Biden Hires a Campaign Manager; NYT Gives Him a Brushback Pitch, Noting That He Seems Unwilling to Prove He's Mentally Capable

Biden has chosen a campaign manager, and, ¡Que sopresa!, it's a Latinx woman.

President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign team is slowly taking shape ahead of an expected reelection announcement.
Biden is eyeing Julie Chavez Rodriguez to manage his campaign for a second term, and he is also considering Democratic operative Michael Tyler for a key communications role, according to multiple reports. A decision has not been made about Tyler.
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Chavez Rodriguez is one of the most well-known Latinas in the Biden White House, and she serves as the director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and a senior adviser to Biden.
She also served as the deputy campaign manager of Biden's 2020 election team, which was managed by Jen O'Malley Dillon, who is now the White House's deputy chief of staff. Chavez Rodriguez is the granddaughter of the prominent labor activist Cesar Chavez. Biden has a bust of him in the White House.
Meanwhile, Tyler has worked at high levels across the Democratic Party over recent years, including as the chief of staff for the Democratic National Committee and Sen. Cory Booker's (D-NJ) 2020 presidential campaign.
Tyler also has experience working on technical ballot problems.

Ah, he's bringing in people to "fortify the election." Well dog my cat.

The New York Times chides Biden for remaining Basement Biden, refusing to present himself for press conferences. They do not call him demented, exactly, but point out there are questions about his mental fitness, and one easy way to dispel such questions is to stand and face an adversarial, curious press. Or even the press we currently have, that would be at least something.

Instead, he refuses.

And what conclusion can you draw from that...? Can YOU...

... solve this Very Brandon Mystery?

Karen Townsend, Hot Air:

The Wall Street Journal noted that Biden is in "obvious decline" and that reelecting the octogenarian would be a historical mistake. The New York Times published its version of an editorial declaring Biden as too old to be president. Like the WSJ, the NYT said that everyone ages differently. However, when a reporter questions him about his age and the ability to do the job, Biden's stock answer is "Watch me." Cute but it doesn't square with his actions. He hides from the press, spending 40% of his time as president away from the White House at one of his two homes in Delaware or at Camp David. His staff runs interference for him and keeps the press corps away from him. Biden rarely gives a press conference. There is no "watching" him at all. Concerns about Biden's age are legit, says the NYT editorial.

But Mr. Biden has given voters very few chances to do just that -- to watch him -- and his refusal to engage with the public regularly raises questions about his age and health.
The usual White House method of demonstrating a president's mastery is to take tough questions in front of cameras, but Mr. Biden has not taken advantage of that opportunity, as The Times reported on Friday. He has held fewer news conferences and media interviews than most of his modern predecessors. Since 1923, only Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan took fewer questions per month from reporters, and neither represents a model of presidential openness that Mr. Biden should want to emulate. His reticence has created an opening for critics and skeptics.

This opening has been huge and welcoming since May of 2019 and you have never stepped through it a single time, New York Times. I guess you're not "critics," then, even of a fake president who refuses to engage in the most basic of presidential functions.

Because he has galloping dementia. He was always stupid and a boastful blusterer but now he's mentally degenerated and getting worse every single day.

Note that Biden is widely expected to announce his newest Basement Campaign for Basement President tomorrow... by carefully-edited videotape, using the most lucid clips from 20 different takes.

Meanwhile, Biden is six points behind a "generic Republican."

In NBC News poll shows that Democrat President Joe Biden trails a generic Republican significantly, ahead of his expected campaign launch this week, a major setback for the incumbent president who is likely to seek a second term.
The poll found that if Biden runs and is the Democrat nominee for president, only 41 percent of respondents would probably or definitely vote for him in November 2024. In contrast, if Biden is the Democrat nominee, 47 percent of respondents said they would probably or definitely vote for the GOP nominee, whoever it is.
That means Biden trails by 6 percent on the cusp of his expected reelection campaign launch this week, a major humiliation for the sitting president and a boon for the burgeoning Republican field which is currently led by former President Donald Trump. Biden is reportedly expected to release a video on Tuesday formally launching a 2024 reelection campaign.

I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever. Don't people understand that having a two point poll lead over the worst president ever is not a sign of strength?!

And let's not dance around it: Biden will probably not even be alive by November 2024. His spirit may be willing, but his flesh is rotten and demented. He is one slip in the shower, one tug of a dog's tale, one dizzying powersniff of a little girl's hair, away from Perdition.

I think it's just crazy to assume Biden will be the nominee. It's like playing chess and plotting your strategy around the opponent making his worse possible moves, instead of his strongest.

Meanwhile, Biden has trained his protegée a little too well.

Vice President Kamala Harris butchered the name for the FDA in an interview about abortion rights that aired Friday.
Harris mistakenly said the Federal Drug Administration approved the abortion pill mifepristone more than two decades ago -- but such an agency doesn't exist. The Food and Drug Administration is the correct title for the administration also referred to as the FDA, which signed off on the abortion drug.
The veep was speaking with Noticias Telemundo's Vanessa Hauc about the current state of abortion in the country when she made the error.
She brought up the ongoing court battle over the FDA's decision to approve mifepristone -- which is often used with a second drug to end pregnancies without the need for surgery -- in 2000.
"On the mifepristone issue, it's politicians finding a court, targeting a specific court that they thought would be helpful to them, to take a medication off the market, which was approved 20 years ago by the Federal Drug Administration," Harris said.

Posted by: Ace at 02:10 PM

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1 Harry Belafonte, RIP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

2 I have a better point: who trusts polls in any event?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:11 PM (zZu0s)

3 Dammit. I managed to wander into first.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:11 PM (zZu0s)

4 Just wait until Biden walks away with SC in the primary easily.

Then any concern about his mental acuity will be conspiracy theorizing.

I remember when the press carried Kamala's accusations that Biden was racist for supporting the crime bill in the 90s, and then "you ain't black" if you don't vote for Biden a few months later.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:11 PM (LvTSG)

5 "Biden is eyeing Julie Chavez Rodriguez"

She's way too old for that.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:11 PM (MvF+J)

6 Ace, the people around Joe don't worry about best or worst moves. They only care about moves which accrue more power to the DC Establishment.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at April 25, 2023 02:12 PM (2YtOq)

7 They like the word 'Federal.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:12 PM (zZu0s)

8 Harry Belafonte? RIP?

When do any of the victims of the regimes he supported, like Chavista Venezuela, get any rest?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at April 25, 2023 02:12 PM (gHSfI)

9 Chavez Rodriguez is one of the most well-known Latinas in the Biden White House

What a bizarre phrase.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2023 02:13 PM (ivvNA)

10 She looks like an Indian (feather).
Would not bang.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (ufFY8)

11 When do any of the victims of the regimes he supported, like Chavista Venezuela, get any rest?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at April 25, 2023 02:12 PM (gHSfI)

I was not making a comment on his worthiness, just noting his passing.

I guess I can change the default to 'Harry Belafonte went tits up.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

12 Week after week, I keep hoping that Biden will keel over, preferably on camera. And week after week, I keep being disappointed.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (bhRsz)

13 Shoot, just ask him the date and see if he can get that one right.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (xhaym)

14 She's not a Latinx?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (iayUP)

15 its cute how they are trying desperately (the MSM) to get rid of Biden's

it's like toe fungus guys! once the bidens are deep in there you aren't getting them out lol

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (w0NJk)

16 Harry Belafonte is worm food.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

17 Harry Belafonte, RIP.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

He was a Stalinist stooge and I guarantee he is not resting in peace.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (oINRc)

18 I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever. Don't people understand that having a two point poll lead over the worst president ever is not a sign of strength?!

And let's not dance around it: Biden will probably not even be alive by November 2024. His spirit may be willing, but his flesh is rotten and demented. He is one slip in the shower, one tug of a dog's tale, one dizzying powersniff of a little girl's hair, away from Perdition.

I think it's just crazy to assume Biden will be the nominee. It's like playing chess and plotting your strategy around the opponent making his worse possible moves, instead of his strongest.

Ah, the Lautenberg gambit.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (eOEVl)

19 Hello.

My name is Julie Chavez Rodriguez.

You killed my father.

Prepare to die.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (lf83v)

20 Harry Belafonte is feeding the maggots.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

21 It was an eye-opening day for me when I learned that polls might be staged to move public opinion - not accurately report sentiment. And another to realize how easily swayed the public is. And then another to realize - it's just propaganda. Only the uniparty agrees - they just want us all to agree.

Posted by: Iris at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (NaH5I)

22 In NBC News poll shows that Democrat President Joe Biden trails a generic Republican significantly

The problem is that Generic Republican won't actually be on the ballot. An Actual Republican will. And, at this point, a majority of America hates Actual Republicans. Including us, though like homo cowboys on a mountain, we can't seem to quit Actual Republicans.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (ppBhU)

23
biden is a Carcass.

Whether biden is live carcass or a dead carcass, he serves the same purpose.

They can't sell the "steal" for harris. They need biden's carcass for another "election."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (fyOvJ)

24 Around %75 of Sundowner's appointments have rd been minority women, probably another %20 ate men who say they ate women

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (xhxe8)

25 Harry Belafonte is playing the maracas for Beelzebub.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (zZu0s)

26 Biden is eyeing Julie Chavez Rodriguez to manage his campaign for a second term, and he is also considering Democratic operative Michael Tyler for a key communications role, according to multiple reports. A decision has not been made about Tyler.
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Tyler will be more important than Rodriguez, in this hypothetical.

Biden's campaign won't really need a campaign manager. There won't be much to manage. He won't be on the road much.

His campaign *will,* however, need a ton of bagmen and comms people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (t0OGg)

27 I guess I can change the default to 'Harry Belafonte went tits up.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

Or you could say he went down with the banana boat.

Posted by: 7man at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (qwO6y)

28 Harry Belafonte? RIP?

When do any of the victims of the regimes he supported, like Chavista Venezuela, get any rest?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at April 25, 2023 02:12 PM (gHSfI)

Maybe he meant "Rest In Pieces."

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (bhRsz)

29 He's going to abort thot thing.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (B0xHY)

30 "Harry Belafonte is worm food.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop "

He's tallied his last banana.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (iayUP)

31 For some reason in my mental head picture, I am mixing him up with Sidney Poitier.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (zZu0s)

32 She could have said: Felating District Attorneys

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (8c8Y3)

33 I, for one, am not going to miss or mourn Harry Belafonte.

He was rich race-baiting ignoramus.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (lf83v)

34 Someone with good editing skills needs to take his announcement video and splice in real footage of him doing the exact opposite from what he "promises". Like when he says he is "defending freedoms", splice with his gestapo rally video, where he is foaming at the mouth over his political opponents.

Posted by: scruboak at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (jjH9L)

35 " one dizzying powersniff of a little girl's hair "

Holy shit! I fell out of my chair.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (P7Iz+)

36 Biden says no debates, so does DJT, from what I'm reading.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (jTmQV)

37 22 The problem is that Generic Republican won't actually be on the ballot. An Actual Republican will. And, at this point, a majority of America hates Actual Republicans. Including us, though like homo cowboys on a mountain, we can't seem to quit Actual Republicans.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (ppBhU)

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"I wish I could vote for a generic Republican, but Mitt Romney killed a woman with cancer and has binders full of women. I can't in good conscience vote for such a monster."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

38 The New York Times chides Biden for remaining Basement Biden, refusing to present himself for press conferences. They do not call him demented, exactly, but point out there are questions about his mental fitness, and one easy way to dispel such questions is to stand and face an adversarial, curious press. Or even the press we currently have, that would be at least something.

Instead, he refuses.

And what conclusion can you draw from that...?
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Two major possibilities:
1. He can't
2. He knows he doesn't need to, so doesn't bother

Or both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (t0OGg)

39 Has Senile Joe's cut the malarkey bus been retired?

Posted by: NL at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (eGTCV)

40 one easy way to dispel such questions is to stand and face an adversarial, curious press. Or even the press we currently have, that would be at least something.

Yeah I was gonna say, where is this mythical adversarial press?

Both parties are saying they won't have debates, which honestly is fine with me because they were a waste of time that almost never had any impact on any election. But this clearly plays into the hands of the Democrats who cannot put ol Joey Fingers on the stage for a debate. He barely made it through the ones last time.

Biden is six points behind a "generic Republican."

The sitting Democrat ALWAYS polls better than Generic Republican. Always. every single time. Most of the time the named Democrat candidate polls better than Generic Republican. I think polls are junk but this is a pattern which has been in place for as long as I can remember.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (0hOvj)

41 28 Maybe he meant "Rest In Pieces."
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (bhRsz)

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Putrification?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

42 Karen Townsend

if she was a wine taster, wouldn't know a claret from a red

actual quote from the stupid scrunt

"Trump is a vane man, this is the truth."

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (us2H3)

43 The left has the "long" knives out. Newsome/Rice or Rice/Newsome. Although Biden/Fetterman would be wildly entertaining...

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (KIWeW)

44 >>>Week after week, I keep hoping that Biden will keel over, preferably on camera. And week after week, I keep being disappointed.

what a terrible thing to say!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (iHBZj)

45 And where does the NYT expect Biden to run into an adversarial press?

Posted by: NL at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (eGTCV)

46 The Wall Street Journal noted that Biden is in "obvious decline" and that reelecting the octogenarian would be a historical mistake.
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No, "electing" Biden the first time was a historical mistake.

"Electing" Biden a second time would be a historic mistake.

Words! How do they work?!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (t0OGg)

47 Harry Belafonte is playing the maracas for Beelzebub.

Yeah, he knows now. Once you hop the twig, you Know the truth that you've been suppressing all your life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (0hOvj)

48 Maybe he meant "Rest In Pieces."
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (bhRsz)

Rest in piss?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (zZu0s)

49 >>>I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever. Don't people understand that having a two point poll lead over the worst president ever is not a sign of strength?!

*contemplates shit-stirring*

*reflects on consequences of shit-stirring*

*decides to stir shit anyway*

https://tinyurl.com/3tz7rped

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (bhRsz)

50 >>>3 I, for one, am not going to miss or mourn Harry Belafonte.

harry belawhonow?

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (iHBZj)

51 I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever.
_________

Because in 2016, those same polls showed Hillary Clinton ahead by double digits right until Election Night.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (lf83v)

52 There's 81 million (or 84 million, or whatever is needed) votes ready to go for [insert D candidate name here] in 2024 - they might already be on a thumb drive somewhere

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (lO5WT)

53 Note that Biden is widely expected to announce his newest Basement Campaign for Basement President tomorrow... by carefully-edited videotape, using the most lucid clips from 20 different takes.
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LOL

Man, I'd love to see the raw footage

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (t0OGg)

54 42 Karen Townsend

if she was a wine taster, wouldn't know a claret from a red

actual quote from the stupid scrunt

"Trump is a vane man, this is the truth."
Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (us2H3)

Vain? Or weather vane? Yes?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (zZu0s)

55 Abortion and Mutilating Children do seem to be the Dem's reason for being.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (Fbj1q)

56 Elections = distractions

Posted by: Sock Monkey * of the Horde clan at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (wW+Qg)

57 48 Maybe he meant "Rest In Pieces."
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:15 PM (bhRsz)

Roast in peace?

Posted by: NL at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (eGTCV)

58 Polls? Have you seen the latest approval numbers for death by diarrhea? Through the floor I swear to god.

Posted by: Bill Mitchell's Dip at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (Y0fvy)

59 Labor activist Cesar Chavez hated illegal immigration because those illegals were often used to undercut the effort of his union.

So, how does his granddaughter has the cajoles to work for the unabashed purveyor of illegal immigration ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (RHGPo)

60 52 There's 81 million (or 84 million, or whatever is needed) votes ready to go for [insert D candidate name here] in 2024 - they might already be on a thumb drive somewhere
Posted by: brak at April 25, 2023 02:18 PM (lO5WT)

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Sure, cheating happens, but it doesn't affect a single race anywhere ever.

That's why people cheat at elections: to have no effect on the outcome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

61 > though like homo cowboys on a mountain, we can't seem to quit Actual Republicans.

They were homo shepherds.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (R38qh)

62 >>>No, "electing" Biden the first time was a historical mistake.

good thing we didn't actually do that then

oh wait, I just got an email from Rupert Murdoch.

I've been "parted ways" from Fox and I didn't even work there!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (iHBZj)

63 Pest in Reese's?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (lf83v)

64 I didn't know until today that the DNC has nixed having debates in the Dem primary. Gee, wonder why. I was looking forward to seeing Sponge-Brain Shit-Pants squaring off with JFK Jr., Newsome, and other assorted cretins.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (oiNtH)

65 Remember Saint George Floyd dancing with his banana?
Good times.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (B0xHY)

66 We got your polls right here
Dominion

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (xhxe8)

67 A demented man can't train anyone to do anything, let alone do it well.

Posted by: CN at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (Zzbjj)

68
Every Single Day since the day of the 2016 election, the Democrats were in "URGENT!" mode.

Every day, the Democrats said it was "urgent" to remove Trump.

The Republicans have No Sense of Urgency whatsoever to get rid of biden (or obama, or clinton). It is their Fatal Flaw.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (fyOvJ)

69 I wish we had a generic Republican running.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (p+1gI)

70 No daylight came; and he just went "home"...

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (KIWeW)

71 Trump, the greatest brain, the greatest president in the galaxy, has evidently issued a statement that he won't be at the RNC debates. Why? ummm, because he's got an insurmountable lead and the first debate is scheduled for the Regan Library which is owned by somebody from the Washington Post. Now we're talking 17th level chess, people!

Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (MS5ih)

72 I fully expect an AI version of Joe Biden to be used in ads. Audio engineers will spend weeks building the speech from various attempts at recording and previous statements.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (0hOvj)

73 "I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever."

It makes as much sense as people simping for DeSantis when he's 20 POINTS BEHIND Trump in almost every poll.

Posted by: MBunge at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (2tWdQ)

74 62 I've been "parted ways" from Fox and I didn't even work there!
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (iHBZj)

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Well, at least it's only happening to you once today.

It happened to Tucker at least ten times yesterday!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

75 "Trump is a vane man, this is the truth."
Posted by: REDACTED

I don't know, his ability to tell which way the wind is blowing is getting kinda iffy lately.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (0S+wE)

76 I am pretty sure that whoever is actually running things have found that it is so convenient to have a demented figurehead in the presidency that we will never get any other kind of president.

As long as they don't run out of ice cream they can do whatever they want.

They have discovered that brain dead senators are also useful. We will see more.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (LFTs3)

77 >>>
"Trump is a vane man, this is the truth."
Posted by: REDACTED

okay so you're claiming Trump isn't vain?

Does Trump have *any* flaws, or is he the first perfect man since Jesus?

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (iHBZj)

78 51 I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever.
_________

Because in 2016, those same polls showed Hillary Clinton ahead by double digits right until Election Night.
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Yep. And this is without a Dem named RFK Jr in the mix.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (Fbj1q)

79 And let's not dance around it: Biden will probably not even be alive by November 2024. His spirit may be willing, but his flesh is rotten and demented. He is one slip in the shower, one tug of a dog's tale, one dizzying powersniff of a little girl's hair, away from Perdition.

I think it's just crazy to assume Biden will be the nominee. It's like playing chess and plotting your strategy around the opponent making his worse possible moves, instead of his strongest.
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Biden has consistently exceeded my expectations regarding his ability to remain alive. Until he croaks, he's the nominee. I agree that there's value in considering who the likely replacement nominees are and having plans in place, and the Republican candidates will probably do so.

Until then, though, Biden remains alive and therefore Biden remains the nominee.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (t0OGg)

80 Horror story: Teen boy dies in "gender-affirming" operation where doctors tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon

.. this blood is on Joe Biden's hands

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (RHGPo)

81 It's ableist to ask anybody to win a debate!

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (krQz2)

82 I still expect Joe to do a hard face plant while shuffling onto a stage somewhere.

Posted by: NL at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (eGTCV)

83 Ace - stop trying to get someone to pull your finger.

Julie Chavez Rodriguez is a Moe's Southwest Grill 3

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (iY8R7)

84 Jackie Gleason has a bit where he played a Southern Police Chief finding out that his daughter was dating Harry Belefonte

"Harry Belefonte, huh. One of those Eye-talian singers, isn't he?"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (xhaym)

85 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.

His colon was used because puberty blockers stopped growth of his genitals, which meant there wasn’t enough tissue to do the penile inversion surgery.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (RHGPo)

86 I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever. Don't people understand that having a two point poll lead over the worst president ever is not a sign of strength?!

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And his still up in the polls with everyone running him down including you. You understand, you just won't admit it.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (3JfbU)

87 79 Biden has consistently exceeded my expectations regarding his ability to remain alive. Until he croaks, he's the nominee. I agree that there's value in considering who the likely replacement nominees are and having plans in place, and the Republican candidates will probably do so.

Until then, though, Biden remains alive and therefore Biden remains the nominee.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (t0OGg)

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I have been saying since early 2021:

Biden will run for re-election in 2024, and he'll live to 2035. Looks like the first half of that prediction is coming true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (LvTSG)

88 Everyone here except Paul has now been parted ways from Fox.

Posted by: Rupert Murdoch at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (iHBZj)

89 Horror story: Teen boy dies in "gender-affirming" operation where doctors tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon

.. this blood is on Joe Biden's hands
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (RHGPo)
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Because somebody pressed the pause button there on puberty and he never grew a dick large enough to be inverted into a vag.

Somebody should check on that pause button.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (krQz2)

90 okay so you're claiming Trump isn't vain?
________

*Carly Simon has joined the chat*

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (lf83v)

91 Take 869:
No Joe, stand over here.
No Joe, you can't have ice cream.
Yes, Joe, we'll get someone to change your diaper.
CUT! Back in fifteen everybody!

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (v0R5T)

92 so long as biden can last until the votes are counted, he's the nominee. doesn't matter if he can't tell the difference between chocolate chips and paint chips, like lumpy from pennsylvania, the dems will take the election again and he'll just do as he's told, and when he slips in the shower while chasing one of his dogs and falls out a third floor window vp giggles will pretty much do as she's told.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (B1FKF)

93 Does Trump have *any* flaws, or is he the first perfect man since Jesus?
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His flaw is he is competent and can speak in complete sentences. He also knows how to get America back on track. If Deep State assassinates him then its game on.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (Fbj1q)

94 Russia got him elected!

Posted by: Hillary at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (B0xHY)

95
Where is the Republicans' sense of urgency?

Republican Shits are more against Trump than biden.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (fyOvJ)

96 Oh the irony of Chavez' granddaughter employed to defeat a political movement whose number 1 goal is to close the border.

Chalk this up to Musk's "the most likely outcome is the most ironic"

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (5C4od)

97 As much as a douche as he was Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall is an amazing recording.

Calypso Music was also a great LP. But that Carnegie Hall disc sounds amazing.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (8c8Y3)

98 I come in peace

https://youtu.be/a8mY_h0EIBw

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (0hOvj)

99 Everyone here except Paul has now been parted ways from Fox.
Posted by: Rupert Murdoch at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (iHBZj)
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Paul's probably 6 months from subscribing to Fox Nation.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (krQz2)

100 Harris mistakenly said the Federal Drug Administration approved the abortion pill mifepristone more than two decades ago -- but such an agency doesn't exist. The Food and Drug Administration is the correct title for the administration also referred to as the FDA, which signed off on the abortion drug.
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Honestly, that is a pretty easy slip-up. If she weren't a shrieking harridan who wants me enslaved or dead, I'd be willing to give her a pass on it.

But she *is* a shrieking harridan who wants me enslaved or dead, so no pass. She's an idiot who doesn't even know the names of major agencies because the only thing she is more than stupid is evil.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (t0OGg)

101 Well, at least Belafonte killed the chimaera. So there’s that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (udHqf)

102 >>>And his still up in the polls with everyone running him down including you. You understand, you just won't admit it.

I love how all the polls are rigged except the ones showing Trump ahead of someone. THOSE polls are 100% REAL, BABY!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:21 PM (iHBZj)

103 So...Star Trek...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

104 "And let's not dance around it: Biden will probably not even be alive by November 2024. His spirit may be willing, but his flesh is rotten and demented. He is one slip in the shower, one tug of a dog's tale, one dizzying powersniff of a little girl's hair, away from Perdition."

If the deep state sees a big loss incoming, I have a feeling Biden will not be in the race by next summer - feel free to fill in the blanks for how this happens, but nothing is better than a "win one for the gipper" campaign...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (exHjb)

105 It makes as much sense as people simping for DeSantis when he's 20 POINTS BEHIND Trump in almost every poll.

Or as much sense as saying "why is DeSantis down by x points" when DeSantis hasn't even declared.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (eOEVl)

106 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.
__________

Now he has a semi-colon, but still no period.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (lf83v)

107 90 okay so you're claiming Trump isn't vain?
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Can you name one politician that isn't vain?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (Fbj1q)

108 New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof posited the idea in a recent piece that people who are worried about people breaking into their homes should get bear spray for self-defense instead of a firearm.

.. the bear spray would help identify your murderer

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (RHGPo)

109 Biden couldn't care less about the NYT opinion page or how many Democrats say they don't want him to run. The instant he wins the Dem Nomination (today, pretty much) he knows the usual Dem voters will be all-in for him sooner or later, and so will the NYT.

RFK Jr. will never be given an opportunity to debate Joe. Nor will any other Dem challengers. Unless the DNC abandons Joe for Gavin or ??? before the SC Dem primary. The only way Joe is not on the ballot in November 2024 is if he is dead. Not in Fetterman condition, but dead, dead, dead. Before the ballots are printed, that is.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (AMIL/)

110 "Biden will run for re-election in 2024, and he'll live to 2035. Looks like the first half of that prediction is coming true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

It could happen.

Posted by: not a zombie yet Jimmy Carter at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (iayUP)

111 >>>101 Well, at least Belafonte killed the chimaera. So there’s that.

that was a long way to go for a reference. Welcome back!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (iHBZj)

112 Horror story: Teen boy dies in "gender-affirming" operation where doctors tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon

.. this blood is on Joe Biden's hands
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (RHGPo)

In fairness to Gropey, I'm pretty sure the boy's parents, therapists, and "doctors" get a considerable amount of blood as well.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (bhRsz)

113 She had trouble correctly identifying the Food and Drug Administration. . . but she didn't seem to have trouble saying "Mifepristone."

Things that make you go "Hmm."

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (qa8SC)

114 103 So...Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

'Obsession' has to be one of my favorite TOS episodes.

*subtle dig*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

115 106 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.
__________

Now he has a semi-colon, but still no period.
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Weird. He already had a colon but not a front colon.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (Fbj1q)

116 People here--including me-- and elsewhere have said at various times that Biden "won't be alive come Election Day (2020)....Inauguration Day.... Christmas 2021... Summer 2023...." and now the primaries and Election of 2024"

Let's cut it out.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (mR6Gs)

117 Horror story: Teen boy dies in "gender-affirming" operation where doctors tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon

Eh. He died doing what he loved. Or something.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (ppBhU)

118 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.

the lgbt crowd has a serious problem mistaking colons for vaginas

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (lO5WT)

119 Meanwhile, Biden is six points behind a "generic Republican."
________

Which just means he's the overwhelming favorite to beat any actual Republican.

Has anyone considered that maybe the senility is an act, to deflect charges of lying? OK, I don't either.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (TgBWG)

120 The New York Times chides Biden for remaining Basement Biden, refusing to present himself for press conferences.
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I wonder if Biden's handlers will make the obvious point and hit back at the NYT with the observation that the prior president committed an unprecedented amount of total time to the press and granted the press more access than any other president, and it made no difference to the press' treatment of him. Why should Biden expect a different outcome?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (t0OGg)

121 112 In fairness to Gropey, I'm pretty sure the boy's parents, therapists, and "doctors" get a considerable amount of blood as well.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (bhRsz)

=========

"We just didn't want a dead son!"
-The mom

"He didn't think he was a girl until you told him he was."
-The dad, under his breath.

"What the fuck did you say, dickless?"
"Nothing, honey..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

122 Democrats will always vote for whoever they're told to when it comes time for the election.

Anything else they do beforehand is just banging their sippy cups on the table for attention.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (wb1YC)

123 Biden says no debates, so does DJT, from what I'm reading.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 02:16 PM (jTmQV)
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From the Dem point of view, why would you ever agree to debate an inhuman monster in the form of Generic Republican or Actual Republican.

As far as the Dems are concerned, their way of life has been proven to be superior. The SCIENCE(TM) on that is settled! Thus, debates are at best a pointless waste of time. At worst, they are an opportunity for the opposition to "infect" voters' minds with wrongthink.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (YIVH2)

124 Does Trump have *any* flaws, or is he the first perfect man since Jesus?

Does Trump have any virtues or is he the worst person ever since Stalin?

We can play this game forever; the focus should be on the good and bad of someone, not playing sides like a football cheerleader. Rah rah my guy your guy sucks!

No republican presidential candidate is going to win in 2024 so it seems incredibly counterproductive and destructive to get so wound up for or agin' any of them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (0hOvj)

125 >>>Week after week, I keep hoping that Biden will keel over, preferably on camera. And week after week, I keep being disappointed.

what a terrible thing to say!
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (iHBZj)

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Are you being facetious now?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (3JfbU)

126 When will Joe walk out wearing bunny slippers and pyjamas?

Posted by: NL at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (eGTCV)

127 How does Chuy feel about Trump?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (udHqf)

128 RFK Jr. will never be given an opportunity to debate Joe. Nor will any other Dem challengers.

You are correct, sir! He'd do to Biden what Tulsi did to Kamala.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (eOEVl)

129 "I've said this before, but I do not understand Trump Fans' crowing about a poll showing Trump one or two points over the most disastrous president, ever. Don't people understand that having a two point poll lead over the worst president ever is not a sign of strength?"

It gets worse for Trump. Fair or not, he will not generate the vote of any generic Republican. He will also provide Biden the advantage of avoiding voters most important issues, the ones he's failing on, to take a back seat. Instead it will be about Trump as co start deflection. It will also take away the age issue, as the media will doggedly pursue that. There are a lot of things unique to Trump that no other candidate would carry as baggage. But it would take honesty to admit that.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (ATSTk)

130 Weird. He already had a colon but not a front colon.
________

A front colon is also called a Colon Kaepernick.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (lf83v)

131 >>>
Now he has a semi-colon, but still no period.
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Weird. He already had a colon but not a front colon.

...

oof

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (iHBZj)

132 Would you want to be on stage with someone who is literally Hitler?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (iayUP)

133 You'd certainly think RDS is nothing if not the quintessential Generic Republican. And while devoting inordinate amounts of time to wars on DisneyWorld and abortion might win a Republican primary (they won't), it doesn't make him look safe and generic.

Some might say... Sanctimonious?

Now if you said Donald Trump had magical powers that forces his rivals and enemies to act as he describes them, that might actually be a good argument against the man.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (DTm0P)

134 I fully expect an AI version of Joe Biden to be used in ads. Audio engineers will spend weeks building the speech from various attempts at recording and previous statements.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Ooooooo, like Max Headroom?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (0S+wE)

135 Obviously, Biden's handlers want to delay until the optimum moment to declare him physically (not mentally) unable to continue beyond the 2025 inauguration. Probably a means of keeping Kamala out.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (TgBWG)

136 His flaw is he is competent and can speak in complete sentences. He also knows how to get America back on track. If Deep State assassinates him then its game on.

Yeah, no.

If the Deep state whacked Trump, the Democrats and Republicans would call for the day to be made a national holiday.

And the mythical 'pissed off twenty millon gun owners' would just pop another bottle of Bud Light and tune in the latest sportsball narcotic.

As they say, that dog won't hunt.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (AW0uW)

137 What's the WaPo have to say?

NYT is the State paper. WaPo is the Party paper. Unless they agree, it is foolish to consider that there are *any* meaningful or realizable plans to push Biden out.

So the state and the IC - the meta-faction that the NYT represents - isn't thrilled with Biden and might have a preferred choice? Big whoop. The Party is holding firm.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (t0OGg)

138 132 Would you want to be on stage with someone who is literally Hitler?
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (iayUP)

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Would he sign my painting?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

139 This is theater.

NYT. Wallstreet Journal. Others will chime in.

In the, they will say: we too have reservations about Joe Biden. Look at what we wrote in April 2023 (and a few other times). But at this critical juncture in American history, Yada Yada Yada. And Trump's xxxxxxxx

And if Joe Biden wins, the American people have "chose."

They won't come out and endorse him. But they sure as he won't endorse the R.

See. We are neutral. MSM

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (NW9xb)

140 >>>Are you being facetious now?

"what a terrible thing to say!" means "I feel ya but I don't want the Fed Infiltrators to arrest me"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (iHBZj)

141 People here--including me-- and elsewhere have said at various times that Biden "won't be alive come Election Day (2020)....Inauguration Day.... Christmas 2021... Summer 2023...." and now the primaries and Election of 2024"

Let's cut it out.
Posted by: JoeF. at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (mR6Gs)
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Indeed. FJB no doubt made a pact with the Powers Down Below that will have him outliving the rest of us by a considerable margin.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (YIVH2)

142
Our ONLY SLIM HOPE is biden dropping dead in the Summer of '24.

A stolen election for harris won't be an easy sell. They'll try, tough.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (fyOvJ)

143 Would you want to be on stage with someone who is literally Hitler?

Am I time traveler in this hypothetical?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (ppBhU)

144 Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was paid $1.5 million over the decade to run a non-profit film and school curriculum organization, Adam Andrzejewski told the Drill Down. The group licenses its films to 5,000 schools across the country, which pay licensing fees to the non-profit. The non-profit doesn’t create the films. That’s done by a for-profit film production company she also owns, which made $1.6 million over the last decade.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (RHGPo)

145 137 So the state and the IC - the meta-faction that the NYT represents - isn't thrilled with Biden and might have a preferred choice? Big whoop. The Party is holding firm.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (t0OGg)

========

"I want my puppet master's puppet on the throne!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

146 I like what RFK, Jr is saying, but I cannot vote for him because he is communist-adjacent, if not a true commie, and part of the fucking Kennedy dynasty.
Screw this bullshit Kennedy/Clinton/Bush/Obama aristocratic nonsense.
Every. Incumbent. Out.

I can almost tolerate a 'classic' liberal.
And I despise the GOPe.
Very frustrating.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (ufFY8)

147 RFK Jr. will never be given an opportunity to debate Joe. Nor will any other Dem challengers. Unless the DNC abandons Joe for Gavin or ??? before the SC Dem primary. The only way Joe is not on the ballot in November 2024 is if he is dead. Not in Fetterman condition, but dead, dead, dead. Before the ballots are printed, that is.
Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (AMIL/)

Joe Biden will remain on the ballot as the Democrat nominee for President until the moment when, dead or alive, it looks like he will lose. Then he'll be replaced--no matter what deadlines have passed or how close to Election Day he is dropped.

That's how the Democrats roll.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (mR6Gs)

148 >>Horror story: Teen boy dies in "gender-affirming" operation where doctors tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon

What a shitty way to go.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (8c8Y3)

149 People here--including me-- and elsewhere have said at various times that Biden "won't be alive"

Yeah I expected Bill Clinton to be pushing up daisies by 2020, and he's still kicking around, somehow. I mean I know that they eat the souls of infants like Skeksis and have all this experimental medicine pumping stuff into them to keep them going, but its ridiculous sometimes how these decrepit, rotting souls keep going.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (0hOvj)

150 Democrats showed us that they could basically elect a glass of water aka John Fetterman.

They are not worried about Biden. He is perfect for them, as they can control him like a puppet and he will do whatever they tell him to.

He doesn't even need to campaign. All he has to do is make videos from his basement with a nice set design and people will vote for him.

It worked the 1st time and it will work the 2nd time.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (NpAcC)

151 140 >>>Are you being facetious now?

"what a terrible thing to say!" means "I feel ya but I don't want the Fed Infiltrators to arrest me"
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (iHBZj)

Dammit, your clever ruse is now blown!

You deserve to get nabbed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (zZu0s)

152 >>It's like playing chess and plotting your strategy around the opponent making his worse possible moves, instead of his strongest.

To be fair, that would be a good strategy if playing me.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (t4BDZ)

153 Bear spray?
And will police charge you should you use it for non-bears?
And how soon will it become controlled , then outlawed after they outlaw guns?

( insert UK police tweet where they show off a pile of confiscated “weapons “ that are mostly kitchen knives, a few spoons and a small pair of scissors here)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (QRJR+)

154 Ace, one way to win friends and influence people is to insult them. Someone wrote a book about it.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (3JfbU)

155 The fact that Brandon did not hire Dylan Mulvaney as his campaign manager just proves that he is out of touch with Mainstream Nike-wearin', Bud Light-drinkin' Americans.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (p2511)

156 Biden says no debates, so does DJT, from what I'm reading.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken

I just hope Kennedy can get enough traction and tag BiteMe with cowardice. mebbe he'll get angry enough to throw a clot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (jzzG8)

157 You'd certainly think RDS is nothing if not the quintessential Generic Republican.

No, YOU might.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (eOEVl)

158 Has anyone considered that maybe the senility is an act, to deflect charges of lying? OK, I don't either.
Biden the "Chin"? Swims nude so I doubt he wanders around in his pj's.

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (KIWeW)

159 splice with his gestapo rally video, where he is foaming at the mouth over his political opponents.
Posted by: scruboak

Yes. Totally agree

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (NW9xb)

160 An assertion that Biden was elected fair and square is a historical mistake.
His installation as president was a historic mistake.
His reinstallation would be an enormity.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (wzAuc)

161 "Or as much sense as saying "why is DeSantis down by x points" when DeSantis hasn't even declared."

So you believe OJ Simpson didn't kill his wife and that waiter? I mean, he was TECHNICALLY found not guilty the same way DeSantis is TECHNICALLY not running for President.

Posted by: MBunge at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (2tWdQ)

162 157 You'd certainly think RDS is nothing if not the quintessential Generic Republican.

No, YOU might.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (eOEVl)

========

No generic Republican would have such a deep appreciation of Nickelback.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

163 >>>ou'd certainly think RDS is nothing if not the quintessential Generic Republican. And while devoting inordinate amounts of time to wars on DisneyWorld and abortion might win a Republican primary (they won't), it doesn't make him look safe and generic.

a lot of Trump's supporters have drunk the Trump Kool_Aid and accepted that the culture war against Woke Corporations is "so Unnecessary" and "just a Political Stunt!"

A month ago you were cheering him on, now Trump wants to denigrate him so we're all Disney Fans now.

Next up: Transgenders should be allowed to use women's bathrooms. Caitlyn Jenner is stunning and brave!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (iHBZj)

164 @73

>>It makes as much sense as people simping for DeSantis when he's 20 POINTS BEHIND Trump in almost every poll.

Well, there's also the fact that he hasn't actually declared yet.

Maybe one day in the not too distant future he'll declare.

My money is on him getting everyone all hot and bothered and then announce he's not announcing and anyone who thought he was running for President was silly because he's already got a job and an important one too, a job he's going to finish by golly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (up/3i)

165 like what RFK, Jr is saying, but I cannot vote for him because he is communist-adjacent, if not a true commie, and part of the fucking Kennedy dynasty.
Screw this bullshit Kennedy/Clinton/Bush/Obama aristocratic nonsense.
Every. Incumbent. Out.

Don't worry. No way Big Pharma permits RFK Jr to win.
And no way the CIA allows him to get close to the JFK files.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (mR6Gs)

166 "what a terrible thing to say!" means "I feel ya but I don't want the Fed Infiltrators to arrest me"
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (iHBZj)

I never said "die." I just said "keel over." Could have meant any number of things. English no my first language, senor.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (bhRsz)

167 >>>Week after week, I keep hoping that Biden will keel over, preferably on camera. And week after week, I keep being disappointed.

what a terrible thing to say!

***

It certainly is. I mean, why is George Soros and Henry Kissinger not on that list?

Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (wb1YC)

168 >> Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Her father is Kenneth Siebel from Cisco. He owns a giant ranch just up the road.

Her little sister is hot. A bit like Bunny Lebowski iykwim.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (8c8Y3)

169 Now he has a semi-colon, but still no period.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (lf83v)

ISWYDT

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (MkuC5)

170 "Trump is a vane man, this is the truth."
Posted by: REDACTED

okay so you're claiming Trump isn't vain?

Does Trump have *any* flaws, or is he the first perfect man since Jesus?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (iHBZj)

not what I said, sonny

I would like to think you're better than that

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (us2H3)

171 Ooooooo, like Max Headroom?

But considerably less entertaining. And no Amanda Pays

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (0hOvj)

172 I would like to pick hitler's brain on his speaking style.

So, do you literally get that keyed up? Because I am wondering how you have not stroked out by now.

I remember there was some recording on youtube where he is talking normally with someone about the situation on the Eastern Front and his voice is not quite what you would expect outside of the screaming and ranting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

173 I've got this...

Posted by: Gen. Eric Republican at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (flINI)

174 Tyler also has experience working on technical ballot problems.

.. of course since they parted ways with Marc Elias who got paid something like $6 million to handle the ZERO federal recounts the DNC needed help with.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (RHGPo)

175 So we're gonna carry this shit over from the last thread? Cool. See you guys later.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (DRSnL)

176 Minimum 150 million votes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (rRjGT)

177 111 Thanks, Ace. I made a similar joke in the Morning Report thread.

I was gone from the blog for awhile the last couple of weeks because my old phone died, and I was having technical difficulties with my new one, which are finally resolved.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (udHqf)

178 163 a lot of Trump's supporters have drunk the Trump Kool_Aid and accepted that the culture war against Woke Corporations is "so Unnecessary" and "just a Political Stunt!"

A month ago you were cheering him on, now Trump wants to denigrate him so we're all Disney Fans now.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (iHBZj)

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I'm curious about this specific charge, especially among the commentariat here. I don't think I've seen anyone on Disney's side in the comments. It may be different in Twitter sphere (I fully recognize that I'm in a bubble, and I try to adjust my expectations accordingly), but I just haven't seen it at AoSHQ.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

179 It will also take away the age issue, as the media will doggedly pursue that.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (ATSTk)

Watch any number of Trump videos on Rumble. Do you think you could be a headliner at major events drawing thousands of people? Tens of thousands, at quite a few of his rallies. I couldn't keep that pace up, certainly not over most of a decade, and I'm on the right side of forty.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (DTm0P)

180
Second look at Pence?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (fyOvJ)

181 So you believe OJ Simpson didn't kill his wife and that waiter? I mean, he was TECHNICALLY found not guilty the same way DeSantis is TECHNICALLY not running for President.

You're new here, so I won't point out that I get "but he hasn't declared!" thrown up as an argument for Trump on virtually every T/DeS thread. I figure if you guys are going with that, I'd try it out.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (eOEVl)

182 It gets worse for Trump. Fair or not, he will not generate the vote of any generic Republican. He will also provide Biden the advantage of avoiding voters most important issues, the ones he's failing on, to take a back seat. Instead it will be about Trump as co start deflection. It will also take away the age issue, as the media will doggedly pursue that. There are a lot of things unique to Trump that no other candidate would carry as baggage. But it would take honesty to admit that.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 02:24 PM (ATSTk)
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The latter is entirely possible, but I don't think the first point is relevant. No Republican is as good as the "generic Republican."

The generic Republican is not a person. He's a way for poll respondents to say, "yes, I am dissatisfied with the current state of affairs and think a change would be nice - so long as there are no strings attached."

When that the Republican stops being "generic" and becomes an actual person, it stops being an anonymized hypothetical and becomes a real choice and a big chunk of those people who treat the "generic Republican" question as an equally generic "I'm happy or unhappy" question will vanish.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (t0OGg)

183 >>>not what I said, sonny

I would like to think you're better than that

what DID You mean then?

Because you keep saying things and when confronted about them, you say "I didn't say that."

You sure did seem to find fault with Karen Townsend for noting that Vain Man is Vain.

So what did you mean?

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (iHBZj)

184 104 "And let's not dance around it: Biden will probably not even be alive by November 2024. His spirit may be willing, but his flesh is rotten and demented. He is one slip in the shower, one tug of a dog's tale, one dizzying powersniff of a little girl's hair, away from Perdition."

If the deep state sees a big loss incoming, I have a feeling Biden will not be in the race by next summer - feel free to fill in the blanks for how this happens, but nothing is better than a "win one for the gipper" campaign...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM

What happens if he is the nominee but becomes brain mushed say three months out. Do they have to run him any way? Fetterman style or trade him out for another. Doesn't really matter. Everyone voting D knows it doesn't matter wh the D is. The Marxists buried in the alphabet agencies run the show either way.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (0Qrr3)

185 At this point I am pretty sure that the only way zBiden exits is when the Democrat machine nudges him out. He and his wife will campaign to his dying breath.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (QRJR+)

186 Democracy demands that we accept mail in ballots from anywhere in the world!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (rRjGT)

187 >> No, "electing" Biden the first time was a historical mistake.

Hey, Ricky Lips, Military Tribunals are being held right now at the White House since 2021.
Patriots in Control ✌️

Posted by: Is schizophrenia contagious? at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (Y0fvy)

188 173 I've got this...
Posted by: Gen. Eric Republican at April 25, 2023 02:28 PM (flINI)

Your fedora, sir.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (zZu0s)

189 >>>Are you being facetious now?

"what a terrible thing to say!" means "I feel ya but I don't want the Fed Infiltrators to arrest me"
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:25 PM (iHBZj)

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You mean like they indicted Trump?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (3JfbU)

190 It's not that Kennedy was keenly prophetic in his crazy rantings about Big Pharma. He wasn't.

Big Pharma just did such crazy shit that the two crazies just merged.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (lf83v)

191 Next up: Transgenders should be allowed to use women's bathrooms.

yes, true, we all support this, let's not be uncompassionate

we just say no to taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for undocumented minors, that's out hill to die on, this week

Posted by: GOP slides left every time at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (lO5WT)

192 It makes as much sense as people simping for DeSantis when he's 20 POINTS BEHIND Trump in almost every poll.

It varies a lot; any time DeSantis gains, Trump throws out some lame attack. But as others have pointed out, DeSantis hasn't actually declared yet so who knows what the numbers would look like if that happens.

I hope he does not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)

193 >>>
I'm curious about this specific charge, especially among the commentariat here. I don't think I've seen anyone on Disney's side in the comments. It may be different in Twitter sphere (I fully recognize that I'm in a bubble, and I try to adjust my expectations accordingly), but I just haven't seen it at AoSHQ.

Trev006 is right there saying DeSantis shouldn't be fighting Disney. What more do you want?

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (iHBZj)

194 The age issue with Biden will go away because the media will choose to make it go away.

It doesn't matter who Biden runs against.

That's how the media works. It's like the "corruption" issue. Biden had real corruption problems. Trump didn't Which did the media harp on about for a year?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (LvTSG)

195
I'll consider DeSantis when he's an actual candidate. Otherwise I'm saving my electrons to save the planet.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (enJYY)

196 Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD) up 0.3% on news of Tucker Carlson's firing.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (MvF+J)

197 Is there a chance that maybe Gavin Newsome will be picked to be the dem nominee?

Forget the name recognition, the media will take care of that problem. This would mean the really radical left has control now, as ugly a situation as can be imagined.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (KATBx)

198 @163

>>A month ago you were cheering him on, now Trump wants to denigrate him so we're all Disney Fans now.

Hey, I love what DeSantis is doing in Florida, it's a nice change of pace from the the whole lot of nothing he was doing while in congress.

He should remain in Florida as Governor and run in 28'.

I know that presupposes elections are still a thing in 28 and not some Potemkin exercise we do to pass the time between Horrors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (up/3i)

199 193 Trev006 is right there saying DeSantis shouldn't be fighting Disney. What more do you want?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (iHBZj)

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Okay, so there is at least one person.

Cool.

I just hadn't seen it. It's a weird thing to hear, and it didn't conform to what I expected from this crowd. Yeah, that's funky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (LvTSG)

200 So what did you mean?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (iHBZj)

you can't possibly be this dumb

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (us2H3)

201
My one crazy stupid trick to winning money is betting against people who claimed Biden would be dead by now.

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (j4U/Z)

202
With or without Trump, the 2024 election will be about Trump. But without Trump, only to a small degree.

With Trump, the '24 election will Not be about the "issues."

Without Trump, the election *might be* about the Normal vs Insane, if we're lucky.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (fyOvJ)

203 Steve Hilton, a Trump apologist on Fox on Sunday nights, I think, just announced that fighting Disney was silly and a waste of time.

So the meme that we shoudn't fight Trump-donating AB and Disney is widespread. Trump said so, and therefore it is true.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

204 145 137 So the state and the IC - the meta-faction that the NYT represents - isn't thrilled with Biden and might have a preferred choice? Big whoop. The Party is holding firm.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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"I want my puppet master's puppet on the throne!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There are several factions within the Biden junta and it appears that some are happy with Biden while others are not. Without actually knowing Biden's medical condition, we are faced with the stupid or demented paradox because of observational equivalence. Kamala does not have that paradox in evaluation.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (Vtm8d)

205 What would really make the Democrats and media ( and probably ace too) shit their drawers would be for De Santis to announce that's he's NOT running for President and immediately endorsing Trump.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (mR6Gs)

206 OAN Founder Says He'd Pay Tucker Carlson $25 Million To Join Network

"And he would be well worth that!"

.. I heard Tucker was getting something like $30 to$60 million from FoxNews

It is well worth mentioning that Tucker had his own production company that delivered completed shows to FoxNews, so that means anything Tucker may have held back (i.e. Jan-6 stuff, etc) is owned by his production company and NOT FoxNews.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

207 Does Trump have *any* flaws, or is he the first perfect man since Jesus?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (iHBZj)

A lot of people say Trump is the best Jesus. The best. Even people who don't like Trump very much say he makes the best Jesus. It's true.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (uWZBp)

208 a lot of Trump's supporters have drunk the Trump Kool_Aid

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I get that you’re off the Trump train, but why insult half your readers?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (u73oe)

209 A month ago you were cheering him on, now Trump wants to denigrate him so we're all Disney Fans now.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:27 PM (iHBZj)

There's a huge gulf between wanting Little Mermaid remakes and wanting to build a state prison next to DisneyWorld. (seriously, he said that). You don't even HAVE to do anything that Disney isn't doing to itself. But the weird part is, you can't criticize any of the suicidal pandering RDS does to stay relevant without being an implacable enemy.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (DTm0P)

210 182 When that the Republican stops being "generic" and becomes an actual person, it stops being an anonymized hypothetical and becomes a real choice and a big chunk of those people who treat the "generic Republican" question as an equally generic "I'm happy or unhappy" question will vanish.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (t0OGg)

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"Mitt Romney put a dog on his roof? I can't believe Republicans would nominate such a monster! I wish I could have a generic Republican to vote for. Instead, I shall vote for moral Obama."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

211 >>>you can't possibly be this dumb

but I am that dumb. Please tell me what you meant.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

212 Now he has a semi-colon, but still no period.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:22 PM (lf83v)

I am going to HELL for laughing so hard at that one!

Posted by: pookysgirl apparently just lost her soul at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (dtlDP)

213 150 Democrats showed us that they could basically elect a glass of water aka John Fetterman.

It worked the 1st time and it will work the 2nd time.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (NpAcC)

And this is exactly why DeSantis should just walk away.

I don't care what Trump does, but he seems certain he can beat Fetterman.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (MkuC5)

214 Does Trump have *any* flaws, or is he the first perfect man since Jesus?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:20 PM (iHBZj)
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I quite didn't like Trump from years of watching him on The Apprentice. The process of getting to vote for him was a process of seeing what he does that's different and sometimes what is good.

Because Republicans made him the only gamble to make sure somebody like Garland didn't get on the Supreme Court.

I'd say that in watching Trump, even he would admit he has an ego. Does that make him "egotistical"? I don't think so. He might have had a margin of excess ego than someone needs to apply for the most important and powerful job in America.

Trump loosely applies his rules. Which is why I got tired of watching him. But one of the rules he tries to achieve is Win-Win. He knew there was praise in doling out praise, which he did quite a lot.

As "egotistical" as people claim he is, they also gripe about the praise he handed out to the "wrong people".

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (krQz2)

215 You're new here, so I won't point out that I get "but he hasn't declared!" thrown up as an argument for Trump on virtually every T/DeS thread. I figure if you guys are going with that, I'd try it out.

In any case, of course someone who's been president, especially a polarizing figure like Trump, has sky-high name recognition. We may spend hours fighting over these two, but the average voter probably doesn't even know who DeSantis is.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (eOEVl)

216 Unrelated but I ran across this little tidbit this past weekend on Twitter and it's the funniest shit I've read in a while.

"David French earns an annual salary of $84,522. This is according to The Dispatch anchors/reporters salaries."

Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (wb1YC)

217 Yeah I expected Bill Clinton to be pushing up daisies by 2020, and he's still kicking around, somehow. I mean I know that they eat the souls of infants like Skeksis and have all this experimental medicine pumping stuff into them to keep them going, but its ridiculous sometimes how these decrepit, rotting souls keep going.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (0hOvj)
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Our corrupt gerontocracy is very weird and unusual. It is not normal for so many people to live so long and remain lucid and active enough to stay in power. They aren't in great shape, but they're not the shuffling decrepits they should be (notable exceptions like Biden aside).

I don't know what they're doing to stay alive so long, but it is probably profoundly evil. It would not surprise me if they're harvesting children for precious parts and bodily fluids to keep themselves alive. It's a mystery, and I strongly suspect that's a particularly nasty kind of evil.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (t0OGg)

218 D win is problematic. The supreme court. Even if Bill Kristol is ok with Dem dominating the Supreme Court, I am not.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (HmA4g)

219 I don't care what Trump does, but he seems certain he can beat Fetterman.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (MkuC5)
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Stinks of ableism, if he's able to do that.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (krQz2)

220 the deep state sees a big loss incoming, I have a feeling Biden will not be in the race by next summer - feel free to fill in the blanks for how this happens, but nothing is better than a "win one for the gipper" campaign...
Posted by: Nova Local

Agreed. Harris moves to the top. Gavin as VP.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (NW9xb)

221 and when harris is pres and the dems add four seats to the supreme court, she'll step down to become associate justice harris and vp hillary gets to be the first woman president who actually deserved to be the first woman president.
ok, i think maybe i get some actual work done.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (B1FKF)

222 We are cute and valid and not worried about alienating 200-300 million citizens away from the voting holes.

Posted by: MAGA Troons at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (Y0fvy)

223 >>>There's a huge gulf between wanting Little Mermaid remakes and wanting to build a state prison next to DisneyWorld. (seriously, he said that). You don't even HAVE to do anything that Disney isn't doing to itself. But the weird part is, you can't criticize any of the suicidal pandering RDS does to stay relevant without being an implacable enemy.

let's agree that you're not very interested in fightng the culture war except on the superficial "Twitter smack" level that Trump prefers.

That's fine. A lot of people supported trump precisely because he was NOT a traditionalist Christian conservative, but more libertarain.

but then don't tell me that DeSantis is the sell-out and Trump is the True Warrior.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (iHBZj)

224 Trump is a vane man, this is the truth."

There is a chicken on his head?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (ufFY8)

225 Biden beat Trump once already. Trump still Believes the only reason was voter fraud. He won't change a thing and lose again. "I'm great at picking them!"

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (ATSTk)

226 I am going to HELL for laughing so hard at that one!
Posted by: pookysgirl
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I look forward to the company!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (lf83v)

227 https://tinyurl.com/yndp9y2m

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (2hlEI)

228 209 There's a huge gulf between wanting Little Mermaid remakes and wanting to build a state prison next to DisneyWorld. (seriously, he said that). You don't even HAVE to do anything that Disney isn't doing to itself. But the weird part is, you can't criticize any of the suicidal pandering RDS does to stay relevant without being an implacable enemy.
Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (DTm0P)

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I'm pretty sure that was a joke to imply that Disney doesn't run the show in Reedy Creek anymore.

I took him seriously, not literally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

229 I don't feel insulted. I can think for myself. Maybe it's because I haven't had any koolaid in years.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (iayUP)

230 News report from the 2024 presidential election:

One key to Biden's overwhelming victory? He won 97% of the vote in the Dominion districts. Just a monster showing all around. And we'll give you $800 million reasons why we totally believe all the vote totals we're hearing right now.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (KbCG3)

231 Putin is about to die.

Again.

https://tinyurl.com/5n753ccb

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (2tUFv)

232 200 So what did you mean?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:29 PM (iHBZj)

you can't possibly be this dumb
Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:31 PM (us2H3)

This is the internet, sir! WE ARE ALL THAT DUMB!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (zZu0s)

233 Wolfgang Pauli's birthday. This photo says it was his 45th, but there are only maybe nine candles on the cake. However, I'd love to meet The Bringer Of Cake here.
https://tinyurl.com/yjctyhs4

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (MvF+J)

234 I was very disappointed when Trump nominated his liberal sister from New Jersey to the Supreme Court. I should have seen it coming.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (uWZBp)

235 Big Pharma

Facism is what happened. As late as the Clinton admin, the Dems were remarkably hostile to pharma companies, in part because of the outsized role plaintiffs' lawyers played in the Dem coalition. GWB, by contrast, was on the side of Big Pharma to an almost laughable degree. That dynamic changed in the Obama admin. Whether it was the pharma companies that reached out to him or vice versa, the Dem establishment made its peace with Big Pharma, which now has no natural enemies in Washington. It's like everything else now: uniparty-corporate partnership.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (ppBhU)

236 Everyone mourns the Tranny.

None mourn the poor, innocent Tilapia.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (8c8Y3)

237 DeSantis has imposed REAL BILLION DOLLAR CONSEQUENCES on Disney for interfering in politics.

If you'd prefer just complaining about it on Twitter, fine, that's where you stand.

I can't help but think that this sudden aversion to culture war issues has SOMETHING to do with Trump deciding they shouldn't be fought

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (iHBZj)

238 What more do you want?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (iHBZj)

Disney with a semi-colon, for $20, Alex?

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (MkuC5)

239 Excellent news about Tucker owning his content, SMOD! I was wondering if Fox would bury it like how Spotify has buried so many of Joe Rohan’s old episodes.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (QRJR+)

240 I get that you’re off the Trump train, but why insult half your readers?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (u73oe)

It's basically a total meltdown. The NeverTrump movement at Hot Air and their secret pals were quite happy to anoint any generic Republican the Obvious and Unquestioned Nominee. Hell, with the amount of money RDS has raised he really can't afford to say he's waiting for 2028. But his latest moves have sunk his candidacy, far earlier than Scott Walker or even Kamala Harris in their cycles.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (DTm0P)

241 Democrats showed us that they could basically elect a glass of water aka John Fetterman.

It worked the 1st time and it will work the 2nd time.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 02:26 PM (NpAcC)

And this is exactly why DeSantis should just walk away.

I don't care what Trump does, but he seems certain he can beat Fetterman.

This argument baffles me. The Dems are unbeatable, so he shouldn't run in '24? Then why won't the be unbeatable in '28?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (eOEVl)

242 Democrats will always vote for whoever they're told to when it comes time for the election.

Anything else they do beforehand is just banging their sippy cups on the table for attention.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (wb1YC)

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Which is why all of this is pointless, we are now just arguing over which one of our candidates will have the misfortune to be defeated.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (3JfbU)

243 His announcement of "Let's finish the job" sounds ominous!

Posted by: InZona at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (a6Pki)

244 What happens if he is the nominee but becomes brain mushed say three months out. Do they have to run him any way? Fetterman style or trade him out for another. Doesn't really matter. Everyone voting D knows it doesn't matter wh the D is. The Marxists buried in the alphabet agencies run the show either way.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Remember Torricelli? Yeah, our fell courts will allow him to remain on the ballot while a replacement runs in place. They'll just claim that people vote for the party anyway, doo-di-doodily-doo~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (jzzG8)

245 It is well worth mentioning that Tucker had his own production company that delivered completed shows to FoxNews, so that means anything Tucker may have held back (i.e. Jan-6 stuff, etc) is owned by his production company and NOT FoxNews.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

I'd like to see that kind of move work out. Tucker joins OANN, his name-recognition pumps new life into that org, it becomes a viable alternative to Fox once again.

But what I'd like to see happen very rarely does.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (bhRsz)

246 >>I expected Bill Clinton to be pushing up daisies by 2020, and he's still kicking around, somehow.

The STDs are the only thing keeping him alive.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (8c8Y3)

247 >>>I'm pretty sure that was a joke to imply that Disney doesn't run the show in Reedy Creek anymore.

i think it was a mention of a real possiblity, but not a likely one. it was 90% saber rattling and 10% putting it in play.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (iHBZj)

248 Regarding Trump vs DeSantis, unless voting is made secure in key states, it really does not matter.

See no signs of Ronna and the RNC crew doing it, not much sign of either candidate setting up a network of operatives to do it (you need lawsuits now in the mill to clear out floaters from the voter rolls). Floaters are those registered to non existent residences, that may or may not be dead, moved, or other such, etc. Federal and state lawsuits to clear the rolls are relatively simple to do.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (Vtm8d)

249 Very pointy these days. Pointy.

Posted by: Is he giving someone the finger? at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (sh1GZ)

250 D win is problematic. The supreme court. Even if Bill Kristol is ok with Dem dominating the Supreme Court, I am not.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 02:33 PM (HmA4g)
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We will get a lot more suits like the Dominion suit upheld at the highest level.

The "progressive" principle of "There ARE no 'other sides' to some questions". Will be enshrined into some sort of Constitutional test and yes, you cannot have somebody on a news show to "represent the other side" that shouldn't exist" such as deniers who say things like an election that Democrats won was fixed.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (krQz2)

251 WA HB1240 has been signed. The law is written so poorly, it's not certain how it'll be interpreted. Aero Precision, a WA gun part manufacturing company, has decided to suspend selling ANY AR parts to WA residents. Yes, that includes the "non-firearm" parts like buffer tubes and stocks.

https://bit.ly/3Lu9Bgo

Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (R38qh)

252 There are several factions within the Biden junta and it appears that some are happy with Biden while others are not. Without actually knowing Biden's medical condition, we are faced with the stupid or demented paradox because of observational equivalence. Kamala does not have that paradox in evaluation.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (Vtm8d)
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Yup. The NYT/WaPo split covers the big meta-factions, but the specific factions have different outlets. I don't know what all of them are. I know that the "COVID Is Over" faction used The Atlantic, but that battle is basically over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (t0OGg)

253 T-shirt for sale:

"Biden/Fetterman 2024: it's a no-brainer"

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (5Al3g)

254 Biden has chosen a campaign manager, and, ¡Que sopresa!, it's a Latinx woman.7

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What the hell -- is DonkeyChompers chopped tuna?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (wclo2)

255 The best thing DeSantis could do right now is invade Haiti with the FL NG. Imagine what Jean-Pierre would say?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (Fbj1q)

256 Guy, do you ever notice that in some of these threads we seem to have competing commenters who seem to be trying to stir the pot?

Just me?

I am not saying that the argument between Trum v Desantis is not a valid one, but lets save the bloodletting for primary season at least. It is not like we do not have anything to talk about. Unless the plan is to entertain the trolls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

257 No polls, moves, or announcements matter. Whoever TPTB want as president will be president. We're that far gone.

Posted by: InZona at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (a6Pki)

258 211 >>>you can't possibly be this dumb

but I am that dumb. Please tell me what you meant.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

finally, something we can agree on

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (us2H3)

259 I'd like to see that kind of move work out. Tucker joins OANN, his name-recognition pumps new life into that org, it becomes a viable alternative to Fox once again.

But what I'd like to see happen very rarely does.
Posted by: Dr. T
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Tucker has the kind of money to actually buy OANN. Remember, he started the Daily Caller when everyone else called him crazy.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (Vtm8d)

260 " ... reelecting the octogenarian would be a historical mistake."

So, you're telling me repeating a mistake would still be a mistake?

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 25, 2023 02:38 PM (NFaWv)

261 247 >>>I'm pretty sure that was a joke to imply that Disney doesn't run the show in Reedy Creek anymore.

i think it was a mention of a real possiblity, but not a likely one. it was 90% saber rattling and 10% putting it in play.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (iHBZ

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Maybe, but the underlying point really was just, "This land belongs to the people of Florida, not a corporation."

I don't have a problem with that. I don't see why anyone would. In fact, I'd imagine that even the hard left would cheer that, but I guess the hard left is more partisan than ideological. Oh well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:38 PM (LvTSG)

262 258 211 >>>you can't possibly be this dumb

but I am that dumb. Please tell me what you meant.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

finally, something we can agree on

*pulls out lawn chair, opens beer*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:38 PM (eOEVl)

263 GWB, by contrast, was on the side of Big Pharma to an almost laughable degree.
________

Exhibit A: Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. The genesis of the Oxycontine, Overprescription and Opioid Crisis.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (lf83v)

264 256 Guy, do you ever notice that in some of these threads we seem to have competing commenters who seem to be trying to stir the pot?

Just me?

I am not saying that the argument between Trum v Desantis is not a valid one, but lets save the bloodletting for primary season at least. It is not like we do not have anything to talk about. Unless the plan is to entertain the trolls.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

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I'm pretty sure that I'm the only asshole here, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

265 And I managed to miss not one, but two letters that mattered in that comment. Fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

266 "Que sopresa" means "What a sausage!"

"Que sorpresa" means "What a surprise!"

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (MvF+J)

267 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws. Nobody else will be able to weather the absolute shit storm that the 2024 election will be.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

268 193 Trev006 is right there saying DeSantis shouldn't be fighting Disney. What more do you want?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:30 PM (iHBZj)

That's pure deceit, and not even the smart kind. The simplest solution would be to send inspectors to Reddy Creek, like you see in any other part of Florida. If you wanted to impose actual consequences, start tossing fines or jail time at executives.

What are the billion dollar consequences RDS has actually imposed on Disney, anyways? As opposed to talking about imposing? Just because they're losing money due to disastrously converged movie remakes doesn't mean that's all due to the total genius of RDS.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (DTm0P)

269 @231

>>Putin is about to die. Again.

Putin has been dead for several years, he died while attempting to subdue, by hand, an Amur Tiger, while on safari in the Belgorod Region.

The person you see now is a body double recruited from The Russian Culinary School of The Arts and Sciences.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (up/3i)

270 Is it too much to ask for a candidate to tell the LGBTQP community that we don't want your votes or would that make too much sense to win an election by not alienating the 95% that are repulsed by them?
You know the LGBTQ group who is on the congressional record of 86 or 87 that their mission is to sexualize and fuck kids?

Is this to fricken much to ask?

Posted by: Out of the Loop at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (Y0fvy)

271 I'm pretty sure that I'm the only asshole here, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

You're at least partially right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

272
A lot of people ignore what Trump tweets, especially me. I listen to his rallies when the words I am sure come out of his mouth. But his tweets seem to be run through some mean girl Melania to English translation.

Of course I'm still butt hurt that she wanted Dr. Oz for Pennsylvania instead of Kathy Barnett. Now we have the hump for six long years.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (enJYY)

273 Horror story: Teen boy dies in "gender-affirming" operation where doctors tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon

.. this blood is on Joe Biden's hands
Posted by: SMOD

I think the blood is first on his parents hands as I assume he was younger than 18 if called a teen. Next, his butcher doctors and then as the figurehead for Trans rights, Biden. His parents could have stopped this and obviously didn't. I don't doubt that they will blame the surgeon/s and a lawsuit will be coming. God help us.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (oiNtH)

274 Agreed. Harris moves to the top. Gavin as VP.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2023 02:34 PM (NW9xb)
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Don't bet on that. Harris couldn't win her *own* state in the primary. She's stupid and unlikable. She's hugely popular with the Silicon Valley crowd - she's their girl, and they've backed her for a long time - but a lot of people can't stand her. If she has to win the primaries, she likely can't do it.

I'm much more concerned with the idea of Gretchen Whitmer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (t0OGg)

275 2020 will be fucking quaint compared to 2024.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

276 Back in the "normal" America RDS would be a shoo-in. Navy Seal, effective governor. In modern America we fight about whether dudes are better woman swimmers and the need to abolish the second amendment over over "mass" shootings, while Chi-town has twenty shootings every wkend.

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (KIWeW)

277 258 211 >>>you can't possibly be this dumb

but I am that dumb. Please tell me what you meant.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

finally, something we can agree on
Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 02:37 PM (us2H3)

Damn!

Posted by: Hype Man at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (zZu0s)

278 "Que sopresa" means "What a sausage!"

"Que sorpresa" means "What a surprise!"

It could be a surprise sausage. You know, involving otters.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (eOEVl)

279 The thing that should give everyone pause is time. There are s a lot of it between now and the conventions and now and 11/24. We're all talking like the election is tomorrow but between now and then Biden could take the dirt nap, Russia and /or China or this clusterf**k of an administration could set off WWIII, there could a massive economic crash or some flaming idiot could loose another plague. The speed of communication has given everyone the attention span of a gnat who tries to win a one hour news cycle. Take a deep breath

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (1Ohlm)

280 If you'd prefer just complaining about it on Twitter, fine, that's where you stand.

I can't help but think that this sudden aversion to culture war issues has SOMETHING to do with Trump deciding they shouldn't be fought
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (iHBZj)

It smacks a little of Congressional GOPers passing all the red-meat bills and resolutions anyone could ask for, as long as Obama was there to veto them all, but once they had the chance under Trump himself to enact those into law? Not so much.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (bhRsz)

281
bonhomme, I saw this yesterday and think you'd like it:

https://youtu.be/l3Mo689_1ds?t=13

A criminal pretends to be an Amazon deliverer to invade a home.

What Would You Do?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (fyOvJ)

282 Peeks in on the current thread....looks around....yikes....doesn't understand what's going on....backs out very quietly on tiptoes....

Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (tQL7r)

283 So the meme that we shoudn't fight Trump-donating AB and Disney is widespread. Trump said so, and therefore it is true.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

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Two can play this game. So Bushies and NeverTrumpers donating to DeSantis is fine with you? He will not be beholden to them?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (3JfbU)

284 Now we have the hump for six long years.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Would have had the lump anyway. The GOPe in PA hated her more than Oz.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (rRjGT)

285 275 2020 will be fucking quaint compared to 2024.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

========

People are going to find bags of ballots from red areas in the trash, with video evidence that the people who picked them up from drop boxes did it, and it won't trigger anything other than crackdowns on people who point it out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)

286 We tried to graft the kid's head on to a cat but he died.
Oh well.

Posted by: The Dokters at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (iayUP)

287 i think it was a mention of a real possiblity, but not a likely one. it was 90% saber rattling and 10% putting it in play.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (iHBZj)

A 10% chance of showing that he's totally crazy? Look, there's a reason this kind of thing hasn't gotten RDS upwards of 30% since the Trump indictments, and that's because the majority of the country sees a Governor who's possibly lost his mind.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (DTm0P)

288 Hello, boys.

Posted by: Kay Sopressa, The Bunny Ranch at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (lf83v)

289 Trev006,

for six years the main argument for Trump is "he fights."

Now DeSantis is fighting a woke corporation and winning, and NOW you say, "he fights TOO MUCH"

Am I supposed to believe that this a well-thought out new position? Or just one assumed because it's convenient to make this claim because Trump needs to denigrate DeSantis?

Here's why I support DeSantis:

He fights, Trump wants to make nice.

Prove me wrong.

Trump suporters who spent six years saying "he fights' are now attacking DeSantis for fighting. INCREDIBLE.

and if i point this out I'm "insulting half my readers"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (iHBZj)

290 275 2020 will be fucking quaint compared to 2024.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

This I agree on. The Rubicon has been passed though, so we will see how we do as the Liberators, I guess.

Spoilers: they all died.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (zZu0s)

291 282 Peeks in on the current thread....looks around....yikes....doesn't understand what's going on....backs out very quietly on tiptoes....
Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (tQL7r)

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It was the Star Trek talk, wasn't it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)

292 Only 660 days left until the election!

Posted by: Javems at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (AmoqO)

293 251 WA HB1240 has been signed. The law is written so poorly, it's not certain how it'll be interpreted. Aero Precision, a WA gun part manufacturing company, has decided to suspend selling ANY AR parts to WA residents. Yes, that includes the "non-firearm" parts like buffer tubes and stocks.

https://bit.ly/3Lu9Bgo
Posted by: bonhomme
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Over/under on Aero Precision moving out of state within five years to somewhere like Wyoming or Idaho?

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (Vtm8d)

294 >>>A 10% chance of showing that he's totally crazy? Look, there's a reason this kind of thing hasn't gotten RDS upwards of 30% since the Trump indictments,

oh the polls, those beautiful beautiful polls that are all FAKE and RIGGED when they show trump losing but are now 100% reliable when they show trump ahead.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (iHBZj)

295 "But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws."

Your loyalty is admirable. Let me find a bag of broken glass for you to crawl over.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (MvF+J)

296 282 Peeks in on the current thread....looks around....yikes....doesn't understand what's going on....backs out very quietly on tiptoes....
Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM (tQL7r)

*makes notes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

297 “What a sausage!”

I bet the Paolo hears that a lot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (udHqf)

298 >>>Guy, do you ever notice that in some of these threads we seem to have competing commenters who seem to be trying to stir the pot?

Just me?

*feels seen*

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (bhRsz)

299 This busty lady in her underwear is pretty sure Biden's continued descent into dementia will not be an obstacle for him:
https://is.gd/TSwUa7

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (t0OGg)

300 292 Only 660 days left until the election!
Posted by: Javems at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (AmoqO)

Yay!!!!!

FML.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

301 43 The left has the "long" knives out. Newsome/Rice or Rice/Newsome. Although Biden/Fetterman would be wildly entertaining...

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:17 PM (KIWeW)
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Rice and Nuisance, aren't they both from California and thus not allowed?

Posted by: Ciampino would hang D at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (qfLjt)

302 Listen fat! I can tell Shit from Shinola better than you can.

Shit. Shinola.

I'm not kidding. Shit. Shinola.

Stand Up Chuck!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Comet Pizza Customer at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (nkh1w)

303 I'm uncomfortable with the image of the white finger pointing its supremacist finger at me

Lamont would never do that

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (VTu1l)

304 292 Only 660 days left until the election!
Posted by: Javems

What a cheery thought Javems. Except there will not be any commenters left except for Fenelon to bless the dead's memories. All the rest were virtually slain by affairs of honor and the banhammer.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (Vtm8d)

305 @273 I think it happened in Canada or the Netherlands but it definitely is parents fault . The reason they had to do the surgery that way is that they had him on puberty blockers at a young age.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (1Ohlm)

306 No less an authority than President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho himself says the 2024 campaign is, and I'm quoting from a recent Austin campaign appearance, "totally fucked".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (fyAJ0)

307 and it won't trigger anything other than crackdowns on people who point it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)

"Invasion of privacy"

"Obsessed with other people's garbage"

"Sour grapes"

Et cetera.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (9UlRk)

308 The Daily Daddario is using her cat eyes to see the electoral theater for the rubes:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8b7n37

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (LvTSG)

309 General Motors plans to stop production of its electric Chevrolet Bolt models by the end of this year, CEO Mary Barra told investors Tuesday.

The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV, a larger version of the car, make up the vast majority of the company’s electric vehicle sales to date.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (RHGPo)

310 299 This busty lady in her underwear is pretty sure Biden's continued descent into dementia will not be an obstacle for him:
https://is.gd/TSwUa7
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (t0OGg)

We are all united by our love of cleavage- which is kind of funny, when you think about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (zZu0s)

311 "Que sopresa" means "What a sausage!"

"Que sorpresa" means "What a surprise!"
Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (MvF+J)
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The Paolo has heard both.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (krQz2)

312 287 i think it was a mention of a real possiblity, but not a likely one. it was 90% saber rattling and 10% putting it in play.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:36 PM (iHBZj)

A 10% chance of showing that he's totally crazy? Look, there's a reason this kind of thing hasn't gotten RDS upwards of 30% since the Trump indictments, and that's because the majority of the country sees a Governor who's possibly lost his mind.
Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (DTm0P)

Whatever one thinks about Trump, Desantis, etc., it's pretty fucking precious watching Trump's most ardent supporters object to Ron on grounds of hyperbole.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (ppBhU)

313 285 275 2020 will be fucking quaint compared to 2024.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

========

People are going to find bags of ballots from red areas in the trash, with video evidence that the people who picked them up from drop boxes did it, and it won't trigger anything other than crackdowns on people who point it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)

I mean, Dominion didn't even need to buy a get out of jail free card. Fox paid them nearly $800 million for it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (KbCG3)

314 i think it was a mention of a real possiblity, but not a likely one. it was 90% saber rattling and 10% putting it in play.

I took it as a joke, a throwaway line to nudge Disney into understanding what they are up against.

¡Que Sopapilla!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (0hOvj)

315 Over/under on Aero Precision moving out of state within five years to somewhere like Wyoming or Idaho?
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (Vtm8d)
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When CO banned "high capacity" magazines, one of the manufacturers of them (Magpul, I think) moved out of the state. The politicians got upset and assured the company - publicly - that there was nothing in the law preventing their manufacture, only their sale in the state.

I think the politicians didn't realize that wasn't the point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (t0OGg)

316 Re:polls, if I traded mean tweets for 9% inflation, I'd take that to my grave

Posted by: hurricane567 at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (3Hu8O)

317 ....backs out very quietly on tiptoes....
Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM

Impressive! Best I could do was moonwalk.

Posted by: zombie Michael Jackson at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (a3Q+t)

318 How many points are we behind in organizing ballot harvesting in the states where we can and hacking into Dominion voting machines?

LMAO!!! "6 points behind a generic republican"-that sounds so appropriate.

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2023 02:44 PM (IlL6s)

319 @282 somebody mentioned carrots and chili

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (1Ohlm)

320 And trev006 -- if all you're saying is that DeSantis went too far in making this ONE statement about building a state prison next to Disney...

...I guess that's why you love Trump. He has NO HISTORY of wild, hyperbolic, "crazy" overstatements!
He only speaks cautiously and makes only 100% factually true statements.

So I understand why you'd be SO UPSET by DeSantis' one (1) overstatement.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (iHBZj)

321 298 >>>Guy, do you ever notice that in some of these threads we seem to have competing commenters who seem to be trying to stir the pot?

Just me?

*feels seen*
Posted by: Dr. T
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How long you been here? This has been a ritual every two to four years. Kind of like that lottery story where each commenter gathers stones. Except here it is to pelt each other in the threads.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (Vtm8d)

322 Trump conflates "loyalty" with "yes" men. Everything o say is totally the best idea and nobody should disagree. He also has an inability to change. He's stuck in the last election and doesn't realize that a constant, unrelenting discussion of the issues and what he will specifically do to change things would be a winning formula. Instead it's a bunch of pejoratives, stolen election crap, and strolls down memory lane with him as the main character. But gee, I can't figure out why people don't want the greatest president ever back. Mystery, it is.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (ATSTk)

323 The Daily Daddario is using her cat eyes to see the electoral theater for the rubes:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8b7n37
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (LvTSG)
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Good one today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (t0OGg)

324 The Daily Daddario is using her cat eyes to see the electoral theater for the rubes

¡Aye Caramba!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (0hOvj)

325
m-m-my uh,, teeth-uh, t-t-they itch

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (vwCZJ)

326
generic

Pffft ... more like geriatric

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (wtDEF)

327 >>>Whatever one thinks about Trump, Desantis, etc., it's pretty fucking precious watching Trump's most ardent supporters object to Ron on grounds of hyperbole.

I just said that.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (iHBZj)

328 >>> Trump said so, and therefore it is true.

Kinda like how QAnon worked and continues to work.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (Y0fvy)

329 that's because the majority of the country sees a Governor who's possibly lost his mind.

You can, of course, provide a source for this number...

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (eOEVl)

330 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws. Nobody else will be able to weather the absolute shit storm that the 2024 election will be.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

——————-

This is where I am as well.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (u73oe)

331 320 ...I guess that's why you love Trump. He has NO HISTORY of wild, hyperbolic, "crazy" overstatements!
He only speaks cautiously and makes only 100% factually true statements.

So I understand why you'd be SO UPSET by DeSantis' one (1) overstatement.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (iHBZj)

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I took DeSantis seriously, but not literally.

I'd never do that with Trump, though. That'd be crazy. He's gonna nuke Germany because Angela Merkel looked at him funny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (LvTSG)

332 Only 660 days left until the election!

this is going to make the Palin wars and that chick who thought she was a witch days look mild in comparison

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (lO5WT)

333 ¡Ay Caramba!

Posted by: Bart Simpson at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (PiwSw)

334 "But his latest moves have sunk his candidacy, far earlier than Scott Walker or even Kamala Harris in their cycles."

Nothing personal, but this statement means I can effectively ignore you now. I don't know if this is wishful thinking or what, but it's pretty off base.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (5C4od)

335 From no way I will run because Beau and battle wounds circa 2015 to OMG we must install him or the jug is up 2020 and 2024.

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (CqOFx)

336 I am already tired of the Trump vs De Santis wars, and in addition to some ridiculous attacks by Trump and his team, it’s almost certain that there are neocon bad actors working with leftists to stir the pot - they want them to destroy each other as well as stir up the two groups of supporters.

I haaaate when we - and they - play right into these traps.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (QRJR+)

337 2024 polling places are going to have people demanding to see your ballot before it is recorded, then throw it in the trash if you vote incorrectly.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (rRjGT)

338 309 General Motors plans to stop production of its electric Chevrolet Bolt models by the end of this year, CEO Mary Barra told investors Tuesday.

The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV, a larger version of the car, make up the vast majority of the company’s electric vehicle sales to date.
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Jeepers, I wonder why?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (Fbj1q)

339 @ 301-
Does the Constitution say that (not that it matters anymore) or is that just for political demographics?

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (KIWeW)

340 ...I guess that's why you love Trump. He has NO HISTORY of wild, hyperbolic, "crazy" overstatements!
He only speaks cautiously and makes only 100% factually true statements.

So I understand why you'd be SO UPSET by DeSantis' one (1) overstatement.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (iHBZj)

The man who made jokes about the sexual nature and habits of... *checks notes* virtually EVERYONE is right!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (zZu0s)

341 Fox paid them nearly $800 million for it.
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I'm beginning to think the Murdochs sandbagged the company on that settlement. They should not have settled, but they saw it a Michael Cohen-like deal with Lanny Davis attorney representing Fox.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (lf83v)

342 An Indiana bill heading to the desk of the state’s Republican governor would require schools to alert parents if their child requests a name or pronoun change.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (RHGPo)

343 do you ever notice that in some of these threads we seem to have competing commenters who seem to be trying to stir the pot?

Yep, definitely some people post in these threads only to cause conflict and stir up animosity. Others, their emotions and passions carry them away. Its sad to watch but the closer we get to 2024, the more I fear these posts will become packed with screaming and fighting and rage quitting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (0hOvj)

344 ...backs out very quietly on tiptoes....
Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 02:40 PM

Mommy, Daddy, please don't fight!

*Lip quivers

Posted by: Just Lily at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (LFTs3)

345 I think it happened in Canada or the Netherlands but it definitely is parents fault . The reason they had to do the surgery that way is that they had him on puberty blockers at a young age.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (1Ohlm)
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But, I heard that it just pauses puberty, like a pause button on life.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (krQz2)

346 334 "But his latest moves have sunk his candidacy, far earlier than Scott Walker or even Kamala Harris in their cycles."

Nothing personal, but this statement means I can effectively ignore you now. I don't know if this is wishful thinking or what, but it's pretty off base.
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at April 25, 2023 02:46 PM (5C4od)

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It really does seem like DeSantis, undeclared, is running about the same as he was before the latest chapter in the Disney saga.

I also fail to see how, "Maybe we can build a prison near Disney," would lose him votes from Republicans at this point, unless it's because he's not going far enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

347 If Trump had announced he's not running again, you would see WAY more pushback from the Dem/MSM complex at Biden 2024 because he's so vulnerable. $5 gas, inflation, looming recession, foreign policy catastrophes, etc.

But they know they can comfortably put Trump away even with the worst Dem candidate of my lifetime, Joe Biden. So Dems are going along with it.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (nH8H4)

348 This argument baffles me. The Dems are unbeatable, so he shouldn't run in '24? Then why won't the be unbeatable in '28?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:35 PM (eOEVl)

I'll spell it out for you. There's no reward for the risk. DC is not recoverable. And if we weaken the leadership in Florida, or Texas, to the point lose either one or both of them, at this point, the Republic will most certainly be gone forever.

I don't care about '28. At the pace we're falling out of orbit '28 is an eternity from now.

DeSantis needs to focus on keeping Florida strong.

Besides, if Florida passes the bill to make CBDCs illegal we're gonna have a fight on our hands. Maybe a real live 1861, all over again.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (MkuC5)

349 Shit, was it Politics draft day already? Where we all set our teams for the next season?

Fuck me. I'm gonna get stuck with Trent Lott and some bullshit kicker now because i missed it, aren't I?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (9UlRk)

350 When I ran in 2020, I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. We still are. The question before us now is whether we’ll have more freedoms or fewer in the years ahead. More rights, or fewer. I know what I want the answer to be.

Giving folks a little more breathing room. Making your life a little freer. This has been the work of my lifetime. And we’ve made real progress these last few years.

Posted by: El Presidente Joe Biden at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (a3Q+t)

351 @308

>>The Daily Daddario is using her cat eyes to see the electoral theater for the rubes:

Objectively she's gorgeous, but there is just something about her, similar to Scarlett Johannsen, that just does not move the dials.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (up/3i)

352 445 351 . The only politician proven capable of fighting the deepstate/cabal is Trump so get used to voting for him. Trump 2024.
Posted by: Nispee ruckzel at April 25, 2023 12:47 PM (fmTmo)

Give it a rest

Posted by: 7man at April 25, 2023 12:57 PM (qwO6y)
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You and Descantis morons give it a rest. We're under an existential threat AGAIN and you and the Acester morons are once again bamboozled by the GOPer mindplay - as most of you were in 2015 when Ace was banning Trump supporters left and right for daring to call out GOPer cucks like the Floridian Cuban and bearded Texican. Idiots.

Posted by: Nispee ruckzel at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (aEiJd)

353 323 The Daily Daddario is using her cat eyes to see the electoral theater for the rubes:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8b7n37
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (LvTSG)
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Good one today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (t0OGg)

She looks kind of surprised. Like someone just grabbed her...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (zZu0s)

354 Whatever one thinks about Trump, Desantis, etc., it's pretty fucking precious watching Trump's most ardent supporters object to Ron on grounds of hyperbole

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2023 02:49 PM (0hOvj)

355 351 Objectively she's gorgeous, but there is just something about her, similar to Scarlett Johannsen, that just does not move the dials.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (up/3i)

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*walks away sadly, wishing she had gotten her chance with Thomas Bender*
-The Daily Daddario, in nothing but an overcoat and pumps

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

356 Politicians are tools. Don't pledge loyalty to tools. Don't worship tools. When they break, throw them away. If they bend, and can't be fixed, throw them away.

Don't buy new tools just because they have pretty pictures in their advertising.

Your loyalty to politicians will NOT be repaid. If it is, it will be repaid as the J6ers were repaid for their loyalty.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (MvF+J)

357 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws.

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Trump is a messy 12 gauge shotgun even though many conservatives would prefer a more precise and clean MK 13 Sniper Rifle

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (VTu1l)

358 Todays Daily Daddario illustrates (choose only one):

Que sorpresa
Que sopresa

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (fyAJ0)

359 No republican presidential candidate is going to win in 2024 so it seems incredibly counterproductive and destructive to get so wound up for or agin' any of them.
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Right. And since he's usually coldly logical, and capable of making penetrating arguments on the merits, the reason why he's making so many bad lame arguments spiced with personal attacks is what?

Posted by: There is a level of hysterical premature engagement that smacks of paid ardor at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (sh1GZ)

360 Objectively she's gorgeous, but there is just something about her, similar to Scarlett Johannsen, that just does not move the dials.

I agree RE: Scarlett Johannsen, she always has seemed over rated to me. Pretty enough but not All That.

But Daddario really pushes my dials

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (0hOvj)

361 >>>that's because the majority of the country sees a Governor who's possibly lost his mind.

If a majority of the country thinks that RDS is the crazy one in all this, then America deserves a fascist dictatorship.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (bhRsz)

362 Your loyalty to politicians will NOT be repaid. If it is, it will be repaid as the J6ers were repaid for their loyalty.
Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (MvF+J)

Now THAT is a way to get me depressed about all of the assholes. Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (zZu0s)

363 @339 the Constitution does not allow electors to select two people from the same state. That's why Cheney had to say he lived in Wyoming, not Texas

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (1Ohlm)

364 Whatever one thinks about Trump, Desantis, etc., it's pretty fucking precious watching Trump's most ardent supporters object to Ron on grounds of hyperbole

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2023 02:49 PM (0hOvj)
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That doesn't just go one way.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (krQz2)

365 for six years the main argument for Trump is "he fights."

Now DeSantis is fighting a woke corporation and winning, and NOW you say, "he fights TOO MUCH"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:41 PM (iHBZj)

You gotta turn off Fox News and Hot Air for a while. "He fights" doesn't mean mindless fighting that can effortlessly be packaged into "Ron DeSantis wants to build prisons next to DisneyWorld." The legacy of the first four years of Trump are ending Roe, signing newer and better trade deals for the actual American worker, general prosperity, and no new wars.

And, of course, the biowarfare brought to us by the same people with weapons labs in Ukraine, Sudan, and Wuhan, but most people didn't know those existed until it was far too late.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (DTm0P)

366 Biden could be 60 points behind a generic Republican and he'd still win.

If 2020 and 2022 didn't convince you that our elections are thoroughly and hopelessly corrupt, then perhaps nothing can.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (ENgJj)

367 362 Now THAT is a way to get me depressed about all of the assholes. Well played.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (zZu0s)

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Your faith in me was misplaced.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (LvTSG)

368 I'll spell it out for you.

Thanks, you're a peach.

There's no reward for the risk. DC is not recoverable. And if we weaken the leadership in Florida, or Texas, to the point lose either one or both of them, at this point, the Republic will most certainly be gone forever.

I don't care about '28. At the pace we're falling out of orbit '28 is an eternity from now.

DeSantis needs to focus on keeping Florida strong.

So....a fascist regime consolidates its power in DC, and then Florida will defeat it?

I care about both '24 and '28 a lot. That's why I want to run the strongest possible candidate in each election. We may disagree about who that is, but to say it doesn't matter is... not smart.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (eOEVl)

369 Your loyalty to politicians will NOT be repaid. If it is, it will be repaid as the J6ers were repaid for their loyalty.

Trust not in princes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (0hOvj)

370 When you're drafting your team, remember that my father was a mailman.

Posted by: John Kasich at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (a3Q+t)

371 I agree RE: Scarlett Johannsen, she always has seemed over rated to me. Pretty enough but not All That.

But Daddario really pushes my dials
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (0hOvj)
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I have plenty of room for both. I think ScarJo is pretty damned hot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (t0OGg)

372 Tired of the circular firing squad. I'm out.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (BdMk6)

373 341 Fox paid them nearly $800 million for it.
________

I'm beginning to think the Murdochs sandbagged the company on that settlement. They should not have settled, but they saw it a Michael Cohen-like deal with Lanny Davis attorney representing Fox.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2023 02:47 PM (lf83v)

Uh, yeah. If you think you're right, you fight. And if you think you're right but have no will to fight, you likely hide the settlement numbers.

This was all parties involved saying, "This is the fine for daring to question Dominion. Anyone else want to pay the price of admission to question an election?"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (KbCG3)

374 "tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon"

So, backhole is now fronthole? Or did I get that backwards?

Posted by: Bosk at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (VMFAF)

375 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws.

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This explains why nearly 80 year old PDJT will be both nominated and lose to a demented basement dwelling corruptocrat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (fyAJ0)

376 @338

>>Jeepers, I wonder why?

Well, at the end of the day, they are compact sedans that nobody wants to buy and can't be sold at profit.

As always, The Invisible Pimp Hand Rules.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (up/3i)

377 I agree RE: Scarlett Johannsen, she always has seemed over rated to me. Pretty enough but not All That.

But Daddario really pushes my dials
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (0hOvj)

Disagree, CRT. Scarlett's ass in the first few minutes of LiT was on fire.

With her, my issue is always when she looks... too made up? That is true of a lot of these gals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

378 If a majority of the country thinks that RDS is the crazy one in all this, then America deserves a fascist dictatorship.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (bhRsz)

Can't fix a drunk who still hasn't hit bottom.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (MkuC5)

379 On Tuesday morning, Biden launched a video introducing his reelection campaign, which failed to mention any accomplishments over the past few years.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (RHGPo)

380

Biden is only running again to stay out of jail. The power he has right now is a deterrent. Once that deterrent disappears he gets his balls lopped off, and not cleanly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (enJYY)

381 bonhomme, I saw this yesterday and think you'd like it:

A criminal pretends to be an Amazon deliverer to invade a home.

What Would You Do?

WWBD? I think that's a bit of a tough one. Amazon stopped hiring contractors with their own personal vehicles near me, so all Amazon deliveries now come from a standard Amazon vehicle. But a home invader doing this tactic wouldn't necessarily need to claim to be an Amazon worker, would they?

At least once every couple of months we get our neighbor's mail mixed in with ours, so it's not abnormal for us to go and hand deliver mail.

I usually am armed if I went out earlier in the day. I just leave the gun on my person. Though I don't arm up in the home if I haven't gone out.

I think I'm going to have to consider keeping a quick open lock box near the front door so I can easily arm up if any stranger comes to the door without having to run to my safe.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (R38qh)

382 371 I have plenty of room for both. I think ScarJo is pretty damned hot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (t0OGg)

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Her nose is slightly upturned.

2/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (LvTSG)

383 No republican presidential candidate is going to win in 2024 so it seems incredibly counterproductive and destructive to get so wound up for or agin' any of them.

***************

DeSantis's record is awesome, but as a concerned concerning conservative Republican of concernism I am concernly concerned about his cozying up to the deep state

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (VTu1l)

384 @301- so Rice "lives" in DC. Problem/solution.

Posted by: pahound at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (KIWeW)

385 The meaningless fight of Trump versus DeSantis.

Boy are some of you going to look stupid in year.

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (IlL6s)

386 So Dems are going along with it.
Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (nH8H4)

Ooh, the media covering for a Democratic president no matter how bad the economy gets. There's a headline.

Not noticing this is how you got Trump.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (DTm0P)

387 Your faith in me was misplaced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (LvTSG)

Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (zZu0s)

388 She looks kind of surprised. Like someone just grabbed her...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (zZu0s)
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Que sopresa!

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (krQz2)

389 I”ll vote for either Trump or DeSantis. I’m not interested in seeing either one of them demonized.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (udHqf)

390 336 I haaaate when we - and they - play right into these traps. Posted by: Lizzy
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Either candidate is good enough so you get more hyperbole from either side as to why you must select A or B. But, no consideration of the elephant in the room--quite literally--addressing the known voter fraud in 2020 and now 2022. In AZ for 2022, the margin of fraud and rigging probably hit 10 percent or more which makes it impossible to elect a Republican in that state and that makes it virtually impossible to win in MI, PA, or perhaps WI.

Through their ponzi vote harvesting machine, the Dems won the Senate Seat in 2020 with giftcards and fraud and used the same technique in WI in the Supreme Court race just past. They are now literally buying votes via untraceable giftcards along with stuffing the ballot box, screwing up the machines in GOP land, and inserting/deleting voter registrations in real time to get the ballot numbers needed.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (Vtm8d)

391 "tried to create fake vagina using part of his colon"

Yeah, every day brings some new absurdity, doesn't it? Absurdity has a great imagination, I'll give it that.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (MvF+J)

392 387 Your faith in me was misplaced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (LvTSG)

Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (zZu0s)

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I AM THE ONLY ASSHOLE! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (LvTSG)

393 We are not voting our way out of this. The left is not going to just take its ball and go home. We are headed to WWIII, which will not be country vs country, but normies vs leftists.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (rRjGT)

394 You and Descantis morons give it a rest. We're under an existential threat AGAIN and you and the Acester morons are once again bamboozled by the GOPer mindplay - as most of you were in 2015 when Ace was banning Trump supporters left and right for daring to call out GOPer cucks like the Floridian Cuban and bearded Texican. Idiots.

You don't get invited to a lot of parties, do you.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (eOEVl)

395 The meaningless fight of Trump versus DeSantis.

Boy are some of you going to look stupid in year.
Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (IlL6s)
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My one vice is that I enjoy using the phrase "Meatball Ron".

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (krQz2)

396 I care about both '24 and '28 a lot. That's why I want to run the strongest possible candidate in each election. We may disagree about who that is, but to say it doesn't matter is... not smart.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM (eOEVl)

Clearly, we disagree about whether or not you can even have an election in '24 or '28 that represents the will of the people.

You're living a fantasy, frankly.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (MkuC5)

397 That's just the thing about girls. I find some women super attractive that others do not, and vice versa. And that's perfectly fine, we're both right: we both like this and not that, its personal preference.

Then there are girls who are not objectively all that pretty but for some reason turn me into a cartoon wolf howling and stamping my feet like Claudia Schiffer. I don't know what it is about her but, damn.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (0hOvj)

398 "I think ScarJo is pretty damned hot."

Concur.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (MvF+J)

399 Ace has gone flying fickle finger of fate on us.

I wonder if a flaming fickle finger of fate is not far behind?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (2YtOq)

400 It was the Star Trek talk, wasn't it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

But of course

Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (tQL7r)

401 No republican presidential candidate is going to win in 2024 so it seems incredibly counterproductive and destructive to get so wound up for or agin' any of them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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And yet these same people that parrot this are absolutely insistent that Trump once again runs.

Why not let the people that have some hope that maybe, just maybe, candidate quality matters? And that Trump's personality is something of a headwind for us?

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (nH8H4)

402 I don't know what they're doing to stay alive so long, but it is probably profoundly evil. It would not surprise me if they're harvesting children for precious parts and bodily fluids to keep themselves alive. It's a mystery, and I strongly suspect that's a particularly nasty kind of evil.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Five or so short years ago if I had read your post I would have thought Mannix was either day drinking, smoking the ganja, or both. Now, I truly believe something very evil is afoot. One thing I do believe is that the Devil always overplays his hand.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (oiNtH)

403 I AM THE ONLY ASSHOLE! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (LvTSG)

That is a mangling of Galadriel worse than Rings of Power!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

404 BabylonBee:
Aaron Rodgers Retires From Professional Football To Play With The Jets.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (RHGPo)

405 Your faith in me was misplaced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM

Considering your complete lack of mentioning Ridley Scott in your recent post about all-time great Producers, yes. Yes it was.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (a3Q+t)

406 I think I'm going to have to consider keeping a quick open lock box near the front door so I can easily arm up if any stranger comes to the door without having to run to my safe.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (R38qh)

Have you considered Bear Spray?

https://is.gd/4PnT7F

Posted by: Nicholas Kristof, Self-Defense Expert at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (PiwSw)

407 Trump is a messy 12 gauge shotgun even though many conservatives would prefer a more precise and clean MK 13 Sniper Rifle
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

Heh, a pearl cast before the virtual bloodied commenters.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (Vtm8d)

408 403 I AM THE ONLY ASSHOLE! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:53 PM (LvTSG)

That is a mangling of Galadriel worse than Rings of Power!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

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Could you expect more from an asshole such as me?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

409 So when he's 50 does he get a hineyscope up his hooha?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (DhOHl)

410 Remember: Discovery in the dominion case is going to be lit!

Fox: Nahhh. We settle.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (rRjGT)

411 Don't you know Joe is going to get eleventy bazillion votes in the 2024 election. They're just waiting for the eventual Rep sacrificial lamb to print the ballots. Biden is going to get Sadddam level numbers of votes/ballots. Actual voters, not so much.

Posted by: Stacy0311 at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (4eKPg)

412 The meaningless fight of Trump versus DeSantis.

*******************

You know what I'd like to see

Both camps pooling their resources and working together to clean up the voter rolls and prevent as much fraud as possible in the critical swing states so we might actually have a chance.

Wouldn't that be nice?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (VTu1l)

413 If the NYT doesn't want him to run, I want him to run.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (ptElO)

414 Could you expect more from an asshole such as me?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

Maybe try an Amy Pond reference?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (zZu0s)

415 405 Your faith in me was misplaced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:51 PM

Considering your complete lack of mentioning Ridley Scott in your recent post about all-time great Producers, yes. Yes it was.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (a3Q+t)

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Well, it was about producers who built Hollywood, not the ones who came after, but okay. I mean...Ridley is REALLY old. He's older than Joe Biden!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (LvTSG)

416 That is a mangling of Galadriel worse than Rings of Power!
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Style guide has it Dem Rangz of Pow'r.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (Vtm8d)

417 Harry Belafonte is gone to hell with his buddy Che and Castro. I think I'd kick,someone's ass in a Che shirt these days - equal parts expressing my 1A and just being a redneck.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (oWBc3)

418 as most of you were in 2015 when Ace was banning Trump supporters left and right for daring to call out GOPer cucks like the Floridian Cuban and bearded Texican. Idiots.

Do you find this approach wins you friends and convinces people of anything?

ACE never banned anyone for supporting Trump. He banned people for being an A-hole while doing so.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (0hOvj)

419 @395 Axeman-LOL, I enjoy calling him Meatball too, just cuz I'm a dick. All this shit is so pointless.

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (IlL6s)

420 That is a mangling of Galadriel worse than Rings of Power!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (zZu0s)
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It's pretty obviously not from the show though.

They would have used "BACKHOLE".

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (krQz2)

421 "I”ll vote for either Trump or DeSantis."

I'm with you.

"I’m not interested in seeing either one of them demonized."

I'm especially not interested in seeing them idolized and deified. We've been through 20+ years of that already here.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (MvF+J)

422 I agree RE: Scarlett Johannsen, she always has seemed over rated to me. Pretty enough but not All That.

But Daddario really pushes my dials
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (0hOvj)

I respectfully submit that you two are nuts.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (bhRsz)

423 Anyone else laughing at the idea of the ambulatory corpse named Joe Biden being dragged across the electoral finish line? I know the idea makes me chuckle.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (2YtOq)

424 414 Could you expect more from an asshole such as me?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

Maybe try an Amy Pond reference?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (zZu0s)

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I'll think of one. Now, go and get coffee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (LvTSG)

425 357 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws.

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Trump is a messy 12 gauge shotgun even though many conservatives would prefer a more precise and clean MK 13 Sniper Rifle
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 25, 2023 02:50 PM (VTu1l)

Trump is a stand up comedian who is a master at setting up a joke but never quite hits the punch line.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (KbCG3)

426 I really don't like that disembodied hand pointing at me accusingly. I also find myself looking for signs of fungus in the nails, and that just ain't right.

Posted by: Moki at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (JrN/x)

427 oh the polls, those beautiful beautiful polls that are all FAKE and RIGGED when they show trump losing but are now 100% reliable when they show trump ahead.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:42 PM (iHBZj)

Given the obvious panic in Team DeSantis in moving from a 16-week abortion ban in 2022, to a 6-week one in 2023?

Can't imagine why people can smell the flop sweat.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (DTm0P)

428 Totally behind Joe in 24 - the slogan should be, "Let's get it on".

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (oWBc3)

429 Trump has a prophecy to fulfill in the Middle East. Not America but the Middle East. Many people believe this btw back in 2015 and few before.
Not even kidding.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (Y0fvy)

430 Exactly, Whig!
This is a distraction from the steal that will happen..

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (QRJR+)

431 You know what I'd like to see

Both camps pooling their resources and working together to clean up the voter rolls and prevent as much fraud as possible in the critical swing states so we might actually have a chance.

Wouldn't that be nice?
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger
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DeSantis actually did a bit of that in Florida. Trump floated a couple of rhetorical speeches. RNC and McConnell chuckled. I suspect that the GOP has interfered for years in primaries with voter fraud and rigging is why states are so resistant to fixing it even in Red Areas.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (Vtm8d)

432 Afternoon.

I feel like that giant pointer finger is aiming right for my asshole.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (1Yy3c)

433 267 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws. Nobody else will be able to weather the absolute shit storm that the 2024 election will be.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:39 PM (rRjGT)

Investing your personal identity into a politician ("MY giant gas bag...") is the same mistake that aposematist leftists make.

Posted by: XTC at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (UnA8+)

434 Reeeee!

In January 2005, the Supreme Court declined to hear Womack+Hampton Architects v. Metric Holdings Limited Partnership, according to the docket on the court's website. Had a justice been recused from participating in the case, it would have been noted. There were no such notations.
The Crow name does not appear in the caption of the case, but a corporate disclosure statement attached to the filing says that the corporate parent of Metric Holdings is Trammell Crow Residential Company. According to a statement from Harlan Crow's office, the Crow family at the time had a non-controlling interest in Trammell Crow Residential Company.
"At the time of this case, Trammell Crow Residential operated completely independently of Crow Holdings with a separate management team and its own independent operations," Crow's office said in the statement.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (rRjGT)

435 I AM THE ONLY ASSHOLE! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!

Sexy. Have you ever laid with a hobbit?

Posted by: zombie john boorman at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (ppBhU)

436
"I’m not interested in seeing either one of them demonized."

I'm especially not interested in seeing them idolized and deified. We've been through 20+ years of that already here.
Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:56 PM (MvF+J)

Hard agree. Neither idolized, nor demonized. Considered as whether they are the best tools for the moment, no more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (zZu0s)

437 428 Totally behind Joe in 24 - the slogan should be, "Let's get it on".
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (oWBc3)

We need to talk.

Posted by: The Estate of Marvin Gaye at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (PiwSw)

438 OT: This made me laugh...
https://is.gd/AEvaLE

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

439 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.

His colon was used because puberty blockers stopped growth of his genitals, which meant there wasn’t enough tissue to do the penile inversion surgery.

--

I see a big opening (pardon the pun) for Mattel to start manufacturing fake girl and boy bits for these deluded souls...and the ghoul doctors who are trying to "install" these phony parts.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (sVtYq)

440 Don't blame me...

I'm Voting for Kodos!

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (8c8Y3)

441 399 Ace has gone flying fickle finger of fate on us.
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Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (2YtOq)

I'm down with it just so long as we get Goldie Hawn in a skimpy bikini go-go dancing.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (suTg5)

442 433 This guy gets it.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (MvF+J)

443 397 That's just the thing about girls. I find some women super attractive that others do not, and vice versa. And that's perfectly fine, we're both right: we both like this and not that, its personal preference.

Then there are girls who are not objectively all that pretty but for some reason turn me into a cartoon wolf howling and stamping my feet like Claudia Schiffer. I don't know what it is about her but, damn.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 02:54 PM (0hOvj)

Was watching an episode of Workaholics once with my wife. Was an episode that featured an actress I thought was sexy and looked like my wife. She was horrified when I said they looked similar.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (KbCG3)

444 I'll think of one. Now, go and get coffee.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:57 PM (LvTSG)

Nice! 11th Hour.

I was thinking 'It was this or the French Maid!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

445 435 I AM THE ONLY ASSHOLE! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!

Sexy. Have you ever laid with a hobbit?
Posted by: zombie john boorman at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (ppBhU)

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Having only 3 movies of his left to watch, I think I can say with some authority:

When that man was on drugs, he was fucking insane. His script for LOTR was right in that period.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (LvTSG)

446 Remember: Discovery in the dominion case is going to be lit!

Fox: Nahhh. We settle.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (rRjGT)
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The essay that JJ linked to earlier showed how the judge set it up to make Fox guilty as a default.

Normally, you have to pass the test of not newsworthy and malicious, but the Dems are making new rules for laws we thought we had all the time.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (krQz2)

447 So, Soctus did not hear a case involving a company owned by a company who was partly owned by a trust that harlan crow was involved with.
Conflict of interest!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (rRjGT)

448 You know what I'd like to see

Both camps pooling their resources and working together to clean up the voter rolls and prevent as much fraud as possible in the critical swing states so we might actually have a chance.

Wouldn't that be nice?
Posted by: The Unvaxxed
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Talk to Trump's camp, the guy that supposedly believes voter fraud is why he lost wouldn't throw a nickel at ballot initiatives like the one in AZ to clean this stuff up.

Again, if I was a billionaire and I really believed I was cheated out of an election, this would be my cause and I would be spotlighting it.

I also wouldn't run again if I really believe they had rigged both 2020 and 2022.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (nH8H4)

449 Although, I think it was 'Now, go and have coffee.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

450 Trump has a prophecy to fulfill in the Middle East. Not America but the Middle East.

**********************

I know some deep south Arkansas friends who genuinely believe Trump is an anointed prophet sent by God to destroy pedophiles and Bud Light and that his second coming will herald a golden age of pax americana

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (VTu1l)

451 444 Nice! 11th Hour.

I was thinking 'It was this or the French Maid!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

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I was worried it was a tad too oblique a reference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (LvTSG)

452 Given the obvious panic in Team DeSantis in moving from a 16-week abortion ban in 2022, to a 6-week one in 2023?

I don't see any evidence of panic in this. Its incremental, getting done what can be done each moment in time.

I suspect that the GOP has interfered for years in primaries with voter fraud and rigging is why states are so resistant to fixing it even in Red Areas.

Sure, its how they keep populist/Tea Party type candidates out of office, by rigging primaries so their choice wins, particularly the incumbent. Its just as much in their interest to have the system rigged as it is Democrats, and that's why nothing gets done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (0hOvj)

453 439 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.

His colon was used because puberty blockers stopped growth of his genitals, which meant there wasn’t enough tissue to do the penile inversion surgery.

--

I see a big opening (pardon the pun) for Mattel to start manufacturing fake girl and boy bits for these deluded souls...and the ghoul doctors who are trying to "install" these phony parts.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (sVtYq)

They'll be same bodies, swapped heads.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (ynpvh)

454 397 CRT, agree 100 % about Claudia Schiffer. Her eyes are amazingly seductive. Used to turn me into a metaphorical blob of jello. Well, except for one part of me…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (udHqf)

455 440 Don't blame me...

I'm Voting for Kodos!
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (8c8Y3)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

456 437, awesome - first smile of the day. Thank you.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (oWBc3)

457 @422

>>I respectfully submit that you two are nuts.

ScarJo in Ghost World was cute and quirky looking, but she paled in comparison to Thora Birch, she was beautiful but off putting in Match Point, which is really, a great film, and a complete departure from his previous work.

Johanssen was always pitched as this ingenue and seductress, she just doesn't have those chops.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (up/3i)

458 don't know what they're doing to stay alive so long, but it is probably profoundly evil. It would not surprise me if they're harvesting children for precious parts and bodily fluids to keep themselves alive. It's a mystery, and I strongly suspect that's a particularly nasty kind of evil.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Five or so short years ago if I had read your post I would have thought Mannix was either day drinking, smoking the ganja, or both. Now, I truly believe something very evil is afoot. One thing I do believe is that the Devil always overplays his hand.
Posted by: Cheri

Totally agree. 100%

Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (tQL7r)

459 Trump is a giant gas bag full of flaws. But he is MY giant gas bag full of flaws. Nobody else will be able to weather the absolute shit storm that the 2024 election will be.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

This is where I am as well. Posted by: Duke Lowell

I am undecided between Trump and DeSantis and I don't think I will be able to sort this out until RD announces and then goes through a few months of being Putin's new pool boy or what other false narrative the Biden campaign uses to fortify RD's character. Trump has proven he has the backbone to fight but the reality is one of these political assassination cases/investigations may end up in a conviction - then what? Trump, being a glamour CEO, is a rascally imperious character, which comes with up and downsides such as he can wage political war when needed but is less adept at nuanced governing that builds consensus. I lean Trump too but it is early.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (iGfKR)

460 You might wonder "how stupid are Republicans, really?"

I give you Sen. Bill Cassidy and his "Social Securoty benefit cuts are coming!" 2024 campaign theme.

https://tinyurl.com/2nttua2y

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (Vswvv)

461 395 The meaningless fight of Trump versus DeSantis.

Boy are some of you going to look stupid in year.
Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2023 02:52 PM (IlL6s)
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My one vice is that I enjoy using the phrase "Meatball Ron".
Posted by: Axeman
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A certain grim morbid comedy can be seen at play here. Sort of like who should be captain when the ship hits the rocks.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (Vtm8d)

462 118 An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.

the lgbt crowd has a serious problem mistaking colons for vaginas

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2023 02:23 PM (lO5WT)
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There's that joke about sheepskin condoms ......

Posted by: Ciampino - smoothie at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (qfLjt)

463 Take a hard look at the just-us department, the judiciary, and likely jury pools before you stand up and challenge people with a "and what are you going to do about it?".

Again, how many sit in solitary in DC waiting for charges to be filed?

How many pending lawsuits from the left aimed at silencing you and seizing your property are on the way?

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (j4U/Z)

464 I was worried it was a tad too oblique a reference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah, most likely. But I like spotting the ultra oblique ones.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

465 446 Remember: Discovery in the dominion case is going to be lit!

Fox: Nahhh. We settle.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2023 02:55 PM (rRjGT)
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The essay that JJ linked to earlier showed how the judge set it up to make Fox guilty as a default.

Normally, you have to pass the test of not newsworthy and malicious, but the Dems are making new rules for laws we thought we had all the time.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2023 02:59 PM (krQz2)

Legislating from the bench is tried and true.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (ynpvh)

466 460 You might wonder "how stupid are Republicans, really?"

I give you Sen. Bill Cassidy and his "Social Securoty benefit cuts are coming!" 2024 campaign theme.

https://tinyurl.com/2nttua2y
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (Vswvv)

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Does it matter if the presidential election is fucked no matter what?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

467 "Considered as whether they are the best tools for the moment, no more."

Considered dispassionately, with a willingness to consider contrary opinions without rancor, ad hominems, banning, excommunication.

It's so crazy it just might work. But it's not going to happen here, of all places.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (MvF+J)

468 464 I was worried it was a tad too oblique a reference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah, most likely. But I like spotting the ultra oblique ones.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

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Just make sure you don't blink.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (LvTSG)

469 "Hard agree. Neither idolized, nor demonized. Considered as whether they are the best tools for the moment, no more."

THIS

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (5C4od)

470 The Daily Daddario is using her cat

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 02:43 PM (LvTSG)

You could have honestly stopped right there. As far as I'm concerned you did.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (lpAP+)

471 So I understand why you'd be SO UPSET by DeSantis' one (1) overstatement.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:45 PM (iHBZj)

I'm the exact opposite of upset. "Trump said drink bleach!" is a lie because he never said that. RDS, meanwhile, is cracking jokes that not only illustrate how insane governments get out of control, but will likely be Exhibit A when Disney's lawyers point out that the governor of their state is going well beyond the boundaries of common sense in attacking Disney.

Hey, I'm not the one who said there's a 10% chance he was being serious. That's on you.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (DTm0P)

472 I also wouldn't run again if I really believe they had rigged both 2020 and 2022.

You might if you had such a towering ego that you were convinced you could win despite the fraud. It worked for him in 2016, after all.

But I agree, he needs to lay his money into fixing elections, form a coalition of people and focus on getting it done, but he never seems to really want to do it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (0hOvj)

473 @460

>>You might wonder "how stupid are Republicans, really?"

It's right up there with Lindsey Graham offering up federal abortion bans ahead of the 22 election.

It's f**king brilliant.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (up/3i)

474 Aposematist?

Well, I never!

Posted by: Harrumph at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (DhOHl)

475 Impressive! Best I could do was moonwalk.
Posted by: zombie Michael Jackson

But I was skeered by the ....bloodletting. Learned to be verrrrrry quiet as a child

Posted by: Prime Sister at April 25, 2023 03:03 PM (tQL7r)

476 Basement Joe '24 has as much confidence in his ability to win as Basement Joe '20. Why wouldn't he?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2023 03:03 PM (sVtYq)

477 Just make sure you don't blink.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 25, 2023 03:02 PM (LvTSG)

See, that was an episode that was not that great to me.

Ok, have to work, I am not 'just' being an asshole when I do not reply with a pithy witticism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at April 25, 2023 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

478 Trump has been dealt with poorly. But! Unlike people of character who become heroic and insightful and overcome , It did not elevate him! He became trashy, obnoxious, lost few positive qualities that he had and is now buzzing DeSantis for some reason.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 03:03 PM (HmA4g)

479 Anybody want to by shares in first Republic Bank. It's down 43% today

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (1Ohlm)

480 ScarJo in Ghost World was cute and quirky looking, but she paled in comparison to Thora Birch, she was beautiful but off putting in Match Point, which is really, a great film, and a complete departure from his previous work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (up/3i)

You know who's been crazy hot in literally everything she's appeared in before 2020? Liv Tyler.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (DTm0P)

481 You know what I'd like to see

The Trump/Desantis fracas staged as a broadway musical?

Me too.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (ppBhU)

482 Johanssen was always pitched as this ingenue and seductress, she just doesn't have those chops.

She is actually a decent actress, which makes up for her somewhat quirky looks. I liked her in The Prestige.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (0hOvj)

483 Given the obvious panic in Team DeSantis in moving from a 16-week abortion ban in 2022, to a 6-week one in 2023?

___

Just to show I'm not just a DeSantis guy, this kind of stuff will sink any shot we have in 2024.

Let the abortion issue go.

Trump is obviously pro-choice, at the end of the 2016 campaign when he was getting heat, he said

"At this moment the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way."

He also wrote a book saying he was pro-choice.

The base doesn't care about this issue.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (nH8H4)

484 "I also wouldn't run again if I really believe they had rigged both 2020 and 2022."

I think that was Kari Lake's platform and campaign. "Our elections are crooked, and LOOK! I'll prove it by losing to cheating!"

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (MvF+J)

485 He has to run because they think no one would ever prosecute someone running for President... or his family...

But... uh... that Bird flew a couple years ago with Trump.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (oHd/0)

486 At least the important things are being taken care of!

Jean-Pierre Celebrates Lesbian Visibility Week

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (jzzG8)

487 452 Given the obvious panic in Team DeSantis in moving from a 16-week abortion ban in 2022, to a 6-week one in 2023?

I don't see any evidence of panic in this. Its incremental, getting done what can be done each moment in time.
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You have to build a consensus first when doing such changes. 6 weeks is an outlier in what will fly over time is my guess based on other nations and the consensus building in the US.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (Vtm8d)

488 I drank Ultra Oblique once in Costa Rica. Never again. Sick as a dog.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (DhOHl)

489 > Have you considered Bear Spray?

I'm not a fan of bear spray.

First, if I have to use it as home defense, I've just fogged my own home. Now what do I do when my whole family is coughing and gagging and the bad guy's backup is outside?

Second, counterintuitively, bear spray is less spicy than human spray. If you don't believe me, check the labels. Yes, you can get a big fogger, so the bad guy gets hit with more volume, but again, so do you. I'd rather use a more targeted, higher spiciness spray if I had to use it. But some people can fight though it, and 2-3% are immune. Spray has its uses, but against a home invader, I'd prefer a gun.

I think of spray as more of a brushback in public for rowdy people like drunks and bums who are trouble but don't rise to the level of having to be shot.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (R38qh)

490 Which leads me to believe he is broken. And cannot be fixed.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (HmA4g)

491 486 At least the important things are being taken care of!

Jean-Pierre Celebrates Lesbian Visibility Week

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (jzzG

She looking to hook up?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

492 They were homo shepherds.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 02:19 PM (R38qh)

For which we are eternally thankful.

Posted by: The at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (tkR6S)

493 You know who's been crazy hot in literally everything she's appeared in before 2020? Liv Tyler.

She is and she isn't. I agree she's absolutely lovely in her older stuff but I also get a weird "that's a dude with a wig" feel from her as well. Like they're playing a Crying Game trick on me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (0hOvj)

494 nood

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 03:05 PM (MvF+J)

495 Kirk: What does God need with a starship?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

496 262 258 211 >>>you can't possibly be this dumb

but I am that dumb. Please tell me what you meant.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 02:32 PM (iHBZj)

finally, something we can agree on

*pulls out lawn chair, opens beer*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2023 02:38 PM (eOEVl)
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That beer isn't a BL is it?

Posted by: Ciampino - smoothies at April 25, 2023 03:06 PM (qfLjt)

497 Lesbian Visibility Week?

I can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at April 25, 2023 03:06 PM (DhOHl)

498
Tired of the circular firing squad. I'm out.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2023 03:06 PM (63Dwl)

499 @480

>>You know who's been crazy hot in literally everything she's appeared in before 2020? Liv Tyler.

Brunettes are hotties.

She's going to be in the upcoming Captain America film.

She's older and more zaftig but, still cute.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 03:06 PM (up/3i)

500 Then there are girls who are not objectively all that pretty but for some reason turn me into a cartoon wolf howling and stamping my feet like Claudia Schiffer. I don't know what it is about her but, damn.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Bjork

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2023 03:06 PM (fs1hN)

501 Trump is so pro choice he's the only president to speak at the March For Life *and* tried his shittest to get RvW nullified - and actually did.

But he loves sucking babies out of the womb cuz books and reasons. God some people are fucking insufferable for the sake of it.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 03:07 PM (S+wwp)

502 Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2023 02:58 PM (sVtYq)

They'll be same bodies, swapped heads.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2023 03:00 PM (ynpvh)

Mr Potato Head ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2023 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

503 Kirk: [to "God"] Excuse me... Excuse me... I just wanted to ask a question. What does God need with a starship?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 03:07 PM (RHGPo)

504 The term gets thrown around a lot, but Kamala Harris is actually stupid. My grocery baggers have more intellectual aptitude than she does.

Posted by: SMFH at April 25, 2023 03:07 PM (CEh/e)

505 Nixon in 2024. Death is no excuse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 03:07 PM (1Ohlm)

506 Republic Bank:
Solid financials STRONG BUY

Posted by: Blue Horseshoe Cramer at April 25, 2023 03:08 PM (Y0fvy)

507 You might if you had such a towering ego that you were convinced you could win despite the fraud. It worked for him in 2016, after all.

But I agree, he needs to lay his money into fixing elections, form a coalition of people and focus on getting it done, but he never seems to really want to do it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Deep down, Trump knows these elections are winnable. He ran a shitty 2020 campaign. His 2022 picks fared awful.

Trump just feels he has nothing to lose. He's already known as a loser, not much downside to losing again. And maybe the economy gets so bad that he is able to squeak by. And he'll also probably be dead in 8 years, so who cares.

Trump has been running for President since the 1980's. It's just pure ego, if he thought he could run as a liberal Democrat and win, he'd do it.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 03:08 PM (nH8H4)

508 You have to build a consensus first when doing such changes.

He did. In Florida, which was exactly my point. He started later, built a consensus for sooner, and the people of Florida like it. I strongly suspect that if you got a real opinion of the population of the USA, most would support just such a ban.

Trump is obviously pro-choice, at the end of the 2016 campaign when he was getting heat, he said

Trump has repeatedly and clearly stated he's opposed to abortion since 2015 or earlier. He's changed his mind on a lot of stuff, and as president did more to fight against abortion than any president before him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 03:08 PM (0hOvj)

509 but don't rise to the level of having to be shot.
Posted by: bonhomme

These words you're using, I totally don't understand them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2023 03:08 PM (cTGXS)

510 You are kidding yourself if you don't think they'd go after DeSantis as hard as Trump. But the latter is a much more target rich environment- unless you consider pudding eating a crime.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 03:08 PM (ATSTk)

511 Trump is so pro choice he's the only president to speak at the March For Life *and* tried his shittest to get RvW nullified - and actually did.

But he loves sucking babies out of the womb cuz books and reasons. God some people are fucking insufferable for the sake of it.
Posted by: ...
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He knows his audience is easily fooled by such window dressing.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 03:09 PM (nH8H4)

512 My go to line is It's not News, it's CNN needs to be revised to include Fox News. The Tucker situation had to be months in the making and had to include input from all significant stakeholders and their allies as this decision was being made. Tucker had to go because he was a threat to certain financial and/or more nebulous agendas. I can't quite get to where I would call what happened a political hit job in job termination clothing but it is the next best thing. Something got fortified, what exactly is the question.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 25, 2023 03:09 PM (iGfKR)

513 467 "Considered as whether they are the best tools for the moment, no more."

Considered dispassionately, with a willingness to consider contrary opinions without rancor, ad hominems, banning, excommunication.

It's so crazy it just might work. But it's not going to happen here, of all places.
Posted by: gp's
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People are partisan by nature. Back in 1790's, people were calling G. Washington all sorts of names to the point where he was moaning about character assassination and wanting to go home to Mt. Vernon. The bitchiness is normal--the abnormal time was post WWII and during the Cold War where it was though unseemly and giving ammo to the Russkis to engage in such.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 03:10 PM (Vtm8d)

514 I see a big opening (pardon the pun) for Mattel to start manufacturing fake girl and boy bits for these deluded souls...and the ghoul doctors who are trying to "install" these phony parts.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I can actually see that happening. Also, changes to Mr. Potato Head and the board game Operation should be off the hook.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2023 03:10 PM (oiNtH)

515
Trump is obviously pro-choice, at the end of the 2016 campaign when he was getting heat, he said

"At this moment the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way."

He also wrote a book saying he was pro-choice.

The base doesn't care about this issue.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM

But OMG does the left care about this issue. Which is why I call it a 'third rail' issue - pro tip, NEVER touch the third rail it's death.

We had a perfectly electable (R) candidate for Governor in PA who got caught on tape with the most strident anti-abortion statement and it killed every (R) in November. The RNC needs a 'boot camp' for candidates on how not to step on their own dicks. Tired of losing. The key is to 'EVOLVE' on the issue after you have your feet on the desk.

See also; Obama, gay marriage

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2023 03:10 PM (enJYY)

516 > ScarJo in Ghost World was cute and quirky looking, but she paled in comparison to Thora Birch

I see you're a man who appreciates a mighty forehead.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2023 03:10 PM (R38qh)

517 Has anybody noticed that since Dobbs, there has been no effort to make the essence of Roe v Wade into a Constitutional Amendment ?

The Democrats want to make this a permanent election issue and really don't want it brought to a final resolution, even if its in their favor.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 03:11 PM (RHGPo)

518 If somebody is in your house coming at you and you spray them with anything other than pellets from #4 buck, you are doing it wrong.

Posted by: and that's when the fight started at April 25, 2023 03:11 PM (sh1GZ)

519 508 You have to build a consensus first when doing such changes.

He did. In Florida, which was exactly my point. He started later, built a consensus for sooner, and the people of Florida like it. I strongly suspect that if you got a real opinion of the population of the USA, most would support just such a ban.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Umm, I don't think he did among the broader population and he might well have lost his seat in 2022 if this had been pushed before that election. The Dems would have nominated Nikki Fried for example.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2023 03:12 PM (Vtm8d)

520 2nd term? When will he win election to his first term?

Posted by: American at April 25, 2023 03:12 PM (PsUT0)

521 I have really tried the last few days to care about this Carlson fired, Biden running, etc, etc, etc, crap. I have been unsuccessful. Every day the machinations of the media bubble interest me less and less.

Rush had 14 million listeners. Nobody in today's media even comes close, including his excellency, the Tuck of Carlson. Assuming for the sake of argument, that the alphabet media can also muster 14 million viewers (highly unlikely, but ...) that makes for less than 10% of the population yelling at each other on social media. The rest of the country is just trying to get on with their lives and avoid as much government crap as possible.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 25, 2023 03:12 PM (9X60i)

522 First, if I have to use it as home defense, I've just fogged my own home. Now what do I do when my whole family is coughing and gagging and the bad guy's backup is outside?
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I recommend Wasp Spray. It melts eyeballs and is flammable with the application of a Bic lighter. Once an intruder is blind and on fire you can apply whatever your kids feel like doing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2023 03:12 PM (Fbj1q)

523 Just to show I'm not just a DeSantis guy, this kind of stuff will sink any shot we have in 2024.

Let the abortion issue go.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 03:04 PM (nH8H4)

See, this is why Team DeSantis really doesn't know what it's doing. The base wants reasonable restrictions on abortion, and the activists will be very happy to see Planned Parenthood investigated. But even if RDS wanted to dial it back, the law he just signed will make that impossible.

Say what you want about Donald Trump's true feelings, he knows how to stay in character.

Posted by: trev006 at April 25, 2023 03:13 PM (DTm0P)

524 513 It has blinded us to too many truths here. Yet we won't learn. Everything's a football game rah rah.

Posted by: gp's Internalized Human Suffering at April 25, 2023 03:13 PM (MvF+J)

525 Also, I believe 95 percent of those likely to vote in 2024 have already decided how they are going to vote.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 25, 2023 03:13 PM (9X60i)

526 He knows his audience is easily fooled by such window dressing.
Posted by: Blago
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Little known fact, Cliffie Blago, has it on his own personal authority that Trump actually assisted in his own abortion. Which, being Trump, obviously failed, lucky for Blago.

Posted by: Muh 'Bortion!!!!! Rheeeee at April 25, 2023 03:13 PM (sh1GZ)

527 You are kidding yourself if you don't think they'd go after DeSantis as hard as Trump. But the latter is a much more target rich environment- unless you consider pudding eating a crime.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 03:08 PM (ATSTk)

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Eating pudding with fingers > grabbing them by the pussy!

/

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 25, 2023 03:18 PM (xdaMD)

528 Heh, The Fickle Finger of Fate shows up again.

Posted by: tbodie..Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at April 25, 2023 03:18 PM (PUkDu)

529 He knows his audience is easily fooled by such window dressing.

Posted by: Blago at April 25, 2023 03:09 PM (nH8H4)

I am hook line and sinker for the RvW repeal.

Insufferable. You are insufferable.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 03:19 PM (08CfX)

530 "I think it's just crazy to assume Biden will be the nominee."

Totally agree. I think it's a ruse, and then Michelle or someone like her will ride to the rescue. Of course, he's been told that he's The One.

The DNC et al. know that the Bidens are probably toast after Comer gets through with them. And even if they get Maria B. fired too, that news will get out.

Posted by: PJ at April 25, 2023 03:19 PM (G1dq6)

531 351 @308

>>The Daily Daddario is using her cat eyes to see the electoral theater for the rubes:

Objectively she's gorgeous, but there is just something about her, similar to Scarlett Johannsen, that just does not move the dials.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 02:48 PM (up/3i)

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I'm the same way, but at my age it could be an instrumentation issue.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 25, 2023 03:36 PM (wzAuc)

532
The Democrats want to make this a permanent election issue and really don't want it brought to a final resolution, even if its in their favor.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2023 03:11 PM

You got that right. As soon as I saw the SC tire of Roe v Wade and kick it back to the states, I said, "Uh, oh."

50 state elections for Governor, Senator, House, etc in jeopardy... forever. The (R)'s have to learn how to play the game... and win. So far, the track record is pathetic.

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