Alaska GOP Votes 49-8 to Censure Mitch the Bitch McConnell -- <i>For Spending $5 Million to Beat the Actual Republican Conservative Kelly Tshibaka, to Protect His Liberal Abortion-Crazy Ally Lisa Murkowski</i>

Alaska GOP Votes 49-8 to Censure Mitch the Bitch McConnell -- For Spending $5 Million to Beat the Actual Republican Conservative Kelly Tshibaka, to Protect His Liberal Abortion-Crazy Ally Lisa Murkowski

He doesn't want conservatives in the Senate. Because he knows conservatives will not vote to make him Majority Leader in the Senate.

He wants liberals in the Senate.

And he'd rather lose all the races where conservatives are running. As someone wisely and mathematically put it, McConnell is not interested in getting to 51. He only wants 25 -- the 25 liberal allies necessary to make him Minority Leader.

He doesn't care how weak the Republican caucus is, so long as he has his Cuck Platoon obeying his orders.

Kelly Tshibaka is poised to finally beat Lisa Murkowski and get rid of this flaky cokehead liberal. She'd be an actual conservative vote in the Senate.

And Mitch the Bitch can't have that.

The Alaska GOP formally censured Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over the weekend for the Kentucky lawmaker's interference in the Arctic Senate race between two Republicans.
On Monday, the state Republican central committee announced the results of an overwhelming vote to admonish the national party leader over attack ads against Kelly Tshibaka, the candidate endorsed by the Alaska GOP who is challenging incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The final vote came to 49-8 in favor of a resolution censuring McConnell and the minority leader's Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) which has pumped more than $5 million into the race to defend a key McConnell ally in the upper chamber.

"No one from Alaska wants big shots from the Lower 48 meddling in our elections, and they certainly don't want D.C. Republicans lying about the candidate who's been endorsed by the Alaska GOP," Mary Ann Pruitt, an advisor to Tshibaka, told The Federalist. "Alaska Republicans are telling Mitch McConnell to stay out of it. But this goes to show you who Lisa Murkowski is aligned with. She's wearing the jersey of the Washington establishment of Biden, Pelosi, and McConnell, and she's not on Alaska's team."

Lisa Murkowski just reached out to Democrats by endorsing the Democrat House candidate over either of the two Republicans running for Alaska House.

This is the Democrat-in-truth that McConnell is desperate to elect -- she's a leftwinger, but she's promised him her vote.

On Friday, Murkowski endorsed the state's Democrat Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the state's House race over former Republican governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, the other Republican in the contest.

In exchange, the Democrat Mary Peltola endorsed Lisa Murkowski.

Murkowski is now clearly a Democrat -- but McConnell is giving her five million to beat a conservative.

Tristan Justice's article then notes the various races in which conservative Senate candidates are threatening to win in which McConnell has removed money -- so he could pump it into Lisa Murkowski's campaign.

We cannot go on with treason from the top.

Posted by: Ace at 12:20 PM

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1 Hello gray box

Posted by: bed head at October 25, 2022 12:21 PM (Y1sOo)

2 The Bitch also voted for the FACE act Biden was using to arrest abortion protestors.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 12:21 PM (ESjRY)

3 Hillary is a pre-election denier, by the way.

Story at Daily Mail

Posted by: bed head at October 25, 2022 12:22 PM (Y1sOo)

4 Gray Box again?

Time to head to my gynecologist

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 25, 2022 12:22 PM (ESjRY)

5 at least we're learning.

too bad the pace is glacial.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (MLrvz)

6 Masks continue to be voluntarily, ripped off....

Let their actions define them, not their words.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (oHd/0)

7 Tristan Justice's article then notes the various races in which conservative Senate candidates are threatening to win in which McConnell has removed money -- so he could pump it into Lisa Murkowski's campaign.

We cannot go on with treason from the top.

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McConnell is squeezing too tightly. He's not going to be able to control the majority he gets. He'll get the top spot because of his entrenched power, but the situation is going to make John Boehner go, "Damn..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

8 Let's go uniparty! Clap clap clap

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (/6GbT)

9 The only difference between some Repubes and some Demonrats is the letter after their name.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (ynpvh)

10 Hi Ace.

It's about time.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (Y+l9t)

11
Pembrokes and Cardigans called.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (1Nxff)

12 The worst part is no one in the GOP will hold this bitch into account. Sure, they'll put out a press brief claiming "this is not who we are," but in the end, they will all stand behind the bitch.

Honestly, why do we keep voting for the people who hate us? The GOP is effectively the NFL.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (d2bW3)

13 Don't want to give money to a lot of candidates now and don't have much to give, but Kelly's T's campaign . sent me an e-mail today and this sounds like a good reason to support her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (vH/6k)

14 Mitch, the mole...Chinese mole.

Posted by: BignJames at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (AwYPR)

15 Holy fuck, I re read that.

Mitch...spent money?

What a fuckwad asshole traitor. He never spends money on anything other than his own candidacy.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (MLrvz)

16 The voters of Alaska need to go around Liza Minakowski and either vote D or Vote R....

Not "I"

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (Lzpvj)

17 Why does Murkowski even continue pretending to be anything other than a Dim?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (PoO4a)

18 The only difference between some Repubes and some Demonrats is the letter after their name.

You can vote for whatever party you want because we have free and fair elections. But either way you are going to get the same policies.

Posted by: The UniParty and Europe at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (ESjRY)

19 I wonder if there was a war within the Trump whitehouse. I'm sure Bannon was telling Trump to go to war with Mitch while Jared was all like, not the hill to die on.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (MLrvz)

20 2 The Bitch also voted for the FACE act Biden was using to arrest abortion protestors.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 12:21 PM (ESjRY)

OK, how is the Face act Constitutional? It's not Federal Property. If Abortion was a RIGHT, then I could see it passed as a Civil Rights issue, but it IS NO LONGER A RIGHT.

So, why is the Federal Government infringing in what is clearly a STATE ISSUE?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (oHd/0)

21 @RaheemKassam · 4h
Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
(His name is Rishi Sunak)

https://twitter.com/Grammar98566533/status/
1584874253073059841

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (yikp0)

22 But we have to vote for the GOP! Or else!

Posted by: BacktoGA at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (MPYWI)

23 Not gonna change a thing. They need to invest $$$$ into getting rid of ranked voting, that will go a long way to fixing this $hit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (bVYXr)

24 >>>Why does Murkowski even continue pretending to be anything other than a Dim?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth)

Because the Dims don't want her, and she'll get paid by the GOP and the bitch.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (d2bW3)

25 Kelly T. is the real deal.

Posted by: Bosk at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (v4L7Y)

26 Mitch is a bitch and he can go F himself.
I hope the Senators that win and vote for Majority Leader understand that he can no longer be in charge.

And his Chinese wife can F off too.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (haWye)

27 20 2 The Bitch also voted for the FACE act Biden was using to arrest abortion protestors.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 12:21 PM (ESjRY)

OK, how is the Face act Constitutional? It's not Federal Property. If Abortion was a RIGHT, then I could see it passed as a Civil Rights issue, but it IS NO LONGER A RIGHT.

So, why is the Federal Government infringing in what is clearly a STATE ISSUE?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (oHd/0)

Sounds like it should have been named the "In-Your-Face" act.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

28
Why does Murkowski even continue pretending to be anything other than a Dim?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM (PoO4a)

___________

Gives her a chance to assume the Hero Maverick mantle once worn by McCain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (1Nxff)

29 Mitch also pulled his money from the NH Senate race between Gen. Bolduc and Maggie Hassan.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (N39Ws)

30 Even when the Dems were hopelessly split between the Southern seggie wing and the Northern Big Labor wing they never back stabbed each other by endorsing and spending money on the other party's candidate. McConnell and Romney are uniquely feckless people.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (vN+oL)

31 >>> Mitch also pulled his money from the NH Senate race between Gen. Bolduc and Maggie Hassan.

yup!

Posted by: ace at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (C1Zwz)

32 How can we get rid of this fossilized asswipe? Kentuckians keep re-electing him

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (geLO8)

33 26 Mitch is a bitch and he can go F himself.
I hope the Senators that win and vote for Majority Leader understand that he can no longer be in charge.

And his Chinese wife can F off too.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (haWye)

Turtles are a delicacy. Make a great soup.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

34 The end of the US can be traced back to the Constitutional Amendments that allowed a national income tax, direct election of US Senators, and Womens Suffrage. Somewhere in there, they also banned booze.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (Z32m1)

35 The good news is that Bolduc is moving up on Hassan so that may end up being one no one saw coming.
Masters has already been added to projected win by RCP. I don't think McConnel's money is making a difference at this point.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:28 PM (Y+l9t)

36 "Alaska Republicans are telling Mitch McConnell to stay out of it. But this goes to show you who Lisa Murkowski is aligned with. She's wearing the jersey of the Washington establishment of Biden, Pelosi, and McConnell, and she's not on Alaska's team."
+++++
But she'll win, thanks to internal corruption and the awesome power of ranked-choice voting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 12:28 PM (EwScq)

37 19 I wonder if there was a war within the Trump whitehouse. I'm sure Bannon was telling Trump to go to war with Mitch while Jared was all like, not the hill to die on.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (MLrvz)

From day 1. The one real chance Trump had to clean out the Deep State, was to put Gen. Flynn in as National Security Advisor. PENCE was the insider who got Flynn fired... remember, the 'reason' Flynn was thrown to the Wolves... why Trump stopped supporting him, was the Flynn 'lied to PENCE'. Which.. is flatly untrue.

Pence is part of the Deep State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:28 PM (oHd/0)

38 31 >>> Mitch also pulled his money from the NH Senate race between Gen. Bolduc and Maggie Hassan.

yup!
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (C1Zwz)

=========

Ron Johnson keeps winning without Mitch money. It can be done.

I hope Mitch is faced with at least five new R Senators who are there despite him. That'd be amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

39 Why does Murkowski even continue pretending to be anything other than a Dim?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM

Frank's daughter is a legacy republican.

Posted by: huerfano, stochastic commenter at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (dTFZY)

40 The RNSC stopped calling me a couple of years ago. Maybe because I told them to eff off, and that I would never give them money again as long as they fought against good conservative candidates...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

41 what one thing/vote/position can Murkowski point to as evidence she is anything but a Democrat

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO8)

42 >>>I hope the Senators that win and vote for Majority Leader understand that he can no longer be in charge.

Posted by: Czech Chick

I don't think there are enough GOPers who will go against the bitch. They want their sweet positions on certain committees, so they won't rock the boat.

I wonder if a third party - like a Trump Party - would ever work, because the GOP does not.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (d2bW3)

43 34 The end of the US can be traced back to the Constitutional Amendments that allowed a national income tax, direct election of US Senators, and Womens Suffrage. Somewhere in there, they also banned booze.
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (Z32m1)

And all happened in what... 20 years?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (oHd/0)

44 39 Why does Murkowski even continue pretending to be anything other than a Dim?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 25, 2022 12:25 PM

=========

The electoral history of people switching parties is not good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

45 29 Mitch also pulled his money from the NH Senate race between Gen. Bolduc and Maggie Hassan.

///

Mitch is a traitor. What the front door

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (MLrvz)

46 I've been seething about this whole rank choice voting crap in Alaska which gives Murkowski the edge and helps the Democrat win the Congressional seat.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (NpAcC)

47 Who are the Eskimo's supporting?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (L08P2)

48 Question for one of the many persons here much smarter than I am about various things including campaigns and how they work. I clicked on her website. It comes up with a thing that says "WinRed". Is that the official GOP thing and if so, how do I give to her campaign directly? Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (vH/6k)

49 Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
(His name is Rishi Sunak)

https://twitter.com/Grammar98566533/status/
1584874253073059841

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (yikp0)

He confused him with that other great Indian/Inuit, Sanook of the North.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (7bRMQ)

50 I haven't forgotten 2010, when Murkowski lost her primary, started a write-in campaign, and won, and McConnell didn't do a damn thing about this flouting of party rules.

That should tell you everything you need to know about him.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (bhRsz)

51 Also, the 8 people who did not censure the bitch from the AK GOP should be removed.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (d2bW3)

52 I am so stoked for when Mitch repeals Obamacare guys.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (CdFbH)

53
Somewhere in there, they also banned booze.
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (Z32m1)

___________

I trace it to restrictions on the ability of individuals to bring suit against states in federal court.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (1Nxff)

54 Turtles are a delicacy. Make a great soup.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

None for me, thanks.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (PoO4a)

55 @RaheemKassam · 4h
Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
(His name is Rishi Sunak)

https://twitter.com/Grammar98566533/status/
1584874253073059841
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (yikp0)

Biden is Restoring Respect for America by our Allies!

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (Z32m1)

56 The end of the US can be traced back to the Constitutional Amendments that allowed a national income tax, direct election of US Senators, and Womens Suffrage. Somewhere in there, they also banned booze.
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (Z32m1)

And all happened in what... 20 years?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM

All number of things can happen in a short period of time. We went from the first powered flight to landing a man on the moon in 65 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (bVYXr)

57 >>>46 I've been seething about this whole rank choice voting crap in Alaska which gives Murkowski the edge and helps the Democrat win the Congressional seat.

Murkowski supported it for just this reason. She knows it helps her, and that she'd lose in a one on one with any Republican in a primary.

Posted by: ace at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (C1Zwz)

58 Does anyone else remember when the shitheads of the GOP congress promised they wouldn't interfere between races between GOP candidates?

Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (aRLgQ)

59 @RaheemKassam · 4h
Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
(His name is Rishi Sunak)

kinda funny tbh

Posted by: ace at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (C1Zwz)

60 Uniparty Uniparty Uniparty All the way down.

Posted by: broken record at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (PWodd)

61 Fuck Mitch and Fuck anyone that supports him

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (us2H3)

62 I congratulate Rathead Chinook.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

63
And all happened in what... 20 years?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (oHd/0)

_________

Seven

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (1Nxff)

64 Who are the Eskimo's supporting?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (L08P2)

Quinn, of course.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (AiZBA)

65
China talk was more interesting than boring US talk, but whatevs.

Mitch isn't worried so much about votes for SML. He's got those no matter what. He is the Party, and there is no way in a month of Sundays that enough MAGA candidates will win this November to oust him. And he'll be gone soon anyway.

It's about smothering any possible resistance to the regime, as it has been since 2010 - any attempt to put anybody in who isn't Uniparty-approved must be crushed.

Where it can't be, then the candidate must be destroyed using the Democrat Party and press machines (as happened with McDaniel and Moore). Where that can't work, the winning candidate must be sidelined, using any means necessary, no matter how criminal, as happened with Trump.

It's about showing us who's boss, and that we can't beat the Uniparty, and ALL other considerations be damned.

If he gets a majority, great. If not, that's fine too. As long as the interlopers get destroyed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (oINRc)

66 He's not up for reelection until 2026...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

67 >>>I've been seething about this whole rank choice voting crap in Alaska which gives Murkowski the edge and helps the Democrat win the Congressional seat.

Posted by: redridinghood

She was in on that measure, and her aide was bragging about it a few months ago, while saying, "We try not to let out that Murkowski was in on it."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (d2bW3)

68 42 I don't think there are enough GOPers who will go against the bitch. They want their sweet positions on certain committees, so they won't rock the boat.

I wonder if a third party - like a Trump Party - would ever work, because the GOP does not.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (d2bW3)

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I really don't think Mitch is going to lose his position at the head of the caucus, but I also think that the vote is going to be...spirited.

I really expect a serious minority of senators to hold out until the actual vote and vote for Scott (no one else is running, so Scott it is). The general practice is to have a final vote, though, to make it a unanimous decision on the part of the caucus to show solidarity. I also expect a least a couple of senators (people like Lake who are just getting there and expect to be there longer into the future than Mitch) to refuse to change their votes. It's going to be rancorous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

69 Good on Alaska

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (XvPQV)

70 Not Lake...she's running for governor...Masters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

71 Will do butt stuff for blow.

I'm looking at you Mitch. 👀

Posted by: Lisa Murkyowski at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (ZeDNp)

72 Why does Murkowski even continue pretending to be anything other than a Dim?

—

Simple. Alsea is a Republican state. But in Alaska like most places most voters don’t follow the ins and outs of politics. All they know is is Team R is better than Team D. So they vote for team R.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (CdFbH)

73 43 34 The end of the US can be traced back to the Constitutional Amendments that allowed a national income tax, direct election of US Senators, and Womens Suffrage. Somewhere in there, they also banned booze.
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (Z32m1)

And all happened in what... 20 years?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (oHd/0)

Less than 10 years. 1912-1920 IIRC.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (Z32m1)

74 >He's not up for reelection until 2026...

just die already for crying out loud

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (geLO8)

75 Here's a basic question:
Do political ads rally make a difference? With all the media available to voters, do paid ads really change minds?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (Y+l9t)

76 >>>Murkowski supported it for just this reason. She knows it helps her, and that she'd lose in a one on one with any Republican in a primary.

Posted by: ace

Maine has the same offering, and apparently Murkowski got the idea when the Ugly sisters mentioned it to her.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (d2bW3)

77 How come the Democrats never have any Murkowskis?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (eGTCV)

78 Last I heard from Blake Masters a couple weeks ago, Cocaine Bitch McConnell had refused to help him out here in AZ. Kelly, like all the D's nationwide, has several million dollars coming in from out-of-state.

Hopefully, Kari Lake can help carry him over the MoF and finish line ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:34 PM (K3TEc)

79 Hooray for that 17th Amendment, amirite???

Posted by: Mitch McCorkle at October 25, 2022 12:34 PM (etW2L)

80 Mitch is what, 90 years old or something

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 12:34 PM (geLO8)

81 62 I congratulate Rathead Chinook.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

"Wrong kind of Indian, Mr. President"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

82 66 He's not up for reelection until 2026...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

==========

True, but his power is because he's up every new Congress for a vote as a leader of the caucus. I don't think there's real danger he'll lose his place, but he's making very public enemies all over the place within the party, relying entirely on his money to keep himself around.

He's losing power within the caucus. The next 2 years are going to be fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:34 PM (LvTSG)

83 McConnell is squeezing too tightly. He's not going to be able to control the majority he gets. He'll get the top spot because of his entrenched power, but the situation is going to make John Boehner go, "Damn..."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (LvTSG)
==
It is the desperate actions of a failing sub-party (the GOPe). Mitch is their standard bearer, and he is fighting on too many fronts - he doesn't have enough ammo to win it. He will have a more MAGA contingent to deal with - and even more coming in 2024. He could end up losing all of them, and then he won't even be majority leader this time.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 12:34 PM (xWZcb)

84 Will no one rid me of this meddlesome prick?

Posted by: King Harv II at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (w9Wax)

85 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (T4tVD)

86 Fen, WinRed goes through the party I believe. I don't know if it is as bd as United Way charitable giving, where everyone gets the same percentage no matter whom you desingnate, but it isn't direct from what I remember.

Posted by: Catherine at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (ZSsrh)

87
McConnell is squeezing too tightly. He's not going to be able to control the majority he gets.

------

He will.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (oINRc)

88 Funny thing about Sunak; he's been putting his cabinet together this morning (or afternoon, I suppose), and his choices are....pretty good so far. Home Secretary is Suella Braverman, who wants to clamp down hard on immigration and even take Britain out of the European Human Rights Council to do it; Kami Badenoch, who's spoken out against CRT in British schools, may end up as Education Secretary.

Sunak's cabinet is going to be full of minorities and possibly more based than BoJo was.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (bhRsz)

89 >>>I really expect a serious minority of senators to hold out until the actual vote and vote for Scott (no one else is running, so Scott it is). The general practice is to have a final vote, though, to make it a unanimous decision on the part of the caucus to show solidarity. I also expect a least a couple of senators (people like Lake who are just getting there and expect to be there longer into the future than Mitch) to refuse to change their votes. It's going to be rancorous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So maybe he still stays, but at least he knows the majority wants him out. Guess it's better than nothing.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (d2bW3)

90 Lisa Murkowski, AKA Vidkun With a Vagina Quisling.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (lz5hY)

91 The electoral history of people switching parties is not good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

Well I never...

Posted by: Charlie Crist at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (PiwSw)

92 In the congressional race, a lot of the censure should go to Begich for not dropping out. Palin did get more votes than he did. That would make that race, Republican vs Democrat and assure Palin's win.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (Y+l9t)

93 75 Here's a basic question:
Do political ads rally make a difference? With all the media available to voters, do paid ads really change minds?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (Y+l9t)

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Probably not, but money isn't just for ads.

Money is for hiring people who organize volunteers, for printing materials, for organizing GOTV efforts through election season (ugh).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (LvTSG)

94 Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 12:30 PM (CdFbH)

Nice try, but we all know about Mitch. How stoked are you about your performance on the polls-umm- poles tonight?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (vH/6k)

95 >Do political ads rally make a difference? With all the media available to voters, do paid ads really change minds?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

political ads are aimed at stupid people, easily persuaded
imho

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (geLO8)

96 Who runs Alaskatown and how did ranked voting get passed/or thought this is a great idea?

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (/6GbT)

97
16th Amendment (income tax): 1913
17th Amendment (direct election of senators): 1913
18th Amendment (Prohibition): 1919
19th Amendment (women's suffrage): 1920

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (1Nxff)

98 I wonder how many elected R's would be D's if it was lucrative and there were no consequences. Like how many would declare tomorrow. I bet it's more than most imagine.

Posted by: ... at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (gjkES)

99 77 How come the Democrats never have any Murkowskis?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 12:33 PM (eGTCV)

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Sinema is Murkowski-esque, no?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

100 Murkowski is now clearly a Democrat -- but McConnell is giving her five million to beat a conservative.

He is giving money donated by republicans to elect republicans to elect democrats.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (lTGtQ)

101 Hiya Catherine !

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (T4tVD)

102 84 Will no one rid me of this meddlesome prick?
Posted by: King Harv II at October 25, 2022 12:35 PM (w9Wax)

I'll take "Things Rachel Levine said right before the surgery" for $200, Alex.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Aspiring Stochastic Rapper at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (PiwSw)

103 I'll keep saying it: blaming Trump for the losses in GA is wrong. McConnell deserves the majority of the blame. He pushed for Loeffler (and McSally, who was also a loser), and his last-minute decision to make a "principled" stand against the stimulus check was about sabotaging the run-off. He wanted losses in the Senate that could be blamed on Trump.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

104 Mitch McConnell is, was and always will be pure shit.

Die already you old bastard.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2022 12:37 PM (Yi4c0)

105 89 Hey, Wyatt, any talk around the house about the number and who Wolf will pardon?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 12:37 PM (lz5hY)

106 Sinema is Murkowski-esque, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

I think you're right.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 12:37 PM (eGTCV)

107 106 Sinema is Murkowski-esque, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

I think you're right.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 12:37 PM (eGTCV)

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And people keep saying that Manchin should just switch parties, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

108

Sinema is Murkowski-esque, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

Nah. She still votes the right way (for leftists) even though she makes a lot of noise on the way to the vote.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (CdFbH)

109 I don't like turtles

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (M+Lyo)

110 Sinema is Murkowski-esque, no?

//

ah, it's interesting. I think Sinema is very unique. Every DNC lark in congress is in lockstep and then she shows up. Her and Gabbi...maybe Manchin a tiny bit too.

They seem...principled? Murkowski is just a traitor.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (MLrvz)

111 McConell is who he is. The problem is the other senators that enable his behavior.

Hopefully Rick Scott will mount a serious challenge as leader.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (V6W16)

112
2020 was the end of any realistic reform attempts. After that, there can be no doubt - the Uniparty will rule with its GOP pets in charge of the controlled opposition, or it will have to fight through without them. But the GOP would rather die than permit reform.

It may die. Or it may not.

But it won't be reformed. McConnell and McCarthy are going nowhere until they want to. Everly legislator on Cap Hill knows the score.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (oINRc)

113 35 The good news is that Bolduc is moving up on Hassan so that may end up being one no one saw coming.
Masters has already been added to projected win by RCP. I don't think McConnel's money is making a difference at this point.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:28 PM (Y+l9t)

Getting it pulled might be the difference - you convince voters you are NOT Uniparty...badge of honor to lose McConnell's money...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (exHjb)

114 Hiya, JT.

Posted by: Catherine at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (ZSsrh)

115 Awesome Ditch Mitch the Bitch

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (A2vvE)

116 Jeebus, why didn't the Founding Fathers include an Amendment against this abomination of ranked-choice voting as done in Alaska and elsewhere?

/Because they didn't think we'd ever become so retarded?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (K3TEc)

117 Mitch needs to find his legacy in the dustbin of history. He cannot have a leadership position, majority or minority.

Posted by: Piper at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (0GTCG)

118 Whomever win in 2024 will have to deal with McConnell as Majority Leader. That alone should be reason to support Trump: he hates the guy. Let DeSantis run in 2028, when he's likely to have a GOP Senate led by Rick Scott.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (wmDcS)

119 97
16th Amendment (income tax): 1913
17th Amendment (direct election of senators): 1913
18th Amendment (Prohibition): 1919
19th Amendment (women's suffrage): 1920
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:36 PM (1Nxff)

And
Federal Reserve Bank Founded? 1913.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (oHd/0)

120 Any chance Murkowski will be butt hurt over this?

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (A2vvE)

121 I mean, of course, Sinema+Tulsi+Manchin are still democrats. Just not complete abortionfied, open borders, tranny all day groomer democrats. Still lovees to spend the money.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (MLrvz)

122 I ran over a turtle once with my truck
it sounds like a bag of potato chips popping

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (geLO8)

123 110 ah, it's interesting. I think Sinema is very unique. Every DNC lark in congress is in lockstep and then she shows up. Her and Gabbi...maybe Manchin a tiny bit too.

They seem...principled? Murkowski is just a traitor.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (MLrvz)

==========

They generally hold out until they get theirs. They're not cheap dates.

The only real opposition they show to the party is in not getting rid of the filibuster, and that's mostly to preserve their own power within the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

124 Sinema and Manchin are not Dem versions of Murk and Mittens. Murk and Mittens vote with the Ds. Sinema and Manchin just pretend they will vote with Rs, then also vote with Ds. See inflation reduction act (lol) as exhibit a.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (CdFbH)

125 There is no cogent argument for what McConnell is doing so fuck him. Good for Alaska- more, faster, harder.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 25, 2022 12:40 PM (nF3jk)

126 I haven't forgotten 2010, when Murkowski lost her primary, started a write-in campaign, and won, and McConnell didn't do a damn thing about this flouting of party rules.

That should tell you everything you need to know about him.
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The HQ's Mabe Galore also supported the Snow Blower in both of her court cases, and even though they had mutually exclusive premises as their bases.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:40 PM (yikp0)

127 Mitch is yet another POS pol held captive by the largess of globalism.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 25, 2022 12:40 PM (Xrfse)

128 Murky really looks like a chicken, cluck cluck

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 25, 2022 12:40 PM (M+Lyo)

129 Ditch the Bitch (McConnell).

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:40 PM (krQz2)

130 He threw the last one, why would anyone assume he wouldn't throw this one? The need is to win despite him, not with him. All of his ilk need to be primaried away or scared straight. Still dont trust Rubio, but he has voted right since his original betrayal.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2022 12:40 PM (eGccS)

131
Federal Reserve Bank Founded? 1913.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (oHd/0)

________

Also, Woodrow Wilson assumes Presidency, 1913

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (1Nxff)

132 Sinema would not say she is voting for Hobbs for Governor. She has singlehandedly kept the filibuster in place.
More of a chance she would switch parties than Manchin although his influence is about to go down the drain. No one is going to care what he thinks when the Senate has a Republican majority. He would ctually be wise to switch parties them. haha

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (Y+l9t)

133 Ranked Choice voting is an abomination.

Rank your top 5 (FIVE!) choices? most people only have a vague idea why they pick their top choice. Just ask any freaking Biden Voter!

If they ever propose ranked choice voting? Fight it tooth and nail.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (Z32m1)

134 Sure, McConnell sucks. Old news. The problem is Alaska's method of voting, and Alaskans are to blame for that.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (ppBhU)

135 Hey, whatever happened to the idea of getting big money OUT of elections?

I seem to remember some laws passed to do that... funny that McConnel has a way around that Law. I guess NEGATIVE ads are not considered a campaign contribution? Why the hell not?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (oHd/0)

136 21 @RaheemKassam · 4h
Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
(His name is Rishi Sunak)

https://twitter.com/Grammar98566533/status/
1584874253073059841

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (yikp0)

----
Britain elected a WOG as PM. Churchill is rolling in his grave.

Posted by: Ciampino -- worthy oriental gentleman at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (qfLjt)

137 When Tshibaka gets elected will she resign her current post as co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (kXYt5)

138 >>>Hey, Wyatt, any talk around the house about the number and who Wolf will pardon?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin

Not yet, but he always keeps that stuff to himself. I cannot wait until he's gone. Just an insufferable prick.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (d2bW3)

139 Add money removed from Masters in AZ to Mitch's support for Dems.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (foRMM)

140 I like Lisa. She's easily intimidated.

Posted by: Diane Feinstein at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (PiwSw)

141 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (oINRc)

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ICYMI, my response @437 to your last comment in the prior thread got willowed.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (K3TEc)

142 110 Sinema is Murkowski-esque, no?

would you have Murk in your hot tub ?

not fish tank but hot tub ?

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (us2H3)

143 McConnell is the poison in the Republican Party. He's gone after every candidate who said they would not vote for him as leader. It's always about him, not the party. He has no honor, and it is why he is rated consistently as the most disliked person in the GOP. He's the Vichy Leader, always in collaboration with Democrats. He moves the ball just enough to avoid being outed as an establishment turncoat. What a loathsome human being.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (T0jQj)

144 132 Sinema would not say she is voting for Hobbs for Governor. She has singlehandedly kept the filibuster in place.
More of a chance she would switch parties than Manchin although his influence is about to go down the drain. No one is going to care what he thinks when the Senate has a Republican majority. He would ctually be wise to switch parties them. haha
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (Y+l9t)

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If she gets rid of the filibuster in a close Senate, she just becomes another Democrat. She ceases to have any real bargaining power herself.

It's not principle. It's power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (LvTSG)

145 I'm guessing Murkowski has told McConnell she will switch parties if he doesn't financially back her. And he's allowing himself to be blackmailed by her.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (V6W16)

146 Hiya, JT.
Posted by: Catherine

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (T4tVD)

147 >>>He threw the last one, why would anyone assume he wouldn't throw this one? The need is to win despite him, not with him.

Although even if we win, we still get clowns like McCarthy.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (d2bW3)

148 131
Federal Reserve Bank Founded? 1913.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (oHd/0)

________

Also, Woodrow Wilson assumes Presidency, 1913
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (1Nxff)

And 10 years after all this shit??? oh... Great Depression.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (oHd/0)

149 Prohibition was one of the most idiotic things this country has ever done.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 12:43 PM (zphNH)

150 145 I'm guessing Murkowski has told McConnell she will switch parties if he doesn't financially back her. And he's allowing himself to be blackmailed by her.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (V6W16)

===========

I'm guessing McConnell likes her around for her good looks.

*equally plausible*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

151 Then the idiots in Alaska shouldn't have voted for ranked choice voting.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 25, 2022 12:43 PM (DBrN4)

152 Off topic but I hope the Russians make Britney Griner listen to the U,S, national anthem every day for the next 9 years.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 12:43 PM (eGTCV)

153 I like Lisa. She's easily intimidated.

Posted by: Diane Feinstein at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (PiwSw)

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And her musher has not only been her pusher, but also a Chinese Spy for 40 years.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (K3TEc)

154 145 I'm guessing Murkowski has told McConnell she will switch parties if he doesn't financially back her. And he's allowing himself to be blackmailed by her.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (V6W16)

so she's telling him she'll become a republican ?

I don't get it

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (us2H3)

155 (people like Lake who are just getting there and expect to be there longer into the future than Mitch)
TMJ

Did you mean Masters? Kari Lake is running for Gov of AZ.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (foRMM)

156 Pardon my Early Medieval English, but how TF did *Alaska* wind up with this cockamamie ranked-choice voting thing?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (to2dd)

157 Ranked choice voting gives the people who pick the biggest loser a second vote.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (kXYt5)

158 155 Did you mean Masters? Kari Lake is running for Gov of AZ.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (foRMM)

=========

I corrected myself a couple of posts down from that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

159 >>>Off topic but I hope the Russians make Britney Griner listen to the U,S, national anthem every day for the next 9 years.

Posted by: That NLurker guy

Nine years in a Russian gulag, and her hero F. Joe Biden is doing nothing about it. Hilarious. Enjoy the cold, you no-talent bint.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (d2bW3)

160 27
Sounds like it should have been named the "In-Your-Face" act.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:27 PM (ynpvh)
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Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce

Posted by: Ciampino --- worthy oriental gentleman at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (qfLjt)

161 16th Amendment (income tax): 1913
17th Amendment (direct election of senators): 1913
18th Amendment (Prohibition): 1919
19th Amendment (women's suffrage): 1920

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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Laid out like that, it's not quite, but very close to, Heston pounding the sand sobbing "damn you all to Hell!"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (9mWdO)

162 Eskimo insurrection!

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (v0R5T)

163 By the way- how's that rank choice voting working out Alaska? You voted for it. Your courts upheld it.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (T0jQj)

164 Federal Reserve Bank Founded? 1913.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:39 PM (oHd/0)
++++
Only because JJ Astor and Guggenheim - key mega-money opponents to the Federal Reserve System - perished when the Titanic sank and thus the path was clear for them to establish the System the next year. This is why the other big money men sank the Titanic - to kill Astor and Guggenheim.

Some of that is more or less true - there was a lot of opposition to the idea of the Fed from certain quarters, and the death of Guggenheim probably did (coincidentally) aid the implementation of the System. The rest of it, though, is merely my favorite conspiracy theory of all time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (EwScq)

165 Sinema would not say she is voting for Hobbs for Governor. She has singlehandedly kept the filibuster in place.
More of a chance she would switch parties than Manchin although his influence is about to go down the drain. No one is going to care what he thinks when the Senate has a Republican majority. He would ctually be wise to switch parties them. haha
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (Y+l9t)

After his cave on the Inflation Reduction Act? Manchin should be told he is not welcome. Being the 57th Republican is no big deal.

BTW? Did Manchin ever get his pipeline deal promised by Schmucky Schumer for his principled betrayal of WV?

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (Z32m1)

166 Alaska is also odd in that they have about 20 political parties. They have more fringe groups than Daniel Boone's jacket.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (kXYt5)

167
ICYMI, my response @437 to your last comment in the prior thread got willowed.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (K3TEc)

I had, but yeah - it was pretty clear that some calls were made after the toilets after the toilets broke. You could see it in the global stock markets, and on the faces of various media types as the night continued.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (oINRc)

168 Reminds me of the original Matrix. The crew of the nebuchadnezzar can't figure out why they keep getting caught...turns out it's traitors. I think they were sold out for a good steak. Is Mitch even getting that much so this point?

Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan MFers at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (icE0M)

169 Murk has a fish mouth

never trust anyone with a fish mouth

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (us2H3)

170 I can only hope the voters of Alaska teach McConnell a lesson.

Posted by: Northstar CiT girl at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (sVtYq)

171 Sinema sold the country down the river after meeting with the hedgefund managers in Flagstaff.

Sinenema is NOT a conservative in any shape or form.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (foRMM)

172 /Meatballs sock

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (sVtYq)

173 >>>Pardon my Early Medieval English, but how TF did *Alaska* wind up with this cockamamie ranked-choice voting thing?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Maine had it first, and the Maine Twins told Murkowski about and she had it implemented in Alaska. It effectively assures you will always be elected because of the shenanigans of it all.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (d2bW3)

174
BTW? Did Manchin ever get his pipeline deal promised by Schmucky Schumer for his principled betrayal of WV?

Posted by: rd

NO

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (Y+l9t)

175 Its tough to get a speaker out of their position because they are primarily about being good at raising money and controlling congress to set an agenda. McConnel seems bad at both and is acting contrary to the party's interests. I think he's worn out his welcome.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (Ivdso)

176 Hey Republicans!
What are we doing about your big fucking Mitch McConnell problem? If you want my vote in two weeks, you better have an answer for that and a good one

Posted by: Uncle Festermans Reverse Goiter at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (YTBIQ)

177 Mitch beat Bugs Bunny in a foot race.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (63Dwl)

178 I think Leora Levy's money was cut off in CT against that asshole Blumenthal. She's asking for money on Facebook and said her money was cut off.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (DBrN4)

179 You like how I just decree these things as if they will happen because I spoke? It’s an art. 🤣😂

Posted by: Piper at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (0GTCG)

180 163 By the way- how's that rank choice voting working out Alaska? You voted for it. Your courts upheld it.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (T0jQj)

it came up on a ballot proposition here in MA in 2020

went down hard

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (us2H3)

181 Off topic but I hope the Russians make Britney Griner listen to the U,S, national anthem every day for the next 9 years.
Posted by: That NLurker guy

Nine years in a Russian gulag, and her hero F. Joe Biden is doing nothing about it. Hilarious. Enjoy the cold, you no-talent bint.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
.........

Hey! He's making sure when she/he finally gets home he/she can have an abortion.

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

182 Ranked choice voting gives the people who pick the biggest loser a second vote.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (kXYt5)

I am so going to steal that!!!

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (Z32m1)

183 When Tshibaka gets elected will she resign her current post as co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:41 PM (kXYt5)

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Are you saying she's a furry?

Posted by: Beta O'Rourke at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (K3TEc)

184 145 I'm guessing Murkowski has told McConnell she will switch parties if he doesn't financially back her. And he's allowing himself to be blackmailed by her.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:42 PM (V6W16)

Well....bye.

Posted by: Bizarro World Mitch McConnell at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (bhRsz)

185 Joe Biden gets lost on the White House lawn.

https://bit.ly/3SA4dJ4

There's a massive, distinctive building right there to orient yourself, but Biden had to get the assist from a WH gardener.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (eyxn4)

186 Not liberals, Mitch the Turtle Bitch wants LEFTISTS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (u4CEu)

187 how TF did *Alaska* wind up with this cockamamie ranked-choice voting thing?

******

I dunno, Alaska.

What did Delaware?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (kXYt5)

188 This busty blonde in a dress agrees with the Alaska GOP: F McConnell:
https://is.gd/KbAU5A

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (EwScq)

189 Politics would be funny if the results were not so serious.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (Tw9Rg)

190 Ranked choice voting gives the people who pick the biggest loser a second vote.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:44 PM (kXYt5)

I am so going to steal that!!!
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (Z32m1)

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Ditto.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (K3TEc)

191 BTW? Did Manchin ever get his pipeline deal promised by Schmucky Schumer for his principled betrayal of WV?

Posted by: rd

NO
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (Y+l9t)

What a rube!

Posted by: Bart Stupak at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (/6GbT)

192 Nothing to do with my place, but the maintenance guy was over, yesterday, to see an access panel in my place. Kari Lake was on the tube, and he just said "that's one classy looking gal". And yes she is.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (lz5hY)

193 So Mitch McConnell has been one of the bad guys all along?

Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (sI15f)

194 If Republicans win the senate, and McConnell is leader, you haven't won anything.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (T0jQj)

195 BTW? Did Manchin ever get his pipeline deal promised by Schmucky Schumer for his principled betrayal of WV?
Posted by: rd

NO
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (Y+l9t)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LUZER!

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (Z32m1)

196 Marina Medvin
@MarinaMedvin

NY State Supreme Court reinstates all fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay, says the state violated rights, acted arbitrary & capricious, notes:“Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.”
https://tinyurl.com/4y4kaeje

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

197 Murky really looks like a chicken, cluck cluck
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

I say, I say, I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole!

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (v2/wx)

198 RCV was sold as a great solution to a problem that didn't exist. Lets not let the Murkowski write in fiasco happen again by making shenanigans law.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (Tw9Rg)

199 191 BTW? Did Manchin ever get his pipeline deal promised by Schmucky Schumer for his principled betrayal of WV?

Posted by: rd

yeah, he got his pipe lined

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (us2H3)

200 Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

Not so fast

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (bs+z0)

201 “The more you tighten your grip, the more Senate seats that will slip through your grasp.”

Posted by: Legion of Boom at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (6U1c2)

202 I'm too lazy to look it up, but I think China Mitch spent a lot of money trying to get Charlie Crist elected over Little Marco in in the primary back in 2010.

Posted by: Furious George at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (CkFy6)

203
Not liberals, Mitch the Turtle Bitch wants LEFTISTS.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (u4CEu)

Sure. But if some weird turn of events came to pass, and the Dems wanted to moderate the Party, then he'd want liberals. Mitch doesn't "want" anything different than he's told to want. Like everyone else in that building.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (oINRc)

204 Geriatric Mutant Traitor Turtle.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (WmGrA)

205 @MarinaMedvin
NY State Supreme Court reinstates all fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay, says the state violated rights, acted arbitrary & capricious, notes:“Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.”
https://tinyurl.com/4y4kaeje
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (NpAcC)
+++++
That's just a judge, not a scientist. Block any reporting on the ruling.

Posted by: MDM Prevention Officer at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (EwScq)

206 Kari Lake was on the tube, and he just said "that's one classy looking gal". And yes she is.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (lz5hY)

Lake has a unique look that is very appealing.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (V6W16)

207 This bitch Murkowski needs to go, as well as Cocaine Mitch.

Also 'big shots from the lower 48'. LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (bp4jJ)

208 But it won't be reformed. McConnell and McCarthy are going nowhere until they want to. Everly legislator on Cap Hill knows the score.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (oINRc)
==
They'd best be careful. The facade has been exposed. They are exposed. Mitch will go down first, because majority leaders are only elected by the party. ANd he's almost 90. McCarthy will get a two year try out. There will be more MAGA in both houses in 2024.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (xWZcb)

209 There's a massive, distinctive building right there to orient yourself, but Biden had to get the assist from a WH gardener.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (eyxn4)

Stay out of the hedges, sir.

Posted by: WH gardener at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (v0R5T)

210 What a rube!

Posted by: Bart Stupak

======

None of us 29yo's understand Bart selling out on Obamacare.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (9mWdO)

211 Lake has a unique look that is very appealing.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (V6W16)

Very milfish professional.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (wmDcS)

212 In AK, ranked choice won't matter if we get our R 50% of the vote in the original count. That should be the goal...

In the Senate race, that shouldn't be hard, with 1 R (2, but the other is getting no votes and withdrew) vs now 2 Dems...this should be a slam dunk win for us...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (exHjb)

213 So Mitch McConnell has been one of the bad guys all along?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:49 PM (sI15f)

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

No Thirty Pieces of Silver for ME! We got the Big Money! Bitchez!

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (Z32m1)

214 Yup. Adams just made a total ass out of himself. Again. He and Witch Hochul said they would rehire all the people they fired for not getting the shot. NY Supreme Court said - not so fast. They all
Need to be reinstated with back pay and benefits.

Suck it COVID Queens.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (T0jQj)

215 Murk has a fish mouth

never trust anyone with a fish mouth
Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (us2H3)

***

Fuck you mate

Posted by: Mick Jagger at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (flINI)

216 I think this election is going to boil down to anybody but who is currently in charge. People are so disgusted with the direction of the country that those of us who read this stuff every day lose sight of how angry people are.
Looking at the Governor races, there should be at least 31 Republican Governors and even races in blue blue areas like New York and Connecticut are shifting dramatically.
I know I tend to be an unwavering optimist but with a coalition of Republican governors along the lines of DeSantis and Youngkin now bolstered by Lake and Dixon, they can cause more change than a DC based Congress.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (Y+l9t)

217 BTW? Did Manchin ever get his pipeline deal promised by Schmucky Schumer for his principled betrayal of WV?

Posted by: rd

NO
Posted by: sharon

The ink wasn't even dry when the hosed Manchin.

You NEVER trust the Dems to follow through on a *deal* and you'll never get taken for a rube.
Manchin should have told Shum to put it in the same bill or no deal.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (foRMM)

218 "The Democrats have settled on their closing argument:

"Vote for us so that we can castrate children, use your money to pay for abortions, and put pornography in the schools. If you don't vote for us then you are a Nazi and democracy will die."

Fascinating political strategy."
--Matt Walsh

He's right, that's exactly what the Democrats are running on. That, and "I never said that!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (Ivdso)

219 The one good thing Mitch did, delay Garland's SCOTUS hearing in the senate wasn't because he thought Garland was bad. Mitch thought he could score conservative points and that Canckles would walk with 2016 and then he would bring him for senate review.

He bet wrong on that. Mitch is asshoe scumbag.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (u4CEu)

220 Mitch McConnell is the vanguard of the Chinese invasion of America. I pray those patriots younger than me see that, and will respond accordingly...

Posted by: SSBN 656(G) at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (5AVMW)

221 Lake has a unique look that is very appealing.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (V6W16)

I think she and Judge Jennifer should get into a lingerie pillow fight.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (bp4jJ)

222 How about ranked voting in a 2-party system, no matter how many fringe parties there are, is moronic?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (yikp0)

223 Liberal media outlets are all also running full force with the "GOP backs Perlota for Congress" all because non Republicans like Murkowski and the family of Ted Stevens are predictably supporting the Democrat.

McConnell is dumping money to a person campaigning purely for liberal votes, and trying to help a liberal congresswoman, and his counterpart in the Congress should tell him to cut the shit or thre Congress will oppose all his pet projects when they come their way.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (ogy8R)

224 The ranked system sounds worse than the jungle primary we have.

Of course they did that to benefit themselves.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (4tfcV)

225 *would not

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (T0jQj)

226 On another note, how did I manage to miss the memo that said cell phone spam calls must all now come from Ohio. Apparently ...

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (aoFfE)

227 @RaheemKassam · 4h
Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
(His name is Rishi Sunak)

https://twitter.com/Grammar98566533/status/
1584874253073059841

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (yikp0)

I'm guessing we're lucky he didn't call him Mola Ram.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (VwHCD)

228 Kari Lake has more balls then the entire GOP Caucus.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:54 PM (T0jQj)

229 214 Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (T0jQj)

See our overreach is okay, we will pay civil servants!

//Donks

Fuck you assholes the private sector who contracts played follow the fucking leader with you fuckwits and we can't just get our lost workers and efficiency back at the drop of a hat.

God I hate these people.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (Lzpvj)

230 Lake has a unique look that is very appealing.

To each his own, I guess. I don't like it. It's the heterosexual version of Rachel Maddow. Do not want.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (ppBhU)

231 Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (T0jQj)

Exactly correct.

They are very likely to win the Senate, and if they do, he will remain SML, and "we" will have won bupkis.

And they will do as they do, and "we" (not me) will continue to vote for them. I think it takes at least a generation more before the plantation voters finish dying off/waking up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (oINRc)

232 But it won't be reformed. McConnell and McCarthy are going nowhere until they want to. Everly legislator on Cap Hill knows the score.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (oINRc)
==
They'd best be careful. The facade has been exposed. They are exposed. Mitch will go down first, because majority leaders are only elected by the party. ANd he's almost 90. McCarthy will get a two year try out. There will be more MAGA in both houses in 2024.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (xWZcb)

The MAGA Crowd could threaten a Nuclear Option. No RINOS or 30 of us abstain and re-elect Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (Z32m1)

233 221 Lake has a unique look that is very appealing.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (V6W16)

I think she and Judge Jennifer should get into a lingerie pillow fight.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (bp4jJ)

Wearing strap-ons.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (XvPQV)

234 Alaska is also odd in that they have about 20 political parties. They have more fringe groups than Daniel Boone's jacket.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (kXYt5)

------

Are you saying he was a furry?

Posted by: Beta O'Rourke at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (K3TEc)

235 Maybe Kari Lake can lend some balls to Kevin McCarthy. Seems like she probably has some to spare.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (T0jQj)

236 Joe Biden gets lost on the White House lawn.

https://bit.ly/3SA4dJ4

There's a massive, distinctive building right there to orient yourself, but Biden had to get the assist from a WH gardener.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (eyxn4)
........

Pretty soon DOCTOR Jill will be leading him on a leash.

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

237 I'm still amazed that rank choice voting passed.
All I can say is that they put tens of millions of dollars towards pushing it. The ads were blatantly false and misleading. )Kind of like Mitch's adds against Kelly T) Saying things like this will get rid of dark money spending during elections etc.
LIV's were fooled. Of course the natives and unions were in on the vote.
Throw in corrupt State supreme court judges and you have a trifecta of sleeze.

Posted by: Bosk at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (v4L7Y)

238 Ever read?

Pinned Tweet, Sec. Elaine Chao @SecElaineChao
Jan. 7, 2021, It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Posted by: Lola at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (NIYa7)

239 @MarinaMedvin
NY State Supreme Court reinstates all fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay, says the state violated rights, acted arbitrary & capricious, notes:“Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.”
https://tinyurl.com/4y4kaeje
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

Good ruling, 2 years too late.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (sI15f)

240 The one good thing Mitch did, delay Garland's SCOTUS hearing in the senate wasn't because he thought Garland was bad. Mitch thought he could score conservative points and that Canckles would walk with 2016 and then he would bring him for senate review. ...
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (u4CEu)
++++
Yup, 100%. Look at how McConnell helped Garland in the next round. That dickhead is sitting in the AG's chair and got there with the help of *20* Republican senators voting to confirm him - including McConnell himself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (EwScq)

241 187 What did Delaware?

next, street vear! very nice.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (sGtp+)

242 He's right, that's exactly what the Democrats are running on. That, and "I never said that!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (Ivdso)
---
"I never said that," is big in the Democratic party.

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (krQz2)

243 To each his own, I guess.

I don't find her especially attractive but I like her attitude and her persona. I don't know what she's like in person or in her private life but she's appealing as a speaker and the way she deals with the press.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (Ivdso)

244 242 "I never said that," is big in the Democratic party.
Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (krQz2)

==========

"Evidence that I said that is misinformation."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)

245 The one good thing Mitch did, delay Garland's SCOTUS hearing in the senate wasn't because he thought Garland was bad. Mitch thought he could score conservative points and that Canckles would walk with 2016 and then he would bring him for senate review.

-----

Also correct. It was a cheap virtue signal that turned out to be terribly expensive for that g-ddamned piece of shit and his fucked up faggot friends, lol.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (oINRc)

246 231 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (oINRc)

Yes of course, the key to stopping the communist left is gifting them power to go full freak flag for the next 30 years.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (Lzpvj)

247 McConnell was born in '42 and is 80 years old (perhaps the 90 figure was a typo).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (K3TEc)

248 Very milfish professional.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2022 12:52 PM (wmDcS)

It's the shorter hair style. Makes a woman leader look more leader like.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (7bRMQ)

249 "I never said that," is big in the Democratic party.
Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (krQz2)

That was a big thing with Debbie Waternoose Schultz, then somebody would find a video clip proving her a liar.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (PiwSw)

250 There is also something called approval voting where you can vote for as many candidates as you like (but you don't rank them). I think alot of city council member ballots work like this.

I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's less complex than ranked choice.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (V6W16)

251 Lake has a unique look that is very appealing.

To each his own, I guess. I don't like it. It's the heterosexual version of Rachel Maddow. Do not want.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (ppBhU)

As far as I am concerned? She could look like Bella Abzug as long as she leads with Common Sense and Conservative Values.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (Z32m1)

252 IIRC the way ranked choice voting works in Alaska If Tshibaka gets greater 50% of the votes she wins If Tshibaka gets less then 50% then they eliminate whoever got the fewest votes and take their 2nd choice votes.

It comes down to whether the Dem-nut voters put Coke Bear as their second choice.

Imagine the following outcome
Tshibaka 49%
Coke Bear 30%
Dem-nut 21%

and...that gives Coke Bear the win.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (ESjRY)

253 Die Uniparty Sock, Die!

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (Z32m1)

254 it came up on a ballot proposition here in MA in 2020

went down hard

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:47 PM (us2H3)

So jealous

Posted by: Kamala at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (TOTYV)

255 "Good ruling, 2 years too late.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (sI15f)"

Maybe. But the court ordered back pay, benefits and time in service for every employee fired. Not sure about additional damages. So they made up for lost time.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (T0jQj)

256 242 He's right, that's exactly what the Democrats are running on. That, and "I never said that!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 12:53 PM (Ivdso)
---
"I never said that," is big in the Democratic party.

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (krQz2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWltSYl-mNo

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

257 My GAF meter is at zero, chumps.

Posted by: Mitch McC at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (a3Q+t)

258 Bolduc can win and should be supported. We are being deluged with Hassan ads, including the obnoxious "look how caring and loving I am because I have a handicapped child." On a more positive note, I believe we may have driven our lefty friends and Dem party operatives over the edge this weekend. There are still lots of very large Trump signs all over the state, and we made sure we gave them a good look at them.

Posted by: Caliban at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (ni2c1)

259 No more Mc guys as leaders of the gop.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (CdFbH)

260 The End isn't near... it's already opened the screen door, and is knocking on the inside door.....

Posted by: SSBN 656(G) at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (5AVMW)

261 Common people!

You have to vote for these creatures because otherwise the Dems will win!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (cMXNt)

262 To each his own, I guess. I don't like it. It's the heterosexual version of Rachel Maddow. Do not want.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM (ppBhU)

Dude...hie thee to an optometrist.

Posted by: BignJames at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (AwYPR)

263 Couldn't McConnell just as easily endorse all the conservatives, thus earning their loyalty, and be elected majority leader? What a dumbass...

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (S7une)

264 Good ruling, 2 years too late.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (sI15f)
---
Good ruling for what it's worth. The backpay could be a bit of a windfall for some people.

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (krQz2)

265 Are you saying he was a furry?
Posted by: Beta O'Rourke

******

I see that is your response to every comment, What can wee gather from this, Mr. O'Rourke?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (kXYt5)

266 Murk has a fish mouth

never trust anyone with a fish mouth
Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 12:45 PM (us2H3)
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It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men...

Posted by: The Innsmouth Carolers at October 25, 2022 01:00 PM (to2dd)

267 Yes of course, the key to stopping the communist left is gifting them power to go full freak flag for the next 30 years.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (Lzpvj)

In a way this may be true. Sometimes things need to break before enough people... notice.

Posted by: Kamala at October 25, 2022 01:00 PM (TOTYV)

268 263 Couldn't McConnell just as easily endorse all the conservatives, thus earning their loyalty, and be elected majority leader? What a dumbass...
Posted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (S7une)

==========

It's not about being in the majority. It's about sending a message.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

269 "I never said that," is big in the Democratic party.
Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (krQz2)

==========

"Evidence that I said that is misinformation."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM

Who are you going to believe..me or your lying eyes?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2022 01:00 PM (Wnv9h)

270 The one good thing Mitch did, delay Garland's SCOTUS hearing in the senate wasn't because he thought Garland was bad. Mitch thought he could score conservative points and that Canckles would walk with 2016 and then he would bring him for senate review.

-----

Also correct. It was a cheap virtue signal that turned out to be terribly expensive for that g-ddamned piece of shit and his fucked up faggot friends, lol.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (oINRc)

-----

And the ultimate irony of unintended consequences is that IMHO Garland has done, and will continue to do, FAR MOAR damage as AG than he ever could have as one of nine on the Kritarchy Kouncil.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:00 PM (K3TEc)

271 NY State Supreme Court reinstates all fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay, says the state violated rights, acted arbitrary & capricious, notes:“Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.”
https://tinyurl.com/4y4kaeje
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 12:50 PM (NpAcC)
~~~~~

Good news. Hope it sticks.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 25, 2022 01:01 PM (3ImbR)

272 252 IIRC the way ranked choice voting works in Alaska If Tshibaka gets greater 50% of the votes she wins If Tshibaka gets less then 50% then they eliminate whoever got the fewest votes and take their 2nd choice votes.
It comes down to whether the Dem-nut voters put Coke Bear as their second choice.
Imagine the following outcome
Tshibaka 49%
Coke Bear 30%
Dem-nut 21%
and...that gives Coke Bear the win.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (ESjRY)

Then Alaska is 51% Dem, b/c if I'm the R party, I'm slamming Murkowski's party betrayal all through the election and her true D bonafides...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:01 PM (exHjb)

273 Whether bitch is majority or minority leader his Chinese in Laws prosper the same.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:01 PM (CdFbH)

274 And New York hired people to replace the ones they fired. Guess they will be shown the exit.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 01:01 PM (T0jQj)

275 209 There's a massive, distinctive building right there to orient yourself, but Biden had to get the assist from a WH gardener.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (eyxn4)

Stay out of the hedges, sir.
Posted by: WH gardener at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (v0R5T)

Get lost, pal! My territory

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at October 25, 2022 01:01 PM (/6GbT)

276 Manchin blames repubs for not getting the pipeline. He expected us to vote for his deal.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (eGccS)

277 And the ultimate irony of unintended consequences is that IMHO Garland has done, and will continue to do, FAR MOAR damage as AG than he ever could have as one of nine on the Kritarchy Kouncil.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink
==

Also correct.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (u4CEu)

278 Lake, in addition to taste in clothing and hair style, probably keeps a ladylike .25 in her garter, and knows how to do a magazine dump.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (lz5hY)

279 IMHO Garland has done, and will continue to do, FAR MOAR damage as AG than he ever could have as one of nine on the Kritarchy Kouncil.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:00 PM (K3TEc)

I disagree .. he can be replaced if the next Pres is a republican... As a Justice he would be there for life

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (bs+z0)

280 @224 The ranked system sounds worse than the jungle primary we have.

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SF has ranked choice. It's how their DA (the one that got recalled) got voted in.

Posted by: junior at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (qm1fz)

281 Are you saying he was a furry?
Posted by: Beta O'Rourke at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM

Speaking for Insom.

Furries get the bullet.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (4+bFW)

282 Hopefully Trump runs in 2024, and for the edification of Kentuckians, tells the world every dirty trick Mitch ever pulled on him!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (peWy1)

283 Joe Biden congratulates someone calls “Rashid Sanook” on becoming UK Prime Minister.
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He's a good friend of Adele Dazeem.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (to2dd)

284 Couldn't McConnell just as easily endorse all the conservatives, thus earning their loyalty, and be elected majority leader? What a dumbass...
Posted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (S7une)

It's ideological. The libertarian corporatist wing of the party won't stand for the end of cheap imports or getting involved in culture war fights.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (wmDcS)

285 Murk has a fish mouth
.......

No wonder the Eskimos keep voting for her.

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

286
Yes of course, the key to stopping the communist left is gifting them power to go full freak flag for the next 30 years.
Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (Lzpvj)

That's why I said "another generation."

The living generations don't get it.

They have the power to do that. And they will do that. Without regard to our votes. Because we gave them that power, and continue to, by participating in their shell game.

Some group of Americans will eventually crack the code, and they'll be toast, but it won't be the ones crawling over broken glass to vote for the American version of the Mensheviks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (oINRc)

287 TJM -- So what's the message? That's he's a dumbass?

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (S7une)

288 OT: I just received a jury summons in the mail. It's Criminal Court, which I've done twice in the past, but never served on a jury. To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

289 255 "Good ruling, 2 years too late.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (sI15f)"

Maybe. But the court ordered back pay, benefits and time in service for every employee fired. Not sure about additional damages. So they made up for lost time.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 12:58 PM (T0jQj)

Also you have to remember that the Supreme Court in New York is not the top court of the state and is more like a county level court(I think?). Those idiotic New Yorkers have it all jacked up and the New York State Court of Appeals or something is the top court.

Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (aRLgQ)

290 She could look like Bella Abzug...

*******

Now THAT woman made my teenage nether regions feel all tingly back in the day! Three Hubbas!

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (kXYt5)

291 276 Manchin blames repubs for not getting the pipeline. He expected us to vote for his deal.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (eGccS)

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It's going to be the baseline of his re-election message. "I'm the true Maverick! It's those Republicans who want you to suffer!"

I really doubt it works. He barely won last time. He went from winning by over 20 in 2012 to winning by 3 in 2018. If he had made a show of opposing KJB or actually killed BBB in all its forms instead of just the first form before giving in later, he'd have been in a position to win in 2024. I think he's just mangled his time in this Congress so badly that he doesn't have a chance in 2024. I wouldn't be surprised if he did a Jeff Flake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

292 Reforming a political system that's been corrupt for over two centuries and is populated by career politicians, most well into their twilight years and senile with a couple dozen nominally conservative members with little to no experience with Congress is not a winning plan.

I don't care how MAGA the candidates are. They're outsiders in a game dominated by insiders who've been dicking the country over for longer than some of those new candidates have been alive.

McConnell and McCarthy are not going anywhere anytime soon. Their time might be up at some point, that point is way, way down the road. And there's no guarantee the MAGA movement will still be around to see their demise, politically speaking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (BFigT)

293 So is that new gal, the chancellor of England, a feather or a dot?

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (u4CEu)

294 281 Are you saying he was a furry?
Posted by: Beta O'Rourke at October 25, 2022 12:55 PM

Speaking for Insom.

Furries get the bullet.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (4+bFW)

I'll make an exception for cute catgirls, but otherwise...yes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (XvPQV)

295 There is also something called approval voting where you can vote for as many candidates as you like (but you don't rank them). I think alot of city council member ballots work like this.

I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's less complex than ranked choice.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (V6W16)

Pick Three City Councilors or county commissioners (or two or five)? Basically you get at-large representation. If you make it precincts, then different populations get fairer representation of minority interests. Rural vs City; Black vs White vs Hispanic, etc.

Remember the LA City Council Wars? They were over redistricting. Which race gets more power by representation in the City Council.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (Z32m1)

296 276 Manchin blames repubs for not getting the pipeline. He expected us to vote for his deal.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (eGccS)

I think Kanye has found out what it's like to piss off everyone - guess he should have taken notes from Manchin...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (exHjb)

297 282 Hopefully Trump runs in 2024, and for the edification of Kentuckians, tells the world every dirty trick Mitch ever pulled on him!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 25, 2022 01:02 PM (peWy1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_ctZ4lUCk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

298 287 TJM -- So what's the message? That's he's a dumbass?
Posted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (S7une)

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That he's in control of the caucus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

299 285 Murk has a fish mouth
.......

No wonder the Eskimos keep voting for her.
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If she had whiskers she'd have be a contender.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (Iv+w0)

300 286 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (oINRc)

and in the meantime we get sent to Treblinka or Dachau for having a problem with teachers picking your kids' gender with a spinner or a whack a mole game.

Great plan.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (Lzpvj)

301 "I never said that," is big in the Democratic party.
Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (krQz2)

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"Evidence that I said that is misinformation."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
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We agree.

Posted by: FacePlant at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (krQz2)

302 I see that is your response to every comment, What can wee gather from this, Mr. O'Rourke?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 12:59 PM (kXYt5)

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Sorry, couldn't help myself. I'm usually too lazy (and forgetful) to sock much anymore ... but am occasionally tempted.

And as the President of the Muldoon for National Poet Laureate movement, I denounce myself. ;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (K3TEc)

303 288 OT: I just received a jury summons in the mail. It's Criminal Court, which I've done twice in the past, but never served on a jury. To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

Don't bail - who knows if you're sitting on a trial for someone like us who needs a jury of their peers...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (exHjb)

304 288 OT: I just received a jury summons in the mail. It's Criminal Court, which I've done twice in the past, but never served on a jury. To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

Shouldn't be hard for any moron to get excused jury duty. Just tell the truth about what you think of the court

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (XvPQV)

305 Lisa Murkowski just reached out to Democrats by endorsing the Democrat House candidate over either of the two Republicans running for Alaska House.

The only thing I can do after reading this is to let out a primal scream. There are no fucking words! None!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 25, 2022 01:06 PM (1Nruk)

306 Prettу! This has been ɑ realⅼy wonderful
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Posted by: mason at October 25, 2022 01:06 PM (YXHMm)

307 I like what is happening to what happens on a real battlefield when a specifically strategic defensive position gets overrun by a superior force. That force ends up sweeping away everything in its path. Even legitimately defended sub strongholds so to speak.

This is what is happening to the GOPe right now. The line is breaking. Mitch funnels money to save Murkowski - thinking the MAGA types cannot win in AZ or NH (at least anti-Mitch) - and then as the line breaks, those positions can't be defended.

I'm not suggesting Mitch won't be majority leader in 2023. I am merely noting that there is the likelihood he has 10-11 fewer allies with him than he does now. That is a problem for him, and it sets him up for failure in 2024. He will not be able to force the issue. Collins and Romney (and Murkowski if she wins) will have some leverage here, but it will be fleeting. The end of the GOPe is in sight.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (xWZcb)

308 Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

Just take a copy of Guns and Ammo into the Jury box for Voir Dire, and you'll get excused with the thanks of the Court!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (PiwSw)

309 Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

Just go in with a cane. Grunt and groan every time you have to move. Cough a lot too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (7bRMQ)

310 I'll bet you mason makes $90/hour

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (flINI)

311 287 TJM -- So what's the message? That's he's a dumbass?

something something ovaltine?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (sGtp+)

312 308 Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

Just take a copy of Guns and Ammo into the Jury box for Voir Dire, and you'll get excused with the thanks of the Court!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (PiwSw)

Now you gotta be careful...don't want to be held in contempt of court.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

313 For some reason I have never received a jury summons... as far as they know.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (u4CEu)

314 Mitch couldn't wait to get in front of the cameras saying how he looked forward to working with Joe Biden. This happened about Nov. 10 of 2020.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, in vino veritas at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (jTmQV)

315 Even if you find the court contemptable.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

316 Mylan Labs Manchin can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (ajvaO)

317
and in the meantime we get sent to Treblinka or Dachau for having a problem with teachers picking your kids' gender with a spinner or a whack a mole game.

Great plan.
Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:05 PM (Lzpvj)

This will happen without regard to the makeup of our shell-game legislature.

It's already begun. It continued apace with GOP control of all three branches of government. It will continue apace *no matter how you vote.*

You can choose to see it or not. Nothing changes. Vote or don't.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (oINRc)

318 What do the Alaskan Bush People say?

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

319 I think this Murkowski babe is hot!

Posted by: Edward G. Robinson at October 25, 2022 01:09 PM (v2/wx)

320 318 What do the Alaskan Bush People say?

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

Is this slang for lesbians?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:09 PM (ynpvh)

321 314 Mitch couldn't wait to get in front of the cameras saying how he looked forward to working with Joe Biden. This happened about Nov. 10 of 2020.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, in vino veritas at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (jTmQV)

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In the last week of January 2021, Mitch made it clear that the future of the GOP was free of Trump.

There then came rumors of a massive drop in fundraising.

In the first week of February 2021, Mitch made it clear that Trump was very welcome in the GOP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:09 PM (LvTSG)

322 264 Good ruling, 2 years too late.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at October 25, 2022 12:56 PM (sI15f)
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Good ruling for what it's worth. The backpay could be a bit of a windfall for some people.

*rubs hands*

Posted by: 87,000 new irs agents at October 25, 2022 01:09 PM (sGtp+)

323 I think this Murkowski babe is hot!
Posted by: Edward G. Robinson at October 25, 2022 01:09 PM (v2/wx)
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You're too old for her. Plus, you're dead.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (to2dd)

324 You can choose to see it or not. Nothing changes. Vote or don't.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (oINRc)

You've never served in the military, right?

If you had, you wouldn't be so cavalier on the "let's give up solving this the way the founders intended" plan...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (exHjb)

325 OT: I just received a jury summons in the mail. It's Criminal Court, which I've done twice in the past, but never served on a jury. To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

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You could stay awake and keep it interesting by live-blogging it here.

/LOL

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (K3TEc)

326 wow, not the coveted murkowski endorsement

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (MLrvz)

327 Even if you find the court contemptable.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
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I agree. Contempt of Court should be a first amendment thing.

They could replace it with "Obstruction", for people who aren't just expressing an opinion but also obstructing its proceedings.

But I should be allowed to hold a court proceeding in contempt.

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (krQz2)

328 He doesn't care how weak the Republican caucus is, so long as he has his Cuck Platoon obeying his orders.

He doesn't care what happens to America.
The collusion between him and his wife is enough to put them both in prison (at least).

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (gmxXe)

329 318 What do the Alaskan Bush People say?
Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

You think you have it bad? We have to shill for !Jeb! up here. You think that's a hard sell. Dang straight it is! Oh, did you mean us?

Posted by: !Jeb!'s Anchorage Campaign HQ at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (PiwSw)

330 317 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (oINRc)

I vote, if the day comes the GOP needs scourged with fire for fecklessness I will vote straight D.

What I will not do is say "well the GOP is not perfect so I need to empower Epstein to be morals coach for America via strategic indifference."

You do you black-piller.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (Lzpvj)

331 275 209 There's a massive, distinctive building right there to orient yourself, but Biden had to get the assist from a WH gardener.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2022 12:48 PM (eyxn4)

Stay out of the hedges, sir.
Posted by: WH gardener at October 25, 2022 12:51 PM (v0R5T)

Get lost, pal! My territory
Posted by: Harvey Weinstein

stay out the bushes!

Posted by: jesse jackson at October 25, 2022 01:11 PM (sGtp+)

332 OT: I just received a jury summons in the mail. It's Criminal Court, which I've done twice in the past, but never served on a jury. To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

My fellow Jury Members, I must vote Not Guilty. I just do not believe the testimony by the FBI Agents. They did not show any video or audio of the defendant's supposed confession, and he claims they lied. I do not believe him, but I believe the FBI even less. There is just too much reasonable doubt.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:11 PM (Z32m1)

333 In the last week of January 2021, Mitch made it clear that the future of the GOP was free of Trump.

There then came rumors of a massive drop in fundraising.

In the first week of February 2021, Mitch made it clear that Trump was very welcome in the GOP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:09 PM (LvTSG)
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Yep and socking Trump's name on every WinRed email I get. Not one dime.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 25, 2022 01:11 PM (u4CEu)

334 288 OT: I just received a jury summons in the mail. It's Criminal Court, which I've done twice in the past, but never served on a jury. To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

What do they always recommend? Saying that you believe in jury nullification or something else. Hell check out the Darrell Brooks trial and copy some of his Sovreign Citizen mumbo jumbo and you'll probably be dismissed quickly.

Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2022 01:11 PM (aRLgQ)

335 I'll bet you mason makes $90/hour

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (flINI)

That goldbricker?!

Posted by: Sarah, et al at October 25, 2022 01:11 PM (7bRMQ)

336 >>You can choose to see it or not. Nothing changes. Vote or don't.

What guarantees can you give if we follow your plan and stop voting and allow the left to takeover, then wait a couple decades until they completely implode after inflicting unthinkable misery and hardship on the American people, that we will take over the country and reinstitute a constitutional republic based on God given rights and the rule of law?

Cause if you can't detail exactly how that works I think I'll keep voting.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 01:12 PM (ZLI7S)

337 What do the Alaskan Bush People say?

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

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Jeb for Governor!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:12 PM (K3TEc)

338 324 Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (exHjb)

a decided lack of national reverence for the system itself there...

"eh it is not innately perfect and may require sacrifice, I quit the grandkids who I let get chemically castrated will suss it out"

//Heroes of Sober Logic

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:12 PM (Lzpvj)

339 Posted by: !Jeb!'s Anchorage Campaign HQ at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (PiwSw)

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Beaten again by in the horde-mind contest, this time by Shadout Mapes. * golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (K3TEc)

340 I'll bet you mason makes $90/hour
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM

With that formatting? $15, tops.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (Wnv9h)

341 He doesn't care how weak the Republican caucus is, so long as he has his Cuck Platoon obeying his orders.

He doesn't care what happens to America.
The collusion between him and his wife is enough to put them both in prison (at least).

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (gmxXe)

Trump tried to play ball with McConnell by making Ms, McConnell Transportation Secretary. McConnell still stabbed him in the back.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (Z32m1)

342 College employee/student thinks American flag is a “symbol of hatred”

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=132699

Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (V9KQP)

343 Mitch will someday be sucking the dick of Ted Kennedy at the gates of Hell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (oyfLT)

344
If you had, you wouldn't be so cavalier on the "let's give up solving this the way the founders intended" plan...
Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:10 PM (exHjb)

I'm not cavalier.

It can't be solved that way.

It likely won't be solved at all.

I choose to not abase myself by voting for my own victimization and smiling for the perps. It'll happen either way - why bend over and beg for it?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (oINRc)

345 Sinenema is NOT a conservative in any shape or form.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 25, 2022 12:46 PM (foRMM)

She'd be welcome in a hot tub, though. Especially if she were good at holding her breath.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (zAQST)

346 Haven't had a bath in months. Love it!

Posted by: Bear Brown at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

347 Halloween Garland Humor...
https://is.gd/3pG4zr

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:15 PM (ynpvh)

348 I have never, never understood why McConnell was chosen for the job he has. Yet, ANOTHER, lifer turned on his party. fuck him.

Posted by: sidney at October 25, 2022 01:15 PM (Uy/WF)

349 344 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (oINRc)

Your vote is not a pliant smile it is a civic weapon....

Why do you think urkle said "go out and punish our enemies" in 2012 as was highlighted here?

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:15 PM (Lzpvj)

350 What's it mean when someone calls you RUPRECHT?

Posted by: FETTERMAN at October 25, 2022 01:16 PM (z9V4B)

351 What do the Alaskan Bush People say?

********

"Welcome to another edition of Tundra-dome!!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 01:16 PM (kXYt5)

352 Haven't had a bath in months. Love it!

Posted by: Bear Brown at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

No wonder your kids mom keeps leaving you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 25, 2022 01:16 PM (7bRMQ)

353 The entire population of Alaska is 736,990.

Or, he just sent $7 for every man, woman and child.

Equivalent to sending $89 million to Pennsylvania!!

That's how F'ing f'ed up this is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 25, 2022 01:16 PM (5EnGD)

354
What guarantees can you give if we follow your plan and stop voting and allow the left to takeover, then wait a couple decades until they completely implode after inflicting unthinkable misery and hardship on the American people, that we will take over the country and reinstitute a constitutional republic based on God given rights and the rule of law?

Cause if you can't detail exactly how that works I think I'll keep voting.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 01:12 PM (ZLI7S)

What is the worst that can happen?

/s/ Stalin, Mao, Che, Maduro and H8tler

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:16 PM (Z32m1)

355

stay out the bushes!
Posted by: jesse jackson at October 25, 2022 01:11 PM (sGtp+)

Biden is due to fall and break his hip any day now. Then they can lock him up and continue to rule by fiat.

That's my prediction

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM (M+Lyo)

356 348 I have never, never understood why McConnell was chosen for the job he has. Yet, ANOTHER, lifer turned on his party. fuck him.
Posted by: sidney at October 25, 2022 01:15 PM (Uy/WF)

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Rose in leadership under Bill Frist, it seems. When Frist was out, Mitch was next in line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM (LvTSG)

357 College employee/student thinks American flag is a “symbol of hatred”

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=132699
Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (V9KQP)
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Remember those days when someone could think something, and other people could choose whether it meant something or not?

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM (krQz2)

358 342 College employee/student thinks American flag is a “symbol of hatred”

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=132699
Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (V9KQP)

I know of 5th graders who won't sing Star spangled banner due to history of writer...wonder where that thinking comes from

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM (/6GbT)

359 College employee/student thinks American flag is a “symbol of hatred”

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=132699
Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM

So...an idiot, then. So noted. And may I be the first to suggest what he can do with the pole it flies from.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM (Wnv9h)

360 Um, who are the 8?

Posted by: jeff at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM (pvt9V)

361 I'm not cavalier.
It can't be solved that way.
It likely won't be solved at all.
I choose to not abase myself by voting for my own victimization and smiling for the perps. It'll happen either way - why bend over and beg for it?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (oINRc)

This is the kinda post that gets posted before elections to try to depress the red vote and keep the Uniparty in charge. I think we've all gotten smart enough to ignore the sentiment and get our a$$es out to vote...and THEN continue to work to hold our politicians feet to the fire and to talk to our neighbors to get support for our positions for the other 364...

I'd almost think China was paying for these posts...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (exHjb)

362 Pitzer College event staff manager and student, Zoe Brin, recently sent out a formal request to students demanding the American flag be taken down from one of the campus residences.

“This is a formal request to whomever [sic] lives there to take it down, immediately.

“The American flag is not only a symbol of hatred, but a threat to students of color, and makes a multitude of students feel unsafe. It is not merely a flag; it is a statement.”

Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (V9KQP)

363 Someone above stated that Churchill is rolling in his grave because a "WOG" is now UK Prime minister.

This got me thinking. Did the Tories put up Liz Truss so as not to offend the Queen by picking a WOG?
Was this whole charade conducted to put QE2's mind at ease on her deathbed?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (mR6Gs)

364 What's it mean when someone calls you RUPRECHT?

Posted by: FETTERMAN at October 25, 2022 01:16 PM (z9V4B)

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The lump needs to eat, too.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (K3TEc)

365 Mitch is doing as little as possible for Adam Laxalt in Nevada. The one and only ad I've seen from the SLF doesn't even mention Adam Laxalt.
Stupid Mitch never thought about Joe Lombardo's popularity pulling Laxalt along.

Rank choice voting is leading in the newest NV polling, over 60%

Dropped off my ballot yesterday at Albertsons and there was a line out the door. A parking lot full of seniors was fun.

Election Day can't come soon enough, I've had to listen to 90 million dollars worth of Catherine Cortez-Masto abortion ads just from the Mark Levin show alone. She has definitely targeted his show.

Posted by: Lazy Busy at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (5BM1I)

366
I choose to not abase myself by voting for my own victimization and smiling for the perps. It'll happen either way - why bend over and beg for it?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (oINRc)

Says Every Overwrought Emo Teenager

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (Z32m1)

367 The American flag is not only a symbol of hatred, but a threat to students of color, and makes a multitude of students feel unsafe. It is not merely a flag; it is a statement.

Leave now and don't let the door hit your non-binary ass on the way out.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (Xrfse)

368 >>> 20 2 The Bitch also voted for the FACE act Biden was using to arrest abortion protestors.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 12:21 PM (ESjRY)

OK, how is the Face act Constitutional? It's not Federal Property. If Abortion was a RIGHT, then I could see it passed as a Civil Rights issue, but it IS NO LONGER A RIGHT.

So, why is the Federal Government infringing in what is clearly a STATE ISSUE?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 25, 2022 12:26 PM (oHd/0)

It never *was* a right.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (llON8)

369 Honest Trailers, "LotR: We Had Rangz":

https://youtu.be/g3DuMiplGHU

Much better than the actual series.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (Gda1b)

370 361 I'd almost think China was paying for these posts...
Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (exHjb)

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Nah.

YD is just super cynical about how things are going in America. I think it's a genuine place. Plus, he's related to Joe Mannix.

I don't agree, but I'm not going to insult him by implying that he's some sort of low-level paid agent of a foreign power. He'd deserve much more pay that what he could get spamming a place like this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (LvTSG)

371 To tell the truth I wouldn't mind too much, but sitting still in a jury box all day sounds exhausting. Maybe I can get the physical therapist I'm supposed to see about my leg/sciatica to give me a note to excuse me?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022
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You could stay awake and keep it interesting by live-blogging it here.

/LOL
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022

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If they don't let you take notes while on a jury, I doubt they'd let you bring a laptop!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:20 PM (J2vNu)

372 This got me thinking. Did the Tories put up Liz Truss so as not to offend the Queen by picking a WOG?
Was this whole charade conducted to put QE2's mind at ease on her deathbed?
Posted by: JoeF.
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Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:20 PM (V9KQP)

373 Um, who are the 8?
Posted by: jeff at October 25, 2022 01:17 PM

Murk's relatives, probably.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2022 01:20 PM (Wnv9h)

374 If colleges educated people, the Democrats wouldn't need them as much.

Their real use is as indoctrination centers. Just another way that Dems will grab your tax dollars to fund their politics.

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (krQz2)

375 Jeebus, why didn't the Founding Fathers include an Amendment against this abomination of ranked-choice voting as done in Alaska and elsewhere?

/Because they didn't think we'd ever become so retarded?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at October 25, 2022 12:38 PM (K3TEc)

They didn't have to because they said that every state must have a democratic form of government - which meant 1 man 1 vote.

Ranked choice voting means some who vote for losers get more than one vote.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (eoQWY)

376 Any word on the Kentucky elections?

At one time it was suggested that Bitch BcConnell would resign if Kentucky had a Republican governor to appoint his replacement ...

Posted by: lurk at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (MIODZ)

377 To our friends who say we aren't voting our way out of this - there is some truth in that. If we voted and acted as we used to. There are moments in time when the political landscape gets overrun and re-shaped. It doesn't mean there won't be corruption or self serving assholes in congress - there always has been.

But it does mean that something has changed. That is happening right now. The political coalitions are changing, right before our eyes - and the dem's (and the GOPe's) calculations over the last 50 years are coming up wrong. The forecast was not borne out. The creative destruction we marvel at in our economic system is happening in politics right now. Enjoy it, and work to make it ours.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (xWZcb)

378 >>> 370 361 I'd almost think China was paying for these posts...
Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (exHjb)

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Nah.

YD is just super cynical about how things are going in America. I think it's a genuine place. Plus, he's related to Joe Mannix.

I don't agree, but I'm not going to insult him by implying that he's some sort of low-level paid agent of a foreign power. He'd deserve much more pay that what he could get spamming a place like this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (LvTSG)

If you think YD or Mannix are working for CHYna, you haven't been paying attention (and while they're cynical, I don't think they're as black-pilled as some others).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (llON8)

379 361 Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (exHjb)

Yes such assholes exist...

YC on the other hand is an otherwise sane black piller who has decided in their infinite wisdom that like Darrell Brooks and "I object to that name Yo Honah" and "I do not have to start my close until I want to yo honah" that the way to win the game is to go full retard and not play at all.

Well it will not keep Shirtless Darrow from his day as Bubba's love sponge, and it will not keep the left from ratfucking normies' lives.

In both cases it is a fucked up mentally deficient form of non-compliance self shitting.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (Lzpvj)

380 But if you don't vote for Mitch, a Democrat might win...

lol - you know the rest

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at October 25, 2022 01:22 PM (ydSQM)

381 But if you don't vote for Mitch, a Democrat might win...

lol - you know the rest
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at October 25, 2022 01:22 PM (ydSQM)
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Another man might surrender in his place?

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 01:22 PM (krQz2)

382 The masks aren't just slipping now.

They're being burned off.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 25, 2022 01:22 PM (wtvvX)

383
I'd almost think China was paying for these posts...
Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:18 PM (exHjb)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a Chinese agent or whatever.

Look, why do you even care? Those of us who aren't voting for your team any longer are a small minority, at least for now.

In a month, you'll be celebrating your team's Big Win. In a year you'll be lamenting your complete betrayal by them once again, and in another year, you'll be impugning my motives once again, for questioning the wisdom of that.

My opinion makes no difference (yours doesn't either, but that's another story).

The anger at those who left the plantation is pointless. It doesn't change your situation at all, whether I participate or not.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (oINRc)

384 376 Any word on the Kentucky elections?

At one time it was suggested that Bitch BcConnell would resign if Kentucky had a Republican governor to appoint his replacement ...
Posted by: lurk at October 25, 2022 01:21 PM (MIODZ)

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He worked with the KY legislature to get a law passed last year that required the governor to appoint a replacement senator from a list provided by the same party of the senator in the state legislature.

It started rumors that he was dying or would resign, but he's still around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (LvTSG)

385 I wonder if there was a war within the Trump whitehouse. I'm sure Bannon was telling Trump to go to war with Mitch while Jared was all like, not the hill to die on.

Kanye said that was exactly what he saw happening when he was on with Tucker shortly before blowing a fuse about the weather machine people. We largely knew Jared and Ivanka were the problem already, but it's nice to hear even from an unreliable witness that it's true.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (ZGrMX)

386 What's it mean when someone calls you RUPRECHT?

Shut up and put the cork back on your fork, Lump.

Someone above stated that Churchill is rolling in his grave because a "WOG" is now UK Prime minister.

I think he'd be a lot less concerned about that, than how the dude is a globalist tool of the WEF.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (Ivdso)

387 and apologies for the typo YD, no disrespect by the typo meant.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (Lzpvj)

388 Murkowski's face looks like a jack-O-lantern left out in the sun a week after Halloween.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (QSjkU)

389 He'd deserve much more pay that what he could get spamming a place like this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM

$82/hr. can buy a heck of a lot of DVDs. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Sarah at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (a3Q+t)

390 389 He'd deserve much more pay that what he could get spamming a place like this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM

$82/hr. can buy a heck of a lot of DVDs. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Sarah at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (a3Q+t)

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DVDs are for the peasants!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)

391 Ash Carter is dead. Dropped like a rock with a grabber at 68. John McCain has his welcome package ready at the gates of Hell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 25, 2022 01:24 PM (oyfLT)

392 Every time I see a picture of Murkowski or her face on television, I want to smack that scowl right off her traitorous face.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:24 PM (NpAcC)

393 DVDs are for the peasants!

"OMG you bought a DVD? So OOLLLLD! Who even buys DVDs any more? Don't you know what Streaming is?"
--Zoomers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (Ivdso)

394 I'll bet you mason makes $90/hour
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 01:07 PM (flINI)

Heh! You caught that whiff, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (zAQST)

395 Nah.

YD is just super cynical about how things are going in America. I think it's a genuine place. Plus, he's related to Joe Mannix.

I don't agree, but I'm not going to insult him by implying that he's some sort of low-level paid agent of a foreign power. He'd deserve much more pay that what he could get spamming a place like this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:19 PM (LvTSG)

I'm with you on that TJM. YD is a good egg and I do understand his cynicism because in large part I share it. I will however vote, as distasteful as I find it, in that it supports many Vichy-like reptiles on our side. But the alternative is worse.

As far as how to fix the state we're in...well...I don't want to be banned so I'll stay silent on that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (1Nruk)

396 If they don't let you take notes while on a jury, I doubt they'd let you bring a laptop!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 25, 2022 01:20 PM (J2vNu)

But your honor, my ADHD requires I use a laptop to stay engaged in the trial. Do you want to violate the ADA?

What would the Sainted Bob Dole say to that?

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (Z32m1)

397 383 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (oINRc)

Your lack of logic and civics is noted and hell celebrated.

Look some of the best entertainment I have gotten this year is a result of Shirtless Darrow's abrogation of civic interaction.

You should go full Bulworth as they say and be a SovCit, that way you can stop paying for the licenses progressives had instituted on a national scale and learn a whole new bunch of specious ideals.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (Lzpvj)

398 Kelly Tshibaka's husband is mixed race, a pastor and a Harvard-trained lawyer. Like his wife he has a distinguished career in Alaska. Kelly herself also has experience with the Intel community in Washington, as well ass with the DO(fucking)J, as does her husband. Tshibaka's parents weren't career politcos, like Murkowskis, they were solid blue collar workers.

You would think Kelly would be far preferable to the Senate Republican leader over a Democrat like Murkoski, especially a stupid one (as Murky is). But, no.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (xc/dn)

399 393 DVDs are for the peasants!

"OMG you bought a DVD? So OOLLLLD! Who even buys DVDs any more? Don't you know what Streaming is?"
--Zoomers
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (Ivdso)

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Blu-ray, you silly English k-ni-gt. Or 4K when available.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)

400 The flag, the anthem, the pledge, the very constitution itself.
All of these have been attacked by Democrats since about 1858, and have continued without interruption.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, in vino veritas at October 25, 2022 01:26 PM (jTmQV)

401
and apologies for the typo YD, no disrespect by the typo meant.
Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (Lzpvj)

None taken - you have your opinion, and you hold it strongly. Few people here agree with me. That's fine.

There's a handful of dickheads who call me insane or a Democrat or a chink commie spy or whatnot. I like the rest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:26 PM (oINRc)

402 Blu-ray, you silly English k-ni-gt. Or 4K when available.

Indeed. 1080P or bust.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (ZGrMX)

403 What would the Sainted Bob Dole say to that?
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM

After 4 hours, see a medical professional.

Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (a3Q+t)

404 I've got a toothache.

Posted by: Rain Brown at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

405 It likely won't be solved at all.

I choose to not abase myself by voting for my own victimization and smiling for the perps. It'll happen either way - why bend over and beg for it?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:14 PM (oINRc)

I'll stand up for YD here. If you don't want to vote, *don't vote*. I don't want those that don't care, follow others' advice without thinking, or don't see a point to it to vote, because they aren't making a thoughtful considered vote. I also am very much against mandatory voting like they have in Australia.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (eoQWY)

406 I buy DVDs because they're usually much, much cheaper than Blu-Ray, I don't like Blu-Ray packaging, and I can see little difference even on the big screen, certainly not big enough to justify the cost.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (Ivdso)

407 Huh. Anderson Mfg (who makes good, cheap AR 15 parts) is now making a Glock 19 clone, the KIGER 9C.

I'm still very happy with the PSA Dagger but looking forward to reviews of the Kiger.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 25, 2022 01:28 PM (XvPQV)

408 Another man might surrender in his place?
Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 01:22 PM (krQz2)
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My point is that I'm tired of being told that "With a majority, Republicans control things." when I know full-well the majority of that majority will simply stab me right in the back.

I'd rather have Democrats stabbing us in the gut, because most people can understand that. It's straight-forward. Besides, the more they enact their agenda, the closer we come to open violence, which is what the Founders intended when things got this ba...long before things ever get this bad.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at October 25, 2022 01:28 PM (ydSQM)

409 What would the Sainted Bob Dole say to that?

If he'd have done that commercial where he's ogling Br-tit-ney Spears' chest before the election he probably would've done better. In a contest of horndogs, you don't wanna be unarmed.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 01:28 PM (ZGrMX)

410 405 I'll stand up for YD here. If you don't want to vote, *don't vote*. I don't want those that don't care, follow others' advice without thinking, or don't see a point to it to vote, because they aren't making a thoughtful considered vote. I also am very much against mandatory voting like they have in Australia.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (eoQWY)

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I say vote. Just vote third party or write in.

Absent votes don't send messages nearly as potently as wasted votes.

You want a change in the 2 party American system instead of attempting to reform one of the two parties? Then we need a third party to rise. Help make that happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

411 I stopped voting because in Oregon my vote doesn't count. And I mean, if they're willing to be so blatant and obvious and completely up front about cheating a presidential election, what's the point?

Sometimes the best way to beat a system is to not participate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (Ivdso)

412 401 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:26 PM (oINRc)

For clarity I was saying the rabid left are self-shitting civic delinquent asshats.

I am telling you, as politely as possible that being too cool to school on civics will not save you, will not defend the body politic and will enable great scale evil.

People who continue to fight the evil will be destroyed first, and you may wind up like the people who rebuilt Berlin from the rubble including the broken headstones of the Germans who were crushed pissing the party off from 33-45.

If you are going part retard, go full SovCit and be an entertaining one.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (Lzpvj)

413 The Kentucky gubernatorial race is in 2023. I hope the Republicans put up a good candidate to take their Dem governor out.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (NpAcC)

414 I respect Bob Dole. If he came any closer to dying for his country he would have been dead on the battlefield. He was shot to pieces in Italy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (QSjkU)

415 The entire population of Alaska is 736,990.
.......

That's a whole lot of gold miners and Eskimos.

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (v0R5T)

416 and crab fisherman

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (v0R5T)

417 I hope Ace does a post of DeSantis's stomping of Crist last night. That's how you fight. Big D doesn't doesn't do a McCain "My friend on the other side of the aisle..." bullshit. It is bare knuckles and I don't think that Crist knew what hit him.

No more reaching across the aisle with unreachable, lying, Constitutional/American hating monsters.

Posted by: Cheri at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (oiNtH)

418 363 Someone above stated that Churchill is rolling in his grave because a "WOG" is now UK Prime minister.

This got me thinking. Did the Tories put up Liz Truss so as not to offend the Queen by picking a WOG?
Was this whole charade conducted to put QE2's mind at ease on her deathbed?
Posted by: JoeF.
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Truss prefers this solution to the Spencer Perceval situation (only PM assassinated in office)

Posted by: whig at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (CXr4y)

419 411 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (Ivdso)

Ever stop to think that a state that was sane-ish in 1984 went insane because as the fuckwit Californians bled in good people quit offsetting their insanity?

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (Lzpvj)

420 This got me thinking. Did the Tories put up Liz Truss so as not to offend the Queen by picking a WOG?
Was this whole charade conducted to put QE2's mind at ease on her deathbed?
Posted by: JoeF.
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Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:20 PM (V9KQP)

If they really, really wanted to put her mind at rest?
They would have nominated Prince Charles.
Queen Elizabeth Approves. Charles as PM has to abdicate his Princedom. No King Charles!

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (Z32m1)

421 What would the Sainted Bob Dole say to that?
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM (Z32m1)
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That's a good question. What would Bob Dole say?

Posted by: Bob Dole at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (krQz2)

422 I stopped voting because in Oregon my vote doesn't count. And I mean, if they're willing to be so blatant and obvious and completely up front about cheating a presidential election, what's the point?

At minimum you don't want to make it easier for them. And if someone decent gets in locally it makes it harder for them to cheat.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (ZGrMX)

423 As annoying and cowardly and worthless as Republicans are, I'd rather have them being incompetent and accomplishing nothing than Democrats actively, deliberately destroying everything and attacking all I believe in and stand for. Republicans are treacherous and useless, but they aren't as likely to directly try to destroy me and my work, to ban me from banks, to remove me from bookstores, etc. They won't try to jail me and punish me for my beliefs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (Ivdso)

424 What guarantees can you give if we follow your plan and stop voting and allow the left to takeover, then wait a couple decades until they completely implode after inflicting unthinkable misery and hardship on the American people, that we will take over the country and reinstitute a constitutional republic based on God given rights and the rule of law?

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And a couple decades is the best case scenario. Totalitarian communist regimes have lasted a whole lot longer than a couple decades. As unsavory as it is, and as angry as I am at sh*ts like Mitch McConnell, there is no alternative than to keep voting and keep working at reforming this abysmal party from the outside in. I don't want to live 80* years under commie rule.

*yeah, I won't make it 80 more years, but my point remains

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (sVtYq)

425 So who were the eight jackwagons who didn't want to hurt Mitch's fee fees?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (llON8)

426 I say vote. Just vote third party or write in.

Absent votes don't send messages nearly as potently as wasted votes.

You want a change in the 2 party American system instead of attempting to reform one of the two parties? Then we need a third party to rise. Help make that happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

And if you're concerned about fraud, an absent vote is an "open to fraud" vote. If you are so separated from our society that you can't vote anymore, even for yourself as a write-in, unregister. Make yourself not be part of a problem you can solve.

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (exHjb)

427 > Any word on the Kentucky elections?
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For one, McConnell isn't up for reelection until 2024 or 26 IIRC. Unless his health deteriorates significantly between now and then I'd expect him to run again, especially if Trump is running or has run and won. If for no other reason than to fuck Trump over some more.

They hate each other with the heat of a thousand suns.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (BFigT)

428 If you want things to change you need to vote.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (NpAcC)

429 Ever stop to think that a state that was sane-ish in 1984 went insane because as the fuckwit Californians bled in good people quit offsetting their insanity?

I know exactly what happened in Oregon, and it wasn't people giving up voting. That's a ludicrous fantasy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (Ivdso)

430 420 This got me thinking. Did the Tories put up Liz Truss so as not to offend the Queen by picking a WOG?
Was this whole charade conducted to put QE2's mind at ease on her deathbed?
Posted by: JoeF.
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Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:20 PM (V9KQP)
If they really, really wanted to put her mind at rest?
They would have nominated Prince Charles.
Queen Elizabeth Approves. Charles as PM has to abdicate his Princedom. No King Charles!
Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (Z32m1)

One day, will the King of England also be it's Queen?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

431 406 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (Ivdso)

Get a 4k TV with HDR, the difference between DVD, BRay, and UHD becomes very apparent.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:32 PM (Lzpvj)

432 This is why we lose

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:32 PM (NpAcC)

433 428 If you want things to change you need to vote.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (NpAcC)

Amen.

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (exHjb)

434 427 For one, McConnell isn't up for reelection until 2024 or 26 IIRC. Unless his health deteriorates significantly between now and then I'd expect him to run again, especially if Trump is running or has run and won. If for no other reason than to fuck Trump over some more.

They hate each other with the heat of a thousand suns.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (BFigT)

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2026. And he won his last primary by about 76 points.

He leaves when he wants to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

435 429 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (Ivdso)

There was still a veneer of Sanity until 2008, a lot of people gave up because of the Bush II noise machine.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (Lzpvj)

436 I respect Bob Dole. If he came any closer to dying for his country he would have been dead on the battlefield. He was shot to pieces in Italy.
_________

The triage medic put him in the "Expectant" tent. "Expectant" meant you were expected to die. After several hours, Dole was still alive and they decided that maybe he wasn't going to die.

He was one tough bastard.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (lf83v)

437 And a couple decades is the best case scenario. Totalitarian communist regimes have lasted a whole lot longer than a couple decades. As unsavory as it is, and as angry as I am at sh*ts like Mitch McConnell, there is no alternative than to keep voting and keep working at reforming this abysmal party from the outside in. I don't want to live 80* years under commie rule.

*yeah, I won't make it 80 more years, but my point remains
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (sVtYq)
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This regime is around 45-50 years old - perhaps a bit more. It doesn't have that much time left, and is about to get another trimming. Trump is responsible for that. And his being cheated in 2020 made it even more obvious what the uni-party was doing. All of that has a payback.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (xWZcb)

438 >>> 429 Ever stop to think that a state that was sane-ish in 1984 went insane because as the fuckwit Californians bled in good people quit offsetting their insanity?

I know exactly what happened in Oregon, and it wasn't people giving up voting. That's a ludicrous fantasy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM (Ivdso)

Look at Colorado pre- and post-mail-in-voting.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (llON8)

439 What's funny is that I predicted this exact phenomena a year ago. Just about everyone was saying "what's the point? They stole the election and even if Republicans win they don't give a crap about us"

And I knew that around this time there'd be strident, angry voices yelling at people to vote or we all lose, and we have to beat the Democrats and this time Lucy won't take the ball away.

Exactly like is happening now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (Ivdso)

440 416 and crab fisherman
Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM (v0R5T)

Not for much longer. King Crab and Snow (Opilio) Crab seasons cancelled this year.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (N39Ws)

441 This kind reminds of that Juda guy from the Bible. How'd things work out for him, anyway?

Posted by: Confused Moron at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (SSX5J)

442 432 Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:32 PM (NpAcC)

Yup.

The dark side of the (and I am guilty too) deification of Reagan was eventually the asshole wing coopted his myth and the hard GOP will settle for nothing less than the mythical version in their head.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (Lzpvj)

443 Sheesh, Murkowski's and Mitch's MOs are obvious to all. Mitch supported Murky's senate write-in ballot campaign against the Republican candidate Joe Miller in 2010. Murkowski voted to convict DJT in 2021. Geez.

Posted by: mrp at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (6eRlp)

444 431 Get a 4k TV with HDR, the difference between DVD, BRay, and UHD becomes very apparent.
Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:32 PM (Lzpvj)

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I have it all, and I honestly don't see a huge difference between Blu-ray and 4K. At least, not nearly enough to convince me to upgrade all of my Blu-rays.

I mean, the Dunkirk 4K is gorgeous, but do I really need to upgrade Reservoir Dogs, especially when I bought the Blu-ray for $5?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (LvTSG)

445
That's a whole lot of gold miners and Eskimos.

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (v0R5T)
416 and crab fisherman

Posted by: wth at October 25, 2022 01:30 PM

Not this year. Our government can't find the crabs.

/ yeah, go ahead

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (y3pKJ)

446 Ash Carter is dead. Dropped like a rock with a grabber at 68. John McCain has his welcome package ready at the gates of Hell.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 25, 2022 01:24 PM (oyfLT)

Definitely wasn't the vaxx.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (bhRsz)

447 And part of the problem here, is that McConnel doesn't answer to the state which elected him.

Return control of the Senators to the states what sent them and a lot of this "United States Senator" nonsense should disappear.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (DFkXg)

448 What happened in OR was media collusion. They covered up the corruption of Kitzhaber's girlfriend until after early voting had been going on for a week. He got elected and had to resign. And that's where you are now. It's not like the cheating in WA state that put Gregoire in office.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (5HBd1)

449 Get a 4k TV with HDR, the difference between DVD, BRay, and UHD becomes very apparent.
Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:32 PM (Lzpvj)

Kind of pointless, when all that's on them is crap. Shoot your television.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (QFkqc)

450 I probably will vote because why not, but I'm not holding my breath for that to fix everything.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (llON8)

451 I only vote for state and local candidates and ballot measures.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (CdFbH)

452 I respect Bob Dole. If he came any closer to dying for his country he would have been dead on the battlefield. He was shot to pieces in Italy.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (QSjkU)

He also stood by Nixon.
And he didn't abandon or denounce Trump, at least publicly.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (mR6Gs)

453 "OMG you bought a DVD? So OOLLLLD! Who even buys DVDs any more? Don't you know what Streaming is?"
--Zoomers
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:25 PM

*looks at uncancellable DVD of Blazing Saddles*

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (Wnv9h)

454 Q: Who's going to win Alaska Senator race?
A: Answer appears Murky
-Magic 538 ball

Posted by: Katie Hobbs at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (fs1hN)

455 439 And I knew that around this time there'd be strident, angry voices yelling at people to vote or we all lose, and we have to beat the Democrats and this time Lucy won't take the ball away.

Exactly like is happening now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (Ivdso)

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I think I predicted it first. *sticks out tongue*

But yeah, we get a lot of strident, "The GOPe is the real enemy," for about a year and a half until the general election season when it becomes, "The Democrats are the real enemy," for about six months.

It's fine. It happens. I kind of just wish more people would notice that it's going to happen again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (LvTSG)

456 Governor Ron DeSantis Easily Won His Debate, Yet Flubbed The Most Predictable Question

https://tinyurl.com/5n88uk8c

Posted by: SMH at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (V9KQP)

457 What guarantees can you give if we follow your plan and stop voting and allow the left to takeover, then wait a couple decades until they completely implode after inflicting unthinkable misery and hardship on the American people, that we will take over the country and reinstitute a constitutional republic based on God given rights and the rule of law?
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The lefties want to "collapse the system". That's part of Neo-Marxism is to collapse the system to create 1) create public restlessness, and 2) create a receptive environment to a state crack down, where a more authoritarian government takes over ("the dictatorship of/for the Proletariat").

If it goes down that path, we don't get a republic back.

Posted by: Axeman at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (krQz2)

458 439 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:34 PM (Ivdso)

Yes Taylor you were truly the lone voice in the wilderness calling out the insanity of formal GOP acquiescence....what a bold gambit that was.

As I said then, we will need to overcome the civic abrogation or things will REALLY pick up when the donks win this midterm.

Make your choice on which future occurs, a slowing down by the retard side of the wagon train being the leading one, or a doubling of speed because the evil one is in charge.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (Lzpvj)

459 Ash Carter is dead. Dropped like a rock with a grabber at 68.
__________

So we can expect the standard 2-year funeral?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (lf83v)

460 If you don't want to vote, *don't vote*. I don't want those that don't care, follow others' advice without thinking, or don't see a point to it to vote, because they aren't making a thoughtful considered vote. I also am very much against mandatory voting like they have in Australia.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (eoQWY)
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It's a hard fact that the fewer people who participate in a vote, the higher the quality of the outcome. The 24th amendment is a disaster. Why would we give people with no skin in the game the vote?

We don't give our children a say in budgeting household expenditures, or we'd be out of a home. The only reason it doesn't happen on a larger scale, is because the government can inflate the money supply.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (ydSQM)

461 If you keep voting, they have to cheat more and more to win.
No matter how much they cheat, there are races they can't win.
Unless we stop voting.

What collapses tyranny quicker: Economic failure or increasing internal oppression of the opposition?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (5EnGD)

462 423- right. Republicans won't enact our agenda. It's a vote for gridlock, to stop the implementation (or slow) of the evil one's agenda, from crt to child mutilation.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (eGccS)

463 Sorry if this is personal for me, but I served and I probably got my leukemia serving.

And I served b/c we have the best country in the world. And we have the best country b/c we have the best system with the best people.

I hate seeing people completely toss that in, ESPECIALLY when they refuse to do anything about it. You're not required to serve - folks step up and do that so you can be free.

But you damn well have responsibilities, on top of rights, in this country. Showing up for jury duty, being an informed voter, etc...this thread is getting to me b/c it's so little asked of us to live here...and we could be living elsewhere and not having it nearly so good...but we don't seem to want to do the barest minimum to try to protect and/or return what we had/have just b/c it's not perfect...NOTHING'S perfect b/c we're human...

Rant over - please just vote (and show up for jury duty)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (exHjb)

464 451 Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (CdFbH)

Hard to believe from such a rabid rock ribbed conservative.

You must be choking, or is it joking?

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (Lzpvj)

465 I never get the 17th ammenment hate. You think if the KY legislature appointed someone they’d be a solid conservative? Hint: they would not.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:38 PM (CdFbH)

466
If you want things to change you need to vote.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:31 PM

My last ballot had 10 people I supported and 1 I didn't. So that 1 stayed blank. Of the 10, 9 good people got in.

Not voting is for losers who want winners to never win and advance.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 25, 2022 01:38 PM (y3pKJ)

467 You want a change in the 2 party American system instead of attempting to reform one of the two parties? Then we need a third party to rise. Help make that happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

Third parties are worse than not voting. That puts the power in the (usually) more radical fringe rather than in the majority. The only goal of a third party is to be co-opted into one of the main parties as a pressure group. So why not start out there?

AOC toppled a powerful lazy politician because political interest was so low that a small group could take him out in a primary. She excited enough to take him down. Even though she's a waste, her predecessor was worse, and now it look like the district is actually becoming politically interested with her being the target of protests at her policies.

If tens of thousands of indifferent voters had pulled the cord for AOC's entrenched opponent in that primary, he'd still be there and still ignoring his district.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:38 PM (eoQWY)

468 Make your choice on which future occurs, a slowing down by the retard side of the wagon train being the leading one, or a doubling of speed because the evil one is in charge.
Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (Lzpvj)
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Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at October 25, 2022 01:38 PM (ydSQM)

469 Why is it certain that ranked choice voting is not intended to help the serfs in any way?

Because the Establishment/UniParty never voluntarily does anything that will be bad or neutral for it.

Posted by: Gref at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (AMIL/)

470 464

I will not Give my vote to someone who stabs in the back every chance they have, but if that works for you have at it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (CdFbH)

471 I only vote for state and local candidates and ballot measures.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (CdFbH)
******
Why not federal???

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (NpAcC)

472 2026. And he won his last primary by about 76 points.

He leaves when he wants to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:33 PM (LvTSG)
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I thought he was up in 2024. Bummer. It just means he has another distasteful decision to make in 2024 - even more difficult than this year's. There are a bunch of senate seats for the dems to defend they have no prayer of winning - starting with Ohio, WV, WI, NV and maybe AZ. Depends on the candidate always. And who the governor is. If Shapiro is beat for governor in PA, you can add PA to the list.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (xWZcb)

473 Look at Colorado pre- and post-mail-in-voting.

Exactly. Oregon used to be pretty close to 50/50 Republican Democrat power. Sometimes one party would be ascendant, sometimes the other, just like the federal government.

Then, once ALL mail-in, no in-person voting was passed by a sketchy campaign, suddenly Republicans stopped winning. Suddenly, the legislature was taken over by Democrats and barely any GOP candidates win. Suddenly the governor was always Democrat.

The last six Gubenatorial elections have played out exactly the same: its super close, Dem/Rep, with Republican leading slightly, until they count the final votes from the counties Portland occupies, and surprise, surprise, the Democrat gets the win. OVER AND OVER.

My vote means nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (Ivdso)

474 Nood

Posted by: Moki at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (JrN/x)

475 Is there any chance this could be used to push squishy, but not all-in commie, senators to change their votes for leader? Or should we just roll him on the back of his shell, and laugh as he waves his feet?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 25, 2022 01:39 PM (TgBWG)

476 I've got a toothache.

Posted by: Rain Brown at October 25, 2022 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

We'll barter for it. I'll take 500 salmon or a bull moose for the dental service.

Posted by: Chichigoff Island Dental Service at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (7bRMQ)

477 449 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 25, 2022 01:35 PM (QFkqc)

The majority of what is on my TV is games, and other PC work....which is kind of 70 inch overkill.....

but it is what it is.

Posted by: sven at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (Lzpvj)

478 465 I never get the 17th ammenment hate. You think if the KY legislature appointed someone they’d be a solid conservative? Hint: they would not.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:38 PM (CdFbH)

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I think things would be less bad if it had never passed. Yes, there would still be corruption (the nature of it changed, not the existence of it, after the passage of the 17th), but there would have been less movement to consolidate power in the central executive while it was in direct competition with power-hungry state legislators.

Repealing it now wouldn't fix that problem. Instead, we have 50 state governments addicted to federal funds. Things would get worse in a new way if we repealed it now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (LvTSG)

479 The Guardian, yesterday -
(In part) Progressive Democrats urge Biden to shift strategy and engage with Russia. Letter signed by 30 leftwing representatives from puts pressure on US president’s Ukraine strategy two weeks out from midterms
(Had been wondering where the squad, with the exception of the distraction (AOC), has been. Very quiet lately.)

O, Carville talking moderation; Bernie sent out to help campaign.

They do excel in theater. IMO, it's not enough to pull the mid-terms out but, without a solid Republican plan, they'll stay the course.

Posted by: Lola at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (NIYa7)

480 For peace of mind, avoid placing your trust in princes.

Posted by: mrp at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (6eRlp)

481 I note that at least at the headline level Kevin McCarthy says his House will not impeach Biden or officials under him.

Sorry, dude, but if you won't at least take a good run at Mayorkas and Garland you must not be Speaker.

They're violating the law five times before lunch every day.

Don't repeat Trump's mistake. Take scalps early.

I hope MTG, etc. can beat some sense into him.

Posted by: JEM at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (8erNz)

482 Vote.

Keep voting, right up to the time the shooting starts. Because the alternatives are Millions dead in the Gulags and Death Camps or Millions Dead in a Second Revolution.

Bill Ayers said he would kill 25 million to bring the SDS Communist Revolution. 50 years later, that would be 50 million. Worse everyone knows the Revolution always eats its own. If they say "only 50 mil" you know it will be 100 million and more.

The Second Revolutionary War? It ends in failure and 10,000 dead; or it goes full Rwanda and 30-50 million dead. 150 Million if they get the PAL Codes on the nukes.

Posted by: rd at October 25, 2022 01:40 PM (Z32m1)

483 Mail-in voting enables fraud. And nothing more.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 25, 2022 01:41 PM (1Nruk)

484 It's fine. It happens. I kind of just wish more people would notice that it's going to happen again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (LvTSG)
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And would you say the GOPe will be stronger after this election?

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:41 PM (xWZcb)

485 I always look forward to voting and feel good that I did my part into trying to make a difference.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 01:42 PM (NpAcC)

486 It doesn't change your situation at all, whether I participate or not.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 01:23 PM (oINRc)

^^It does because your actions could allow a Democrat to have power and hurt the country.

But I understand how many times we've been betrayed by the GOPe and voting for the lesser evil never seems to punish them for their undermining of the country. As someone who has strenuously argued in favor of voting against the Dems as our best option, well I get how little help it has actually been.

But I still like the write in your own candidate protest option better than not voting.

Posted by: Iris at October 25, 2022 01:42 PM (NaH5I)

487 484 It's fine. It happens. I kind of just wish more people would notice that it's going to happen again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:36 PM (LvTSG)
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And would you say the GOPe will be stronger after this election?
Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:41 PM (xWZcb)

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Weaker, but the GOP Congress will still disappoint.

They won't go into a budget standoff with the executive branch to defund whole agencies, which they could.

I will be disappointed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:43 PM (LvTSG)

488 I haven't stopped voting even though in my state I have no democratic process to vote in. The jungle primaries eliminate my choice before the election.

Back when I lived in Chicago, almost every election was uncontested by the GOP. They should run someone every time, even some young staffer who wants to get some practice. And sometimes you win one of those, look at that truck driver that spent 500 dollars and beat out a DEM in jersey.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:45 PM (eoQWY)

489 >>It's fine. It happens. I kind of just wish more people would notice that it's going to happen again.

I wish more people would realize that they aren't the only ones who see that the GOPe is at least as big a problem as the left but we believe the path to victory is to do exactly what the radicals on the left did to the Democrat party and take it over from within rather than doing nothing and expecting that magically things will get better.

We understand the problem every bit as well as those who advocate for doing nothing. We just think there is a better solution. Anyone who thinks the group of MAGA Republican who are running now are the same old GOEe are the real people who aren't paying attention.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 01:45 PM (ZLI7S)

490 Why make it easier for them to cheat? If you don’t vote, but are registered, the election “supervisors”have an easy ballot to steal which would have been unavailable, if you exercised your right to vote.

Posted by: EveR at October 25, 2022 01:46 PM (MUpk6)

491 Weaker, but the GOP Congress will still disappoint.

They won't go into a budget standoff with the executive branch to defund whole agencies, which they could.

I will be disappointed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:43 PM (LvTSG)
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Fair complaint. And I would suggest an accurate prediction. So I would ask, how do we force that issue? The ball has been moving in our direction, not without hiccups along the way (defunding Obamacare for instance). But something made us realize there was a GOPe and they are losing ground. Something showed the political class that CRT bullcrap doesn't play, adn we flipped Virginia. How do we get this moved up the priority list?

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:48 PM (xWZcb)

492 Who the hell has the chops to be our Christopher Rufo of budgeting?

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:50 PM (xWZcb)

493 I never get the 17th ammenment hate. You think if the KY legislature appointed someone they’d be a solid conservative? Hint: they would not.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 25, 2022 01:38 PM (CdFbH)

The idea there is that the Senator would be more beholden to the state itself - which it is the representative of - rather than an independent contractor for out of state donors in exchange for votes for their interests.

Not sure how it would work out but the influence of the Senate continued to decline after the amendment and hasn't recovered or changed. Senators certainly do not reflect any increased populist tendencies than before.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:50 PM (eoQWY)

494 491 Fair complaint. And I would suggest an accurate prediction. So I would ask, how do we force that issue? The ball has been moving in our direction, not without hiccups along the way (defunding Obamacare for instance). But something made us realize there was a GOPe and they are losing ground. Something showed the political class that CRT bullcrap doesn't play, adn we flipped Virginia. How do we get this moved up the priority list?
Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:48 PM (xWZcb)

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I think you may misunderstand me. I'm "vote harder". I just see the process and slow but working.

In terms of pushing things at the federal level? Nothing's going to happen. The GOPe is still too entrenched, and there does seem to be real effort by the executive branch to use every tool to keep the legislature compliant. I don't know what happens at the federal level other than more graft (that's assured).

Our future is at the state level. That's where "voting harder" will yield positive action in the short-mid term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:51 PM (LvTSG)

495 Why make it easier for them to cheat? If you don’t vote, but are registered, the election “supervisors”have an easy ballot to steal which would have been unavailable, if you exercised your right to vote.
Posted by: EveR at October 25, 2022 01:46 PM (MUpk6)

I doubt it is much harder to toss your ballot or reject yours when resolving a contested ballot. But I support all measures to end voting fraud. It should be considered treason.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:52 PM (eoQWY)

496 I think you may misunderstand me. I'm "vote harder". I just see the process and slow but working.

In terms of pushing things at the federal level? Nothing's going to happen. The GOPe is still too entrenched, and there does seem to be real effort by the executive branch to use every tool to keep the legislature compliant. I don't know what happens at the federal level other than more graft (that's assured).

Our future is at the state level. That's where "voting harder" will yield positive action in the short-mid term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 01:51 PM (LvTSG)
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I wasn't suggesting you aren't. And I agree wholeheartedly with your take on the States. The founder's federalism structure saves the day again. And Alito's discovery of the 10th Amendment.

But how would we move up the budgeting priority. The GOP could completely rout the dems by starting with passing SS and Medicare/Medicaid budgets - and settle nothing else until that is done. Force the dems to unfund those priorities. Which they wouldn't. Is there a way to make that happen in the next 10 years?

Posted by: Black JEM at October 25, 2022 01:56 PM (xWZcb)

497 But you damn well have responsibilities, on top of rights, in this country. Showing up for jury duty, being an informed voter, etc...this thread is getting to me b/c it's so little asked of us to live here...and we could be living elsewhere and not having it nearly so good...but we don't seem to want to do the barest minimum to try to protect and/or return what we had/have just b/c it's not perfect...NOTHING'S perfect b/c we're human...

Rant over - please just vote (and show up for jury duty)...
Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 01:37 PM (exHjb)

The government has responsibilities too, which they are not living up to. They are letting criminals go before even seeing a jury. Can't shame me into saying you have to vote.

Now, I do vote still. But it is a right not to vote as well.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 25, 2022 01:56 PM (eoQWY)

498 Dude...hie thee to an optometrist.
Posted by: BignJames
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This is where Tulsi sticks her nose under the tent.

It's the politics that counts, quit looking at their tits and inverted waist line. It's what they say and what they do/accomplish after they say it. That's the line.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 25, 2022 02:13 PM (gmxXe)

499 411 I stopped voting because in Oregon my vote doesn't count. And I mean, if they're willing to be so blatant and obvious and completely up front about cheating a presidential election, what's the point?

Sometimes the best way to beat a system is to not participate. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Your vote counts
When they count the R votes there will be a tally.

If all Rs voted as you say the tally would be ZERO.
Wouldn't that be encouraging?
Raising the tally for the R is one step forward.
Take the step.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 25, 2022 02:18 PM (gmxXe)

500 McConnell can't be majority leader if he's not in the majority party.

If Republicans gain a comfortable enough margin in the senate, I suggest the Republican senators give up a seat by voting McConnell out of the Republican party. He can caucus with whoever he wants to as an independent, while the remaining Republican senators choose a a majority leader with balls.

Ditto McCarthy in the House.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at October 25, 2022 02:18 PM (GXBIW)

501 Imma call willow up on the telephone and tell 'em e's losing his place.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 25, 2022 02:20 PM (gmxXe)

502 Abortion is legal in Israel
And is condoned in the old Testament
Trial by bitter herbs"
You fget to do that if you believe that one of your sex sex slaves has be come pregnant by another man

Posted by: Paul at October 25, 2022 02:35 PM (pJizs)

503 Don’t forget AK has a parliamentary system now.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 25, 2022 02:44 PM (IvJ/8)

504 503 Don’t forget AK has a parliamentary system now.

You mean ranked-choice voting? Not quite the same thing.

Posted by: JEM at October 25, 2022 03:42 PM (8erNz)

505 This is beacuse Mcconnel needs Murkowski, Collins, and Romney as bargining chips with Schumer. He can get a deal by allowing these to vote on D bills inexchange for something he wants.

Someone like Cruz or Paul wouldn't go along.

Posted by: JIMMY glover at October 25, 2022 04:10 PM (ZwZoQ)

506 504 503 Don’t forget AK has a parliamentary system now.

You mean ranked-choice voting? Not quite the same thing.
Posted by: JEM at October 25, 2022 03:42 PM (8erNz)

That system is great - if you have a parliamentary system of government. If you want ranked-choice voting, throw away your state Constitution and adopt one that allows for a parliamentary system.

Otherwise, no thanks. Besides, the reason AK adopted it is simple: AK is doing everything and anything to prop up Lisa Murkowski in office.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 25, 2022 05:47 PM (CdZ4i)

507 Liberal Democrats who vote in support of Abortion then sponsors bill to have thousands of acres designated as Wilderness the protect introduced wolves released there under Clinton

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 25, 2022 06:15 PM (wGqjj)

508 Mitch McConnell delenda est... He's a has been that has to go and good riddance.

Posted by: Legioinvictus at October 25, 2022 07:26 PM (/SU+q)

509 “We cannot go on with treason from the top.”

What are YOU going to do about it? Write another anonymous blog post? After criticizing Rep. Jim Jordan for writing letters to the head of the FBI?

You’re a joke.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at October 25, 2022 07:28 PM (U2W4Y)

510 Mitch is a douche

Posted by: Jerome at October 25, 2022 09:16 PM (3x7XI)

511 Not one penny while McConnell is in leadership.

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