The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/5/23

Good morning, kids. So, Kevin McLuntz lost a sixth vote last night for House Speaker. Between the Democrats guffawing – and as some say, being incredibly stupid by not making him the proverbial "offer he can't refuse" by dragging his sagging ass over the finish line in exchange for being their puppet for the next two years – and the GOPe with its hair on fire because of the 20 "terrorists" in their eyes preventing him from taking the seat, you'd think this was an existential crisis the likes of which rattle the very foundation of the republic to its core.

Bitch, please. The most laugh-out-loud commentary on this episode, which just oozes cluelessness comes from some fellow at PJ Media by the name of Lincoln Brown.

If, however, the interest is over committee assignments or potential benefits, or if said congressperson simply has an axe that they feel needs grinding, then it may be time to reconsider. If personal gain or making a point is the reason for objecting to McCarthy, then there is an albeit risk not only of electing a minority party speaker but also of turning into the thing to which you are ostensibly opposed and rendering the GOP MIA.
That is not to say that the dissenters need to roll over. McCarthy would do well to heed the concerns of the opposition. That is also part of running a Republic. Compromise can work and Boebert asserts that McCarthy has rebuffed proposals from his opponents.
The questions that McCarthy and rebellion must answer, as soon as possible, are not just cui bono, but what are they trying to accomplish? Our Republic is not designed to be easy, but at some point, there comes a time to get on with the people’s business.

Let me not jump entirely down Mr. Brown's throat because he does make a few valid observations both about the process, the motivations of the individuals involved on our side, and perhaps the negative outcome should a Democrat or Democrat-controlled or influenced GOPe Speaker be selected. Perfectly reasonable except for one tiny detail he doesn't seem to realize: the nation as founded and as it was intended to be governed ceases to exist. All of this, at least in my estimation, is complete kabuki-bukkake theater.

First of all, as messy as all of this appears, it's actually the way things were intended to be. I have no problems with that, insofar as it shows healthy skepticism, debate and people standing on principles. As for "doing the people's business," Congress has not come anywhere close to doing that at least since the end of the Second World War, if not before that. Probably its last stand was when FDR's own party rebelled against some of the more egregious aspects of the New Deal and his court-packing scheme to ram it all down our throats.

"Doing the people's business." Pfft. Let me state this as clearly as I can. Every single nano-second that this government is prevented from "doing the people's business," which amounts to robbing us of our freedom, our finances and our children's children's futures, is a blessed gift from The Almighty to be savored in that it prevents, or at least forestalls our inevitable plunging into the abyss. If we're not plunging already.

In any case, I will say that symbolically at least, it does show that not everyone in that House of ~~Representatives~~ Ill-Repute is a phony criminal whore out to line his/her pockets. Opposition to McCarthy and digging in the heels is for sure a barometer of the mood of the people who are sick and fucking tired of this go along to get along corruption and business as usual.

As of this morning, supposedly McCarthy has caved in to the complete list of demands the holdouts want in return for their votes. Does that really mean anything, not only in terms of the value of McCarthy's word but more crucially, in terms of the status of this nation, which is to say, that it's dead?

The Morning Report's biggest fan, Victor Davis Hanson:

Did someone or something seize control of the United States?
What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?
Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal? . . .
. . . How did a virus cancel the Constitution? Did the lockdowns rob of us of our sanity? Or was it the woke hysteria that ignited our collective madness?
We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.

VDH is a pretty sharp cookie, so I will assume the gravamen of his discourse consists of rhetorical questions. Yet, considering everything he asks and his final question, you have to really ponder the vaudeville act going on in the House as we speak.

In light of all of this, does it really matter who gets to wield Malig-Nancy Pelosi's clown gavel? In the end (pun intended), we're the ones getting the Paul Pelosi treatment with it.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The [Chinese] Covid regime’s grip may have loosened during the heat of the 2022 election cycle, but the ‘forever pandemic’ fearmongers are back."
The Tyrannical Chinese Covid Regime is Quietly Reviving the "Forever Pandemic"
"Why invest if there is no chance to profit and see your investment grow?"
Wall Street Will Die
Daniel Greenfield: "AP takes millions from groups leveraged in green investments to promote the need for green investments."
How Green Investors Pay the Media to Promote "Climate Change"

LUNTZ'S DUNSEL?

"The deal with the McCarthy-affiliated super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), involves CLF agreeing to stay out of open-seat Republican primaries in safely red districts, as well as CLF vowing not to enable other super PACs to do the same."
Speaker Race Breakthrough: McCarthy PAC Agrees with Conservatives on No Spending in Safe Open-Seat Primaries
"Needing 18 votes, McCarthy only received 201 votes, while House Democrats unanimously backed Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for speaker with 212 votes. A small fraction of House Republicans gave 20 votes to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), and one member voted present."
House Speaker Vote Fails for Fifth Time
“The motion to vacate is something that is a simple tool available to members, but it's not really used by members. It’s only been used twice in the last 100 years. It does speak more loudly to concerns about the ability to effectively lead the chamber if that's what the concern is. It shouldn't be a concern, and this is the thing that I want to make sure the American people understand,” he said.
Donalds: "In Any Corporation … the Board of Directors Can Call a Vote at Any Time"
"Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Lauren Boebert of Colorado nominated Donalds to challenge McCarthy on the fourth and fifth ballots. Donalds garnered 20 votes from the anti-McCarthy representatives in the Republican conference, which prevented McCarthy from receiving the 218 votes needed to be handed the gavel."
Filthy Shit-Whore Racialist Cori Bush Calls Rep. Byron Donalds a "Prop," Accuses Him of "Perpetuating White Supremacy"
"The political realignment has been evident to anyone paying attention since Donald Trump rode down the escalator in 2015. Republicans will continue to ignore the Obama-Obama-Trump voter, the blue-collar voter, the parents, and the freedom voters at their peril. The recent Florida election results show that rejecting the status quo and delivering results for the people you represent is a winning strategy. Perhaps the GOP should try it."
A Significant Majority of Republican Voters Agree With the GOP Rebels
". . . no matter what happens, the beauty is in the process. If he wants to sway the 20 dissenters, McCarthy should show a path forward that could result in real change in the way the House conducts its business. He should commit to transparency and rules reform that will stop the practice of pushing through mammoth spending bills one minute before midnight at the end of the congressional session. Unfortunately, he’s shown no indication that he wants to change the status quo, and the 20 holdouts know that. So let’s have that fight."
Don't Buy the Establishment's Spin on the House Speaker Fight

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"She also stated Democrats would require Republicans to give concessions, such as potentially giving up committee seats to Democrats." (comedy gold, except the GOPe is perfectly capable of doing this shit - jjs)
House Democrats Float ‘Unity Speaker’ Possibility amid GOP Speaker Debate
"With 222 Republican representatives, McCarthy can afford only four defections. There are 20 votes against McCarthy as of Wednesday morning."
Dem Side of the House Called to Order as Rep. Cammack Rebukes "Popcorn, and Blankets, and Alcohol"
"A Republican majority in the House gives conservatives a chance to make meaningful procedural changes."
Trimming Back the Speakership
David Harsanyi: "It’s just a vote about management."
Relax, the GOP Fight Over House Speaker Doesn’t Really Matter
"The questions that McCarthy and rebellion must answer, as soon as possible, are not just cui bono, but what are they trying to accomplish? Our Republic is not designed to be easy, but at some point, there comes a time to get on with the people’s business." (the author of this piece is utterly clueless - jjs)
At Some Point, You Have to Deal With Reality
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Musk has become both widely vilified and widely lauded recently for bringing more free speech to Twitter. But he continues to be a hypocrite when it comes to Communist China."
Security Risk? Elon Musk Makes China Chief His Top U.S. Exec
"Analysis: Liberal journalists have way too much sympathy for degenerate élites."
Media Still Fawning Over FTX Fraudsters Caroline Ellison and Sam "the Sham Bank-Fraud" Bankman-Fried
"As Americans get pestered by the digital hall monitors, criminals are emboldened."
Losing Our Freedom to the Digital Pinkertons
"Fake news, hoaxes, and other cases of widely disseminated misinformation have at times led to awards for damages. . . "
Fake News, Twitter, Elon Musk, and the Fight Against Online Disinformation
The email was sent by someone at KRCG CBS 13 in Missouri, which is owned by Sinclair and is a CBS affiliate. In the email, the outlet called Trump’s Super PAC’s emails “pathetic” and called Trump a “criminal, traitorous, idiot candidate.” It was sent in response to an “ICYMI” email from the PAC sharing an op-ed that says “Trump Can Rescue, Restore the American Dream.”
CBS Affiliate Launches Investigation Over Anti-Trump Email
Somewhere in Hell, Lord Haw-Haw says "That's my boy!"
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger to Become CNN Contributor
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Demand Justice shows no signs of giving up after losing on court packing, filibuster reform." (first person whose platform includes seizing the Soros assets wins my endorsement - jjs)
Nazi Collaborator George Soros Doubles Funding to Left-Wing Legal Group Working To Upend Supreme Court
"Canada's descent into fascism continues apace."
Peterson Ordered to Report to Reeducation Camp for Criticizing Trudeau *UPDATED*
"The juxtaposition between the two parties says everything about the state of American race relations today."
Democrats Refuse to Cheer Martin Luther King Jr. on House Floor
"The Founders established a government that Lincoln later described as 'Of the people, by the people, and for the people.' We don’t have that."
Has the American Experiment Failed?
Victor Davis Hanson: "We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew."
The Coup We Never Knew
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Biden sold millions of reserve barrels to China, other foreign entities."
Biden Junta Touts Drained Emergency Oil Reserves as Top 2022 Accomplishment
Forget the threats and just pull the friggin' plug and make them cry uncle.
Kentucky GOP Treasurer Threatens 11 Banks With Divestment for Boycotting Fossil Fuels
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Primary concerns cited in the survey of 23 primary dealers, including those from Barclays PLC, Bank of America Corp, TD Securities, and UBS Group AG, were a dwindling of pandemic savings, a decline in the housing market, and a tightening of lending rules as potential warning signs of an incoming recession."
Economists at Major Banks Predict US Recession in 2023
"The number of open positions at the end of November was 10.5 million—topping even the highest estimates. The median forecast was for 10.1 million. The end of October figure was revised from 10.334 million to 10.512 million, indicating the jobs market was tighter than previously thought and the decline in openings at the end of last year was less substantial than it looked."
Job Openings Stay Much Higher Than Expected, Fueling Inflation Fears and Expectations for Fed Hikes
"Voters seek pullback from world's most populous nation, even if it means a weaker US economy."
Americans Want U.S. Firms to "Stand Up" to China: I&I/TIPP Poll
Terry Jeffrey: "Did you get your money's worth? Will the government ever pay this money back? The answers are no and no." 
In 2022, Biden Increased Debt $11,374 per Worker – But for What?
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
He's going to cheer it on and grope tweener Latinas.
After Two Years of Record Illegal Immigration, Biden to Visit Southern Border
“While I expect [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden will deflect and possibly lie about his failures, similar to what both of his White House Press Secretaries have done, I am happy that certain media outlets have attempted to present the truth to the American people and be the watchdogs necessary to bring about positive change, which is undoubtedly the catalyst for this visit,” Judd said.
‘Give The Illusion’: Border Patrol Agents, Union President Pour Cold Water On Biden’s Planned Border Visit
"The report found that the White House has relied on NGOs, some of which present themselves as charities or religiously affiliated nonprofits, to provide shelter, food, and transportation resources to migrants. While these NGOs are partly funded by private donations, a significant percentage of their funding comes from American taxpayers. One of the mentioned organizations is Catholic Charities, a prominent NGO with operations across America and around the world."
Biden Junta Using Charities, Non-Profits to Hide Cost of Border Crisis
“Colorado earmarked $5 million to assist people identified as migrants, including helping them purchase bus tickets. About half the money is allocated already.”
Colorado Dem Governor Jared Polis to Send Migrants to Chicago and NYC
"It’s hard to imagine how anyone could choose to further punish legal immigrants by saddling them with higher fees to help speed up the process for illegals claiming asylum to come into our country."
Biden to Increase Fees for Legal Immigration to Cover Costs Processing Illegals
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The statements corroborate reports that Bickford was motivated by Islamic extremism. A recent Muslim convert, he expressed a desire to fight for Islamic militants in the Middle East, prompting his family to notify the authorities. The FBI later placed him on its terrorism watchlist."
Times Square Assailant Says He Attacked Police Because US Supports Israel
"It should be noted that a gag order was issued on police and lawyers involved in the case, restricting them from speaking to media. If Fox’s source is real, the individual is in violation of that court order. If the source is accurate, however, it’s a pretty slick move by law enforcement."
Traffic Stop or Sting? Were Cops Instructed by FBI to Get Video of Idaho Suspect Bryan Kohberger's Hands?
"The men didn’t do it in the name of climate change or far-left groups." (true, but you better believe the latter took notice - jjs)
Two Men Arrested in Connection With Attacks on Washington State Power Substations
"All for equality and equality for all."
YAS QUEEN: Amber McLaughlin Becomes First Trans Woman Executed by Lethal Injection
"As a new year dawns, residents await leadership that can address the city’s harrowing crime problem."
Can Philadelphia Turn the Page?
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demands that the US ban Chinese travelers."
China’s President Xi Admits Zero [Chinese] Covid Policy Was a Failure
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Now that Oregon narrowly passed some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country this past election, should it be any surprise that Washington wants to follow suit?"
Washington State is Coming for Your Guns
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The MIT resolution is not perfect, reflecting in it the large number of faculty that opposed the idea of free speech."
Backlash against MIT’s blacklisting of teacher forces it to adopt Free Speech Resolution
“One of the most egregious violations of academic freedom in recent memory.”
Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad
ABORTION
"The new FDA update comes following a year of significant changes to abortion policies. In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion laws to individual states."
FDA Says Abortion Pills Can Now be Offered at Retail Pharmacies
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, to be special counsel to take over two Department of Justice investigations into Trump in November. Smith accepted the appointment but was initially held back at The Hague in the Netherlands as he recovered from a biking accident."
Special Counsel Jack Smith Returns To United States To Lead Investigations Into Trump
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"His dishonesty, in an ironic way, is more truthful than the posturing of the preening hypocrites denouncing him."
The Truth Behind George Santos’ Lies
POLITICS
"After mumbling that he had been to more than 140 countries, Biden, gripping the podium as if it were a life buoy, delivered his zinger . . . Hopefully, someone translates that into English sometime soon."
Biden: ‘The World Is Not a Patch in Our Jeans’
"What chance does he have now of being able to do the job of a U.S. senator?" (that's why they have Kalorama - jjs)
WATCH: "Lumpy" Fetterman's Painfully Awkward Swearing-in Renews Doubts About Ability to Serve
"The beginning of the end of Joe Biden's political career."
Biden’s Year of Reckoning
"Voters who think Congress doesn’t care are, by far, the most pessimistic about the prospects that the new Congress will get anything of substance accomplished."
Just 1 in 5 of Voters Say Congress Cares What Constituents Think; 57% Doubt It’ll Address Nation’s Important Problems
"In the end, we will make the choice."
What Lies Ahead for Trump and We the People?
"Moderate" means he leans just to the right of Trotsky. Brain dead in O-hi-o.
Ohio Statehouse Elects ‘Moderate’ Republican for Speaker with Democrat Support
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The human suffering in Ukraine is predicated on massive U.S. military aid, and is transforming an ailing country into a bankrupt failed state."
The Long-Term Economic Implications of the Ukraine War
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Biden can’t ‘walk and chew gum at the same time’ when it comes to managing America’s Ukraine and Taiwan commitments."
Our Ukraine Obsession is Hanging Taiwan Out to Dry, and the Biden Junta Just Admitted It
"For a time, he implemented serious tax reform, an American adviser to Putin recalls."
When Putin Got Into Reaganomics
"Making a premature judgement on Netanyahu’s coalition government."
The Double Standard in Dealing With Israel
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Michel Houllebecq is being proved correct about the Muslim invasion of France."
French Writer Sued by Paris Mosque for Expressing an Opinion
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Over the opposition of progressives, Governor Hochul nominates a former prosecutor as the next chief judge—and a battle looms."
High Noon at New York’s High Court
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The social contagion angle is red meat for the populist right-wing base, who see their children immersed in cult-like groupthink in every civic institution, bankrolled by woke corporate foundations with their own interests in mind. Their outrage is morally justified in this regard. But the parallel physiological drop-off in sperm counts and testosterone levels, which effectively feminizes boys and men, is also likely an underappreciated angle and arguably even more important than social conditioning."
Shocking Brand New Research: Testosterone in Total Freefall, May Account for Explosion in Transgenderism
"A 7–4 vote by the 11th Circuit permits schools to segregate bathrooms by sex."
Appeals Court Upholds Florida Bathroom Policy
"Drag shows are quickly descending to staggering depths of depravity." (why were the parents not "dragging" their children the hell away from there? - jjs)
Man in "Drag" Acts Out Self-Induced Abortion on Stage in Front of Children
"Rick Zbur spent years at the helm of an activist group that encouraged teachers to lie to parents." (he should go through the procedure by having his junk yanked out – through his throat - jjs)
Meet the California Assemblyman Who Wants Teachers to Help Students Get Sex Change Operations
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Men can get pregnant, don't you dare ask for data, and other lessons from diversity training across the federal government."
What the Feds Are Teaching in Diversity Training
"Human composting treats ends as means, and lets us hide from the true nature of our mortality."
Against Fertile Remains
Christian Toto: "Spotify podcaster comes out on top after furious attempts to silence him."
It’s Official: Joe Rogan Beat Cancel Culture in 2022
"Does the Washington Post even know the difference between freedom and slavery?"
Who Will Free the Enslavers
"Conservatives shouldn’t mistake good habits for good politics."
The Perils of Lifestyle Rightism
"Music doesn’t have to be original to be good, but it does have to be good; being a copycat is OK if you’re decent at it."
Mediocre Copycat Musicians Who Flood Big Tech’s Algorithms Make Music Worse
"Zeffirelli’s cinematic take on one of the most romantic stories in western history was rightly honored with several awards, including a Golden Globe for Hussey. It’s a shame that more than 50 years later, Hussey and Whiting would look to cash in on the least artistic part of their masterpiece."
Romeo and Juliet Actors From the 1960s Sue Paramount for Sexually Exploiting Them
HITHER & YON
"Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the program, following the tragic fire on the launchpad that claimed the lives of astronauts Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, and Ed White. Cunningham flew Apollo 7 with Wally Schirra and Don Eisele."
Walt Cunningham, Apollo 7 Astronaut and Climate Alarmism Skeptic, Dies at Age 90
"Time and time again, Reagan has proven his acting ability, yet this ability (not to mention, the variety in his performances) has either gone unrecognized or is diminished, and often denigrated."
A Picture-Perfect Girl
Lloyd Billingsley: "Liberalism, journalism and comedy aren’t what they used to be."
Remembering Barbara Walters

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 07:24 AM (GYIa4)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 07:25 AM (BRHaw)

3 As God as my witness, I thought Teslas could fly!

Posted by: Dr. Dharmesh A. Patel at January 05, 2023 07:25 AM (iayUP)

4 Corgis called.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 07:25 AM (GYIa4)

5 Mornin' Horde! HB:JJ!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 05, 2023 07:26 AM (pz/6k)

6 Happy Birthday, JJS!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 07:27 AM (PiwSw)

7 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Saint of the Day
St. John Neumann (1811-1860) was born in Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic. He entered the seminary, and when the day came for his ordination to the priesthood, his bishop fell ill and couldn't proceed with the ceremony. However, because Bohemia had an over-abundance of priests, John's ordination was never rescheduled. Undeterred in pursuing his priestly vocation, John decided to go to America to seek ordination. He came to the United States in 1836 as a missionary priest to serve America's European immigrant population. He was ordained in New York, joined the Redemptorists, and was later consecrated a bishop. He is famous for knowing twelve languages and for being the first American man and American bishop to be canonized. St. John Neumann left his impact on the United States by building a vast number of churches, schools, hospitals, and orphanages. The number of parochial school students greatly increased in his diocese. St. John Neumann had a strong effect on the religious life of the laity in the United States, especially in his promotion of devotion to the Holy Eucharist. His feast day is January 5th.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:29 AM (qoGsy)

8 All I want for Christmas is to see Mrs. Luntz's office furniture and boxes in front of the Speaker's office in a big pile. Maybe have Gaetz standing beside it with a hand truck...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 07:29 AM (PiwSw)

9 You'd think McCarthy and co would deal with the freedom caucus- and then backstab them later. Complete intraction. Notice how all of this is framed:

-no alternative aside from McC- not even another RINO.
-complete just running headlong at the proposition (if only they had shown this intractability with Obamacare or any of a dozen other issues.)
-the other side is literally terrorists- which is not language they would use for the commies on the other side of the aisle. They feel completely safe in using this language against their own side.
-People Show You Who They Are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:29 AM (CsVWE)

10 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:31 AM (uLr+K)

11 "Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad"

Not to mention the ham.

Posted by: Dr. Dharmesh A. Patel at January 05, 2023 07:32 AM (iayUP)

12 Concerning the ongoing coup led by Congress:

"For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears turned to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against evildoers."

–1 Peter 3:12

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:32 AM (qoGsy)

13 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:32 AM (/OdqM)

14

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 05, 2023 07:32 AM (vwCZJ)

15 3 As God as my witness, I thought Teslas could fly!
Posted by: Dr. Dharmesh A. Patel at January 05, 2023 07:25 AM (iayUP)
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BATTERY DEAD

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:33 AM (/OdqM)

16 Morning, JJ.

I got nothing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 07:33 AM (AW0uW)

17 I want to fly like an Eagle...

Posted by: The Dr. Dharmesh A. Patel Band at January 05, 2023 07:33 AM (iayUP)

18 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 05, 2023 07:33 AM (u7pQw)

19 Can we just put this McCarthy vote in the loo and move on?!! Six votes and still a no-go. He has a worse record than Vincent LaGuardia Gambini.

Posted by: sidney at January 05, 2023 07:34 AM (Uy/WF)

20 Bot check political meme of the day:

https://tinyurl.com/yxmtrmm7

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:34 AM (/OdqM)

21
Probably its last stand was when FDR's own party rebelled against some of the more egregious aspects of the New Deal and his court-packing scheme to ram it all down our throats.

__________

FDR vetoed the 1944 tax bill with a message that was deliberately insulting to Congress. Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was so outraged that he resigned his post. He was immediately re-elected and Congress overrode the veto by a huge margin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 07:34 AM (MoZTd)

22 Speaking of the FBI:

FBI Agent to Get Probation on Thursday for Destroying Evidence in Arkansas Political Trial

https://tinyurl.com/37pnmrs9

(Gateway Pundit)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:35 AM (/OdqM)

23 Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said that 10% of House members are “holding the 90% of their fellow Republicans hostage.”

“This is insane,” he said, “Kevin needs to stand strong.”

Now do the 0.03% that are trans and the 1.5% that are gay and what they have done to society.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 07:36 AM (BRHaw)

24 As was noted in the tech thread, vote for McCarthy, don't vote for McCarthy, it makes no difference who sits in the speakers chair, the GOP has no power, no juice and no agenda that isn't the approved agenda of their paymasters.

The Calvary isn't coming because the Calvary is too busy making side deals with the Indians.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 07:37 AM (H6ZQm)

25 We're not talking about "go along to get along" over a bridge or a schoolhouse or a damn park bench. They want "go along to get along" over decades of the most disgusting displays of tyranny and the enslavement of the entire populace to the unfettered whims of an increasingly insane political class.

If your neighbor is breaking down your fences, cutting down your trees, and defecating in your back yard, you don't invite him in for dinner in the name of neighborliness. You call the police. If that neighbor is the chief of police? You don't really have a lot of options then, do you?

We will not go along anymore, and we sure as hell will not get along.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 07:38 AM (9UlRk)

26 The Calvary isn't coming because the Calvary is too busy making side deals with the Indians.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 07:37 AM (H6ZQm)
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General Custer has regrets.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:38 AM (/OdqM)

27 Forever pandemic. Oh you mean there are illness-causing germs about? Like there have been for as long as life has been on this planet? Dear God what a horrifying revelation.

People are so totally completely irretrievably fucking retarded.

Posted by: There was never any disease until COVID-19! at January 05, 2023 07:39 AM (s2na+)

28 "Former Arkansas Gov. and sleeping pill huckster Mike Huckabee"

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 07:39 AM (iayUP)

29 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)

30 Cavalry?

Or the place where Jesus was crucified?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:40 AM (CsVWE)

31 28 "Former Arkansas Gov. and sleeping pill huckster Mike Huckabee"
Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 07:39 AM (iayUP)

Sarah Sanders, when you see your Daddy again, I would be horrified if you would just slap him. Yes I would.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 07:40 AM (PiwSw)

32 Calvary...Cavalry.

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:40 AM (uLr+K)

33 The number of parochial school students greatly increased in his diocese. St. John Neumann had a strong effect on the religious life of the laity in the United States, especially in his promotion of devotion to the Holy Eucharist. His feast day is January 5th.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:29 AM (qoGsy

Thanks for this. My eldest son attends St. John Neumann HS down here in southwest Florida.

Posted by: tofer732 at January 05, 2023 07:40 AM (fatpD)

34 Good morning dear morons and thank you JJ

C'mon VDH. You really have to ask? We all know who. Discover the Networks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 07:40 AM (EZebt)

35 When I see McCarthy, I always think of Charley McCarthy, because he was a puppet too.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 07:41 AM (tVOiC)

36 The Calvary isn't coming because the Calvary is too busy making side deals with the Indians.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 07:37 AM (H6ZQm)

The Calvary isn't coming because it's a fixed geographical point - specifically a hill.

Posted by: New Testament, Same Great Taste! at January 05, 2023 07:41 AM (s2na+)

37 Colorado Dem Governor Jared Polis to Send Migrants to Chicago and NYC
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I find this hilarious...So a DEM governor is now sending the unwanted immigrant population to other DEM cities.

Isn't Colorado supposed to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 05, 2023 07:42 AM (BpYfr)

38 Isn't Colorado supposed to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 05, 2023 07:42 AM (BpYfr)

So is Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (CsVWE)

39 Good morning hordelings. Thanks again JJ.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (45fpk)

40 morning horde. the new year sucks so far.

need more covfefe.

and regarding mccarthy, there's a number of people pushing so hard on him, i just don't see what is behind the curtain to make him the ONLY candidate.

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (nXhwP)

41 Ok, I think this anime just injected aztec death gods into the mix.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (CsVWE)

42 31 Sarah Sanders, when you see your Daddy again, I would be horrified if you would just slap him. Yes I would.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 07:40 AM (PiwSw)

With a Hot Iron.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (UnA8+)

43 "The questions that McCarthy and rebellion must answer, as soon as possible, are not just cui bono, but what are they trying to accomplish? Our Republic is not designed to be easy, but at some point, there comes a time to get on with the people’s business."

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This is akin to "suck it up and continue dining on your sh*t sandwhich, terrorist."

The time for this is over. We are sick and tired of business as usual and the cracks are starting to show.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (sVtYq)

44 I find this hilarious...So a DEM governor is now sending the unwanted immigrant population to other DEM cities.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 05, 2023 07:42 AM (BpYfr)
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Obligatory musical interlude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn8vK1NMK5g

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (/OdqM)

45 When I see McCarthy, I always think of Charley McCarthy, because he was a puppet too.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 07:41 AM (tVOiC

Well I'm NOT calling Luntz Edgar Bergen. Yuck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (9UlRk)

46 Good morning all. I believe I detest the politicians from both parties in equal measure. They are all swamp creatures looking out for themselves and if a giant sinkhole opened up under the rotunda I would be rather sanguine about it.

Posted by: IC at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (oX3MH)

47 Quarantine DC. Use the Beltway as the border. No one goes in. No one comes out to enter the United States without vetting and background check. Democrats can remain in DC or get a one way ticket to a country of their choice. They will need that ticket because their citizenship is permanently revoked.

…just a thought.

Posted by: Roger Ball at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (C8ve7)

48
Mike Hucksterbee.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (x0n13)

49 Doing the people's business? More like giving the people "the business" IYKWIMAIKTYD.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (nRMeC)

50 I work on the operating assumption that all politicians are compromised at some point in their careers. The amount of money at stake at even the local level encourages people to buy/rent politicians. Nancy Pelosi gained and held onto power because her constituents had billions and she could lavish money on congressional candidates like no one else. She represented the tech interests, not Americas.

Posted by: IanDeal at January 05, 2023 07:45 AM (MGjjz)

51 Quarantine DC. Use the Beltway as the border. No one goes in. No one comes out to enter the United States without vetting and background check. Democrats can remain in DC or get a one way ticket to a country of their choice. They will need that ticket because their citizenship is permanently revoked.

…just a thought.
Posted by: Roger Ball at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (C8ve7)
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It would probably be cheaper to build a wall along the DC beltway than along the entire US/Mexico border...And might even be more effective!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 05, 2023 07:45 AM (BpYfr)

52 Mike Hucksterbee.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (x0n13)
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I would have simply replaced the first letter of his last name.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (/OdqM)

53 So, with the hiring of Adam Kinzinger, CNN seems to be reverting to type.. Bold move, Cotton...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (PiwSw)

54 The time for this is over. We are sick and tired of business as usual and the cracks are starting to show.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 07:43 AM (sVtYq)
===

*hefts sledgehammer*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (EZebt)

55 The Peoples Business? Which people, Ukraine?

Posted by: Ex-GOP at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (vKOgw)

56 The time aspect of this charade is the most fascinating.

McCarthy had his chances. He's held power. He has not performed satisfactorily. So who is the terrorist? The ones who demand accountability? Or the ones who demand power continue to be given to the unacceptable?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (9UlRk)

57 I would have simply replaced the first letter of his last name.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (/OdqM)

'Fucksterbee' has a certain ring to it as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (CsVWE)

58 Affordable Housing
From hospital to housing, with a little help from friends
Immigration & Refugee Services
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers: Who are they, why do they come and how does Catholic Charities help them?
Integrated Health
Stable placements on the journey to stable lives

Sounds very very communistic!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

59 56 McCarthy had his chances. He's held power. He has not performed satisfactorily. So who is the terrorist? The ones who demand accountability? Or the ones who demand power continue to be given to the unacceptable?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (9UlRk)

As long as they all have their untouchable Generational Wealth, they're ALL unacceptable.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 07:47 AM (UnA8+)

60 The two stars of the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million, alleging they were sexually exploited during a nude scene in the film when they were teenagers.

Gee, these two must be hard up for some money. Plus, I barely remember seeing anything during the scene.

Posted by: dantesed at January 05, 2023 07:47 AM (88xKn)

61 "Quarantine DC. Use the Beltway as the border."

Complete the acoustical barrier walls around the beltway on both sides of the roadway to a height of twenty feet.

Then fill it with water, and use it as a moat.

Alligators should be considered as an additional cost option.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (uLr+K)

62 Fucksterbee' has a certain ring to it as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (CsVWE)

Sounds like a medium sized village in Norway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (9UlRk)

63 The Calvary isn't coming because it's a fixed geographical point - specifically a hill.
Posted by: New Testament

Verily, the hill to die on.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (qoGsy)

64 Verily, the hill to die on.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (qoGsy)

And He did, so we don't have to.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (PiwSw)

65 "Quarantine DC. Use the Beltway as the border."

Complete the acoustical barrier walls around the beltway on both sides of the roadway to a height of twenty feet.

Then fill it with water, and use it as a moat.

Alligators should be considered as an additional cost option.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (uLr+K)
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Don't forget the razor wire!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 05, 2023 07:49 AM (BpYfr)

66 Verily, the hill to die on.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (qoGsy)

You'd be in good Company.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:49 AM (CsVWE)

67 "Don't forget the razor wire!"

Yes, that too.

To keep the alligators from escaping.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:50 AM (uLr+K)

68 So who is the terrorist? The ones who demand accountability? Or the ones who demand power continue to be given to the unacceptable?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 07:46 AM (9UlRk)
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Billy Bones: Beware lads! Beware.
Jim Hawkins: What, the one-legged man?
Billy Bones: Aye. But also, beware runnin' with scissors or any other pointy object. It's all good fun, until somebody loses a - Ahhhh!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:50 AM (/OdqM)

69 The Freedom Caucus should make a symbolic play, and nominate a convicted, compulsive pyromaniac. Someone who would give the House of Representatives of the United States every ounce of the respect the august institution deserves, by burning it into a fine ash.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 07:50 AM (oINRc)

70 "Drag shows are quickly descending to staggering depths of depravity." (why were the parents not "dragging" their children the hell away from there? - jjs)
Man in "Drag" Acts Out Self-Induced Abortion on Stage in Front of Children

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Depravity? There is no limit for some people with respect to their children, to my horror. I'm sure there were plenty of parents in the audience with their cell phones held high recording the abomination, and big Cheshire grins on their faces.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 07:50 AM (sVtYq)

71 "Quarantine DC. Use the Beltway as the border."

Complete the acoustical barrier walls around the beltway on both sides of the roadway to a height of twenty feet.

Then fill it with water, and use it as a moat.

Alligators should be considered as an additional cost option.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (uLr+K)

Please give me a heads up since I do live inside the Beltway when I am down there. I'd have to buy, rent,or steal a dinghy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2023 07:52 AM (dO/0d)

72 Depravity? There is no limit for some people with respect to their children, to my horror. I'm sure there were plenty of parents in the audience with their cell phones held high recording the abomination, and big Cheshire grins on their faces.
Posted by: Lady in Black

"You bought your ticket. Now endure the ride."
-- stan

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:52 AM (qoGsy)

73 You're terrorizing me!

Posted by: One-Eyed Fag at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (KFhLj)

74 Depravity? There is no limit for some people with respect to their children, to my horror.

Pretty soon parents will be naming their children Sodom and Gomorrah.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (45fpk)

75 You're terrorizing me!
Posted by: One-Eyed Fag at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (KFhLj)
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We're sorry. Shall we patch things up?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (/OdqM)

76 {47} Quarantine DC. Use the Beltway as the border. No one goes in. No one comes out...

Posted by: Roger Ball at January 05, 2023 07:44 AM (C8ve7)

https://tinyurl.com/3fc3ssc2

Posted by: Snake Plissken at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (nRMeC)

77 Please give me a heads up since I do live inside the Beltway when I am down there. I'd have to buy, rent,or steal a dinghy
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2023 07:52 AM (dO/0d)

You should be able to pick one up cheap at one of those drag shows.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (CsVWE)

78 Complete the acoustical barrier walls around the beltway on both sides of the roadway to a height of twenty feet.

Then fill it with water, and use it as a moat.

Alligators should be considered as an additional cost option.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2023 07:48 AM (uLr+K)
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You'll just be able to see the Marriotts Mormon Church steeple above the waves as you drive through Bethesda. Hopefully the "Free Dorothy!" sign will still be visible.

Posted by: Marie Harf, Fox News at January 05, 2023 07:54 AM (99yOT)

79 One data point

McCarthy and McConnell wouldn't give Trump $5bn for the wall. They jump to send ten times that to protect Ukraine.

You do the math.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 07:54 AM (EZebt)

80
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 05, 2023 07:54 AM (ENBF0)

81 70 Depravity? There is no limit for some people with respect to their children, to my horror. I'm sure there were plenty of parents in the audience with their cell phones held high recording the abomination, and big Cheshire grins on their faces.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 07:50 AM (sVtYq)

At this point, I don't know why anybody is surprised that there's a lot of idiot parents out there that will put their children in the line of fire just so that they can look "More Progressive" than their neighbor and fish for likes on social media.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 07:54 AM (UnA8+)

82 I don't know why anybody is surprised that there's a lot of idiot parents out there that will put their children in the line of fire...
Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 07:54 AM (UnA8+)
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Well, hello there, Moloch!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:55 AM (/OdqM)

83 I hope this terrorism invective leads to such bad blood that not one bill passes the House, or the GOP openly aligns with Democrats on every initiative they want. Either way, extremely damaging for Team (R)enfield.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 07:55 AM (oINRc)

84 Wall Street, like our national "border", is fake and is nothing but smoke and mirrors, intended to give you a false illusion of the real thing. Stick your fake federal dollars in a mattress for safekeeping until you can burn them to stay warm.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 05, 2023 07:56 AM (XQtRs)

85 @40

>>and regarding mccarthy, there's a number of people pushing so hard on him, i just don't see what is behind the curtain to make him the ONLY candidate.

The Donks nominated their most strident and vicious hardliner to be their leader, the GOP nominated a guy who doesn't even rise to the level of mediocre used car salesman as their leader.

Tells you everything you need to know about that useless dog sh*t party.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 07:56 AM (up/3i)

86 Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, to be special counsel to take over two Department of Justice investigations into Trump in November.

ha
White House Arrest!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

87 As soon as I hear someone say it's "time to get on with the people’s business", I know I'm dealing with a wuss.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 05, 2023 07:56 AM (TgBWG)

88 Please give me a heads up since I do live inside the Beltway when I am down there. I'd have to buy, rent,or steal a dinghy
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Don't Captains rate a gig?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:57 AM (qoGsy)

89 The two stars of the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million, alleging they were sexually exploited during a nude scene in the film when they were teenagers.
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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find a Hollywood film company sexually exploiting people in a nude scene.

Posted by: Captain Louis Renault at January 05, 2023 07:57 AM (99yOT)

90 Well, hello there, Moloch!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 07:55 AM (/OdqM)

Well, Hello, Dagon...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:57 AM (CsVWE)

91 The most telling part in this shitshow is that McCarthy, either on his own or by direction isn't willing to compromise. It's not like the holdouts are asking for a larger office, a bigger slice of the grift....

The narrative the Freedom Caucus is pushing is that they want committee chairs, a legal authority to investigate and some other mickey mouse perks. The committee chairs are important. The legal authority is interesting and probably the point of contention because it stands to lay open some interesting possibilities.

It's the one thing the J6 committee didn't have.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)

92 89 The two stars of the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million, alleging they were sexually exploited during a nude scene in the film when they were teenagers.
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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find a Hollywood film company sexually exploiting people in a nude scene.
Posted by: Captain Louis Renault at January 05, 2023 07:57 AM (99yOT)

Wasn't that... Olivia Hussey?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 07:58 AM (CsVWE)

93 >>>Attorney General ~~Merrick~~ Levrenty Garland tapped Smith to perform the show trials...
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I think this is more accurate

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 07:58 AM (99yOT)

94 Please give me a heads up since I do live inside the Beltway when I am down there. I'd have to buy, rent,or steal a dinghy
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Don't Captains rate a gig?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 07:57 AM (qoGsy)

I think only O-6's Afloat. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2023 07:59 AM (dO/0d)

95 Pretty soon parents will be naming their children Sodom and Gomorrah.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 05, 2023 07:53 AM (45fpk)

Words can hurt, you know.

Posted by: Zombie Saddam Hussein at January 05, 2023 08:00 AM (9UlRk)

96 Good morning horde
Year is starting interesting and as said 1/1 not in a good way

Posted by: Skip at January 05, 2023 08:00 AM (bBuY2)

97 Where will Biden visit the border? El Paso, or some sanitized out of the way place with few people?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 08:00 AM (tVOiC)

98 Where will Biden visit the border? El Paso, or some sanitized out of the way place with few people?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 08:00 AM (tVOiC)
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Depending on the weather, Niagara Falls is often packed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 08:01 AM (/OdqM)

99 Dropping testosterone levels are a direct result of the soi boi diet. All of that plant based garbage is filled with estrogen.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 05, 2023 08:02 AM (uNylN)

100 You can start turning Drag Clubs into Pillars of Salt any time now, G-d.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:02 AM (UnA8+)

101 Where will Biden visit the border? El Paso, or some sanitized out of the way place with few people?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 08:00 AM (tVOiC)

You know LOL. They are gonna have to have a handler keep whispering to him which side of the border is ours

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2023 08:02 AM (dO/0d)

102 I hope this terrorism invective leads to such bad blood that not one bill passes the House, or the GOP openly aligns with Democrats on every initiative they want.

--

I'd be satisfied if it was enough for Texans to wake up and jettison that WEF jackass to the curb.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

103 100 You can start turning Drag Clubs into Pillars of Salt any time now, G-d.
Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:02 AM (UnA8+)
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And all those who cast their Lot with them, too!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2023 08:03 AM (/OdqM)

104 Mornin’, All.

I’m still for Thor the Wanking Walrus for Speaker.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:03 AM (5uVyC)

105 How many times did Chris Matthews et al yelp with glee over a possible 'floor fight' at political conventions?

A 'floor fight' is a nomination, debate and voting process, just as we're seeing with the GOP. It isn't scary, destructive, suicidal etc. - that's media spin and the media hate the GOP. Unfortunately, far too many on our side are joining the chorus.

It's the ultimate in transparency, something everyone claims to want - until they get it, apparently.

Posted by: Patchy at January 05, 2023 08:03 AM (I/Pe0)

106 Good Morning JJ,

Happy New Year and thanks for another great day of links.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at January 05, 2023 08:03 AM (fMhOl)

107 Maybe Brandon's DoJ can promise the cartels more guns if they keep the border clear for the dotard's visit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 08:04 AM (oINRc)

108 .... and then we'll see Shitpants and his lobotomized entourage bumbling around Texarkana wondering what all the fuss is about...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:04 AM (9UlRk)

109 107 Maybe Brandon's DoJ can promise the cartels more guns if they keep the border clear for the dotard's visit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 08:04 AM (oINRc)

But only if The Big Guy gets his 10% of the Fentanyl revenue.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:05 AM (UnA8+)

110 But only if The Big Guy gets his 10% of the Fentanyl revenue.
Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:05 AM (UnA8+)

Dibs!!!!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (9UlRk)

111 After his border visit, I want to see some creative soul do a p'shop of those maligned horse-riding border officers lassoing Biden instead of that illegal alien.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

112 It's the ultimate in transparency, something everyone claims to want - until they get it, apparently.
Posted by: Patchy at January 05, 2023 08:03 AM (I/Pe0)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (CsVWE)

113 Apparently the two most important issues facing our DC solons is the pipeline of taxpayer money to gangsters in Ukraine and the reinstallation of Kevin McCarthy as speaker. We cannot function otherwise.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (H8QX8)

114 The two stars of the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million, alleging they were sexually exploited during a nude scene in the film when they were teenagers.

Hussey went on to star as Mary in Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, so how traumatized was she?

Methinks someone's retirement isn't panning out as planned and needs a big payout from the studio.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

115 Man in "Drag" Acts Out Self-Induced Abortion on Stage in Front of Children
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I hope we all qualify for a warning before whatever town this is becomes the newest example of the rage of the almighty

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (ldx5s)

116 A third lists "perfectionism" and "data is king" as examples of "common leadership mistakes."

"Value and center lived experience," the presentation says. "Do not demand data in order to accept a person's individual perspective or to utilize that perspective in decision-making."

feeling nothing more than feelings

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:07 AM (BRHaw)

117 They will probably just take Joe to a Barnes & Nobel and tell him it's a Borders. I think they have ice creme.

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 08:07 AM (iayUP)

118 Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger to Become CNN Contributor
_______

Now there's something no one could have predicted.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 05, 2023 08:07 AM (TgBWG)

119 "The two stars of the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million, alleging they were sexually exploited during a nude scene in the film when they were teenagers."

Good for them.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at January 05, 2023 08:08 AM (qH6FZ)

120 Biden is going down there to take a bow. And pick up a check.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 08:08 AM (EZebt)

121 I heard yesterday that Biden’s going to visit the border from the MEXICAN side.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:08 AM (5uVyC)

122 Where will Biden visit the border? El Paso, or some sanitized out of the way place with few people?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 08:00 AM (tVOiC)
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Georgian Bay, this summer.

Oh, you mean with Mexico!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 08:08 AM (ldx5s)

123 My parents have some film of me naked when I was little.
I'd sue but they would probably drop me from their will.

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 08:09 AM (iayUP)

124 During the border visit, Dr. Jill will ask for some of those breakfast tacos she likes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 05, 2023 08:10 AM (lz5hY)

125 In re Romeo and Juliet...statute of limitations? Laches??
Al of a sudden, they are injured??

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at January 05, 2023 08:10 AM (fMhOl)

126 They were so traumatized that it took them over 50 years to speak up.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 05, 2023 08:11 AM (45fpk)

127 feeling nothing more than feelings
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:07 AM (BRHaw)

Raw data can be every bit as useless for decision making as feelings are. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, etc. There is something to valuing experience and the "smell test" when it goes against what The Data shows. But that, of course, is not what they mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:11 AM (9UlRk)

128 It would be amusing to swear in a (R) speaker of the house on January 6th.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 05, 2023 08:11 AM (3zL3M)

129 126 They were so traumatized that it took them over 50 years to speak up.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 05, 2023 08:11 AM (45fpk)

I'll bet that's just the argument they'll make.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:12 AM (H8QX8)

130 Good morning Hordelings and thank you JJ.

Today is Day 1 of a new era here at Casa de Doof. I have cut the cord and gone internet only. A few streaming services for my boys and me -- but my savings will be "a goodly sum" (Raylan Givens / Justified reference there). I think there are some tip jars that are better homes for some of that money.

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:12 AM (yUjc0)

131 Today is National Bird Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

132 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (T4tVD)

133 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (T4tVD)

134 If personal gain or making a point is the reason for objecting to McCarthy, then there is an albeit risk not only of electing a minority party speaker but also of turning into the thing to which you are ostensibly opposed and rendering the GOP MIA.
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If personal gain or making a point is the reason for McCarthy continuing to hold out, then there is an "albeit risk" not only of electing a minority party speaker but also of turning into the thing for which you are regularly and correctly blamed and rendering the GOP DOA.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

135 And it's National Whipped Cream Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

136 I'm not putting whipped cream on my chicken. I don't care what Day it is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (9UlRk)

137 I didn't think Prince Harry could make himself look like a bigger douchebag pussy, I was wrong.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (tVOiC)

138 I was in grade school when that version of Romeo and Juliet came out. Our school went on a field trip to see it. Somehow, they will have "standing" to pursue their case, but states questioning massive fraud in other states during presidential elections affecting us all does not.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (sVtYq)

139 National Whipped Cream on Birds Day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (5uVyC)

140 Today is National Bird Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

caw !

Posted by: JT at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (T4tVD)

141 > Today is National Bird Day.
___________

Word

Posted by: The Bird at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

142 The questions that McCarthy and rebellion must answer, as soon as possible, are not just cui bono, but what are they trying to accomplish? Our Republic is not designed to be easy, but at some point, there comes a time to get on with the people’s business.
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The people's business is not - and has not been for a long time, if ever - on the Uniparty agenda. The best way to "get on with the people's business" is to block Uniparty business from occurring in the first place. Uniparty business is at perfect odds with the people's business. They are perfectly opposed. Blocking the former serves the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (t0OGg)

143 131 Today is National Bird Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

May everyone's birdbath remain unfrozen.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 08:17 AM (PiwSw)

144 The reasons why they're so desperate to return McCarthy to speaker are the exact reasons to see that he doesn't return as speaker.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:17 AM (H8QX8)

145 Today is National Bird Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Bird status toward DC:
[X] Flipped
[ ] Not Flipped

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (yUjc0)

146 Somebody made an astute comment on the Twatters that the cretins in the House have spent more time voting for and anguishing over the Speaker vote than they did passing the $1.7 trillion spending bill they never read.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

147 As of this morning, supposedly McCarthy has caved in to the complete list of demands the holdouts want in return for their votes. Does that really mean anything, not only in terms of the value of McCarthy's word but more crucially, in terms of the status of this nation, which is to say, that it's dead?
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I doubt it. If this is true, then the *real* question in my mind is what happens when it turns out that McCarthy lied? He is surely lying and whatever agreement they made will have a poison pill in it somewhere, probably several. When the holdouts that accepted the deal get their bungholes pillaged by McCarthy and the Uniparty later, what will they do?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

148 It's been a slow last few decades for Hussey. The last thing I can remember seeing her in.... The Man with Bogart's Face from the late 80s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (CsVWE)

149 I really didn’t care at all about the speaker vote. Then I heard WEF Crenshaw spewing invective at real conservatives. Now I really want to see McCarthy go down. These people…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (KhYTU)

150 It is blachingly disturbing to hear them talk about The People's Business in this context. It's just so.... Soviet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (9UlRk)

151 "Every single nano-second that this government is prevented from "doing the people's business," which amounts to robbing us of our freedom, our finances and our children's children's futures, is a blessed gift from The Almighty to be savored in that it prevents, or at least forestalls our inevitable plunging into the abyss. If we're not plunging already."

******

Succinct, accurate, obvious

Posted by: Despise Marxist & Corporatist Rat Bastards at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (8m/Xb)

152 "I didn't think Prince Harry could make himself look like a bigger douchebag pussy, I was wrong.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby"

Will anybody be surprised when he shows up in a dress?

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 08:19 AM (iayUP)

153 They were so traumatized that it took them over 50 years to speak up.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 05, 2023 08:11 AM (45fpk)

Hahahaha....exactly. Grifters gotta grift.

Good one grammie.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 05, 2023 08:19 AM (XQtRs)

154 The holdouts oughta' articulate exactly what their demands are and what their issues are with McCarthy. Go public. Hourly if necessary. As it is the media and shitbirds like Crenshaw are pushing the narrative... and that narrative is full of lies.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 08:20 AM (Q4IgG)

155 And it's National Whipped Cream Day!
Posted by: redridinghood

Don't I know it!
- Dolores Erickson on cover of 'Whipped Cream and Other Delights'

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (qoGsy)

156 Relax, the GOP Fight Over House Speaker Doesn’t Really Matter
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Probably not. I'm not worked up about it. I'm just laughing my ass off about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

157 So what does Biden going to the border do besides give the MSM a chance to say he is listening to the Border Patrol and working on solving the problem? F**ing nothing. It will be as effective as when Kamala went a year or so ago. Just a propaganda photo-op for the LIV's .

Posted by: Ripley at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (cUYo/)

158 Oh, who was the brunette from that?

Holy crap, that was Michelle Phillips! She looks FAR better as a brunette!

https://tinyurl.com/msd37d6h

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (CsVWE)

159 It is blachingly disturbing to hear them talk about The People's Business in this context. It's just so.... Soviet.

--

Have you noticed the growing use of "The People's..." in things we're hearing lately? I have. I'm hearing it being referenced in a lot of different contexts and situations. It's not accidental. Neither is "Our Democracy."

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

160 I don't think this should be framed as a negotiation. There's nothing to barter. There's nothing that will make the unacceptable acceptable. The man failed. He must go. End of story.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (9UlRk)

161 147 I doubt it. If this is true, then the *real* question in my mind is what happens when it turns out that McCarthy lied? He is surely lying and whatever agreement they made will have a poison pill in it somewhere, probably several. When the holdouts that accepted the deal get their bungholes pillaged by McCarthy and the Uniparty later, what will they do?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

I ask because I honestly don't know :

What recourse would they have?

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (UnA8+)

162 Dear Pope Benedict's Funeral Mass was this morning. I heard a rumor that Creepy Uncle Joe was specifically banned from it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM (BTgKJ)

163
Methinks someone's retirement isn't panning out as planned and needs a big payout from the studio.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

__________

That movie hasn't made a profit yet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM (MoZTd)

164 So what does Biden going to the border do besides give the MSM a chance to say he is listening to the Border Patrol and working on solving the problem? F**ing nothing. It will be as effective as when Kamala went a year or so ago. Just a propaganda photo-op for the LIV's .
Posted by: Ripley at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (cUYo/)
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Why does a general go to the front lines? To shore up morale, inspect conditions, inspect the troops, see and be seen.

The people at the border - on both sides of the border - work for him...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

165 @147

>>what will they do?

Presumably they will move to vacate the chair but I think the GOPe will be happy with that, they will just throw some more trinkets and shiny objects at the problem and along they go.

They don't care, they just need to make sure their guy is in and any non-uniparty-aligned Rep is nowhere near the rings of power.

It's really as simple as that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM (up/3i)

166 Levin (who I admire much), Hannity (not so much) and all of the down-on-knees-servicing the GOPe-Cheney and Perino style-types just don't understand that IT'S ALL IN THE MESSAGING. The Politburo is shitting their pants that the masses (in this case, about 20 US House reps) are speaking loud and clear.

Posted by: Despise Marxist & Corporatist Rat Bastards at January 05, 2023 08:23 AM (8m/Xb)

167 Is it wrong that I love having a non-functioning House?

Posted by: George Costanza at January 05, 2023 08:23 AM (xF4Ww)

168 Today is National Bird Day

Buh buh buh . . .

Posted by: Peter Griffin at January 05, 2023 08:23 AM (KFhLj)

169 Yeah they always put out that "people's business" bullshit when they want to move on from the current unpleasantness. Like Clinton BJ.

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (iayUP)

170 I ask because I honestly don't know :

What recourse would they have?
Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (UnA8+)
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I'm not sure, either. They could form a bloc and refuse to pass Republican legislation, I suppose, or block things from exiting committee and grind things to a halt until they get their way. But on legislation - as opposed to big, one-off things like this - there will be more opportunities for dealmaking with the Dems to bypass them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

171 162 Dear Pope Benedict's Funeral Mass was this morning. I heard a rumor that Creepy Uncle Joe was specifically banned from it.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM (BTgKJ)

As I posted earlier:
“You're not attending [Pope Benedict’s] funeral tomorrow... Why?"

BIDEN: "Well, why do you think?

“You tell me!”

BIDEN: "You know why."

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

172 "Doing the people's business."

So what would that actually mean right now?

Securing the border and sending the illegals home.
Reducing spending by 90% or more
Arresting the people behind COVID/Clot Shot
Arresting the people behind the Steal 20/22

Is Mrs Luntz going to do any of that if elected Speaker?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (lc5cP)

173 What did Harry do now?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (5uVyC)

174
Dear Pope Benedict's Funeral Mass was this morning. I heard a rumor that Creepy Uncle Joe was specifically banned from it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM

Not a rumor at all. Some reporter actually ask Joey Stinkpants about it to his face.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (enJYY)

175 Don't be surprised when McCarthy is indeed installed, probably sometime today. They will get who they want. Changing that poisonous, corrupt den of thieves is like trying to bend steel. They aren't going to allow it to happen. I'm still of the belief a huge upheaval from We the People is the only way to take back what they've stolen for themselves.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:25 AM (sVtYq)

176 "In light of all of this, does it really matter who gets to wield Malig-Nancy Pelosi's clown gavel? In the end (pun intended), we're the ones getting the Paul Pelosi treatment with it."

Nicely done JJ. I laughed then I cried.

Posted by: Eddie Spaghetti at January 05, 2023 08:25 AM (ECHKg)

177 "If by some divine act of Providence we could get rid of both parties and hire some good men, like any other good business does, that would be sitting pretty."

Will Rogers

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (H8QX8)

178 Argh.....was in via VPN and that IP appeared to be banned.....so i'll have to start over.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

179 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

180 Just dawned on me 4 years ago today my mom passed away. I wish she was here right now. I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (nxdel)

181 I'm tired of all this reaching across the aisle bullshit. Stop. Destroy them. They are your enemy. They are the enemy of the people and should be treated as such. ANYONE in this current crop of nutsacks comes out with that sentiment and I'll support them to the end.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

182 "What did Harry do now?"

Nothing. His brother beat him up.

Well, not quite nothing. He called his therapist afterwards.

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (iayUP)

183 ... They don't care, they just need to make sure their guy is in and any non-uniparty-aligned Rep is nowhere near the rings of power. ...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:22 AM (up/3i)
++++
Sure, of course. Which then invites a question: why are they not making McCarthy stand down? If one Uniparty man is as good as the next, why die on this hill?

I think Crenshaw explained it quite well. It isn't that McCarthy is essential - he isn't, because there's another cucked-out, tucked-under Uniparty drone waiting in the wings - it's that they want to concede nothing to the base. Nothing. Not even a mid-value scalp like McCarthy's. The Uniparty gets what it wants, and the base gets fucked. No quarter, no compromise, no concession - nothing that base wants shall be done, for any reason.

It's institutional contempt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (t0OGg)

184 Dear Pope Benedict's Funeral Mass was this morning. I heard a rumor that Creepy Uncle Joe was specifically banned from it.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Not a rumor at all. Some reporter actually ask Joey Stinkpants about it to his face.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Our dear, departed Pope was a Godly man.

Conversely. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

185 There is precedence for a general uniparty freak-out over a group of people demanding to air their grievances... as the Freedom Caucus is doing.

They threw those people in prison. They're still there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

186 Elon Musk @elonmusk

Kevin McCarthy should be Speaker

Catturd @catturd2
Replying to @elonmusk

Kevin McCarthy only cares about his donors, lobbyists and the Washington D.C sewer.

He's the perfect example of everything that's wrong with our country.

https://bit.ly/3vFH1A1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (Do5/p)

187 Who are the 20 "rebels"? Link with a list??

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (yUjc0)

188 Isn't Colorado supposed to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 05, 2023 07:42 AM (BpYfr)

But only for "good" illegals. The kind who stay in those southern states and know their place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (GYIa4)

189 173 Said he needed therapy after brother beat him up. Now, a Longshanks defenestration would have been something to talk about.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (lz5hY)

190 Today is National Bird Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Bird status toward DC:
[X] Flipped
[ ] Not Flipped
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (yUjc0)

Thread winner.

Would've been comment of the week had you mentioned that everybody knows the bird is the word.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Ok. Now I'm caught up.

On with your regularly scheduled programming.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

192 I'm just laughing my ass off about it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)
===

Ordinarily I would try to be more circumspect but I am no longer embarrassed to laugh out loud at these clowns. Finally, I have something in agreement with my idiot lib friends.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (EZebt)

193 One of the fundamental principles of our system is that The People do the people's business. Not the state. The state is there to enact and enforce statutes that allow business to happen without fraud or excessive coercion, or undue influence from abroad. They're not there to act as Business Prime, directing the economy and solving every problem real or imagined.

And to say this makes you a social pariah now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (9UlRk)

194 Former Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is standing just outside the Speaker’s Lobby telling reporters that he’s willing and interested in serving as a compromise Speaker.

them some serious balls right there

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (BRHaw)

195 175 Don't be surprised when McCarthy is indeed installed, probably sometime today. They will get who they want. Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:25 AM (sVtYq)

Absolutely right. A lot of sound and fury signifying -- or producing -- nothing.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (H8QX8)

196 When the holdouts that accepted the deal get their bungholes pillaged by McCarthy and the Uniparty later, what will they do?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

Weep silently in the corner while applying ice to their still burning bungholes.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (XQtRs)

197 Just dawned on me 4 years ago today my mom passed away. I wish she was here right now. I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.

--

I'm so sorry, Jewells. Those anniversary dates are always hard. She is still hugging you. Believe that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

198 184: when the current pope dies, he would probably request for that Greta chick to attend his funeral given how he has bought into the climate hysteria.

Posted by: IC at January 05, 2023 08:28 AM (F4uXP)

199 Give me Scalise or give me death!

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM (SJsWC)

200 Harry's a hoo-hah for getting beat up.

Harry's brother is a hoo-hah for not finishing the job.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM (UnA8+)

201
Catturd @catturd2
Replying to @elonmusk

Kevin McCarthy only cares about his donors, lobbyists and the Washington D.C sewer.

He's the perfect example of everything that's wrong with our country.

https://bit.ly/3vFH1A1
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (Do5/p)

Government. He's perfect example of everything wrong with our government. The country isn't bad when left alone by a meddlesome frigging government.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

202 "Why does a general go to the front lines? To shore up morale, inspect conditions, inspect the troops, see and be seen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)"

That would make sense if Biden actually cared about the problem or the people working there . He doesn't as the "whipping" incident proved (as if we needed proof) It was just another opportunity to bash Americans and our history. I despise that ass more everyday

Posted by: Ripley at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM (cUYo/)

203 @catturd2 Replying to @elonmusk
Kevin McCarthy only cares about his donors, lobbyists and the Washington D.C sewer.

He's the perfect example of everything that's wrong with our country.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (Do5/p)
++++
Musk probably paid him a bribe and wants some return on his investment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM (t0OGg)

204 I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.
Posted by: jewells45

Hugs from Mom always helped.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 08:30 AM (qoGsy)

205 Disappointing comment from Musk. Why?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:30 AM (H8QX8)

206 Harry is a twat

Posted by: IC at January 05, 2023 08:30 AM (F4uXP)

207 I am loving the Speakership drama, tbh.
McCarthy can't make a deal to save his life. What a wuss.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (Kd4bG)

208 So, Harry is a weenie and Megan noticed it right away, no?

Posted by: dantesed at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (88xKn)

209 Now, a Longshanks defenestration would have been something to talk about.

Does that mean Sparkle Farkle is violating the royal rectum like the guy Lonkshanks threw out the window?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (lc5cP)

210 That would make sense if Biden actually cared about the problem or the people working there . He doesn't as the "whipping" incident proved (as if we needed proof) It was just another opportunity to bash Americans and our history. I despise that ass more everyday
Posted by: Ripley at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM (cUYo/)
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He cares very much (or, he's told to care). The border mess is big business with a huge trade volume of slaves and drugs. The US government owns a big chunk of that business.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

211 181 I'm tired of all this reaching across the aisle bullshit. Stop. Destroy them. They are your enemy. They are the enemy of the people and should be treated as such. ANYONE in this current crop of nutsacks comes out with that sentiment and I'll support them to the end.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

*****&******
Yes. One of the most simple and sentient things Rush Limbaugh used to drive home constantly is the fact that the near ecumenical "reaching across" bullshit is indeed dangerous bullshit. .. .that the Left is not to be cajoled, loved, congratulated or accommodated. . . . .they are to instead be DESTROYED. Effing aye.

Posted by: Despise Marxist & Corporatist Rat Bastards at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (8m/Xb)

212 Harry must've been the inspiration for the original "D*ck in a Box" skit. Sure seems like his horrid wife owns the key and is leading that fool around by the nose.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

213 > Would've been comment of the week had you mentioned that everybody knows the bird is the word.
__________

141

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

214 I think this is more a protest vote against McConnell, imed at McCarthy.

Mitch is holding hands today with a Prez who called the GOP Nazi's, and a Dem KY governor up for re-elect in the fall.

McConnell is two years older than Biden, and has gone very soft towards the enemy

Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Cw0fX)

215
Not a rumor at all. Some reporter actually ask Joey Stinkpants about it to his face.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

His response: "You know why....."

Yes. We do. He was an actual man of God and shunned you for your supporting of the senseless murder of innocent infants. He did not WANT your spawn of Satan ass there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

216 Name one time in living memory that this sacrosanct Aisle was reached across from the other direction?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (9UlRk)

217 @205

>>Disappointing comment from Musk. Why?

It could be sarcasm, it could be good for business, it could be both, it could be neither.

Musk is serving a very specific purpose right now, and dispensing political advice is not one of them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (up/3i)

218 What is all the fuss about Barbara Walters? She wasn't any better than the rest of the bunch.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (TgBWG)

219 Yes. One of the most simple and sentient things Rush Limbaugh used to drive home constantly is the fact that the near ecumenical "reaching across" bullshit is indeed dangerous bullshit. .. .that the Left is not to be cajoled, loved, congratulated or accommodated. . . . .they are to instead be DESTROYED. Effing aye.
Posted by: Despise Marxist & Corporatist Rat Bastards at January 05, 2023 08:31 AM (8m/Xb)
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Not to mention that "reaching across the aisle" is only the great, untouchable political value of your era when it happens in one direction...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (t0OGg)

220 Thread winner.

Would've been comment of the week had you mentioned that everybody knows the bird is the word.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

It was implied - since everybody already knows that everybody knows that the bird is the word

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (yUjc0)

221 Disappointing comment from Musk. Why?

Musk has alienated one party entirely. He's a businessman. He's probably calculated that he can't afford to be at war with everyone. He's also a moderate at best. He ain't one of us.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is is simply a festival for the majority at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (KFhLj)

222 I posted earlier:
“You're not attending [Pope Benedict’s] funeral tomorrow... Why?"

BIDEN: "Well, why do you think?

“You tell me!”

BIDEN: "You know why."
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

Why wouldn't Joe just tell a lie- maybe about attending the Council of Trent?

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (eGTCV)

223 __________

141
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

I know it was mentioned, I was just stating how Doof's post would've been award winning had he included it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

224 When "reaching across the aisle" only works in one direction, always one direction, you have a problem.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

225 Good news: after decades of fruitless searching we have at last found a hill the Franz von Papen Republicans are willing to fight and die on.

Bad news: that hill is the swamp creature Kevin McCarthy.

Posted by: Mhandisi at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (IXANy)

226 According to the story, Harry got pushed and fell on a dog dish and broke it and got a bruise on his hinder. Megan didn't find out about until later when she saw his boo boo.

Posted by: fd at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (iayUP)

227 "Doing the people's business."
"So what would that actually mean right now?"

You're supposed to go along with the narrative, you're not supposed to notice that Mitch McConnell and has loyal pets already neutered the House GOP from doing anything important this year. Not that it matters, with the current House leadership come next fall they show everyone how fiscally conservative they really are. Their omnibus will come in at 1.69 trillion instead of 1.7 trillion.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (qH6FZ)

228 Sadly 200 Republican house members say they will note vote for anyone except McCarthy. Great that the Freedom caucus is fighting, but what was their backup plan?

Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (Cw0fX)

229 Where is Trump? If he can't negotiate this deal.....

Posted by: Mr.KnowItAll at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (DE2zb)

230 The Ohio statehouse, predestining the House election, just saw Democrats plus RINO's elect a Speaker, defeating the majority Republicans. Ohioans are aghast, but I think it's great to see the masks being ripped away.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (aIPFv)

231 That lawsuit is pretty brazen of Hussey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (5uVyC)

232 If you "reach across the aisle" the best you'll get back is a reach-around.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (SJsWC)

233 "Doing the people's business."

No other point he could make would wipe away the stain of stupidity, willful ignorance and mortal peril of this path.

The tyranny of the majority, the dictatorship of the consensus, the totalitarianism of only the progress of "right-thinking" people are always their people's business.

My rights, my inalienable rights, my freedom, my possessions, my family and even my very life are eternally assaulted by "Doing the people's business." The People have no interest in me, no care for my well-being, no need to allow even my subsistence.

That I dare consider myself a free man, charged with only taking care of myself--and fully capable of doing so--brands me an enemy, the terrorist to these self-appointed demigods "Doing the people's business."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (yGrHW)

234 These are not officials. They are media representatives from various mobs.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (xAZ1s)

235 Good news: after decades of fruitless searching we have at last found a hill the Franz von Papen Republicans are willing to fight and die on.

Bad news: that hill is the swamp creature Kevin McCarthy.
Posted by: Mhandisi at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (IXANy)
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The hill is the Uniparty. That has been the hill for a very long time. McCarthy is just a symptom, a convenient figurehead for the battle. The GOP is all-in on the Uniparty and will fight for it to the death if need be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

236 @216

>>Name one time in living memory that this sacrosanct Aisle was reached across from the other direction?

Probably War and Military funding during the shrub years but that's about it.

We haven't won anything legislatively in over 20 years and even that was largely a gimmick and has been superseded by 28 trillion or so in debt, that was largely compiled while the GOP controlled the purse strings.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (up/3i)

237 Looking forward to the 24 hours of mourning starting at Midnight tomorrow.

I hope all uniparty members of Congress are ready to show off their black armbands. Maybe AOC can wear a $5000 dress with some message about surviving an insurrection.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (TNyrE)

238 Rep. Andy Biggs
Rep. Dan Bishop
Rep. Lauren Boebert
Rep. Josh Brecheen
Rep. Michael Cloud
Rep. Andrew Clyde
Rep. Eli Crane
Rep. Matt Gaetz
Rep. Bob Good
Rep. Paul Gosar
Rep. Andy Harris
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
Rep. Mary Miller
Rep. Ralph Norman
Rep. Andy Ogles
Rep. Scott Perry
Rep. Matt Rosendale
Rep. Chip Roy
Rep. Keith Self
Rep. Byron Donalds

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (BRHaw)

239
It was implied - since everybody already knows that everybody knows that the bird is the word
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (yUjc0)

Implication is not invocation. I award you no points.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

240 Yes. We do. He was an actual man of God and shunned you for your supporting of the senseless murder of innocent infants. He did not WANT your spawn of Satan ass there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

Also, poopy underwear.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (PiwSw)

241 Matt Gaetz was a Paul Ryan Brown Noser. Just sayin.

Does anyone have examples of Mccarty's PAC screwing over conservatives running for the House in 2022? Maybe Joe Kent is Washington -3?

Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:36 AM (Cw0fX)

242 The only time one should reach across the aisle is if it's to choke the life out of the left.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 08:36 AM (UnA8+)

243 there are 54 in freedom caucus but only 20 voting against Kevin.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:36 AM (BRHaw)

244 "Disappointing comment from Musk. Why?"
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:30 AM (H8QX

Because his whole business model depends on massive "subsidies" from the federal government?

Posted by: lowandslow at January 05, 2023 08:36 AM (qH6FZ)

245 We haven't won anything legislatively in over 20 years and even that was largely a gimmick and has been superseded by 28 trillion or so in debt

Yes, the last system I remember the right winning was welfare reform in the mid 90s which somehow died in the time since then since we are giving unemployed illegals welfare now which is worse then giving it to Americans...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:36 AM (lc5cP)

246 Sadly 200 Republican house members say they will note vote for anyone except McCarthy. Great that the Freedom caucus is fighting, but what was their backup plan?
Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (Cw0fX)
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/me shrugs.

I don't much care. If the plan was just to make a scene and grind things to a halt with no backup plan at all or path to victory, I don't much care. If there is no backup plan, then I hope they just hold out. Give it a couple of months of no House and laugh at the press whenever they're mean to you and the other side will break ranks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (t0OGg)

247 jewells may her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (EZebt)

248 "Reaching across the aisle" is when the GOP is giving handjobs to the left. They do this willingly. They strive for it.

If the Democrats ever "reach across the aisle" it's to stab someone in the face.

Compare. Contrast.

And ask why the GOP is so concerned about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (Q4IgG)

249 That lawsuit is pretty brazen of Hussey.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (5uVyC)

And the lawsuit seems a bit silly. They weren't filmed against their will. They were paid, or at least their parents were, for their actions. They agreed to do it.

Frivolous at best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

250 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

I googled her and...wow. She's a 1.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

251 @228

>>Sadly 200 Republican house members say they will note vote for anyone except McCarthy. Great that the Freedom caucus is fighting, but what was their backup plan?

Just keep holding out, and force KMac and his Cuck Commandos to cut a deal with the Donks.

I'll call it the Bunny Option: Let's Do This, Let's Burn The Whole F**king Village.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (up/3i)

252 Musk has alienated one party entirely. He's a businessman. He's probably calculated that he can't afford to be at war with everyone. He's also a moderate at best. He ain't one of us.

In fairness he has supported free speech. In that he is almost entirely alone among Communist-leaning billionaires who have visions of concentration camps and mass executions for the Deplorables dancing in their heads.

Posted by: Mhandisi at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (IXANy)

253 Great that the Freedom caucus is fighting, but what was their backup plan?
Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:33 AM (Cw0fX)

They are acting in the role of the one last homeowner refusing to sell to the developer who's bought up all the surrounding properties.
They just need the right deal. They can do this as long as they want. Meanwhile McCarthy gets more and more desperate.
Problem is that McCarthy is untrustworthy. So imo there needs to be a 3rd party guarantor for McCarthy.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (Kd4bG)

254 Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (BRHaw)

Thanks! I was so hoping my guy Andy Harris was one of the rebels. He did not disappoint!

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:38 AM (yUjc0)

255 231 That lawsuit is pretty brazen of Hussey.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:34 AM (5uVyC)

I saw what you did.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 08:38 AM (PiwSw)

256 Mary Miller in Illinois was running a incumbent vs incumbent race in Redistricted Illinois. Rodney Davis was a Rino, She is a rock red conservative. McCarthy supported Davis. Can understand why she is pissed off

Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:38 AM (Cw0fX)

257 Mitch is holding hands today with a Prez who called the GOP Nazi's, and a Dem KY governor up for re-elect in the fall.
Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Cw0fX)
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That was yesterday, but I get that the wound is still so painfully raw you think its today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 08:38 AM (aIPFv)

258 Dr Peter McCullough

There have been 1101 athlete deaths from cardiac arrest since June 2021 vs. 1101 deaths over 38 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:38 AM (BRHaw)

259 Just dawned on me 4 years ago today my mom passed away. I wish she was here right now. I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (nxdel)

{{{{jewells}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

260 What exactly *is* this People's Business? What would be the first few things the House takes up once this farce is played out? What craven, asinine bullshit Monopoly- money- grab is so damnably important that everyone just needs to shut up and get in line ASAP?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:39 AM (9UlRk)

261 253. The rules committee is the main thing here. Freedom C did good work getting at least 4 good people there, which determines floor votes. Boehner made deals with Dems in the past on floor votes

Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:40 AM (Cw0fX)

262 The Department of Surgery boasted of adding Dr. Blair Peters to its team, whose recruitment allowed for a “considerable expansion of OHSU’s gender affirming services." This “notable expansion," they said, adds "advances in the robotic vaginoplasty program” and to the phalloplasty program. Both surgeries come with extraordinarily high complication rates.

Hes almost dead!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

263 There have been 1101 athlete deaths from cardiac arrest since June 2021 vs. 1101 deaths over 38 years.

Climate change is really exacting a toll.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is is simply a festival for the majority at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (KFhLj)

264 257. lol

Posted by: Corky at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (Cw0fX)

265 Implication is not invocation. I award you no points.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Previous bird flipping status is hereby turned your way then

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (yUjc0)

266 Just dawned on me 4 years ago today my mom passed away. I wish she was here right now. I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

Prayers for you and she.

Posted by: JT at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

267 You guys misunderstood the Musk joke.
He's saying McCarthy should be speaker because his corruption is a perfect fit for our corrupt government.
However, he's still a China puppet, scam artist, and will sell anyone out for the right price.

Posted by: Word to your mother at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (3uf3+)

268 Deep Thoughts:

Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

269 The whole point of fiat justitia, ruat caelum, is that there *is* no backup plan.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:42 AM (9UlRk)

270
Previous bird flipping status is hereby turned your way then
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (yUjc0)

No wonder TJM wants to fight you all the time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

271 The only real and permanent power of the Speaker of the House is being 3rd in line to the Presidency. Everything else is subject to rule and negotiable.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 05, 2023 08:42 AM (yQpMk)

272 268 Deep Thoughts:

Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Kamala Harris at January 05, 2023 08:43 AM (PiwSw)

273 And what is "Doing the people's business?"

More free bread for the non-working?
More circuses for the dull masses?
More money for the rich, elite and corrupt?
More wars and munitions to prop up tinpot tyrants?
More wards of the state streaming across the borders?
More sexual perversion, depredation and exploitation of our children?

Because all that and ever more evils seems to be the Standing Work Order of every Congress.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 05, 2023 08:43 AM (yGrHW)

274 Just dawned on me 4 years ago today my mom passed away. I wish she was here right now. I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 05, 2023 08:26 AM (nxdel)
******
{{{{jewells45}}}}
Today is my mom's birthday.
I can't imagine my life without her
Your mom giving you a big hug from heaven

Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

275 Musk is serving a very specific purpose right now, and dispensing political advice is not one of them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:32 AM (up/3i)

Amen - he's a Biden voter who gets huge government subsidies for his businesses. We should look to him for free speech support, not political support.

Posted by: Nova local at January 05, 2023 08:43 AM (exHjb)

276
Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

He's sounding more and more like the guy doing the deep fake impression of him every day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

277 The Biden administration is touting its decision to drain America's emergency oil reserves to historically low levels—and sell millions of barrels to China and other foreign entities—as one of its "top accomplishments in 2022."

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

278 No wonder TJM wants to fight you all the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

The guy who threw boxes at the entirety of the Horde yesterday? Dude's got anger issues

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (yUjc0)

279 The Biden administration is touting its decision to drain America's emergency oil reserves to historically low levels—and sell millions of barrels to China and other foreign entities—as one of its "top accomplishments in 2022."
Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (RHGPo)
++++
They've got to claim something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

280 @267

>>However, he's still a China puppet, scam artist, and will sell anyone out for the right price.

A guy who shoots rockets into space along with communication satellites is never going to be totally unencumbered or uncompromised.

I would bet a full 1/2 of SpaceX and Starlink are LE/IC assets with the other 1/2 being Chinese/Indian/S+N Korean/Plus pick a country Assets.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:45 AM (up/3i)

281 Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

Why isn't the criminal media freaking out about White House arrogance?

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at January 05, 2023 08:45 AM (eGTCV)

282 Hugs to you Jewells

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:45 AM (yUjc0)

283 279 They've got to claim something.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

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"We've helped thousands of young boys chop off their dicks," probably didn't poll test all that well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:45 AM (LvTSG)

284 The weekly magazine had published dozens of cartoons ridiculing the highest religious and political figure in the Islamic republic as part of a competition it launched in December in support of the three-month-old protest movement in Iran.

"The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against the religious and political authority will not go without an effective and decisive response," tweeted Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Coming to a small North American country near you!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:45 AM (BRHaw)

285
The guy who threw boxes at the entirety of the Horde yesterday? Dude's got anger issues
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (yUjc0)

I missed that, however your point in this case is valid. He should be addressed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

286 Every day that passes without a Speaker is another day that our wealth and liberty escapes further assault from the HoR.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (yQpMk)

287 278 No wonder TJM wants to fight you all the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

The guy who threw boxes at the entirety of the Horde yesterday? Dude's got anger issues
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (yUjc0)

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You are such a Diesel, Doof.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

288 We've helped thousands of young boys chop off their dicks," probably didn't poll test all that well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:45 AM (LvTSG)

On the upside, replacing Hail to the Chief with Wave of Mutilation at official white house functions is gonna be awesome.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (9UlRk)

289 286 Every day that passes without a Speaker is another day that our wealth and liberty escapes further assault from the HoR.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (yQpMk)

Amen.

Posted by: Nova local at January 05, 2023 08:47 AM (exHjb)

290 From $1.5B to $0, Crypto Payments Platform Wyre Shuts Down

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

291 267 You guys misunderstood the Musk joke.
He's saying McCarthy should be speaker because his corruption is a perfect fit for our corrupt government.
However, he's still a China puppet, scam artist, and will sell anyone out for the right price.
Posted by: Word to your mother at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (3uf3+)

That makes sense. I'm not on twitter and didn't see the context.

I'm not willing to write off Musk at all. He's proved a phenomenal force for free speech, more so than any politician.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 05, 2023 08:47 AM (H8QX8)

292 286 Every day that passes without a Speaker is another day that our wealth and liberty escapes further assault from the HoR.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (yQpMk)

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My brother-in-law asked me who my favorite president was over Christmas. I told him William Henry Harrison. He looked at me funny.

"He did the least damage."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

293 250 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

I googled her and...wow. She's a 1.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

Indeed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (CsVWE)

294 A bankruptcy judge ruled that digital coins deposited in Celsius Network LLC’s interest-bearing accounts belong to the firm, ruling against thousands of customers and deciding a key legal issue in crypto-related insolvencies.

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

295 Just dawned on me 4 years ago today my mom passed away. I wish she was here right now. I could sure use a hug from her. Miss you mama.
Posted by: jewells45

I got a new driver's license yesterday. It expires in 2031. It got me to thinking - My Mom was born in 1931. 100 years ago. 100. Years.

I have grown old.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (qoGsy)

296 The guy who threw boxes at the entirety of the Horde yesterday? Dude's got anger issues
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:44 AM (yUjc0)

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You are such a Diesel, Doof.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

You going for a 'Vin Diesel' angle there? You need to include something about 'Family' if so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:49 AM (CsVWE)

297 From $1.5B to $0, Crypto Payments Platform Wyre Shuts Down
Posted by: SMOD

They seem to be shows about nothing.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 08:49 AM (qoGsy)

298 The Republicans should just nominate John Boner to cry for them for the next 2 years.

Posted by: Word to your mother at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (3uf3+)

299 I have grown old.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (qoGsy)

It's not that you grow old. It's that you realize that 100 years is not all that much time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (9UlRk)

300 A Dec. 27, 2022 press release reveals principal Ann Bonitatibus and director of student services Brandon Kosatka at Thomas Jefferson (TJ) High School for Science and Technology “withheld notifying parents and students about Commended Student awards for years.” Parent Shawna Yashar reported Kosatka told her “he admitted withholding information [intentionally] from parents and students” to avoid “hurt” feelings. Kosatka allegedly told Yashar he “want[ed] to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements.”

I guess saying he has stolen gifts, awards, scholarships, and college placements would not have gone as well.
Damn you both the HELL!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (BRHaw)

301 I missed that, however your point in this case is valid. He should be addressed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

In a comment on his own Thomas the Tank Engine thread yesterday. I was lurking. It didn't feel like a safe space so I was triggered or my feelings weren't validated or something. #mytruth

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (yUjc0)

302 Dieseldoof is one of my favorite German cities.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (5uVyC)

303 Government. He's perfect example of everything wrong with our government. The country isn't bad when left alone by a meddlesome frigging government.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:29 AM

Disagree somewhat. If government was not corrupt, we would still have corruption and radical activism in corporations, education, universities, media, social media, tech companies, "healthcare" industry, etc. The radical Left's (Discover the) Networks are entrenched in pretty much everything (long march through the institutions has been successful), not just government.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (Do5/p)

304 296 You going for a 'Vin Diesel' angle there? You need to include something about 'Family' if so.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:49 AM (CsVWE)

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They were referencing my post yesterday where I described my two boys hitting each other with cardboard boxes. That post was nominally about Thomas the Tank Engine. I watched Bullet Train yesterday where one of the characters frames everyone he meets in terms of characters from Thomas the Tank Engine. The bad people are all Diesels.

Don't be a Diesel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

305 298 The Republicans should just nominate John Boner to cry for them for the next 2 years.
Posted by: Word to your mother at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (3uf3+)

"Pfft weep."

- - Kinzinger

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (x0n13)

306 Taiwan authorities on Wednesday detained three serving military personnel and a retired Air Force officer as they are investigated for allegedly spying to provide information to China. Three other active military personnel have also been released on bail after all of them were questioned, Taipei's CNA news agency reported.

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (RHGPo)

307 You are such a Diesel, Doof.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (LvTSG) ]/i]

The bully has arrived!

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (yUjc0)

308
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You are such a Diesel, Doof.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

Dieselbeast

https://youtu.be/TSST7xqKLQ0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

309 293 250 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

I googled her and...wow. She's a 1.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

Indeed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (CsVWE)

She took a spot from a crazed leftist!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (BRHaw)

310 301 In a comment on his own Thomas the Tank Engine thread yesterday. I was lurking. It didn't feel like a safe space so I was triggered or my feelings weren't validated or something. #mytruth
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (yUjc0)

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I was attacking you with every syllable.

I'm glad you noticed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

311 Walmart pulls offensive toy-
'Explain this!' Mother SLAMS Walmart for selling 'educational' kids' toy that plays offensive adults jokes about Catholic priests 'screwing' and drive-by SHOOTINGS - prompting the chain to pull the item

https://tinyurl.com/ycydtzbh

Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

312 BTW: every Patriot should read Victor Davis Hanson's essay from yesterday about the Coup We didn't know. And every Patriot should be asking themselves "what are you prepared to do?"

Posted by: Despise Marxist & Corporatist Rat Bastards at January 05, 2023 08:52 AM (8m/Xb)

313 A bankruptcy judge ruled that digital coins deposited in Celsius Network LLC’s interest-bearing accounts belong to the firm, ruling against thousands of customers and deciding a key legal issue in crypto-related insolvencies.
Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (RHGPo)
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That's going to act as a headwind on crypto recovery. If customer deposits belong to the firm, it is going to be a pretty significant disincentive to engage in crypto activity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:52 AM (t0OGg)

314 Silvergate Capital Corp reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter crypto-related deposits on Thursday and said it would cut its workforce by 40%, or about 200 employees, as withdrawals surged following the collapse of industry major FTX. Shares in the company, which lost roughly 88% of their value in 2022, were down 40% in premarket trading. Total deposits from digital asset customers declined to $3.8 billion at the end of December 2022, compared with $11.9 billion at Sept. 30, 2022, the crypto-focused bank said in a preliminary earnings report.

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

315 >>In light of all of this, does it really matter who gets to wield Malig-Nancy Pelosi's clown gavel? In the end (pun intended), we're the ones getting the Paul Pelosi treatment with it.

Ouch!

Sadly true.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2023 08:52 AM (mqu1M)

316 We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.
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Ace had a post when we got up in the morning to find the seven states that had 'stopped' vote counting n the early evening had actually continued through the night and put Biden just beyond the margin of automatic recount in each one with a title along the lines of "They're stealing the election."

Every reasonable person at the time knew it was a coup, and many recognized it as the same thing DC pulled in overthrowing the legitimate, Russia friendly government of Ukraine.

I suppose it's helpful for people to recognize it now, at least insofar as they get that there is no moral justification in continued cooperation with the illegitimate regime in DC. Fear of retaliation, maybe, but let's be honest that that's all it is.

Posted by: Methos at January 05, 2023 08:52 AM (kOpft)

317 Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

Oh, come now, those jokes aren't nearly as offensive in the original Cantonese.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:53 AM (9UlRk)

318 Dieseldoof is one of my favorite German cities.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (5uVyC)

*files "Dieseldoof" nearby for possible nic update*

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:53 AM (yUjc0)

319 Luna is hot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, hoarder and wrecker at January 05, 2023 08:53 AM (lYbrt)

320 310 301 In a comment on his own Thomas the Tank Engine thread yesterday. I was lurking. It didn't feel like a safe space so I was triggered or my feelings weren't validated or something. #mytruth
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (yUjc0)

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I was attacking you with every syllable.

I'm glad you noticed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

*sips coffee*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 08:54 AM (CsVWE)

321 Ace had a post when we got up in the morning to find the seven states that had 'stopped' vote counting n the early evening had actually continued through the night

Nothing says free and fair election like telling people you stopped counting and then reporting you found a bunch of votes for your preferred candidate while no one was watching you.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:54 AM (lc5cP)

322 Sadly 200 Republican house members say they will note vote for anyone except McCarthy. Great that the Freedom caucus is fighting, but what was their backup plan?

Apparently the replacement for Louie Gohmert, Nathan Moron, needs to be primaried. His first vote, from a profoundly safe district, is for the McGOP establishment.

Moron is a freshman, there is no committee chairmanships in his immediate future but he is already screwing the people of Texas' 1st Congressional District.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 05, 2023 08:54 AM (3hSHB)

323

DDG: Anna Paulina guns flag backdrop

for a threefer

guns, boobs, flag

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 05, 2023 08:55 AM (enJYY)

324 I was attacking you with every syllable.

I'm glad you noticed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

Tis but a scratch

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:55 AM (yUjc0)

325 It's not that you grow old. It's that you realize that 100 years is not all that much time.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (9UlRk)

Earworm time!

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

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 05, 2023 08:56 AM (PiwSw)

326 There’s actually a guy with the last name of “Moron?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:57 AM (5uVyC)

327 One of JJ's links had a pic of McCarthy, presumably during the speakership debate, with a Ukraine flag pin and a Ukraine blue and yellow pocket square. Even if the pic isn't from the current debate, that's enough to vote against him. Showing his 'true colors' as it were.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 05, 2023 08:57 AM (fs1hN)

328 Dieseldoof is one of my favorite German cities.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 08:50 AM (5uVyC)

*files "Dieseldoof" nearby for possible nic update*
Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2023 08:53 AM (yUjc0)
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"I was born in Dieseldoof
And that is why they call me 'Rolf'."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 05, 2023 08:57 AM (XlE1Z)

329 The coup was apparent to everyone but the willfully blind on Nov. 7, 2020.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 05, 2023 08:58 AM (C1rbv)

330 Name one time in living memory that this sacrosanct Aisle was reached across from the other direction?

Probably War and Military funding during the shrub years but that's about it.

We haven't won anything legislatively in over 20 years and even that was largely a gimmick and has been superseded by 28 trillion or so in debt, that was largely compiled while the GOP controlled the purse strings.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:35 AM

9/11. For about four or five months they all worked together on legislation to try and keep the Country safe from that happening again. Problem is, that very same legislation has been used to spy on Americans ever since.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 05, 2023 08:58 AM (uNylN)

331 @316

>>We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.

Well, the ballots of AZ, just voted out all GOP statewide office holders, voted to increase their taxes, voted to weaken election laws, voted to reward illegal aliens with college tuition.

Either this is the will of the ballots or it's not and ballotting is a mere formality and sideshow of democracy.

Either way, we're proper f**ked.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 08:59 AM (up/3i)

332 The coup was apparent to everyone but the willfully blind on Nov. 7, 2020.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 05, 2023 08:58 AM (C1rbv)

The question was never "was there a coup". It was "are you ok with it".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 08:59 AM (9UlRk)

333 So after 2 years of this clown show led by a demented puppet the MSM is finally concerned about optics and that the world is laughing at us because we cant select a speaker of the House for a couple days.

Yeah, I'm sure this has China and Russia amused and we have squandered all the respect and fear the Biden regime has instilled in them. Why they might even start being aggressive to their neighbors and start invading them, thanks to this fiasco.

Posted by: Ripley at January 05, 2023 08:59 AM (cUYo/)

334 I'm on team Chaos. Now that I said it, I'm sure they'll cave for promises that won't be kept. After which, they'll be much rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth.

Posted by: Archer at January 05, 2023 08:59 AM (gmo/4)

335 One of JJ's links had a pic of McCarthy, presumably during the speakership debate, with a Ukraine flag pin and a Ukraine blue and yellow pocket square.

Could you imagine telling your average Democrat in 2008 that their biggest issue in 2022 would be starting a war with Russia and they are "questioning the patriotism" of anyone that doesn't want WWIII

No way they would believe this shit. But all those same people are voting for this crap.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

336 I didn't think Prince Harry could make himself look like a bigger douchebag pussy, I was wrong.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 05, 2023 08:16 AM (tVOiC)

I'm reasonably certain I will regret this but... what did he do now?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 08:59 AM (GYIa4)

337 So, is the Uniparty going to play "The World Turned Upside Down" like Cornwallis when the British surrendered these FC revolutionary rebels win and McCarthy is defeated?

Because the Uniparty is looking more and more every day like Cornwallis - heavy handed thugs suddenly caught flat footed and close to surrendering to a small rebel force everyone thought had no chance.

Posted by: Boswell at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (+Cgut)

338 So...who had Gladiator 2 from Ridley Scott on their 2023 bingo card?

I did.

https://tinyurl.com/ecpkj7hd

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

339 >>Kosatka allegedly told Yashar he “want[ed] to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements.”

At a *school* that should be singularly focused on academic achievement.
I would be surprised had I not witnessed a very disturbing "continuation ceremony" (8th grade graduation) that focused on two things: teachers talking about themselves/inside jokes (i.e. speeches better fit for a staff meeting) and highlighting students' personal, emotional struggles. Niece was baffled when I asked her if the academic awards ceremony took place earlier in the day -- she had no idea what I was talking about.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (mqu1M)

340 A bankruptcy judge ruled that digital coins deposited in Celsius Network LLC’s interest-bearing accounts belong to the firm, ruling against thousands of customers and deciding a key legal issue in crypto-related insolvencies.
Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2023 08:48 AM (RHGPo)
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That's going to act as a headwind on crypto recovery. If customer deposits belong to the firm, it is going to be a pretty significant disincentive to engage in crypto activity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 08:52 AM

That's insane. That kind of ruling would destroy the banking industry. I can't imagine what would happen if a Judge ruled that the money I have deposited in my bank belonged to them if they went bankrupt.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (uNylN)

341 329 The coup was apparent to everyone but the willfully blind on Nov. 7, 2020.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 05, 2023 08:58 AM (C1rbv)

Or the complicit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (CsVWE)

342 Local gyms, like the Fitness SF location in the Castro and Equinox’s Sports Club San Francisco gym off Market Street, are also popular cruising spots on Sniffies — reminiscent of the bygone era of local queer bathhouses, which all shuttered by 1984.

golly gee wonder why>

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (BRHaw)

343 Now that election day has become election month why shouldn't select a speaker take months as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)

344 Tacky’ couple shamed for blocking row to find ‘right’ passenger for third seat

https://tinyurl.com/y8dw7mjb

Posted by: redridinghood at January 05, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

345 Nothing says free and fair election like telling people you stopped counting

Virtually simultaneously. Across timezones.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is is simply a festival for the majority at January 05, 2023 09:01 AM (KFhLj)

346 The juxtaposition between the two parties says everything about the state of American race relations today."
Democrats Refuse to Cheer Martin Luther King Jr. on House Floor
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What's changed? MLK was a Republican.

Posted by: ... at January 05, 2023 09:01 AM (ErQaS)

347 The Biden administration is touting its decision to drain America's emergency oil reserves to historically low levels.

Not just that, how soon can we expect the report of severe environment damage affecting Texas & Louisiana, at the minimum, because of negative impacts on salt cavern integrity?

(FJB's prior administration: The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill)

Posted by: Lola at January 05, 2023 09:01 AM (p39Z2)

348 >>I didn't think Prince Harry could make himself look like a bigger douchebag pussy, I was wrong.

Isn't it amazing that in 2022 the biggest victims in the world are a prince and his actress wife?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2023 09:02 AM (mqu1M)

349 Sh#t -- 2023!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2023 09:02 AM (mqu1M)

350 PA Dem gov nominates republican to be SoS!
Yay!
He is Nevertrump philly election commissioner who enabled the 2020 fraud.
Oh...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 05, 2023 09:03 AM (t3/qz)

351 That's insane. That kind of ruling would destroy the banking industry. I can't imagine what would happen if a Judge ruled that the money I have deposited in my bank belonged to them if they went bankrupt.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (uNylN)

For about 500 billion Roosevelt could have backed the banks as they failed in 30s, instead he let them go and in turn the money supply fell by around 35%. Truly stupid!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 09:03 AM (BRHaw)

352 The House members who stood up against McCarthy and the GOPe are brave and deserve respect.
The sad part of it that there were WAY too few to
who stood against unbridled corruption. McCarthy represents EVERYthing wrong with the GOP. The GOP is an opposition party in name only.
The GOPe are the grifters and hucksters who take their payoffs in unmarked, sealed envelopes rather than out in the open like the Communists.
After all the country has and continues to endure at the hands of Obama's Cartel the fact that the alleged opposition party, 95 percent of them , put up a certified POS like MCCarthy for Speaker .. The 'GOP' must die. ...

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 05, 2023 09:03 AM (wReBR)

353
Nothing says free and fair election like telling people you stopped counting

Virtually simultaneously. Across timezones.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is is simply a festival for the majority at January 05, 2023 09:01 AM

Hillary warned Biden in the week before don't be too quick to concede. She knew the plan.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 05, 2023 09:04 AM (enJYY)

354 He is Nevertrump philly election commissioner who enabled the 2020 fraud.

wait who is this?

Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at January 05, 2023 09:04 AM (w0NJk)

355 Percy > Diesel

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 09:04 AM (EZebt)

356 DC is a zoo. Who knew?

Posted by: Ziba at January 05, 2023 09:04 AM (4h9M3)

357 355 Percy > Diesel
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2023 09:04 AM (EZebt)

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Percy is a good egg, but Gordon gets no respect!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

358 Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
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Puerto Rican rabbis are so philosophical.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:05 AM (Vwz3I)

359 I read the content!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:06 AM (flINI)

360 What is the name of the grumpy red locomotive in Thomas again?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 05, 2023 09:06 AM (5uVyC)

361 OT: Harry's biggest problem is that nobody gives a shit about Harry and Meghan.

"Don't go away mad. Just go away."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 05, 2023 09:06 AM (C1rbv)

362 @Breaking911 · 8h
DEVELOPING: Family of 8, including 5 children, found fatally shot in Enoch, Utah home; police say there is no danger to to the community

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:06 AM (Vwz3I)

363 9/11. For about four or five months they all worked together on legislation to try and keep the Country safe from that happening again. Problem is, that very same legislation has been used to spy on Americans ever since.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 05, 2023 08:58 AM

I remember all the discussion about how we did not capture/kill Osama bin Laden during the Clinton Administration, because there was a lack of communication/cooperation between the intelligence agencies like the FBI and CIA. Well, they have since fixed that lack of communication and cooperation and they have been working together for at least the past decade to censor Americans and control the narrative through cooperation with social media and tech companies.

In hindsight, all the left-wingers who were against the PATRIOT Act and the security state were correct. Granted, I think a large majority of the people were not principled, but were simply against it, because President Bush and the GOP were enacting the policies. But people like Greenwald and the Wikileaks guy (Assange?) were principled opposition.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:07 AM (Do5/p)

364 This guy, Harry, is proving the absolute uselessness of being the spare heir.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:08 AM (W5GbK)

365 I’d be happy with McCarthy if they agreed to hang Adam Schiff on the mall. Absent that, I enjoy watching cucktown squirm.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 05, 2023 09:08 AM (ebud1)

366
My representative has stated that he will not waver in his support of McCarthy.

I now know he's a schmuck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 09:09 AM (oINRc)

367 My response to "Kevin McCarthy should be Speaker" is why? What is special about this man? Why is he essential? Why is it so important that he be given the gavel that the concerns of the people who have thus far refused to vote for him are beyond the pale?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 09:09 AM (GYIa4)

368 [My response to "Kevin McCarthy should be Speaker" is why?

Especially since McCarthy can't speak good.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 05, 2023 09:10 AM (3hSHB)

369 Every dynamic in the nation's capital is some form or another of battered wife syndrome.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 09:10 AM (9UlRk)

370 @338

>>I did.

Horrified Film Buffs: Where did you go psycho?

Ridley Scott: I wanted to destroy something Beautiful.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2023 09:10 AM (up/3i)

371
Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

WHOA.

OK, then, Brandon. If you say so.

Seriously, I can't even begin to figure out what the hell the dotard is trying to say there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 09:10 AM (oINRc)

372 There has to be some remote crumb of the British Empire left where Harry could be appointed Governor General, or even Viscount to keep his whore wife happy. Just stay there and the check's in the mail.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 05, 2023 09:11 AM (lz5hY)

373 365 I’d be happy with McCarthy if they agreed to hang Adam Schiff on the mall. Absent that, I enjoy watching cucktown squirm.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 05, 2023 09:08 AM (ebud1)

*cashes in frequent flyer miles and purchases jiffy pop and plumbers torch*

Ill be there

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 09:11 AM (BRHaw)

374 Every article in the "Civil War 2.0" section is worth reading, though your blood pressure might spike a couple times in the process.

Great linkage, today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:11 AM (W5GbK)

375 @rawsalerts
🚨#UPDATE: More video shows a close up view as multiple high powered transformers explode and spark as thousands of people In San Rafael California are currently with out power due to high winds gusting up to 50-70 mph as multiple trees falling from the soaked ground

https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/
1610977869106237441

https://tinyurl.com/5n83w7un

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:11 AM (Vwz3I)

376 Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."

Also Biden 'I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid'
https://tinyurl.com/2j4fl45z

Posted by: McCool at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (BqBIh)

377 What is our plan for when ace comes back?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (flINI)

378
I'm willing to be a compromise Speaker of the House.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (MoZTd)

379 377 What is our plan for when ace comes back?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (flINI)

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Unruliness with a soupcon of vulgarity?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

380 If you have three nested clauses in your sentence that open with "as", you need to rewrite your sentence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (9UlRk)

381 Especially since McCarthy can't speak good.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 05, 2023 09:10 AM (3hSHB)
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He doesn't have Edgar Bergen's hand up his butt.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (XlE1Z)

382 Especially since McCarthy can't speak good.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 05, 2023 09:10 AM (3hSHB)

***

He orates badly

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (flINI)

383 338 So...who had Gladiator 2 from Ridley Scott on their 2023 bingo card?

I did.

https://tinyurl.com/ecpkj7hd
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

Gladiator 2: Gladiators in Love
The most gay gayest dickfest of fighting, bromance, and buggery in fabulist 4K Smellovision.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (BRHaw)

384
Also Biden 'I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid'
https://tinyurl.com/2j4fl45z
Posted by: McCool at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (BqBIh)

On "our" side, the Irish are plenty smart. Just amoral, cowardly, avaricious wastes of skin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (oINRc)

385 Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
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He's the Nostradumbass of our time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 05, 2023 09:14 AM (Y5qcH)

386 "First of all, as messy as all of this appears, it's actually the way things were intended to be. I have no problems with that, insofar as it shows healthy skepticism, debate and people standing on principles."

Yup. All the Smart Political People on TV have said for months and months that the US is experiencing a political re-alignment. We are finally seeing that re-alignment in-process. It's messy. As you'd expect when the current politicos get involuntarily re-aligned out of power.

Posted by: Gref at January 05, 2023 09:14 AM (AMIL/)

387 My response to "Kevin McCarthy should be Speaker" is why? What is special about this man? Why is he essential? Why is it so important that he be given the gavel that the concerns of the people who have thus far refused to vote for him are beyond the pale?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 09:09 AM (GYIa4)
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I imagine that a *lot* of money and positioning moves around when something like this happens. A lot of people have been moving into position and doling out money for *years* as investments in the next Republican majority HoR. They do not want their investments to go to zero.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 09:14 AM (t0OGg)

388 McCarthy, the fairest of all them swamp creatures, but still squishy. Ugh. Not him, please.

Posted by: Ziba at January 05, 2023 09:14 AM (4h9M3)

389 377 What is our plan for when ace comes back?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (flINI)
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to get his shelves built as a late Christmas present?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:14 AM (W5GbK)

390 293 250 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

I googled her and...wow. She's a 1.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

Indeed.

--

She is indeed very pretty.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 05, 2023 09:14 AM (sVtYq)

391 No, that Amber person is not the first crazy person to be executed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at January 05, 2023 09:15 AM (5pTK/)

392 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

I googled her and...wow. She's a 1.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

And she was Air Force so - veteran adjacent.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 05, 2023 09:15 AM (GYIa4)

393 One of the Philly talkers this morning was ripping Sean Hannity after he continued to badger Lauren Boebert for her vote. I guess Hannity is in the bag for McCarthy when he isn't praising the American gestapo.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 05, 2023 09:15 AM (VWp7G)

394 File away that Jordan Peterson story for future reference. Because when people talk about the necessity of red flag laws and mental healthcare interventions, that's the road they're trying to frogmarch you down.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is is simply a festival for the majority at January 05, 2023 09:15 AM (KFhLj)

395 377 What is our plan for when ace comes back?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (flINI)

Pretend we all left to comment on the Bulwark.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 05, 2023 09:15 AM (Y5qcH)

396 377 What is our plan for when ace comes back?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (flINI)

rum lashings and buggery, mainly

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 05, 2023 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

397 >>>What is our plan for when ace comes back?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Female ewoks for everyone!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 05, 2023 09:16 AM (VWp7G)

398 Unruliness with a soupcon of vulgarity?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

Pissflaps!

*hucks opened ream of Letter sized printer paper across room*

....

Too soon?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 09:16 AM (9UlRk)

399 350. Shapiro, directed by Indivisible, and the opening volley.

Also disturbing: The new network, organizing across the state. Education Voters PA, a pro-public education group, is recruiting across the state to follow school board meetings and help create a database of "harmful" actions under consideration. (Those being put forward by conservative advocates, i.e., suggestions of harboring porn in school libraries, claims of political and sexual indoctrination, etc.)

Posted by: Lola at January 05, 2023 09:17 AM (p39Z2)

400 So...who had Gladiator 2 from Ridley Scott on their 2023 bingo card? I did.

https://tinyurl.com/ecpkj7hd

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:00 AM

"Gladiator" put Russell Crowe on the map similar to how "300" put Gerard Butler on the map. I wonder if "Gladiator 2" will do something similar to whoever stars in the lead role.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:17 AM (Do5/p)

401 In stiff competition, Cori Bush noses everyone else out and wins the "Karen Award", as the angriest dumbshit in Congress.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:18 AM (W5GbK)

402 Is Harry still a prince now that he pissed off grandma?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 05, 2023 09:18 AM (ebud1)

403 There has to be some remote crumb of the British Empire left where Harry could be appointed Governor General, or even Viscount to keep his whore wife happy. Just stay there and the check's in the mail.

Bermuda? He can be the equivalent of the Duke of Windsor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:19 AM (AW0uW)

404
at some point, there comes a time to get on with the people’s business.

Oh, for fuck's sake. This guy, Lincoln Brown...

They already did The People's Business(TM) when the Republicans voted to cut off their own arms and legs in the budgeting process.

Your People's Business is done for the year, cuckwads.
and Lincoln Brown.

That's some mighty fine thinkin' you're doin' there.

What The People's Business(TM) is the new House going to be doing?

Voting for National Graham Cracker Day?

What an idiot.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2023 09:19 AM (KLPy8)

405
Barbara Luna > A.P. Luna.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)

406 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:19 AM (AW0uW)

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Last night I watched the last of the Eastwood films. Tonight, I begin Erich von Stroheim!

I've also decided to give Hello Sister a watch, just out of curiosity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

407 "Gladiator" put Russell Crowe on the map similar to how "300" put Gerard Butler on the map. I wonder if "Gladiator 2" will do something similar to whoever stars in the lead role.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:17 AM (Do5/p)
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"My fightin's poetry! Ya don't edit Russell Crowe's poetry, ya testicle!"

*beats up editor*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 05, 2023 09:20 AM (XlE1Z)

408 There has to be some remote crumb of the British Empire left where Harry could be appointed Governor General, or even Viscount to keep his whore wife happy. Just stay there and the check's in the mail.
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Bermuda? He can be the equivalent of the Duke of Windsor.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:19 AM (AW0uW)
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New Zealand is perfect for him. Totalitarian, fashionable, plenty of rugby, no press to speak of ...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (W5GbK)

409 More video shows a close up view as multiple high powered transformers explode and spark as thousands of people In San Rafael California are currently with out power due to high winds gusting up to 50-70 mph as multiple trees falling from the soaked ground

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:11 AM

The Transformers and the Allspark are back and causing havoc? Where's Optimus Prime?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (Do5/p)

410
Bermuda? He can be the equivalent of the Duke of Windsor.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:19 AM (AW0uW)

__________

He was GG of the Bahamas, where he was shoved to get him away from England and where he made a fool of himself, as usual.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (MoZTd)

411 McCarthy would be 3rd in line for the presidency if *biden croaks and/or something was to happen to Harris that precluded her advancement. That's one reason the GOP is fighting for him. If the junta folds they're shit outta' luck. Why the Democrats are not pushing hard for one of their own, or making a deal with McCarthy is.... interesting.

It is beginning to smell more and more like failure theater.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (Q4IgG)

412 There has to be some remote crumb of the British Empire left where Harry could be appointed Governor General, or even Viscount to keep his whore wife happy. Just stay there and the check's in the mail.

Pitcairn Islands.

That seems like it would be a perfect fit.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (KLPy8)

413 "Gladiator" put Russell Crowe on the map similar to how "300" put Gerard Butler on the map. I wonder if "Gladiator 2" will do something similar to whoever stars in the lead role.

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They should bring back Russel Crowe and call it Fattyator.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (oINRc)

414 >>>Is Harry still a prince now that he pissed off grandma?
Posted by: Puddinhead

Harry and the twat were forced to ride in Wallace Simpson's vehicle during the funeral. The Queen had a very good sense of humor.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM (VWp7G)

415 "Have you ever seen a movie about gladiators?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

416 413 They should bring back Russel Crowe and call it Fattyator.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (oINRc)

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The rumors I've read of the script have him returning as some kind of spirit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

417 I saw Fields of the Nephilim in Dusseldoof in 91. Last memorable thing I did informer West Germany.

Posted by: Reforger at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM (JqiVl)

418 Wallace and Gromit >>>> Wallis Simpson

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (XlE1Z)

419
Pitcairn Islands.

That seems like it would be a perfect fit.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (KLPy

____________

St. Helena is still British.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (MoZTd)

420 Last night I watched the last of the Eastwood films. Tonight, I begin Erich von Stroheim!

I've also decided to give Hello Sister a watch, just out of curiosity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

Excellent! Let me know if there's anything I can help you with.

I just finished reading The Big Goodbye, about the making of Chinatown. Now I have to watch Chinatown.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (AW0uW)

421
The rumors I've read of the script have him returning as some kind of spirit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

Portly wine?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (oINRc)

422 There has to be some remote crumb of the British Empire left where Harry could be appointed Governor General, or even Viscount to keep his whore wife happy. Just stay there and the check's in the mail.
Bermuda? He can be the equivalent of the Duke of Windsor.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:19 AM (AW0uW)

The Falklands. Head Sheep Herder And Defender Of The Crown.

Warm and sunny 2 days a year.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (XQtRs)

423 If they don't roll over, they are never going to get pregnant!

Posted by: torabora at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (+frZ/)

424 Pitcairn Islands.

That seems like it would be a perfect fit.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (KLPy

____________

St. Helena is still British.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (MoZTd)

Sentinel Island

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (Y5qcH)

425 ||A former funeral home owner has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for dissecting hundreds of bodies and selling the parts.

Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty in July to defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. Hess had operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building in Montrose, Colorado.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (Vwz3I)

426 >>>Wallace and Gromit >>>> Wallis Simpson
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Absolutely.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (VWp7G)

427 Pitcairn Islands.

That seems like it would be a perfect fit.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (KLPy

____________

St. Helena is still British.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (MoZTd)

Sentinel Island
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (Y5qcH
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Tristan da Cunha

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (XlE1Z)

428 420 I just finished reading The Big Goodbye, about the making of Chinatown. Now I have to watch Chinatown.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:23 AM (AW0uW)

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My mother gave me a couple of books about old Hollywood for Christmas. I've started reading Picture by Lillian Ross about the making of John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage. The other is a survey of the studio system that I can't recall the name because it's upstairs and I'm too comfortably placed in my couch right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

429 St. Helena is still British.
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Ensure the wallpaper is bright green.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:25 AM (Vwz3I)

430 ||A former funeral home owner has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for dissecting hundreds of bodies and selling the parts.

Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty in July to defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. Hess had operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building in Montrose, Colorado.||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (Vwz3I)

I really ceases to amaze me at this point that people have become so damn greedy and sick in this world......We're a broken society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

431 The rumors I've read of the script have him returning as some kind of spirit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM

So Maximus Decimus Meridius will be a force ghost? They do have more ridiculous powers in the recent trilogy.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:25 AM (Do5/p)

432 What is our plan for when ace comes back?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 05, 2023 09:12 AM (flINI)

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Unruliness with a soupcon of vulgarity?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood

Is a soup can bigger than a soup con ?

Posted by: JT at January 05, 2023 09:25 AM (T4tVD)

433 Biden: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."

That's some world-class dementia gibberish right there. Congratulations, Potato Joe.

Posted by: Archer at January 05, 2023 09:26 AM (gmo/4)

434 A Philadelphia Republican who, while overseeing that city’s 2020 elections, endured false accusations of widespread voter fraud and death threats is Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro’s choice to serve as his secretary of state.

Shapiro announced on Thursday that he is nominating 51-year-old Al Schmidt to this Cabinet post that has grown over the past three years from an obscure position to a highly scrutinized one.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (t3/qz)

435
That's some world-class dementia gibberish right there. Congratulations, Potato Joe.

Posted by: Archer at January 05, 2023 09:26 AM (gmo/4)

Just imagine what it would've been had he NOT been paraphrasing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

436 ''I can't imagine what would happen if a Judge ruled that the money I have deposited in my bank belonged to them if they went bankrupt."

Without deposit insurance that's what you'd get. You'd have an unsecured debt with the bankrupt bank. Get in line for cents on the dollar

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (SJsWC)

437 How completely obtuse is Jonah Goldberg you ask?

Goldberg added, "Kevin McCarthy would be, by almost any objective measure, one of the two or three most conservative Republican speakers in U.S. history for at least for the last 100 years.

"conservative" isn't the goal, you idiot. Get this through your thick skull: The goal is specific policy changes. We want a different Republican party and different leadership. We want effective border control and regular order spending; we want a non-intrusive federal government; and we want to see Constitutional government. So, GFY with all your talk of "conservative" this or that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (Mypj3)

438 The other is a survey of the studio system that I can't recall the name because it's upstairs and I'm too comfortably placed in my couch right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

Let me know what it is when you remember - I might want to buy it myself if I don't have it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (AW0uW)

439 In his own farina-flecked skidmarked way, has not Biden just fully articulated the America First position?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (9UlRk)

440 "Gladiator" put Russell Crowe on the map similar to how "300" put Gerard Butler on the map. I wonder if "Gladiator 2" will do something similar to whoever stars in the lead role.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:17 AM (Do5/p)

Your information is wrong.

It's not Gladiator.

Russell Crowe's starring in -

"Glad He Ate Her: The True Story of "Beefy" Johnson, The 400 Pound Cannibal"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (KLPy8)

441 The rumors I've read of the script have him returning as some kind of spirit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM

Obi-wan Kanobisus Africanus

Posted by: Archer at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

442 The rumors I've read of the script have him returning as some kind of spirit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:22 AM

So Maximus Decimus Meridius will be a force ghost? They do have more ridiculous powers in the recent trilogy.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:25 AM

"I will have my vengeance. In this life or the next."

Maybe it will be in this life AND the next...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:28 AM (Do5/p)

443 >>In stiff competition, Cori Bush noses everyone else out and wins the "Karen Award", as the angriest dumbshit in Congress.

Oh HELL no!
Has she ever made a staffer suicidal?!
Has she ever had an airline invite her to go to another airline?
Has she ever referred to the US Mars landing in one of her racial grievance jags?

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at January 05, 2023 09:28 AM (mqu1M)

444 The other is a survey of the studio system that I can't recall the name because it's upstairs and I'm too comfortably placed in my couch right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

In your couch? What are you hiding from?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

445 The guy who enabled fraud in philly to get shapiro elected gets appointed to manage the election statewide.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 05, 2023 09:28 AM (t3/qz)

446 409 The Transformers and the Allspark are back and causing havoc? Where's Optimus Prime?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:21 AM (Do5/p)

Aren't we supposed to be too serious to know about stuff like this?

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 09:28 AM (UnA8+)

447 So if all soy running around in boys is causing the increase in chopadicktomy trannies what's causing all the girls to get their tits hacked off? Are a bunch of girls trying to become boys in the absence of real males left, à la Jurassic Park?

There must still be some underlying malevolence guiding all this because it is civilization-destroying.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (0fVbu)

448 I learned a Polanski anecdote from The Big Goodbye, but I'll get willowed, so it can wait until after 100 on the art thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (AW0uW)

449 Wash Post: ‘Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence’

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (Y5qcH)

450 444 In your couch? What are you hiding from?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

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The harshness of the floor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

451 >>"Gladiator" put Russell Crowe on the map

With a huge assist from his performance in LA Confidential. He was amazing in that movie.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (mqu1M)

452 Will FTX take down Silvergate Capital? SI down 40% just before the open...

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 05, 2023 09:30 AM (MkuC5)

453 Goldberg added, "Kevin McCarthy would be, by almost any objective measure, one of the two or three most conservative Republican speakers in U.S. history for at least for the last 100 years.

"conservative" isn't the goal, you idiot. Get this through your thick skull: The goal is specific policy changes. We want a different Republican party and different leadership. We want effective border control and regular order spending; we want a non-intrusive federal government; and we want to see Constitutional government. So, GFY with all your talk of "conservative" this or that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM

"Conservative" in this context means that he will be conserving the Deep State status quo of the last however many decades. So by that definition, yes, he'll be the most "conservative" in US history.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:30 AM (Do5/p)

454 >>> With a huge assist from his performance in LA Confidential. He was amazing in that movie.
Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (mqu1M)

I liked the big boat movie the best.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 05, 2023 09:30 AM (0fVbu)

455 Wash Post: ‘Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence’

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (Y5qcH)

"How can you live with yourself driving around in that big truck when the polar bears are d----'"

*THWACK!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 05, 2023 09:31 AM (9UlRk)

456 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 05, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

457 447 So if all soy running around in boys is causing the increase in chopadicktomy trannies what's causing all the girls to get their tits hacked off? Are a bunch of girls trying to become boys in the absence of real males left, à la Jurassic Park?

There must still be some underlying malevolence guiding all this because it is civilization-destroying.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM (0fVbu)

I'd ask why doctors seem to ONLY want to do this to Children, but it's not like there's an answer that matters to advancing the cause of outlawing it.

Posted by: XTC at January 05, 2023 09:31 AM (UnA8+)

458 >>The Transformers and the Allspark are back and causing havoc? Where's Optimus Prime?

Under Qunitessa's spell, so Marky Mark must come to the rescue.

(Yeah, I saw the movies with my tween sone because it was that or woke animated grrrl power crap)

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2023 09:32 AM (mqu1M)

459 Art Homer

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 05, 2023 09:32 AM (Vwz3I)

460 Without deposit insurance that's what you'd get. You'd have an unsecured debt with the bankrupt bank. Get in line for cents on the dollar
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 05, 2023 09:27 AM (SJsWC)
++++
Not quite. In banking, even before the FDIC, the depositors were the most-senior creditors. They get paid first. If the bank is truly insolvent, then the remaining assets are divvied up and sent to depositors proportionally and the other creditors (bond holders, investors, etc.) get nothing. The depositor does not get made whole, but he has first claim on the bankruptcy assets.

That is not "the money belongs to the bank" but rather "you'll get what you can get off of the carcass before the vultures get a bite."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2023 09:33 AM (t0OGg)

461 So if all soy running around in boys is causing the increase in chopadicktomy trannies what's causing all the girls to get their tits hacked off? Are a bunch of girls trying to become boys in the absence of real males left, à la Jurassic Park?

There must still be some underlying malevolence guiding all this because it is civilization-destroying.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 05, 2023 09:29 AM

Good thread here has a pretty interesting possible explanation: social/semantic contagion. Similar to previous social contagions in girls/women like bulimia and cutting. She also mentions that multiple-personality disorder spread similarly in 1990s.

Thread: https://bit.ly/3ZjLgPB
ThreadReaderApp: https://bit.ly/3jOnFGo

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 05, 2023 09:35 AM (Do5/p)

462 Corey Booker likes movies about gladiators.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 05, 2023 09:36 AM (44ww/)

463 >>>Shapiro announced on Thursday that he is nominating 51-year-old Al Schmidt to this Cabinet post that has grown over the past three years from an obscure position to a highly scrutinized one.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire

Pennsylvania is gone. It's never coming back.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 05, 2023 09:36 AM (VWp7G)

464
Pennsylvania is gone. It's never coming back.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 05, 2023 09:36 AM

Yup, we had our moment in the sun one Election night in 2016 when we put Trump over the top. Well they 'fixed' that - at least for the next four years.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 05, 2023 09:42 AM (enJYY)

465 What are the odds that during Bidens visit to the border something "happens" that let's the administration crack down on the average citizen instead of securing the border?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 05, 2023 09:43 AM (11zNb)

466 California "temporarily" lifted the statute of limitations on sexual abuse cases, which is why Hussey is filing her suit.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at January 05, 2023 09:50 AM (vrsjf)

467 I fully support the 'terrorists' and as a former soldier I have zero respect for Crenshaw; he is a corporate groveler like most of them.

The longer the government gets nothing done, the better off we will be.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 05, 2023 10:29 AM (klw0w)

468 Nothing has put me in as good a mood as seeing Vanity(love that nickname) being stupid enough to have his staff post a link to his stupid fight with Lauren on twitter....every comment I have seen is bashing him for being such a swamp rat, and a bully to boot.
https://tinyurl.com/532hst57

Posted by: ziggggeeee at January 05, 2023 10:36 AM (PJWI9)

469 Totally agree with j. j. Let's keep Congress neutered as long as we can.

Posted by: Ultra pj at January 05, 2023 11:29 AM (G1dq6)

470 The Bush Donalds stuff is awful. But even worse is that gutter whore, Cheri Jacobius, whitesplaining things to people about how black men need to act. She so wanted to call him the n word.

Posted by: ejochs at January 05, 2023 12:13 PM (lSFMQ)

471 "The people's business" ought to be staying out of the people's business. Fighting over who gets to lead the house next is one way to ensure they do just (and only) that, if only fleetingly.

Posted by: Joseph Q. Tingles at January 05, 2023 12:26 PM (aCVzN)

472 At this point, I think the House should just adjourn. I don't think time will change the outcome but this show serves no point.
Mind you, in February, Biden will call the House back into session for the debt ceiling which will require a Speaker of House to pass. However, if Republican cannot elect a speaker, then we either default , which I suspect is what most on this site want or 6 republicans can switch votes to Jeffries, and we can show the world that the Republican party is dead, which again I think people on this site want.
People on this site don't understand that if you are in the minority, you have to get allies to get the majority. Coalitions are a path to what you want and that requires compromise. Until the Freedom Caucus understands that, then you will always lose elections and see legislation you despise passed.

Posted by: Thuycdides at January 05, 2023 12:53 PM (V5G72)

473 The #conservatives who lament the current situation are part of the problem. Too Civically and Economically ignorant to be of any use to the Insurrection. They're Tories who are willing accomplices to the Pedocrats.

Vote for this evil, because it's slightly less evil than that evil. Republicants working together with Pedocrats to make us all less free is better than Congress getting nothing done. Welfare isn't welfare if somebody put in an 8 hour day for it. Government can solve economic and social problems as long as the right people are in charge.

#conservatives of this stripe deserve everything that's coming.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 05, 2023 01:24 PM (b306O)

474 Gee, these two must be hard up for some money. Plus, I barely remember seeing anything during the scene.
Posted by: dantesed

Well, you did get to see Olivia Hussey's boobs (and they were magnificent).

We watched that in my HS Shakespeare class after we read R&J. Teacher (remember the rolling AV carts with a TV and VCR on them?) missed the screen when trying to cover up the boobies scene with a folder.

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