Congresswoman With Advanced Dementia Has Been Living in a Memory Care Home For Six Months and Hasn't Attended Congress or Cast a Vote In All That Time;<br>Corrupt DC Media and Political Class Knew All About This, But Hid It From Citizens

Congresswoman With Advanced Dementia Has Been Living in a Memory Care Home For Six Months and Hasn't Attended Congress or Cast a Vote In All That Time;
Corrupt DC Media and Political Class Knew All About This, But Hid It From Citizens

Now the Republicans have their own Joe Biden.

Texas Rep. Kay Granger has been living in an independent living facility for six months, her family confirmed after speculation about her absence from Washington. Reports of her health struggles, including signs of dementia, have fueled controversy over her decision not to retire earlier.
Key Details:
Granger, 81, has not cast a vote since July and stepped down as House Appropriations Committee Chair in March.
Her son confirmed she resides in an independent living facility, denying claims she's in memory care, despite acknowledging her "very rapid" cognitive decline.

Critics argue her absence from Congress has left her district underrepresented, while her family defends her decision to remain in her role until retirement.
Diving Deeper:
Rep. Kay Granger, the 81-year-old Republican from Texas, has spent the last six months in an independent living facility as she faces health challenges, including signs of dementia, her family revealed this weekend. Granger, who has represented Texas's 12th District since 1997, has not voted in the House since July, raising questions about her ability to fulfill her duties.
Her absence became public after The Dallas Express reported she was living in a memory care unit. However, her son, Brandon Granger, refuted the claims, stating she resides in a "nice condo" in the independent living section of the facility. He added that the decision to move was hers, made in anticipation of her retirement.
"She's not in memory care," Brandon Granger told the New York Post. "It's been a very rapid and difficult decline, but she's still enjoying her life."

Well that's the important thing, that she's enjoying her life. Her constituents obviously don't matter.

Granger's spokesperson, Valerie Nelson, confirmed the congresswoman has faced "unforeseen health challenges" that make frequent travel to Washington difficult. Critics, however, argue her prolonged absence left her constituents without representation during critical legislative debates, including a recent spending showdown.
The Dallas Express, run by Granger's former primary challenger Chris Putnam, faced scrutiny for breaking the story. Putnam denied any personal bias, stating, "The right thing for her to have done was quietly and gracefully resign."

Below, a DC reporter says that it was an open secret that she had advanced senility, and would wander through Congress asking people where she worked.

And that was when she was even bothering to be physically present in DC.

at what point were people in DC planning on informing her fucking constituents https://t.co/7hhGfIj5aX
— David Hines (@hradzka) December 22, 2024

Meanwhile, Biden is also enjoying his own life, as the "president" who spends 40% of of his days on vacation and works 40% of his few working days has decided he deserves, get this, another vacation before he leaves office.

Joe's taking another vacation at taxpayer expense before he leaves office. He's loading up Air Force One and kicking off his new year in Rome, Italy! Let the grift begin.
The president allegedly sprung this three-day trip on his White House staff, codenamed "President Actual," at the last minute.

"President Actual" feels like a troll. He's not the actual president, of course.

They've ordered Air Force One to get gassed up before the Jan. 9 start and told the ambassador to vacate the Villa Taverna, because he's staying until Jan. 12.
Actually, we don't really know where Joe's staying, but we have that in common with Joe. He often doesn't know where he's going or where he is. Indeed, he routinely has no idea what day it is, what he's doing, what to say, and with whom he's saying it.
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Whether it's the ambassador's fifteenth-century home sitting on an estate with ancient wine grapes from the St. Silvester Monastery, a billionaire friend's villa, the cryptoporticus of the U.S. Mission in Rome, or at the St. Regis, it will be a total freebie. We know that much about Joe Biden. He pays for nothing. He even pimps his kid out to make him money. That $20 million advance for that book he doesn't even have to write will not be tapped for the mundanities of his life. Well, maybe Jill will hire Visiting Angels, but that's about it. Joe will enjoy the plunder...

Joe's had a blast in Italy before. At the G7 conference, Biden suffered from a little jet lag as he slept through Andrea Boccelli's rendition of "Nessun Dorma," which even my limited Duolingo skills can confirm means, Hey you, don't sleep through this song!

Biden fell asleep while Andrea Bocelli sang Nessun Dorma (which means none shall sleep) at the G7.😂 pic.twitter.com/t4nvPe3B24
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 17, 2024

Pearls before swine who are senile and corrupt.

Posted by: Ace at 03:42 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2024 03:42 PM (Rcnd3)

2 It's all about power with these people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2024 03:43 PM (Rcnd3)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 23, 2024 03:43 PM (jHelr)

4 Maybe we should end federal no-show jobs

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 03:43 PM (D7oie)

5 These people are paid too much and receive too many benefits.

There is no other excuse for this type of behavior.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 03:44 PM (j6KoD)

6 I also saw a tweet from Granger's account on the 20th extolling what a great job her staff does. So the staff who is obviously running her office also used her account to praise themselves. The fuck is wrong with these people.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 23, 2024 03:44 PM (fgmuN)

7 It is a club… they protect and cover for their own.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (PCK5/)

8 But because she's a Republican, it's just a condemnation of Republicans.

If it were a Democrat, it'd be a condemnation of Republicans instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (4LF+x)

9 Maybe we should end federal no-show jobs

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 03:43 PM

I know this is crazy talk but maybe we could modify the 25th amendment to include congress people. If you miss XX number of votes you are outta here. You don't have to vote yea or nay you can vote present if you like, but you have to actually come to DC to vote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (Rcnd3)

10 1st? (i always wanted to do that)

Posted by: Ted Striker's Polka Hits at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (y+RCP)

11 how many others like her are there?

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

12 Seems like signing her name or sending out tweets while the person is in a hospital for dementia has to break some laws.
Fraud? Elder abuse?
There has to be something and all top staff should be charged.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (Ypu3O)

13 He wants Pope Franky to absolve him of any "sins".. Which of course the Socialist "pope" will no doubt do

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (VE6XX)

14 Betcha without knowing that she is a “ moderate” Republican…

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

15 Maybe Pubbies are afraid of losing another seat?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (kquDM)

16 Now do Mithch McConnell.

This happens a lot in DC. It's almost as if a desire to be a public servant isn't why they're there.
If only we could figure out the real rea$on.

Posted by: OneEyedJack sez bring back the clothesline tackle at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (FCbAQ)

17 >>Maybe we should end federal no-show jobs

Halve their salaries, benefits and their budget.
Require them to reside in Dormitories while Congress is in Session.
Only cover their meals in the Congressional Cafeteria.
...

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (j6KoD)

18 6 I also saw a tweet from Granger's account on the 20th extolling what a great job her staff does. So the staff who is obviously running her office also used her account to praise themselves. The fuck is wrong with these people.

well did you look at them?!

a bunch of young ladies whose MRS degrees didn't work out and a gay guy

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (Pv3Rg)

19 So Monday to the grifters.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (DmOkS)

20 At least they had the huevos to trot Feinstein out in a wheelchair.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

21 So if my mother is crazy and ncm (non compos mentis), can I just sign her name to contracts? Wills?

Or just legislation?

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (Ypu3O)

22 Hi friends! What is frustrating to me in this story is the number of people saying she refuses to step down. This woman can’t tell you where she is, she simply doesn’t have the cognitive abilities to make that decision. Her staffers knew and didn’t say a darn thing.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (pRpzT)

23 The High Table has a hotel in Rome. Joe should stay there with his fellow criminals.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (LkLld)

24 But she and her staff were paid for 6 months, though, right??

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (Hkcdp)

25 More Congressional Omerta. Ain't the Grand Old Pussies great?

Posted by: Nick Adams at December 23, 2024 03:48 PM (qUkBO)

26 Giorgia Meloni is, how you say, bellissima!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2024 03:48 PM (fs1hN)

27 11 how many others like her are there?
Posted by: Black Orchid at December

Well, there is the president, to start.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 03:48 PM (pRpzT)

28 At least she didn't run again

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 03:48 PM (VE6XX)

29 TBF, and IIRC, Nessun Dorma comes near the end of an opera. I'd have been asleep for an hour.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2024 03:49 PM (wzAuc)

30 >> how you say, bellissima!

I'll say. And stay away from her. SHe's mine.

Posted by: Space Daddy at December 23, 2024 03:49 PM (w6EFb)

31 28 At least she didn't run again
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 03:48 PM (VE6XX)

Nah, just chair yoga now…

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 03:49 PM (PCK5/)

32 I'm mostly surprised it's only the one.

Posted by: Peaches at December 23, 2024 03:49 PM (14URa)

33 Dorothea Montalvo Peunte government, kill the principal, bury the body out back, keep collecting their benefit checks. Oh, wait, Planned Parenthood. People die for what the left believes without all that annoying consent.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 23, 2024 03:49 PM (DmOkS)

34 Congresswoman With Advanced Dementia
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Doesn't narrow it down much.

So when is she announcing her candidacy for President?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2024 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

35 24 But she and her staff were paid for 6 months, though, right??
Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (Hkcdp)

My bet is the staff salary was more important than hers, and that was the keep quiet motivator.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 03:50 PM (pRpzT)

36 28 At least she didn't run again
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 03:48 PM (VE6XX)

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2024 03:50 PM (wzlmZ)

37 She wrote pretty cogent swan song letter for a dementia patient…

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 03:51 PM (PCK5/)

38
I must have dementia too!

Because I swear I read this story before!

Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 23, 2024 03:51 PM (pn4py)

39 32 I'm mostly surprised it's only the one.
Posted by: Peaches
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A report came out a couple of years ago where supposedly the House pharmacy fills dementia meds subscriptions for multiple congressmen.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2024 03:51 PM (fs1hN)

40 Hi friends! What is frustrating to me in this story is the number of people saying she refuses to step down. This woman can’t tell you where she is, she simply doesn’t have the cognitive abilities to make that decision. Her staffers knew and didn’t say a darn thing.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM

It isn't her refusing to step down, it's her staffers according to what I hear on the local AM talk radio out of Dallas, she doesn't even know who she is or where she is most days. They lose their gravy train jobs if she resigns.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2024 03:52 PM (Rcnd3)

41 Let's be honest, even when she wasn't suffering from senility and old age, Rep. Kay Granger was never really very compos mentis.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 03:52 PM (RsS92)

42 eh, no big, amirite? not like there are any big votes where every r vote counts, or anything ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2024 03:52 PM (cY18j)

43 But because she's a Republican, it's just a condemnation of Republicans.

If it were a Democrat, it'd be a condemnation of Republicans instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (4LF+x)

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"Stop It with The Pouncing and Seizing, H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 03:52 PM (iYlhW)

44 Duty? Ethics? Morals? If you want to live the life of a pagan, here is your tent.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 23, 2024 03:52 PM (DmOkS)

45
ACE,

can you confirm your Paypal link (left sidebar) is still really You, and hasn't been taken over by Nigerian royalty?

Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (pn4py)

46 That's even longer than I was out of commission!

Posted by: Big Lloyd at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (63Dwl)

47 How was her staff continuing to draw pay? Shouldn't there be an investigation into that since it may involve some sort of fraud and/or embezzlement and/or conversion of funds?

And "NO" I don't give a damn that she has an (R) next to her name! Some of "our" people aren't *our* people.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

48 She sounds hot!

Posted by: Emmanuel Macron at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (DJlGZ)

49 Hello Piper

They lose their gravy train jobs if she resigns.

Yeah, that's the deal. They don't want to have to find real jobs if she leaves work. They get paid like 6 figures to sit around and party in DC, who cares if she can even drool correctly, as long as the gravy keeps flowing?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (RsS92)

50 >>Maybe we should end federal no-show jobs

Halve their salaries, benefits and their budget.
Require them to reside in Dormitories while Congress is in Session.
Only cover their meals in the Congressional Cafeteria.
...
Posted by: garrett
......

What about bathrooms? These people are obsessed with bathrooms.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

51 I mean who among us wouldn't love to travel like the US President? SS protection, private air travel and lodging paid by the taxpayers.

I think Jill likes being president and is saying, basically, YOLO! She certainly could give zero f's about her husband and humiliating him on a world wide stage.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (wzlmZ)

52 She's from Texas so its not like Abbot would have appointed a looney Democrat for the remainder of her term.

I had to look her up to find out she at least did not run in 2024. NO I could not assume that her handlers did not file the paperwork and hope she'd be re-elected as an incumbent even being too senile to show up for any campaign events. Not with how DC folk operate.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (UKUm3)

53 >> how you say, bellissima!

I'll say. And stay away from her. SHe's mine.
Posted by: Space Daddy at December 23, 2024 03:49 PM

The Paolo, he hates to be delivering the bad news, but...

Posted by: Paolo at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (+QlJh)

54 "Biden fell asleep while Andrea Bocelli sang Nessun Dorma (which means none shall sleep) "

LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (cY18j)

55 Raytheon hardest hit.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (XTmTf)

56 I know this is crazy talk but maybe we could modify the 25th amendment to include congress people. If you miss XX number of votes you are outta here. You don't have to vote yea or nay you can vote present if you like, but you have to actually come to DC to vote.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (Rcnd3)

I dunno, maybe this is something that should be done BY THE SPEAKER OR THE HEAD OF THE CAUCUS, OR SOMEONE DELEGATED THE AUTHORITY?

WHERE are your members, HOW are they doing, WHY are they not there, WHEN IF EVER will they be returning, and ARE THEY COMPETENT TO FIND THEIR OWN CONDO WITHOUT HELP?

This is a complete, and utter abandonment of responsibility by the House, the caucuses and the states, and each level should be censured for failure to maintain basic information on the people in their caucus, committee or panel. This is insane that this happened. Every member should have regular one-on-one face time with someone responsible who can attest that the Representative is still alive, can pass the five question dementia test, and isn't parading around in the nude or wearing underwear on the outside.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (D7oie)

57 52 She's from Texas so its not like Abbot would have appointed a looney Democrat for the remainder of her term.

It would have to have been a special election not Appointment

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (VE6XX)

58 Has Pelosi ordered the new wheelchair ramps installed?

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

59 What will Dr Jill do from here on?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (1bNHn)

60 Get rid of this woman! Unless she's sucking cocks like Kamala Harris, we don't need her taking up meat space.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (/MR36)

61 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

62 They've ordered Air Force One to get gassed up before the Jan. 9 start and told the ambassador to vacate the Villa Taverna, because he's staying until Jan. 12.
__________

They tried to get a place in Tuscany, but there was just nothing available.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (Dm8we)

63 A geronto-swinocracy

Posted by: March of the Pigs at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (UKe2c)

64 Again the Democrats do this 80% to 90% of all cases but it’s the Republicans who do it 10% to 20% that are the worst humans in the world and unconscionable that they would abandoned their constituents.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (D6PGr)

65 Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (VE6XX)

I’m not a RC, but I don’t think Joe having a talk with Pope Francis and blathering incoherently and vaguely about some bad things he has done without naming them and without expressing
genuine remorse and a desire to amend his life constitutes the criteria for a valid confession.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (1br40)

66 So, term limits? What is better --
To have a dementia patient in office, allowing staff and party decision makers run her office, or
To have a new member in office, allowing staff and party decision makers run their office.

I vote against term limits. They are just a distraction from the need to remove power from the offices and return it to the people.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (Ypu3O)

67 I guarantee the Democrat whip knows exactly where all of the Democrats are at any given moment.

Fire the Republican whip and get an actual non-imbecile into that position.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (HlyYF)

68 I suspect that the offices of many R congressmen aren't exactly staffed with MAGA. At best you might find a future writer for National Review.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (fs1hN)

69 What will Dr Jill do from here on?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM

Certainly not the Paolo.

Posted by: Paolo at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (+QlJh)

70 Fraud. These staffers committed fraud by continuing to work for Grainger while knowing that their boss was non compos mentis.

Prosecute them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (lBdqC)

71 Opera is great. It’s effing ballet that would put me to sleep.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (v6JzV)

72 59 What will Dr Jill do from here on?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM (1bNHn)

I would say Only Fans but that exceeds the crdibility line…

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (PCK5/)

73 there isn't a mechanism in the Consitution for this, as with say the 25th amendment,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (dJR17)

74 Fetterman's interview on ABC's "This Week" (I reflected a bit on the fact that I haven't watched one of the Sunday political shows in its entirety for at least seven years) was interesting. Not mentioned in all of the commentary written about it was the fact that not only did Trump win PA in 2024, but Pennsylvanians also elected a Republican, who will be the junior Senator of the Commonwealth in January.

Republicans have turfed out the old GOP Guard and replaced them for a more active, populist leadership. The Dems are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to the party's power center. It isn't much - just a will to self-extinction.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (rj6Yv)

75 "There has to be something and all top staff should be charged."

the one who flips on everyone else gets the lightest sentence!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (cY18j)

76 All the GOP has to do to be heros is to not be a dick.

They can't even do that.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 03:56 PM (WXNFJ)

77 Maybe somebody can arrange a charity tic tac toe tournament between her, F. Joe, Glitch McConnell, and a NYC pigeon.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (iYlhW)

78 Who forgives the Pope’s sins?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)

79 47 How was her staff continuing to draw pay? Shouldn't there be an investigation into that since it may involve some sort of fraud and/or embezzlement and/or conversion of funds?

And "NO" I don't give a damn that she has an (R) next to her name! Some of "our" people aren't *our* people.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

I just saw this post of yours. Mega dittoes here!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (lBdqC)

80 "She's not in memory care," Brandon Granger told the New York Post. "It's been a very rapid and difficult decline, but she's still enjoying her life."

Piss off, you grifting son of a bitch. She should've resigned at the end of LAST year. YOU should give ALL THE MONEY back she unrightfully received and DIDN'T earn.

The family should be sued and ALL of her constituents get their tax money back from them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

81 I’m not a RC, but I don’t think Joe having a talk with Pope Francis and blathering incoherently and vaguely about some bad things he has done without naming them and without expressing
genuine remorse and a desire to amend his life constitutes the criteria for a valid confession.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Hey Jack, can I get an absolution for everything I may have done between Jan 1 1972 and Dec 31 2025 ? I'll pay ya if I have to.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (fs1hN)

82 Rep Henry González was an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve System, and proposed an audit and introduced bills to impeach Paul Volcker and other Governors of the Federal Reserve. He damn near had a stroke when Bill Clinton answered a question during the 1996 election saying the Federal Reserve should remain independent of Congress.

In 1997, González fell ill and was unable to return to the House for over a year. Finally, he decided not to run for a 19th full term in 1998. He died in a San Antonio hospital on November 28, 2000.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (RHGPo)

83 18 6 I also saw a tweet from Granger's account on the 20th extolling what a great job her staff does. So the staff who is obviously running her office also used her account to praise themselves. The fuck is wrong with these people.

well did you look at them?!

a bunch of young ladies whose MRS degrees didn't work out and a gay guy
Posted by: Black Orchid at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Doesn't that describe every group in DC under Biden?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (1bNHn)

84 Mike JOhnson should have informed us.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (/U5Yz)

85 A friend in DC lived in the same building as Rep. Granger and said she could be found roaming the halls, asking people if they knew where she lived.
_________________

F. Joe, have we got the girl for you!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

86 Oh, and F*CK Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

87 What will Dr Jill do from here on?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 03:55 PM

Certainly not the Paolo.
Posted by: Paolo
......

Oh, so all of a sudden you got picky?

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

88 If Joe had not been president he may have just quietly disappeared.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 23, 2024 03:58 PM (kTd/k)

89 Opera is great. It’s effing ballet that would put me to sleep.

Opera sucks too if you understand the lyrics (there are exceptions, Gilbert and Sullivan are fun). When you know what they are saying its dumber than mumble rap.

I have a bucket
I have a bucket
I have a bucket
bucket bucket bucket
You have no bucket
HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (RsS92)

90 The family should be sued and ALL of her constituents get their tax money back from them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)
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Sponge, don't hold back, man, let the hate flow!

Posted by: Darth blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (tT6L1)

91 Damn, a police officer was just shot and killed at a Food Lion about a half hour from me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (2cS/G)

92 "What about bathrooms? These people are obsessed with bathrooms."

they can use the ones at the convenience store down the block.
on their own time.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (cY18j)

93 Posted by: Joe Biden at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (fs1hN

I would t be surprised if that’s close to what Biden says.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (w4nzS)

94
Whoa.

I can't believe Food Lion is still in business.

Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (pn4py)

95 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (PCK5/)

96 88 If Joe had not been president he may have just quietly disappeared.
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Walked into the water at Rehobeth Beach, never to be seen again. Well, if had my way.

Posted by: HRC at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (fs1hN)

97 Now do Senator Tim Johnson and SCJ Ginsburg.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (D6PGr)

98 Damn, a police officer was just shot and killed at a Food Lion about a half hour from me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (2cS/G)

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F. Joe will pardon the murderer within the hour ...

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (iYlhW)

99
What will Dr Jill do from here on?
Posted by: Eeyore

Make goo-goo eyes and flash "come hither" looks at pDJT?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (xG4kz)

100 bucket bucket bucket
You have no bucket
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (RsS92)
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Is there a hole in the bucket? Did Nan tucket?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (tT6L1)

101 Who forgives the Pope’s sins?
Posted by: Bulg

Any other RC Priest, Bishop, or Cardinal.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (WXNFJ)

102 Pavarotti sung a stem winder of Nessum Dorma.

At the end, it seemed as if he was staring into another dimension that he had opened with the frequency of his voice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (XV/Pl)

103 78 Who forgives the Pope’s sins?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)
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Strictly, God does. But the Pope has a personal confessor to give absolution.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (1bNHn)

104 Fraud. These staffers committed fraud by continuing to work for Grainger while knowing that their boss was non compos mentis.
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Its even worse than that--there's very little actual "work" to do if there's nobody to report to. Its not like these fraudulent staffers were busy drafting important legislation to submit, or churning out detailed analysis of other people's work. They were literally cashing their own paychecks and maybe...maybe...generating the monthly newsletter and sending a handful of emails every once in awhile. It was a complete swindle. A New York prosecutor would have a field day with this one.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (TN0g+)

105
Has Winn-Dixie gone teets up, yet?

Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (pn4py)

106 Remember when the pharmacist said the #1 prescription delivered to Congress was Alzheimer's meds?

Yeah.....we're getting so buttf*cked it's ridiculous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

107 91 Damn, a police officer was just shot and killed at a Food Lion about a half hour from me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM

Sorry! (To you and to the officer.)

I assume the press will report that a "gun" performed the dirty deed if the actual perp was an intersectional ally of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (HlyYF)

108 95 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
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Check-in with me in a couple of years. I'll let you know.

Posted by: Stan at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (fs1hN)

109 Man, having a vegetable chairing the appropriations committee is sad.

But so conveeeeenient.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (paSBy)

110 Jill wants another Italian vacay on the taxpayer dime on AF1 with all of the ceremony that comes with it and to hell with Joe as he is just extra annoying baggage.

The Rep. in memory care should be stripped of pay and have to reimburse at least the last six months of pay back and same with her staff's pay and benefits. It has to begin to hurt their own wallets and until it does, it will never change.

Posted by: Cheri at December 23, 2024 04:01 PM (oiNtH)

111 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
Posted by: tubal
.......

Definitely Nutzi in her shiny new wheelchair.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

112 91 Damn, a police officer was just shot and killed at a Food Lion about a half hour from me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (2cS/G)

Ah, fuck, I hate this.

Posted by: Peaches at December 23, 2024 04:02 PM (14URa)

113
Piggly-Wiggly still around?

Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 23, 2024 04:02 PM (pn4py)

114 It's all about power with these people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2024 03:43 PM (Rcnd3)
_______________

Power from the people!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

115 Biden has been in memory care for the last 8 years.

Posted by: dantesed at December 23, 2024 04:02 PM (+arps)

116 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (PCK5/)

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The one who burns the longest in hell.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (iYlhW)

117 95 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM

Correct answer: Lambert Glacier in Antarctica

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (HlyYF)

118 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
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"So who would you rather be, Adolph Hitler with only 2 years left before the end of the war, or a homeless guy with a 5% chance you'd be adopted by a billionaire?".

Posted by: Peter Griffith at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (TN0g+)

119 And "NO" I don't give a damn that she has an (R) next to her name! Some of "our" people aren't *our* people.

Even if she was the strongest conservative ever, I would demand she be removed from office for being clearly unable to do the job.

I remember what my mom was like with Dementia. I loved her dearly and sacrificed my health and years to care for her until the end. But I wouldn't have hired her to greet people in Wal*Mart.

Mom would wake up every day, in the morning and from her nap totally confused where she was and what she was doing. She was basically crippled or we would have had to chase her down trying to walk to where I lived (she thought I was another person named CHristopher, not her son). In her mind, I lived somewhere else in town, but she couldn't exactly say where.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (RsS92)

120 @104

>>Its even worse than that--there's very little actual "work" to do if there's nobody to report to.

Let's be frank, none of our elected congressmen and Senators actually do any work, all of their output is either crafted by staffers or handed directly to them by their real paymasters.

A literal AI bot could fill in for them and nobody would notice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (XV/Pl)

121 Biden/Granger embodies the last stand of the Silent Generation.

As the child of two Silent Generation parents, I have spent my adulthood wondering what the hell they were thinking.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (73voq)

122 I also saw a tweet from Granger's account on the 20th extolling what a great job her staff does. So the staff who is obviously running her office also used her account to praise themselves. The fuck is wrong with these people.

Posted by: Ryan Frank

The photo from Buck's morning rant showed her staff and 99% AWFLs, and 1% soiboi cuck. Is it any wonder why those useless little shits did nothing and continued the sham? Just looking at the photo, they are Donks through and through. They reveled in their congressional power stolen though it was from CD-12

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2024 04:03 PM (MsrgL)

123 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:00 PM (PCK5/)
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Let me flick my Bic....

Posted by: Sebastian Zappeta at December 23, 2024 04:04 PM (tT6L1)

124 If her name is on any bill/resolution, the person who signed it should be prosecuted. 500 years, $5billion fine.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2024 04:04 PM (IG4Id)

125 52 She's from Texas so its not like Abbot would have appointed a looney Democrat for the remainder of her term.

I had to look her up to find out she at least did not run in 2024. NO I could not assume that her handlers did not file the paperwork and hope she'd be re-elected as an incumbent even being too senile to show up for any campaign events. Not with how DC folk operate.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2024 03:53 PM (UKUm3)

=====

Empty House seats are always filled by special election. It's in the constitution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 04:05 PM (4LF+x)

126 I tried again to be first.
But alas, I seem to be cursed.
While reflexes are snappy,
The content will trap me,
And results always come out the worst!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at December 23, 2024 04:05 PM (6solg)

127 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
Posted by: tubal
.......

Which one rides the NYC subway?

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

128 This is another way the Uniparty controls the politicians - if they are senile they can just get their staffer to get them to vote however the uniparty wants

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 04:05 PM (oZhjI)

129 Piggly-Wiggly still around?
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 23, 2024 04:02 PM (pn4py)

I don't know but I can remember the old A&P store.

Posted by: dantesed at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (+arps)

130 >> Its even worse than that--there's very little actual "work" to do if there's nobody to report to. Its not like these fraudulent staffers were busy drafting important legislation to submit, or churning out detailed analysis of other people's work. They were literally cashing their own paychecks and maybe...maybe...generating the monthly newsletter and sending a handful of emails every once in awhile. It was a complete swindle. A New York prosecutor would have a field day with this one.

Right ... they weren't even doing basic constituent relations like you know, having the office open or answering phones.

Posted by: the dandy at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (L+5ng)

131 >>>I’m not a RC, but I don’t think Joe having a talk with Pope Francis and blathering incoherently and vaguely about some bad things he has done without naming them and without expressing genuine remorse and a desire to amend his life constitutes the criteria for a valid confession.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

>Is this a criticism of the Pope or Joe? They're both useless fucking bastards.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (/MR36)

132 Opera is great. It’s effing ballet that would put me to sleep.

Opera sucks too if you understand the lyrics (there are exceptions, Gilbert and Sullivan are fun). When you know what they are saying its dumber than mumble rap.

I have a bucket
I have a bucket
I have a bucket
bucket bucket bucket
You have no bucket
HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 03:59 PM (RsS92)
_________________

Is he my brother?
Yes, he's my brother
My brother!
My brother!

That, plus everybody cross-dressing (in, e.g., Fidelio) and nobody notices.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

133 Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??

Back in the Bronze age Pelosi was a pretty good looking woman you know

Posted by: Old King Priam at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (oZhjI)

134 Dude better not shit on the carpet again. I'm just sayin.'

Posted by: Pope Francis at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (paSBy)

135
I have a bucket
I have a bucket
I have a bucket
bucket bucket bucket
You have no bucket
HA HA HA HA HA HA!

This sounds like something from Dora the Explorer

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (oZhjI)

136 I don't know but I can remember the old A&P store.
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I remember the old Ben Franklin dimestores.

Posted by: Peter Griffith at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (TN0g+)

137 I imagine the missing Congress woman still got paid

Posted by: Don Black. Message: bring back the old kickoff rules at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (/7KEl)

138 Pavarotti sung a stem winder of Nessum Dorma.

This is my favorite version:

https://youtu.be/2vvxe4XbzcI

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (RsS92)

139 129., the Pig is still squealing in SE Wisconsin!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (6solg)

140 24 But she and her staff were paid for 6 months, though, right??
Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2024 03:47 PM (Hkcdp)

Hello, sir! I was off checking in on the world and have walked away disgusted. How does our president pardon a person who murdered and assaulted an 11 month old? Ugh.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 04:08 PM (QzINz)

141 Back in the Bronze age Pelosi was a pretty good looking woman you know
Posted by: Old King Priam at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (oZhjI)
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Bronze? You're much more generous than I. I'd have said Precambrian.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 23, 2024 04:08 PM (tT6L1)

142 This sounds like something from Dora the Explorer
_____

Nessum Dora. Duh.

Posted by: Opera Aficionado at December 23, 2024 04:08 PM (fs1hN)

143 kay Granger kicked my butt just yesterday at that card game, what's it called...

Posted by: Joey Choo Choo. A Scarborough-Approved President at December 23, 2024 04:08 PM (cWCpX)

144 The Republicans in Granger's district don't seem to care. The Dems didn't care about Biden being plant life until it looked like it was going to cost them the election. The hardcore left took advantage of Biden 's decline to do insane things to the country while the Republicans got their kibble. However this led to Trump. Act like nothing is wrong at your own peril

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2024 04:09 PM (DopAq)

145 We would all be better off if they all were in a care home.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2024 04:10 PM (9gcdx)

146
We have a long tradition of covering up politicians' failing health and mental capacity, all the way back to Woodrow Wilson at least.

Now that we have a full fledged gerontocracy ensconced, clinging to power like ticks, it's time to do something about this. I don't know what, but first would be to make covering this sort of thing up a felony, with jail time big time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:10 PM (w6EFb)

147 That, plus everybody cross-dressing (in, e.g., Fidelio) and nobody notices.

I find opera, the good ones, enjoyable when I treat the singers like an instrument. Best if I cannot understand them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:10 PM (RsS92)

148 Bet there's a lot of this sort of thing going on in congress.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2024 04:10 PM (Q4IgG)

149 Piggly-Wiggly still exists.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 23, 2024 04:11 PM (r1SJ+)

150 @138

>>This is my favorite version:

It's good, but Pavarotti is The GOAT for a reason.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7hn6tz

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 04:11 PM (XV/Pl)

151 Thanks, Gope.

Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2024 04:11 PM (UnA8+)

152 Pelosi’s babysitter when she was a kid was Taylor Lorenz.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:11 PM (v6JzV)

153
Speaking of the ol' A&P...

I miss Root Beer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM (pn4py)

154 Hunter is going along to get some Lebanese hashish. Legendary

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM (9gcdx)

155 149 Piggly-Wiggly still exists.
____

Heck yea she does!

Posted by: Kermit THE Frog IYKWIM at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM (fs1hN)

156 149 Piggly-Wiggly still exists.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

We refer to it as “The Pig”. They have an amazing wine selection here.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM (pRpzT)

157
I never understood why "coke" became WAY more popular than Root Beer.

Root Beer is way better.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM (pn4py)

158 Of course, the greatest opera is Carmen. Bizet was a genius.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:13 PM (v6JzV)

159 Granger is just using her unused sick time accumulated over the years to bridge her to the end of her term.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 04:13 PM (D6PGr)

160 My reading of that pull quote is that “President Actual” is the code name for Biden’s STAFF. It’s a straight up acknowledgement that his staff is running the show and not Biden himself.

And his staff are all former Obama lackeys. It’s the same crooked regime that was running the show 8 years ago.

Posted by: Caiwyn at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (7r9lR)

161 157
I never understood why "coke" became WAY more popular than Root Beer.

Root Beer is way better.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM (pn4py)

But was it ever drug laced??

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (PCK5/)

162 I never understood why "coke" became WAY more popular than Root Beer.

Root Beer is way better.
____

*raises hand*

Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (fs1hN)

163 157 Agreed, Soothsayer. Root beer is the snizz.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (v6JzV)

164 For demented republicans look no further than AOSHQ.

never mind.

Posted by: Emily Littellasock at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (FhXTo)

165 I don't know what, but first would be to make covering this sort of thing up a felony, with jail time big time.
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I doubt there's any way the staffers in this particular charade could have kept their paychecks coming without committing a felony or felonies along the way. This should be investigated and prosecuted.

Posted by: Peter Griffith at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (TN0g+)

166 Back in the Bronze age Pelosi was a pretty good looking woman you know
Posted by: Old King Priam at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (oZhjI)
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Not long winded and boring, like a proper opera.

Posted by: The Phantom at December 23, 2024 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

167 I understand that political patronage jobs exist, as do "no show" jobs.

But with a congress critter not being around for six months yet drawing a paycheck, bennies, retirement and more.......
at what point is this theft?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (N39Ws)

168 78 Who forgives the Pope’s sins?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)

I can but I do not have to. Some popes forget this iron rule of Mine.

Posted by: You Know Who at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (aBgBM)

169 You lose your pension after 3 terms. No constitutional amendment needed

Probably have to grandfather existing members

Posted by: Maroon at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (ysaNs)

170 Thirty some congresscritters didn't show up for the CR vote.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (9gcdx)

171 That, plus everybody cross-dressing (in, e.g., Fidelio) and nobody notices.

I find opera, the good ones, enjoyable when I treat the singers like an instrument. Best if I cannot understand them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:10 PM (RsS92)
__________________

I view the plots of opera as merely a vehicle for the music. Kinda like Michael Mann in "Miami Vice." Lame plots, cool music.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (YqDXo)

172 Charlie Kirk: The congressmen who passed Biden's appointments faster than Trump's are going to get primaried.

Me: Finally someone who listens to Auron MacIntyre.

Charlie Kirk: ...anyway, here's Cenk Uyger. Round of applause everybody!

Me: Nevermind.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (lhenN)

173 Granger must have been a safe GOPe vote otherwise she would have been outed long ago.

Posted by: Decaf at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (unUNN)

174 @157

>>Root Beer is way better.

Root Beer has it's use cases but it's main problem is flavor variation from brand to brand and region to region.

I've had good Root Beer and I've had awful rotgut Root Beer, never had a bad Coke.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (XV/Pl)

175 Agreed, Soothsayer. Root beer is the snizz.
Posted by: Bulg

That is NOT where root beer comes from!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (WXNFJ)

176 157
I never understood why "coke" became WAY more popular than Root Beer.

Root Beer is way better.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM

I can think of one (original formula) reason!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (HlyYF)

177 Sarsaparilla > Root Beer

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 04:16 PM (D6PGr)

178 It doesn't matter how you pay them, so long as they live in DC and not your district.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 23, 2024 04:16 PM (lhenN)

179 Dog N’ Suds root beer FTW…

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:16 PM (PCK5/)

180 6 months?
Pffttt Piker.

Houston Chronicle report shows 2-time elected official may not have shown up to work for years

https://tinyurl.com/bdhry767

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (wDJaI)

181 I like Birch Beer better than Root Beer. A-Treat is a damn good brand.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (WXNFJ)

182 158 Of course, the greatest opera is Carmen. Bizet was a genius.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:13 PM (v6JzV)

La'Boheme. Fight me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (K861k)

183 Ginger ale is good, too. Nothing better when you’re sick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (v6JzV)

184 Ginger beer as good as root beer.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (PCK5/)

185 Root Beer is way better.

My dad home brewed root beer a couple times when I was a kid and it was like bottled orgasm. That stuff was so good it was addictive. The only thing I have had that comes close is A&W off the tap in an ice cold stein.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:18 PM (RsS92)

186 I only drank root beer when it was in float form.

A&W

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 04:18 PM (D6PGr)

187 IBC Root Beer. Mmmm.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 04:18 PM (K861k)

188 Granger must have been a safe GOPe vote otherwise she would have been outed long ago.

The state party apparatus pretty much ensures that there is never any meaningful primary competition. See also: John Cornyn.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 04:19 PM (/y8xj)

189 I would love to home brew some Ginger beer, Sarsaparilla, etc. All those old drinks are terrific but they are so much better made from scratch instead of all the chemicals in a bottled version.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:19 PM (RsS92)

190 What’s the difference between ginger ale and ginger beer?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

191 I would love to home brew some Ginger beer, Sarsaparilla, etc. All those old drinks are terrific but they are so much better made from scratch instead of all the chemicals in a bottled version.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Get much above 2.2 % then they taste funny.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 04:20 PM (/lPRQ)

192 >>>Pelosi’s babysitter when she was a kid was Taylor Lorenz.

Posted by: Bulg

>Pelosi's babysitter and mentor was Medusa before Perseus chopped off her fucking head.

Now were dealing with a broken down old hag with a broken hip.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 23, 2024 04:21 PM (/MR36)

193 176 157
I never understood why "coke" became WAY more popular than Root Beer.

Root Beer is way better.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:12 PM

I can think of one (original formula) reason!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 23, 2024 04:15 PM (HlyYF)

Merry Christmas, PI! Coca-Cola still contains a tiny amount of the 'good' stuff. There is one Federally-licensed cocaine manufacturer in the US, someplace in New Jersey. It's biggest customer is the Coca-Cola Company.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2024 04:21 PM (aBgBM)

194 Some Ginger beers are borderline hot…

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:21 PM (PCK5/)

195 "Rumble shares soar after $775 million Tether investment"

Rumble up to $13, up 84% today.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2024 04:21 PM (Cus5s)

196 Get much above 2.2 % then they taste funny.

Heh, one of dad's batches fermented. Tasted awful to me, but he liked them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:22 PM (RsS92)

197 Not Mentioned : Birch Beer

Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2024 04:22 PM (UnA8+)

198 well did you look at them?!

a bunch of young ladies whose MRS degrees didn't work out and a gay guy
Posted by: Black Orchid at December 23, 2024 03:46 PM (Pv3Rg)

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That's the profile of staffers for every politician in DC. Just think, the country is run by these idiots and we wonder why things are in such dire states.

Posted by: Decaf at December 23, 2024 04:22 PM (unUNN)

199 131 >>>I’m not a RC, but I don’t think Joe having a talk with Pope Francis and blathering incoherently and vaguely about some bad things he has done without naming them and without expressing genuine remorse and a desire to amend his life constitutes the criteria for a valid confession.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

>Is this a criticism of the Pope or Joe? They're both useless fucking bastards.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (/MR36)

I am an RC, and no, one does not confess to the Pope. Plus confession for public scandal involved public repentance, i.e. a public statement to correct the harm of the scandal. Hell, Ol' Joe can't even remember his sins, let alone confess them. And THAT Pope better find himself a good confessor too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 04:23 PM (K861k)

200 Rumble up to $13, up 84% today.

I try to watch stuff on Rumble, since Youtube is run by evil people, but the interface is so awful and its so hard to find anything its almost painful

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:23 PM (RsS92)

201 John Birch beer… always a Right Choice..

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

202 I'm sure Granger's family enjoyed her paychecks.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at December 23, 2024 04:23 PM (jPdyB)

203 Speaking of ginger, Tina Louise as Ginger showed in a dream of mine. In a supermarket, with a kid. And we were old friends.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:24 PM (v6JzV)

204 Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 23, 2024 04:06 PM (/MR36)

Not being, RC my opinion of Pope Francis is probably irrelevant.. I will say , however, that he appears on most issues to be of the camp of liberation theology and progressive on many issues. I don’t know how and if hecfunctions as N insightful confessor. My criticism of Biden is that he’s an immoral man and a sinner in need of God’s grace as we all are , but is
incapable at this point of meeting the requirements for a genuine confessions but I don’t know how priests deal with someone with dementia lol

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2024 04:24 PM (Gl0jE)

205 I would like to sleep next to Georgia Meloni.

Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:24 PM (iziT8)

206 Hmm. I wonder how long her son has actually been running things. Look up Kay Granger, J.D. Granger, and Panther Island. It's a mammoth real estate development project that essentially reroutes the Trinity River around Ft. Worth to redesign the entire city. The Grangers have been intimately involved in this for years going on decades.

Its been a suspect project pretty much its entire existence. Keeping Granger in office was a huge, if not essential, cog in making that machine go.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 23, 2024 04:25 PM (aXxgO)

207 A roomie from Detroit turned me on to Vernor’s Ginger Ale back when it was local. It’s nationally available now I believe, and not quite the same.

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at December 23, 2024 04:25 PM (l1UWN)

208 About these desiccated ancient artifacts that "serve" in Congress, at what point have you loved power more than family, leisure, the pursuit of happiness? The only thing that animates them is public accolade, and most of them don't have that, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 04:25 PM (K861k)

209 I would like to sleep next to Georgia Meloni.

Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:24 PM (iziT

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I doubt that you would be able to sleep.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 04:26 PM (jqCxF)

210 204- sorry “lol” was.a typo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2024 04:26 PM (Gl0jE)

211 205 I would like to sleep next to Georgia Meloni.
Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:24 PM (iziT

You’ve got Giorgia on your mind??

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:26 PM (PCK5/)

212 About these desiccated ancient artifacts that "serve" in Congress, at what point have you loved power more than family, leisure, the pursuit of happiness? The only thing that animates them is public accolade, and most of them don't have that, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 04:25 PM (K861k)

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A psychopathocracy, if you can keep it.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 04:27 PM (jqCxF)

213 "Granger, who has represented Texas's 12th District since 1997, has not voted in the House since July, raising questions about her ability to fulfill her duties."

So, not actually representing.

Anyone going to get a refund from her for all the inaction taken?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 23, 2024 04:27 PM (aXxgO)

214 >> I would like to sleep next to Georgia Meloni.

I'm warning you guys, I've got space lasers. Don't mess around with me. She's mine.

Posted by: Space Daddy at December 23, 2024 04:28 PM (w6EFb)

215 197 Not Mentioned : Birch Beer
Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2024 04:22 PM (UnA8+)

Or.... Moxie (Brewed with roots and dirt).

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2024 04:28 PM (dIske)

216 Granger was squishier than Bush or Cheney.

Posted by: setnaffa at December 23, 2024 04:29 PM (nOVGb)

217 It’s nationally available now I believe, and not quite the same.

Depending on how far back you were introduced to it, it now, like most sodas, uses high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. Unlike some of the more popular brands, I’m not aware of any real sugar variations that ever show up in stores.

I grew up in Michigan, and it’s probably good for me that it isn’t available in a real sugar version, because then I’d buy it. I check the ingredients every time I go back to Michigan.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 04:29 PM (EXyHK)

218 "Granger, who has represented Texas's 12th District since 1997, has not voted in the House since July, raising questions about her ability to fulfill her duties."

So, not actually representing.

Anyone going to get a refund from her for all the inaction taken?
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 23, 2024 04:27 PM (aXxgO)

Since they weren't getting representation, her constituents shouldn't have to pay taxes for the time she was in the care facility.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2024 04:30 PM (VNX3d)

219 I find opera, the good ones, enjoyable when I treat the singers like an instrument. Best if I cannot understand them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:10 PM (RsS92)
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Well, Rossini did say that the theory of singing is that the words will sound less ridiculous if set to music.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:30 PM (6K6Eu)

220
Yeah, "Member of Congress being in a memory care facility for 6 months, and no one says anything" is a jump-the-shark moment, here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:30 PM (w6EFb)

221 I can see political commercials in my mind.

Biden flying here. Giving billions there.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 23, 2024 04:31 PM (oEQYk)

222 whose kid was it

Posted by: Don Black. Message: bring back the old kickoff rules at December 23, 2024 04:31 PM (/7KEl)

223 Depending on how far back you were introduced to it, it now, like most sodas, uses high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. Unlike some of the more popular brands, I’m not aware of any real sugar variations that ever show up in stores.
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"Hecho in Mexico" Coke still uses cane sugar.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:31 PM (6K6Eu)

224 The Pope selects his own papal confessor. Pope Francis sez he participates in the Sacrament of Reconciliation every two weeks.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2024 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

225 Rossini did say that the theory of singing is that the words will sound less ridiculous if set to music.

Really good poetry can stand on its own but yeah, almost all songs sound silly on their own, without the music. Rudyard Kipling doesn't need a soundtrack to work. Bee Gees do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:32 PM (RsS92)

226 220
Yeah, "Member of Congress being in a memory care facility for 6 months, and no one says anything" is a jump-the-shark moment, here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:30 PM (w6EFb)
___________________________

They're getting bold. Next thing you know a Secretary of Defense or someone will go in for surgery and not inform anyone.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2024 04:32 PM (dIske)

227 136 I don't know but I can remember the old A&P store.
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I remember the old Ben Franklin dimestores.
Posted by: Peter Griffith at December 23, 2024 04:07 PM (TN0g+)

I'm so old I remember the S and H green stamps.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (wzlmZ)

228 Depending on how far back you were introduced to it, it now, like most sodas, uses high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. Unlike some of the more popular brands, I’m not aware of any real sugar variations that ever show up in stores.
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"Hecho in Mexico" Coke still uses cane sugar.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:31 PM (6K6Eu)

I've seen Mountain Dew in the classic cans that were made with real sugar. Can't always find it, but it takes soooo much better.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (VNX3d)

229 Piggly Wiggly is still in business in NC, although they've closed a few stores recently.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

230 Pope Francis sez he participates in the Sacrament of Reconciliation every two weeks.
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2024 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)
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Congress does the Sacrament of Reconciliation once a year, so I guess he's up on them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (6K6Eu)

231 I tried one of those real sugar cokes and honestly I couldn't tell the difference.

But I don't have the world's most sensitive palate.

Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (iziT8)

232 I've seen Mountain Dew in the classic cans that were made with real sugar. Can't always find it, but it takes soooo much better.

Yup. Dr. Pepper, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 04:34 PM (EXyHK)

233 182 158 Of course, the greatest opera is Carmen. Bizet was a genius.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 04:13 PM (v6JzV)

La'Boheme. Fight me.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (K861k)
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Wrong, both of you.

It's The Magic Flute. If you want to insist it's not strictly opera, then it's Don Giovanni. Figaro is third.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 04:34 PM (1bNHn)

234 205 I would like to sleep next to Georgia Meloni.
“Next to”? Many of us would gladly settle for any preposition!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at December 23, 2024 04:34 PM (l1UWN)

235 I've seen Mountain Dew in the classic cans that were made with real sugar. Can't always find it, but it takes soooo much better.
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Something about the glass bottles back in the day just seemed to make them taste even better.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 04:34 PM (TN0g+)

236 Depending on how far back you were introduced to it, it now, like most sodas, uses high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar.

Those of us who are 29 years old now remember a lot of things when they were much better, like McDonalds' French Fries. Back then when you went to the movie theater, there were like 3 great movies to choose from and you were surprised if a film sucked, rather than expecting it to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:34 PM (RsS92)

237
Dr Pepper is swill.

It's the "dark chocolate" of sodas -- only Oddballs enjoy it.

Only thing worse than Dr Pepper is their commercials.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:35 PM (pn4py)

238 Enough with all these old farts occupying positions of power far beyond their usefulness. Once you have to start wearing certain undergarments so you don't soil yourself and others in public, time for you to be off to the knacker.

Posted by: Zombie George Burns, Dead Old Fart at December 23, 2024 04:35 PM (R/m4+)

239
Dr Pepper tastes like a batch of Coke gone horribly wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:35 PM (pn4py)

240 I've seen Mountain Dew in the classic cans that were made with real sugar. Can't always find it, but it takes soooo much better.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (VNX3d)

__________________________

I'm beginning to think the Mt. Dew decision makers are sitting in a board room throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Their latest little venture (besides all the annoying flavors) is called "Hard" Mt. Dew...which contains about 5% alcohol.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2024 04:36 PM (dIske)

241 But I don't have the world's most sensitive palate.

Its a blessing, trust me. I can blindfold taste test different cola types accurately. My brother Joel was able to pick out ingredients and spices in food, his senses were insane. He suffered from food, needed everything bland.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:36 PM (RsS92)

242 >>It's the "dark chocolate" of sodas -- only Oddballs enjoy it.

It's the Hershey's Special Dark of Soda.

Dark Chocolate can be good. But that Special Dark shit is just the worst.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 04:36 PM (j6KoD)

243
btw, Cans...

I HATE cans. Cans of anything.

Once you open it, there's no going back. And it's a huge Spill Risk.

Fuck Cans!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:37 PM (pn4py)

244 Dark Chocolate can be good. But that Special Dark shit is just the worst.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 04:36 PM (j6KoD)
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90% cacao chocolate is threshold of pain type stuff.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:37 PM (6K6Eu)

245 It's the "dark chocolate" of sodas -- only Oddballs enjoy it.

Its the most popular soda (or "cola") in Texas still I believe. I used to like Dr Pepper a lot, not that I can drink it these days.

I've mentioned it before but in the late 60 and early 70s, serving Dr Pepper hot like a tea was popular. Its godawful that way. Maybe it tastes okay when you're stoned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:37 PM (RsS92)

246 >>I HATE cans. Cans of anything.

Once you open it, there's no going back. And it's a huge Spill Risk.

>Fuck Cans!

He Hates These Cans!

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 04:37 PM (j6KoD)

247 This is a complete, and utter abandonment of responsibility by the House, the caucuses and the states, and each level should be censured for failure to maintain basic information on the people in their caucus, committee or panel. This is insane that this happened. Every member should have regular one-on-one face time with someone responsible who can attest that the Representative is still alive, can pass the five question dementia test, and isn't parading around in the nude or wearing underwear on the outside.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 03:54 PM (D7oie)

Is this not the job of the Party Whip?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 04:38 PM (8zz6B)

248
holy shit, don't get me started on Special Dark!

It's literally the worst of the worst -- over-processed chemical-tasting Fake chocolate with no fake sugar!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:38 PM (pn4py)

249 I try to watch stuff on Rumble, since Youtube is run by evil people, but the interface is so awful and its so hard to find anything its almost painful
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I agree. Rumble needs to rebuild their interface if they want to compete against YT. I hope they do it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 23, 2024 04:38 PM (paSBy)

250
Joe Biden was really in the same shape, just that his "memory care facility" was the WH itself.

There needs to be a "duty to report". Reading about Biden's cabinet being denied access, can't speak to him, have to submit anything you want to talk about in writing, and all that shit. Anyone working in the system who notices their boss is non compos mentis should be required to have to report this, and some process set up to make sure that goes public, and prevent any higher ups from covering it up.

For example, president goes senile, cabinet/staffers have to report this to Congress. Congresscritter goes senile, has to be reported to the executive branch and both houses, etc, etc.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:38 PM (w6EFb)

251 Every member should have regular one-on-one face time with someone responsible who can attest that the Representative is still alive, can pass the five question dementia test, and isn't parading around in the nude or wearing underwear on the outside.

"crap"
--Superman

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:39 PM (RsS92)

252 The best way to consume Mountain Dew is to boil it first.

Posted by: Dale Alvin Gribble at December 23, 2024 04:39 PM (PiwSw)

253 Dark Chocolate can be good. But that Special Dark shit is just the worst.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 04:36 PM (j6KoD)
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90% cacao chocolate is threshold of pain type stuff.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Baker's chocolate blows goats.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 23, 2024 04:39 PM (jHelr)

254 Fuck Cans!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:37 PM (pn4py)

_________________________

What if she has nice cans?

Oh, wait.

So, this isn't a euphemism?

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2024 04:40 PM (dIske)

255
And get the state governments involved as well. Staffer, etc, must report to their state's governor, legislature.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:40 PM (w6EFb)

256 Baker's chocolate blows goats.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 23, 2024 04:39 PM (jHelr)
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Baker's chocolate is intended to be used in other stuff, in sparing quantities.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:40 PM (6K6Eu)

257 231 I tried one of those real sugar cokes and honestly I couldn't tell the difference.

But I don't have the world's most sensitive palate.
Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:33 PM (iziT

I don't think I have a sensitive palate but I can tell the difference. They taste like they did when I was a kid.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2024 04:40 PM (wzlmZ)

258 237 Dr Pepper is swill
Then try it with Kraken rum FTW!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at December 23, 2024 04:40 PM (l1UWN)

259 Rossini, Barbar of Seville.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2024 04:41 PM (zQ3t+)

260
For the last couple of months on I-93, there's been a billboard advertising a "holiday" "special" version of Mounting Dew -- cranberry-raspberry.

Ick.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:41 PM (pn4py)

261 Oh hell yeah.

Real actual chocolate is horrendous.

Got to process like crazy.

Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:42 PM (iziT8)

262 Rossini, Barbar of Seville.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2024 04:41 PM (zQ3t+)
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Not to be confused with his elephant-based opera, Babar of Seville.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:42 PM (6K6Eu)

263 So where was the Republican whip in all this? A member not showing up for votes ought to generate more than just a phone call. If one staffer lied, even one< jail his/her ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 04:42 PM (W/lyH)

264 Dr Pepper and Dark Chocolate are my choices for sodas and chocolate.

That said I haven’t had a soda in over 20 years ( I can still imagine the taste of Dr Pepper if I think of it) and I don’t eat dark chocolate anymore since it’s one of the foods to avoid regard to kidney stones.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 04:42 PM (D6PGr)

265 Rossini, Barbar of Seville.
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I liked Alfalfa's version of that one.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 04:42 PM (TN0g+)

266
And I think any doctors or other health professionals treating a govt official should be required to report if they discover that official has symptoms of dementia and similar.

Screw "medical privacy". You want your privacy, you resign.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:43 PM (w6EFb)

267 238 Enough with all these old farts occupying positions of power far beyond their usefulness. Once you have to start wearing certain undergarments so you don't soil yourself and others in public, time for you to be off to the knacker.

Posted by: Zombie George Burns, Dead Old Fart at December 23, 2024 04:35 PM (R/m4+)

Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder. The ancient old farts keep getting re-elected because they are useful to special interests. So useful that special interests work to get super-safe districts gerrymandered for a useful congresscritter who will always do what's wanted by the special interests. As with every aspect of governance in the US, it's a racket.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2024 04:43 PM (aBgBM)

268 Rossini, Barbar of Seville.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Not to be confused with his elephant-based opera, Babar of Seville.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Or Bugs Bunny - Barber of Seville

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 23, 2024 04:43 PM (jHelr)

269 This season, we had in the store Shirley Temple flavored 7 Up and cranberry flavored Sprite. They flew off the shelves. Go figure.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:43 PM (6K6Eu)

270 Ace, you got the top story now at Insty:

https://instapundit.com/692074/

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Intrepid Cub AoSHQ Reporter at December 23, 2024 04:43 PM (PiwSw)

271 Cut the salaries of Congress. Put a ten year ban on lobbying or defense contracting. Put a ten year ban on serving as a corporate officer or board member. Prohibit any book deals for five years. Same for any GO in the military.

You’ll find out who really wants the job of representing the people.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (pmB3q)

272 Jill and I have decided to visit as many countries in the world on the taxpayer dime before leaving office to have people thank me for a good job as the leader of the free world.

If anybody wants to reach me just leave a voice message on my answering machine in Delaware

Love Ya,
Scranton Joe

Posted by: Joe Bribum at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (o8DkU)

273 I liked Alfalfa's version of that one.
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Alfalfa was a piker.

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (paSBy)

274 "He suffered from food, needed everything bland.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

That I have never heard of.

Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (iziT8)

275 And get the state governments involved as well. Staffer, etc, must report to their state's governor, legislature.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:40 PM (w6EFb)

All of this is why I think each state should finance their own federal Congressional delegation and staffs - and most of the staff must reside within the state or district. Add in the reporting to the governor and legislature requirement, and they (hopefully) are more accountable to the voters.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (VNX3d)

276 Baker's chocolate is intended to be used in other stuff, in sparing quantities.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Tell that yo 3 yr old me.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (jHelr)

277 Yeah, "Member of Congress being in a memory care facility for 6 months, and no one says anything" is a jump-the-shark moment, here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:30 PM (w6EFb)
___________________________

They're getting bold. Next thing you know a Secretary of Defense or someone will go in for surgery and not inform anyone.
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2024 04:32 PM (dIske)
***

Or send a few thousand troops to Syria and...oops...forget to update the numbers.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (W/lyH)

278 I'm not too proud to say that I used to drink Dr. Pepper Cherry Bombs in college. Dr Pepper, cherry liqueur, vodka, grenadine...

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2024 04:45 PM (dIske)

279
cranberry flavored Sprite. They flew off the shelves. Go figure.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Right. It was Sprite on the billboard.

And, people are so stupid. Corporate Execs aren't fully to blame...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:45 PM (pn4py)

280
Buh Wheat version

Om da babba ub dabill
beegaro beegaro

Posted by: Don Black. Message: bring back the old kickoff rules at December 23, 2024 04:45 PM (/7KEl)

281
Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
Posted by: tubal
.......

Which one rides the NYC subway?
Posted by: wth

Another one rides the bus.

Posted by: Weird AI at December 23, 2024 04:45 PM (63Dwl)

282 But because she's a Republican, it's just a condemnation of Republicans.

If it were a Democrat, it'd be a condemnation of Republicans instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 03:45 PM (4LF+x)

The Dems also knew. Since they said nothing, that means they were getting payoffs = at a minimum the GoP covering for at least as many no show Democrats.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 23, 2024 04:45 PM (n7h9X)

283 Best opera is, of course, Beethoven's "Fidelio".

A story of a J6 political prisoner and the wife who lovea him. A fitting story for our times. "Fidelio" includes intrigue, cross-dressing, forbidden love, a gun, a knife, and a happy ending after Trump is elected and arrives at the DC jailhouse.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2024 04:46 PM (rj6Yv)

284 Buh Wheat version

Om da babba ub dabill
beegaro beegaro
Posted by: Don Black. Message: bring back the old kickoff rules at December 23, 2024 04:45 PM (/7KEl)
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Wookin' po nub in all the wong paces.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 04:46 PM (6K6Eu)

285 140
'How does our president pardon a person who murdered and assaulted an 11 month old? Ugh.'

It was easy. I got paid for it. That kid didn't send me anything. That's how government works!

Posted by: F. Joe Biden at December 23, 2024 04:47 PM (3wi/L)

286 Baker's chocolate is intended to be used in other stuff, in sparing quantities.

Shave a few gratings of it into your chili, for instance

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2024 04:47 PM (RsS92)

287 Getting close to Waitresses time.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 04:47 PM (LkLld)

288 Baker's chocolate is intended to be used in other stuff, in sparing quantities.

Shave a few gratings of it into your chili, for instance.
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It messes with how the carrots taste.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

289
Who’s hotter… Nancy Pelosi, Rosa deLauro, or Rashida Tlaib??
Posted by: tubal

Which one is on fire?

Too soon?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 23, 2024 04:48 PM (xG4kz)

290 No one complained when I hid my stroke.

Posted by: Woody at December 23, 2024 04:48 PM (D6PGr)

291 Ah wintertime… I am rereading Lewis Carroll’s work… then a quick reread of Peter Pan… then I think I will revisit Middle Earth..

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

292 "would wander through Congress asking people where she worked."

I think it actually says that she wandered through her residential complex asking where she lived.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (1VvJB)

293 La Traviata.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (FEVMW)

294 "Actual", at least in military terms, is used to refer to the command of a base, ship, detail, etc. It's the difference on the radio of a member of one unit talking to a member of another unit, which could be anyone using the unit's callsign.

However, if someone on the other end of the radio identifies as " Actual" you are now talking to the commanding officer of that unit.

Dunno how that plays into this. On any POTUS move, you'd think POTUS would be "actual". LOL

Posted by: Scott1M at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (O9uxk)

295

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (PiwSw)

296 Tell that yo 3 yr old me.

My dad chewed tobacco. He also made sure to spit it out privately.

Three-year-old me snuck a bite of Skoal. I did not like the flavor, neither going down nor coming up. But I did only try it once.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (EXyHK)

297 Hey Donny T,

Might want to get a new bed at the WH because shit the bed thousands of times over the past 4 years...

Posted by: Joe Bribum at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (o8DkU)

298 I'm sort of assuming the pardons or commutations won't be challenged because the GOP won't want to open the door for any future challenges of pardons.

Not that Democrats will care because they'll most certainly challenge pardons by PDT they don't like.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (tT6L1)

299 Fuck the world it's Christmas.
Every thread a flamewar. Bunch of bedridden cripples.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 23, 2024 04:50 PM (zdLoL)

300 I think in the family’s mind that Granger announced she wasn’t running in 2024 and they thought just running out the clock wasn’t a big deal.

Posted by: Woody at December 23, 2024 04:50 PM (D6PGr)

301 144
'The Republicans in Granger's district don't seem to care.'

I think I'd care but I'm not sure I'd know if I didn't seem them speaking (which I haven't). My congressman could be a vegetable right now for all I know.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 04:50 PM (3wi/L)

302
Yes, Capt. Kirk would've been "Enterprise Actual".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (w6EFb)

303 Ah wintertime… I am rereading Lewis Carroll’s work… then a quick reread of Peter Pan… then I think I will revisit Middle Earth..
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2024 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

When a hopeless war against ultimate evil is "escape literature"

Posted by: Oldcat at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (n7h9X)

304 I'm sort of assuming the pardons or commutations won't be challenged because the GOP won't want to open the door for any future challenges of pardons.

Not that Democrats will care because they'll most certainly challenge pardons by PDT they don't like.
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Its always cute when Republicans fret about "the rules" and future pushback, particularly since so many of them gave zero fucks about that initial attempt at a spending bill last week.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

305
Or send a few thousand troops to Syria and...oops...forget to update the numbers.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 04:44 PM (W/lyH)
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Or lie and assure the President we no longer have troops in Syria.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (tT6L1)

306
Nood

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (pn4py)

307 White House Gives Most Federal Employees Christmas Eve Off, December 20, 2024

“All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, the day before Christmas Day,” the Executive Order stated.

According to the order, “The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 24, 2024, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need.”

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (NFX2v)

308 My dad chewed tobacco. He also made sure to spit it out privately.

Three-year-old me snuck a bite of Skoal. I did not like the flavor, neither going down nor coming up. But I did only try it once.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM (EXyHK)

Polite hosts offer dixie cups to those who chew the cud.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2024 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)

309
Next thing you know a Secretary of Defense or someone will go in for surgery and not inform anyone.
Posted by: Orson

Is Lloyd Austin taking the plexiglass conehead "mask" home with him or is that property of the Defense Department?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 23, 2024 04:52 PM (xG4kz)

310 My dad chewed tobacco. He also made sure to spit it out privately.

Three-year-old me snuck a bite of Skoal. I did not like the flavor, neither going down nor coming up. But I did only try it once.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

My grandad chew tobacco. I tried it a Boy Scout camp once. Turned a few shades of green.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 23, 2024 04:52 PM (jHelr)

311 302
Yes, Capt. Kirk would've been "Enterprise Actual".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2024 04:51 PM (w6EFb)

I was once White House Actual, you know.

Posted by: Zombie Alexander Haig at December 23, 2024 04:52 PM (PiwSw)

312 296 Tell that yo 3 yr old me.

My dad chewed tobacco. He also made sure to spit it out privately.

Three-year-old me snuck a bite of Skoal. I did not like the flavor, neither going down nor coming up. But I did only try it once.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 04:49 PM

I pounded my first beer at 3. Oly in a can.My dad used to give me sips of beer and I drank a whole beer he left on the table. I threw up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2024 04:53 PM (wzlmZ)

313
For the last couple of months on I-93, there's been a billboard advertising a "holiday" "special" version of Mounting Dew

Is that a rural porn flick?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 04:53 PM (63Dwl)

314 nood jill/pelosi feud etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 04:54 PM (hovnC)

315 Mounting Dew > Debbie Does Dallas

Posted by: Rating: Half Erect at December 23, 2024 04:55 PM (qUkBO)

316 Ace, you got the top story now at Insty:

https://instapundit.com/692074/

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Intrepid Cub AoSHQ Reporter
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Used to watch Moonlighting.
Bruce Willis pretty much played the same character.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 04:57 PM (/lPRQ)

317 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 23, 2024 04:50 PM (zdLoL)

This was. a flame war? We can all be more fiery than that. 😉 Who are the bedridden cripples? The ASHQ posters or most members of Congress?

A Merry Christmas to you if you celebrate it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2024 05:16 PM (MQJVv)

318 I would guess that no one in her office said anything about Grainger is bc they wanted to keep getting their paychecks.

Posted by: PJ at December 23, 2024 05:55 PM (RRCAT)

319 Everyone says 'refuted' now when we used to say 'denied'. Probably because 'denial' is now a dirty word.

A shame, because it's confusing, when 'refute' means 'prove with evidence', not just 'deny'.

Posted by: jillyjilly at December 23, 2024 05:57 PM (4+DAg)

320 You won't have Kay Granger to kick around any more.

The lesson I take from this is that dementia is the only way to primary a RINO out of office.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 23, 2024 06:30 PM (Somy5)

321 Supertaster is a physiological phenomenon. Like synesthesia.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 23, 2024 06:36 PM (6fmZH)

322 "despite acknowledging her "very rapid" cognitive decline"

I can muster a smidgeon of sympathy here - cognitive decline can happen rapidly, so quickly it is hard to believe it isn't something temporary that can be fixed. Six months is very fast, but not unheard of.

If this had carried on 4 years, we might have a different conversation.

And she has to make the decision to resign - nobody can make it for her.

The best solution is mandatory retirement at 75 - I don't know a single congressman who improved after that age, and a bunch that hung it up too late.

I'd exempt Trump of course - he just seems to get better with age.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 23, 2024 06:51 PM (ARlwA)

323 wow, Look at Meloni loving that moment as Biden dozes away, oblivious to the art unfolding in front of him. Democrats should be so embarrassed by him, but they are not.

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Congresswoman With Advanced Dementia Has Been Living in a Memory Care Home For Six Months and Hasn't Attended Congress or Cast a Vote In All That Time;
Corrupt DC Media and Political Class Knew All About This, But Hid It From Citizens