Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics: The Establishment Wing and Its Chattering-Class Champions Are Absurd to Panic About The GOP Having a "Populist" Appeal

As I've said on this blog and off it, all successful GOP campaigns have had a populist appeal, and so too have almost all successful Democrat campaigns.

From his Twitter feed (@seantrende):

I think people who see Trumpism as something aberrant in the Republican Party haven't though much about the history of the Republican Party. Unless they're NeverTrumpers, in which case they're in a state of denial. 1/

Successful Republican campaigns and presidencies have *always* involved an integration of the party's populist and establishment wings. Nixon, Reagan, and to an extent W have all had ties to both wings, and balanced them well. 2/
The campaigns that have been heavily weighted toward the establishment track? Ford, H.W., Dole, Romney? Not so successful. 3/
With the exception of H.W.'s '88 campaign, which was of course a campaign for Reagan's third term. What Trump basically represents is the antithesis of Romney '12: a populist campaign without the establishment wing. 4/
Mid-to-longterm, I don't think this strategy works either, unless the populists find a way to build the cross-racial blue collar coalition that eluded the Post-CRA Southern Democrats. Good luck with that. 5/
But please, spare us the "taking the party back from Trumpism." The Republican Party completely cleansed of populist impulses is basically three upper middle class white guys in a think tank cubicle. 6/
and two of them are going to vote for Gary Johnson anyway. The answer, here and Europe, is to do what establishment groups in two-party systems have done with populist movements since the 1800s: synthesize. 7/
And if you can't do that, no problem, then you're a Democrat or an Independent. But neither party can survive without some kind of appeal to their populist base. It's delusional to suggest otherwise. 8/8

Establishment chatterer Matt K. Lewis agreed:

This is true--which is why Jeb and Kasich's messaging strategy didn't make much sense.

And Sean Trende agreed back:
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@SeanTrende
*zero* sense. Republicans can't win long-term with just the white working class, but they can't win with just the suburbs, either.

I think it was Michael Brennan Dougherty (though I could be mistaken) who described the Establishment's/Ruling Class' demands as having become "immodest."

I like the understatement of that -- their demands became immodest.

At some point, the Establishment decided on a Judge Smails response to the "Hobbits" and "Wacko Birds" of the Tea Party: You'll get nothing and like it!

They considered themselves Masters of the Universe and believed they could just steamroll the non-Establishment part of the party using the same techniques their close cousins, the Liberal Establishment Class, used against conservatives: Denigration, contempt, and delegitmization intended to convince dissenters that it was the Establishment's way or the highway.

The GOP would be refashioned into a much-less conservative party in order to appeal to surburban married women who were swing voters between Democrats and Republicans. The more conservative, more populist elements of the party would simply be denigrated as Obama denigrated them, as backwards backwoods racists who need to be educated and socialized into a more liberal, suburban/urban elite view of the world.

This would win elections and, more importantly, it would please the GOP's own Establishment Ruling Class, which itself was more Urban Liberal in its orientation.

This group has always found the Tea Party and most conservatives socially embarrassing -- witness their strident defense of John Boehner and insistence that Tea Party riff-raff like Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan were too extreme and bumpkinish to ever serve as Speaker of the House -- and was very excited about the prospect of bringing the ill-trained dogs of Tea Party conservatism to heel and turning them into purse puppies.

This is, and always has been, much about class and less about policy. Witness Jen Rubin's whiplash-by-proxy heel-turns on virtually every policy claim she used to pretend to believe in order to locate herself firmly within the orthodoxy of her class. Policy means, apparently, relatively little to Jen Rubin, or Bret Stevens, or the next "super-conservative" to "evolve" in his office at The Atlantic; the overriding imperative is class loyalty and class conformity.

I shrieked for at least two years, from 2014 to 2016, about the coming GOP crack-up, and said a hundred times that while the Establishment had the current power to steamroll more conservative, more populist, and more rural voices to ram its own liberalish, establishment, and suburban/urban agenda down the rest of the party's throats, it would not retain that ability forever: Because you cannot treat your allies and your supposed political partners in the same way you treat your political enemies.

Of course you can treat your political enemies this way, telling them they'll have nothing and like it, and denigrating and delegitimizing them.

But somewhere along the way, the GOP Establishment began treating its actual enemies, the Democrat Party and liberal establishment, as their political allies (witness how easy Paul Ryan made it for the Democrats on the omnibus vote), and began treating their political allies/junior partners (only junior because the Establishment wouldn't treat them as full partners) as political enemies.

You can't treat your natural allies as enemies and expect them to remain allies.

A revolt was inevitable, but the #SmartSet which claims to Rilly Rilly Understand Politics could not understand this elemental point about politics -- that you share power in a coalition, you do not take all for yourself and tell your "partners" to suck it -- and could not foresee what was, to the Hobbits, Wackadoos, Deplorables and Bitter Clingers completely obvious and clear as day.

So we are where we are, and most of the "Smart People" in the party still don't understand why, more than two years after Trump's hostile takeover of the GOP.

But they're the Smart People and Experts. You should listen to the Smart People and Experts, even when it's obvious they're stupid, deranged, and ignorant, because they are the Smart People and Experts and what are you? Just a Deplorable Bitter Clinger who's forgotten to obey his betters.

Marriages take work -- political marriages especially. You can't constantly cheat on your partner and treat outsiders as more important, and try to win every single dispute and make every single decision within the marriage, and expect that marriage to survive.

This is obvious. But the #SmartSet is so damned smart and clever they fail to understand the simplest, most obvious things.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:42 PM

Comments

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1 You know, it takes time to read the content. Screw that.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2018 05:36 PM (LAe3v)

2 Yup.
Gotta read it now...

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2018 05:37 PM (W+vEI)

3 I read it all ... and I ain't tellin' the corgis shit.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:37 PM (fiGNd)

4 This is, and always has been, much about class and less about policy.

Bingo.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2018 05:38 PM (LAe3v)

5 This is obvious. But the #SmartSet is so damned smart and clever they fail to understand the simplest, most obvious things.

And I dunno' ...

... still plenty of GOP Apologists here telling me "But Baby, You Got Nowhere Else To Go."

Do I really need to name names ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:38 PM (fiGNd)

6 You can't treat your natural allies as enemies and expect them to remain allies.

Smell the glove.

Posted by: your GOPe at March 26, 2018 05:38 PM (LAe3v)

7 Top ten?

Posted by: Surfperch at March 26, 2018 05:39 PM (WTo7q)

8 there's discontent rumbling among the young'uns and the commiecrats may be painfully surprised that they have lost one of their most reliable cohorts in the coming elections.

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:39 PM (kD8Fh)

9 Well, Jeb was as boring as a plank and Kasich was into hugging. So yeah, they were not going to happen.

Posted by: IC at March 26, 2018 05:39 PM (a0IVu)

10 We're Number Two! We're Number Two!

Posted by: GOPe at March 26, 2018 05:39 PM (ROV4u)

11 They don't want to know.

Do the Washington Generals want to practice up until the can beat the Globetrotters ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at March 26, 2018 05:40 PM (4Eza9)

12
I honestly think Cornyn, McTurtle, et al, are going by the post-Obama second election self-evaluation by the GOP; that all this ol' party needs is to be more inclusive of minorities and women; e.g. more like the Democrats.

Posted by: Sphynx at March 26, 2018 05:40 PM (OZmbA)

13 If a new coalition forms that comprises classical liberals, libertarians, constitutional patriots and anyone with the smallest smidgen of common sense - the demunists are toast.

Also in this mix would be those who reject grievance identity politics.

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:40 PM (kD8Fh)

14 Posted by: IC at March 26, 2018 05:39 PM (a0IVu)

Jeb is *smart* though. He knows that all immigrants are ferTILE, for instance.

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:41 PM (kD8Fh)

15 Who is this Sean Trend fellow, and what other movies has he done?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 26, 2018 05:41 PM (Dp6qK)

16 I had an interesting experience in church yesterday. The wife and I were sitting with some friends. They're very good people. Then another friend approached the pew and they all began chatting about the march downtown, and their observations. It was clear that it never occurred to them that we might not be on board with their politics.

I spoke up, and asked them some simple questions about their position, i.e. ARs are bad and evil. They clearly hadn't thought about it at all. I suppose it was for the best that the service started.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (LAe3v)

17 Not us Libertarians, kallisto. All I care about is smoking dope and open borders.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (fiGNd)

18 What about people that already had weapons? Fisher continued. Well, Im gonna tell you now, dont buy into the scare tactics, dont believe the scare tactics, because youve heard people say Youll have to pry my guns from my cold, dead hands, he said, adding with a grin and a shrug, OK! to the delight of the gungrabbing crowd.

Progressives speaking truth to power.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (BtQd4)

19 >>But please, spare us the "taking the party back from Trumpism." The Republican Party completely cleansed of populist impulses is basically three upper middle class white guys in a think tank cubicle. 6/

Having witnessed the GOP campaign strategists since the 2016, maybe hiring obvious Lefties to run your campaigns - whackos like Ana Navarro, Eric Schmidt, Nicole Wallace, and Ican'trememberhisdamn name guy - is campaign death?

They are hostile, aggressively hostile to conservatives and conservative/populist ideas.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (W+vEI)

20 tl; dr version:

The GOPes hate Trump and despise us for electing him.

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (kD8Fh)

21 Nothing wrong with the Republican party that ditching the top 10% of their paid employees wouldn't fix.

Posted by: DaveA at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (FhXTo)

22 Willowed:

Trump - Had sex with hot chicks..

Slick Willie - Had sex with ugly chicks.

Barry - Had sex guys and Val Jar.

Bollard Hag - Had sex with Huma.

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2018 05:43 PM (gbWkA)

23 Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (fiGNd)

haha

I guess I should clarify to mean lower case libertarians, not the official ones who have been hijacked by commiecrats like every other American institution.

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:43 PM (kD8Fh)

24 Fellow morons, Dana Perino just said this:

"I like Van Jones a lot."

And there ya go.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 05:44 PM (ptqGC)

25 Gah. Jesse Watters just said he likes Van Jones, too.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 05:44 PM (ptqGC)

26 They are better than appealing to the masses in elections!

Posted by: Axebot at March 26, 2018 05:44 PM (vDqXW)

27 from previous thread:

I saw a short video clip last night on reddit, it was an interview with the bald-headed Cuban commie gun-grabber and she was defending the fact that she & others had bullied Cruz. Unreal.

Posted by: Boots at March 26, 2018 05:30 PM (EBwPV)

So to recap:
Hogg admitted to racing to the school AFTER the shooting
AND
Skin-head commie admitted to bullying the shooter?

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 26, 2018 05:44 PM (hMwEB)

28 I guess communist commentators are very likeable??

Posted by: Sphynx at March 26, 2018 05:44 PM (OZmbA)

29 There is room in my derision for GOPe sellouts. This is a good thing because that is a large population.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at March 26, 2018 05:45 PM (Ftuf+)

30 You should listen to the Smart People and Experts, even when it's obvious they're stupid, deranged, and ignorant,

They just have different goals.

Posted by: DaveA at March 26, 2018 05:45 PM (FhXTo)

31 Maybe they're speaking about sneakers..

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2018 05:45 PM (gbWkA)

32 What about people that already had weapons? Fisher continued. Well, Im gonna tell you now, dont buy into the scare tactics, dont believe the scare tactics, because youve heard people say Youll have to pry my guns from my cold, dead hands, he said, adding with a grin and a shrug, OK! to the delight of the gungrabbing crowd.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (BtQd4)

Yet ... the Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet lovin' Republican will insist on buying his local PD an MRAP.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:45 PM (fiGNd)

33 I've forgotten the word McCain called the Tea Partiers. How I hated I'd had to vote for the man.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (ptqGC)

34 Gerald Ford...

"How to win my own term?"

"Easy. Just pardon the guy everyone is mad about!"

"Genius!"

GOPe: tone deaf since the 1970s and promising more of the same well into the future!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (4ErVI)

35 Sparring partners who beat the Champ are soon out of a job.

Posted by: Axebot at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (vDqXW)

36 @18:

Yep, throw in Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens and Mike Murphy and that's a treasonous and vile lot. Hard to think of a Democrat equivalent. Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, maybe to a small degree.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (v7AcZ)

37 >> I've forgotten the word McCain called the Tea Partiers.

"Hobbits" wasn't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (8O3HH)

38 Quite a few establishment Republicans are taking far left wing policy stances lately. Looking at you Katshit and Rubio. It's almost as if assholes like these will try and run as an independent with GOPe donor money in 2020.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (ZghNV)

39 This is obvious. But the #SmartSet is so damned smart and clever they fail to understand the simplest, most obvious things.

Except how to establish and support their position in the pecking order, and push anyone off the ladder who's coming up behind them.

Classic Middle Manager Syndrome.

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (kD8Fh)

40 Gerald Ford...

"How to win my own term?"

"Easy. Just pardon the guy everyone is mad about!"

"Genius!"

GOPe: tone deaf since the 1970s and promising more of the same well into the future!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (4ErVI)
---
And buttons that say W-I-N.

Posted by: Axebot at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (vDqXW)

41 Progressives speaking truth to power.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Power should listen to each and every one at 3200 fps.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (Dp6qK)

42 >>>20 tl; dr version:

The GOPes hate Trump and despise us for electing him.

...

Give yourself credit: They despised you before that, too.

However, they also believed you would go along with whatever Shit Sandwich they served up. So while they despised you, they were free to ignore you.

Now they're mad that they can't ignore you. So the despising gets amped up.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (8rNrN)

43 >> I've forgotten the word McCain called the Tea Partiers.

"Hobbits" wasn't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (8O3HH)

I think that was it. Mean, angry, sanctimonious old bastard.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (ptqGC)

44 I have some chores to do before I read all of this, but want to know is there any spanking going on in it?

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (aC6Sd)

45
I'll bet McCain secretly like Hobbit porn.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (8O3HH)

46 I've forgotten the word McCain called the Tea Partiers.

"Hobbits" wasn't it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:46 PM (8O3HH)

Wacko Birds.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:48 PM (fiGNd)

47 Smart People and Experts?

You mean like Karl Rove and George Will?

Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2018 05:48 PM (88xKn)

48 The righteous smug cabal.

Posted by: muckrack at March 26, 2018 05:48 PM (RZ4iC)

49 I am a typical suburban housewife.

Posted by: Stormy O'Daniels at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (Tyii7)

50 Wacko Birds.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:48 PM (fiGNd)

Ah, yes. I'll never forget being at a Tea Party rally and having trash thrown at us, being cursed, our signs stolen.

But we were "wacko birds."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (ptqGC)

51 Having witnessed the GOP campaign strategists since the 2016, maybe hiring obvious Lefties to run your campaigns - whackos like Ana Navarro, Eric Schmidt, Nicole Wallace, and Ican'trememberhisdamn name guy - is campaign death?

They are hostile, aggressively hostile to conservatives and conservative/populist ideas.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (W+vEI)

And absolutely hysterical. There's absolutely zero sign that these people think before they pound out their latest vitriol on Twatter.

Within seconds of Bolton being named to his new position, Rick Wilson was on Twatter saying we're going to have a nuclear war.

Why would anyone hire people like this for a campaign where you need to take the long view on some things and respond (or often not respond) after weighing various factors.

No wonder we've been losing for so long.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (4ErVI)

52 where/when did Hogg admit he wasn't at school during the shooting?

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (8rNrN)

53 We hates Hobbitses!!

Posted by: John McCrank at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (vDqXW)

54 48. I saw Poor Righteous Teachers open for the Righteous Smug Cabal in Miami.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (fA1SL)

55 Wacko, wacko birds
I wanna be a wacko bird...

Tea Party People.

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (gbWkA)

56 However, they also believed you would go along with whatever Shit Sandwich they served up. So while they despised you, they were free to ignore you.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (8rNrN)

Mr. O'Spades ... IF THAT REALLY IS YOUR NAME ... I object in the strongest terms to your plagiarism of my phrase "You'll eat whatever shit sandwich they give you". Used it today, as a matter of fact.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (fiGNd)

57
The Republican Party completely cleansed of populist impulses is basically three upper middle class white guys in a think tank cubicle

You left out the word 'naked'. Three naked upper middle class white guys in a think tank cubicle.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 26, 2018 05:50 PM (LOgQ4)

58 >> Wacko Birds.

That was referring to Rand Paul and maybe Ted Cruz, I think.

He referred to "Tea Party Hobbits" being opposed to the debt ceiling rise in a floor speech.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:50 PM (8O3HH)

59 Cornyn, McTurtle, et al, are going by the post-Obama second election
self-evaluation by the GOP; that all this ol' party needs is to be more
inclusive
===
It's not about ideology. EVER.

Look at what we know now -

Corker(R) - getting rich off the Iran deal
McConnell(R) - (and wife Chao) getting rich off of Chinese bribes
McCain(R) - trying and failing to get rich off of S and L's , but got caught and dumped his wife to marry a rich bitch because he is too stupid to EVEN graft. Also has been taking money from Soros since 2001.

Ryan, McCain, Graham, Grassley, Curbelo, Johnson, Donovan ALL take
money from Soros.

Biden and Kerry were in financial bed with the ChiComs while pushing normalized relations with them . You think the R's had no incentive to get some of that sweet sweet reminbi?

Always. Follow the money. These fuckers would sell their own mothers to the organ banks.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at March 26, 2018 05:51 PM (ROV4u)

60 >>I am a typical suburban housewife.
Posted by: Stormy O'Daniels

In my ficus fouling fantasies, yes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:51 PM (8O3HH)

61 TL;DR
I only communicate in sassy tweets.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at March 26, 2018 05:51 PM (ztbw+)

62 You left out the word 'naked'. Three naked upper middle class white guys in a think tank cubicle."

The Establishment Centipede.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 05:51 PM (k1TUh)

63 >> Wacko Birds.

That was referring to Rand Paul and maybe Ted Cruz, I think.

He referred to "Tea Party Hobbits" being opposed to the debt ceiling rise in a floor speech.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:50 PM (8O3HH)

Whatever. The GOPe hated us.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 05:51 PM (ptqGC)

64 I do believe that they thought "What are you going to do, vote for the Democrat?" was going to work in perpetuity.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (4ErVI)

65 >>Yep, throw in Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens and Mike Murphy and that's a treasonous and vile lot. Hard to think of a Democrat equivalent. Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, maybe to a small degree.

Yes, those guys, too. Ugh, Rick Wilson. Never even heard of him until the 2016 campaign, and what a jerk he is. You watch them becoming the Salon Hot25 and cable new star Trump-bashing guests and it becomes so obvious how we got GOPe and why the GOP loses so many elections. BAD ADVICE from these tools.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (W+vEI)

66 The problem is that we do have two political parties.
But it isn't Democrat and Republican.

It's Establishment vs the Proles.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (xJa6I)

67 How about campaigning on the principles and the positions that you plan to run the country with. I don't need anyone to tell me just what I want to hear. Wait you can't do that because most voters can't think their way out of a paper bag.

Politics make people politicians if that makes any sense. They do what is necessary to win.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (r7qNw)

68 You can't constantly cheat on your partner and treat outsiders as more important, and try to win every single dispute and make every single decision within the marriage, and expect that marriage to survive.
_____________________

You can if you're as filthy rich as I am, and if you don't mind that your wife sleeps in her own bedroom.

Posted by: The Donald at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (fqUgw)

69 Things the Smartest People in the Room fixed:
Problem Solution Outcome
Retirement SS 39% have zero in retirement
Economy Stimulus $9T spent to grow Econ
Health Care Obamacare All 23 Co ops have failed

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (BtQd4)

70 That was referring to Rand Paul and maybe Ted Cruz, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:50 PM (8O3HH)

I defer to the honorable gentleman from ... well, from wherever in the Hell you're from ...

... a GoogleFu of John McCain Wacko Birds did indeed reveal that he applied that phrase to Cruz and Paul.

Damn It. Kinda' liked the idea of being a Wacko Bird.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (fiGNd)

71 The Rick Wilson is a dumb ass and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (Ftuf+)

72 I vote with my cooter.

Posted by: Stormy O'Daniels at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (Tyii7)

73 You mean like Karl Rove and George Will?

Posted by: dantesed

Will doesn't belong in the same category as Rove. He's learned, erudite, and there was a time in the 70s when he was the proverbial Horatius at the bridge. Sadly, he's hung on to long and been subsumed by the swamp and his own ego.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (LAe3v)

74 Yeah...class.

What to do if you hate your class?

I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.

What to do...?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (wYseH)

75 I bet Rick Wilson lives to be pegged....

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (LiyEm)

76 It's Bull Moose all the way down. And we'll all end up with a hyper Wilson at the helm.

Not looking forward to the Yugo spinning out and doing the megatumble at 90 MPH.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (e1mEI)

77 Also couldn't agree more with GOPe treating the Dems like bestest buddies.

If anyone forgot, McCain wanted Joe Lieberman to be his VP pick in 2008. GOPe loves itself some fusion.

It didn't happen because someone who was awake apparently thought that one was a bridge too far.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (4ErVI)

78 Posted by: The Donald at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (fqUgw)

Well, thank you Anderson Cooper!.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (tpDAe)

79 that all this ol' party needs is to be more
inclusive

The GOP tickect *was* inclusive of disaffected democrats and first time voters or longtime election avoiders.

Fucking asshats. With every passing moment they prove they DON'T WANT TO ENACT ANTI-LEFT, ANTI-NWO POLICY, they just want to stay in power.

We need to cut off those preening poncey's paychecks.

When in Fvck are we going to have a taxpayer revolt??

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (kD8Fh)

80
Now they're mad that they can't ignore you. So the despising gets amped up.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:47 PM (8rNrN)

They're always right even when they're wrong , couse they are better!!
Its a desperate need to be in the excluding ingroup.

Posted by: muckrack at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (RZ4iC)

81 74. Steal the keys to the weather machine. Duh!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (fA1SL)

82 "The more conservative, more populist elements of the party would simply be denigrated as Obama denigrated them, as backwards backwoods racists who need to be educated and socialized into a more liberal, suburban/urban elite view of the world."

Oh, I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong the bells are going to chime
I'm going to be there in the morning
Spruced up and looking in my prime

Oh, I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong the bells are going to chime
So get me to the church, get me to the church
Oh, get me to the church on time.

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (j8uQ3)

83 65 Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2018 05:52 PM (W+vEI)

"The" Rick Wilson was active back in 2012, he is a c-list GOP political operative who ran interference for Steve Schmidt's idiocies.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (SzZnW)

84 Ace shrieked for two years . . .

Posted by: What I Got Out Of Reading The Content at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (EATOD)

85 The GOP ticket *was* inclusive of disaffected democrats and first time voters or longtime election avoiders.

meaning 2016 presidential election

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2018 05:54 PM (kD8Fh)

86 where/when did Hogg admit he wasn't at school during the shooting?
Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM (8rNrN)

In the cbs rough YouTube at the 4:30 mark he says he got his camera and rode the 3 miles to the school for interviews because he knew they would be important But its possible he was at the school and then went home and came back. Unless there's more I haven't heard, its a little ambiguous to me.

Posted by: LASue at March 26, 2018 05:55 PM (Z48ZB)

87 Sounds like banana boy is back....

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 05:55 PM (LiyEm)

88 >> I vote with my cooter.
Posted by: Stormy O'Daniels

Well, they are similar. Getting to both requires standing in long lines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2018 05:55 PM (8O3HH)

89 Posted by: Jim Harrison at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (TwyVT)

Once a troll...always a troll.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 05:55 PM (wYseH)

90 Yeah...class.

What to do if you hate your class?

I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.

What to do...?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (wYseH)

Dude ... you ain't serious, are ya' ?

Sounds like a comfortable life. I'm sure you're not a dick about it. Seem like the type that, regardless of your checkbook, still ain't too good to just stand your place in line like everybody else.

Plus ... YOU'RE A FUCKING SHAPE-SHIFTER !!! How cool is that ?

I must have missed some snark.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 05:56 PM (fiGNd)

91 Sounds like banana boy is back....

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 05:55 PM (LiyEm)

Nope...go back a bit further.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (wYseH)

92 "74 Yeah...class.

What to do if you hate your class?

I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.

What to do...?"

Move, impoverish yourself, and convert to another religion. Damn, Dr. Phil has it easy.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (v7AcZ)

93 52 where/when did Hogg admit he wasn't at school during the shooting?
Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM

Insomniac/Monk linked in a prior thread a youtube vid.

It's that 39 minutes CBS vid, at 4:30 in a prior thread. It seems to contradict CNN's report of him huddled away during the shooting.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (Dp6qK)

94 Yeah...class.

What to do if you hate your class?

I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.

What to do...?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Warm up the weather a bit?

Posted by: President Foot Wedge at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (0UCQh)

95 I vote with my cooter.

Posted by: Stormy O'Daniels

...

And you can watch it LIVE with a PH Premium subscription.

Posted by: pornhub at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (ROV4u)

96 >>>he says he got his camera and rode the 3 miles to the school

Riding his bicycle? What a fag!

Posted by: Freddie Mercury at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (ztbw+)

97 92. Fapplebee's best customer?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (fA1SL)

98 I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.

What to do...?

Hobbits to the left of me.
Wacko-birds to the right.
Stuck in the middle with Joos.

Posted by: DaveA at March 26, 2018 05:58 PM (FhXTo)

99 Fellow morons, Dana Perino just said this:

"I like Van Jones a lot."

And there ya go.
=====

I wonder if she realizes he wouldn't mind seeing her and people like her dead.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 26, 2018 05:58 PM (nILVB)

100 Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2018 05:43 PM (gbWkA)

I don't think we know all the women-including minors-Clinton had sex with. I imagine some were attractiveThe point is not the consensual sex it's that Clinton raped and sexually abused women whether ugly or not, Bill Clinton is a ugly, ugly man-personality wise.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 05:58 PM (tpDAe)

101 Fellow morons, Dana Perino just said this:

"I like Van Jones a lot."

Soon...

Posted by: pornhub at March 26, 2018 05:59 PM (ROV4u)

102
Retirement SS 39% have zero in retirement

I consider that an improvement. I wish I had one dollar for every dollar I owed a decade ago.

Just getting to zero was a major accomplishment.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 26, 2018 05:59 PM (LOgQ4)

103 Yeah...class.

What to do if you hate your class?

I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.

What to do...?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM (wYseH)
*************************

Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and maybe Tennessee.
They're the only free states I can recall.

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 05:59 PM (j8uQ3)

104 Jen Rubin just dances to the tune of those that pay her. She has no principles of her own besides what's good for Jen.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (yQpMk)

105 I wonder if she realizes he wouldn't mind seeing her and people like her dead.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 26, 2018 05:58 PM (nILVB)

Birds of a feather. She wouldn't mind seeing people like me in the camps.

I wonder sometimes ... if y'all understand just how serious I am about that. Because I believe it 100%.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (fiGNd)

106 Surprisingly, the PornHub collection of Stormy Daniels is very lame.

Posted by: wooga at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (ztbw+)

107 99
Fellow morons, Dana Perino just said this:

"I like Van Jones a lot."

And there ya go.

=====

I wonder if she realizes he wouldn't mind seeing her and people like her dead.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 26, 2018 05:58 PM (nILVB)

The whitelash guy on cnn and 911 truther.

Posted by: muckrack at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (RZ4iC)

108 I don't think we know all the women-including
minors-Clinton had sex with. I imagine some were attractiveThe point is
not the consensual sex it's that Clinton raped and sexually abused
women whether ugly or not, Bill Clinton is a ugly, ugly man-personality
wise.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 05:58 PM (tpDAe)

Makes you wonder how many girls he assaulted in high school and college. Back then, young women tended to keep quiet out of embarrassment (this one included).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (ptqGC)

109 > Bollard Hag - Had sex with Huma.

And in the Next Generation:

Kamala Harris: had sex with Willie Brown.

Andrew Cuomo: had sex with that drunken, fading sorority slut who pretends to cook on that one cable show.

Jerry Brown: had a "mutual beard" arrangement with Linda Ronstadt.

Elizabeth Warren: had sex with her faithful Native American pony, Scout.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (Q7M5N)

110 I can't vote for any democrat marxist shithead.

My only choice at election time is a rethuglican tax less and spend more shithead.

If I could only get a reach around once in a while.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (EoRCO)

111 "and try to win every single dispute and make every single decision within the marriage, and expect that marriage to survive."

Ace, you're not married then?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:01 PM (o7tuA)

112 "104 Jen Rubin just dances to the tune of those that pay her. She has no principles of her own besides what's good for Jen."

Yep. No need to overcomplicate it.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (v7AcZ)

113 Win the Middle.

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (5fSr7)

114
I vote with my cooter.
------
Pull that lever.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (ewxPW)

115 Here you go, Ace. Votermom linked it in the Mate en thread.

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=374502#c28612937

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (Dp6qK)

116 The whitelash guy on cnn and 911 truther.

Posted by: muckrack at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (RZ4iC)

Van Jones is an actual "former" Communist Party member, which I believe is why he had to leave the Choom Boy administration. He was outed.

But he's cool now because CNN.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (ptqGC)

117 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En Fuego!" at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (ctuyM)

118 >>Ace, you're not married then?

I didn't get a "Yes dear" outta that guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2018 06:03 PM (/tuJf)

119 OTC Viagra now in the UK new names

Dick in a box
Hammertime
Vitamin D
Hedgeslammer

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2018 06:03 PM (BtQd4)

120 I'm in with In Crowd
I go where the In Crowd goes
I'm in with the In Crowd
And I know what the In Crowd knows

Posted by: Jen Rubin at March 26, 2018 06:03 PM (O5Q3r)

121 Funny how all this emphasis on class managed to reduce drastically the standard of living of those outside of their class.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at March 26, 2018 06:03 PM (GdWl+)

122 107 99
Fellow morons, Dana Perino just said this:

"I like Van Jones a lot."

And there ya go.

Why doesn't Greg G look at Dana some day and ask her why she held out all her wisdom from GWB, while he was going down the drain and putting the GOP in a hole hat it would take a decade to dig out of.

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (VWsDy)

123 So when I (finally) get my way in my marriage I shouldn't run around yelling "I WIN! I WIN I WIN!" ??

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (o7tuA)

124 Former President Jimmy Carter comes out and says that Trump appointing John Bolton for Natl. Security Advisor is the worst mistake he has made.

Well then, that means that Bolton is perfect! His stashe sure scares people.

Posted by: Cheri at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (oiNtH)

125 Just wait till Soros unleashes his Barack Obama clones on the world.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (ptqGC)

126 Ok, got through it

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (aC6Sd)

127 I don't understand how we have gotten so far away from the way it was done in the 50s and 60s. You made sure people got something. You compromised because that was how you got things done. Sneering at people does not win you votes. And it's about time rural people get some representation again. We should allow states to split up to make that happen.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 26, 2018 06:05 PM (Lqy/e)

128 69 Things the Smartest People in the Room fixed:
Problem Solution Outcome
Retirement SS 39% have zero in retirement
Economy Stimulus $9T spent to grow Econ
Health Care Obamacare All 23 Co ops have failed
____________________

Do you see that article about the recent academic study done to try and determine how many U.S. bankruptcies are actually caused by unpaid medical bills?

The answer: 4%

Obamacare was something the government had to pass, because millions of Americans were DYING and going BANKRUPT from lack of health insurance.

The Great Scholar, Fauxcahontas Lizzy Warren had "proven" this by authoring a study showing that more than half of all U.S. bankruptcies were due to unpaid medical bills!

Problem was that Lizzy's methodology was totally bogus: she had attributed every bankruptcy where there was one unpaid medical bill, no matter how insignificant, to lack of health insurance. A bankrupt person could have $5,000,000 in mortgage and credit card and gambling debts, but if they had one unpaid $75 doctor bill, Lizzy declared it a medical bankruptcy.

But congress, and the media, insistently parroted Warren's bullshit claim that half of U.S. bankruptcies are caused by unpaid medical bills to justify the hideous Obamacare scam.

Now, when it's too late and millions of people have been harmed by Obamacare, we find out that the actual number of U.S. bankruptcies caused by medical bills is a measly 4%.

Posted by: The Donald at March 26, 2018 06:05 PM (fqUgw)

129

Supper tonight: Chili Dogs

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at March 26, 2018 06:05 PM (gwZZx)

130 123 So when I (finally) get my way in my marriage I shouldn't run around yelling "I WIN! I WIN I WIN!" ??
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (o7tuA)

Come on. Act like you've been there before.

Posted by: buzzion at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (lKs2v)

131 Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:00 PM (ptqGC)

Someone who says, "You better put some ice on that", (about a lip he bit to pieces while raping the woman) puts on sunglasses and walks out of the room surely had other encounters with women who were too afraid to speak up about it. He's a evil man; It's covered up by surface charm and some brains and the ability to schmooze.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (tpDAe)

132 129 Supper tonight: Chili Dogs

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at March 26, 2018 06:05 PM (gwZZx)

yum dawgs! Ribs.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (o7tuA)

133 Just wait till Soros unleashes his Barack Obama clones on the world.

Posted by: Jane D'oh
*********************

PULL!

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (j8uQ3)

134 Someone who says, "You better put some ice on that",
(about a lip he bit to pieces while raping the woman) puts on
sunglasses and walks out of the room surely had other encounters with
women who were too afraid to speak up about it. He's a evil man; It's
covered up by surface charm and some brains and the ability to schmooze.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (tpDAe)

THIS

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (ptqGC)

135 I'm just not seeing the connection to Putin. Throw me a bone here.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (yQpMk)

136 Supper tonight: Chili Dogs

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer --

Desert: Dutch Ovens

Posted by: Cheri at March 26, 2018 06:07 PM (oiNtH)

137 116 Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:02 PM (ptqGC)

Dana Perino, showing literally the "cuckservative" label is not an innacurate one merely an odious one.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2018 06:07 PM (SzZnW)

138 From the last thread, I'm still looking thru reddit The Donald to find the video of the baldheaded commie Cuban girl saying they were justified in bullying Cruz, I found an image but I have not yet found the video. Didn't save it yesterday when I could have, darn,

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8g9qmfn

Posted by: Boots at March 26, 2018 06:07 PM (EBwPV)

139
So, is the upshot of all this that I should or should not

pee all over the Turtle's oriental rug in his office?

Cuz I feel I should pee on his rug, even if it ties the room together.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 26, 2018 06:07 PM (E3rQ4)

140 to heel and turning them into purse puppies.

Pure poetry.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 26, 2018 06:07 PM (8iiMU)

141 Andrew Cuomo: had sex with that drunken, fading sorority slut who pretends to cook on that one cable show.
------
Mario Badali? (sp?)

Posted by: andycanuck at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (ewxPW)

142 Maybe this fits in somewhat.
Passed a church in township over and a there were signs along road immediately past church's property.
The Church has Left the building

I take it someone thinks the church changed and not them.

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (aC6Sd)

143 128 The Great Scholar, Fauxcahontas Lizzy Warren

And her book she wrote while at UTex is a fake. All the data for the book got LOST. They were making law school students read it at FSU when my daughter was there. She and a friend pointed out the even UT doesnt use the book.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (BtQd4)

144 Ive always known the Uniparty hates us. From stories of my father getting spit on when he returned from Vietnam during his 5 tours, to him lobbying both parties in DC to help out small businesses via lower taxes and they would smile and take his money and listen to his plans then ignore them and other calls for reform, to the way our family was treated by the VA when my dad got sick because agent orange but they lied and said it was not that so enjoy your slow painful death, to constantly begging for donations and breaking promises, to destroying the value of our currency, trillions spent on anti flyover propaganda, ....... The list is way too long.

And then these assholes have the nerve to gaslight American Citizens about it all.

Fuck them all.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (ZghNV)

145 Just wait till Soros unleashes his Barack Obama clones on the world.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

Millions of Obama A+ public school students working for my home-schooled billionaire CEO grandchildren.

Not seeing a problem.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (LOgQ4)

146 130
123 So when I (finally) get my way in my marriage I shouldn't run around yelling "I WIN! I WIN I WIN!" ??

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (o7tuA)

Come on. Act like you've been there before.

Posted by: buzzion at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (lKs2v)

*looks around for Heidi*"I mean when get my way.' *Struts around.*

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (o7tuA)

147 What to do if you hate your class? I am a Jewish professional in the Northeast.
What to do...?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 05:53 PM

Y'all can come on down and be a Texan.

In return, we'd appreciate it if you could cool things down some in the summer when you get here, but that's not a required quid pro quo.

And, we got brisket.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (ctuyM)

148 I'm sure Jen Rubin's biggest issue is that she looks like a dog's ass and spent most of her early life sitting in a corner ignored while she seethed and glared and plotted revenge against "the beautiful people".

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (4ErVI)

149 I'm just not seeing the connection to Putin. Throw me a bone here.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (yQpMk)

Good grief, man. Russian dressing in his salads (you know he loves it), his wife is practically Russian (or something), someone gave Ivanka a set of Russian nesting dolls when she was a child. What more do you need??

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (ptqGC)

150 Dana making a move on a BBC. I always thought that beastiality was a couple rungs below interracial porn.

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (VWsDy)

151 I don't want a divorce from my coastal elite "betters", I want them in prison for the pay to play, and the attempted coup, and for the global governance plans, the approval of coup leaders like Mueller ... for ignoring all the crimes during Obama's reign of terror ...

But really, taking bribes is criminal, even if they are very careful about how they get paid (or laid). Lock them all up ...

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (bT8Z4)

152 >>*looks around for Heidi*"I mean when get my way.' *Struts around.*

I sense another head wound in your future.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (/tuJf)

153 "He's a evil man; It's covered up by surface charm and some brains and the ability to schmooze."

There's probably a Star Trek-style alternate timeline where Ted Bundy went into politics.

Oddly, he stepped into Bill Clinton's role without making the world different in any significant degree.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:10 PM (Q7M5N)

154 145 Just wait till Soros unleashes his Barack Obama clones on the world.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

Millions of Obama A+ public school students working for my home-schooled billionaire CEO grandchildren.

Not seeing a problem.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM (LOgQ4)

You mean besides going out of business because you hired a bunch of incompetents who think they're the greatest people in history?

Posted by: buzzion at March 26, 2018 06:10 PM (lKs2v)

155 148 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (4ErVI)

Jen "bili" Rubin....

Al-WaPo's notion of "acceptable conservative"...

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2018 06:10 PM (SzZnW)

156 *looks around for Heidi*"I mean when get my way.' *Struts around.*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM

Y'all don't have any actual experience with this, do you?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2018 06:10 PM (ctuyM)

157 http://bit.ly/2pGttTb
-----
Bolton Poised To Make Big Changes At NSC - The Daily Caller
---------
'Throw All That Crap Out'- Bolton Poised To Make Big Changes At NSC To Make Sure 'The Leaks Stop'
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Get your hot fresh popcorn here

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 26, 2018 06:10 PM (y3aQB)

158 9 Well, Jeb was as boring as a plank and Kasich was into hugging. So yeah, they were not going to happen.
Posted by: IC at March 26, 2018 05:39 PM (a0IVu)

It was worse than that.

The GOP Patrician Class wanted its cheap gardeners and maids, and actually convinced itself that the GOPlebians would not mind as long as the tax cuts kept flowing and the economy kept growing.

Worse still, they deluded themselves into believing that the people they imported were "natural Conservatives".

But worked in the Bush family didn't work in the nation as a whole.

Prediction: George P. Bush, Jeb's son, is being groomed and prepped for primaries 2024, and he will try to restore the Bush dynasty, with a new ethnic flavor.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (ujg0T)

159 >>>Because you cannot treat your allies and your supposed political partners in the same way you treat your political enemies.

That's the problem - According to McConnell/Ryan, I AM the enemy, much more so than Schumer or Pelosi. They've been very clear about that. Judging from this latest spending bill, which the Republicans "negotiated" from a position of power, what actual difference would be made if the Dems ran Congress? Maybe Planned Parenthood would get $600 million instead of $500 million to murder and dismember children for fun and profit? There's only one true party in Washington, and I despise it as much as it despises me.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (ppaKI)

160 > "I WIN! I WIN I WIN!" ??

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:04 PM (o7tuA)

When I post my first win, I'll be sure to let you know.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (8PL+d)

161 152
>>*looks around for Heidi*"I mean when get my way.' *Struts around.*

I sense another head wound in your future.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (/tuJf)

I sense someone here is going to throw me under the bus just for shits and giggles. "its only fun until Cannibal Bob gets hurt, then its hilarious."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (o7tuA)

162 "This is obvious. But the #SmartSet is so damned smart and clever they fail to understand the simplest, most obvious things."

About the most profound thing I've read on this blog.

What many folks don't seem to understand, is that most things ARE simple.

Those who try to make them complex, are trying to deny reality... or trying to use sophistry to convince you that you have no idea what is going on.

Lets look at... oh.. Global Warming... it ain't happening... not for years.... and CO2 has been shown to not be a driver of warming anyway...

But since its a simple concept that CO2 is not and cannot be driving warming (ie, that all the energy it can absorb, is already being absorbed).. they create a much more complicated thesis... that is unproven.. and is so complicate (ducting) that no one can understand it...

Now.. why can't we understand it? maybe because it makes no sense? Because they are trying to make things so complex, that the argument becomes 'it's complicated'....

Same with a lot of politics.... same with a lot of economics...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (NgKpN)

163 "Good grief, man. Russian dressing in his salads (you know he loves it), his wife is practically Russian (or something), someone gave Ivanka a set of Russian nesting dolls when she was a child. What more do you need??"

Also: Trump wanted to be a fireman when he was a little boy. Fire engines at the time were RED. And they were RED because they were always rushin'.

It's all of a piece.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (Q7M5N)

164 >>*looks around for Heidi*"I mean when get my way.' *Struts around.*

I sense another head wound in your future.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM

Fortunately, some of the best medical advice known to man is right here on this blog.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 26, 2018 06:12 PM (LOgQ4)

165 156
*looks around for Heidi*"I mean when get my way.' *Struts around.*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:08 PM

Y'all don't have any actual experience with this, do you?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2018 06:10 PM (ctuyM)

What was the tell?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:12 PM (o7tuA)

166 93 52 where/when did Hogg admit he wasn't at school during the shooting?
Posted by: ace at March 26, 2018 05:49 PM

Insomniac/Monk linked in a prior thread a youtube vid.

It's that 39 minutes CBS vid, at 4:30 in a prior thread. It seems to contradict CNN's report of him huddled away during the shooting.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 26, 2018 05:57 PM (Dp6qK)

This is Hogg's personal video from that day. Shady is putting it lightly. 21 Jump Street David Hogg.

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

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:12 PM (ZghNV)

167 gggrrrrrrr
grrrrrrrr

Posted by: jasper at March 26, 2018 06:13 PM (ewxPW)

168 "he will try to restore the Bush dynasty, with a new ethnic flavor."

I propose that he be given the nickname "Spicy Jalapeno" Bush.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:13 PM (Q7M5N)

169 He's a evil man; It's covered up by surface charm and some brains and the ability to schmooze.

Sociopathy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 26, 2018 06:13 PM (oVJmc)

170 Just wait till Soros unleashes his Barack Obama clones on the world.

So, lots of targets?

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (gbWkA)

171 This morning it was Canadian Boner Pills, now it's Mexican Boner Pills.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (oVJmc)

172 Well thats a new troll. Is it here for me? Bastard.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (o7tuA)

173 168 "he will try to restore the Bush dynasty, with a new ethnic flavor."

I propose that he be given the nickname "Spicy Jalapeno" Bush.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:13 PM (Q7M5N)

Arbusto Jalapen~o Picante.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (ujg0T)

174 But since its a simple concept that CO2 is not and cannot be driving warming (ie, that all the energy it can absorb, is already being absorbed).. they create a much more complicated thesis... that is unproven.. and is so complicate (ducting) that no one can understand it...

Oh, pish posh!

When I stop hiding in the deepest depths of the ocean,

then we'll see who's right.

Posted by: Anthropogenic Global Warming Is Playing Hide and Seek at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (E3rQ4)

175 I'm sure I misunderstand this but it seems the GOPe hate conservatives just as much as Hillary but they're less honest about it.
How can anyone be less honest than Hillary about anything?
I need a ruling from David Frump.

Posted by: Northernlurker Worldwide Moron Tour at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (aCNZ6)

176
"he will try to restore the Bush dynasty, with a new ethnic flavor."

Tex- Mex

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 26, 2018 06:14 PM (lKyWE)

177 Cialis spam at 169

Posted by: tu3031 at March 26, 2018 06:15 PM (O5Q3r)

178 David Hogg not being at school the day of the shooting:

http://bit.ly/2DUwFil

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2018 06:15 PM (z8tEv)

179 157
http://bit.ly/2pGttTb

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Bolton Poised To Make Big Changes At NSC - The Daily Caller

From that link:

Sources also told Foreign Policy Friday that dozens of current NSC officials were likely to be fired,
and that 'everyone who was there during Obama years should start packing
their shit.'

That is music to my ears.

About fvcking time.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 26, 2018 06:15 PM (8iiMU)

180 PULL!

Posted by: gNewt
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181
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182 178 Cialis spam at 169
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I long for the Good Old Days of Lace Wigs.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:16 PM (ujg0T)

183 "he will try to restore the Bush dynasty, with a new ethnic flavor."

I propose that he be given the nickname "Spicy Jalapeno" Bush.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:13 PM (Q7M5N)

The Crunchy Busharito

Posted by: naturalfake at March 26, 2018 06:16 PM (E3rQ4)

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Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 26, 2018 06:16 PM (y3aQB)

185 nd that 'everyone who was there during Obama years should start packing
their shit.'

Not so fast...
Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:16 PM (LiyEm)

186 And why was that shit not at school that day?
It wasn't Spring Break. As a senior, most can't afford to miss school with finals coming up.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2018 06:16 PM (z8tEv)

187 183 178 Cialis spam at 169
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I miss lace wigs.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM (4ErVI)

190 What many folks don't seem to understand, is that most things ARE simple.

Those who try to make them complex, are trying to deny reality... or trying to use sophistry to convince you that you have no idea what is going on.
____________________

Wait, this is about me, isn't it?

The fact that the U.S. constitution never mentioned a right to abortion was not about to stop me from pretending that it did!

I knew you rubes wouldn't like it, but I also knew that you wouldn't know what a penumbra or an emanation was, without a dictionary or a smart Ivy League elitist like me to explain it to you.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Sophistry is fun!

Posted by: Zombie Justice Harry Blackmun at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM (fqUgw)

191 169 I can't get a link past Pixy sometimes and that got through?

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM (aC6Sd)

192 Hold on here. We're inviting CBD to move to Texas but in his profession he would have to live in Dallas, Austin or Houston which all have their foot on the gas pedal to full on lefty, so what's the diff?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM (E/LYB)

193 This is obvious. But the #SmartSet is so damned smart and clever they fail to understand the simplest, most obvious things.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:42 PM

They understand, but that sweet sweet money and other free shit and perks that come with being in a place of power.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM (ZghNV)

194 grrrrr
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Posted by: jasper at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM (ewxPW)

195 Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?

Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2018 06:18 PM (MVjcR)

196 It's covered up by surface charm and some brains and the ability to schmooze.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:06 PM (tpDAe)
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You should read Dick Morris' account of when he resigned from Clinton's service. Somebody had to pull a 6-2 red-faced, spittle-flecks and all man off of Morris.

Hard not to see a sociopath in that account.

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198 >>I miss lace wigs.

Lace wigs are RINO elitists that secretly hate you. I'm glad the bastards got banned.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (/tuJf)

199
David Hogg not being at school the day of the shooting:

http://bit.ly/2DUwFil

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2018 06:15 PM (z8tEv)

He's an attention-whoring liar and general douchebag.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (ptqGC)

200 Canadian Boner Pills.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (yQpMk)

201 oh come on. Grease Bush. It even grows in West Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (k1TUh)

202 195 Those pictures of him with boys finally turned up?

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (LiyEm)

203 I miss lace wigs.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis

More range time ?

Posted by: Adriane the Ad Critic ... at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (AoK0a)

204 >>>"he will try to restore the Bush dynasty, with a new ethnic flavor."

Jesus, I'm sick of those bastards. 350 million people, and all we get are retreads and reboots.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 26, 2018 06:19 PM (ppaKI)

205 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:09 PM (4ErVI)

I don't think Dana Perino looks like a dog's a**, but I don't have a dog and so don't spend any time looking at dogs a**es.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (tpDAe)

206 Canadian Boner Pills.

That don't impress me much

Posted by: Shania Twain at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (0UCQh)

207 192 Hold on here. We're inviting CBD to move to Texas but in his profession he would have to live in Dallas, Austin or Houston which all have their foot on the gas pedal to full on lefty, so what's the diff?"

Suburbs of Dallas and Houston are great, and I love Fort Worth. so there's choices.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (k1TUh)

208 "The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker," Amodei said.

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (y3aQB)

209 Ryan to resign as Speaker?

His work here is done. He's retiring to spend more time with his numbered account.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (yQpMk)

210 Are there any Dallas area Mo-Mees coming up? I have to make a biz trip there in May.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (8PL+d)

211 Go with Tennessee. "Unrestricted land use" did it for us. I still think folks believe we are kidding about moving cross country to get out of this. At some point, you get tired of dealing with crazy people.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 26, 2018 06:21 PM (Lqy/e)

212
"The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next
30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker," Amodei
said.

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (y3aQB)

Bye Felicia.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:21 PM (ptqGC)

213 Hold on here. We're inviting CBD to move to Texas but in his profession he would have to live in Dallas, Austin or Houston which all have their foot on the gas pedal to full on lefty, so what's the diff?
Posted by: Ben Had

Suburbs aren't bad.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2018 06:21 PM (z8tEv)

214 Hold on here. We're inviting CBD to move to Texas
but in his profession he would have to live in Dallas, Austin or Houston
which all have their foot on the gas pedal to full on lefty, so what's
the diff?
Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:17 PM

You can still be ~30 miles outside of Austin, and live in some sanity.

Admittedly, that's changing, but even in Austin, there are normals. It's not like the Northeast, where you're immersed in the Yankee lefty culture 24/7/365.25

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2018 06:21 PM (ctuyM)

215 >>>Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?

That's been rumored for a long time. Alas, like a festering herpes sore, it never really goes away.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (ppaKI)

216 >> 'everyone who was there during Obama years should start packing

their shit.'

Can I get in on this deal?

Posted by: Shep at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (2cuLk)

217 208 "The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker," Amodei said.
___________________

Do we know what lobbying firm Ryan will now be joining?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (fqUgw)

218 Have I told you my Father was a mailman.

Posted by: John Kasich at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (dKiJG)

219 Just wait till Bolton takes a flamethrower to the Obama hangers on.

*popcorn time*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (ptqGC)

220 Paul Ryan will run in 2020. The GOPe and Dims will do anything to get rid of Trump even if that means donors from both parties funding a 3rd party candidate.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (ZghNV)

221 That pharmacy guy.

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (j8uQ3)

222 Which mailman was it?

Posted by: PhilDirt at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (QiDfu)

223

That's been rumored for a long time. Alas, like a festering herpes sore, it never really goes away.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (ppaKI)
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Can't say that I'd miss him.

Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (MVjcR)

224 The Republicans under Ryan and McConnell are perfectly happy to be the Vichy French to the Democrat Nazis.

They are beneath contempt.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 26, 2018 06:24 PM (UThOJ)

225 You can't treat your natural allies as enemies and expect them to remain allies.

Someone forgot to tell Eddie Munster and McTurtle.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2018 06:24 PM (UsCnO)

226 No wait my Father is MailPerson

Posted by: John Kasich at March 26, 2018 06:24 PM (dKiJG)

227 South Dakota for me - No state income tax, open carry and $10 concealed carry permit. Although kids can get their drivers license at 14 and they drive UTVs on the roads.

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2018 06:24 PM (gbWkA)

228
Paul Ryan will run in 2020. The GOPe and Dims will do anything to get
rid of Trump even if that means donors from both parties funding a 3rd
party candidate.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (ZghNV)

Let him try. The fact that Joey Biden mopped the floor with him has doomed any hope he may have had to run for POTUS.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2018 06:25 PM (ptqGC)

229 Was Camera Hogg's friend-who looks like like Sin�ad O'Connor-at the shooting or did she just wander in later too?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:25 PM (tpDAe)

230 Ryan to resign as Speaker?

His work here is done. He's retiring to spend more time with his numbered account.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2018 06:20 PM (yQpMk)

He was elected at age 28. I'm sure he spent time in DC working during college and after to prepare. And by prepare I mean get passed around.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:25 PM (ZghNV)

231 Rush said today that Obama and Michelle could produce a million of themselves if they'd just become pro-life.

pretty adept.

Posted by: booknlass at March 26, 2018 06:25 PM (xGMkv)

232 What I meant to say is my Father or Mother is a mailHuman

Posted by: John Kasich at March 26, 2018 06:25 PM (dKiJG)

233 RE: Bolton

I'm going to reassess my view of the man after realizing that everyone I hate is going volcanic over him working for Trump.

I think Trump is bringing him in so they can run a good cop/bad cop routine on China and the Norks.

Can it be merely a coincidence that Bolton is arriving a month before Trump meets with Lil Kim?

I think he'll be working with Trump on Iran as well because I saw something today that said Trump is going to scrap the deal in the next two weeks.

I'd say the chances of a war with Iran are very slim. Trump knows the country isn't going to tolerate another war in the sandbox.

He's got something else planned and I'll bet it's genius.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:26 PM (4ErVI)

234 215
>>>Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?

That's been rumored for a long time. Alas, like a festering herpes sore, it never really goes away.

And someday, world peace and the end of cancer.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2018 06:26 PM (UsCnO)

235 Mark Meadows. FTW.

Dont think he will be changing stripes.

Posted by: Golfman at March 26, 2018 06:27 PM (48QDY)

236 Admittedly, that's changing, but even in Austin, there are normals. It's not like the Northeast, where you're immersed in the Yankee lefty culture 24/7/365.25
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2018 06:21 PM (ctuyM)

In California, once you get into the more rural areas, you actually deal with more normal people.

The burbs USED to be bastions of Conservatism, but the Military Aerospace Electronic Complex folded up when the Cold War was won.

In the Urban areas we have (1) the "Watermelons" who practice eco-lunacy for us but not for them, and (2) the Lavenders, NTTAWWT, but their politics tend to be as reamed as their sphincters, and (3) the New Whitey Hating Ethnics, who have been the shock troops for the Left. These make up what has become a Demunist Commiecrat Party.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:27 PM (ujg0T)

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Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:27 PM (j8uQ3)

238 Loni Anderson has not aged well.Lips like bike inner tubes.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (LiyEm)

239 You know, my guess is 80% of Americans want there to be a wall at the Mexican border. Will it stop illegals? probably not. Will it stop drugs? probably not.

Then what is its purpose?

The purpose is to show that you give a shit about us. We want it to KNOW that we are serious about this shit and not play acting, as we have been, the last 30 years.

because let's face it. A lot of republican establishment types are A-okay with illegal immigration. Sure, it creates all sorts of problems for us, normal people. But it suppresses wages, and controls inflation, and provides lots of maids, hookers, and gardeners. All good stuff. And democrats want more voters. And republicans are kinda, sorta okay with that, because they don't want to be seen as mean guys.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (fftfA)

240 Ace wrote, "...and was very excited about the prospect of bringing the ill-trained dogs of Tea Party conservatism to heel and turning them into purse puppies."

I love the term 'purse puppies'--someone following the Diversity and Comics guy on YouTube coined the term, and it fits perfectly: that token group you adopt and show off to establish political bona fides. The purse puppy must remain silent unless told to speak and is required to perform the occasional trick on demand.

Posted by: troyriser at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (K8f5g)

241 I know from morning radio Drudge was running a story that sewage was being dumped straight into the Schuylkill river

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (aC6Sd)

242 Aaaah. Sage marriage advice from Ace. I must tell Mrs. Redux. I almost had her convinced to post in the comments (she really liked the dog being licked by the herd of cows picture AND she found the article on learning to fall asleep in two minutes very helpful (she's sending it to the junior Redux's).

Now ~ as to the GOPe ~ they are going to find out, in a big way that f*cking with the populist wing will destroy them because, in a democracy we have another name for "populism" . . . it's called: "majority rule" and you cannot win a democratic election without it ~ for feck's sake.

Since when did: "this idea gets a majority vote!" become: "evil 'populism'"?

Populism my *ss.

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (0/0WS)

243 "No wait my Father is MailPerson"

PerSON? Gendered language. Try "Peroffspring" instead.

Also, "Mail" is questionable because it sounds like "male".

Try "Non-Binary-Gendered Message Delivery Peroffspring".

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (Q7M5N)

244 Guy's I agree the suburbs are not full on retard. I would glady carve out 5 acres for CBD if he wanted to live here.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (E/LYB)

245 Ryan/Rubio 2020 "Independence" Party

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (ZghNV)

246 The WSJ joined in the "Hobbits" name-calling. Our Thought Leaders.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (EzdLW)

247 Cialis spam at 169

I long for the Good Old Days of Lace Wigs.

Butt-welded pipes FTW.

Machines For Sale!

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (ROV4u)

248 220 Paul Ryan will run in 2020. The GOPe and Dims will do anything to get rid of Trump even if that means donors from both parties funding a 3rd party candidate.
Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (ZghNV)

There's always the New Ethnic Bush Dynasty!

However, I suspect Jorge Picante Arbusto is too canny and he will bide his time, build up his war chest, and will wait for 2024 to make a Primary go of it.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (ujg0T)

249 One of my greatest frustrations is knowing that despite my contempt and hatred for the Republican leadership I cannot and will not vote for a Democrat. Not for dogcatcher, not for anything. And I also know that if I stay at home and refuse to vote, that is just as bad as voting for the Democrat.

And I think they fucking know it. Which makes me hate them all the more.

This country needs a fucking Bastille Day to clean out the corrupt political aristocracy/ruling class.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (UThOJ)

250 Hillary / Huma 2020, the "Codependent Party"

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:30 PM (EzdLW)

251 238 Loni Anderson has not aged well.Lips like bike inner tubes.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (LiyEm)

I thought she always looked pretty fake though. That's why I always had to go with Bailey on WKRP.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:30 PM (4ErVI)

252 Fellow morons, Dana Perino just said this:

"I like Van Jones a lot."

And there ya go.

=====

She also liked the speech the dum-dum Chapstickaquiddick Kennedy spawn gave in response to Trump's State of the Union address.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 26, 2018 06:30 PM (2NqXo)

253 AND she found the article on learning to fall asleep in two minutes very helpful (she's sending it to the junior Redux's).

How do you fall asleep in two minutes? That's advice I could use,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:30 PM (tpDAe)

254 Stormy Ryan just couldn't handle Donny Two Scoops girth.

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (bJ0w+)

255 > Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?

Be still, my heart.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (Q7M5N)

256 For you Millennials my Father carried things called letters (made from paper) to a mailbox, like your inbox for your email.

Posted by: John Kasich at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (dKiJG)

257
I know from morning radio Drudge was running a story that sewage was being dumped straight into the Schuylkill river
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM

Stormy Daniels and Anderson Cooper skinny dipping.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (EzdLW)

258 Ryan/Ernst 2020 "Independence" party

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (ZghNV)

259 I would glady carve out 5 acres for CBD if he wanted to live here.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (E/LYB)

I'm looking at 60 acres in VT or NH, and Texas has a LOT more land!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (wYseH)

260 The purpose is to show that you give a shit about us. We want it to KNOW that we are serious about this shit and not play acting, as we have been, the last 30 years. "

So it's a whole lot like an anniversary present.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (k1TUh)

261 Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?
That's been rumored for a long time. Alas, like a festering herpes sore, it never really goes away.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (ppaKI)

Yup.... the line of GOP House Speakers were a crook, a child molester, a drunkard and now a lady boy.

Does the GOPe have any real men or broads who can become speaker.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (EoRCO)

262 Mustache wax stocks are up.
Posted by: gNewt
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*checks AoSHQ Code Phrase Book*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (y3sT9)

263
"Can it be merely a coincidence that Bolton is arriving a month before Trump meets with Lil Kim?"
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:26 PM (4ErVI)

Well, it had to be coincidence that the pallet of $175 billion in cash went to Iran under Obama's order.

It was supposed to go to Chicago to pay for his library.

And on a related note, Congress is required to approve spending.

How the Eff did Obama get $175 Billion in CASH without Congressional approval?

Compared to that, $20 Billion for a Wall is chump change. And I like Ann Coulter's plan, call it a national security issue and build it with the military money just approved by the Santa Claus Pig Congress.

Watch them squeal like the fat hogs they are.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (UsCnO)

264 251 Yeah,was never a big fan of the bleach blond hair but I think the hooters were real.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (LiyEm)

265 Come at me bro!

Posted by: Lace Cocks at March 26, 2018 06:18 PM (0UCQh)

Step off, bitch. This is my corner.

Posted by: Lace Merkins at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (Dp6qK)

266 Good.

GTFO , Paulie Ryan.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (ROV4u)

267 Trump didn't win by gaining moderate swing voters-- the favorite want of the GOPe-- he won by gaining CONSERVATIVE swing voters.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 26, 2018 06:33 PM (P4ycM)

268 How do you fall asleep in two minutes? That's advice I could use,"

I let the pastor start talking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:33 PM (k1TUh)

269
Yup.... the line of GOP House Speakers were a crook, a child molester, a drunkard and now a lady boy.

Does the GOPe have any real men or broads who can become speaker.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (EoRCO)

I resent that remark!

Posted by: Eddie Munster at March 26, 2018 06:33 PM (UsCnO)

270 Anderson has not aged well.Lips like bike inner tubes.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (LiyEm)

I thought she always looked pretty fake though. That's why I always had to go with Bailey on WKRP.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:30 PM (4ErVI)

Being punched in the face numerous times doesn't help.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2018 06:33 PM (dKiJG)

271 Mustache wax stocks are up.
Posted by: gNewt
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*checks AoSHQ Code Phrase Book*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Hmm. Something about Freddy Mercury. That can't be right.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (ZpfqO)

272 Nah,that closeted fag hasn't inflated his personal net worth enough to leave yet.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (LiyEm)

273 246 The WSJ joined in the "Hobbits" name-calling. Our Thought Leaders.
Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (EzdLW)

Of course it did! How they were not mentioned by name in Ace's Original Post? Then again, maybe that just goes without saying.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (ujg0T)

274 I live in WI and have met Ryan a few times. I detect zero interest in him running for president.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (8PL+d)

275 Lotsa words over a nebulous argument.

Getting paid by the word as a blogger is a bad business model.

Posted by: Jim Harrison at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (qc1G2)

276 Do we know what lobbying firm Ryan will now be joining?
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Dewey, Scrougham and Howe.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (ewxPW)

277 ace

this video
https://youtu.be/IUOkBv6wMhc

4:30 mark

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (hMwEB)

278
How the Eff did Obama get $175 Billion in CASH without Congressional approval?

It was the frozen Iranian assets

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (lKyWE)

279
FtGOP.

Its weird, because you would like to vote for someone that has your interests but the GOP just talks that way, but votes with the Dems. So my solution is not to vote for any of those bastards.

Plus at this point I think the GOP wants the Dems to impeach without having to themselves.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (r+sAi)

280 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:33 PM (k1TUh)

In this situation the pastor starting talking doesn't work that way. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (tpDAe)

281 Guy's I agree the suburbs are not full on retard. I would glady carve out 5 acres for CBD if he wanted to live here.

Posted by: Ben Had
*******************

Estado de Dildo.

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (j8uQ3)

282 I would glady carve out 5 acres for CBD if he wanted to live here.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:29 PM (E/LYB)

I'm looking at 60 acres in VT or NH, and Texas has a LOT more land!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (wYseH)

If you move to VT, beware of Mary Cloggenstein.
Posted by: Surfperch
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Bernie

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (ZpfqO)

283 CBD, Please give Texas a chance before you decide.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (E/LYB)

284 231 Rush said today that Obama and Michelle could produce a million of themselves if they'd just become pro-life.
____________________

Not at Michelle's menopausal age.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (fqUgw)

285 I live in WI and have met Ryan a few times. I detect zero interest in him running for president.

I detect zero interest in him being a Man.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (UThOJ)

286 I'm sure that since Eddie Munster has publicly crapped his pants over everything Trump has said and done so far, including "shitholegate" and "Putingratulationgate" he was practically comatose after Slurpin Stormy's pulsating interview.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (ROV4u)

287
With the exception of H.W.'s '88 campaign, which was of course a campaign for Reagan's third term. 4/

With a big assist by Lee Atwater. He gave HW's campaign an aggressiveness it otherwise wouldn't have had.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (EzdLW)

288 Koch brothers and a few others will fund a 3rd party spoiler ticket.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (ZghNV)

289 >>>220 Paul Ryan will run in 2020. The GOPe and Dims will do anything to get rid of Trump even if that means donors from both parties funding a 3rd party candidate.
Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (ZghNV)

did bitcoin tank?

Posted by: concrete girl at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (fbfaJ)

290
I'm looking at 60 acres in VT or NH, and Texas has a LOT more land!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2018 06:31 PM (wYseH)
---------
I'm going to need a good man to manage the hookers and midgets on staff at WeaselAcres.

Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (MVjcR)

291 Scalise is a Trump guy, right?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (4ErVI)

292 What about people that already had weapons? Fisher continued. Well, Im
gonna tell you now, dont buy into the scare tactics, dont believe the
scare tactics, because youve heard people say Youll have to pry my guns
from my cold, dead hands, he said, adding with a grin and a shrug, OK!
to the delight of the gungrabbing crowd.

What is your source for this quote?

Posted by: An Observation at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (UR3h8)

293 Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?

That's been rumored for a long time. Alas, like a festering herpes sore, it never really goes away.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 26, 2018 06:22 PM (ppaKI)

Yup.... the line of GOP House Speakers were a crook, a child molester, a drunkard and now a lady boy.

Does the GOPe have any real men or broads who can become speaker.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 26, 2018 06:32 PM (EoRCO)

IT'S FUNNY CUZ HERPES SORES LIKE GOPE HOUSE LEADERS DO GO AWAY BUT THEY ALWAYS COME BACK AND OOZE THEIR SLIME OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FIGHT TO GET RID OF THEM.

...wait, on second thought, that's not funny at all.

Posted by: Ben Rothlessburger at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (9chmE)

294 http://bit.ly/2pFugE2
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Packages With "Explosive Contents" Discovered At Washington Military Buildings | Zero Hedge

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (y3aQB)

295 The gope is a useless sack of dogshit.

Posted by: USNtakim Come and take them! Asshole. at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (0OmEj)

296 How do you fall asleep in two minutes? That's advice I could use,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2018 06:30 PM

The Paolo has his ways.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (LOgQ4)

297 With a big assist by Lee Atwater. He gave HW's campaign an aggressiveness it otherwise wouldn't have had.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (EzdLW)

It worked, too. Liberals still seethe about Willie Horton.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (4ErVI)

298 Saw this today, dnk if here or some where else, sorry if a repeat:

After the Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes interview, searches on PronHub have exploded using the term "Anderson Cooper".

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (UsCnO)

299 238 Loni Anderson has not aged well.Lips like bike inner tubes.
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:28 PM (LiyEm)

Hold my gear

Posted by: Mickey Rourke at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (VWsDy)

300 Marriages take work -- political marriages especially. You can't constantly cheat on your partner and treat outsiders as more important, and try to win every single dispute and make every single decision within the marriage, and expect that marriage to survive.

And cuckoldry doesn't strengthen marriages no matter what the pervs say.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (NWiLs)

301 CBD living on 60 acres and we will have the food and chainsaw thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (E/LYB)

302 What is your source for this quote?"

I saw it on a youtube link this morning. Sounds word for word.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:38 PM (k1TUh)

303 Anyone know Boss Hogg's address so I can send him NRA and GOA literature/membership applications and put him on their mailing list?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 26, 2018 06:38 PM (EoRCO)

304 Oh, give me land lots of land under starry skies above Don't fence me in.

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:38 PM (j8uQ3)

305 Paul Ryan for President. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2018 06:38 PM (UdKB7)

306 297 With a big assist by Lee Atwater. He gave HW's campaign an aggressiveness it otherwise wouldn't have had.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (EzdLW)

It worked, too. Liberals still seethe about Willie Horton.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2018 06:37 PM (4ErVI)

Replace "seethe" with "cry crocodile tears".

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:39 PM (ujg0T)

307 " Ryan has 'distanced' himself from the President"

Which means that he snuggled up to somebody else.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at March 26, 2018 06:39 PM (ROV4u)

308 With the exception of H.W.'s '88 campaign, which was of course a campaign for Reagan's third term. 4/

With a big assist by Lee Atwater. He gave HW's campaign an aggressiveness it otherwise wouldn't have had.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM (EzdLW)

Didn't hurt that Mike Dukakis was a limp-wristed cold dead fish of a candidate who wasn't really able to muster any emotion, even when considering the possibility of his wife being violently raped.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2018 06:39 PM (9chmE)

309 One of my greatest frustrations is knowing that despite my contempt and hatred for the Republican leadership I cannot and will not vote for a Democrat. Not for dogcatcher, not for anything. And I also know that if I stay at home and refuse to vote, that is just as bad as voting for the Democrat.

And I think they fucking know it. Which makes me hate them all the more.
======

This.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 26, 2018 06:39 PM (nILVB)

310
How do you fall asleep in two minutes? That's advice I could use,

Can I interest you in my new box set collection of campaign speeches

Posted by: Jeb at March 26, 2018 06:40 PM (lKyWE)

311
What is your source for this quote?
Posted by: An Observation at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (UR3h

https://pjmedia.com/video/candidate-sheriff-nc-jokes-taking-guns-cold-dead-hands/

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:41 PM (fqUgw)

312
I'm trying to do the falling asleep in 2 minutes thing, since I am a ridiculous insomniac, hasn't worked yet. But I'm gonna keep working on it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2018 06:41 PM (r+sAi)

313 How do you fall asleep in two minutes?

Ketamine.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 26, 2018 06:41 PM (NWiLs)

314 https://www.artofmanliness.com/2018/03/21/fall-asleep-fast/

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2018 06:42 PM (r+sAi)

315
What is your source for this quote?
Posted by: An Observation
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Fisher made the comments at a community meeting addressing 'gun concerns'. He's running for Sheriff.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycwamlh5

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:42 PM (5OO3x)

316 292

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/292286/

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2018 06:43 PM (LiyEm)

317
Not at Michelle's menopausal age.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:35 PM

Watched something interesting recently. Take mothers age at your birth, then add to you own age to determine the age of your DNA.

Her eggs at her birth plus your age determine the age of your DNA. (She's born with every egg she'll ever produce.)

A bunch of centurions around these parts.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 26, 2018 06:43 PM (LOgQ4)

318 315. And that's how ya get deffskwadz.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 26, 2018 06:43 PM (fA1SL)

319 ace

this video
https://youtu.be/IUOkBv6wMhc

4:30 mark
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (hMwEB)

Save the Video before it's gone.

This ass wasn't even there that day.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (dKiJG)

320 310
How do you fall asleep in two minutes? That's advice I could use,

Can I interest you in my new box set collection of campaign speeches
Posted by: Jeb
_____________________

This is obviously not the real Jeb!

Nobody could stay awake for a whole two minutes listening to him drone on.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (fqUgw)

321
How do you fall asleep in two minutes? That's advice I could use

There's things I can do in bed in two minutes. But falling asleep ain't one of them.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (EzdLW)

322 317 eh
my mom was 42 when I was born
I'm doomed

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (hMwEB)

323 Weasel, what are you paying? I'm good at cracking a whip and I have chaps in 3 different colors.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (E/LYB)

324 Fisher made the comments at a community meeting addressing 'gun concerns'. He's running for Sheriff.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycwamlh5

Posted by: Mike Hammer
**********************

He's a Soros probe paid to move the goal posts a little farther?

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (j8uQ3)

325 I'm as disgusted about the spending bill as anyone here. The problem is the Senate, not the House. The House has sent over plenty of conservative spending bills. And then they die in the Senate. Hate for Ryan is misdirected. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve some heat, because he does. But his job as Speaker is to move the agenda of his party forward. Trump was on board for this deal to fund the military. Period. McYertle should be the target of your slings and arrows.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (8PL+d)

326 289 >>>220 Paul Ryan will run in 2020. The GOPe and Dims will do anything to get rid of Trump even if that means donors from both parties funding a 3rd party candidate.
Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:23 PM (ZghNV)

did bitcoin tank?
Posted by: concrete girl at March 26, 2018 06:36 PM (fbfaJ)

Dovetailing here. But a rumor has surfaced that CP has been inserted into the Bitcoin codes so possessing Bitcoin can lead to possessing CP. Places like the UK and our country and a few others are talking about legislation on how to handle this issue.

It's on the chins.

Posted by: Monk at March 26, 2018 06:45 PM (ZghNV)

327 I'm as disgusted about the spending bill as anyone here. The problem is the Senate, not the House. The House has sent over plenty of conservative spending bills. And then they die in the Senate. Hate for Ryan is misdirected. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve some heat, because he does. But his job as Speaker is to move the agenda of his party forward. Trump was on board for this deal to fund the military. Period. McYertle should be the target of your slings and arrows.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (8PL+d)

Pretty much spot on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2018 06:45 PM (5y11N)

328 >There's things I can do in bed in two minutes. But falling asleep ain't one of them.

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:44 PM (EzdLW)

**snort**

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2018 06:45 PM (8PL+d)

329 Watched something interesting recently. Take mothers age at your birth, then add to you own age to determine the age of your DNA.

Her eggs at her birth plus your age determine the age of your DNA. (She's born with every egg she'll ever produce.)
___________________

Hey, I look pretty good for age 83.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:45 PM (fqUgw)

330 318 315. And that's how ya get deffskwadz.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 26, 2018 06:43 PM (fA1SL)

Pretty much. When a guy running for Sheriff basically announces he's cool with killing people to take their guns away...yeah.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 26, 2018 06:46 PM (NWiLs)

331 McYertle should be the target of your slings and arrows.

Embrace the power of "and".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2018 06:47 PM (r+sAi)

332 What people don't realize it by removing the GOPe from the GOP it will have a domino effect on the Democrat Party.

What do the Democrats do?

1. Will they become a big tent party and thus make their own base unhappy by taking lots of money from corporations and wealthy donors.

2. Will the Democrat base become so unhappy they leave their own party?

3. Will the Democrats instead go hard left to please their base, thus driving the big money donors and corporations back to the GOP now firmly in control of the hobbits?

Here is a good example, Keith Ellison is talking again about a maximum wage. It is a idiotic idea from a economic standpoint, however lets look at this politically. Lets say the Dem base starts to demand this, what will the big donors and corporations do? They will try to prevent it by donating to the Democrats who are against it, but that will inflame the Democrat base who want their max wage.

I get a feeling at some point the companies and wealthy donors would be forced to accept a $300 dollar an hour max salary, or give up their social justice desires and accept a hobbit run GOP.

It is important that the big tech firms, corporate America, and wealthy elites in general make up their mind: Money or SJW crusade. It was always going to be a strained relationship between corporate America and leftwing SJWs. Might as well make them face up to it sooner rather than later.

Important: We only accept them back in if they give up the SJW crap. Then we will ditch the salary max nonsense. If not, then stand back and let them live with a $300 dollar an hour salary. See how they like being sold out for something we want. At least they will now have less money to donate to Dems and other left wing causes. When you look at what Ellison wants, it is a win-win for us.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 26, 2018 06:47 PM (MuTTO)

333 As Prager was saying today, the Left wants to change America and everything the constitution stands for. Any vote for a Democrat goes to make that happen as extreme Leftism has taken over that party.

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:47 PM (aC6Sd)

334
Didn't hurt that Mike Dukakis was a limp-wristed cold dead fish of a candidate
Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2018 06:39 PM

I remember a girl at work got mad at me when I pointed out how much Dukakis looked like ALF (from the tv show ).

https://thefilmstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ALF. jpg

Posted by: Hands at March 26, 2018 06:47 PM (EzdLW)

335 ace

this video
https://youtu.be/IUOkBv6wMhc

4:30 mark
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 26, 2018 06:34 PM (hMwEB)

If you haven't watched it David Hogg was at home when the shooting occurred, he rode his bike to the school to interview his classmates.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2018 06:48 PM (dKiJG)

336 "
Birds of a feather. She wouldn't mind seeing people like me in the camps.

I wonder sometimes ... if y'all understand just how serious I am about that. Because I believe it 100%.
Posted by: ScoggDog"

You're not alone on that.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at March 26, 2018 06:48 PM (4Eza9)

337 He's a Soros probe paid to move the goal posts a little farther?
Posted by: gNewt
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He's playing the Buncombe/Asheville Progressive card. To assure a win, he needs only to declare himself a Marxist.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:48 PM (9tO1t)

338
18
What about people that already had weapons? Fisher continued. Well, Im
gonna tell you now, dont buy into the scare tactics, dont believe the
scare tactics, because youve heard people say Youll have to pry my guns
from my cold, dead hands, he said, adding with a grin and a shrug, OK!
to the delight of the gungrabbing crowd.

Progressives speaking truth to power.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2018 05:42 PM (BtQd4)

I know it is wrong, and illegal, but I really wanted someone to fire a dozen rounds in the air while those brain-dead lemmings were marching, just to see them trample each other.

Not unlike Michael Bennett crashing a 66 year old black woman wearing a security jacket at the Super Bowl.
Except the 66 year old woman didn't deserve it. The lemmings did.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2018 06:48 PM (UsCnO)

339 Hogg has dove into that after massacre like people jump into a SEPTA crash after it happened

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:49 PM (aC6Sd)

340 >>I'm as disgusted about the spending bill as anyone here. The problem is the Senate, not the House. The House has sent over plenty of conservative spending bills. And then they die in the Senate. Hate for Ryan is misdirected. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve some heat, because he does. But his job as Speaker is to move the agenda of his party forward. Trump was on board for this deal to fund the military. Period. McYertle should be the target of your slings and arrows.

I think the House has passed something like more legislation than the last 3 first term House's have combined. And then it goes to the Senate where it dies.

I really don't get the Ryan hate and don't think whomever takes over if this rumor is true is going to be able to do more.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2018 06:49 PM (/tuJf)

341
If you haven't watched it David Hogg was at home when the shooting occurred, he rode his bike to the school to interview his classmates.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
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Hogg is a poster child for 'white privilege'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:49 PM (y3sT9)

342 Ryan has opposed my President and the leader of his party at practically every turn.

He bought a ticket on the Romneyfail Express and never got on the Trump Train.

Unrepentant Nevertrumper.

Fcuk him.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at March 26, 2018 06:50 PM (ROV4u)

343 Hogg is a poster child for 'white privilege'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

A nascent Sandra Fluke.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2018 06:50 PM (y3sT9)

344 William Eaton at #332 has it. We need to make it clear to the corporate class that they can't have their Conservative Cakes and eat the leftist poisoned ones too.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 26, 2018 06:50 PM (ujg0T)

345 If you haven't watched it David Hogg was at home
when the shooting occurred, he rode his bike to the school to interview
his classmates.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2018 06:48 PM (dKiJG)

Was not aware of that.

So, a true piece of tyrannical shit.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2018 06:50 PM (UsCnO)

346 http://bit.ly/2pHnNsa
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Meghan McCain Slams Kurt Eichenwald: 'Mr. Weirdo Tentacle Porn"

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 26, 2018 06:52 PM (y3aQB)

347 @159 The Democrats rammed through Dodd Frank and Obamacare. Those bills are just now getting reversed. Once a right is taken away, it's gone. THAT's the difference between the two parties. The Republicans just don't like us. The Democrats want us dead and silenced and a dictatorship. Don't fault just the Republicans, fault the public that doesn't want to get involved and rationalizes that finding people to run for office, etc. is someone else's job.

Posted by: camretsep at March 26, 2018 06:52 PM (TYOIW)

348
If you haven't watched it David Hogg was at home when the shooting occurred, he rode his bike to the school to interview his classmates.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2018 06:48 PM (dKiJG)
____________________

His home was 3 miles away.

He's no more a "victim" of the school shooting than I was a victim of the Tucson/Gabby Giffords shootings, which happened less than 2 miles from my house.

But hey, I did hear all the sirens, so I was involved enough to qualify as an expert on all things involving mass shootings, at least by CNN standards.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2018 06:52 PM (fqUgw)

349 "162 "This is obvious. But the #SmartSet is so damned smart and clever they fail to understand the simplest, most obvious things."

About the most profound thing I've read on this blog.

What many folks don't seem to understand, is that most things ARE simple.

Those who try to make them complex, are trying to deny reality... or trying to use sophistry to convince you that you have no idea what is going on.

Lets look at... oh.. Global Warming... it ain't happening... not for years.... and CO2 has been shown to not be a driver of warming anyway...

But since its a simple concept that CO2 is not and cannot be driving warming (ie, that all the energy it can absorb, is already being absorbed).. they create a much more complicated thesis... that is unproven.. and is so complicate (ducting) that no one can understand it...

Now.. why can't we understand it? maybe because it makes no sense? Because they are trying to make things so complex, that the argument becomes 'it's complicated'....

Same with a lot of politics.... same with a lot of economics...
Posted by: Don Q. at March 26, 2018 06:11 PM (NgKpN)"

This !

In my experience, another reason is that they don't understand it themselves. This was a big revelation to me somewhere in my college years.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at March 26, 2018 06:53 PM (4Eza9)

350 NOOD - TIDE POD ARMY

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 26, 2018 06:53 PM (fA1SL)

351 In my experience, another reason is that they don't understand it themselves. This was a big revelation to me somewhere in my college years."

And related to an old saying, I think attributed to Mark Twain - "It's just about impossible to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on him not understanding it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2018 06:54 PM (k1TUh)

352
3. Will the Democrats instead go hard left to please their base,
thus driving the big money donors and corporations back to the GOP now
firmly in control of the hobbits?

Here is a good example, Keith Ellison is talking again about a
maximum wage. It is a idiotic idea from a economic standpoint, however
lets look at this politically. Lets say the Dem base starts to demand
this, what will the big donors and corporations do? They will try to
prevent it by donating to the Democrats who are against it, but that
will inflame the Democrat base who want their max wage.

=====

This is actually a great idea. Me, my wealth was from stock, not wages.

Wages are for the little people. My pal Warren agrees.

Posted by: Bill Gates at March 26, 2018 06:54 PM (UsCnO)

353 I really don't get the Ryan hate and don't think whomever takes over if this rumor is true is going to be able to do more.

Posted by: JackStraw
*******************

Ryan knows it will die. It's predetermined. If McTurdle were not there those bills would not have been passed in the house. He's a rollover and a sneak.

Isn't he responsible for ObamaCare passing the house?

Posted by: gNewt at March 26, 2018 06:55 PM (j8uQ3)

354 reagan appealed to reagan democrats through cold, hard analysis of trade data and in depth discussions of relative merit of progressive taxes. It's sad that strong, conservative growth based policies like H1Bs for the entire third world and outsourcing every other job wouldn't even get nominated in today's GOP. Huntsman and Flake wept. sad.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 26, 2018 06:55 PM (DQC26)

355 Hogg has dove into that after massacre like people jump into a SEPTA crash after it happened

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2018 06:49 PM

Only white nationalists believe that 90 people can't be hurt inside of a SEPTA bus crash in a bus that only holds 50 people.

Posted by: Social Justice Warrier at March 26, 2018 06:56 PM (LOgQ4)

356 ewww....the w.w.w..ww.whites? yuck.

Don't you know that they are not who were are and besides, thanks to 3 million new better americans a year,we won't have to deal with the quellsome plurality.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 26, 2018 06:57 PM (DQC26)

357 I think Rush's point was that the Obamas could influence many people that would think like them to not have abortions should they become prolife politically.

a million liberal babies have been aborted, at least.

Posted by: booknlass at March 26, 2018 06:58 PM (xGMkv)

358 Only white nationalists believe that 90 people can't be hurt inside of a SEPTA bus crash in a bus that only holds 50 people.

---

it's a shame white nationalism is on the rise when we all know that both whites and nationalism is evil. Why? because, duh, the only lesson we learned from WWII was that nationalism is evil and whites invented war, poverty, slavery, and disease.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 26, 2018 06:59 PM (DQC26)

359 Keith Ellison is talking again about a
maximum wage.
____________________

Hey, at some point, you've made enough money!

Unless you're me, that is. My $60 million book deal, and my multi-million-dollar paydays for recycled speeches haven't yet got me anywhere near the point where I have made enough money.

But I'm happy to get on board with my buddy Keith and tell the rest of you when you've made enough, from my position as Unquestioned Moral Authority on all that is good and right and sufficient for you mere mortals.

Posted by: Barky Obama at March 26, 2018 06:59 PM (fqUgw)

360 "195 Anyone else looking at Drudge? Ryan to resign as Speaker?"

Peak Payola? No such thing!

Posted by: Cockroaches, possums and obnoxious old celebrities at March 26, 2018 07:02 PM (S26Uu)

361 it's weird that evil nationalism has popped up around the caucasian world simply because of unprecedented, unvetted, massive, demographic changing immigration of rapefugees. so weird. Why would such an evil evolve in the presence of such a good thing?

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 26, 2018 07:09 PM (DQC26)

362 I've long felt that the Tea Party/Republican populists/"Don't tread on Me" crowd ought to consciously organize as a distinct entity within the Republican party. For working purposes here, call it the Liberty Wing of the GOP.

Establish a charter of some sort as a rallying point based on Constitutional basics and federalism. Work to get some Congresscritters on board. Who knows, if we got enough on board, they might become a strong voting bloc. And if that bloc becomes big enough, some possibilities present themselves:

- Get enough in the House, and you might be able to replace Ryan. Get enough, and you could threaten to go independent, resulting in Speaker Pelosi. That would be some leverage.

- Get enough in the Senate, and you could similarly threaten to make McConnell the minority leader.

- Finally, if the Liberty Wing becomes big enough and confident enough, and if the GOPe remains intransigent and DC in general continues to circle the drain, it might provide the springboard to a third party. And if the Liberty Wing charter is rational and sensible, you might pull in some moderate Dems who aren't happy with their party's increasingly leftward drift.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 26, 2018 10:29 PM (v5uOx)

363 You keep making this about class and wanting to belong when it's clearly about money! Why run around chasing after campaign dollars from small businesses when you can go straight to Soros and Steyer? They'll give a thousand or ten thousand or whatever in a moment. And all they ask is that the vote goes their way when it counts.

Posted by: KK at March 27, 2018 01:57 PM (EaKIY)

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