CNBC Poll: Republicans Lead by <i>Ten Points</i> for Control of Congress

CNBC Poll: Republicans Lead by Ten Points for Control of Congress

President Joe Biden's overall approval rating stabilized at a low level of 41%, according to the CNBC All-America Survey.
Biden's approval rating on handling the economy and dealing with the coronavirus both declined.
At 46% approval to 48% disapproval, Biden’s approval rating on the coronavirus is now underwater for the first time.
His economic approval sank more deeply underwater, with 37% approving compared to 56% who disapprove

"The Covid (approval) number is actually I think the more important one," said Micah Roberts, partner at Public Opinion Strategies, the Republican pollster for the survey "As goes COVID, so goes the Biden presidency, and that’s really proving to be quite true."

The nasty senile r@pist demagogued the virus and and took advantage of the virus that his Chinese Business Partners created to take out his Chinese Business Partners' enemy:

The nasty senile r@pist has walked back his former bluster about "shutting down" the virus, and now speaks only of "beating it back."

"We gotta beat it back before we shut it down. Look, this is gonna take time worldwide. In order to beat COVID, we need to shut it down worldwide," Biden replied when asked if he still intended to "shut down" the virus during a Dec. 3 press conference.

Back to the poll:

Can it get worse?

Indeed it can.

The approval rating among those who voted for him has dropped from 80% to 69% in the April survey. There have been notable declines among Americans 18-34 and suburban residents, both of whom, in dramatic swings, now register net negative views on the president.
As bad as Biden's number may be, the polling data for Democrats in Congress is far worse.
Republicans now sport a historic 10-point advantage when Americans are asked which party they prefer to control Congress, holding a 44%-34% margin over Democrats. That's up from a 2-point Republican advantage in the October survey.
In the past 20 years, CNBC and NBC surveys have never registered a double-digit Republican advantage on congressional preference, with the largest lead ever being 4 points for the GOP.
"If the election were tomorrow, it would be an absolute unmitigated disaster for the Democrats," said Jay Campbell, partner at Hart Research Associates and the Democratic pollster for the survey.

There's an interesting thing that happens with highly gerrymandered seats.

The point of gerrymandering is to spread your voters out so that you don't have as few very safe districts as possible.

You don't want too many very safe districts, because it's better for you to spread your voters out and have more districts which are safe, and fewer districts which are very safe.

You spread your armies over more territory -- but thinner in ranks.

You hold more territory. But you are less able to withstand an enemy surge.

The point of this is that highly gerrymandered seats are designed to withstand a bad year but not a very bad year. It's like a dam that was built on the cheap -- tall enough to contain the waters of an above average storm, but not a big storm.

A big storm will wash the dam away.

And a once-in-a-generation storm? Forget about it. The dam was never even contemplated to be able to withstand such a storm.

Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats -- they might wind up picking up a good number of those for which they can recruit decent candidates.

Posted by: Ace at 01:25 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 01:25 PM (txdEq)

2 The GOPe still suck.

What were their number be if they actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING?!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (csEWM)

3 R's lead my enough that D's will run as Republicans to keep power

Posted by: Chicago Vota at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (ts6Zs)

4 Firsticlles.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (NsE9F)

5 Like Truth?

Freedom?

You know, just spitballin here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (csEWM)

6 Fucking dick fucker fuck fuck fuck motherfucker Biden.

Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (gmo/4)

7 I stick around for this thread, but it's no longer socially acceptable to tell poll-ish jokes.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (m45I2)

8 3 R's lead my enough that D's will run as Republicans to keep power
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As if they haven't been doing that forever.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (NsE9F)

9 At least there is no talk of showering with the virus, or sniffing it's hair.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (LtGlA)

10 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (5kI0z)

11 I for one look forward to the midterm bloodbath that might happen next year, so that we can begin the new era of bipartisan cooperation in which the Republican congress does everything Biden's handlers wants it to, albeit with compliant rather than enthusiasm.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (DU+/6)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

13 WE just need the presidency and THEN we can take the baby steps necessary to institute REAL change across the land... and a few more state legislatures too

Posted by: GOPe at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (flINI)

14 CNN smokes polls.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

15 >>>2 The GOPe still suck.

What were their number be if they actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING?!?

agreed, i've got a pot for later that will make you want to vote for Democrats just to teach these c-suckers a lesson

i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats.

Posted by: ace at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (0G13K)

16 What I would like to know is the names and addresses of all those BLM poll workers in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, Phoenix and Las Vegas that printed FJB's election. I think we can settle this matter with a minimum of Social Justice.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (NsE9F)

17 albeit with compliant rather than enthusiasm.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (DU+/6)

Complaint?

But also, yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (csEWM)

18 Heck, the GOPshould recruit candidates in all the D+20 and under districts.

Swing for the fences next year.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (dgYAy)

19 What were their number be if they actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING?!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (csEWM)

Something like that would scare them to death. Maybe, just maybe there will be a groundswell to remove the likes of the turtle, or at least force them to leave. They're woefully unable to deal with what's coming. And when it does, it will be all at once.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (wAnMi)

20 D majority, R majority, I don't really care at this point. I want to 2022 to be remembered as the year the incumbents go down in flames.

Posted by: CppThis at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (UewuT)

21 Biden and the Democrats keep pushing more and more covid restrictions.

Biden's approval numbers for how he's handling covid keep going down.

Biden and the Democrats: "Obviously we need to keep pushing for more and more covid restrictions because the people don't like how he's handling it."

We have the most retarded credentialed class of citizens in the history of the written word.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (xf/Kr)

22 "Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats"

I'd throw my hat in the ring, but I have baggage. I've got history. I have skeletons in my closet. Crucially, I have no hat.

Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (qpX6U)

23 The GOPe will fuck this up.

Posted by: LA Zoo Signs at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (z3FhG)

24 >>agreed, i've got a pot for later

I bet you do. Junkie.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (ZLI7S)

25 I'd be just a happy to see Congressional Republicans lose 30-40% of their current seats. The base is not happy. The base doesn't give a shit about the GOP anymore.

Yet, they persist.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (BFigT)

26 Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats -- they might wind up picking up a good number of those for which they can recruit decent candidates.
Posted by: Ace at 01:25 PM

My God!

If we win our low brow base will expect us to do something!

Posted by: RNC Leadership at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (PG1FL)

27 And Biden or the other idiot will be 100% president (well, you know what I mean) for another 3 years. That number is absolutely certain.

So - will the GOP manage to get through the next 11 months and not commit to any specific (and important and feasible) goal?

Huge leads in generic ballots say "you betcha!".

Man, the mid-terms are gonna rock! Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (OTzUX)

28 The moronic and spineless "leadership" at my employer have decided to re-instate the face diapers when you're out of your office but indoors. They kindly admit that, since you may not have a face rag with you, you can pick one up from any of the dispensers all around campus.

Fuggit. I'm bringing stuff back to my car after lunch, and I'm not bothering with it. Nor will I bother when I'm leaving for the day. I'm tired of this sneaking around. How dare these people prescribe medical steps for us when they have no medical degrees.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (txdEq)

29 >>agreed, i've got a pot for later

I bet you do. Junkie.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (ZLI7S)

Jelly?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

30 What about us.

Posted by: The Manchurians at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (LtGlA)

31 for which they can recruit decent candidates.
Posted by: Ace

As I heard it in a movie once: it would take a miracle.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (iMZHt)

32 I would be very excited about this, but it's so rare to find a Republican candidate who will represent the Republican electorate.

Posted by: Emmie at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (6RgRK)

33 This is what it looks like when you do everything right as a party. You're welcome.

Don't forget to donate now for 10X matchinbg!

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (guGkK)

34 2 The GOPe still suck.

What were their number be if they actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING?!?

****

As I keep pointing out, the problem with having the GOP on your side is that you have the GOP on your side.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (xf/Kr)

35 What were their number be if they actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING?!?
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They stand for exactly the same things the democrats stand for with very few exceptions. We've been played for at least a half a century. Probably longer. The big problem now is most of us realize it.

Posted by: Drc at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (vbaSG)

36 Something like that would scare them to death. Maybe, just maybe there will be a groundswell to remove the likes of the turtle, or at least force them to leave. They're woefully unable to deal with what's coming. And when it does, it will be all at once.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (wAnMi)

I'll do what I can in the primary- but the Bitch has this state so deep in his pocket that he asks us to wash his taint in the shower.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (csEWM)

37 I think states like Colorado with a Soros SoS and independents allowed to vote for either an R or D would be best served by recruiting someone to primary the Soros stooge with a stealth campaign to have folks vote for the alternative and maybe a very last minute ad blitz. But we don't have anyone Machiavellian enough to set up such on operation.

Posted by: paleRider at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (3cGpq)

38 I will make the Dems pay!

Tee hee, just kidding. Still send in your donation, though. I really want to have my turn as a squishy Speaker of the House.

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (TNyrE)

39 Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats -- they might wind up picking up a good number of those for which they can recruit decent candidates.
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And therefore they will not do that.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (iDcra)

40 WE just need the presidency and THEN we can take the baby steps necessary to institute REAL change across the land... and a few more state legislatures too
Posted by: GOPe at December 10, 2021

***
The period 2017-2021 would like to have a word with all of you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (txdEq)

41 I envision a sea of red shirts, spanning the length and breath of the House chamber.

That's winning.

Posted by: Karl Rove at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (guGkK)

42 Willowed:

Good, thanks. My mom came back from the hospital at around 1:30 AM, her confusion was caused by a urinary tract infection. They gave her IVs of antibiotics and saline, and a prescription for more antibiotics. Was a pretty scary few hours.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 10, 2021 12:31 PM (OssQ4)

I'm so happy to hear this. You were in rough shape yesterday. God is good!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (2JVJo)

43 I so much hope that 1) the predictions of a sweep are true, 2) that the worthless Rs don't just fritter it away in two years. I don't like being an eeyore. I have faith in other things, but politics, no.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (IN3jG)

44
But PredictIt has Biden up by 20%!!!!!

*RIP Intrade*

Posted by: In before the troll at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (n+4am)

45 Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats -- they might wind up picking up a good number of those for which they can recruit decent candidates.

Posted by: Ace at 01:25 PM

That's adorable Ace!

This is a party apparatus that ignores any seat that they aren't confident of winning (and getting contributions for). Their goal isn't to win, it is to grift.

Clearly you haven't had coffee yet.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (Q9lwr)

46 The President is making a real effort to end this virus and get back to normal, but he is being stymied at every turn by an uncooperative populace, courts working counter to the Constitution and hostile corporate board rooms.

The science on this is clear. We won't defeat COVID until everyone is vaccinated and everyone maintains a booster schedule and everyone needs to wear a mask, engage in effective social distancing and support each other in our public health requirements until we reach full compliance.

Because of our regressive and backward political and legal system, the President has inadequate authority to enforce these commonsense and necessary measures. The way out is clear, but the road is blocked by retrograde MAGA types and their controlled opposition forces in the courts, in the board rooms, in the police departments, in the press and in the churches and schools. Want Biden to keep his campaign promises about COVID? Great, so do I. So quit obstructing and start working toward the common good. Only together can we can be guided by science to achieve victory over this scourge.

Posted by: Your Kid's Health Policy Professor at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (DU+/6)

47 Don't start sucking each others dicks just yet.

Posted by: Dominion voting systems at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (aAQav)

48 The GOP: Losing with dignity since before you were born.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (xf/Kr)

49 I want PDT to take charge of the GOPe.

Slaughter the RINOs.
And all of them who turned their backs, toss them under the bus.

Find and recruit America First candidates. Ones who aren't afraid of the progressive con artists. Ones who aren't afraid to say "fuck you" to the race baiting democrats. Ones who won't allow boys to pretend they're girls. Ones who will stop this insane slide into hell.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (nt0bE)

50 The People's Pundit, who was about the most accurate pollster in 2016 - 2020, has Trump beating Biden by 11 points in North Carolina. Trump won the state in 2020 by 1.3 points.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (ZLI7S)

51 Heh. If Repubs take congress, they get what they deserve.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (n/szn)

52 The DOJ is already suing Texas over our redistricting.

Fuck those guys.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (yHvBp)

53 As we get close to the 2020 midterms lok for a coordinated lie from the donk propagandists about how the republicants will put President Trump in as speaker of the house... and how terrible that is... No it will be DEADLY.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (iDcra)

54 i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (0G13K)

There was a time when we used to reason we could hold their feet to the fire. That's proven to be an impossibility it seems. They're far too insulated.

The only reason for voting for these chumps is they're only slightly lesser insane than the D's. It's so bad, that doing nothing is better than communist activists. So we have to hope they sit on their thumbs rather than enable the left? Wow. That's spectacular.

As I've said a zillion times, an R is a D with legs, so it can run back to our side of the isle every 4-6 years or as needed.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (wAnMi)

55 Oops. Looks like Frank didn't replace the roll on the toilet paper dispenser again. I'll have to talk to that Mr. Luntz when he gets home from work.

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (guGkK)

56 Let's Go Brandon...

...but polls are like assholes, everyone has one.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at December 10, 2021 01:33 PM (c/XJZ)

57 That truck driver won in Jersey, people who really vote are fed up with Washington

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 10, 2021 01:34 PM (YbnlO)

58 "R's lead my enough that D's will run as Republicans to keep power"

I think this is literally happening (I don't mean just the way Ds in purple-ish districts were more Trumpish than half of HQ commenters in 2018, to get elected). I mean actual formal Ds going for higher office switching their labels. And only for tactical reasons.

With an electorate like this, there's no limit on the idiocy you can pull to take or keep power.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:34 PM (OTzUX)

59 The way to handle a GOP majority is to take their wives and children hostage. Then you'll get results. See what happens when you spend 20 years in the Mid East? You learn shit. Hostages get results.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:34 PM (NsE9F)

60 I have no effing clue how there are still nearly as many Americans who think he handles COVID19 policies well versus being a disaster.

We're all in the forever!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 10, 2021 01:34 PM (TNyrE)

61 If there was any year that throwing out GOPe incumbents in the primary was safe, next year is the one.

That is the message they don't want you to hear.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2021 01:34 PM (5kI0z)

62 State Sen. Jen Kiggans is taking on Elaine Luria here in Tidewater. I'm psyched to campaign and vote for her.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (Iobc/)

63 The awesome part about this? McCarthy as Speaker, McConnell as leader!

VOTE HARD LIKE YOU IN PRISON BISHES!

Posted by: blaster at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (mbFEM)

64 >>>In the past 20 years, CNBC and NBC surveys have never registered a double-digit Republican advantage on congressional preference, with the largest lead ever being 4 points for the GOP.

Anyone remember the 2016 numbers?

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (SH2Zi)

65 The level of cheating and fake/rescanned ballots that will be required to maintain democrat control will test every system Obama put in place and every dime Soros can throw at 2022.

Posted by: red speck at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (gS3OW)

66 Eighty of these gope cocksuckers voted for Biden's vaxx database. Now we'll get 80 more of the same. Fuck the gope with barbed wire wrapped grenades.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (GYllL)

67 The other polls show the Hispanics hate Latinx with a passion.

If the Republicans start running ads of just a montages of all the Dems leaders saying it, the current bloodbath will make that opening scene from Blade look like a cheap apartment shower.

I'm hoping Trump will come out and say how stupid it is-- which will force the whole party and the media to white-splain how great it really is.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (jIL4c)

68 I envision a sea of red shirts, spanning the length and breath of the House chamber.

That's winning.
Posted by: Karl Rove at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (guGkK)

Wait, are we doing a Star Trek episode?

Posted by: RNC Leadership at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (PG1FL)

69 "Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats"

If nothing else, it'll force the Dems to spend money where they weren't planning to. As the truck driver in NJ showed, you don't need to spend the same amount as your opponent if people are fed up.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (HmZuC)

70 Anyone that steps into a race at any level, openly declares they'll run on a platform of "against the Dem machine" would win, bigly.

"I will not vote with one Dem ever because I don't believe they care about this country or making it better. I will not reach across the aisle. I will destroy the other side of the aisle. I will oppose ANYONE that doesn't stand for America and her citizenry FIRST and FOREMOST."

Win.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

71 It is both amusing and sad to read the post and know Ace has a better winning strategy than the GOPe central committee right now. The Uniparty didn't want Trump. It's not serious. Once again, the voters will simply have to vote non-D no matter where they live, to hopefully sweep everything outside the blue bubble districts.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (W+kMI)

72 It is the GOP primaries* that will determine the extent of change in local, state and federal elections.

* In some place the GOP has replaced primaries with conventions. Bastids.

Posted by: Radio Ventriloquist at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (FsgBK)

73 Honestly, fuck the Republicans. McConnell and the senate just stuck it up our asses again. They will sell out the voters at the drop of a quarter from their sweet corporate donors. The House under McCarthy has no plan and the same people who sold us out last time are still there. Anyone who thinks you'll get saved by this crowd is nuts. They're still Democrats Lite

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (ERcy3)

74 The only thing Biden is beating back is his shriveled penis.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (VWp7G)

75 Every time I see things like this I'm reminded of the outfield fans from the movie Major League. No matter what the team does, they always think something bad will happen (e.g., They'll blow it in the playoffs).

Yay, go reps. Red wave!

They'll blow almost immediately.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (KbCG3)

76 60 I have no effing clue how there are still nearly as many Americans who think he handles COVID19 policies well versus being a disaster.

Never forget that half the country thinks "get the shot or get shot -- in front of an open pit" is a viable option.

Posted by: red speck at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (gS3OW)

77 What are the orders from the Chamber of Commerce?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (63Dwl)

78 Your Kid's Health Policy Professor at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (DU+/6)
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That is so good it makes me think you copied from some college website.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (iDcra)

79 If a new GOP House majority only crucifies Lynne Cheney I'll feel like I got my money's worth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (guGkK)

80 >>> Honestly, fuck the Republicans. McConnell and the senate just stuck it up our asses again. They will sell out the voters at the drop of a quarter from their sweet corporate donors.
Posted by: Marcus T

One hundred percent correct.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (VWp7G)

81 Now don't be bringing up this Trump fellow. He's icky to very, very stupid voters, plus, he's too old. In addition, he wasn't able to achieve some of his objectives in his first term despite near-uniform opposition (open or covert) and lack of support from his own GOP, because he had bad hires. Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (OTzUX)

82 Drudge: "AMERICA UNRECONGNIZABLE" (sic)

Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (qpX6U)

83 Burn the witch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (LtGlA)

84 >>I want PDT to take charge of the GOPe.

>>Slaughter the RINOs.
And all of them who turned their backs, toss them under the bus.

He has been doing just that. One example, the candidate he is backing to replace Liz Cheney is up by 18 points.

I'm not expecting a miracle but the GOP is definitely changing. More MTGs and Boeberts and fewer Kinzingers and Cheneys.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (ZLI7S)

85 "I will not vote with one Dem ever because I don't believe they care about this country or making it better. I will not reach across the aisle. I will destroy the other side of the aisle. I will oppose ANYONE that doesn't stand for America and her citizenry FIRST and FOREMOST."

Win.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
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'"Bipartisanship" is a swear word. We have two parties for a reason, and that reason is that one of the parties is wrong. I will not aspire to bipartisan cooperation, I will aspire to do the right thing. I will not compromise with the other side just to get invited to their cocktail parties. We're not friends and I don't work for them. I work for you.'

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (DU+/6)

86 Can't wait to watch them fuck this up.

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 01:38 PM (t2GrG)

87 Seen at Insta's -

Biden Misery Index = Unemployment Rate + Inflation Rate + Murder Rate.

Perfect! Make it so.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2021 01:38 PM (5NkmN)

88 ++++
'"Bipartisanship" is a swear word. We have two parties for a reason, and that reason is that one of the parties is wrong. I will not aspire to bipartisan cooperation, I will aspire to do the right thing. I will not compromise with the other side just to get invited to their cocktail parties. We're not friends and I don't work for them. I work for you.'
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (DU+/6)

Their side NEVER compromises. Ever. They don't reach across the aisle. They bludgeon the other side into submission. And the GOP falls for it every. fucking. time.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

89 65 The level of cheating and fake/rescanned ballots that will be required to maintain democrat control will test every system Obama put in place and every dime Soros can throw at 2022.
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Bull Shit. It only took six All Black Polling Stations in six swing states. How hard is that to pull off?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (NsE9F)

90 Time to declare martial law to combat those right-wing domestic terrorists!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (I2/tG)

91 Approval rating is a meaningless metric, and - especially with Ds who get kid glove treatment from friendly "journalists" - always has a level of empathy baked in. The should he run again, or would you vote for him against hypothetical candidate, question will get a better indicator of what people think (which I think ace had a thread on is past week or so).

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (l7udz)

92 Can't wait to watch them fuck this up.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 01:38 PM (t2GrG)

The GOPe would fuck up a two-car parade.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (guGkK)

93 Too late to get this in the last thread. I was looking at the picture of the Portland car jacker that was shot dead. He's a white guy with a neck tattoo. The only time I've seen those are on guys that joined the Aryan Brotherhood in jail. And this guy had an extensive record and a fentynl problem. But Ted Wheeler, mayor of Portland, is sorrowed by his loss. I guess Ted found a white supremist he likes.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (5HBd1)

94 Their side NEVER compromises. Ever. They don't reach across the aisle. They bludgeon the other side into submission. And the GOP falls for it every. fucking. time.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
The reach across the aisle all the time. With brass knuckles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (DU+/6)

95 Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (OTzUX)

*golf clap*

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (SH2Zi)

96 But Ted Wheeler, mayor of Portland, is sorrowed by his loss. I guess Ted found a white supremist he likes.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (5HBd1)

Not true. He LOVES pAntifa.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

97 I'd run against Dan Crenshaw except for the skeletons. My motto would be Two eyes are better than one or Dan's blind spot is too big to ignore.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (wpxAI)

98 President Joe Biden's overall approval rating stabilized at a low level of 41%, according to the CNBC All-America Survey.

Seems laughable at first blush but it may be fairly accurate. There's a whole lotta stoopid in this country.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (Xrfse)

99 And the GOP falls for it every. fucking. time.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, that's it. We're gullible like that.

Posted by: GOPe at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (6RgRK)

100 Thomas Paine @61, threadwinner.

The "so what" of all this is absolutely what he noted: the country desperately needs a holocaust of incumbents of a major political party - the GOP - and this is the best possible time to do it.

Least possible risk of handing seats over to "the other side".

Easier scribbled in a comments section than done, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:41 PM (OTzUX)

101 49 I want PDT to take charge of the GOPe.

Slaughter the RINOs.
And all of them who turned their backs, toss them under the bus.

Find and recruit America First candidates. Ones who aren't afraid of the progressive con artists. Ones who aren't afraid to say "fuck you" to the race baiting democrats. Ones who won't allow boys to pretend they're girls. Ones who will stop this insane slide into hell.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM (nt0bE)

Do you know how he does this? Get himself elected Speaker of the House. This would be glorious. He personally leads the critters in the House. The Whip reports to him. No more hiding behind secret votes for GOPe interests. And besides that, he'll be across the table from Biden to get any deal done at the WH. Oh, the tea that he would spill regarding the state of POOTUS. The press would have to cover it. On top of that, he can still run for POTUS in 2024.

Can you imagine Trump behind POOTUS as he makes the State of the Union Address? Like I said, glorious.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2021 01:41 PM (mdjgu)

102 ++++
The reach across the aisle all the time. With brass knuckles.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:40 PM (DU+/6)

Dems: BOHICA!

Repubs: GOODIE GOODIE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

103
I'm not going to shit down the country.

I'm not going to shit down the economy.

I'm going to shit down my pants legs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 10, 2021 01:41 PM (3l5Yq)

104 However, even with a big sweep win, a GOP-led Congress still has to deal with three things.
1. President Placeholder has no power to be curtailed, he is a puppet for the Deep State junta that acts in his name.
2. The Deep State has openly betrayed a presidency. A GOP Congress they won't fear until an actual budget is made & passed.
3. Too many GOPe members are on the take from corporate, activist, and foreign sources. Expecting honest, firm, and determined conduct for them is questionable. Before we win the election, we win the primaries first, or watch the Turtle and his ilk waste more time.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2021 01:41 PM (W+kMI)

105 The other polls show the Hispanics hate Latinx with a passion.
If the Republicans start running ads of just a montages of all the Dems leaders saying it, the current bloodbath will make that opening scene from Blade look like a cheap apartment shower...
Posted by: Lrrr at December 10, 2021 01:35 PM (jIL4c)

If they actually had the balls to do it. There's certain places they never travel, and that seems to be one of them. Trump had the nads, and maybe a handful of others. But I can see the RNC hand-wringing thinking that it's racist, it might alienate the Hispanics that like "LatinX" (both of them) and I'd also bet that more than a few R's have used that in hopes of making their tent bigger.

I refuse to believe people can't remember 2019, maybe somebody should keep reminding them of it. Really, does anything happen at all outside of twatter? Maybe the RNC might want to consider that since their "base" has been banned from YT/FB/twatter, they should use alt media to reach them? Nah.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:42 PM (wAnMi)

106 Personally, I take little stock in this poll. This is a Generic poll, so when asked, that person is inserting their "Ideal" candidate.
Your ideal candidate will not match mine. So friction there.
That out if the way, the R's need to get good people, not who is next in line.
Will the Majority change hands, Yes, but by how much. I want a very comfortable majority, because if anything Pelosi and Schummer always seem to pick up a Republican while holding lock step with all of their own.

Posted by: Picric at December 10, 2021 01:42 PM (3QnyK)

107 If people haven't seen by now that McConnell and Schumer are two sides of the same coin, I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 01:42 PM (ERcy3)

108 President Joe Biden's overall approval rating stabilized at a low level of 41%, according to the CNBC All-America Survey.

The Drooling Senile demographic is a powerful force in this country, and very tribal in its outlook. They know one of their own.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2021 01:42 PM (guGkK)

109 And my employer wants us, the office people, to print out a "Masks Required Indoors For All" sign and post it up. I'll put one on the front door of the office when I get a chance. (If my boss weren't here I'd let it slide until Monday. In fact, if I could get away with it, I'd let the ones giving the orders post their own damn signs.)

I've completely lost my respect for these supposedly smart people. If this craziness is to continue here in January, it's time for me seriously to consider retiring from here and finding some online way to make extra money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 01:42 PM (txdEq)

110 The GOP should always contend every seat. There's only 500 of them, and some might be won. You don't have to throw lots of money at them, look at AOC toppling a lazy DEM bigwig in the primary on the cheap just by working hard and showing up.

It would be a good way to give some of the young folk waiting for the old people holding safe seats some practice and experience. And you might win here or there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2021 01:43 PM (eoQWY)

111 I expect the GOP to betray us the moment they sweep the Democrats. Priorities will be tax cuts, increasing immigration, whining that they don't control the presidency, and improving on what the Democrats want.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 10, 2021 01:43 PM (EpDzw)

112 "Covid" is now apparently a permanent fixture of American life and politics. We discuss is as "an issue" along with "the border," "the economy" and "foreign policy." A bad flu has done this to us.

Wait until something comes along that only 96% of people survive.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2021 01:43 PM (H8QX8)

113 Do the vice president and the speaker of the house wear masks when seated behind Pootus at the state of the union.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2021 01:43 PM (LtGlA)

114 So will Jussie get 4 life terms plus 412 years for race hate?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (NsE9F)

115 >>>I'd run against Dan Crenshaw except for the skeletons. My motto would be Two eyes are better than one or Dan's blind spot is too big to ignore.
Posted by: Dr Spank

He went full RINO almost immediately. At least give us a year to pretend you're a conservative.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (VWp7G)

116 32 I would be very excited about this, but it's so rare to find a Republican candidate who will represent the Republican electorate.
Posted by: Emmie at December 10, 2021 01:30 PM (6RgRK)

Remember. The call for younger Republican politicians means there's a greater chance many of them were educated in the modern-day public school system.

Posted by: I'm The Other White Meat at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (Fs5vw)

117 R's lead my enough that D's will run as Republicans to keep power

Posted by: Chicago Vota at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (ts6Zs)

See the idiot in AZ Veritas exposed. Alex Stovall.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (gDqhG)

118 89 Bull Shit. It only took six All Black Polling Stations in six swing states. How hard is that to pull off?

And they learned that simply *questioning* the results was tantamount to iNsUrReCtIoN, and through almost two years of gaslighting over covid, there really is no bottom to which the media will not stoop to hide the truth. So CNN et al reported that every single state went D by 81million votes, the stupid half of the country would wipe their brow and go back to scheduling their 6th booster.

Posted by: red speck at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (gS3OW)

119 Do the vice president and the speaker of the house wear masks when seated behind Pootus at the state of the union.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2021 01:43 PM (LtGlA)

Absofuckinlutely.

Gotta keep the sheep in pens.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

120 110 Stil not voting for the Anti-White, Anti-Christian, Anti-Male, Anti-Straight, GloboHomoPedo GOP/Republicans.
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You mean the Polite Cucklings?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (NsE9F)

121 He went full RINO almost immediately. At least give us a year to pretend you're a conservative.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (VWp7G)

He's Ryan with an eye patch.

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (SH2Zi)

122 Too late to get this in the last thread. I was looking at the picture of the Portland car jacker that was shot dead. He's a white guy with a neck tattoo. The only time I've seen those are on guys that joined the Aryan Brotherhood in jail. And this guy had an extensive record and a fentynl problem. But Ted Wheeler, mayor of Portland, is sorrowed by his loss. I guess Ted found a white supremist he likes.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 10, 2021 01:39 PM (5HBd1)

The fact that this guy's name is literally 2 memes: Brandon & Kek is simply too good to believe. I have to wonder how many hundreds were kicked off of twatter yesterday for making memes about it?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (wAnMi)

123 The only time anything remotely changed in Congress was under Newt Gingrich. And look what they did to him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (H8QX8)

124 "will you vote to expel Adam Schiff from the House?"

Posted by: JEM at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (8erNz)

125
Listen as bad as the (R)'s are, did they come up with any grandiose scheme like Obamacare or Build Back Better?

Ya gotta keep the Dems out of office. The best defense is a good defense or something like that.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (dQvv7)

126 We gotta beat it back before we shut it down

Like Jussie and his ghey trainer pal in a private bathhouse room.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (II3Gr)

127 115 So will Jussie get 4 life terms plus 412 years for race hate?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (NsE9F)

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Will he at least get as much as J6 buffalo guy?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (ptqGC)

128 So will Jussie get 4 life terms plus 412 years for race hate?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (NsE9F)

They will determine that his skin is light enough that he subconsciously thought he was white, therefore his mind waged war against him due to inherent white supremacy.

Six days in psychiatric care.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

129 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at December 10, 2021 01:46 PM (J9381)

130 127 115 So will Jussie get 4 life terms plus 412 years for race hate?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:44 PM (NsE9F)

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Will he at least get as much as J6 buffalo guy?
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Great point Jane.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:47 PM (NsE9F)

131 Like Jussie and his ghey trainer pal in a private bathhouse room.

BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS. NO ANAL IN THE JACUZZI.

Posted by: Man's World Day Spa at December 10, 2021 01:47 PM (guGkK)

132 Listen as bad as the (R)'s are, did they come up with any grandiose scheme like Obamacare or Build Back Better?

Ya gotta keep the Dems out of office. The best defense is a good defense or something like that.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (dQvv7)

Did they do anything to stop it, after campaigning and begging for money to do EXACTLY that?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

133 Will he at least get as much as J6 buffalo guy?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (ptqGC)

The freak flag burning guy.

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 01:47 PM (SH2Zi)

134 The approval rating among those who voted for him has dropped from 80% to 69% in the April survey.

Is that number made up from those who knowingly "voted" for Biden?

The distinction is at least one sigma significant.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 10, 2021 01:47 PM (+LCoQ)

135 i've got a pot for later that will make you want to vote for Democrats just to teach these c-suckers a lesson

Ace, your sentiment is why I don't want a "Red Wave." These worthless bastards have done nothing to fight back against Stinkfinger or the stolen election or the J6 prisoners. They've sat back with smug smiles on their mugs, watching the Dems go crazy and chuckling to themselves, "looks like those fucking deplorables HAVE to vote for us now!"

And if there is a "red wave," nothing will get done. The Dems will scream, "throw the Trumpkins in the showers NOW," and the GOP will come back and say, "Don't worry, I'll negotiate so you don't have to go until next week! Now vote harderer and give me money, otherwise those crazy Dems will take over and you don't want that, do you sucker? - I mean 'valued patriot?' The GOP has done nothing to earn my vote and isn't going to get it. There ought to be millions like me to grind those grifting bastards into the dust, but still too many people hold on to the fantasy that the GOP is on 'our side.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 10, 2021 01:47 PM (2JVJo)

136 The only time anything remotely changed in Congress was under Newt Gingrich. And look what they did to him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (H8QX

The GOP learned not to let that happen again.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (EpDzw)

137 If we had a real national GOP, they would be smashing the Dem brand. Day after day. Remind people how terrible they are. Yes, I know, don't get in your enemies' way while destroying himself.

But there are plenty of LOFOs who don't understand that the team in the White House were part of the Jussie Hoax. It isn't that they aren't bright enough to see through it - though they aren't - it is that they were actively pushing the lies.

Posted by: blaster at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (mbFEM)

138 47 Don't start sucking each others dicks just yet.
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Sad but true. A number of Dominion voting machines have to be the victims of sudden warehouse fires to really lock it in. In 2020 it was rubbed in our faces that the vote count was what the system said it was, not what it actually was. Gotta be ready to deal with it, or it won't matter. Then we might as well fly the black flag, because if voting is proved useless then nothing else matters.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (W+kMI)

139 Wait until something comes along that only 96% of people survive.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2021 01:43 PM (H8QX

The emails between the NIH and the people in the Wuhan Institute of Virology showed the latter has an infectious strain of MERS where one of the proteins of MERS has its receptor-binding ability changed from DPP4 to ACE2.

MERS has a mortality rate of 30% (although the outbreak sizes are fairly small). Wait until the Chi-Coms unleash that beast.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (Rl7KJ)

140 This is an early warning signal to the Democrats to increase their 2am cheating by both volume and number of locations.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (nRMeC)

141 R's lead my enough that D's will run as Republicans to keep power

Posted by: Chicago Vota at December 10, 2021 01:26 PM (ts6Zs)

They already do. Funny an R could never run as a D. But the D's, either because they're too slow, dumb or not communist enough run as R's all the time.

And the F*ing GOPe? They're throwing their weight behind these losers. Like Dr Oz. Because TV show, and people like him! And he's got an R next to his name! Woohoo! People will like us now! [fistbump]

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (wAnMi)

142 >>I want PDT to take charge of the GOPe.

>>Slaughter the RINOs.
And all of them who turned their backs, toss them under the bus.

He has been doing just that. One example, the candidate he is backing to replace Liz Cheney is up by 18 points.

I'm not expecting a miracle but the GOP is definitely changing. More MTGs and Boeberts and fewer Kinzingers and Cheneys.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (ZLI7S)

A lot of the old guard on both sides are retiring. That leaves more new people to move in on both sides. The GOP are less likely to be the old neverTrumper type, and the old style Dem fixers are being phased out by the lunatic Jacobins. This makes it harder for Dems to lie about what they are about.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (eoQWY)

143 That's encouraging.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (V13WU)

144
I've completely lost my respect for these supposedly smart people. If this craziness is to continue here in January, it's time for me seriously to consider retiring from here and finding some online way to make extra money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 01:42 PM

Call us.

Posted by: PornHub at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (dQvv7)

145 Do we still think voting matters?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

146
Ugh. I spent several years saying "if these damn cucks think they can do PDT dirty like this, help the Dems knife his Presidency, and then his voters are going to just come crawling back to the status quo ante, then they're even dumber than they look."

SURPRISE! They were totally right, I was completely wrong. Just like that, it's happening like every oleaginous sack of lipids at the Dispatch predicted. Fuckin' A, man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (2ABQr)

147 Beat 'er back and shut 'er down!

Beat Back Better!!

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (0IeYL)

148 The awesome part about this? McCarthy as Speaker, McConnell as leader!
VOTE HARD LIKE YOU IN PRISON BISHES!
Posted by: blaster

Bring back.. Paul Ryan
Bring back Eric Cantor
Bring back Denny Hastert

Give them all some place to go!
Quit jammin' me!
Quit jaaaaaammin' me!

Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (vcOmj)

149 >>>If there was any year that throwing out GOPe incumbents in the primary was safe, next year is the one.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

I refuse to vote for PA incumbents until they fix the mail-in balloting. They've done next to nothing to fix the 2020 steal, so I will vote against them all.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (VWp7G)

150 Uncle Joe is keeping our families safe from Covid, racism and homophobia!!! That's all that really matters!!! *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (Xrfse)

151 I'm in a district in Louisiana that has had only one Republican elected in the past 100 years. He was Vietnamese and was elected post Katrina.

Oddly, from post civil war reconstruction to 1891, it was was solidly Republican, due to black voters.

Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (AmoqO)

152 Darrell Harris, I think this Trump as Speaker thing *could* be more than just an amusing mental doodle. It would be one more barrier Trump would help break - having a non-member as Speaker would stun much of the public, which of course has no idea how their constitution or government are actually defined in law and words. But even more helpfully it would exactly as you say.

Imagine the House GOP caucus with Trump as Speaker. Now for that to even happen, of course, that caucus would already be either sincerely or tactically in support of it, to vote him in. But thus would end all the pathetically transparent play-acting on key issues.

Even "anti-GOPe" people probably don't appreciate how bad it is. Even on one of Trump's most successful and important policy triumphs - trade - there were GOP senior people desperately trying to find a politically survivable way to gut his executive authority. As bad as the public face of the GOP is, the full reality is nearly implausibly bad.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:50 PM (OTzUX)

153 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 10, 2021 01:50 PM (arJlL)

154 Can you believe we're actually allowed to vote? Stay safe.

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at December 10, 2021 01:50 PM (Xrfse)

155 >>> The only time anything remotely changed in Congress was under Newt Gingrich. And look what they did to him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2021 01:45 PM (H8QX

The GOP learned not to let that happen again.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (EpDzw)

It is amazing how obviously successful Newt's plea to the public was, how popular that work turned out to be but still, with this template for success right there, the Rs have never done it again. They don't want to succeed they want to grift around.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 01:50 PM (IN3jG)

156 If I were in charge, I would make MTG the speaker, and make Boebert her whip...wait. I'll be in my bunk.

Okay, I am back. The Whip would have an agonizer, and that's how things would work.

Posted by: blaster at December 10, 2021 01:51 PM (mbFEM)

157 Do we still think voting matters?

Posted by: The Lincoln Project and the Democratic National Committee! at December 10, 2021 01:51 PM (I2/tG)

158 I would like to see Georgia get rid of Warnock.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2021 01:51 PM (V13WU)

159 I'd throw my hat in the ring, but I have baggage. I've got history. I have skeletons in my closet. Crucially, I have no hat.
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses

*fist bump

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (uXonU)

160 One of the reasons that Republicans traditionally have only fielded candidates in balanced or nearly balanced districts is because they have political strategists telling them Republicans only win by being mushy and running in heavy D districts simply causes more trouble for statewide Republicans by boosting Dem turnout in marginal districts. The Dems, on the other hand, run everywhere as that boosts total party vote at the state level.

So the Karl Rove and McConnell strategy is to run candidates that have no strong ideological preferences, spend gobs of business cash so that they are vulnerable to leadership, and that are status quo.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (9hXN1)

161 Oddly, from post civil war reconstruction to 1891, it was was solidly Republican, due to black voters.
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Whites were not allowed to vote or hold office. Guess where the race hate started?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (NsE9F)

162 Tammany Hall was corrupt, but TBH the streets were mostly paved, the bridges were being built, the crime was tolerable, buildings were built, businesses mostly could operate.
What got them in the end was that they excluded too many from politics and decision making. And the Locofocos were loud and organized enough to make the machine try to squash them, and they lost a lot of prestige that way.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (ZMraq)

163
I refuse to vote for PA incumbents until they fix the mail-in balloting. They've done next to nothing to fix the 2020 steal, so I will vote against them all.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM

Maybe you missed it, but they put something together, passed it, and put it on the Governors (D)esk.

You can guess the rest.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (dQvv7)

164 Stil not voting for the Anti-White, Anti-Christian, Anti-Male, Anti-Straight, GloboHomoPedo GOP/Republicans.

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The North American Man Boy Lincoln Project has a sale on and someone suggests a promo code.

Dr. Ricardo Harambe
@Richard_Harambe
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (FVME7)

165 Hallo and Ja Hey Der! I vas told der would be snackin' on da lutefisk in dese parts. Please to be counting me in on dat stuff der. Uff Da!

Posted by: Norgegian Blog Reader at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (sjdRT)

166 It is amazing how obviously successful Newt's plea to the public was, how popular that work turned out to be but still, with this template for success right there, the Rs have never done it again. They don't want to succeed they want to grift around.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 01:50 PM (IN3jG)

Newt's problem was he led the Republican party. In 1996, Bill Clinton ran on more items of the Contract With America than did Bob Dole (this is true you could look it up). And you see how that turned out.

Posted by: blaster at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (mbFEM)

167 It's Dan Crenshaw.
I wouldn't be reaching out today if it wasn't urgent. I JUST got news that we are far short of hitting our critical end of month fundraising goal.
There's still time to turn things around! But you need to chip in before it's too late and our odds of taking back the House are greatly reduced.

Whether or not we hit our end-of-month goal has dire consequences. If Democrats continue to outraise and outspend us, it will mean:
-Even higher prices and increased taxes on working families, and tax cuts for billionaires
-Defunded police departments and out of control crime
-Parents pushed out of their children's education
-A wide open border policy
I refuse to let the disastrous policies of far-left Democrats become the reality of everyday Americans, and I know you do too. By donating today, you can stop the disastrous policies of far-left Democrats from becoming the reality of everyday Americans. The future of our nation is at stake. We simply can't afford to miss our goal this month.
In liberty,
Dan Crenshaw

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (wAnMi)

168 As a former resident of Maryland, I can confirm that the Democrats are super-gerrymanderers just as described. Some cities and towns are in two or even three of the 8 districts. The one Republican, Andy Harris, has as his territory the entire east side of the state, from top to bottom, and half of the north side. The Democrats are now trying to redistrict him out of a seat by moving bits of various areas (such as Baltimore City) they dominate into the district and moving out some of the Republican voters into the other seven.

Posted by: R.F. Hirsch at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (oMkPq)

169 I'm thinking an entire paradigm shift is in order. If a historic wave is brewing, perhaps we should move away from jerks with the platform of "honest, this time the check really is in the mail and I won't cum in your mouth" to Boebert-like, fire breathing warriors who chew nails and piss barb wire. Primary every muthafucka anywhere to the left of Genghis Khan.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (McMSJ)

170 If I were in charge, I would make MTG the speaker, and make Boebert her whip...wait. I'll be in my bunk.

Okay, I am back. The Whip would have an agonizer, and that's how things would work.
Posted by: blaster

Damn. That was quick.
Obligatory: That's what she said!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (uXonU)

171 And my employer wants us, the office people, to print out a "Masks Required Indoors For All" sign and post it up. I'll put one on the front door of the office when I get a chance. (If my boss weren't here I'd let it slide until Monday. In fact, if I could get away with it, I'd let the ones giving the orders post their own damn signs.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

If they didn't specify a font size you know what to do!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (iMZHt)

172 D majority, R majority, I don't really care at this point. I want to 2022 to be remembered as the year the incumbents go down in flames.
Posted by: CppThis at December 10, 2021 01:29 PM (UewuT)

That's a terrible thing to say.

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw, Dickhead at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (4I/2K)

173 It seems to me that every word President Dying Brain has spoken has been vile, a lie or demented. Maybe I'm being unfair.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (eGTCV)

174 The younger me would have loved this news.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (r5BVk)

175 I had our county gope preezy send me an email in early November pleading with me to vote YES on a county tax to improve the roads in the town he lives in. I wrote back to him and told him to go fuck himself and I was having sex at the moment with his wife. The gope is dead to me.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (GYllL)

176 The GOP is the worst political party, save for all the others.

Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (oXNqT)

177 Imagine the House GOP caucus with Trump as Speaker. Now for that to even happen, of course, that caucus would already be either sincerely or tactically in support of it, to vote him in. But thus would end all the pathetically transparent play-acting on key issues.

Even "anti-GOPe" people probably don't appreciate how bad it is. Even on one of Trump's most successful and important policy triumphs - trade - there were GOP senior people desperately trying to find a politically survivable way to gut his executive authority. As bad as the public face of the GOP is, the full reality is nearly implausibly bad.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:50 PM (OTzUX)

I believe that this is the true value of Trump putting his hat in the ring as Speaker. All the dances in the House right now will need to swear fealty to him, publicly. No secret ballots. The base will know who the boss really is. If it's not Trump, the base will walk.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (mdjgu)

178 SURPRISE! They were totally right, I was completely wrong. Just like that, it's happening like every oleaginous sack of lipids at the Dispatch predicted. Fuckin' A, man.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 01:49 PM (2ABQr)

It's because we have a binary system - pick a side or you don't get to play. We're stuck with it until the Revolution comes.

Candidate Recruitment is the key - that has always been the GOP's downfall in the past.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (trdmm)

179 158 I would like to see Georgia get rid of Warnock.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2021 01:51 PM (V13WU)

I read in Politico that Georgians don't like Herschel Walker....

Posted by: blaster at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (mbFEM)

180 If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (jTmQV)

181 It seems to me that every word President Dying Brain has spoken has been vile, a lie or demented. Maybe I'm being unfair.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (eGTCV)

I'm sure he's said "Good Morning" a time or two.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (eoQWY)

182 Wanna shut down the virus, Brandon? Get your Chinese Business Partners to release the antidote. You know they've got one.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (p+1gI)

183 Today is Saint John Roberts Day! But in all seriousness, he was a true man of God, who gave his life in the service of others. He was martyred for being a Catholic priest on December 10th 1610, hanged, drawn and quartered.

Posted by: Mishdog at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (EjmW1)

184 I'm not going to shut down the country [much].

Posted by: Joe "end of message" B. at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (Rbu5d)

185 The Junta's excuse for Joe not crushing the virus will continue to be: Less than 100 percent of the population is fully vaccinated! They'll revise the fully vaccinated standard as-needed, from two shots to two shots plus XX number of boosters or X shots of a new vaccine potion that is tailored to the newest edition of the bug, Variant Gamma-27 that appears in March 2023, for example. The public health panic criterion must be changed from cases to deaths plus long-term disability. Hospitalizations must not be a factor. I have no idea how we ever get there.

Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (AMIL/)

186 I refuse to let the disastrous policies of far-left Democrats become the reality of everyday Americans, and I know you do too. By donating today, you can stop the disastrous policies of far-left Democrats from becoming the reality of everyday Americans. The future of our nation is at stake. We simply can't afford to miss our goal this month.
In liberty,
Dan Crenshaw
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (wAnMi)

Dear Dan.

You had your chance. We fucked up. We trusted you.
You blew it. Now, go blow a cock.

Sincerely,

EVERYONE

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

187 So China moves on Taiwan, the Rooskies roll into Ukraine, and Joe becomes a two-theater wartime president.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (0IeYL)

188 Pollsters will use the current polls as a baseline for fabricating a Dem comeback story as next year's election approaches.

Posted by: Radio Ventriloquist at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (FsgBK)

189 The future of our nation is at stake. We simply can't afford to miss our goal this month.
In liberty,
Dan Crenshaw
Posted by: clutch cargo

Yeah, I got my eye on that guy...

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (vcOmj)

190 68 I envision a sea of red shirts, spanning the length and breath of the House chamber.

That's winning.
Posted by: Karl Rove at December 10, 2021 01:31 PM (guGkK)

Wait, are we doing a Star Trek episode?
Posted by: RNC Leadership at December 10, 2021 01:36 PM (PG1FL)

I say let's do the episode where the little kids turn cannibal and start terrorizing the red shirts.

Wait maybe that was Galaxy Quest.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (vivhj)

191
The younger me would have loved this news.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (r5BVk)

If true, this is *dreadful* news. The Uniparty scam is unbreakable. I thought for sure that Trump had changed the game, and this couldn't work anymore. C'est la vie. Que sera sera.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (2ABQr)

192 May I suggest the Republicans need to fight for the Prosecutor, District Attorney and County Attorney positions too?

Look at the Havoc the Soros Financed prosecutors are causing in blue cities. Run on crime control. That is the way to turn the urban working class poor into Republicans.

Posted by: rd at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (Z32m1)

193 In liberty,
Dan Crenshaw
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (wAnMi)

Piss on you, Crenshaw. I ain't voting for you ever again.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Rotund Dad at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (4I/2K)

194 I'm not going to shut down the economy [much].

Posted by: Joe "end of message" B. at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (Rbu5d)

195 Meh... Too many rinos and maskers have infected the Republicans. As Glenn-UFOs-are-real-Reynolds loves to say,"Gooder and Harder".

Posted by: MikeN at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (8JY45)

196 In liberty,
Dan Crenshaw
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (wAnMi)

Fuck off Crenshaw, you one-eyed grifter. How about y'all do what you were elected for instead of begging for money every five seconds.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (II3Gr)

197 Do not underestimate the GOPe ability to totally fuck things up Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (yrol0)

198 Half of the country is functionally retarded. In eleven months they will be voting Democrat to save the country from Defund the Police Republicans who want to ethnically cleanse the suburbs.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (gFCzd)

199
Yeah, I got my eye on that guy...
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 10, 2021 01:55 PM (vcOmj)

It is better to close one eye when using a scope......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

200 >>>Maybe you missed it, but they put something together, passed it, and put it on the Governors (D)esk.

You can guess the rest.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus

Swell. Josh Shapiro will likely win the governorship, so PA is officially screwed. God I cannot wait to leave this state.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (bkUtD)

201
If "Dr" Oz gets the Senate nod from the GOP in PA - well I don't know. He just seems like a giant ribbed Trojan Horse for the Dems.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (dQvv7)

202 142I'm not expecting a miracle but the GOP is definitely changing. More MTGs and Boeberts and fewer Kinzingers and Cheneys.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (ZLI7S)
A lot of the old guard on both sides are retiring. That leaves more new people to move in on both sides. The GOP are less likely to be the old neverTrumper type, and the old style Dem fixers are being phased out by the lunatic Jacobins. This makes it harder for Dems to lie about what they are about.
=====
That is a good point. Many of the old GOPe guys and Democrat machine obstructionists are stepping down. Not enough for my liking, but they are doing so. And those seats will be up for grabs, with the chance to really challenge the patronage system for the first time in decades. But I think my point about winning the primaries first still stands.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (W+kMI)

203 I'd run against Dan Crenshaw except for the skeletons. My motto would be Two eyes are better than one or Dan's blind spot is too big to ignore.

Or keep asking questions about his emotional stability and mental rigor:

"Did Dan get captured and sodomized in a cave?"
"What other adverse effects happened to Dan over the medical experimentation?"
"Dan's PTSD isn't diminishing, his call for red flagging is a Freudian plea for help."

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 10, 2021 01:57 PM (+LCoQ)

204 I'm going to [never] shut down the virus.

Posted by: Joe "end of message" B. at December 10, 2021 01:57 PM (Rbu5d)

205 Can't wait for the next Super Hero campaign commercials from Crenshaw. Woo-Hoo.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 10, 2021 01:57 PM (jvt6t)

206 187 So China moves on Taiwan, the Rooskies roll into Ukraine, and Joe becomes a two-theater wartime president.

What could go wrong?
---------------------
You assume the Americans would fight for Imperial Corporate Joe. My guess is we just say fuck you and prepare for the real war - The First American Civil War.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2021 01:57 PM (NsE9F)

207 What could go wrong?
Posted by: Weasel

We could lose.....bigly.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 10, 2021 01:57 PM (vcOmj)

208 In liberty,
Dan Crenshaw

Those words should turn to ashes in your mouth, you fucking gun-grabbing poor man's Van Heusen ad traitor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 10, 2021 01:58 PM (2JVJo)

209 And my employer wants us, the office people, to print out a "Masks Required Indoors For All" sign and post it up. I'll put one on the front door of the office when I get a chance. (If my boss weren't here I'd let it slide until Monday. In fact, if I could get away with it, I'd let the ones giving the orders post their own damn signs.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

If they didn't specify a font size you know what to do!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

2 point font in binary.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2021 01:58 PM (uXonU)

210 they can recruit decent candidates.

Are there enough Morons to go around?

Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2021 01:58 PM (FhXTo)

211 Although she has no illusions about efficacy and knows that a Republican wave next year won't change much because the Republicans are a bunch of feckless traitors, this cute Asian girl with long legs and a mini skirt wants to see a drubbing regardless:
https://is.gd/M4Jba2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 01:58 PM (DU+/6)

212 We need Conservative Republicans like Dr. OZ!

He is running for the US Senate for Pennsylvania, from his mansion in NJ.

Anti-Gun, Pro-Abortion, and a Big Government Supporter.

Posted by: rd at December 10, 2021 01:58 PM (Z32m1)

213 Some 2016 results: As high as D+7 to about D+1 lol

RCP

https://tinyurl.com/3sh6hfbj

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (SH2Zi)

214 Don't care about dems or repubs. I want conservatives. There is only a slight difference between the current crop of dems and repubs in congress. They are mostly over the age that they should continue to govern (or live) wastes of human flesh who seem to think they are my betters and should rule me. Not govern but tell me what is good for me. They can all DIAF with anal warts. My beagle could govern better and all she requires is kibble and an occasional dog treat, she doesn't need power or millions of dollars in the bank. She's smarted then them as well.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (2NHgQ)

215 So China moves on Taiwan, the Rooskies roll into Ukraine, and Joe becomes a two-theater wartime president.

What could go wrong?

Who said that Biden will engage in any of these conflicts?

He has been maintaining a one-front war against normal Americans since he assumed office.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (+LCoQ)

216 i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (0G13K)

Well, think of it this way, Ace:
Alexandria Daddario is the USA.
And Alexandria Daddario is laying naked on a bed with silken sheets and covered in rose petals, begging you to give her some sweet sweet Ewok Lovin'.
Now, imagine your dick is the next elections outcome-

With a Democrat win - your dick is limp as an overcooked Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup's noodle. And it's covered in genital warts and syphlitic sores.
With a Republican win - your dick is at half-mast, so at least you can get things started maybe, but there's a good chance that shaky bastard's gonna crap-out before you finish the job.
With a Libertarian win - your dick falls off cuz you were so stoned that you humped a bottle of Liquid Plumber cuz a Libertarian win is a stupid fantasy

Obviously, the Republican win is the best of the lot. But once the Republicans win the real work starts to get rid of the weaknesses and get that boner rock hard cuz Alexandria Daddario needs her some good lovin'.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (5NkmN)

217 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 10, 2021 01:32 PM

Thanks, truly grateful for the prayers.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (OssQ4)

218 Snake Plissken > Dan Crenshaw

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (GYllL)

219 I'm sure he's said "Good Morning" a time or two.
Posted by: Oldcat

It was raining!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (FVME7)

220 >>>We need Conservative Republicans like Dr. OZ!
He is running for the US Senate for Pennsylvania, from his mansion in NJ.
Anti-Gun, Pro-Abortion, and a Big Government Supporter.
Posted by: rd

Would never get my vote. Guy is a leftist trying to make a cash grab in PA.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (bkUtD)

221 187 So China moves on Taiwan, the Rooskies roll into Ukraine, and Joe becomes a two-theater wartime president.

What could go wrong? Posted by: Weasel

With the current junta in power, the question is what could go right?

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (9hXN1)

222 historical Tsunami elections - the election of 1894, after the Grover Cleveland and the Democrat Party had been discredited by the panic of 1893. Also, a major shakeup in the Democrat party as all of the old leadership stood down and no new leaders were in place to take over for them.

Results, out of 356 Congressional seats at the time, Republicans scored +110 in that election, ending up with a roughly 2/3 majority in the House.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (trdmm)

223 ...when Americans are asked which party they prefer to control Congress...

So, Mr. Voter, would you prefer to be punched in the face or kicked in the nuts?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (nfrXX)

224
Well, whatever. I won't cuck myself by voting for these scum. I know most others will, and it changes nothing. But I don't have to debase myself, at least.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (2ABQr)

225 It's great and all that the R's lead so much but what are they going to do once they get into office? We keep reelecting the same old scumbags and all they do is keep the seat warm until the D's come back, take the seat, and do some more destruction of our country.

We need fresh blood, people who are going to act like they're conservatives and not like they're slaves of the Chamber of Commerce.

Posted by: Bill R. at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (wzzJf)

226
See the idiot in AZ Veritas exposed. Alex Stovall.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death

He was raised in Tucson.
He says he'd a Republican.
He is a complete and utter liar.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (iMZHt)

227 Piss on you, Crenshaw. I ain't voting for you ever again.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Rotund Dad at December 10, 2021 01:56 PM (4I/2K)

The really sad part is almost everybody (D or R's) vote these people in, then never, ever check to see WTF they're doing. They have no idea how many times they've been stabbed in the back, how detrimental their policies and caves have been. Nope, they get these emails and texts, think they're actually being represented and worse case - send $ to these charlatans.

He had a really good shtick, better than most for conservatives. He also wasted zero time screwing the pooch. And there's a line behind him.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (wAnMi)

228 If they didn't specify a font size you know what to do!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

2 point font in binary.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2021 01:58 PM (uXonU)

With a near zero color alpha

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (+LCoQ)

229 i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats.
Posted by: ace

As an attorney, I advise you to drink heavily.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (FVME7)

230 You assume the Americans would fight for Imperial Corporate Joe. My guess is we just say fuck you and prepare for the real war - The First American Civil War.
Posted by: Puddin Head

3rd Battle of Bull Run.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (uXonU)

231 We need Conservative Republicans like Dr. OZ!

He is running for the US Senate for Pennsylvania, from his mansion in NJ.

Anti-Gun, Pro-Abortion, and a Big Government Supporter.
Posted by: rd

SOUNDS LIKE A WINNER TO ME!!!

Posted by: Mitch McConnell, War Turtle at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (vcOmj)

232 We've done the best we can without the executive and supermajorities in both houses.

Posted by: GOP Excuse-o-Matic at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (DU+/6)

233 Wyatt your side and my side there are not that many Rs to vote for. I am still trying to get rid of Madeline Dean And vote for Kathy Barnett for Senate, she shouldn't have lost against Dean except for fraud.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM (YbnlO)

234 As a former resident of Maryland, I can confirm that the Democrats are super-gerrymanderers just as described. Some cities and towns are in two or even three of the 8 districts. The one Republican, Andy Harris, has as his territory the entire east side of the state, from top to bottom, and half of the north side. The Democrats are now trying to redistrict him out of a seat by moving bits of various areas (such as Baltimore City) they dominate into the district and moving out some of the Republican voters into the other seven.
Posted by: R.F. Hirsch at December 10, 2021 01:53 PM (oMkPq)

I'm in Andy's district. Surprised it hasn't already been gerrymandered away. This area is very much MAGA country.

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2021 02:02 PM (mZUr4)

235 The thing is biden or any other prez could shut down the virus... just declare it over and the US open for business. Make the CDC and NIH stop fear mongering, stop buying vax, say no more masks etc.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2021 02:02 PM (r5BVk)

236 What could go wrong? Posted by: Weasel

With the current junta in power, the question is what could go right?
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (9hXN1)

Remember we're all playing by Alinsky Rules now.

The worse things get, the better it is for us.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:02 PM (trdmm)

237 Taqiyyologist, so glad to hear good news about your mother.

Posted by: Flyover at December 10, 2021 02:02 PM (Rbu5d)

238 So the Karl Rove and McConnell strategy is to run candidates that have no strong ideological preferences, spend gobs of business cash so that they are vulnerable to leadership, and that are status quo.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 01:52 PM (9hXN1)

The audacity of GOPe.

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (SH2Zi)

239 Taqiyyologist, so glad to hear good news about your mother.
Posted by: Flyover at December 10, 2021 02:02 PM (Rbu5d)

Indeed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (2ABQr)

240 Obviously, the Republican win is the best of the lot. But once the Republicans win the real work starts to get rid of the weaknesses and get that boner rock hard cuz Alexandria Daddario needs her some good lovin'.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (5NkmN)
++++
That was extremely funny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (DU+/6)

241 One of the things to look out for in this apparent flood of GOP gain is the wave of suspect "conservatives" who will run for office in the primaries. Sure, suspect conservatives (and candidates in general) is always a risk, but even more so as those who no one would ever support will get early traction because "Republican".

Lots of candidates who would under normal circumstance not even dare run will because the road is so much easier at the moment. Just declare "conservative" and watch the opportunity cascade.

This could be a very good movement sabotaged, like the Tea Party era, into actual failure.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (aXxgO)

242 Retardo will thank his lucky stars and Ovaltine when he is in Delaware and the big shit goes down. Russia invades Ukraine, the Chinks storm ashore in Taiwan and the Norks get frisky. At the same time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (lz5hY)

243
With the current junta in power, the question is what could go right?
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (9hXN1)
-----
We have a winner!

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (0IeYL)

244 If they didn't specify a font size you know what to do!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

And when someone complains that it isn't readable reprint one letter to a page and post it

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (iMZHt)

245 Can't wait for the next Super Hero campaign commercials from Crenshaw.

If he keeps with current Marvel and DC trends, the Super Hero will have him as a flaming faggot fighting White Privilege.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 10, 2021 02:03 PM (+LCoQ)

246 "I'm going to shut down the virus."

What an imbecilic thing to say. I'm just trying to wrap my brain around it, even though it was said last year when his Depends were only half wet. Even more imbecilic, perhaps, are the people that would hear such a thing and think, "yeah! he's going to really shut covid down!" What magic powers does Old Corrupt Diddlefingers have? Have any medical training, does he? Why no. He's just a very stupid, very corrupt politician who could no more shut down a virus than he could in raising decent kids.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2021 02:04 PM (sVtYq)

247 Getting back to Ace's point regarding gerrymandering, I've never heard it put that way before; it works most of the time, except for a tsunami.

I wonder what Dave in FL has to say about that, and the chances for that scenario taking place.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2021 02:04 PM (mdjgu)

248 Results, out of 356 Congressional seats at the time, Republicans scored +110 in that election, ending up with a roughly 2/3 majority in the House.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (trdmm)

Ah, the days of old, when knights were bold, and ladies were not particular....

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2021 02:04 PM (V13WU)

249 Urban Working Class Poor will never be turned into Republicans, because anyone who accepts that label is a lost cause. I think we should be more interested in policies that promote employment opportunities for Americans and not foreign colonists, the rule of law, and an optimistic point of view. If that makes you a Republican, okay.

Posted by: Erik in Texas at December 10, 2021 02:04 PM (Nh1Tg)

250 President Joe Biden's overall approval rating stabilized at a low level of 41%, according to the CNBC All-America Survey
----------

"Level" is a mitigating word, designed to take the emotion and sting out of the word "low". The media does this kind of thing constantly. It's yet another way they lie.

I find it fascinating because I love language. I think others find it boring.

Carry on.

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:05 PM (yyrb2)

251 Chicago Vota: "R's lead my enough that D's will run as Republicans to keep power"

Yep. Buyer beware.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2021 02:05 PM (aXxgO)

252 ... What magic powers does Old Corrupt Diddlefingers have? Have any medical training, does he? Why no. He's just a very stupid, very corrupt politician who could no more shut down a virus than he could in raising decent kids.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2021 02:04 PM (sVtYq)
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His magic power was listening to Fauci. His position of "shutting down the virus" was always pitched as "following the science and listening to public health experts."

Biden actually did do that. And the outcome is what it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2021 02:05 PM (DU+/6)

253 With the current junta in power, the question is what could go right?

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Poll numbers for the other side?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2021 02:05 PM (sVtYq)

254 So Alex Stovall is just one fake police report from being the Republican's Jussie Smollett. I get it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:05 PM (trdmm)

255 I understand that some people want to jam their thumb into Dan Crenshaw's good eye.

I don't condone this, but I understand it.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 10, 2021 02:05 PM (OssQ4)

256 Joe is now giving his closing remarks at his hokey Democracy Summit. It's like listening to a drunk. He's slurring the end of every fourth word, and backtracking every other sentence to say what is on the prompter instead of what he mistakenly aid. He hasn't mentioned Beau so far.

Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2021 02:06 PM (AMIL/)

257 His polling is only going to get worse. All the fundamentals are terrible.

Posted by: Max Power at December 10, 2021 02:06 PM (Hucnr)

258 OAN Interview: Jan. 6 Witness Philip Anderson, Who Was Knocked Unconscious Next to Rosanne Boyland When She Died, Says Police Caused a Stampede and Killed Her

https://bit.ly/3ELhVCO

Philip Anderson was a victim of police brutality on January 6th and is speaking out about the horrific abuse by the US Capitol Police. Anderson is lucky to be alive today. He was dragged from under a pile of bodies when the police viciously sprayed Trump supporters with an unknown liquid and then continued to push them on top of each other. Philip Anderson was knocked unconscious and dragged from the pile. Rosanne Boyland was not so fortunate and died that day due to police brutality.

Philip goes on to describe how several men pulled him to safety. Those same men are sitting in the DC Gulag today.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2021 02:06 PM (Do5/p)

259 Another typical bs thing politicians say is "I am going to do this or that" indicating immediacy, but when in power say "well its going to take some time".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (r5BVk)

260 Democrats are going to get slaughtered in 2022 and 2024.

You know they need to change the dynamic big time.

The only way they can win is to be able to blame EVERYTHING on the Republicans.

How about getting rid of their biggest problems, Brandon and the Racist Sexist Black Woman.

Appoint a Republican hated by everybody as President. Suddenly the Democrats are united by their hatred of Republicans. The media too!

Better yet make it Donald Trump! then the Republicans can hate him too, and he will not be eligible to run in 2024 either.

Posted by: rd at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (Z32m1)

261 Don't get me started on the overweight weasel snouted Romney controlling the RNC.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (GYllL)

262 Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats -- they might wind up picking up a good number of those for which they can recruit decent candidates.

If they do they will be the most milquetoast of milquetoast candidates.

The real problem is going to be all the establishment lifelong political squishes they are going to stick into guaranteed wins in primaries so they don't rock the boat too hard. Actually have Congress push the supposed GOP platform?! Are you insane!

Posted by: buzzion at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (vMCab)

263 What would the worthless, corrupt, senile piece of trash be polling at but for media felting?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (eGTCV)

264 Would never get my vote. Guy is a leftist trying to make a cash grab in PA.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 10, 2021 02:00 PM (bkUtD)

Thing is, he's getting support from the GOPe. They couldn't care less about his actual stance on anything. He's got a TV show, and a big audience. He backs the big lies on covid and open borders, so get your booster shot today! We'll just keep that whole childhood gender, abortion, gun rights etc. stuff quiet for now.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (wAnMi)

265 Thank you for the update, taq. GOD is good.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker formerly of CA at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (8CdWa)

266 As per a source on Capital Hill. Schumer told McConnell he was going to nuke the filibuster (even though he doesn't have the votes). So McConnell used that as an excuse to let the House nuke the filibuster one time for the Debt Ceiling instead of using Reconciliation, which a lot of the Republican caucus wanted Democrats to do.

McConnell and his soiled granny panties sold us out, and he'll do it again.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (JOV35)

267 Thank you for the update, taq. GOD is good.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker formerly of CA at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (8CdWa)

All The Time!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Rotund Dad at December 10, 2021 02:08 PM (4I/2K)

268 Remember who pulls the purse strings for any Republican candidates running a campaign.... Kevin (Luntz Fucker) McCarthy. He either funds, or doesn't based on what the likes of McConnell say. Therefore a MAGA type challenger gets zero funding help from the GOP even when up against a RINO/Loser incumbent. And, McCarthy funded several of the RINO's who voted for impeachment and IIRC helped Liz Cheney fend off several attacks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2021 02:08 PM (BFigT)

269 Republicans are commie self-serving assholes too chickenshit to run as Democrats. I've only been saying it for a dozen or so years.

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:08 PM (yyrb2)

270 because he had bad hires. Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid

Because he didn't push enough over the steal.
Because he's always plays to get in front of the next judge up.
Because he didn't mass-pardon non violent charges over 1/6.
Because he didn't walk into Congress himself 1/6 and make the Deep State throw him out.

Because he's necessary but insufficient.

Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2021 02:08 PM (FhXTo)

271 Snake Plissken > Dan Crenshaw
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 10, 2021 01:59 PM (GYllL)

My Left Nut > Dan Crenshaw

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

272 In a somewhat related thread over at Democratic Underground, while discussing the inflation numbers, someone posted this:

"13. Why in the hell can't everybody, you and I included,
agree that big, big changes must come - including inflation, rejection of consumerism, stopping the war machine, reversing economic growth, reading better books, quitting the media, and abandoning "normal"??"

Most are standard commie talking points, but "reversing economic growth" stood out as an outlier. I've heard plenty about "accepting" slower growth, but reversing it seems pretty crazy.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (JCZqz)

273 His polling is only going to get worse. All the fundamentals are terrible.

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We'll have to see if the WH, with its Media PR Consulting Firms working to shore up the "messaging," will have any positive effect. Part of me says no, because what people are responding to is the hit their wallets are taking and that isn't going to do anything but get worse. Part of me says never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (sVtYq)

274 Okay, Ace's ploy works and the GOPe has super majorities in both the House and Senate.

Remember the 1st 2 years of Trump's presidency?
What happened to all the "elect us we will put a stop to all this BS"...
Did they kill Obamacare?
Or did they play games and screw us?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (iMZHt)

275 Just so you know, there was a time when the Dems would compromise. It was back when they gave a damn about their constituents. They don't need them to get elected now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (5HBd1)

276 WOO HOO!!

Obamacare will be repealed!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (OalnH)

277 81 Now don't be bringing up this Trump fellow. He's icky to very, very stupid voters, plus, he's too old. In addition, he wasn't able to achieve some of his objectives in his first term despite near-uniform opposition (open or covert) and lack of support from his own GOP, because he had bad hires. Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (OTzUX)

And he said p*ssy!!1!

Posted by: Fat blue-hair in the prius, with a blue mask hanging from the rear view mirror at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (Rbu5d)

278 i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats.

Posted by: ace at December

That's why we're replacing you with trannies.

Posted by: Ronna and the RNC! at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (oj/cK)

279 I live in Underhills district in Illinois which is now so gerrymandered it is 4 dimensional. Should be a vulnerable target but with my baggage theyd make me out to be gg allin, who would actually be right at home in the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (SAErm)

280 "Republicans should start recruiting candidates for D+5 to D+10 "safe" seats -- they might wind up picking up a good number of those for which they can recruit decent candidates. "

They are already doing that. Here's the problem. McCarthy is the one giving them money. McCarthy, btw, has Trump's support.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (JOV35)

281 Thing is, he's getting support from the GOPe. They couldn't care less about his actual stance on anything. He's got a TV show, and a big audience. He backs the big lies on covid and open borders, so get your booster shot today! We'll just keep that whole childhood gender, abortion, gun rights etc. stuff quiet for now.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (wAnMi)

Still - I remember when I thought Pat Toomey was gonna be a great Senator, he checked all the right boxes. How would Dr. Oz be any different than what Pat Toomey turned out to be? (And Toomey was still far far better than Snarlin' Arlen Spectre)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (trdmm)

282 266 As per a source on Capital Hill. Schumer told McConnell he was going to nuke the filibuster (even though he doesn't have the votes). So McConnell used that as an excuse to let the House nuke the filibuster one time for the Debt Ceiling instead of using Reconciliation, which a lot of the Republican caucus wanted Democrats to do.

McConnell and his soiled granny panties sold us out, and he'll do it again.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:07 PM (JOV35)

Why don't we let Schumer go ahead and nuke the filibuster? There will come a time when the Dems aren't in power - and if there is indeed an opposition party - make the Dems regret ever even thinking that nuking it was a good idea. You'd think Schumer would have learned from Harry Reid's mistakes.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (N39Ws)

283 Now don't be bringing up this Trump fellow. He's icky to very, very stupid voters, plus, he's too old. In addition, he wasn't able to achieve some of his objectives in his first term despite near-uniform opposition (open or covert) and lack of support from his own GOP, because he had bad hires. Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2021 01:37 PM (OTzUX)

And he said p*ssy!!1!
Posted by: Fat blue-hair in the prius, with a blue mask hanging from the rear view mirror at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (Rbu5d)

And he has small hands and smells like cabbage!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Rotund Dad at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (4I/2K)

284 Another typical bs thing politicians say is "I am going to do this or that" indicating immediacy, but when in power say "well its going to take some time".
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

"We had to make compromises to get it voted out of committee"

"they attached this toxic amendment to it and we had to vote it down"

Yeah, all that eye wash that we've heard a thousand times.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (vcOmj)

285 "i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats."

Like the Churchill quote. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 10, 2021 02:11 PM (OalnH)

286 "But Ted Wheeler, mayor of Portland, is sorrowed by his loss. I guess Ted found a white supremist he likes."

I guess in his world, hatred of "vigilantism" trumps hatred of an AB member engaged in a violent crime. Can't keep up with their priority list.

Posted by: RM at December 10, 2021 02:11 PM (U3LtS)

287 Listening to JJ (sidebar link) on Twitter. Good stuff

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (mZUr4)

288 We don't need Trump. We just need someone with Trump's good qualities and none of his bad ones who the Left will treat with respect!!!

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (yyrb2)

289 Philip goes on to describe how several men pulled him to safety. Those same men are sitting in the DC Gulag today.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2021 02:06 PM (Do5/p)

And the feds are sitting on hundreds of hours of surveillance video, not even counting the tunnel video. But, we're supposed to believe everything they tell us based on 5 second video snippets and stills. I still can't believe this is happening in the USA. We've now had a year of brainwashing the left into believing this was the most dangerous thing to happen in the country since ever. And the GOPe is 100% complicit. They could have been hollering as soon as these people started getting rounded up, and just sucked down another martini and oyster instead.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (wAnMi)

290 We don't need Trump. We just need someone with Trump's good qualities and none of his bad ones who the Left will treat with respect!!!
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (yyrb2)

Right?!? Yeah!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

291 Remember the 1st 2 years of Trump's presidency?
What happened to all the "elect us we will put a stop to all this BS"...
Did they kill Obamacare?
Or did they play games and screw us?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 02:09 PM (iMZHt)

look at the plus side - at least a GOP Congress won't send the Military door to door doing medical experiments on you, and throwing you in a concentration camp if you resist.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (trdmm)

292
Therefore a MAGA type challenger gets zero funding help from the GOP even when up against a RINO/Loser incumbent.

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If only it stopped at withholding funds. Remember what they did to Chris McDaniel. And to Roy Moore. They would rather lose a winnable seat than have even one non-cuck in their caucus.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (2ABQr)

293 Oh boy!

Of course, the bigger the win, the less the GOPe will think they need us, and the more strongly they'll want to show they can "govern". Which is to say, be almost as bad as Democrax.

Yes, I'll vote for them (except Tillis; he's on my eternal shit list.) But I don't like it.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2021 02:13 PM (7X3UV)

294 Remember the 1st 2 years of Trump's presidency?
What happened to all the "elect us we will put a stop to all this BS"...
Did they kill Obamacare?
Or did they play games and screw us?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

OOh! OOh! pick me! pick me! I know the answer.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 10, 2021 02:13 PM (vcOmj)

295 If we're still voting under COVID rules in 2022 & 2024, places like Philly will just manufacture "mail in" votes in the middle of the night and the rest of the week until the democrat candidate wins.

Posted by: Me Again at December 10, 2021 02:13 PM (Izzlo)

296 2022: GOP wins House and Senate

GOP: We'd love to do things like build a wall and cut spending, but you know, with Biden in office we just can't

2024: GOP wins House, Senate and POTUS
GOP: Look we only have a slim majority in congress, we can't really do anything

2026: GOP wins massive majorities in the house and senate
GOP: Come on, the POTUS election is in two short years we can't possibly do anything bold. We'll do it after the election swearsies

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 10, 2021 02:13 PM (OalnH)

297 There are two views of COVID and disease in general*.

1) There isn't much the president or federal government can do. And therefore you shouldn't blame them for an outbreak. This was more or less Trump's view

2) The president and federal government can stop a disease in its tracks and it is only a lack of will or vision if they don't. Biden literally ran on this, and if he won legitimately (note he didn't) it was because people believed him.

So, not only should Biden be turned out based on his own statements as the disease has supposedly killed more people under his watch now, he should get the fill Wicker Man treatment.

*outside of not creating new diseases of course

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (ESjRY)

298 I'm not voting for any of these R cocksuckers. Let them have to find a real job. FUCK THEM.

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (yyrb2)

299 >>> Remember who pulls the purse strings for any Republican candidates running a campaign.... Kevin (Luntz Fucker) McCarthy. He either funds, or doesn't based on what the likes of McConnell say. Therefore a MAGA type challenger gets zero funding help from the GOP even when up against a RINO/Loser incumbent. And, McCarthy funded several of the RINO's who voted for impeachment and IIRC helped Liz Cheney fend off several attacks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2021 02:08 PM (BFigT)

This is why winred can go DIAF. I donated to trump through them a number of times. More than I've ever supported a candidate before and I get tons of begs now. Who knows where my money went. I wish Trump would go it alone. I know this would be declaring war, and Trump is a supporter of traditional structures and would never do this. But I wish he would.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (IN3jG)

300
(And Toomey was still far far better than Snarlin' Arlen Spectre)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM

One thing about Arlen I'll never forget is how he warned everyone about loosening the noose around China's head re giving them 'Permanent' Most Favored trade status. That speech was as prescient as they come.

Sometimes he was right about stuff that mattered financially to his constituents.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (dQvv7)

301 Well, crap. I was out doing important stuff like shopping for food and missed the thread with the mention of Michael Nesmith's passing.

That said, I guess it's time for a re-viewing of Television Parts and Elephant Parts. Irish as a second language, etc., etc.

For that matter, even Sam Kinison mentioned the Monkees once when he was riffing on Charles Manson and how the Manson Family was inspired by the Beatles.

"Why not the f*cking Monkees!?! Last Train to Clarksville, Whitey! Ahhhhhhh! Ahhhhh!"

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (ZSK0i)

302 2026: GOP wins massive majorities in the house and senate
GOP: Come on, the POTUS election is in two short years we can't possibly do anything bold. We'll do it after the election swearsies

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant

2028: The Barr/Durham Indictments roll in!!!

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:15 PM (yyrb2)

303 2028: The Barr/Durham Indictments roll in!!!

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:15 PM (yyrb2)

lol

Posted by: flounder at December 10, 2021 02:15 PM (SH2Zi)

304 look at the plus side - at least a GOP Congress won't send the Military door to door doing medical experiments on you, and throwing you in a concentration camp if you resist.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You missed adding the /sarc to that statement.
Remember Miley, in the 1940 uniform, is in there... and remember what they did to the American Japanese back then...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 02:15 PM (iMZHt)

305
I wish Trump would go it alone. I know this would be declaring war, and Trump is a supporter of traditional structures and would never do this. But I wish he would.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (IN3jG)

This was my hope, too. But it didn't materialize. And since he plans to run with the Party that buttfucked him, and by extension me, then I won't be voting for him a third time. An (R) next to the candidate's name is a deal breaker for me, now and forever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (2ABQr)

306 McConnell is getting a lot of help in the senate. Look at the 14 who voted for that Debt Ceiling surrender. Every one of them needs to go.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (JOV35)

307 Still - I remember when I thought Pat Toomey was gonna be a great Senator, he checked all the right boxes. How would Dr. Oz be any different than what Pat Toomey turned out to be? (And Toomey was still far far better than Snarlin' Arlen Spectre)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:10 PM (trdmm)

I tend to think if we can already see skeletons everywhere, and we haven't even peaked in his closet yet, it's even uglier than imagined. But, people love their celebrities so I'm relatively convinced this guy is a shoo in. And a "Dr" in the time of covid? Bonus points.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (wAnMi)

308 2028: The Barr/Durham Indictments roll in!!!
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:15 PM (yyrb2)

____

#TwoWeeks, err months, err years, err senate terms yeah that's it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (OalnH)

309 I'm enjoying the "small victories" (Rittenhouse, Smollett, low Democrat and Biden polls, etc.) and hope they keep up.

However, can't help but think back to the days before Covid when we were all cautiously optimistic about the coming elections.

Trust but verify. Nah. Hope but don't trust.

Posted by: RM at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (U3LtS)

310 What was so bad about Toomey? Yeah the gun check bill. OK. But other than that he was pretty much a straight "R" vote on things wasn't he?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 10, 2021 02:17 PM (OalnH)

311 2030 after the 23rd booster, humanity splits into Morlocks and Eloi

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2021 02:17 PM (SAErm)

312 If only it stopped at withholding funds. Remember what they did to Chris McDaniel. And to Roy Moore. They would rather lose a winnable seat than have even one non-cuck in their caucus.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:12 PM (2ABQr)

This is the bottom line and why I hope the GOP doesn't follow ace's advice about funding more seats. The ideal situation would be for the Republicans to very narrowly take both the House and Senate after everything showing they would win by a landslide.

I am sitting this one out, and everyone that follows, if McConnell or McCarthy or one other cuck clones is in leadership.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 10, 2021 02:18 PM (nMx88)

313 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (2ABQr)

He has to do that if he wants to win. The D's would criminalize bring a Republican if they could but they can't. They WILL criminalize any party with a danger any actual pull. I agree about R's otherwise but Trump more than earned my vote.

Posted by: ... at December 10, 2021 02:18 PM (yyrb2)

314 Shut down the virus?

Hey Joe, how's about you just shutting your mouth?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2021 02:18 PM (axyOa)

315 138...Then we might as well fly the black flag...
Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2021 01:48 PM (W+kMI)

Someone mention "black flag"...?

Posted by: Mencken, spitting on his hands at December 10, 2021 02:18 PM (Rbu5d)

316 2112 The Syrinx party assumes control (temporarily)

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2021 02:19 PM (SAErm)

317 It'll be revealing what leadership emerges in the House and Senate.

McConnell won't leave, but will Thune be kept on? If Louisiana's Kennedy were to get the Whip job, I'd be encouraged.

Kevin McCarthy has Trump's cautious support, for reasons I cannot explain. But the House caucus is about to become lots more Trumpian (assuming the polls are right). People like Cheney and Kinzinger are obviously gone, but many more grifters are also going to be flushed or scared. Will those changes be reflected in the House leadership?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2021 02:19 PM (aWoBQ)

318 AZ deplorable moron: "Or did they play games and screw us?"

To ask is to answer.

But you knew that already.

I hate to be this cynical, but my genitals have been kicked so may times, it looks like Charlie Brown's Bizarro Football.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2021 02:19 PM (aXxgO)

319
Hey Joe, how's about you just shutting your mouth?
Posted by: Diogenes

He can't do that, he'd drown in the drool.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021 02:19 PM (iMZHt)

320 I stick around for this thread, but it's no longer socially acceptable to tell poll-ish jokes.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 10, 2021 01:27 PM (m45I2)

At the Intel School, we had to change all our jokes to 2nd Lieutenant jokes. They were more funny anyway.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (axyOa)

321 And my employer wants us, the office people, to print out a "Masks Required Indoors For All" sign and post it up. I'll put one on the front door of the office when I get a chance. (If my boss weren't here I'd let it slide until Monday. In fact, if I could get away with it, I'd let the ones giving the orders post their own damn signs.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
If they didn't specify a font size you know what to do!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2021

***
Unfortunately they sent me the pre-prepared sign.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (txdEq)

322
But, people love their celebrities so I'm relatively convinced this guy is a shoo in. And a "Dr" in the time of covid? Bonus points.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021

Yup, the women will eat that up, even in my hetero opinion he's as ugly as snot. He'll be the big Trojan Horse, ribbed for 'her' pleasure.

We got a couple much better candidates then that carpet bagger.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (dQvv7)

323 Somehow I seriously doubt Trump's name will be on a Republican ballot anywhere. If he runs, it'll be as a 3rd party something-or-other (which probably won't get on the majority of ballots) or write-in.

Both of those scenarios are losing scenarios.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (BFigT)

324 306 McConnell is getting a lot of help in the senate. Look at the 14 who voted for that Debt Ceiling surrender. Every one of them needs to go.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (JOV35)

If any of those 14 draws a Republican primary challenger who defeats the incumbent, McConnell will do everything in his power to keep that person from winning the general. It is a tic with him.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (nMx88)

325 The GOP suffered terrible midterm losses in 2018 and yet McConnel remained at the top of the ladder in the Senate. In time past, a loss like that would mean a change in leadership. Even in the house, after losing the Majority, look who remained at the top of the GOP, ready to become speaker: the RINO from California.

I'm all for new blood coming in, and certainly for an end to the Dem majority in the House, but unless the leadership changes too it's going to be band-aids on bullet wounds.

Posted by: Shenanigans at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (q83Fr)

326 People should continue to be active in their local races. That's how you get a good candidate who doesn't sell you out to the donors. If local candidates, like that wench from Staten Island, Maliotakis sell you out, you primary them out. It's that simple but people need to be involved.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (JOV35)

327 The Supremes have left the Texas abortion ban in place for now, but ruled that the lower court challenges can proceed for now.

No final decision, in other words.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (bW8dp)

328 "Republicans Lead by Ten Points for Control of Congress"

Thru no fault of their own.

Posted by: f'd at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (Tnijr)

329
Project Veritas just exposed a Fake Republican running in AZ.

We need to vet these R Shits.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (I9qiW)

330 >>> 'm enjoying the "small victories" (Rittenhouse, Smollett, low Democrat and Biden polls, etc.) and hope they keep up.

However, can't help but think back to the days before Covid when we were all cautiously optimistic about the coming elections.

Trust but verify. Nah. Hope but don't trust.
Posted by: RM at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (U3LtS)

I remember a bunch of smoke being blown up our collective asses leading up to the dog-eater's 2nd win. Was it Rove and the dem guy that's wrong about everything? A lot of pundits were doing it. Rombley threw it all of course. I remember the R campaign advisers made out like bandits. See Ya!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (IN3jG)

331 2112 The Syrinx party assumes control (temporarily)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2021 02:19 PM (SAErm)

Don't annoy us further!!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2021 02:22 PM (mZUr4)

332 It's doesn't matter. The Republicans have been cucks for a while. They totally went along with the COVID farce.

Posted by: Che Pizza at December 10, 2021 02:22 PM (U8+yJ)

333 I remember when all of those Tea Party candidates helped sweep the GOP into power. The changes they wrought were staggering. I hope we can do it again in 2022.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 10, 2021 02:22 PM (EpDzw)

334 I wish Trump would go it alone. I know this would be declaring war, and Trump is a supporter of traditional structures and would never do this. But I wish he would.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 02:14 PM (IN3jG)

This was my hope, too. But it didn't materialize. And since he plans to run with the Party that buttfucked him, and by extension me, then I won't be voting for him a third time. An (R) next to the candidate's name is a deal breaker for me, now and forever.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:16 PM (2ABQr)

The time to do that was on his second run. Make it clear who the enemy is. At this point I don't think it makes a difference.

2024 is still a lifetime away, let's see what (if anything) happens with his social media "platform". 2 days ago they were teaming with Rumble, which seemed fantastic. Today? Odysee says Rumble is threatening to sue them over a tweet claiming they use bots to generate bogus view numbers (they do). Great move guys. Let's alienate as many people before your fucking company is out of the gate by taking on alt tech that's still shaking itself out. Fuck you.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:22 PM (wAnMi)

335
The Republicans have been cucks for a while. They totally went along with the COVID farce.
Posted by: Che Pizza at December 10, 2021 02:22 PM (U8+yJ)

And every single other thing the Democrats have ever wanted for my entire adult life. They are just Democrats who run interference by pretending to be another Party.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM (2ABQr)

336 And Dan Crenshaw can suck on my choad while barking like the trained circus SEAL that he is.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM (bW8dp)

337 The really sad part is almost everybody (D or R's) vote these people in, then never, ever check to see WTF they're doing. They have no idea how many times they've been stabbed in the back, how detrimental their policies and caves have been. Nope, they get these emails and texts, think they're actually being represented and worse case - send $ to these charlatans.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:01 PM

Serious question. Has this always been the case in American politics? That candidates ask citizens for money for their campaign and then as elected representatives ask to send them money for [X, Y or Z issue]?

I never saw the logic in giving my money to a politician. The government takes enough of my earned money from taxes. Why the fuck would I voluntarily give people money just for campaigning and then again later just for doing their job... a job whose salary is paid for with my taxes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM (Do5/p)

338 "Republicans Lead by Ten Points for Control of Congress"

Thru no fault of their own.
Posted by: f'd at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (Tnijr)

This is worth a consideration.
What did the GOPers do to move up like this?
Not a lot.
Itw because the Dems are screwing themselves.
As soon as they pull their heads out of their asses, they can fix it...thus showing momentum.
And the GOPers still do nothing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM (axyOa)

339
Have you all seen that Facebook's lawyers are now arguing that their fact-checks are not really statements of fact, but are merely opinion.

John Stossel is suing Facebook over labelling one of his global-warmuning videos as "misleading", and that's the argument FaceFuck is making. Shit, your honor, any fool knows our fact-checks are just opinions. C'mon, man.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 10, 2021 02:24 PM (Mzdiz)

340 Posted by: Shenanigans at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (q83Fr)

McConnell has been personally responsible for back-to-back Republican losses in Arizona. His only goal is to keep his leadership post, and whether that is in the minority or not does not matter to him. Grift is his sole goal.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 10, 2021 02:24 PM (nMx88)

341 If in PA look up Kathy Barnett for Senate

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 10, 2021 02:24 PM (YbnlO)

342 Don't worry Ace, we'll find away to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: The GOPe (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Uniparty) at December 10, 2021 02:24 PM (4NlII)

343 "If any of those 14 draws a Republican primary challenger who defeats the incumbent, McConnell will do everything in his power to keep that person from winning the general. It is a tic with him.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (nMx8

"

McConnell is fucking poison to the party. It's time to drive him and all the Old Shitbags out. Murkoski, Cornyn and all the rest of them. They are dog shit. We will never get the country back with those people in the senate.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:25 PM (JOV35)

344 328 "Republicans Lead by Ten Points for Control of Congress"

Thru no fault of their own.
Posted by: f'd at December 10, 2021 02:21 PM (Tnijr)
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There's two kinds of babies and two kinks of cherries and two kind of Republicans I'm told.

Posted by: Brandon at December 10, 2021 02:25 PM (bW5jA)

345 I never saw the logic in giving my money to a politician. The government takes enough of my earned money from taxes. Why the fuck would I voluntarily give people money just for campaigning and then again later just for doing their job... a job whose salary is paid for with my taxes.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

They grift more in a day than I make in a year. Fuck them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2021 02:25 PM (uXonU)

346 The rot is deep in our elite class as there is a wide gap between what is said and what is meant. Every statement made by our elites becomes a Schrodinger's cat statement--both alive and dead at the same time.

Consider the perversion of the word 'conservative' that would cover the positions of Goldberg, Kristol, McConnell, Matt Lewis, Justice Roberts, etc. Such a definition is so broad that anyone including Pelosi could claim to be a 'conservative' if she wished. After all, she wants to promote status quo of Democratic dominance. One might well call Stalin a conservative as after all he simply wanted to consolidate Russian power which was a goal long sought by czars.

When words get divorced from common meaning, as in law, in politics, in the economy, in social discussions, it becomes elites and the people separated by a common language with the elites using their coercive power to force unnatural definitions of words to describe reality.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (9hXN1)

347 It's like marrying a girl who tells you she will continue to cheat on you.

And you put the ring on anyway.

Posted by: I mean at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (v2CkJ)

348 @340, McSally, McConnell... bleeding Irish

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (SAErm)

349 And the GOPers still do nothing.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM (axyOa)

We made the Dems own the debt limit increase!!! See the power of the fully operational GOP.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (EpDzw)

350 > McConnell has been personally responsible for back-to-back Republican losses in Arizona.

The sad thing there is that Senator FuckMeBoots is more reliably conservative than Fuckstain McCain ever was.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (bW8dp)

351 I still say the most important votes won't be for congress or the prez. It'll be for each state's governor and legislature.

Posted by: I'm The Other White Meat at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (Fs5vw)

352 As soon as they pull their heads out of their asses, they can fix it...thus showing momentum.
And the GOPers still do nothing.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM (axyOa)

Sometimes you just get lucky. In this case, it's the fact that the Democrats are congenitally incapable of pulling their heads out of their asses.

On that topic - Two Democrat Congressmen just reintroduced a bill to ban all fracking, because We are All Gonna Die.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (trdmm)

353 "What did the GOPers do to move up like this?
Not a lot. "

They are not Democrats. They didn't do shit to earn that and anyone looking at the issues would realize that. We will get it just as hard from Republicans led by McConnell and McCarthy. It will take about 6 months before people sour on them in a majority. They are too busy serving their corporate donors and not the people.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (JOV35)

354 I'm gong to ask my doctor for an updated no-mask letter, stating I have anxiety issues when I wear the face diaper for very long. The current letter already says wearing one causes me vertigo. Now I'll tell him I'm anxious over possibly blacking out.

The Personnel goons are saying they could provide me with a face shield. No f*in' way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (txdEq)

355 Just received on my phone:

"All Trump Patriots who step up in the next 40min will be upgraded to 800% match to CANCEL PELOSI. Dems win if you sleep on this 800% match."

Okay, now I'm convinced. Here's everything in my savings. Cancel away.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (TNyrE)

356 The sad thing there is that Senator FuckMeBoots is more reliably conservative than Fuckstain McCain ever was.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (bW8dp)

She's really one of the last liberals in Washington.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (6FeV1)

357 > It's like marrying a girl who tells you she will continue to cheat on you.

> And you put the ring on anyway.

Hey, now. Some of us consider that a feature... 'cuz we're into that shit.

Posted by: The Entire Staff of The Bulwark at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (bW8dp)

358 McConnell is fucking poison to the party. It's time to drive him and all the Old Shitbags out. Murkoski, Cornyn and all the rest of them. They are dog shit. We will never get the country back with those people in the senate.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:25 PM (JOV35)

Hey HEY! Why all the hate?!!?
We don't like them either.

Posted by: Dried Up Dog Turd On A Bad Stretch Of Road at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (wAnMi)

359 The sad thing there is that Senator FuckMeBoots is more reliably conservative than Fuckstain McCain ever was.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 10, 2021 02:26 PM (bW8dp)

And Flaky Flake, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:28 PM (trdmm)

360 McConnell is fucking poison to the party. It's time to drive him and all the Old Shitbags out. Murkoski, Cornyn and all the rest of them. They are dog shit. We will never get the country back with those people in the senate.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:25 PM (JOV35)

This. Shitcan the shitbags!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Rotund Dad at December 10, 2021 02:28 PM (4I/2K)

361 Why, it's almost like shitting all over everything and threatening to put half the country out of work for the lulz has consequences!

Posted by: CppThis at December 10, 2021 02:29 PM (UewuT)

362
All Trump Patriots who step up in the next 40min will be upgraded to 800% match to CANCEL PELOSI. Dems win if you sleep on this 800% match.

-------

This is one of my favorite grifts. "Give us $1, and we promise to give $8 of our own money back to ourselves."

What kind of retard falls for this? LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:29 PM (2ABQr)

363 181...I'm sure he's said "Good Morning" a time or two.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2021 01:54 PM (eoQWY)

At 9pm.

Posted by: Flyover at December 10, 2021 02:30 PM (Rbu5d)

364 And the GOPers still do nothing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2021 02:23 PM

They are doing much more than nothing. They're supporting the Democrats on everything they want. Except for maybe the BBB Bill.

But didn't they vote with Democrats for the "vaccine" database? And to raise the debt ceiling? And probably a bunch of other things I don't remember at the moment.

I would prefer it if the GOP just did nothing (i.e. vote against everything and make the Democrats own everything). Instead, they're helping.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2021 02:30 PM (Do5/p)

365 And while we're angry, fuck the Federalist Society and their group of warmed over dog turds they picked for SCOTUS. Nobody should ever take their recommendations again.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (JOV35)

366 This. Shitcan the shitbags!
Posted by: Count de Monet, Rotund Dad at December 10, 2021 02:28 PM (4I/2K)

A cartoony Elephant silhouette taking a shit, with a ban sign over it, captioned "Curb Your GOP"

I'll fire up GIMP and see what i can do....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (6FeV1)

367 **
Unfortunately they sent me the pre-prepared sign.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 10, 2021 02:20 PM (txdEq)

It's really too bad the printer is broken. Isn't it?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (IJES/)

368 Disaster for Dems? Like last time? Only if the integrity of the election is upheld.

Posted by: leber at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (TUdnY)

369 318
I hate to be this cynical, but my genitals have been kicked so may times, it looks like Charlie Brown's Bizarro Football.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2021 02:19 PM

That's hot. I always fantasized about Lucy handling my, uh, "football" IYKWIM. And then having a young boy kick it.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (JCZqz)

370 Just received on my phone:
"All Trump Patriots who step up in the next 40min will be upgraded to 800% match to CANCEL PELOSI. Dems win if you sleep on this 800% match."
Okay, now I'm convinced. Here's everything in my savings. Cancel away.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 10, 2021 02:27 PM (TNyrE)

Literally just got the same message. I was fine when I'd get something once a week or so - sometimes just talking about progress. But now? It's this passive aggressive shit. "Why you no answer?" and "You've Ignored Us Again, This Is The Last Time We..." and "A Plea Before It's Too Late"

Fuck dudes, you're worse than my ex.

Posted by: Dried Up Dog Turd On A Bad Stretch Of Road at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (wAnMi)

371 And Flaky Flake, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:28 PM (trdmm)

----------------
I'm quite satisfied that Sinema resides in Flakey's vacated seat. If I go back to thinking its Jon Kyl's seat, I then start to get POed.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 10, 2021 02:32 PM (TNyrE)

372 stanky sock

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:32 PM (wAnMi)

373 This is one of my favorite grifts. "Give us $1, and we promise to give $8 of our own money back to ourselves."

What kind of retard falls for this? LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2021 02:29 PM

Apparently quite a few. Because if it didn't work, they wouldn't keep doing it.

Southpark needs to update their 09/11 episode, because it has become clear to me over the past 20 years that their estimate of 25% of the country being retards is extremely low.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2021 02:32 PM (Do5/p)

374 Never donate to an organization that's going to distribute your money. Donate directly to the politician you have vetted and want.

If Trump endorses a politician, especially now in the primaries and he needs money, that's where my money goes.

Posted by: Brandon at December 10, 2021 02:32 PM (bW5jA)

375 GOP hasn't earned this lead. It's been handed it by Dems, whose suckitude cannot be concealed. But that lead won't survive actual GOP governance. Install a GOP congress and it'll remind everyone why the GOP ain't in charge.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2021 02:33 PM (QU5/8)

376 306 McConnell is getting a lot of help in the senate. Look at the 14 who voted for that Debt Ceiling surrender. Every one of them needs to go. Posted by: Marcus T

There is a common misunderstanding of the role of leaders in the House and Senate. They do not exist to actually promote policy nor even their party--they exist to service existing members. The reason that Republicans have more or less consolidated on doing nothing aside from tax cuts is that they do not agree what is to be done among themselves. So, the leaders happily oblige by raising gobs of money and use that spigot along with floor control to tamp out any dissidents. McConnell persists as leader because he shields his members from tough votes, raises a bunch of money for them, and simply relies on Democratic mistakes in office to get new members. McCarthy is without a spine which means that he tries to encompass all possible party members including Kinzinger and Cheney so as to keep the money coming in. To him, a nominal leftist Republican is as good as a staunch conservative. Trump probably continues to deal with him as McCarthy has no principles to get in his way of swaying with the political winds.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:34 PM (9hXN1)

377 Still - I remember when I thought Pat Toomey was gonna be a great Senator, he checked all the right boxes.

Not a Pennsylvanian so just my view from the outside. I also had hopes for Toomey but in retrospect, I can't say why except that he wasn't Specter.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2021 02:34 PM (nfrXX)

378 a contrarian thought in favor of a GOP Congress: Democrats, just like now, always want to DO something, which means changing things, spending lots of money, screwing things up in every conceivable way. They can't stop, that's who they are.

Republicans, on the other hand, have shown that they have a genuine talent for doing Nothing At All. They have worked on this talent for a very long time, and they are very good at it.

I have actually gotten to the point where I will be quite content with a Congress that I know is going to do Nothing, Ever. It's all I ever expect or want out of them. That's why I'll be voting Republican next fall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:34 PM (trdmm)

379 247 Getting back to Ace's point regarding gerrymandering, I've never heard it put that way before; it works most of the time, except for a tsunami.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2021 02:04 PM (mdjgu)
_________

The ideal gerrymander has you get 51% in all your wins, and the other guy gets 100% in his. That is, assuming actual votes actually counted.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2021 02:34 PM (7X3UV)

380 And, McCarthy funded several of the RINO's who voted for impeachment and IIRC helped Liz Cheney fend off several attacks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2021 02:08 PM (BFigT)

They only kicked her out of the leadership because she was hurting fundraising. The week before they were all praising her and telling off anyone that was calling her the snake that she is.

Posted by: buzzion at December 10, 2021 02:34 PM (vMCab)

381 Not that I needed more conformation, but once McConnell sold us out on the Debt Ceiling, it's pretty clear that guy will fuck us over on everything the voters care about. He has no scruples and doesn't give a shit what the voters think. This is all some kind of game to that nasty old lady. He needs to be gone and soon. Anyone who votes for him as leader can follow. Fucking scamps.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:35 PM (JOV35)

382 I would prefer it if the GOP just did nothing (i.e. vote against everything and make the Democrats own everything). Instead, they're helping.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2021 02:30 PM (Do5/p)

That's what I mentioned earlier - how messed up is it that we actually hope for them to sit on their thumbs, because when they do something, it's not to our benefit?

They're like the Antifa moms who go out and buy sonny a bullet proof vest, baseball bat, a bunch of bottles and a can of gasoline, then sit back and wonder where it all went wrong.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:35 PM (wAnMi)

383 WH Briefing:

Psaki: "Inflation, that's so November. Gas is down in December, like twenty cents!"

Posted by: WisRich at December 10, 2021 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

384 347 It's like marrying a girl who tells you she will continue to cheat on you.

And you put the ring on anyway.

Posted by: I mean

Cuckservatives applaud your understanding. After all, watching and humiliation is part of the kink.

Posted by: j goldberg esq at December 10, 2021 02:36 PM (9hXN1)

385 reversing economic growth

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Hey hey ho ho
Economic growth has got to go

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2021 02:36 PM (FVME7)

386 Never donate to an organization that's going to distribute your money. Donate directly to the politician you have vetted and want.

If Trump endorses a politician, especially now in the primaries and he needs money, that's where my money goes.

Posted by: Brandon at December 10, 2021 02:32 PM (bW5jA)

With a name like yours, I hope you enjoy this song...
https://youtu.be/woceVRLKtMw

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2021 02:36 PM (mZUr4)

387 In happy news,
Kashama Sawant, proclaimed socialist is going to keep her seat on the Seattle City Council. She represents one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city. Also, the area where Chop/Chaz happened. I hope those folks take it good and hard. And then harder.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2021 02:36 PM (rrRPn)

388 Psaki's spin on inflation is mind blowing.

Posted by: WisRich at December 10, 2021 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

389 368 Disaster for Dems? Like last time? Only if the integrity of the election is upheld.
Posted by: leber at December 10, 2021 02:31 PM (TUdnY)

If you look at it closely, they swung the 2020 election by controlling the apparatus in 6 large and key cities. That's all it took.

they don't have the reach to sway congressional elections with those 6 cities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:37 PM (trdmm)

390 Did you really do that?

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2021 02:37 PM (9v1sv)

391 Remember, if a majority of Republicans on the hill didn't vote for them, McConnell and McCarthy wouldn't be the leaders. Which means at least half of the GOP incumbents are pure shit.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (7X3UV)

392 Popping in to brag that my rural house now has fiber internet. If you want to live rurally with conveniences, you can NOT beat rural Missouri!

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (ZSsrh)

393 NOOD -- Inflation

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (mZUr4)

394 Did you really do that?
Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2021 02:37 PM (9v1sv)

Yep!

Posted by: spongeb at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

395 It's not just the Olde Guard Republicans that are worthless. Those two blond motor mouths who elicit boners from the gun crowd haven't done a fucking thing since being elected other than some "mean tweets" and up votes. They're the GOP version of Sandy Cortez with less commie, same grift.

Yet they persist.

And are somehow "the future of the GOP."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (BFigT)

396 nood

girthy (inflation)

Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (IN3jG)

397 fucking fingers.....

They're good in an intern, shitty on a keyboard.

Posted by: Spongebrain Shitpants at December 10, 2021 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

398 "Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:34 PM (9hXN1)"

McConnell is indeed the big money guy. He does their bidding to the detriment of the voters. That's why I said he's poison. He is destroying our republic for a few bucks and his liege of subversives are helping him.

There is no democratic republic with McConnell as leader. He's turned it into a oligarchy.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2021 02:39 PM (JOV35)

399 380 It is the old Aesop fable about the frogs wanting a king.

You have King Log which does nothing for the frogs which leads to demands of a new King that does. So, the frogs get King Stork which actively gobbles them up. Again, the frogs are unhappy but they asked for it--literally.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2021 02:39 PM (9hXN1)

400 Psaki: We need Build Back Better to fight inflation (I kid you not). Because adding $5T into the economy is so deflationary.

Posted by: WisRich at December 10, 2021 02:39 PM (G0vdT)

401 Have you all seen that Facebook's lawyers are now arguing that their fact-checks are not really statements of fact, but are merely opinion.

John Stossel is suing Facebook over labelling one of his global-warmuning videos as "misleading", and that's the argument FaceFuck is making. Shit, your honor, any fool knows our fact-checks are just opinions. C'mon, man.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 10, 2021 02:24 PM (Mzdiz)

And removing information, freezing accounts and banning people permanently based solely on opinion is the action any common carrier would perform and is not editorializing in the least

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2021 02:39 PM (ZMraq)

402 They're like the Antifa moms who go out and buy sonny a bullet proof vest, baseball bat, a bunch of bottles and a can of gasoline, then sit back and wonder where it all went wrong.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 10, 2021 02:35 PM (wAnMi)

You forgot the fucking rags, Ma! God! Fucking Embarrassing! What am i gonna do, make a molotov mocktail? Raynnn and Tarquin are going to laugh at me now! Fuck! I hate you! When's dinner?

Posted by: Lil' Punk at December 10, 2021 02:39 PM (6FeV1)

403 I have actually gotten to the point where I will be quite content with a Congress that I know is going to do Nothing, Ever. It's all I ever expect or want out of them. That's why I'll be voting Republican next fall.

Posted by: Tom Servo

They will continue trillion dollar deficits.

And they will fund PP, NPR and leftwing nonprofits, foundations, and NGOs.

Including Catholic charities and Lutheran services. And they will continue boosting illegals.

Posted by: I mean at December 10, 2021 02:39 PM (U7bKD)

404 Republicans might also want to think about recruiting ACTUAL Republicans for some their R+20 to +50 instead of the typical CoC shills and wannabe-Establishment types.

Posted by: Match Checksout at December 10, 2021 02:40 PM (dYe5S)

405 i'm very schizoprhenic, I don't know what to do. the GOP is literally the worst party in the country, except for the Democrats.

Posted by: ace at December 10, 2021 01:28 PM (0G13K)

^++++++++++1

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 10, 2021 02:40 PM (ZSsrh)

406 >>>they swung the 2020 election by controlling the apparatus in 6 large and key cities. That's all it took.

they don't have the reach to sway congressional elections with those 6 cities.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2021 02:37 PM (trdmm)
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Yup, it will be difficult for them to pull that stunt again. National GOPers be damned the locals were shamed and embarrassed and won't let it happen again.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2021 02:41 PM (9v1sv)

407 Generic polls are really worthless in the House and Senate races next year.

Hopeful? perhaps.. but not much good in predicting individual races.

I think we can probably get the House back.. and shut down all these stupid Committees.. and if the Senate holds off passing Build Back Better, we can shut that down too..

But the Senate needs to have a big shift to GOP majority, considering the number of RINOs in there already.. fucking useless douchebags..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 10, 2021 02:41 PM (CjFDo)

408 nood inflation

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 10, 2021 02:41 PM (UHVv4)

409 Good, let me get my tablet

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 10, 2021 02:42 PM (2JoB8)

410 > Psaki: "Inflation, that's so November. Gas is down in December, like twenty cents!"

Meanwhile, back in reality, prices in November jumped at an annualized rate of 6.8%, the worst in 39 years.

Suck it, Pskanki.

Posted by: The Entire Staff of The Bulwark at December 10, 2021 02:42 PM (bW8dp)

411 Psaki: Yay! Prices of a lot of stuff are down from their peaks of two weeks ago!

My questions: OK, how do the prices today that you say are so good compare with the prices 365 days ago, Jen? Lower? Higher?

Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2021 02:43 PM (AMIL/)

412 If I were coaching the Ds, I would do exactly this. This administration is so bad, they are guaranteed to lose. There is no way around it. Therefore, make it really bad to get a bunch of Rs in so they can take the blame. Then the Ds have a chance at running someone else for POTUS in 2024.

I doubt this is a setup - no one in today's politics will trade a rook for a pawn & board control. But the end result seems like it will be the same. An absolutely useless GOP congress that will accomplish nothing except be the press target.

Posted by: Casa de Mordor at December 10, 2021 02:45 PM (MbBW2)

413 404 Republicans might also want to think about recruiting ACTUAL Republicans for some their R+20 to +50 instead of the typical CoC shills and wannabe-Establishment types.

Posted by: Match Checksout at December 10, 2021 02:40 PM (dYe5S)
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Put your money on the best candidate in primaries that you vote in. Look at the population in your city and precinct and compare it to the number of votes in the last election.

There are so few, percentage wise, people who vote that You Can Make A Difference.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2021 02:45 PM (9v1sv)

414 Supposing the Pubs DO pull it off and gain unassailable majorities--If we (collectively) engage in massive publicity campaigns when they say "we'll do such and such" to force them actually do what they say constructive change will happen.

Otherwise it'll be the same old. You know this is truth so the way is quite clear.

It only remains to DO it.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 10, 2021 02:51 PM (KATBx)

415 13 WE just need the presidency and THEN we can take the baby steps necessary to institute REAL change across the land... and a few more state legislatures too

We need changes in the legislatures (national AND state) but that means we need to WEED OUT THE RINOS in the process. Then the presidency again, and come midterms then, we can start holding enough seats to keep majorities and then get some serious sweeping legislation going. Sadly we needed Biden to bring enough pain to wake up some more of the masses (and there's still plenty more to red pill)
There's an image for you Biden as the Red Pill America needed to choke on...

Posted by: Janir at December 10, 2021 03:55 PM (7FTeO)

416 I think it was Jacob Would that I watched, during all the hysterics about the Jan 6 rowdies -- when my competent MSM assured me the GOP was "now finished to the dustbin of the right side of history," etc. -- who pointed out that R candidates had done really well in D+5 races the previous year. They even outperformed 3012.and 2016 on the West Coast. Of course, we have all enjoyed the hair-on-fire festivities after the D's were battered in "safe seats" in south Texas, but there was an attenuated version of that across the land.

So I guess when their candidates are old, drooling and/or bimbo-ish, the proverbial "natural Democrat voter" doesn't feel much like showing up to pull the lever for that. Really, they ain't feeling it. Not exactly the picture of party/brand loyalty.

Hence, duffel bags of mailed ballots.

Posted by: Le Swampon at December 10, 2021 04:44 PM (p221o)

417 *Wohl

Posted by: Le Swampon at December 10, 2021 04:44 PM (p221o)

418 So what. We will get more McConnells and Youngkins?

Burn it all down

Posted by: Harry at December 10, 2021 07:59 PM (EcD5Y)

419 Yep, gerrymandering is tricky math-wise.
If you have 10 districts 1000 voters and a 50/50 split?
What do you do? How do you split the 100 per district?

9 at 55/45 districts and 1 at 5/95 district is generally the play.
You usually get 9/10 wins that way. Biggest gain.
And your opposition usually gets a crazy, which doesn't hurt you.

But if you're down 10 in any election cycle?
It's going to be tricky to recover from that one.

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