<i>¡Aye, Dios Mio!</i> FJB Hits 60% Disapproval With Lantinexexexes

¡Aye, Dios Mio! FJB Hits 60% Disapproval With Lantinexexexes

¡Ayúdemi! Joe Biden se ha caido y no puede levantarse!

Three-fifths of US Hispanics dislike the job President Biden is doing, according to a new survey out this week -- yet another sign of widespread discontent as Americans grapple with the ongoing border crisis, baby formula shortage and skyrocketing inflation.
The Quinnipiac University survey published Wednesday found that just 26% of Hispanics approve of Biden's performance, while 60% disapprove and 13% said they did not know or had no opinion.
The survey interviewed 1,586 adults, including 132 self-reported Hispanics. The margin of error among the group was 8.5 percentage points.
Despite the small sample, the poll result marks a reversal from the fall of 2020, when Biden won Hispanic voters by a 2-to-1 margin over Donald Trump.
In addition, a similar survey done by Quinnipiac at this time last year found that 55% of Hispanic voters approved of Biden while only 29% disapproved.

The poll shows Democrats losing the midterms, of course:

Guy Benson
@guypbenson
Biden overall approval 35/57, GOP +4 on generic ballot in this Q-poll

There was bad news for Biden in last week's polling, too: 75% of voters say we're on the wrong track.

In new NBC News poll, 75 percent say country is on wrong track -- highest number since 2008. Just 16 percent say country is on right track -- lowest since 2008.https://t.co/UngjOYtAJx pic.twitter.com/UZ0ZZqCYkD
— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 15, 2022

That wrong-track number has been 70-plus for SEVEN months, which —in the past — has signaled big losses for the governing party.

And Biden's numbers have hit a *new* low.

In fact, the president has become as unpopular as Donald Trump in this poll. (2/4) pic.twitter.com/l0MgoKwAZ6
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 15, 2022

Politico published a memo from Democrat pollster Doug Sosnik which argues that the last possible chance for Biden to change perceptions in time for the November elections is the beginning of summer-- and obviously we're right on the cusp of that.

His full memo is here.

He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights.

For the past six months, over 70% of the public thinks that the country is headed in the wrong direction.
This sense of pessimism in the country has dragged Biden's job approval down to 39%, a significant drop since last summer. The President's low job approval has been driven by a lack of confidence in his handling of a variety of economic and social issues.
If past elections are any indicator, we are heading into the final stage of the election period when voters are beginning to lock in on their views of the state of the country and their expectations for the future. It is during this period - and not the final days of an election - that the public settles in how they are going to vote.
The President's job approval during this stage is the best proxy to determine current levels of support for the party in power. And that window is closing rapidly. In the last four midterm elections, by June the public had made up its mind about the leadership in Washington and how they were going to vote in November. According to Gallup, Trump's 39% job approval in early February 2018, Obama's 41% approval in June 2014 and 45% approval in June 2010, and Bush's 38% approval in March 2006 all matched their job approval on Election Day.
As might be expected based on the incumbents' anemic numbers, the President's party suffered significant defeats and lost control of at least one branch of Congress in all four of those midterm elections.
That is why the stakes are so high as we enter this final period critical for the Democrats to seize the pending Court decision on Roe vs Wade as a way to alter the trajectory of the election. If they are not successful in reframing the terms of debate for the midterm elections around the pending decision by the Supreme Court on Roe, we will look back at Biden and the Democrats' failures last summer and early fall as the reasons for their electoral defeats this November.

Posted by: Ace at 05:01 PM

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1
But PredictIt has Biden up by 20%!!!!

*RIP Intrade*

Posted by: In before the troll at May 23, 2022 05:01 PM (n+4am)

2 We're "transitioning".
Haven't you heard?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:01 PM (jTmQV)

3 cruel

Posted by: 496 at May 23, 2022 05:01 PM (VJsqe)

4 Rookie read the content.

Posted by: Catherine at May 23, 2022 05:01 PM (bW8Ua)

5
Oh crap. I could have put up a first in my own name.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 23, 2022 05:02 PM (n+4am)

6 If they are not successful in reframing the terms of debate for the midterm elections around the pending decision by the Supreme Court on Roe, we will look back at Biden and the Democrats' failures last summer and early fall as the reasons for their electoral defeats this November.

Or....it could be that they're asshoe and their policies are undiluted lunacy.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 23, 2022 05:02 PM (ZsR3z)

7 These silly Latinxs need to take political instruction from their Moral Superiors!

Posted by: California! at May 23, 2022 05:02 PM (I2/tG)

8 Nobody new will care about abortion rights. Only the wine moms who are already voting Democrat.

Posted by: Iris at May 23, 2022 05:03 PM (DibdT)

9 Those are the 60% that voted against him.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:03 PM (hfvc1)

10 We know Biden is a turd but I 'm surprised hispanics feel that strongly.

I guess, Biden's true color comes steaming through.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 23, 2022 05:03 PM (2OL6m)

11 Wasn't there just a media guy who said Biden's numbers on Covid and Ukraine were great so he's on an upswing?

Yikes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:03 PM (DcKNO)

12 I just wish we had a true opposition party that would gain us ground.

Posted by: Inogame at May 23, 2022 05:04 PM (53oGX)

13 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

14 "In fact, the president has become as unpopular as Donald Trump in this poll. (2/4)"

Ruh roh.

How could anyone be as unpopular as Brandon? Interesting, don't you think?

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 23, 2022 05:05 PM (tDEa7)

15 'Latine's. Right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 23, 2022 05:05 PM (3NKiY)

16 If you don't vote for the Democrats, you ain't brown!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at May 23, 2022 05:05 PM (I2/tG)

17 Latinx are the sexy latins

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (XvPQV)

18 quick, we need to make sure there's no "russian disinformation" going out in Spanish on the twitters. Bc that's obviously the problem here

Posted by: brak at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (j5Tg0)

19 Aye Caramba, Vamos Brandon

Posted by: Sherriff Buford T Justice in hot pursuit at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (S+j2h)

20 The Dems are not going to lose the midterms. They are going to gain enough seats so they can pass whatever legislation will keep them in power forever. They will pass laws that will make sure no Trump can ever come to power.

Do you people not see the game being played in front of you? 2016 was the last election when voting was a factor.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (m0zqP)

21 Well, when Biden is talking about how awesome it is for the sky high gas prices, I think 'changing perceptions' is not in the cards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (3NKiY)

22 Yeah, I heard that the economy is transitioning, but seriously, to what?

Are they trying to be cute and hint about resetting or what?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (DcKNO)

23 We joke that Biden will have the wall up pronto but an election like this poll will make it so.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (fvaUx)

24 At this point, I doubt there is *any* polling that can make FJB look good on any issue (unless the polling is rigged or targets only Democrats).

He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (YIVH2)

25 Looks bad for the Dems. Thankfully for them, they are running against the GOPe.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (sAmhv)

26 This is fine

- the media

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (BFigT)

27 Meh, what, me worried?

How do you say "Dominion" in Spanish?

Posted by: BiNO at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (F9322)

28 Jose Biden es un pinche culero.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (43LzH)

29 The Dems are not going to lose the midterms. They are going to gain enough seats so they can pass whatever legislation will keep them in power forever. They will pass laws that will make sure no Trump can ever come to power.

Do you people not see the game being played in front of you? 2016 was the last election when voting was a factor.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (m0zqP)

C'mon man

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (S+j2h)

30 on one of my work computers, putin's pop-up pops up offscreen and i don't notice it happens until i try to alt-tab back to work.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (oY6Yp)

31 No worries, they can just steal it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (HsAzN)

32 All we have to do is survive until 2024. Or 2028. Keep your chin up!

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (vrz2I)

33 2016 was the last election when voting was a factor.

We agree! Don't bother voting!

Posted by: The Democratic National Committee! at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (I2/tG)

34 AIDS polls better than Biden

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (QYPq3)

35 The Dems are not going to lose the midterms. They are going to gain enough seats so they can pass whatever legislation will keep them in power forever. They will pass laws that will make sure no Trump can ever come to power.

Do you people not see the game being played in front of you? 2016 was the last election when voting was a factor.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (m0zqP)
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Then the game is up and the AllenG solution is the only correct play:

Burn it down
Scatter the ashes
Salt the earth

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (YIVH2)

36 Monkeypox says all this is bullshit and the elections will be stolen in November, 2022 just like 2020.

Mail-in voting FTS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

37 More Chin Talk?

Posted by: klaftern at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (taPSh)

38 Nothin' like a good ole poll post. It's like the funnel cake of Ace of Spades. Easy, tasty, fattening,

Anyway that 39/56 is an NBC whose poll demographic is "Likely progressive zealots who vote for the party line and repeat party talking points under all circumstances"

Posted by: mikethemoose at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (vl3oo)

39 Lol. Dems put their faith in quixotic travails like the NY gerrymandering. They're running out of options. Maybe the gay monkeypox will save them.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (tDEa7)

40 To quote JJ from this morning's Morning Report: "EL HAHA!"

[That's Spanish for "THE HAHA!"]

We're gonna need to import even more tens of millions of illegals STAT!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (VtjJQ)

41 22 Yeah, I heard that the economy is transitioning, but seriously, to what?

Are they trying to be cute and hint about resetting or what?

dunno, but i caught a bit of the japanese pm's remarks at the press conference yesterday and he was going on about remaking capitalism. so transitioning to *something*; probably something more round, given all the inflation going on.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (oY6Yp)

42 "He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights"
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Or a shooting war.

Posted by: Javems at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (AmoqO)

43 Guy Benson @guypbenson

You know? If my first name was guy, and my middle name began with a "P," I think I would forgo the whole middle name abbreviation thing in username selection.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (SH2Zi)

44
Looks bad for the Dems. Thankfully for them, they are running against the GOPe.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (sAmhv)

Miracle for the GOP... have you noticed you don't see any Republicans campaigning on... anything?

They're just letting Brandon run for them. For once, they don't have to make any promises they'll have to break immediately and enrage their voters in doing so.

They just need to sit back, and collect the fruits of their impotent majority.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (96UI6)

45 Guy Benson commenting on a guy with his bals in the toilet

Posted by: REDACTED at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (us2H3)

46 31 No worries, they can just steal it.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:07 PM (HsAzN)

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That's exactly what they plan to do. Worked for a Presidential election, so why not local?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (DcKNO)

47 Monkeypox says we all have to stay home and vote by mail.

Might as well vote by smoke signal. Liawatha should agree wit that one.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (HsAzN)

48 Banking the political fortunes of a political party on the ability to kill a baby?

I'm not sure that's a winning strategy with middle America.

Though, if Democrats want to remain in power in NY, CA, WA and OR, probably a great strategy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (5pTK/)

49 Sad to see in my congressional district Democrats out voted the Republicans this primary

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (2JoB8)

50 >>>Yeah, I heard that the economy is transitioning, but seriously, to what?

Are they trying to be cute and hint about resetting or what?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (DcKNO)

We're transitioning from suck to blow.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (QYPq3)

51 We joke that Biden will have the wall up pronto but an election like this poll will make it so.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 23, 2022 05:06 PM (fvaUx)

Thankfully the GOP will never allow it.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (4u5zd)

52 "He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights"
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Or a shooting war.

Posted by: Javems at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (AmoqO)

DNC: *rolls 20 sided die* Monkey Pox?

Consultant: Just roll with it.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (SH2Zi)

53 Are they finished counting in Allegheny County yet?

What a fucking joke.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (43LzH)

54 "a massive surge in interest in abortion rights."

Yeah, about that.
Was listening to American Family Radio on way home from work. Host was going over polling data from Az. done by a democrat polling outfit. "Wimmins reproductive rights" was last on the list of concerns.

Monkeypox will save them if killing babies doesn't do the trick.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (DB16e)

55 But he hasn’t fired on the Chicoms yet.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (glGDV)

56 "He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights"
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Or run as Republicans.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (tEsMf)

57 Oh no. The GOP will win in November. Then they will immediately remind everyone how bad they suck and how similar they are to Democrats.

McConnell running the senate? I'm laughing just thinking about that gimp sticking his thumb in the eye of the American people.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (tDEa7)

58 What's astonishing is that he enjoys 39% approval. There's a large segment of this country that deserves everything we are about to get.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (ppBhU)

59 Democrats probably associate Latinos with NYC Puerto Ricans and are shocked, Shocked that nationwide 60% of hispanics would be angry about gas at $5/gal and diesel even higher and 40% inflation at the grocery store.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (3cGpq)

60 He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights.

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We're gonna need to import even more tens of millions of illegals STAT!

[But I Literally Repeat Myself ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (VtjJQ)

61 So, the Dem's last hope is being gung-ho on infanticide?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (HmZuC)

62 I tried to muscle a ball out of the monkey pox

came up just short of the hole

Posted by: REDACTED at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (us2H3)

63 The old Hispanics don't like us? No problema. We'll import new ones!

Posted by: DNC at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (a3Q+t)

64 In conclusion, 25 percent of Americans hate America 🇺🇸

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (IYS2c)

65 Everybody’s having such a good time. Prefect Louis Renault

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (glGDV)

66 Biden says we are transitioning from fossil fuels to all electric.
Shut up and eat your worms and bugs

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (jTmQV)

67 Surge of interest in Abortion rights? Something fascinating is h appening with regard to the pro-abortion protests at the Supreme Court Justices houses; no one is showing up. They're able to get about 7 - 10 people per night, but that's a far cry from what the organizers wanted. It's obvious that they have paid a few people to try to become the core of protests which they hoped would become much bigger - but they have never sparked any broad public interest, and no one is showing up except the handful of people collecting a paycheck for doing it. (and they went cheap and didn't hire enough of them)

I think this is indicative of the fact that there is actually very little interest or "outrage" in the potential overturing of Roe v. Wade - it's all hype supported by the usual twitter loudmouths.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (trdmm)

68 Ace, I didn't know "caido" and had to look it up. Good line! (And here I am, a guy who studied Spanish for 6 years in jr. high through college!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (txdEq)

69
"He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights"

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (/U27+)

70 If anyone knows how to care for an economy its the japs.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:12 PM (NZxYE)

71 Senor Democratico esta muy fucked

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (Qhnrt)

72 Look, our elites are probably very frustrated with us plebes. We've yet to reach the truly enlightened state which would allow us to recognize the genius behind allowing us to pay more while earning less.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (5pTK/)

73 Democrats probably associate Latinos with NYC Puerto Ricans and are shocked, Shocked that nationwide 60% of hispanics would be angry about gas at $5/gal and diesel even higher and 40% inflation at the grocery store.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (3cGpq)

Surprise! Latinos work, pay bills, feed and house their families just the same as everyone else. Who could have foreseen that their kids couldn't feed themselves on a steady diet of racial division?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (SH2Zi)

74 Good thing everything is all fixed up.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (glGDV)

75 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (arJlL)

76 @8 Nobody new will care about abortion rights. Only the wine moms who are already voting Democrat

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It might get them out to vote, instead of staying home on Election Day.

The Dems have a huge enthusiasm problem. A voter who's unhappy about the Dems still might not necessarily be willing to vote for a Republican candidate. That voter might have just decided to stay home, instead. The Dems are hoping that they can use abortion to convince the would-be stay at homes to go out and vote.

Posted by: junior at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (hYrdF)

77 I don't trust Ace of Spades funnel cake. How often do you think Ace changes the oil?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (HsAzN)

78 How long will it be before "autocorrect" is used to correct wrongthoughts? Like the keyboard literally won't allow you type disinformation. Can't be too long.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (NZxYE)

79 He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

And all those failures are considered resounding triumphs by his string pullers.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (20SKS)

80 Roe V Wade WOULD certainly be an issue this election year---IF there were no inflation, loaded car lots and supermarket shelves stocked high with baby formula.
And if we weren't on the cusp of a possible nuclear war.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (mR6Gs)

81 For people living paycheck to paycheck gas and food prices are preventing people from using their cars (and going where they want which is what the bastards want) and how they make meals. It has to be really bad for a lot of people. I did a double-take when I filled up this morning.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (DcKNO)

82 We're gonna need to import even more tens of millions of illegals STAT!

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Out: 2,000 Mules.
In: 2,000,000 Mules.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (VtjJQ)

83 A lot of small business owners in the Latino category. They have been hit hard during COVID with no end in sight. Opening the border even wider is not going to win them this voting block as it hurts their own interests even further.

Posted by: Cheri at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (oiNtH)

84 Latest poll Democrats 47% republicans 42% Before leak rep.47% dem. 44% Thanks supreme court!

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (pnxrt)

85 We need to reach out to the Hispandexes (boy I love those butts). How about a taco truck day on the White House lawn?

Oh, they say it's ice cream time. Gotta go!

Posted by: Joey Fingers, POTUS at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (E775d)

86
I'll begrudgingly say something positive about biden: he has excellent posture for 79.5 years old.

Indeed, his back is so straight I'm wondering if they are putting him in some sort of special Lycra suit for support.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (SfHsb)

87 Hey, pal, don’t put words out of my context, fat.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (glGDV)

88 don't trust Ace of Spades funnel cake. How often do you think Ace changes the oil?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (HsAzN)

He gets used fish fry oil from the church.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (43LzH)

89 You vote Dem, you hate this country, you hate freedom, you hate personal possessions and you hate yourself.

Fuck you for that. Seriously. Fuck. You.

I'd rather you end your miserable existence than destroy my life because yours sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

90 Latin = Spanish porn

Posted by: Ciampino at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (qfLjt)

91 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (5pTK/)

We just aren't patriotic enough.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (DB16e)

92
Oh no. The GOP will win in November. Then they will immediately remind everyone how bad they suck and how similar they are to Democrats.

McConnell running the senate? I'm laughing just thinking about that gimp sticking his thumb in the eye of the American people.
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (tDEa7)

Same as ever. Everybody will jack each other off for a couple of months over the Big Win, and how "we're gonna show the Dems this time," then the GOP will immediately fuck them all over with extreme prejudice, they'll badmouth the GOP for a couple years, yell about how THIS time they've gone too far, and then turn out in the exact same numbers for them. Like the Sun rising in the East.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (96UI6)

93 McConnell running the senate? I'm laughing just thinking about that gimp sticking his thumb in the eye of the American people.
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (tDEa7)
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McConnell is jones'n for some comity.

Posted by: WisRich at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (G0vdT)

94 Roe V Wade WOULD certainly be an issue this election year---IF there were no inflation, loaded car lots and supermarket shelves stocked high with baby formula.
And if we weren't on the cusp of a possible nuclear war.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (mR6Gs)
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I was about to say something similar, however, you said it much better than i would have.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (5pTK/)

95 Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke assures me that the TX Governor race is a statistical tie!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (a3Q+t)

96 What are they going to make us do for Monkeypox - wear bunches of bananas on our heads and sing "Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi Like You Very Mooch" like Carmen Miranda?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (HsAzN)

97 Recipe for success:

I love abortion and the killing of kids.

I am also making the military airlift baby formula, cause I fucked that up.
And I wanna talk about Beau...But not Hunter...or that POS grandkid that I don't mention.

Posted by: Delaware's Own Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (VYjdj)

98 What's his approval rating with Blacks ?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (jNAzB)

99 57 Oh no. The GOP will win in November. Then they will immediately remind everyone how bad they suck and how similar they are to Democrats.

McConnell running the senate? I'm laughing just thinking about that gimp sticking his thumb in the eye of the American people.
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 23, 2022 05:11 PM (tDEa7)

Republicans will win - but after that, I don't dare prediict what will happen. afterwards. The more I see of the chaos coming this summer, the more I believe that we are about to enter a political singularity; a time where *nothing* that has ever happened before will be a guide to what is about to happen next. At times like these, Events themselves take control and drive things in directions that *no* *one* anticipates.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (trdmm)

100 Banking the political fortunes of a political party on the ability to kill a baby?

I'm not sure that's a winning strategy with middle America.

Though, if Democrats want to remain in power in NY, CA, WA and OR, probably a great strategy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (5pTK/)
*******
That's especially not a winning strategy with hispanics.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (NpAcC)

101
"Rolling brown outs" and "energy shortages" and a hot Summer and Crime will have far more impact on voters than abortion.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (SfHsb)

102 86
I'll begrudgingly say something positive about biden: he has excellent posture for 79.5 years old.

Indeed, his back is so straight I'm wondering if they are putting him in some sort of special Lycra suit for support.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (SfHsb)

Only thing straight about him. Everything else is crooked as the day is long.

Could be his back is so straight because he has Obama's hand up his backside to make the puppet talk?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (N39Ws)

103 Nobody that votes solely on abortion will change voting patterns because of the scotus ... Everyone that cares has chosen a side already. The roe v wade reversal changes nothing. Pro choice Republicans are not Republican because of abortion. There are no pro life democrats.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (0OmEj)

104 I'd rather you end your miserable existence than destroy my life because yours sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

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This is where I've landed. I'm too old to not be able to enjoy the rest of my life.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (DcKNO)

105 DNC: *rolls 20 sided die* Monkey Pox?

Consultant: Just roll with it.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (SH2Zi)

"But monkeypox mainly attacks the gays!"

"Forget it, we're rolling."

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (NZxYE)

106 Hogaaaan!

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:16 PM (glGDV)

107
He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Whew! *wipes brow in relief*

Posted by: James Buchanan at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (/U27+)

108 You better put some ice on that.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (glGDV)

109 Flounder, I have my own stereotype of hispanics and its of them owning big trucks or low riders built on fuel guzzling classic cars. As a population subset my stereotype is even more upset about the fuel prices than the average american driving a newish vehicle that meets Obama cafe standards.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (3cGpq)

110 90 Latin = Spanish porn
sorry forgot the X
Latinx = Spanish porn

Posted by: Ciampino at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (qfLjt)

111 Oh yeah, who DID win that PA Senate Primary?

Wait, the counting isn't done?

November shaping up to be a dozy.

Posted by: WisRich at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (G0vdT)

112 Then the game is up and the AllenG solution is the only correct play:

Burn it down
Scatter the ashes
Salt the earth

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2022 05:08 PM (YIVH2)

sigh......and piss on the ashes. Everybody forgets piss on the fucking ashes. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (VwHCD)

113 98 What's his approval rating with Blacks ?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM

100%. If you don't like Brandon, you ain't black.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (DB16e)

114 107
He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Whew! *wipes brow in relief*
Posted by: James Buchanan at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (/U27+)

I feel that.

Posted by: Zombie Franklin Pierce at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (HsAzN)

115 or that POS grandkid that I don't mention.

Posted by: Delaware's Own Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (VYjdj)

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hahhahahahah

Poor kid. Shit luck in the father department.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (DcKNO)

116 "Why don't our nannies and gardeners like us looking at their kids that way?!" -- SMAHHHHHRRT leftists

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (llON8)

117 Where is Alexander Haig when you need him?

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (glGDV)

118 So the theory is they are going to find a vast untapped source of baby-killers out there among Republicans?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (eoQWY)

119 don't trust Ace of Spades funnel cake. How often do you think Ace changes the oil?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM

C'mon, man. I sell him the best he's willing to pay for once a year or so.

Posted by: The Barrel at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (a3Q+t)

120 I know just the thing to turn this around pro Monkey abortions campaign messages.

Posted by: DNC Think-tank at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (NQrvS)

121 Hilarity in Portland - a couple of furious parents posted on Portland Reddit that the Portland Parks children's summer swim lesson reservations window opened online at 12:30, the parents logged in at 12:30 and five seconds, and all the classes were already full. How could this be?

Somebody noted an official statement:

Early Registration: As part of our Parks Levy commitment, we are working to improve access for underserved communities, which include but are not limited to people of color, seniors, teens, households experiencing poverty, immigrants and refugees, and people living with disabilities. PP&R provides information to local community organizations who share early registration opportunities with their community members. This may result in some activities being full prior to general registration.

I.e. all the swim slots went to children with intersectionality points, and none were available to the kids with no intersectionality points.

You mean that when these parents voted for "diversity", "inclusion" and "equity", they didn't realize that meant that their kids would now be at the back of the line for any government-sponsored activity?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (I2/tG)

122
Latin = Spanish porn
sorry forgot the X
Latinx = Spanish porn
Posted by: Ciampino at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (qfLjt)

Don't forget Latinax, Scourge of the Romans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (/U27+)

123 >>> 12 I just wish we had a true opposition party that would gain us ground.
Posted by: Inogame at May 23, 2022 05:04 PM (53oGX)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!

Posted by: GOPe at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (llON8)

124 The K is silent in Monkeypox

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (/6GbT)

125 Market people are saying "2008"....and that can't be good...

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (F1vmP)

126 He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Whew! *wipes brow in relief*
Posted by: James Buchanan at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (/U27+)

I feel that.
Posted by: Zombie Franklin Pierce at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (HsAzN)

Ahm about readah to die a happa mahn

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (mR6Gs)

127 I thought Hispanix loved third world shitholes. Why is Biden not at 75% approval.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (eMEkg)

128 Poll. Where's the stippers.

Posted by: a moron at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (Nj327)

129 The K is silent in Monkeypox
Posted by: A dude in MI at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (/6GbT)
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Hah!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (5pTK/)

130 I only want pro-impeachment republicans, thanks.

1. biden + china
2. hunter + ukraine
3. parents = domestic terrorists (uh, what was trump impeachment #1 about?)
4. the border
5. what happens after the border (massive illegal syphon of illegals)
6. mayorkas gotta go
7. garland gotta go
8. wray gotta go

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (OuH7W)

131 Joey Bidet has put America on the high speed tracks to Defunct Land.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (VUYMA)

132 Latin = Spanish porn
sorry forgot the X
Latinx = Spanish porn
Posted by: Ciampino at May 23, 2022 05:17 PM (qfLjt)

Don't forget Latinax, Scourge of the Romans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (/U27+)

Latin Mass, Scourge of Francis I

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (mR6Gs)

133 Hey, kids. Welcome to the Laugh~in wall of quips.
I mean it this time.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (glGDV)

134 Woo!!!! Covid is huge and we're all gonna die!!!!
Woo! Ukraine! Ukraine!
Woo!!! Monkey pox is awful and we're all gonna die!!!

What the fuck next?

Settle down, Sally. We're working on it. - Your betters in DC

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (Wy1BU)

135 Ahm about readah to die a happa mahn

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (mR6Gs)

Well shit man, get on it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (VwHCD)

136 Unfortunately the tent cities of illegals popping up in the Houston area love the Biden and Democrats. The Lawn Service owners can't find people to work for them as these newly arrived are getting money and food from Uncle Sam and don't want to work . Either lazy or don't want to jeopardize those benefits.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (jNAzB)

137 The Dems lose the House and the Senate your gonna get whiplash from the speed the media changes the narrative. "Look what shape the Republicans have gotten the economy into".

Posted by: Ben Had at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (+5mw1)

138 Off Jimmy Carter sock

Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (mR6Gs)

139 117 Where is Alexander Haig when you need him?

in charge. as usual.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (oY6Yp)

140

Wasn't SCROTUS scheduled to drop a bunch of decisions today?

Posted by: Maintenance Jack at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (jmW3Q)

141 How long will it be before "autocorrect" is used to correct wrongthoughts? Like the keyboard literally won't allow you type disinformation. Can't be too long.
Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (NZxYE)

That's where the sarcasm gene wins us big.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (eoQWY)

142 Wow. It's going to be so much work to steal the election for the Democrats.

Well, we all know that LatinXXX people are overwhelmingly in favor of abortions. Well, the ones who aren't Catholic...

Now we just have to see what creative new way the GOPe will find to not take advantage of the situation and fail to do what their base wants them to do.

Posted by: mr_jack at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (57l0O)

143 I.e. all the swim slots went to children with intersectionality points, and none were available to the kids with no intersectionality points.

//

fuck Western-Gitmo

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (OuH7W)

144 @80

>>And if we weren't on the cusp of a possible nuclear war.

The Junta is "contemplating," sending US forces into Ukraine to "secure," the US embassy.

That Doomsday clock is ticking closer to midnight.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (VTOvV)

145 Polls. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Not to mention kabuki.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (0OP+5)

146 He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel...

Willson! Everyone forgets Wilson!

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (0OmEj)

147 The Dems lose the House and the Senate your gonna get whiplash from the speed the media changes the narrative. "Look what shape the Republicans have gotten the economy into".
Posted by: Ben Had at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (+5mw1)

Only the MSM watches the MSM anymore, even Fox.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

148
So the theory is they are going to find a vast untapped source of baby-killers out there among Republicans?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:18 PM (eoQWY)

Very few people change their votes, and rarely. What they do is not vote. Turnout is the *entire* game. And college educated white women are the biggest demo they've got, and telling these clapped-out wino slatterns that the GOP won't let them dash their crotchfruit against a stone anymore will immediately make them forget how unmotivated they were to get out and vote because of Brandon. That's the bet they're laying down.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (96UI6)

149 The Dems lose the House and the Senate your gonna get whiplash from the speed the media changes the narrative. "Look what shape the Republicans have gotten the economy into".
Posted by: Ben Had at May 23, 2022 05:21 PM (+5mw1)

There are a lot of dumb people in this country, but not that dumb

Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (mR6Gs)

150 Reads evaluation. “There’s no ‘f’ in asshole.”

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (glGDV)

151 these biden polls numbers are goosed with libs in the batter already. The donks are way lower than 4 poitns

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (OuH7W)

152 Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke assures me that the TX Governor race is a statistical tie!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (a3Q+t)

And the media agrees because it's true, right you guys?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

153 You mean that when these parents voted for "diversity", "inclusion" and "equity", they didn't realize that meant that their kids would now be at the back of the line for any government-sponsored activity?

Several people suggested that the parents try the suburban swim programs, which don't yet discriminate against white people. One of the parents explained that since their family was "car-free", it was almost impossible to get to a suburban pool.

Peak Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:23 PM (I2/tG)

154
There are a lot of dumb people in this country, but not that dumb
Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (mR6Gs)

I think you're grossly underestimating the millennial generation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

155 they don't care, as long as they get early access to the dick cutting clinics

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at May 23, 2022 05:23 PM (OuH7W)

156 Reads evaluation. “There’s no ‘f’ in asshole.”

No, but properly written there is in the word that precedes it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 23, 2022 05:23 PM (vvLKM)

157 And of course: The Aristocrats. Thank you Richard Belzer.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (glGDV)

158 He'll go down in history--rightfully--as one of the absolute worst failures to hold that office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel...

Willson! Everyone forgets Wilson!
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga

To be fair, after the third stroke, so did I.

Posted by: zombie W . Wilson (D-racist) at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (VYjdj)

159 Latin Mass, Scourge of Francis I
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at May 23, 2022 05:20 PM (mR6Gs)

LOL.

Posted by: LASue, occasional thought leader at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

160 You mean that when these parents voted for "diversity", "inclusion" and "equity", they didn't realize that meant that their kids would now be at the back of the line for any government-sponsored activity?

Several people suggested that the parents try the suburban swim programs, which don't yet discriminate against white people. One of the parents explained that since their family was "car-free", it was almost impossible to get to a suburban pool.

Peak Portland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:23 PM (I2/tG)

Just say you are trans, go right up to the front of the line. No surgery needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (eoQWY)

161 New phone is in. Later, Horde. S22 Ultra 512GB, for those wondering.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (SH2Zi)

162 a time where *nothing* that has ever happened before will be a guide to what is about to happen next. At times like these, Events themselves take control and drive things in directions that *no* *one* anticipates.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Wide in the east
Storm moving in
Feels like there's something
About to begin
Can't put me finger
On what lies in store
But it feels like what's to happen
Has all happened once before

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (Wy1BU)

163 Not to mention kabuki.
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (0OP+5)

Oops. I thought you said bukkake.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (Zz0t1)

164 Kabuki?

The DC version is spelled Kabukakkae

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (VUYMA)

165 Blanco, tienes razón.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (glGDV)

166 How long will it be before "autocorrect" is used to correct wrongthoughts? Like the keyboard literally won't allow you type disinformation. Can't be too long.
Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (NZxYE)

Does anyone remember how hard it was to type "Trump" into their text messages when he got elected in 2016?
It was months before spell check would spell out "Trump" when you punched in "Trum..."

Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (mR6Gs)

167 There are a lot of dumb people in this country, but not that dumb
Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (mR6Gs)

anyone saying this is ultra dumb

Posted by: REDACTED at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (us2H3)

168 You know? If my first name was guy, and my middle name began with a "P," I think I would forgo the whole middle name abbreviation thing in username selection.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (SH2Zi)
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Isembard Perinacious Freely at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (aaGzp)

169 The whole abortion brouhaha is about pleasing their Planned Parenthood baby chopping money masters AND keeping the "Republicans are the evil ones" persuasion alive during election year.

Because on every other subject, Republican are the very obvious good guys. They're the good guys on this one too but Dems have r*pe, incest and "body autonomy" (ha). And also "Republicans only care about you until you are born". All very good persuasion, if not total bs.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (puvc+)

170 And suddenly, mysteriously, Dems became border hawks.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (BJKQV)

171 I read where Biden may remove a number of Chinese tariffs. Those payoffs to Hunter have given nice dividends.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (DcKNO)

172 The 'x" reminded me of Asterix The Gaul, which are a series of comic books for adults.

I haven't read them since I was a kid, but they are great!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2022 05:25 PM (XIJ/X)

173 Reads evaluation. “There’s no ‘f’ in asshole.”

It's right there in the Declaration: "King George, being an affhole of exceedingly large diameter . . . ."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 23, 2022 05:26 PM (ppBhU)

174 You mean that when these parents voted for "diversity", "inclusion" and "equity", they didn't realize that meant that their kids would now be at the back of the line for any government-sponsored activity?

It's a sacrifice we just have to make!!! *hic* Breaststroke, anyone? *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at May 23, 2022 05:26 PM (Xrfse)

175 Very few people change their votes, and rarely. What they do is not vote. Turnout is the *entire* game. And college educated white women are the biggest demo they've got, and telling these clapped-out wino slatterns that the GOP won't let them dash their crotchfruit against a stone anymore will immediately make them forget how unmotivated they were to get out and vote because of Brandon. That's the bet they're laying down.
Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:22 PM (96UI6)

They have too many cats to feed to go out and vote in the morning. Abortion is already a sacrament for the Left, but like so many its hard to get up and go to church when you don't have to.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

176 New phone is in. Later, Horde. S22 Ultra 512GB, for those wondering.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (SH2Zi)

Is that the kind MAGA people get?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 23, 2022 05:26 PM (jNAzB)

177 This will bring out pro choice democrats not change votes. Marginal democrats had no reason to vote before leak. Coat hanger ads will get them out to vote. No vote changing needed

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at May 23, 2022 05:27 PM (pnxrt)

178 Just remembered last week read more Supreme Court rulings today but see can't be abortion as no one's hair is on fire

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2022 05:27 PM (2JoB8)

179 The next two years are going to be tricky. The Biden junta knows that Slow Joe can't win another election unless something dramatic happens.

The typical way in which failing autocrats get a hostile domestic population to support them is by finding an outside enemy to blame for all the country's problems. And if the domestic population is really hostile, then the junta will try to provoke some kind of war with the outside enemy, to shift the domestic population's attention away from the leader's failures, and onto a common enemy.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:28 PM (MvHI3)

180 Dear bear, you remind me of my calligraphy class. I stand corrected.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:28 PM (glGDV)

181 You mean that when these parents voted for "diversity", "inclusion" and "equity", they didn't realize that meant that their kids would now be at the back of the line for any government-sponsored activity?

It's a sacrifice we just have to make!!! *hic* Breaststroke, anyone? *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms

And they're all about the sacrifices. Just ask Moloch.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at May 23, 2022 05:29 PM (OUMaO)

182 This will bring out pro choice democrats not change votes. Marginal democrats had no reason to vote before leak. Coat hanger ads will get them out to vote. No vote changing needed
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at May 23, 2022 05:27 PM (pnxrt)

Even if this were true, these folks live in about 10 districts, all of which are Dem+20.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:29 PM (eoQWY)

183 @154

>>I think you're grossly underestimating the millennial generation.

As has been said, At this point, Idiocracy represents the wildly-optimistic viewpoint.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2022 05:29 PM (VTOvV)

184 Is that the kind MAGA people get?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 23, 2022 05:26 PM (jNAzB)

Nope, Ultra Maga ! x

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 23, 2022 05:29 PM (S+j2h)

185 The typical way in which failing autocrats get a hostile domestic population to support them is by finding an outside enemy to blame for all the country's problems. And if the domestic population is really hostile, then the junta will try to provoke some kind of war with the outside enemy, to shift the domestic population's attention away from the leader's failures, and onto a common enemy.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:28 PM (MvHI3)

They didn't read the fine print - If you go looking for that "short, victorious war" you need to WIN the war. If you don't well you are the enemy.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:30 PM (eoQWY)

186 "Three-fifths of US Hispanics dislike the job President Biden is doing"

sure, but the illegals and drug dealers like him at higher rates. And they just need an address and signature to vote ... voter ID is racist, doncha know.

You know that Trading Places line at the end "Turn Those Machines Back On"? Well the Democrats can do that ... stop election if the 12% original cheat was not enough. -- Send watchers away, turn those Dominion machines back on, run the fakes through, run the others through a second time, lose all the Trump ballots.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 23, 2022 05:30 PM (Cus5s)

187 It's a sacrifice we just have to make!!! *hic* Breaststroke, anyone? *hic*

The amazing thing is that Portland is 70% white, and the majority of those white voters vote for politicians who explicitly promise to discriminate against white people.

For some reason those voters think that voting for politicians like that won't have any real-world consequences.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:31 PM (I2/tG)

188 181 You mean that when these parents voted for "diversity", "inclusion" and "equity", they didn't realize that meant that their kids would now be at the back of the line for any government-sponsored activity?

//

yes, there's a whole shadow government that gives full socialism to the underclass of newly arrived americans. Every blue state is extremely hinky about what they do with their fed dollars. You want covid funds for your mortgage, better know Casa.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at May 23, 2022 05:31 PM (OuH7W)

189 Out, Planned Parenthood bloody abortions.
In, Planned Parenthood bloody trans surgeries.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:31 PM (glGDV)

190 >>>Market people are saying "2008"....and that can't be good...

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2022 05:19 PM (F1vmP)

Here's the good news: It's going to be a lot worse than 2008.

So, really, there is no good news. I hope all are preparing.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:31 PM (QYPq3)

191 British officers' toast "To sickly seasons and bloody wars."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2022 05:31 PM (VUYMA)

192 C is for cookie
That's good enough for me
C is for cookie
That's good enough for me
Oh, cookie cookie cookie starts with C!!!

Posted by: Cookie Monster at May 23, 2022 05:31 PM (KIR+o)

193
And if the domestic population is really hostile, then the junta will try to provoke some kind of war with the outside enemy, to shift the domestic population's attention away from the leader's failures, and onto a common enemy.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:28 PM (MvHI3)

I fervently hope that the last 20 years have spoiled this game, and the American public will no longer be rooked into supporting a politician just because he's shooting people half a world away for no discernible objective.

But that is probably dumb, and people will rally 'round the flag as usual when their politician's shots start firing.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:32 PM (96UI6)

194 178 Just remembered last week read more Supreme Court rulings today but see can't be abortion as no one's hair is on fire
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Fox News keeps doing the "the abortion opinion could be released today!!!" bullshit, but everybody knows that SCOTUS typically keeps the most consequential/controversial opinions for the latest release, so we probably won't get it until the end of June.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:32 PM (MvHI3)

195 The typical way in which failing autocrats get a hostile domestic population to support them is by finding an outside enemy to blame for all the country's problems.

I dunno. They seem to be focused on turning people against what the consider to be "the inside enemy". UltraMaga and all of that happy horse shit.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (Xrfse)

196 You know that Trading Places line at the end "Turn Those Machines Back On"? Well the Democrats can do that ... stop election if the 12% original cheat was not enough. -- Send watchers away, turn those Dominion machines back on, run the fakes through, run the others through a second time, lose all the Trump ballots.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 23, 2022 05:30 PM (Cus5s)

They only could fix ONE election in 2020 - downticket Dems were not pulled along with it. Now this time they would need far more ballots in far more areas to fix 535 - 66 elections for congress and senate.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (eoQWY)

197 He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights
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I'm going to keep hammering this: I think that the leak of Alito's opinion came from the WH. They needed to get dems fired up now, before it was too late (waiting until the opinion is released meant that perceptions were already fixed).

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (ImOTR)

198 Given my poll ratings, why not roll the dice on World War Three?

Who knows, it might work!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (I2/tG)

199 "Polls" also said Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife would win by a gazillion points.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (jYQlA)

200 Maybe if the Dems invented yet another gender neutral word and pasted it on latinos that would gain their vote. Yes, they should definitely do this. Because If there is anything latinos want, it is no distinction between men and women. Trust me on this, the men hate el machismo and the women hate being sexy.

Posted by: Ripley at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (MxEKc)

201 Little secret: Hispanics like it here because they can work hard and make enough money to live decently and still send some home. They just want the crooks to stay home and not fuck up the good deal here. So does most everybody else... except the Democrats!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (4OVxK)

202 161 New phone is in. Later, Horde. S22 Ultra 512GB, for those wondering.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:24 PM (SH2Zi)
That's not a phone, that sounds like a supersonic interstellar space craft.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (0OP+5)

203 He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights.
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Ladies and Gentlemen and Others(TM), your Democratic Party, marching to victory on a pile of 'fetus' parts.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (fs1hN)

204 From where I sit, here is what happens:
Russia keeps losing in Ukraine, resorts to some kind of pushback against the US. This could be anything from shooting down a cargo plane to popping off a nuke. War is declared. Elections are postponed as a result. All of these petty annoyances get forgotten as a real crisis sets in, famine, destruction, etc.
China may even see an opportunity to mess with us.
Everything's coming up roses

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (jTmQV)

205 My prediction all along the abortion ruling will be 2 hours after they all leave town.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (2JoB8)

206 I love that the left has decided to go full freak out and start calling for the church to be taxed. Go for it. Give california to the gop.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (ImOTR)

207 Something terrible is going to have to happen to save the Dems from November. I just makes me sick to think that those assholes are sitting around trying to figure out what it is.

Posted by: pawn at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (kYVzH)

208 From where I sit, here is what happens:
Russia keeps losing in Ukraine, resorts to some kind of pushback against the US. This could be anything from shooting down a cargo plane to popping off a nuke. War is declared. Elections are postponed as a result. All of these petty annoyances get forgotten as a real crisis sets in, famine, destruction, etc.
China may even see an opportunity to mess with us.
Everything's coming up roses
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (jTmQV)
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China invaded Taiwan.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (5pTK/)

209 Miracle for the GOP... have you noticed you don't see any Republicans campaigning on... anything?

They're just letting Brandon run for them. For once, they don't have to make any promises they'll have to break immediately and enrage their voters in doing so.

They just need to sit back, and collect the fruits of their impotent majority.
Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:09 PM (96UI6)

Yup, they are playing the Biden stratergery from last election. Don't say ANYTHING and just let the HATE of the other party, get you across the finish line.

Problem is? There are a lot of us out here who are ALSO pissed at the Repubs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (oHd/0)

210 "read where Biden may remove a number of Chinese tariffs. Those payoffs to Hunter have given nice dividends."

it is also odd how China is shutting down its own cities ... maybe they just want to pressure Biden to give them what they want? Bribery Plus Threats of shortages. Of course many shortages are from Biden policy (or whatever leftist shadow men run him). Everyone has kompromat on Biden.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (Cus5s)

211 err, invades, even.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (5pTK/)

212 He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights.

Wait'll they get a load of me.

Posted by: Monkey pox at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (Yr4Df)

213 So their only hope is the Moloch accepts all the murdered infant sacrifices and gives them the victory.

Good luck with that, Dems.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (BKJQu)

214 Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (jTmQV)

We have never stopped an election due to war before. Don't see how they could pull that off.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (oHd/0)

215 I believe that there is so little leadership at the top of today's Dem Party that they are just going to hunker down and let all the bad shit happen, and not do anything at all about any of it. They're not going to come up with any last minute war or surprise, because they are too stupid and incompetent to even manage that.

This is like the very last days of the Soviet Union, after they kicked Gorbachev out, and the Kremlin was taken over by men who were only worried about how much furniture they could steal in the few days they had left.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (trdmm)

216 this lending crash is gonna hit the crackers ths time

Posted by: REDACTED at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (us2H3)

217 How long will it be before "autocorrect" is used to correct wrongthoughts? Like the keyboard literally won't allow you type disinformation. Can't be too long.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2022 05:13 PM (NZxYE)

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I also expect keyboards to start dropping certain letters, beginning with "Q."

And after they cancel "W," the greatest national security threat will be Hite Supremacy

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (VtjJQ)

218 Imagine if Biden had the same press bias that Trump had, he would probably have a 5% approval rating.

The first 2 years the country saw boom times when Trump was elected, but it was Russia Russia Russia 24/7.

Posted by: Blago at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (dGcMV)

219 I love that the left has decided to go full freak out and start calling for the church to be taxed. Go for it. Give california to the gop.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (ImOTR)

Good lord the only thing worse than the GopE is the GopCA. They'd lose an unopposed election.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (eoQWY)

220 Joe will make it up in volume!

Posted by: Squid at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (Rb3Xr)

221 I'm going to keep hammering this: I think that the leak of Alito's opinion came from the WH. They needed to get dems fired up now, before it was too late (waiting until the opinion is released meant that perceptions were already fixed).
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (ImOTR)

It won't work. It will only fire up the one group he already has, AWFLs.

Posted by: WiNO at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (EpDzw)

222
China invaded Taiwan.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:35 PM (5pTK/)

If (when) China invades Taiwan, that won't help Dems much, vis-a-vis a war scenario... no way in ten million years will a US political party go to war against their sponsors in China.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (96UI6)

223 The abortion paragraph is wishful thinking. The population has already chosen sides. This decision means nothing. Does it maybe erode some loss of unmarried college women in urban blue hellholes? Maybe. But it just as much encourages pro-life voters who can thank a republican president, and a republican senate that confirmed, a pro-repeal Roe majority. They've gotten lip service for 50 years. They final were paid off. They are more likely to say thank you. My guess if the abortion question swings anyway, and I don't really think it does, it swings a tad to the GOP.

The dems are royally fucked. You tried to take their young children. Now your FDA is trying to kill babies. Excellent work. You know, when Obama was there, and we know he's running things now, people who just work with the government as part of their job remarked how stupidly the gov was being run. At least the Big O is consistent.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (LyTO1)

224 With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (/9VVc)

225 >>>"Polls" also said Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife would win by a gazillion points.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2022 05:33 PM (jYQlA)

Isn't that Jonah Goldberg's Mom's insider confidant's friend's ex-boyfriend's wife?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (QYPq3)

226 maybe they just want to pressure Biden to give them what they want?
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That has more to do with internal Chinese politics. They committed to zero covid and are flailing. It also wouldn't surprise me if they're using the shutdowns to go after party rivals.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (EsAyS)

227 People don't like you Joe. They really, really don't like you.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (VdGjU)

228 60% disapproval from Hispanics?

Who do you think has to deal with all the illegal immigrants every freaking hour of every freaking day, most of which are young men, with way too many drunks, loudmouths, assh0les, and criminal illegals being let loose on their streets.

It isn't poor cousin Miguel. It is who are all those #@$! from %$##*! overrunning our barrio.

Posted by: rd at May 23, 2022 05:38 PM (Z32m1)

229 Think of all the "unprecedented" things we now accept as normal.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:38 PM (jTmQV)

230 >One of the parents explained that since their family was "car-free", it was almost impossible to get to a suburban pool.

Peak Portland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:23 PM (I2/tG)

What's wrong with MAX, pleb?

*snicker*

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 23, 2022 05:38 PM (bbc5g)

231 It won't work. It will only fire up the one group he already has, AWFLs.

Posted by: WiNO at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (EpDzw)

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I agree that it won't work, but I think that they're desperate.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:38 PM (EsAyS)

232 Those hispanics are just multi-racial white supremacists.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (ESjRY)

233 @214

>>We have never stopped an election due to war before. Don't see how they could pull that off.

We also never shut down an economy for 1.5 years either.

The Donks are banking on Monkey Pox and a "resurgence" of COIVD to allow them work their dirty willls.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (VTOvV)

234 We have never stopped an election due to war before. Don't see how they could pull that off.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (oHd/0)
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Government actors already stole an election in broad daylight. suspending elections indefinitely is probably childs play by comparison.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (5pTK/)

235 Russia keeps losing in Ukraine

Except that Russia is winning in Ukraine - slowly, but it's making discernible progress.

Ukraine losing the Azov Battalion, which was their most fanatic fighters, was a blow.

It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (I2/tG)

236 That has more to do with internal Chinese politics. They committed to zero covid and are flailing. It also wouldn't surprise me if they're using the shutdowns to go after party rivals.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (EsAyS)

Some reports said that Shanghai was locked down not due to Covid, but as a power play against factions based in Shanghai.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (eoQWY)

237 Polls.

And yet, the 3 AM count of the drop-off vote will somehow be just a wee bit contrary to expectations. Of course, since this will be the most secure election in history, suspicions will all be part of the big lie, completely absurd, and moot.

Posted by: jc at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (N1WXz)

238 I agree that it won't work, but I think that they're desperate.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:38 PM (EsAyS)

Not desperate enough to do the things they need to do to fix some glaring problems.

Posted by: WiNO at May 23, 2022 05:40 PM (EpDzw)

239 Yankees' Josh Donaldson suspended, fined by MLB for 'disrespectful' comment toward Tim Anderson

"He made a racist comment," La Russa said. "That's all I'm going to say." La Russa referring to Donaldson calling Tim Anderson "Jackie" in the first inning of the Yankees' 7-5 win. Tim Anderson was asked about the incident following the game.

"Basically, he was trying to call me Jackie Robinson," Anderson said. "He was like "'Hey, what's up Jackie?' I don't play like that. I don't really play at all. I wasn't really going to bother no body today, but he made the comment, and you know, it was disrespectful and I don't think it was called for. It was unnecessary."

5/1/19 Tim Anderson Says He Feels Like 'Today's Jackie Robinson'
"I kind of feel like today's Jackie Robinson," he said. "That's huge to say. But it's cool, man, because he changed the game, and I feel like I'm getting to a point to where I need to change the game."

Anderson drew the ire of the Kansas City Royals for his emphatic bat flip after hitting a fourth-inning home run off Royals starting pitcher Brad Keller on April 17.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 23, 2022 05:41 PM (MFZ8i)

240 "...and telling these clapped-out wino slatterns that the GOP won't let them dash their crotchfruit against a stone anymore..."

Stunned at your eloquence, sir or madam. Just genius.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at May 23, 2022 05:41 PM (oedLL)

241 What's wrong with MAX, pleb?

*snicker*

LOL. MAX has been taken over by the homeless and druggies, who now quite openly smoke meth and heroin on the train cars.

Portland lacks the civic will to fix that, so the light rail has been abandoned by normies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:41 PM (I2/tG)

242 I dunno. They seem to be focused on turning people against what the consider to be "the inside enemy". UltraMaga and all of that happy horse shit.
___________

Yes but the Biden junta knows they're not ever getting our votes.

It's their own voters they need to keep on the plantation, and blaming MAGA types for the baby formula shortage or the skyrocketing cost of gas or the border being flooded with illegals is not going to fly. Their voters know who is responsible for those problems, and it's Biden.

So they have to distract their attention from all the Biden-created problems, and a war with an "outside" enemy is the traditional way to do that.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:41 PM (MvHI3)

243 That is why the stakes are so high as we enter this final period critical for the Democrats to seize the pending Court decision on Roe vs Wade as a way to alter the trajectory of the election. If they are not successful in reframing the terms of debate for the midterm elections around the pending decision by the Supreme Court on Roe, we will look back at Biden and the Democrats' failures last summer and early fall as the reasons for their electoral defeats this November.

65% of Americans think the abortion should be "mostly illegal" or "illegal" start at the 2nd trimester. IOW at 14 weeks.

The Dems are going all in on "abortion to the moment of birth".

Abortion is NOT going to save them

Posted by: Greg the Class Traitor at May 23, 2022 05:41 PM (XbP7q)

244 Sense of pessimism? No, retard, things are already in the crapper and there is no end in sight.

Lack of confidence? No, retard, your ilk has been running a confidence racket for so long that we don't even know what confidence in our federal government looks like.

Abortion? Unleash the dogs of antifa, retard, and reap the whirlwind.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (WFMLs)

245 Same as ever. Everybody will jack each other off for a couple of months over the Big Win, and how "we're gonna show the Dems this time," then the GOP will immediately fuck them all over with extreme prejudice, they'll badmouth the GOP for a couple years, yell about how THIS time they've gone too far, and then turn out in the exact same numbers for them. Like the Sun rising in the East.
Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:15 PM (96UI6)
==
Fair point. But I think it is going to be a bit different. because any GOP who aren't fully on the DC is the problem bandwagon will face a primary fight of their life in 2024. Some senators aren't up of course. But some will be.

I feel a very aroused and angry bunch who are no longer interested in platitudes. And if that is all you have you will fight hard to not be shown the door.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (LyTO1)

246 It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I have. We've also heard and seen Ukrainian civilian casualties.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (VYjdj)

247 When the Feds take over autocucumber, we'll have to resort to rhyming slang.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (HsAzN)

248 The typical way in which failing autocrats get a hostile domestic population to support them is by finding an outside enemy to blame for all the country's problems. And if the domestic population is really hostile, then the junta will try to provoke some kind of war with the outside enemy, to shift the domestic population's attention away from the leader's failures, and onto a common enemy.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:28 PM (MvHI3)

True. They have already tried climate change, a coronavirus pandemic, Russia, and now monkeypox. I think all they have left is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

Posted by: cool breeze at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (UGKMd)

249 According to state TV in Russia, they think they are losing. Whether or not they really are is immaterial.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (jTmQV)

250 Despite the best efforts of the media people know Joe is a nasty, senile piece of shit. Funny that.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (VdGjU)

251 C am de way it begin
H dats de nex letter in
I gettin' near de end
C H I C K E N
Dat am de way to spell chicken

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (Iz2Z7)

252 It's almost time for the Lottery.

Unarmed black man killed in June, corn be heavy soon.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (v31Ye)

253 With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (/9VVc)
=================

Want to know how the smart globalistic elites want to do agriculture?

Read up about Sri Lanka and Organic from 2021; anf then Sri Lanka and Riots this last 2 months.

Posted by: rd at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (Z32m1)

254
We have never stopped an election due to war before. Don't see how they could pull that off.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 23, 2022 05:36 PM (oHd/0)

"This is worse than anything that has ever happened. And it's because of Russians. Is Romeo13 a Russian? If you want to have an election you are a Russian. A Trump Russian. A white nationalist Trump Russian. A white nationalist, insurrectionist Trump Russian. Voting is for rebels. It's insurrection. Arrest this fucking Russian. Better yet, shoot him in his Russian back."

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (96UI6)

255 Just watched another nauseating SNHU commercial. Can you say how many of your "graduates" are seeking loan forgiveness? That's a stat America can get behind.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (oWBc3)

256 And yet, the 3 AM count of the drop-off vote will somehow be just a wee bit contrary to expectations. Of course, since this will be the most secure election in history, suspicions will all be part of the big lie, completely absurd, and moot.
Posted by: jc at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (N1WXz)

They'd have to do it in a hundred or so more areas than last time to avoid losing the house. And the old line crooks in the party likely won't help now that the commie wing is getting all the benefits.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (eoQWY)

257 FJB s poll numbers are down because republicans refuse to support his agenda of helping women, and children, and underserved minorities, and first responders. Racists.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (f8jdA)

258 County says COVID numbers are up
I think the mfers want to do a mask mandate again. Well why not, primary is over

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (kf6Ak)

259 Don't worry. FJB is going to make a rebound after his successful Asian trip.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (jvt6t)

260 Russia keeps losing in Ukraine

Except that Russia is winning in Ukraine - slowly, but it's making discernible progress.

Ukraine losing the Azov Battalion, which was their most fanatic fighters, was a blow.

It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.

===

True dat. Ukraine lost territory too. Major swaths of territory. No economy to spaknif - cripled and destroyed.

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (F1vmP)

261 I agree Tom Servo, and if some of it sticks bc it's embedded in the Swamp, they'll take that as a Win.

Their message, that you can abort your baby anytime you want if Biden's economy impoverishes you is not a winner.

Posted by: Ultra pj at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (G1dq6)

262 "This is worse than anything that has ever happened. And it's because of Russians. Is Romeo13 a Russian? If you want to have an election you are a Russian. A Trump Russian. A white nationalist Trump Russian. A white nationalist, insurrectionist Trump Russian. Voting is for rebels. It's insurrection. Arrest this fucking Russian. Better yet, shoot him in his Russian back."
Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (96UI6)

More people read that comment than cable news shows.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

263 *No economy to speak of at this point

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2022 05:44 PM (F1vmP)

264 Hate to break it to y'all but the abortion can o' worms MAY do the trick. Example, my own mother. A reliable Republican vote, she will absolutely personally be vocally against ANYBODY on the Republican side on her ballot who says, on hot mic, that this Supreme Court decision was the right call. "Taking away a woman's right" and all, making it illegal and all those States that "criminalize" abortion long before the woman is even "aware" she preg.

Left did a VERY good job convincing Republicans they can have that partisan affiliation and still be 'pro-choice' ideologically. Remember that ALL Americans currently in their fifties or less in age have ALWAYS lived with this 'right' available to women.

Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (XjuKB)

265 Again, I hate Russia, but those of you who believe they are or will lose this "war". Santa is coming, trust me.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (oWBc3)

266 I have. We've also heard and seen Ukrainian civilian casualties.

We hear lots about Ukrainian civilian casualties, and nothing about Ukrainian military casualties.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (I2/tG)

267 217 I also expect keyboards to start dropping certain letters, beginning with "Q."

But there's no LGBTQ+ without a Q.

Maybe they'll drop "anon."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (HsAzN)

268 True dat. Ukraine lost territory too. Major swaths of territory. No economy to spaknif - cripled and destroyed.
Posted by: runner

Invasions are often like that.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (VYjdj)

269 There are more out there like my own mother than you might think. Nominally Republican, but convinced of this 'right' and have NEVER had to confront the issue beyond the media indoctrination their gaggle of like-minded friends. Amazingly, a little bit of debate, forcing them that their position is not the only 'right' moral judgment out there, is rather effective. They are dressing their self-perceived moral righteousness behind a legally questionable (not that they care) shield.

They can be swayed from making this a 'kingmaker' issue for them, tho. This also, I have learned.

Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (XjuKB)

270 204 From where I sit, here is what happens:
Russia keeps losing in Ukraine, resorts to some kind of pushback against the US. This could be anything from shooting down a cargo plane to popping off a nuke. War is declared. Elections are postponed as a result. All of these petty annoyances get forgotten as a real crisis sets in, famine, destruction, etc.
China may even see an opportunity to mess with us.
Everything's coming up roses
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (jTmQV)
No unlikely.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (0OP+5)

271 These comments do have more readers than cable has viewers. Oldcat’s correct.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (glGDV)

272 Want to know how the smart globalistic elites want to do agriculture?

Read up about Sri Lanka and Organic from 2021; anf then Sri Lanka and Riots this last 2 months.
Posted by: rd at May 23, 2022 05:42 PM (Z32m1)

I read that smart US leftist elites in Vietnam went out and told the farmers there they should be nationalized for the greater good, so they turned to supporting the Commies as they had a better deal from them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (eoQWY)

273 When the Feds take over autocucumber, we'll have to resort to rhyming slang.

Posted by: Guy Smiley

Let this begin and I will be in.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 23, 2022 05:46 PM (Wy1BU)

274 We should lose any election if abortion is the issue. Fuck these people - right is right

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at May 23, 2022 05:46 PM (oWBc3)

275 Food shortages and record high prices, power grid breakdowns, $10 or more a gallon gas, the economy completely in the shitter, public schools run by perverts, and everyone's retirement savings gutted and left on the floor. All the while the country's political leadership is frowning sternly at them for insufficient clapping for someone with a mustache who chopped their dick off and bolted on some tits.

And a Democrat pollster thinks their political chances hinge on making Boomer feminism their rallying cry.

Nice plan, smooth brain.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 23, 2022 05:47 PM (wb1YC)

276 It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

What's weird is how anyone expects the truth out of a war zone. We heavily patrolled our side during WWII to make sure loose lips didn't sink ships and the Japanese had Tokyo Rose.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 23, 2022 05:47 PM (Uh6Mj)

277 geewhiz's mother is transitioning from bad to worse

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:47 PM (QYPq3)

278 I've tried to like people but have had not much success

Posted by: REDACTED at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (us2H3)

279 We hear lots about Ukrainian civilian casualties, and nothing about Ukrainian military casualties.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I have.

military-history.fandom.com/wiki

And so can you.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (VYjdj)

280 FJB is a wartime president! Not supporting the commander in chief is high treason and violates every Chapter of the UCMJ.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (f8jdA)

281 That's not a phone, that sounds like a supersonic interstellar space craft.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2022 05:34 PM (0OP+5)

It's close. It weighs 22 giraffes.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (SH2Zi)

282 Again, if Roe V Wade is overturned, it means President Trump is the most pro-life president and most consequential we've had for, say, 50 years?

It puts PDT ahead of Reagan, which is a pretty high bar.

Heck, I can completely overlook the rest of the stupidity of the Trump administration, if Roe is overturned.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (5pTK/)

283
These comments do have more readers than cable has viewers. Oldcat’s correct.
Posted by: Holy Crap at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (glGDV)

True. But how many people really believed the COVID nonsense after a couple months? I bet it was maybe a quarter of this foolish nation.

The propaganda is not to convince anyone. It's to inform the public what approved thought is. What they are supposed to do and say if they don't want their lives destroyed by the Party and its flying monkeys.

I'm not saying they'll cancel the election. I'm saying they could, and it would be trivial to do. The excuse doesn't need to make sense - it just needs to be stated.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (96UI6)

284 Hahahaha yeah I speak a little spanglish for futbol and also for LA gang warfare. Words mean things!

Posted by: NC Ref at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (9unzF)

285 Here is the link. Goes to UK Daily Mail.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhtetzc

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (jTmQV)

286 Despite the small sample, the poll result marks a reversal from the fall of 2020, when Biden won Hispanic voters by a 2-to-1 margin over Donald Trump.

Presses X to doubt

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:49 PM (KZzsI)

287 It is almost like Hispanic immigrants follow the poltical arc of other immigrant groups and expecting them to act like American blacks was an unsupportable theory.

File this under "At least the political consultants got paid" file.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (IyOCc)

288 "With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year."

As long as there a no major shortages, the higher cost of fuel and fertilizer will probably be covered by the higher grain prices.

True that government does seem to be trying to destroy us, but I'd think they'd find a way to get farmers enough feel, less Sri Lanka comes to America. I'm expecting them to ramp up domestic fertilizer production as well, but that might take longer, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (Cus5s)

289 It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Jewish nazis are like that.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (VYjdj)

290 The Dems/left will lose no power if there is a red wave this November. The Deep State is the real power all they have to do is wait it out because the Repubs will do nothing and take the blame for whatever problems arise or continue.

Posted by: JROD at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (W6qhI)

291 Invasions are often like that.
Posted by: Blue Hen at Ma

I am shedding tears fir poor innocent Ukrainian junta that destroyed its own country . But juntas are often like that.

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (F1vmP)

292 It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

What's weird is how anyone expects the truth out of a war zone. We heavily patrolled our side during WWII to make sure loose lips didn't sink ships and the Japanese had Tokyo Rose.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 23, 2022 05:47 PM (Uh6Mj)

Its one thing to not give information to the public so it doesn't get to the enemy. The absurd lies spread in this war about losses, how the Russians can't fight or supply the troops, how the Azovs will never give up just blow up in your face when time shows how wrong they were. It is especially bad when your own politicians and diplomats believe the lies they are telling.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (eoQWY)

293 Only White Hispanics would dare disapprove of Brandon

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (kf6Ak)

294 Everyone has kompromat on Biden.
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Pretty sure that the only job where journalists break a sweat is when they cover up stuff that's bad for democrats. Kompromat isn't worth much if it involves a democrat politician.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (fs1hN)

295 I'm not saying they'll cancel the election. I'm saying they could, and it would be trivial to do. The excuse doesn't need to make sense - it just needs to be stated.

And people would be very upset but... not do anything

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (KZzsI)

296 We hear lots about Ukrainian civilian casualties, and nothing about Ukrainian military casualties.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (I2/tG)

Putin's strategy to concentrate on attacking maternity wards, children and women first has backfired. Russia is bogged down and proving themselves a 3rd rate, Walmart fighting force.

A Russian tank was destroyed by drones armed with javelin missiles when it stopped on a bridge and attempted to toss a large bag of innocent kittens into the river.

If only Putin and his stooge generals were smart enough to attack military targets first, they may not have lost the war.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (v31Ye)

297 >>> 264 Hate to break it to y'all but the abortion can o' worms MAY do the trick. Example, my own mother. A reliable Republican vote, she will absolutely personally be vocally against ANYBODY on the Republican side on her ballot who says, on hot mic, that this Supreme Court decision was the right call. "Taking away a woman's right" and all, making it illegal and all those States that "criminalize" abortion long before the woman is even "aware" she preg.

Left did a VERY good job convincing Republicans they can have that partisan affiliation and still be 'pro-choice' ideologically. Remember that ALL Americans currently in their fifties or less in age have ALWAYS lived with this 'right' available to women.
Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:45 PM (XjuKB)

Not all of us are interested in exercising such a "right".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (llON8)

298 I didn't even believe the covid nonsense after a couple of days.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (HsAzN)

299 215 I believe that there is so little leadership at the top of today's Dem Party that they are just going to hunker down and let all the bad shit happen, and not do anything at all about any of it. They're not going to come up with any last minute war or surprise, because they are too stupid and incompetent to even manage that.
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I hope you're right, but history tells us that starting a foreign war is the typical way that desperate regimes try to deflect domestic attention from their failures and buy themselves more time in power.

And they do it for one simple reason: it works.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 05:52 PM (MvHI3)

300
Not all of us are interested in exercising such a "right".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (llON

Amen

Posted by: It's me donna at May 23, 2022 05:52 PM (bs+z0)

301 277 geewhiz's mother is transitioning from bad to worse
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:47 PM (QYPq3)
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That issue aside, she's VERY reliably Republican. Which is why I do use her as a coalmine-canary type on some issues. That she's so adamant on this is a BIG tell to me - she's fine voting for ANY Republican, really, so long as they keep their trap shut on abortion and giving her an easy reason to pull the level for instead ANYBODY else running.

Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:52 PM (XjuKB)

302 To resolve this issue, I've hired Lady Gaga as my speechwriter:

I'm on the right track, baby.
I was born this way.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 23, 2022 05:52 PM (uWF4x)

303 The Dems are going all in on "abortion to the moment of birth".

Abortion is NOT going to save them
Posted by: Greg the Class Traitor at May 23, 2022 05:41 PM (XbP7q)

----

Exactly right. Did you see that abortion rights activist during the congressional questioning when asked about abortion up to birth?

Not a good look.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 23, 2022 05:53 PM (DcKNO)

304 With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year.

We're pushing up to British gas prices and the only way anyone can farm in England is with huge government subsidies paying them to stay open.

Expect a big push here for that to happen when gas prices get that high.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:53 PM (KZzsI)

305 "With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year."

As long as there a no major shortages, the higher cost of fuel and fertilizer will probably be covered by the higher grain prices.

True that government does seem to be trying to destroy us, but I'd think they'd find a way to get farmers enough feel, less Sri Lanka comes to America. I'm expecting them to ramp up domestic fertilizer production as well, but that might take longer, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (Cus5s)

Well so far it has taken seven months to fail to do a single thing to solve the Baby Food crisis. They are running out of time to start thinking about the crop failure crisis here and in many other places.

Globalism's conceit was that all woes would be solved if all the eggs were put in a single large basket. But that is no assurance that the basket would not be dropped and destroyed.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:53 PM (eoQWY)

306 geewhiz, I guess your mother likes murder.

Posted by: Infidel at May 23, 2022 05:53 PM (E0NVW)

307 Not all of us are interested in exercising such a "right".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (llON

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A right granted by government is not a "right;" It is a privilege.

People arguing for their "right" to an abortion are actually arguing for a privilege, with everything that goes with the use of that word, when it comes to killing a baby.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 23, 2022 05:54 PM (5pTK/)

308 With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year.

We're pushing up to British gas prices and the only way anyone can farm in England is with huge government subsidies paying them to stay open.

Expect a big push here for that to happen when gas prices get that high.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:53 PM (KZzsI)

Lol at any aid going to a Red state before ... well hell freezes over.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:54 PM (eoQWY)

309 >>> 291 Invasions are often like that.
Posted by: Blue Hen at Ma

I am shedding tears fir poor innocent Ukrainian junta that destroyed its own country . But juntas are often like that.
Posted by: runner at May 23, 2022 05:50 PM (F1vmP)

Much like our own, in fact.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 23, 2022 05:54 PM (llON8)

310 >>>That issue aside, she's VERY reliably Republican. Which is why I do use her as a coalmine-canary type on some issues. That she's so adamant on this is a BIG tell to me - she's fine voting for ANY Republican, really, so long as they keep their trap shut on abortion and giving her an easy reason to pull the level for instead ANYBODY else running.

Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:52 PM (XjuKB)

Dude, all polls indicate abortion is last or next to last in long lists of what issue is most important to them in the coming election. Just stop. Nobody is buying it.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (QYPq3)

311 I didn't even believe the covid nonsense after a couple of days.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (HsAzN)

I prepared, based on the early reports, then read like a banshee. It took about threeish weeks before I figured out it was mostly nonsense and FUD. Most of my early predictions came to fruition over the course of the next year and a half.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (SH2Zi)

312 It drives me wild when Ace speaks Spanish.

Posted by: Gomez Addams at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (hKi6n)

313 Dammit you smelly beaners, what more do you want? I've already thrown the border open wider than Jill's baby hole and proven I'm not a racist by playing Despacito on my phone.

Must be more Nazi disinformation playing on Nazi central, Telemundo.

Posted by: Former VP Joe Biden, Totally not a racist at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (Y1oIY)

314 >>>Well, we all know that LatinXXX people are overwhelmingly in favor of abortions. Well, the ones who aren't Catholic...
...
Posted by: mr_jack
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Only Mexicans I know that aren't Catholic are Pentecostal. Catholics are too liberal.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (pBly4)

315 I'm not saying they'll cancel the election. I'm saying they could, and it would be trivial to do. The excuse doesn't need to make sense - it just needs to be stated.
Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes

It will be hard to make it fly. We held elections during a Civil War, and two world wars.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (Uh6Mj)

316 I am shedding tears fir poor innocent Ukrainian junta that destroyed its own country . But juntas are often like that.
Posted by: runner

Because you claim that Ukrainians are bombing...Ukraine.

President Biden? It's past your nap time.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (VYjdj)

317 Except that Russia is winning in Ukraine - slowly, but it's making discernible progress.

Ukraine losing the Azov Battalion, which was their most fanatic fighters, was a blow.

It's weird that we hear a lot about Russian casualties, but nothing about Ukrainian casualties.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (I2/tG)
==
They took Maripul but it took way too many men and too much time. I don't think they can get to Odessa now. And in doing so they lost territory they had up north. It comes down to the Donbas region. Which was under their operational control in some respect before the shooting ever started.

Putin needs a deal before his Siberian oil wells freeze up. He has Europe by the balls on nat gas. But every oil well that goes down does not come back up. Already oil production is declining. It's going nothing but down. And he will never get it back. He's losing money.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 23, 2022 05:56 PM (LyTO1)

318 With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year.
==
You mean this year.

Posted by: a moron at May 23, 2022 05:56 PM (xLRvm)

319 Lol at any aid going to a Red state before ... well hell freezes over.

Government funding = government control. And it keeps things running no matter how high gas gets. Besides most of the big farms are huge ag companies who are reliable Dem donors and have HQs in cities.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

320 256 ...... suspicions will all be part of the big lie, completely absurd, and moot.
Posted by: jc at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (N1WXz)

They'd have to do it in a hundred or so more areas than last time to avoid losing the house. And the old line crooks in the party likely won't help now that the commie wing is getting all the benefits.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:43 PM (eoQWY)

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My solidly conservative state has somehow switched to electing people left of Mao ever since we got drop-off and mail-in. And, now we have switched to preference voting.

I lack your confidence because of recent events where I would have sworn it was not possible.

Posted by: jc at May 23, 2022 05:56 PM (N1WXz)

321 I prepared, based on the early reports, then read like a banshee. It took about threeish weeks before I figured out it was mostly nonsense and FUD. Most of my early predictions came to fruition over the course of the next year and a half.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (SH2Zi)

The death projections did it for me - worse than plagues in ancient times where there was no understanding of disease at all. And that was *before* the model used was examined and found to be a buggy piece of shit program that gave different answers every time it was run.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

322 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (vuisn)

323 she's fine voting for ANY Republican, really, so long as they keep their trap shut on abortion and giving her an easy reason to pull the level for instead ANYBODY else running.

I expect that there are some like this out there, but do they constitute a large enough portion of the voting population to matter? Its not like congress has any power over abortion in the states anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (KZzsI)

324 Example, my own mother. A reliable Republican vote, she will absolutely personally be vocally against ANYBODY on the Republican side on her ballot who says, on hot mic, that this Supreme Court decision was the right call.

Where does she live?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (prQx9)

325 That issue aside, she's VERY reliably Republican.

Cool story brah.

Posted by: Squid at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (Rb3Xr)

326 My solidly conservative state has somehow switched to electing people left of Mao ever since we got drop-off and mail-in. And, now we have switched to preference voting.

I lack your confidence because of recent events where I would have sworn it was not possible.
Posted by: jc at May 23, 2022 05:56 PM (N1WXz)

jc, what state r u?

Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (XjuKB)

327 Now do the blacks.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (KiBMU)

328 >We held elections during a Civil War, and two world wars.
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Technically one. We weren't in yet in 1916.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (es0Dj)

329 Putin's strategy to concentrate on attacking maternity wards, children and women first has backfired.

If only Putin and his stooge generals were smart enough to attack military targets first, they may not have lost the war.

Putin is an evil man, but the Ukraine campaign has not been designed to maximize civilian casualties.

A campaign designed to maximum civilian casualties would have involved mass indiscriminate artillery fire into Ukrainian cities, which is not a tactic the Russians are using. Civilian casualties would have been in the many tens of thousands of people, not thousands.

Mariupol has been leveled, but house-to-house streetfighting tends to do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (I2/tG)

330 Ted Cruz is also "reliably Republican"

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (QYPq3)

331
That has more to do with internal Chinese politics. They committed to zero covid and are flailing. It also wouldn't surprise me if they're using the shutdowns to go after party rivals.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 23, 2022 05:37 PM (EsAyS)

Some reports said that Shanghai was locked down not due to Covid, but as a power play against factions based in Shanghai.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:39 PM (eoQWY)

I've been saying from the beginning that the China Lung Rot was likely released intentionally, in order to shut down the Hong Kong protests which were getting sporty at the time (the MFM was starting to speculate that those protests were serious enough that they could bring down the ChiCom junta). Releasing it in Wuhan was the ChiComs being clever, as releasing it in HK would have been obvious. Once the West started to overreact and freak out, the ChiComs just rolled with it and tried to take advantage of the opportunity. Which is why so much of their messaging was haphazard at first.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (n+4am)

332 Lol at any aid going to a Red state before ... well hell freezes over.

Government funding = government control. And it keeps things running no matter how high gas gets. Besides most of the big farms are huge ag companies who are reliable Dem donors and have HQs in cities.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

That's long term thinking. Biden and his cronies are zealots, they don't care about who dies but do care about punishing real or imagined enemies.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (eoQWY)

333
It will be hard to make it fly. We held elections during a Civil War, and two world wars.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 23, 2022 05:55 PM (Uh6Mj)

"Those were skirmishes. Nobody has ever faced a conflict so dire and dangerous and all-consuming as this."

Again, it doesn't need to make sense. They say what they say and get full compliance, because this is not a country where people will them "no." Ever.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at May 23, 2022 05:59 PM (96UI6)

334 There will be food shortages this winter. Food shortages, in America.

There will be starvation in the 3rd world.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 23, 2022 05:59 PM (prQx9)

335 > With the manner in which the gas prices are going, the public will find out that farmers might not be able to plant their crops next year.
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You mean this year.
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The farmers around here are planting soybeans and corn as usual. They'll make money this year based on the prices they'll get for those crops... maybe not a lot, but they won't lose money. Next year however will be a crap shoot.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2022 05:59 PM (BFigT)

336 75% say we're on the wrong track.
13% have tracks on their arms, between their toes, and anywhere they can find a vein.
12% believe narrow gauge trains have little people inside and when they go "toot toot," the train fairy deposits a poopy in their pants.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 23, 2022 06:00 PM (YV6PJ)

337 That's long term thinking. Biden and his cronies are zealots, they don't care about who dies but do care about punishing real or imagined enemies.

I think it depends on which faction gets the upper hand at the time. The young women faction from the Obama administration? They're all in on the lunatic chaos. The Clinton wing is more long term and strategic, they're fine with appearing to lose a battle to win two.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 06:00 PM (KZzsI)

338 325 That issue aside, she's VERY reliably Republican.

Cool story brah.

Posted by: Squid
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How many quotes does one go back to find out who she is?

Posted by: Braenyard at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (pBly4)

339 "He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights."

Activate the pillagers!

Posted by: wodun at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (lFga6)

340 The sock needed washing

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (b+v9B)

341 MUMR.. Those you mentioned are reliable "Republican's" Just not reliably Conservative

Posted by: It's me donna at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (bs+z0)

342 There will be food shortages this winter. Food shortages, in America.

There will be starvation in the 3rd world.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 23, 2022 05:59 PM (prQx9)

Are you reading a transcript of today's meeting at Davos?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (YV6PJ)

343 The farmers around here are planting soybeans and corn as usual. They'll make money this year based on the prices they'll get for those crops... maybe not a lot, but they won't lose money. Next year however will be a crap shoot.
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Seeing fallow fields in Ohio.

Posted by: a moron at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (R8HSQ)

344 I've been saying from the beginning that the China Lung Rot was likely released intentionally, in order to shut down the Hong Kong protests which were getting sporty at the time (the MFM was starting to speculate that those protests were serious enough that they could bring down the ChiCom junta). Releasing it in Wuhan was the ChiComs being clever, as releasing it in HK would have been obvious. Once the West started to overreact and freak out, the ChiComs just rolled with it and tried to take advantage of the opportunity. Which is why so much of their messaging was haphazard at first.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (n+4am)

I disagree with the first part -- it was an accidental release because the Chinese are screwups and sold lab animals to wet markets for a few bucks. Proof is that China also was irrational and freaked out for a bit, locking up areas too. The only rational reaction was bribing the WHO to pretend it wasn't Chinese. They definitely did want it to spread everywhere too.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 06:01 PM (eoQWY)

345 The Biden Administration will gain momentum when they label the latest viral outbreak as PutinPox, so that Americans know who is really to blame!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (v31Ye)

346 Lantinexexexes are RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTS against person of color !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (woJx7)

347 He allows for one possible chance for Democrats to save themselves: a massive surge in interest in abortion rights."

abortion on demand has lost favor every year since the 1980s. That's not going to suddenly turn into a big winner for the Democrats. At this point I see nothing they can do to turn the public's mood in favor of the party. I mean there's a lot of underhanded and crooked crap they can do, but they're running out of time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (KZzsI)

348 be vocally against ANYBODY on the Republican side on her ballot who says, on hot mic, that this Supreme Court decision was the right call.

What decision? It hasn't been made yet. Do you mean she is support of R v. W, continuing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (Ut+C0)

349 I expect that there are some like this out there, but do they constitute a large enough portion of the voting population to matter? Its not like congress has any power over abortion in the states anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (KZzsI)

CRT I hope you're right. But keep in mind pro-choicers don't really consider the minutiae. To them, SCOTUS recognized a pre-existing right and for them to un-recognize it makes it tantamount illegal. This is the propaganda, so this is what's believed. And OUR side didn't bother fighting on or for this hill enough, apparently. Anyway, she usually lets me tell her who to vote for on each race on her ballot, this year's no different. The abortion thing surprised me tho. Don't think she's EVER considered alternate pov's, which makes me think there's something to salvage here.

Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (XjuKB)

350 A Russian tank was destroyed by drones armed with javelin missiles when it stopped on a bridge and attempted to toss a large bag of innocent kittens into the river.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 23, 2022 05:51 PM (v31Ye)

Got a friend who is an Ex Army Tank Driver... and just retired from Fed Law Enforcement... who is a BIG animal guy, constantly posting pictures of Dogs and Cats that need rescue homes and such.

He was posting LOTS of 'lookie at the the brave Uke who rescued this kitten'... until I reminded him that if this was an ACTUAL F'n War Zone... the last thing you'd be doing is rescuing Cats.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (oHd/0)

351 Are they finished counting in Allegheny County yet?

What a fucking joke.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2022 05:10 PM (43LzH)

I think they just found my vote for Governor in 1989.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (TrSLC)

352 PutinPox, so that Americans know who is really to blame!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (v31Ye)

TrumpPox

Posted by: It's me donna at May 23, 2022 06:03 PM (bs+z0)

353 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 23, 2022 06:03 PM (3NKiY)

354 jc, what state r u?
Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 05:58 PM (XjuKB)

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far to the east, north, and west.

Posted by: jc at May 23, 2022 06:03 PM (N1WXz)

355 NOOD: Monkeypox et cetera; gay raves hardest hit

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 23, 2022 06:04 PM (ppBhU)

356 I think it depends on which faction gets the upper hand at the time. The young women faction from the Obama administration? They're all in on the lunatic chaos. The Clinton wing is more long term and strategic, they're fine with appearing to lose a battle to win two.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 06:00 PM (KZzsI)

The Clinton wing is dead, and the old line Criminal Dems are on life support. Pretty much all the Deep State foreign factions are worse ideologues than the local Commies.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 06:04 PM (eoQWY)

357 The death projections did it for me - worse than plagues in ancient times where there was no understanding of disease at all. And that was *before* the model used was examined and found to be a buggy piece of shit program that gave different answers every time it was run.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

The early cruise ship data was nearly dispositive for me.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 23, 2022 06:05 PM (SH2Zi)

358 CRT I hope you're right. But keep in mind pro-choicers don't really consider the minutiae. To them, SCOTUS recognized a pre-existing right and for them to un-recognize it makes it tantamount illegal. This is the propaganda, so this is what's believed. And OUR side didn't bother fighting on or for this hill enough, apparently. Anyway, she usually lets me tell her who to vote for on each race on her ballot, this year's no different. The abortion thing surprised me tho. Don't think she's EVER considered alternate pov's, which makes me think there's something to salvage here.
Posted by: geewhiz at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (XjuKB)

I don't want to salvage her vote, any more than Jonah Goldbergs or the other Never Trumpers. Backstabbers are worse than enemies.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 06:06 PM (eoQWY)

359 He was posting LOTS of 'lookie at the the brave Uke who rescued this kitten'... until I reminded him that if this was an ACTUAL F'n War Zone... the last thing you'd be doing is rescuing Cats.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 23, 2022 06:02 PM (oHd/0)

It was funny how early on Nato and other groups would put up pretty Ukranian women soldiers and handsome Ukranian men on Twitter. Until people began pointing out the neoNazi tatoos and emblems on most of them. Oops!

Posted by: Oldcat at May 23, 2022 06:07 PM (eoQWY)

360 To them, SCOTUS recognized a pre-existing right and for them to un-recognize it makes it tantamount illegal.

Eh, you can't reach someone whos that out of touch with reality. In the end, she'll pull the trigger for a Democrat and lie about it if she has to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 23, 2022 06:08 PM (KZzsI)

361 Mexico is a little country next to a big country called the United States. Space is big, like, really big and so in America, we know that the time to be doing is now, as we are now doing it.

Posted by: Kamala Harris, Hispanic Outreach Expert (H.O.E) at May 23, 2022 06:09 PM (Y1oIY)

362 Example, my own mother. A reliable Republican vote, she will absolutely personally be vocally against ANYBODY on the Republican side on her ballot who says, on hot mic, that this Supreme Court decision was the right call.

I'm glad she let you live at least.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 23, 2022 06:15 PM (RLLZj)

363 A reliable Republican vote, she will absolutely personally be vocally against ANYBODY on the Republican side on her ballot who says, on hot mic, that this Supreme Court decision was the right call. "Taking away a woman's right" and all, making it illegal and all those States that "criminalize" abortion long before the woman is even "aware" she preg.
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At-home pregnancy tests, which can be purchased in drug stores without a prescription, are 99% accurate in detecting hCG (chemical only found in pregnant women) about 10 days after conception.

There really isn't a good reason for any sexually active woman or girl in this country not to know she's pregnant fairly soon after the event. The tests cost just a few bucks (Walmart has a generic brand test that's less than $1), can be purchased at any drugstore, they can be done privately at home, and no doctor's prescription or office visit is required.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 23, 2022 06:16 PM (MvHI3)

364 Remember the days of "you didn't build that?"

Dems trying to undercut the achievements of every successful individual by claiming that success was only possible because of the underlying system of social support and infrastructure?

And they were not totally incorrect in saying that well developed infrastructure and other systems do contribute to the conditions for success. Just not the welfare state they way they twist it.

Now that those conditions for success have been erased they seem to not have much to say about what a wonderful world of supports and regulations they have built for us all.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 23, 2022 06:30 PM (z9npv)

365 Cheap Nitrogen Fertilizer needs Cheap Natural GAS.

Nitrogen Fertilizers are Ammonia and Nitrate based. Both are manufactured with the Haber Process from Natural Gas. You need Natural Gas.

Europe has a Nat Gas Shortage and European Fertilizer plants are shut down because of a supply chain issue / Raw Material Shortage.

Posted by: rd at May 23, 2022 06:33 PM (Z32m1)

366 Remember the days of "you didn't build that?"

Democrats Won't Build That

Democrats Can't Build That

Democrats Will Destroy That

Democrats Are The PROBLEM.

Posted by: rd at May 23, 2022 06:36 PM (Z32m1)

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