Jeff Flake: I Will Tank Conservative Judicial Nominations Until an Unconstitutional Bill Purporting to Limit the President's Power to Fire Executive Personnel Is Voted On

Flake: "I have informed the Majority Leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting a confirmation vote on the floor, until S. 2644 is brought to the full Senate for a vote."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) November 14, 2018

Bonus/Update to Last Story: First, it looks like Julie Kelly did elicit comment from NeverTrumper Jon Podhoretz. You know, the guy who pays himself almost $400,000 a year to "run" the amateur Republican Cosplay webzine Commentary.*

He's accusing anyone of reporting on Bill's new donors of "drooling McCarthyism."

My my -- sounds... defensive!

I didn't know American Greatness involved drooling and McCarthyism! https://t.co/KeRR4yifAp The nice thing is all you need to do is see Julie Kelly's byline to know this is a work that is both deranged and idiotic
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 14, 2018

And... I say, why, what's this? Look who was spreading Pierre Omidyar's twitter propaganda back in January 2017!!!

They're not so great at keeping their lies straight. https://t.co/7i1QRZTgwH
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 5, 2017

Huh -- the marginally employable Rick Wilson suddenly became un intime cher of Pierre Omidyar's after the election.

Quelle surprise! Quel choc!

I bet you if we begin searching certain accounts for defenses or retweets of big-money leftist donor Pierre Omidyar, we'll find lots and lots of interesting connections!!!

BTW, Omidyar also funds Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept, which pretty much justifies every Hamas attack on Israel. Sometimes they even kinda-sorta say the Jews are bombing themselves (in as much as "they created Hamas").

So this is NeverTrump's sugar-daddy.

#MuhPrinciples.

* By the way: Look at his Twitter timeline. It's constant yammering on Twitter.

It's sometimes every two or three minutes! And that's just his posting! Obviously he's doing some reading of twitter in between making terrible jokes on Twitter.

I don't know if his charity is really getting full value for its money from his declared 40 hours per week for Commentary.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:40 PM

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1 BOOM!

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:41 PM (cfSRQ)

2 HAH!

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:41 PM (cfSRQ)

3 Podhoretz is an older, fatter, and somehow even unfunnier version of Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: El Kabong at November 14, 2018 05:41 PM (datdl)

4 Determined to go down like McStain in history

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (T4oHT)

5 Did McConnell tell Flake to fuck off?

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (a0IVu)

6 I used to care. But now I'm of the Let it All Burn camp.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (lD3vL)

7 Yank Flake from his committee seat.

He wants to play? Game on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (bcbK8)

8 What part of "executive branch" doesn't Flake understand?!

Posted by: pookysgirl at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (lDmXs)

9 >>>3 Podhoretz is an older, fatter, and somehow even unfunnier version of Jonah Goldberg.

Older, yes. I'm not sure about the rest.

It's like asking, between Superman and the Hulk, who is the least funny.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (PbpT7)

10 He's accusing anyone of reporting on Bill's new donors of "drooling McCarthyism."

It was drooling AND McCarthyism. A two-fer.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 14, 2018 05:43 PM (KEr/t)

11 So this just got willowed, but someone should ask Kristol and the rest of the RUSSIA conspiracy theorists if they have a deep, principled objection to taking RUSSIAN money.

If a "public spirited" Putin crony offered them a chunk of change, would they take it?

And if not, on what basis? Obviously they're willing to take Soros dollars for the "greater good," so why not Putin's cash as well?

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:43 PM (cfSRQ)

12 I am so pissed off. This is why we needed McSally to fight. We have to increase the margin in the senate for judicial confirmation.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2018 05:43 PM (a0IVu)

13 Cocaine Mitch should bring back dueling as a legitimate method of resolving grievances on the Senate floor.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at November 14, 2018 05:43 PM (9HAgC)

14 Soooo, they ALL look like potatoes, more or less.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (xPJvm)

15 Just an observation, but Brian Stetler isn't getting even drive-by attention around here lately.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (ctuyM)

16 Drooling Mortimer Snerd

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (aKsyK)

17 Couldn't that pathetic cuckold just be thrown off the committee?

Posted by: Apostate at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (z2FAZ)

18 I really fucking hate these cocksuckers.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (NWiLs)

19 Who does he think he is? Somebody important

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (bQtop)

20 Flake aint too bright. He does know there is MORE GOP sens coming in about a month and a half right? Vote every single one that you know you can pass with Pence breaking ties, maybe try and set Donnely and Heitkamp up with good lobbying gigs etc. But other than that, just wait.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (fYi9j)

21 What part of ~~"executive branch"~~ Constitutional Republic doesn't Flake understand?!

Posted by: pookysgirl at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (lDmXs)

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (n9EOP)

22 >>It's like asking, between Superman and the Hulk, who is the least funny.

The Hulk. Definitely.

"Puny god" after he beats Loki half to death always makes me laugh.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (/tuJf)

23 >>>So this just got willowed, but someone should ask Kristol and the rest of the RUSSIA conspiracy theorists if they have a deep, principled objection to taking RUSSIAN money.

If a "public spirited" Putin crony offered them a chunk of change, would they take it?

And if not, on what basis? Obviously they're willing to take Soros dollars for the "greater good," so why not Putin's cash as well?

...

can i put that in the post, but change "Soros" to "Omidyar"? We know about Omidyar. Soros is just speculation based on a Strange New Respect for him.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (PbpT7)

24 Where does the "drooling" part come from? Is that what happens when he sees a full-frame picture of Kurt Schlichter?

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (cfSRQ)

25 Who does he think he is?

The Quitter.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (eaFqE)

26 Jeff Flake.

*sigh*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (ptqGC)

27 Someone tell Podhoretz to wipe the cum out of his beard before he uploads a Twitter profile picture.

Unless, you know, that's the look you're going for.

But that's none of my business.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (bcbK8)

28 well this will give McConnell some practice time for when Sinema is in Flake's seat and will vote no on every judicial nominee.

The bill he wants passed is unconstitutional.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 05:41 PM (jCCZJ)

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (jCCZJ)

29 I hope they all die of ass cancer and burn in hell.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (NWiLs)

30 >>>>>It's like asking, between Superman and the Hulk, who is the least funny.

The Hulk. Definitely.

"Puny god" after he beats Loki half to death always makes me laugh.

...

superman gave Otis a funny look when Otis tried to take his cape.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (PbpT7)

31 Obviously he's doing some reading of twitter in between making terrible jokes on Twitter.

i was under the impression that twitter was a write-only medium.

(there was a frank&ernest cartoon that featured a vending machin labelled "dispose-a-dime" that had only one opening, a slot into which a dime would fit. twitter is the dispose-a-dime of thought.)

Posted by: Anachronda at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (NmR1a)

32 As if it even needs repeating ...

McCarthy was proven correct, in the end.

And we've seen what happened once the commies in Hollywood were allowed to run free. The world was better off with reds blacklisted. Big time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (KEr/t)

33 can i put that in the post, but change "Soros" to
"Omidyar"? We know about Omidyar. Soros is just speculation based on a
Strange New Respect for him.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:44 PM (PbpT7)

---By all means!

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (cfSRQ)

34 Translation from Podewhoreits. (shit, they're on to us) It's the same as when people cry raayycisst! When they can't hack the truth. They just had their souls exposed and they've been sold to the highest bidder. Now they want to claim some kind of McCarthyism because they are getting money from the deep left? Fuck all of them. These fucks can claim how o.k, this is all they want. They know it's not and they are going to do anything and everything to keep their sugar checks coming in. It's one thing to have an opinion out of principles. It's quite another to have them shaped by whom is paying you.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 05:46 PM (Sz3zs)

35 If Flake doesn't vote, dont the nominations go to the floor anyway?

Posted by: Revenant at November 14, 2018 05:46 PM (NUNXH)

36 This is why we needed McSally to fight. We have to increase the margin in the senate for judicial confirmation.

Seriously? You honestly think that the GOP wants to have a clear majority?

The Game is this: Keep it real close so that they can continue to send out emails every day claiming that the other side is doing X and "will get away with it" unless you send in every bit of your disposable income to "stop them".

If it wasn't close, then you wouldn't bother to surrender your savings.

McSally tanked so that the majority numbers would stay slim.

Some things are more important than running a functional government.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:46 PM (lD3vL)

37
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& you tell who PDT is Not happy with ??? I'll Wait
====
Clue: Pre election. Shouting match between John Bolton and Chief of staff Kelly over head of Dept of Homeland Security being incompetent and should be fired stat. News assumed it was over caravan.

Hint: What did Bolton do during Bush Gore?

The shit hit the fan and is now all over the "Plan".

I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count. Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where local election workers were recounting ballots cast in Florida's disputed presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

Bolton was INCENSED because he knew they had failed to secure the vote.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (C6xeQ)

38 i'm trying to think of superman being funny but he's really not that funny is he?

I guess the funniest thing I remember was the post-credit scene at the end of Justice League where he points in the opposite direction when Flash points to what he thinks is "the Pacific."

but that's really a joke about this horrible, horrible version of the Flash being stupid and horrible and needing to be replaced.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (PbpT7)

39 32
As if it even needs repeating ...

McCarthy was proven correct, in the end.

And we've seen what happened once the commies in Hollywood were
allowed to run free. The world was better off with reds blacklisted.
Big time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (KEr/t)

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Anyone want to bet on how long it takes The Weekly Standard to run a deep piece on how the Rosenbergs were innocent?

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (cfSRQ)

40 Podhoretz is an older, fatter, and somehow even unfunnier version of Jonah Goldberg.
Posted by: El Kabong at November 14, 2018 05:41 PM (datdl)

I couldn't pick a single one of these schmucks out of a lineup to save my life. Except the one in the twitter pic up there with the mic looks like a corpulent Jimmy Carter. Is that one Kristol? His only distinguishing characteristic is using that dumb finger to support his eight hundred pound megabrain like in the twitter av.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (t+qrx)

41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

42 Lesser funny?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (aKsyK)

43 Someone needs to remind Flake he only has about 45 days until no one at all cares about what he thinks.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (ffYR/)

44 I AM FAGGOT, HEAR ME ROAR

cuck

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (d7Ww2)

45 Anyone want to bet on how long it takes The Weekly Standard to run a deep piece on how the Rosenbergs were innocent?

That might be ... expensive.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (eaFqE)

46 I mean the arrest part, not the beating his wife thing.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (4e+hS)

47 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 14, 2018 05:45 PM (KEr/t)

Actually, wasn't THE McCarthy's only error that he vastly underestimated the number of communists and their sympathizers in the higher levels of government?

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (n9EOP)

48 41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

Schadenboneriffic!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (NWiLs)

49 well, with the election of Sinema, I guess Flake DOES represent Arizona. What a bunch of assholes.

I have an idea...fire mueller AND rosenstein and just deal with it. Have someone dig through whatever the fuck it is they've been doing and release an interim report already.

cause I got news for you, the next House is going to be cray cray anyway.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (7J5t2)

50 >>>41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.

...

Dear God,

I don't know why you love me so much. I'm not a very good person. I really enjoy slapping cucks around, who are the meekest of the meek.

But thank you for spoiling me with such wonders.

Praise be to You and Your Divine Sense of Humor,

Ace

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (PbpT7)

51 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

Smack his husband?

Posted by: BignJames at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (cxHbL)

52 I guess Flake is hoping that Mueller will make it easier for him (F) to take Trump down in the primaries.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (L01V2)

53 Fucker Jeff Flake's gonna get me banned. That's exactly what's going to happen.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (hjaPQ)

54 that feeling when you can't even keep the cucks and commies straight anymore.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (7J5t2)

55 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
=========
Hmm. Figured he was a poof.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (C6xeQ)

56 This is the kind of in-depth commentary that five-year-old girl puts into her fisher price plastic phone.

Posted by: Fritz at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (Z9C5C)

57 48 41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

Schadenboneriffic!
Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (NWiLs)

"I did not hit her. This is all bullshit. I did not hit her. I did naaaaat."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (bcbK8)

58 "She hit me first!" - Porn lawyer Michael Avenatti

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (4e+hS)

59 I thought McCarthy had nothing to do with the Hollywood business?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (aKsyK)

60 Trying to think why Rick Wilson(??) is important... not coming up with anything... c'est dommage.

Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (ffWPP)

61 Some things* are more important than running a functional government.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:46 PM (lD3vL)

*Like graft!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (n9EOP)

62 41!

CPL in jail for domestic violence?

oh, how I hope his roomie is bubba

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (d7Ww2)

63 HE'S RUNNING.... FROM THE LAW.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (4e+hS)

64 Avenatti claimed she hit him first. LOL. Sure thing sparky. Fucking asshole is done now. I am sure that Khristol Nacht and Powderhwhoritz will tell us why it's cool.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (Sz3zs)

65 seriously dancing now!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (d7Ww2)

66 >>>41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.

Inject this directly into my eyeballs, please.

Posted by: El Kabong at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (datdl)

67 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

Security told TMZ he yelled, "she hit me first".

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (jCCZJ)

68 Friend of the Blog Rick Wilson

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (eaFqE)

69 McSally tanked so that the majority numbers would stay slim.

Some things are more important than running a functional government.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:46 PM (lD3vL)

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Sorry, don't buy it. She would have made serious bank as a senator and gotten tons of worship. She was just incompetent.

Most politicians and wannabe politicians are.

I know some folks here like to think there's a cunningly-plotted deep 3-d chess game afoot among Uniparty, but in fact most of them are as sharp as a bag of hammers. Trust me, I used to work professionally in politics.

Most of these clowns get memos telling them who wants them to vote which way. They never read the bills, which are drafted by lobbyists and pushed to them by their staff.

They literally have almost no idea what they are doing.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (cfSRQ)

70 Hmm, I thought we settled this with Andrew Johnson and the Tenure in Office Act.

Posted by: Captain Ned at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (XIfux)

71 hey guys are you sitting down?

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (7J5t2)

72 He didn't do it just once, it'll be a pattern for him. Maybe others will come out, bankrupt his ass. Go to jail, let the other inmates have their way with him

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (bQtop)

73
What are the chances that bill would pass?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (13CQC)

74 Apologies to Arizona morons.... but your state is pretty screwed up..

Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (ffWPP)

75 Cherry on top of the sundae . . . he's still in custody.

Can't make bail? Hoooboy.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (C6xeQ)

76 Soon it's going to go beyond a war of words with these cucks. They keep poking the bear.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (kk1fo)

77 >>>>I am so pissed off. This is why we needed McSally to fight. We have to increase the margin in the senate for judicial confirmation.

You know who this benefits?

Posted by: Hugh Hewwwit at November 14, 2018 05:52 PM (q177U)

78 Dear God,

I don't know why you love me so much. I'm not a very good person. I really enjoy slapping cucks around, who are the meekest of the meek.

But thank you for spoiling me with such wonders.

Praise be to You and Your Divine Sense of Humor,

Ace
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:49 PM (PbpT7)

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Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (ffYR/)

79 Then vote on it right after voting a censure motion to make Flake wear the cone of shame until January if it fails. I think even ChiSpy DiFi could get on that platform.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (1g7ch)

80

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
So don't you be around

Posted by: Creepy porn lawyer at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (aKsyK)

81 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (fYi9j)

82 Avenatti claimed she hit him first. LOL. Sure thing sparky. Fucking asshole is done now. I am sure that Khristol Nacht and Powderhwhoritz will tell us why it's cool.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (Sz3zs)

Not necessarily. I'm sure Keith Ellison can post his bail and recommend a great atty.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (jCCZJ)

83 Creepy porn lawyer arrested. Oh, what wonderful news. And to think he has 2020 presidential aspirations. Well, maybe this shores up his street cred.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (a0IVu)

84 62 41!

CPL in jail for domestic violence?

oh, how I hope his roomie is bubba
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 05:51 PM (d7Ww2)

Good bye gun permits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (bcbK8)

85 #BelieveAllWomen

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (4e+hS)

86 Heard Notorious RBG swam the Potomac river today, no assistance, it was part of her therapy.

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (T4oHT)

87

It's like asking, between Superman and the Hulk, who is the least funny.
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (PbpT7)
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I'm going to say Hulk is the least funny.

Posted by: Weasel at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (MVjcR)

88 McSally tanked so that the majority numbers would stay slim.

======
You see, when there's scarcity the prices RISE.

Posted by: GOPe at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (C6xeQ)

89 Hugh Hewitt.... he sells reverse mortgages, right???

Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (ffWPP)

90 I didn't see Justice League on principle.

Posted by: Max Power at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (q177U)

91 Sinema will be an improvement.

Posted by: Mike at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (SFreT)

92 The Hulk's humor is dry.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (eaFqE)

93 Ace, thanks for spreading word on Kristol and Co's. sugar daddies. Would it surprise anyone if more on the SS Nevertrump aren't also on the payroll?

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (Sz3zs)

94 81 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (fYi9j)

Because of all the 'new' ballots being exclusively for Sinema. Thousands and thousands of them.

Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, several thousand is enemy action.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (bcbK8)

95 Someone must of hit the Support Jeff Flake donation button.

The same people that hit the donation button for Bill Kristol.

Posted by: William Eaton at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (MuTTO)

96 >>>>Security told TMZ he yelled, "she hit me first".

Like a little bitch, ha ha! Like some dude in a movie who's a total shitweasel.

Posted by: Max Power at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (q177U)

97 I thought McCarthy had nothing to do with the Hollywood business?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (aKsyK)

Didn't you know that Senator McCarthy headed up the House Committee on Un-American Activities? /s

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (kk1fo)

98 Hugh Hewitt.... he sells reverse mortgages, right???
Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM

And used Mormons.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (Sz3zs)

99 >>Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

Please tell me this is real.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (/tuJf)

100 I didn't see Justice League on principle.

I do not avoid Hollywood, Mandrake. But I do deny them my affluence.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (eaFqE)

101 90 I didn't see Justice League on principle.

I saw Justice Leage on Principle open for Hamun Righ at BlimpieCon '09.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (xGZ+b)

102 99 >>Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

Please tell me this is real.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (/tuJf)

Appears real, Jack

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (bcbK8)

103 Please tell me this is real.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (/tuJf)

Yes! As usual TMZ got the scoop.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (a0IVu)

104 94. Oh, I agree there were instances of fraud, no doubt. But people saying she tanked to keep the margin small, or that she lost ONLY due to fraud. I mean, come on, she was a lukewarm candidate.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (fYi9j)

105 Getting that much flak from the cucks you know you are over the target.

Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (BXMxN)

106 Like some dude in a movie who's a total shitweasel.
Posted by: Max Power at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (q177U)
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*ahem*

Posted by: Weasel at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (MVjcR)

107 McSally rolled over pretty easy on the fraud, it seems..... Gop-e style.... ( see--- Romney)..

Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (ffWPP)

108 Can you imagine the WH press aide who won the rock paper scissors to get to go tell the boss that the creepy porn lawyer is in jail for domestic assault on his ex wife?

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (jCCZJ)

109 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

Please tell me this is real.
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real deal.

He's still in lock up apparently.

Posted by: GOPe at November 14, 2018 05:56 PM (C6xeQ)

110 I'm going to say Hulk is the least funny.
Posted by: Weasel at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM (MVjcR)

No Way.

Hulk Smash is hilarious.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 05:57 PM (kk1fo)

111 Hulk had some good lines in Thor 3.

Supes has always been pretty boring, socially.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:57 PM (bcbK8)

112 Every article on Sinema winning said she ran like Bob Casey did, all kum ba yah, let's all work together and solve problems together kind of crap.

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2018 05:57 PM (T4oHT)

113 off sock

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:57 PM (C6xeQ)

114 81
Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (fYi9j)

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I know, right?

Sienema is a charismatic sociopath. Such people are naturals at politics. See also: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, all the Kennedys.

McSally may well have been an honest and honorable warrior, but unless you're Ike or some world-famous general, you're going to have to do the rubber-chicken dinner circuit and fake enjoying it.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:57 PM (cfSRQ)

115 98 Hugh Hewitt.... he sells reverse mortgages, right???
Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 05:54 PM

And used Mormons.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (Sz3zs)

It's not the years, it's the mileage.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:57 PM (NWiLs)

116 I feel like Hulk relied too much on prop comedy.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (4e+hS)

117 One question off thread. Why would Mueller obey anything Whitaker tells him?

Ppl on both sides are making it seem that Whitaker can do whatever he wants and shut down or limit Mueller's investigation somehow.

Why would Mueller obey him? We know they won't fire him. They don't dare for a number of reasons.

So why would Mueller listen at all with all the leftist support?

Posted by: jakee308 at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (ukGwT)

118 Avenatti claimed she hit him first. LOL. Sure thing sparky[

It is possible. He filed for divorce in 2017, she may have gone to the apartment and provoked him into beating her for the payday and a chance to watch him do a perp walk.

Some people are just that crazy and vindictive.

I somehow believe they deserve each other.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (lD3vL)

119 Put language in it requiring presidential office approval for any congressional offices' routine hiring and firings and have the vote.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers, RBG at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (iPqiQ)

120 Sinema will be an improvement over Flake, she won't give dishonest excuses about voting against Judicial Nominees.

Posted by: Smoked Surfperch at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (UCeCl)

121 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (fYi9j)

Because of all the 'new' ballots being exclusively for Sinema. Thousands and thousands of them.

Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, several thousand is enemy action.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:55 PM (bcbK

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I think the point is that McSally was a terrible candidate, and that this election should never have been within the margin of theft.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (ffYR/)

122 McSally may well have been an honest and honorable warrior, but unless you're Ike or some world-famous general, you're going to have to do the rubber-chicken dinner circuit and fake enjoying it.
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Even though people have trouble believing morons would vote for a bisexual Sinema. If you are looking for an equalizer, google McSally and sham marriage. Nuff said.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (C6xeQ)

123
Yes! As usual TMZ got the scoop.
Posted by: IC

The Morning Zoo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (aKsyK)

124 Ace, hope you don't mind if I share this here, but here's something kinda fun I found:

There's some words in the Oxford English Dictionary that are so old and outdated, no one today even knows what they MEAN anymore.

I suggest we, the Horde, take, rehabilitate and update some of these words for our OWN usage:

- cremitoried
- gestyll
- slidder
- slampamb
- smazky
- spanner
- spencer
- sperring
- sprash
- squaleote
- squalm
- strene
- traythly
- unbrede
- uncape
- uniable
- unthwyuond
- untwitten
- ver
- verling-line
- viridary
- vounde
- werder
- wesel
- wranchevel
- wrast

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (miE9U)

125 Maybe CPL has a couple of non compliant in California firearms to jack up the charges. On a domestic violence rap, they'll be looking for guns.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (xzqr4)

126 Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war, and that... that lying son-of-a-bitch Trump.

Posted by: Creepy Porn Lawyer, Esq. at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (t+qrx)

127 Morons should be Mormons. Autocorrect or freud?

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (C6xeQ)

128 57 48 41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

Schadenboneriffic!
Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (NWiLs)

"I did not hit her. This is all bullshit. I did not hit her. I did naaaaat."
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (bcbK

You're tearing me apaaart, Lisa!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (NWiLs)

129 And somthing like 1/10 of the voters are all Leftist seminary students

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (T4oHT)

130
question off thread. Why would Mueller obey anything Whitaker tells him?

Because Whitaker is his boss.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (TAmPV)

131 120
Sinema will be an improvement over Flake, she won't give dishonest excuses about voting against Judicial Nominees.

Posted by: Smoked Surfperch at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (UCeCl)

---
Yep. The worse the better. Make Arizona own her.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (cfSRQ)

132 128 57 48 41 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
https://is.gd/bgE7sb
So sweet.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (4e+hS)

Schadenboneriffic!
Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:48 PM (NWiLs)

"I did not hit her. This is all bullshit. I did not hit her. I did naaaaat."
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (bcbK

You're tearing me apaaart, Lisa!
Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (NWiLs)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 06:00 PM (bcbK8)

133 Or a presidential office representative required in every congressmans office in order to ensure fairness and appropriate working environments.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers, RBG at November 14, 2018 06:00 PM (iPqiQ)

134 George and Jerry talked about Superman being funny or not.

https://youtu.be/QVlf75F5pFI

Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2018 06:00 PM (BXMxN)

135 There will always be Sonderkommando.
There will always be Judenrat.

It's human nature.

Fortunately, they're easy to spot. They didn't miss too many meals before they got on the Nazi payroll, and even fewer after.

Posted by: The Holocaust at November 14, 2018 06:00 PM (+r5aJ)

136 was it stormy he smacked around?

Posted by: willow at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (aSpXp)

137 Why would Mueller obey anything Whitaker tells him?

Because Whitaker is his boss.
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which is why the deep state was freaking out over whitaker. If he was harmless they wouldn't have used the energy. The amount of energy used is directly proportional to the threat posed.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (C6xeQ)

138 superman is like captain america without the leadership skills and charm. Hulk is definitely funny, like a dog chasing its tail.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (7J5t2)

139 136 was it stormy he smacked around?

Posted by: willow at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (aSpXp)

No, his estranged wife.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (a0IVu)

140 HULK SMASH!

NOW LAUGH!!!!

HA! HA! HA!

Posted by: The Hulk! at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (vcOmj)

141 124 There's some words in the Oxford English Dictionary that are so old and outdated, no one today even knows what they MEAN anymore.

- wesel

no wonder everyone looked at me funny in the save-the-whales movie.

Posted by: Ensign Chekov at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (NmR1a)

142

#believeallwomen

Posted by: willow at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (aSpXp)

143 Avenatti claimed she hit him first. LOL. Sure thing sparky[

It is possible. He filed for divorce in 2017, she may have gone to the apartment and provoked him into beating her for the payday and a chance to watch him do a perp walk.

Some people are just that crazy and vindictive.

I somehow believe they deserve each other.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM

It makes it even more poetic if that's the case. Apparently her face was pretty smashed up. Even if a woman hit me I would not strike her back, that's how I was raised. I would GTFO right now. Unless she was about to harm a child etc. You never hit a woman. Maybe she goaded him into it I don't care. He's a fucking slime bag and deserves to get thrown under the bus.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (Sz3zs)

144
I feel like Hulk relied too much on prop comedy.
Posted by: Dr Spank

He could do the Gallagher shtick without a mallet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (aKsyK)

145 HEY PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHY WAS AVENATTI ARRESTED SOONER?
#failure

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (4e+hS)

146 Even though people have trouble believing morons would vote for a bisexual Sinema. If you are looking for an equalizer, google McSally and sham marriage. Nuff said.
Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (C6xeQ)

Hence my suggestion they hug it out.
And slip some tongue. Maybe a little over the clothes action.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (bcbK8)

147 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (miE9U)
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"Untwitten" should be useful.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (13CQC)

148 IC, shame on him, I hope she takes what he has left.

Posted by: willow at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (aSpXp)

149 I'm thinking CPL's arrest is another example of the amazing ability of PT to somehow always win.

Posted by: Ever at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (QPeHQ)

150 81 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (fYi9j)

--------

For one thing, McSally won the election on Election Day. Out of the 3007 counties in the United States only four had problems "counting" votes that extended so far into the next few days as to be very suspicious. Not only that, these late counted votes favored the candidate of the partisans that run those counties.

Posted by: MAGA at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (/8RAd)

151 >>I feel like Hulk relied too much on prop comedy.

Racist.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (/tuJf)

152 Parcel of Rogues in our Nation.....

Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (ffWPP)

153 137 Why would Mueller obey anything Whitaker tells him?

Because Whitaker is his boss.
=======
which is why the deep state was freaking out over whitaker. If he was harmless they wouldn't have used the energy. The amount of energy used is directly proportional to the threat posed.

==================

at some point, trump and co has to take a stand, show your cards, mueller or be done with it.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (7J5t2)

154 Is this a dodge to avoid paying the legal fees he was ordered too?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (bQtop)

155 Does the porn lawyer have any firearms that need removed from his home at 5am?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers, RBG at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (iPqiQ)

156 avanetti-she ran into a door!

Posted by: willow at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (aSpXp)

157 Blonde, yup. Same with 'wesel,' which sure looks like weasel to me.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (miE9U)

158 *Nervously Glances Around the Room*

Um Yeah! Get those Bad Fake Conservatives Funded by Lefty Billionaires!

*Glances Even more Nervously*
*Begins sweating*

So the genuine 100% totes grassroots NeverTrumpers should unite with me in Shapiro Land! No Billionare funding over here!

*Sweating continues*

Posted by: Ben Shapiro - furiously fapping with Michelle Fields missing arm at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (aqpW6)

159 It is possible. He filed for divorce in 2017, she may have gone to the apartment and provoked him into beating her for the payday and a chance to watch him do a perp walk.

Some people are just that crazy and vindictive.

I somehow believe they deserve each other.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (lD3vL)

You know, I sometimes give the guys the benefit of the doubt in cases like this, because they should be able to defend themselves and not have to take physical violence from a woman. But the response needs to be proportional.
According to TMZ, ex wife's face was swollen and she had on sunglasses in doors, and was crying on the phone that she couldn't believe he did this to her. Apparently the punch or whatever occurred Tuesday and he was arrested today when he returned to the apartment.

So no excuses for Avanetti.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (jCCZJ)

160
Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

If Julie Swetnick was smart she'll now say that CPL slapped her around to get her to sign the phony affidavit.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (TAmPV)

161 It's easy to get Flake to flip. Just have an adult sit him down and tell him that if he doesn't behave they'll "not like him any more". Works great on toddlers and those with high levels of emotional insecurity and moral cowardice.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (R85nB)

162 Sinema will be an improvement over Flake, she won't give dishonest excuses about voting against Judicial Nominees.

Posted by: Smoked Surfperch

____________

I was definitely ready to go kamikaze on Flake had he been up for reelection. Even if it meant electing a democrat

What's most maddening is this is not about principles with Flake, it's pathological hatred of Donald Trump. Same with John mcCain.

These people aren't functioning adults.

Posted by: Blago at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (UfkIY)

163 @130

Wanna bet?
--Hawwaian judge number 5 on Deep State Speed dial.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (qxq6t)

164 Even though people have trouble believing morons
would vote for a bisexual Sinema. If you are looking for an equalizer,
google McSally and sham marriage. Nuff said.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:58 PM (C6xeQ)

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Was this part of her pitch?

I'm serious. Did she openly run as bi, or is it something that exists as an internet artifact that average people don't know?

Michigan's new AG is a lesbian, and I know this only because I check inside-baseball web sites. I didn't get a single piece of campaign literature (and I got a shit-ton of it, believe me) hyping this fact from EITHER SIDE.

So when people say: Gosh, how did a normally conservative state vote for X, maybe it was because the mass media kept it a secret.

Sort of like all Obama's scandals.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (cfSRQ)

165 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 14, 2018 05:53 PM (fYi9j)

-

Because it was contested.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers, RBG at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (iPqiQ)

166 Stormy may come out of this looking like the sane one.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (4e+hS)

167 Michigan's new AG is a lesbian, and I know this only because I check inside-baseball web sites. I didn't get a single piece of campaign literature (and I got a shit-ton of it, believe me) hyping this fact from EITHER SIDE.

Inside softball, you mean.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (NWiLs)

168 137 Why would Mueller obey anything Whitaker tells him?

Because Whitaker is his boss.
=======
which is why the deep state was freaking out over whitaker. If he was harmless they wouldn't have used the energy. The amount of energy used is directly proportional to the threat posed.
Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (C6x

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Don't discount Mueller going to court to argue Mitchell's appointment was unconstitutional and Mueller doesn't have to report to him.

Posted by: MAGA at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (/8RAd)

169 anyway they seemed like a match made in heaven, they blow through money like the own the money tree.

Posted by: willow at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (aSpXp)

170 Sinema had the Smart Girl Glasses.... ya gotta have Smart Girl Glasses to run as a woke wimmin...

Posted by: kraken at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (ffWPP)

171 Omidyar. That sounds Persian to me. Great job guys. Everyone wants to be a cat's paw for wealthy Persians while the rest of the Iranians beg and riot for freedom, and their donors grow wealthier.

Oh, wait... that's only total bastards who do that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2018 06:05 PM (5aX2M)

172 If the erudite elitist Pudhurts knew just a little more about the boogieman McCarthy, get this, he'd know that there WERE commies throughout the gubmint and Hollywood at that time. But they tried to keep it on the down low.

Heck, he might even notice the many openly in gubmint today. Fuck that guy in particular.

Can't Grassley or McConnell yank Flake's committee assignments? Or is it like the 1st Amendment right to a WH pass for every shortdicked cannibal in the Congo?

Posted by: GunBreed at November 14, 2018 06:05 PM (Z4rgH)

173 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?

=======

it shouldn't matter. She's not the one dissing her own state.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:05 PM (7J5t2)

174 81 Why do people have trouble accepting that McSally was just not a good candidate, and Synema ran a well above average campaign?

How did she win the primary?

Same thing with McStain and Mittens, they were downright evil and cut-throat during the primaries and then meek and subservient to the D's in the general.

Ok, McStain benefited from the D's declaring the Florida primary unofficial permitting all of the Ds to go ahead and cross over and vote in the R primaries.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 06:05 PM (lD3vL)

175 Ace better be working up the post of the century on Avenatti.

#NoPressure

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 06:05 PM (4e+hS)

176 Nood.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (4e+hS)

177 "but that's really a joke about this horrible, horrible version of the
Flash being stupid and horrible and needing to be replaced."
=====

The DCEU Flash: lightning fast and gender fluid.

Posted by: Kensington at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (y87jW)

178 Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war, and that... that lying son-of-a-bitch Trump.
Posted by: Creepy Porn Lawyer, Esq. at November 14, 2018 05:59 PM (t+qrx)

I would never hit you , Jenny.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (jCCZJ)

179 I told the bitch twice already!

Posted by: Creepy Porn Lawyer at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (NWiLs)

180 Here's another thing about Whitaker. I just get the feeling he's the kind of guy who would walk into a Wheaton, Md. biker bar and deck the biggest guy in the place, just for fun.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (xzqr4)

181 Are y'all sitting down? Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

If Julie Swetnick was smart she'll now say that CPL slapped her around to get her to sign the phony affidavit.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at November 14, 2018 06:03 PM (TAmPV)

I guess Creepy Porn Lawyer's pimp hand is strong.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (ptqGC)

182 Ah, so i see atop the sidebar that Creepy Porn Lawyer is now Creepy Wifebeater Lawer.

CWL.

CWBL?

Nah. CWL.

Has a certain ring to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2018 06:06 PM (BRvh1)

183 The solution is simple here.

Thunderdome!

Avenatti and Flake go in.

Only one comes out.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 14, 2018 06:07 PM (vcOmj)

184 Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 05:47 PM (C6xeQ)

Great call on Bolton, DHS and vote fraud. Nielsen is a failure on voting and borders. And a zero.

Posted by: clutch at November 14, 2018 06:07 PM (kiSdp)

185 Can't Grassley or McConnell yank Flake's committee assignments? Or is it like the 1st Amendment right to a WH pass for every shortdicked cannibal in the Congo?
Posted by: GunBreed at November 14, 2018 06:05 PM (Z4rgH)

They aren't going to pull him out of a committee in the end of a session. If he was returning in January, they could remove him then. Reassign him to something in the basement.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2018 06:08 PM (jCCZJ)

186 are you all sitting down should be the new you guys.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:08 PM (7J5t2)

187 I don't think you know too much about Wheaton, Md

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:08 PM (7J5t2)

188 TuCa must be laughing himself sick

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 06:09 PM (d7Ww2)

189 I told the bitch twice already!
Posted by: Creepy Porn Lawyer

Hey! I got this!

Posted by: Keith Ellison at November 14, 2018 06:09 PM (vcOmj)

190 179 I told the bitch twice already!

Q: Why does she have two black eyes?
A: Because she didn't listen the first time.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 06:09 PM (lD3vL)

191
It's mobys and cucks all the way down.

Welp.

I have to congratulate the leftists for creating a Fake Conservative Movement and Leadership-

they've pretty much led us around by the nose for 30 years.

That pretty much demands a medal or something-

The Congressional Medal of Cuckery.

Make it so!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2018 06:09 PM (9X624)

192 at some point, trump and co has to take a stand, show your cards, mueller or be done with it.

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:02 PM (7J5t2)

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Here's the deal.

Trump didn't declassify all the documents because the UK and Australia begged him not to.

For those not paying attention, nominally conservative governments in both of those countries are hanging on by their fingernails. The Aussie Liberals (their conservatives, don't ask) have a single vote majority in parliament.

While Theresa May is a total squish, she's also the last line of defense against outright communism embodied by Labour.

So Trump held it close, waiting on events. It cost him nothing and was an easy play.

Now things are different. His own survival is at stake but it's also clear that May's government is going to collapse no matter what he does. She's botched Brexit and the Ulstermen are going to leave the Tories if the deal is as bad as they say.

The Aussies also made their own bed.

My prediction is that either right before or immediately after Mueller tries to do his big move, Trump will dump the incriminating documents without warning and blow up the whole damn thing. Alternatively, he might go ahead and dump on the heels of May's government falling from power.

Either way, he was never held in check by Rosenstein. What kept him back was the international pressure and the fact that right when he was about to do it, the Dems gave us the gift of the Kavanaugh fiasco.

Trump didn't need the boost after that.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 06:09 PM (cfSRQ)

193 I hope you guys are all sitting down, there's a nood

Posted by: billionaires! At the bottom of it all! at November 14, 2018 06:10 PM (7J5t2)

194 >>>>"I did not hit her. This is all bullshit. I did not hit her. I did naaaaat."
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism at November 14, 2018 05:50 PM (bcbK

LMAO!!

Posted by: Max Power at November 14, 2018 06:12 PM (q177U)

195 36 Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy

i thought it was spelled "feng shui"

Posted by: Anachronda at November 14, 2018 06:14 PM (NmR1a)

196 6 I used to care. But now I'm of the Let it All Burn camp.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 14, 2018 05:42 PM (lD3vL)

I think we're at "it's gonna burn" now.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 06:17 PM (sdi6R)

197 Remember that Cindy Hyde-Smith isn't around as much because of her runoff campaign. So we're at 49 without Flake, even assuming Collins and Murkowski stay on board.

Just hold the vote and let them vote yes, I doubt it gets to 60.

Posted by: Mike at November 14, 2018 06:22 PM (SFreT)

198 I'm serious. Did she openly run as bi, or is it something that exists as an internet artifact that average people don't know?

Michigan's new AG is a lesbian, and I know this only because I check inside-baseball web sites. I didn't get a single piece of campaign literature (and I got a shit-ton of it, believe me) hyping this fact from EITHER SIDE.

So when people say: Gosh, how did a normally conservative state vote for X, maybe it was because the mass media kept it a secret.

Sort of like all Obama's scandals.
Posted by: K.N. McBride

______________

it was kept secret. There's rumors about McSally also, but who knows.

Sinema was elected because it's a state trending blue, Sinema and outside groups greatly outspent her, McSally ran a really shitty campaign that didn't really have an agenda, etc.

Also, Sinema is prettier than mcSally, and suburban republican women are what gave Sinema the win. there was a huge split with suburban women voting Republican for Governor and Democrat for Senate.

So "girl power" from the educated female class is "who's cuter?"

Posted by: Blago at November 14, 2018 06:22 PM (UfkIY)

199 Why would Mueller obey anything Whitaker tells him?

Because Whitaker is his boss.

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which is why the deep state was freaking out over whitaker. If he
was harmless they wouldn't have used the energy. The amount of energy
used is directly proportional to the threat posed.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2018 06:01 PM (C6x

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Don't discount Mueller going to court to argue Mitchell's
appointment was unconstitutional and Mueller doesn't have to report to
him.

Posted by: MAGA at November 14, 2018 06:04 PM (/8RAd)

Mueller has a boss no matter how much he wishes he didn't. His boss is Whitaker.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 14, 2018 06:26 PM (F/KeJ)

200
Gentlemen always take their hats off before hitting a woman.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2018 06:30 PM (LsBY9)

201 OANN is reporting that McConnell told The Flake to STFD and STFU

Posted by: DocJ at November 14, 2018 06:30 PM (IbD2v)

202 Julie Kelly:

"It's one thing for a political pundit like Kristol to brand himself as a Trump-hating "conservative" to earn hits on cable news shows and get fawning coverage in elite media publications. It's quite another to partner up with the sworn enemies of the very principles one has claimed not only to champion, but of which he has insisted he is the last, best defender.
His new friend is a foe of these causes and has been for decades, which makes it appear as though Kristol is ready to sell out to any deep pocket just to damage the president while hiding the fact that his crusade is financed, at least in part, by a major anti-Trump, anti-conservative left-wing billionaire. (There is no information posted on Republicans for the Rule of Law's website, or Kristol's umbrella group, that discloses their funding sources.) The irony is rich indeed that "Republicans for the Rule of Law" is financed by a Democrat.
At what point do others stand up and not just deny Kristol his "conservative" cred, but acknowledge that he is now on the other side? When you join the battlefield alongside partisan hacks like Adam Schiff and take payoffs from leftist billionaires to do their political dirty work, there is nothing Republican or conservative. or frankly, decent, about you."

Julie Kelly is doing the kind of quality conservative journalism that J-Pud never got around to, and now can only dream about.

And he's sold his dreams, too.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at November 14, 2018 06:31 PM (Ndje9)

203 Flake to Sinema. Christ. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Posted by: His Son Murders Dogs at November 14, 2018 06:35 PM (3JbJY)

204 Mollie is spectacular.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 06:41 PM (/tuJf)

205 204 Mollie is spectacular.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2018 06:41 PM (/tuJf)

She is. I like her reporting, too.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 06:47 PM (sdi6R)

206 Can we sell Arizona to Mexico?

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2018 06:52 PM (T4oHT)

207 Flake needs to be yanked off Judiciary by Cocaine Mitch. Enough is enough. He has no business holding up the business of the nation to grandstand - he's the Jim Acosta of the Senate for cripes sake.

Posted by: Boswell at November 14, 2018 07:10 PM (OjnQU)

208 204 Mollie is spectacular

She at her best bringing down that Baby Huey Jonah Goldberg on Special Report - he looks like he's gonna cry whenever she swats him!

Posted by: Boswell at November 14, 2018 07:11 PM (OjnQU)

209 I subscribed to Commentary and The Weekly Standard for many years. Dropped them both after Trump won and never looked back.

Posted by: Richard Feder, Ft Lee NJ at November 14, 2018 07:24 PM (WusEB)

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