazy Eddie! His prices are insane!

Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (L/uqf)

282 One of ours is definitely a night shifter, he's constantly looking out windows and relocating positions..kitty overwatch.
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2024 03:13 PM (/6GbT)

Let's invent kitty zzzQuil and make a fortune.

Oh, Amazon workers on strike?

Our Canadian postal service was put back to work after 4 weeks hurting small businesses. Assholes.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (jvJvP)

283 Biden made that “what am I signing?” comment on Day One of his presidency, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 03:20 PM (Hkcdp)
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Yeah. Should have been their first clue.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (fzQGK)

284 The southern hemisphere should have Christmas in July
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

That's only for Crazy Eddie! His prices are insane!
Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (L/uqf)
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So insane they should take him away!

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:22 PM (krQz2)

285 Yeah. Should have been their first clue.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (fzQGK)
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But it was just the first clue to honest people.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (krQz2)

286 Milei inherited an economy in crisis, racked by hyperinflation that reached 211% last December and which was fueled by previous governments' money printing to fund spending. According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's biggest creditor, he has delivered "better-than-expected results."
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So, they admit previous governments' money printing to fund spending fuels inflation.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (hovnC)

287 The southern hemisphere should have Christmas in July
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

That's only for Crazy Eddie! His prices are insane!
Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (L/uqf)
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So insane they should take him away!
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:22 PM (krQz2)
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He's so happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (fzQGK)

288 >>>>Lindsey Graham is a duplicitous old queen.
Every six years he campaigns as a hardcore conservative, and the people of S Carolina line up and vote for him again.
Than he reverts to his jackass persona.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: pending at December 19, 2024 03:17 PM (/7KEl)
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I think Lindsey gets a lot of votes from the liberals in Charleston , the low country and Columbia. The low country has been over run by migrants from the NE for years and he plays to the audience.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (2McGb)

289 I didn't see it, but apparently the "NY Post" had as their headline about Fani Willis: "Out on her fani". Thy have the best headlines.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (MQJVv)

290 Anyone know what's going on with Chip Roy? Seems he's pissed Trump off for some reason.

Posted by: spypeach at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (UuB/1)

291 Mace is a interesting but she'd be a bigger hero if she primaries Miss Lindsey.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 03:24 PM (DopAq)

292 Holy crap.

I've been having the game show network on in the background.

There were a lot of very attractive biologically females in America in the 70's and 80's.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 03:24 PM (jvJvP)

293 I'm still so happy and satisfied with the Stephanopoulos story I want to smoke a cigarette.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 19, 2024 03:25 PM (GD2xa)

294 We live in an age of miracles.

>>@Olivia_Beavers

>>NEWS: Former Rep. Matt Gaetz publicly proposed a plan to force the disclosure of House members who were the subject of sexual harassment settlements paid with public funds following reports his Ethics report will be released.

>>Now, a number of Republican lawmakers are preparing to help him, with GOP lawmakers passing around a resolution that would execute the effort, according to a draft resolution I obtained.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 03:25 PM (LkLld)

295 CNN is a nasty organization worthy of denigration and scoff.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2024 03:25 PM (W/lyH)

296 The southern hemisphere should have Christmas in July
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

That's only for Crazy Eddie! His prices are insane!
Posted by: InZona at December 19, 2024 03:21 PM (L/uqf)
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Now that I think about it, I do vaguely remember a commercial where he threw a snowball at the camera.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 03:25 PM (LxER7)

297 Asked; answered:

Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts 23m
The very unpopular “Congressman” from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory - All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself. Republican obstructionists have to be done away with. The Democrats are using them, and we can’t let that happen. Our Country is far better off closing up for a period of time than it is agreeing to the things that the Democrats want to force upon us. Biden is President, and it’s his obligation to properly lead. We’re there to do the right thing, and we can’t agree with what Biden and the Democrats are demanding. Weak and ineffective people like Chip have to be dismissed as being utterly unknowledgeable as to the ways of politics, and as to Making America Great Again. Put “America First,” and go for the Victory, even if it means shutting the Government down for a period of time. We had an overwhelming Victory just four weeks ago, and we’re not going to let the Democrats forget it so quickly!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 03:26 PM (hovnC)

298 Dear husbands: Please don't make your wife's gift so complicated that it requires the coordination of multiple Christmas parties for her to open it. Also don't make it obvious that it's for everyone in the family but her.

Posted by: tired pookysgirl at December 19, 2024 03:26 PM (dtlDP)

299 Any chance this whole thing was cooked up by Trump Elon Vivek and Johnson? Highlight the issue, engage the troops, get early victory and signal which direction we are heading. Johnson takes the temporary L in exchange for future greatness?
Posted by: Better Question at December 19, 2024 02:44 PM (fs1hN)

Not sure of 4D chess, but the absurd CR bloat didn't give anyone in congress a good look with Vivek and Musk out there with scythes looking for things to kill.

If they don't pass a CR, or the new CR is really clean maybe it was a strategy.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 03:26 PM (n7h9X)

300 Anyone know what's going on with Chip Roy? Seems he's pissed Trump off for some reason.
Posted by: spypeach at December 19, 2024 03:23 PM (UuB/1)
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He should knock it off.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 03:26 PM (krQz2)

301 Ms Lindsey should go away, on a long trip

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:27 PM (fwDg9)

302 Nanzi has fallen and she can't get up.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (jFCkp)

303 Our Country is far better off closing up for a period of time than it is agreeing to the things that the Democrats want to force upon us.

==

I approve !

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (QTCRF)

304 Ms Lindsey should go away, on a long trip
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 03:27 PM (fwDg9)
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How far is it to Fire Island?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (fzQGK)

305 Chip Roy was all in for the impeachment of Paxton. He acts a good game , but I don’t trust him on anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (zQ3t+)

306 Cavuto is out. And he's done at Fox.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (i24o9)

307 SHUTDOWN! SHUTDOWN! SHUTDOWN!

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 03:29 PM (QTCRF)

308 I've been having the game show network on in the background.

There were a lot of very attractive biologically females in America in the 70's and 80's.
Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024

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I remember . . . and not just movie and TV stars, either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:29 PM (J2vNu)

309 Noodus cavuto

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 03:29 PM (J2vNu)

310 But the best "NY Post" headlines were about that weasel, Anthony Weiner:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7avy9h

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (MQJVv)

311 Nanzi has fallen and she can't get up.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (jFCkp)
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She's a female, and I can't get it up!

Posted by: Paul at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (krQz2)

312 FoxNews....

Texas. Border Wall auction stopped.

Posted by: Stateless at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (jvJvP)

313 Chip Roy was all in for the impeachment of Paxton. He acts a good game , but I don’t trust him on anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2024 03:28 PM (zQ3t+)

***

Absofriggimlutely

Posted by: Eye Patch McCain at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (1FWWQ)

314 DOGE should hire Milei as a consultant. Or just put him in charge of Slashing and Burning

Posted by: Ripley at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (GUOwU)

315 Re: The Karen Cope in the sidebar about the coup against Trump (to save democracy). I've read that tomorrow, 12/20, is the day the excrement hits the air conditioner. So . . .

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (L/fGl)

316 Nood Cavuto. Cover yer eyes.

Posted by: scampydog at December 19, 2024 03:30 PM (2bFN5)

317 Cavuto is out. And he's done at Fox.

And I picked this nic on purpose. That fucking guy is the dude that's blind, lame, and constantly lecturing the rest of us that you have to respect the blind and lame that are lecturing.

Posted by: Piss On Cavuto at December 19, 2024 03:31 PM (ciU4n)

318 And Jill has the gall to be red-hot angry that they pushed him out, knowing full well how bad he was and is. That's rich.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 19, 2024 03:19 PM (C53IZ)

She knows them better, I'll take her word for it that they deserve it. Plus I prefer them fighting here than trying to get a hot war in the Ukraine going before Trump comes in.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 03:31 PM (n7h9X)

319 Wow - Trump let Chip Roy have it with both barrels!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2024 03:31 PM (zQ3t+)

320 Heard an Aussie talking about beach, barbeque and campfires on Christmas.

I was once in New Zealand for Christmas, and was worried about passing out due to the heat singing carols in a Presbyterian church.

That was a novel Christmas experience.
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When my family lived in Hawaii my maternal grandparents (who lived in Philadelphia all their lives) called on Christmas Day, and in the course of the call asked to speak to me.

"He's at the beach, bodysurfing."

Apparently there was a long silence as my GPs were trying to decide whether that was a joke or not.

Posted by: Caltech Seismography Group at December 19, 2024 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

321 sock off

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2024 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

322 Libertarian is far right wing.

Posted by: Fisht at December 19, 2024 04:26 PM (BHEHK)

323 If the Rs have a deal, they should party line vote, all of them, and wait out the Dems, mentioning that the deal gets worse if they actually get to an R Senate before passing it...

Right now, there are no cuts...and the longer the budget year goes with no cuts, the less overall cutting for that year can happen (b/c the money is spent).

Cut the money now, and it's not spent...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

324 318 And Jill has the gall to be red-hot angry that they pushed him out, knowing full well how bad he was and is. That's rich.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 19, 2024 03:19 PM (C53IZ)

She knows them better, I'll take her word for it that they deserve it. Plus I prefer them fighting here than trying to get a hot war in the Ukraine going before Trump comes in.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 03:31 PM (n7h9X)

She may have also thought SHE was going to get nominated as our own Evita, if Joe had to step down...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 05:13 PM (exHjb)

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