Jake Tapper Angrily Demands That CNN's Control Room Stop Airing the <i>News</i> of Trump's Appearance in the Diner

Jake Tapper Angrily Demands That CNN's Control Room Stop Airing the News of Trump's Appearance in the Diner

I kept a post up too long because I was waiting for Trump to speak.

It wasn't because I support Trump -- I'm tired of his drama, and want DeSantis to win the nomination. It wasn't because I thought Trump would make new news in a statement. I figured he'd say pretty much the same things he'd written in his "Truths."

But it has been accepted journalistic practice that after a high-profile arrest or arraignment, you air the statement of the accused. The prosecution/the state gets its say, and then the accused gets his own say.

That's fairness, and that's been the uncontested rule for almost all of American history.

Until yesterday, when Fake Jake Tapper -- who fancies himself a Hard News Man -- angrily snapped at CNN's control room that they must stop airing live news so they could get back to the important non-news of Jake and his biased panel (including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!) offering their opinions and political beliefs.

Jake Tapper’s reaction on CNN to people showing support for Donald Trump: “The folks in the control room, I don’t need to see anymore of that.”

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— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) June 13, 2023

CNN’S JAKE TAPPER ON TRUMP: “We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”

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— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) June 14, 2023

Ben Collins of MSNBC/NBC "News" is that organization's Chief Deplatforming Officer. That means, like Oliver Darcy, his "news" beat is finding people who disagree with him online and then petitioning social media companies to censor and deplatform and maybe even de-bank that person.

On Friday, he was, of course, given a "Walter Cronkite Award" for Courage in Cocksuckery or whatever.

He was given this award because "journalists" want to proclaim that this is their job -- not the boring repetition of who said what, but the exalted position of being High Priests of the Cult of "Truth," deciding for the world what is true and what is false, and what is sayable and what is forbidden.

Leftists almost immediately took over all content moderation jobs on the internet, and soon after, began banning everyone who dared to issue a non-leftist opinion.

And leftists really liked that. They really liked their bubbles.

But they've grown angry that they are protected from opinions they don't like only in 95% of media and social media venues. They want this protection extended everywhere, including into the real world.

They are day-by-day extendkng the regime of aggressive, punitive content "moderation" from message boards and social media to the real world, and banning people for saying things in real life that The Regime does not approve of.

And Ben Collins got his "Cronkite Award" because that's his job, and he's viciously eager to do it. Just like a Nazi concentration camp kapo.

Jake Tapper is plainly very enthusiastic about this redefinition of his job, too.

And Oliver Darcy?

Well, Oliver Darcy is special, isn't she?

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— Amos pays $8 (@AmosFromWV) June 14, 2023

JOE ROGAN: “All the f*cking stuff with his son and the ties to Ukraine and China and the money. The family, they got paid millions of dollars and everyone was trying to obscure it because, ‘Well, better than Trump. Better than Trump. If that guy was a Republican, they would be… pic.twitter.com/LA68zOWxAd
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 11, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 I kept a post up too long because I was waiting for Trump to speak.

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It's okay. They were busy talking about boobs, anyway.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:31 PM (DRSnL)

2 st

Posted by: RUReadingthis at June 14, 2023 03:31 PM (aQ25I)

3 Furst

Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2023 03:32 PM (XLUB7)

4 It's okay. They were busy talking about boobs, anyway.

***************

I always miss the good stuff

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 14, 2023 03:32 PM (VTu1l)

5 Well, Tapper is a little bitch, in all fairness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:33 PM (LvTSG)

6 In other news, in addition to my fresh Harvard diploma, I've been issued my small arms permit.

Take that, H8rs!!!

Posted by: David Hogg at June 14, 2023 03:33 PM (a3Q+t)

7 Top 10?!?

Posted by: Greyman27 at June 14, 2023 03:34 PM (RKLPC)

8 JOE ROGAN: “All the f*cking stuff with his son and the ties to Ukraine and China and the money. The family, they got paid millions of dollars and everyone was trying to obscure it because, ‘Well, better than Trump. Better than Trump. If that guy was a Republican, they would be

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11 million largely apolitical listeners later...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:34 PM (LvTSG)

9 Boobs… the good kind right Jordan… not the other kind??

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

10 The old boob thread is dead.

Long live the new boob thread!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 03:34 PM (8B697)

11 Without Trump, who would we have as a target of the Two Minutes Hate?

Oh, that’s right. Me. Never mind…

Posted by: Emmanuel Goldstein at June 14, 2023 03:35 PM (odBp6)

12 "I kept a post up too long because I was waiting for Trump to speak."
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It's OK, we were doing just fine with Jiggle Tits McGee.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:35 PM (gf7Ez)

13 I really don't want to open the purple twitter link. Just give me the scoop, what the hell is that?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (2NHgQ)

14 Alors, il commence.

Posted by: Ce gars qui pense toujours que ca commence. at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (fxrF8)

15 Until yesterday, when Fake Jake Tapper -- who fancies himself a Hard News Man -- angrily snapped at CNN's control room that they must stop airing live news so they could get back to the important non-news of Jake and his biased panel (including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!) offering their opinions and political beliefs.
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Well sure. I mean, CNN is *the* news organization for discerning Party hacks, apparatchiks, boot-lickers and various hangers-on!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (t0OGg)

16 Boobs… the good kind right Jordan… not the other kind??
Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

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Well, the chick in question's nickname is Jiggle Tits McGee, if that helps.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

17 Sorry, Jordan61. I was too distracted to even start reading the comments.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (gf7Ez)

18 Boobs, guns, and movies… did I leave anything out??

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (PCK5/)

19 11 Without Trump, who would we have as a target of the Two Minutes Hate?

Oh, that’s right. Me. Never mind…
Posted by: Emmanuel Goldstein at June 14, 2023 03:35 PM (odBp6)

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There's always someone else. DeSantis. Tucker. Some Twitch streamer who thinks that gays shouldn't target kids.

The idea that they'll run out of Emmanuel Goldsteins is silly (just get rid of Trump, and this all goes away!), and I sure hope no one believes it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

20 > We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.

*gasp*
*clutches pearls*

A politician that says things that aren't true and are sometimes potentially dangerous? I've never heard of such a thing. That's unprecedented!

Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (V1QHJ)

21 Girls named Courtney are always hot.

It is known.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (KRtlO)

22 Jeesh, AOC really needs to dial back the eyes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (8B697)

23 16 Boobs… the good kind right Jordan… not the other kind??
Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

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Well, the chick in question's nickname is Jiggle Tits McGee, if that helps.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Ah… so the other kind.. check.

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (PCK5/)

24 LOL.

CNN's Jake Tapper reprises MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell's epic "Stop the hammering!!" meltdown.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (lf83v)

25 Jake Tapper couldn't carry my jockstrap!

Posted by: Zombie Walter Cronkite at June 14, 2023 03:38 PM (dQWfI)

26 I'm sure deep down Jake was just concerned about veterans having to see such dangerous television.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 03:38 PM (ppBhU)

27 DeSantis will quit on you just he is doing now to the people who voted for him in FL.

Posted by: Fla sob at June 14, 2023 03:38 PM (eKcAc)

28 Sorry, Jordan61. I was too distracted to even start reading the comments.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (gf7Ez)

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Horde mind, and all.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

29 22 Jeesh, AOC really needs to dial back the eyes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (8B697)

Her eyes look like those of a horse, trapped in a burning stable…

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:39 PM (PCK5/)

30 I don’t need to see anymore of that.

Oh, poor widdle Jakie. You are going to see SO much more of that.

Posted by: t-bird at June 14, 2023 03:39 PM (CaJIi)

31 Maybe Jake wanted to impress AOC for some reason.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 03:39 PM (G0vdT)

32 Well, the chick in question's nickname is Jiggle Tits McGee, if that helps.
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That's my mom.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 14, 2023 03:39 PM (lf83v)

33 DeSantis needs to come out and strongly condemn our Ukraine meddling, or I'm done with him.

Period.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:39 PM (dGCAG)

34 Those big ol' socialist tiddies are meant to hypnotize, and then enslave your azz.

~Thomas Sowell

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 14, 2023 03:40 PM (44ww/)

35 Jake Tapper's reaction on CNN to people showing support for Donald Trump: "The folks in the control room, I don't need to see anymore of that."
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When I worked in TV, this would have been a faux pas so extreme that there would have been meetings, disciplinary action and a stern warning about it after the show went off-air.

The on-camera "talent" does *not* dictate the terms of the show. That is handled by the director and the producer. Even for a show like Carlson's where the talent is in charge, once you're on air the control room calls the shots. Unless the control room is fucking up (deviating from the run-down, failing cues, running the wrong packages, etc.), you don't talk to them. If there's something really wrong, you improvise and cut to commercial and then once you're not on the air you can shout it out with the control room.

This is wildly unprofessional and the fact that CNN tolerates this shit is really telling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:40 PM (t0OGg)

36 We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.

You sound vaccinated.

Posted by: t-bird at June 14, 2023 03:40 PM (CaJIi)

37 Jake Tapper gets hard?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (uia9V)

38 11 million largely apolitical listeners later...

Things like this are why I do not think national elections are hopelessly lost. There's a ceiling on fraud, and there are variables. The deck is stacked. The game is an unfair one, but not necessarily unwinnable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (ppBhU)

39 Jake Tapper Angrily Demands That CNN's Control Room Stop Airing the News of Trump's Appearance in the Diner
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Really. It's horrible to see normal people enjoying themselves.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

40 Jake Trapper is kind of a cry baby isn't he?

Posted by: Archer at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (gmo/4)

41 On Friday, he was, of course, given a "Walter Cronkite Award" for Courage in Cocksuckery or whatever.

He was given this award because "journalists" want to proclaim that this is their job -- not the boring repetition of who said what, but the exalted position of being High Priests of the Cult of "Truth," deciding for the world what is true and what is false, and what is sayable and what is forbidden.
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And, like that award's namesake, they see their job as setting a narrative, lying, misrepresenting, and forming/controlling public opinion regardless of - or even in opposition to - the facts.

Walter Cronkite was a dishonest, manipulative, ideological piece of shit and that the award named after him is going shit heels like Collins is, if anything, extremely fitting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

42 28 Sorry, Jordan61. I was too distracted to even start reading the comments.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:36 PM (gf7Ez)

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Horde mind, and all.
Posted by: Jordan61
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In that case . . .

https://tinyurl.com/3z3vxcvw

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (gf7Ez)

43 Sacred honor, and support for our troops, demands we not air Trump's nonsensical rantings and death threats. I love America, maybe you'll hop aboard.

#America

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (lyP95)

44 Girls named Courtney are always hot.

It is known.
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (KRtlO)

Courtney Love. You lose.

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (StUJj)

45 DeSantis needs to come out and strongly condemn our Ukraine meddling, or I'm done with him.

Period.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:39 PM (dGCAG)

He’s already made a comment on Ukraine a month ago.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (MNhXM)

46 Walter Cronkite was a dishonest, manipulative, ideological piece of shit and that the award named after him is going shit heels like Collins is, if anything, extremely fitting.
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Amen.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (lf83v)

47 Oh, boy. Here come the T v. D wars.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (Xrfse)

48 >>>You sound vaccinated.

that's a good insult.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (KRtlO)

49 Girls named Courtney are always hot.

Yeah, but I was still sick of her shit.

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Cobain at June 14, 2023 03:42 PM (8B697)

50 DeSantis needs to come out and strongly condemn our Ukraine meddling, or I'm done with him.

If you watched Tucker On Twitter Ep. 3, you'll understand that isn't a possibility.

The only thing you can say and avoid destruction by entrenched D.C. that would denounce our actions in Ukraine would be "We need to get out of Ukraine and start a war with China".

America now exists almost solely as a perpetual war nation. If they stop killing foreigners, the whole system crashes.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (QZTwm)

51
Girls named Courtney are always hot.

It is known.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM

Call me!

Posted by: Courtney Mulvaney at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (enJYY)

52 You're tired of Trumps drama....,me too. I cant wait for DeSantis to be the front runner and we expose the Nazi as Hitler in spades. And his wife is a well known crack whore. But no more Trump drama.

Posted by: Media at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (xlrNs)

53 Boobs, guns, and movies… did I leave anything out??

you didn't say nuthin' about drinkin', or prison, or trains, or pick-ups or mama...

Posted by: DanMan at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (DB6tu)

54 But they've grown angry that they are protected from opinions they don't like only in 95% of media and social media venues. They want this protection extended everywhere, including into the real world.
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The problem with this - not that the journalists will care because it won't matter to them until the revolution comes - is that it creates an intelligence vacuum. When you have a free exchange of ideas, you get to see not only what your allies think but also what your rivals and enemies think. When you suppress everything that is not allied, you don't get to see that. You don't have any way to know what they're thinking, or what their limits are. You fly blind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

55 It's okay. They were busy talking about boobs, anyway.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:31 PM (DRSnL)
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Because we are totally obsessed with them.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

56 38 11 million largely apolitical listeners later...

Things like this are why I do not think national elections are hopelessly lost. There's a ceiling on fraud, and there are variables. The deck is stacked. The game is an unfair one, but not necessarily unwinnable.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (ppBhU)

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Oh, the next election is definitely fortified to the point where Joe Biden cannot lose it.

The next one? We'll see if things change with ANOTHER blatantly stolen election.

Because these blatant actions are only going to get more blatant the less the powers that be rely on the actual public to retain power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

57 39 Jake Tapper Angrily Demands That CNN's Control Room Stop Airing the News of Trump's Appearance in the Diner
........

Really. It's horrible to see normal people enjoying themselves.
Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

And praying.

Posted by: m at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (4tUZx)

58 In that case . . .

https://tinyurl.com/3z3vxcvw
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (gf7Ez)

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Heh. There you go, tubal.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

59 21 Girls named Courtney are always hot.

It is known.
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (KRtlO)

I was more tickled by the last name 'McClure'.

'You may remember me from such feature films as Teenage Tit Freaks.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 14, 2023 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

60 Girls named Courtney are always hot.

It is known.
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (KRtlO)
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I've always found that to be true of girls named Stephanie.

/me reminisces about one Stephanie in particular.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:44 PM (t0OGg)

61 We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.

Jake: Now, let's go to AOC: Truth teller!

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 03:44 PM (G0vdT)

62 The mentally ill Left have no self-awareness. None, nada, zilch…

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 03:44 PM (MNhXM)

63 ABC was carrying Trump coverage live ~3 Central. I caught some of it while I was on break and laughed when they HAD follow DJT into the diner and it's cheering crowd. When I went to lunch ~5:30 ABC Evening News led with DJT got busted but left out the diner stop. Als we can't let them get away with screwing DJT because they'll know that works and do it to DeSantis, too.

Posted by: hurricane567 at June 14, 2023 03:44 PM (xcl5n)

64 AOC has eyes like those 10 foot tall space aliens walking around back yards in Vegas.

Posted by: Archer at June 14, 2023 03:44 PM (gmo/4)

65 Next thing you know, Jake will tell stories about being under sniper fire in Lower Upfuckinstan. You know, the time he saved his mason jar with the fun gerbils in it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (rLD7a)

66 Today i kept seeing conservatives complaining about, and trying to attack DeSantis for, not going on CNN. It's amazing how they are starting to make themselves look dumb all to try and boost Trump.

Yeah Ron should go on CNN, but not now, it's the start of summer and primaries are 6 months away. Going in TV now just blows your load way too early, plus why would he want to get on TV and get them to stop covering Trump's indictment. From Ron's point of view you need to balance showing how you think thr Trump indictment is bullshit, but also allowing it to play out incase it does hurt Trump.

If he's going to go on, and make some attention grabbing headlines, it's more important in Jan and not Jun. That'll also be the best time to make these host start to also make fools of themselves, as they'll have to decide who they play nicer with, DeSantis or Trump, either of which helps further destroy whatever sliver of credibility they have left.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (gTzDk)

67 I'm tired of his drama, and want DeSantis to win the nomination.

That is cute. Sure, Ace. There will be no drama with RDS. Because if there is no drama, we know where he sided with regards to Tucker's 3rd episode.
If the deep state says "Yeah, we are gonna leave RDS alone" It is not a good thing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (WGUfL)

68 Russian collusion hoaxer claims someone else is lying?
Something tells perhaps maybe the illegitimate uniparty ruling junta isn't on the up and up.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Don't Kill at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (0q+t6)

69 I don't watch much news anymore, but from the clips I do see I can say this: I'm sick and fucking tired of seeing AOC's bug eyed mug on all these "panels" as if she's anything other than a dimwitted influencer play acting as a Congressman. Her mere presence shows how unserious and silly these goddam shows are and Jack Tapper is a silly gash.

Posted by: UGAdawg at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (tRd71)

70 I remember I was in Bosnia, or Pasadena, wherever, thinking, as the bullets flew, I'll never let a crazy person on the air trying to take down America.

#MissionAccomplshed

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (lyP95)

71 Dooooooo

Your boobs hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie em in a knot
Can you tie em in a bow
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder like a regimental soldier

Do your boobs hang low?

Do your boobs hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie em in a knot
Can you tie em in a bow?
Do you get a painful feeling
When you throw em at the ceiling

Do your boobs hang low?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (TC7Gi)

72 Dawns and Jennifers are almost always hot.

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Cobain at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (8B697)

73 Mike pence is a slimy cunt

Posted by: stuck on 6 at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (us2H3)

74 >>That is cute. Sure, Ace. There will be no drama with RDS. Because if there is no drama, we know where he sided with regards to Tucker's 3rd episode.
If the deep state says "Yeah, we are gonna leave RDS alone" It is not a good thing.

You're going to have to grow up and let a single negative statement about trump go sometimes.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:46 PM (KRtlO)

75 How to end a date with a girl to get a second date
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"The money is on the dresser."

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

76 58 In that case . . .

https://tinyurl.com/3z3vxcvw
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:41 PM (gf7Ez)

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Heh. There you go, tubal.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

What’s the matter with her Braaaiiin???

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

77 Girls named Courtney are always hot.

It is known.
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (KRtlO)

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Does this include alternate spellings? Like Kourtney Kardashian?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:46 PM (DRSnL)

78 The Democrat Party's THIRD War to End America continues apace....

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 14, 2023 03:46 PM (KEWDx)

79 If only 50% of eligible voters vote in a big election, that leaves a lot of room for fraud. Detroit had precincts with more than 100% turnout.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (WGUfL)

80 So, Who's with me --
I say we form a union of AoS commenters with one demand:
Hereafter we are to be called "educators."

OK, two demands - we get to eat the stale scones. At Starbucks we had to just kept selling them no matter how hard and cumbly they got.

Posted by: Former Starbucks Guy at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (Sau30)

81 Airhead AOC was on a panel? I had this strange feeling the world was stupider.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (VdGjU)

82 If you watched Tucker On Twitter Ep. 3, you'll understand that isn't a possibility.

The only thing you can say and avoid destruction by entrenched D.C. that would denounce our actions in Ukraine would be "We need to get out of Ukraine and start a war with China".

America now exists almost solely as a perpetual war nation. If they stop killing foreigners, the whole system crashes.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (QZTwm)

Yeah, I watched the episode, Tucker is bringing it. Hope he doesn't suddenly get a hankering for visiting Ft. Marcy Park.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (dGCAG)

83 Jake was dreaming of showing Trump walking into/out of the court room, surrounded by security and jeering protesters, over and over and over again for hours.

Trump taking control of the moment and turning it into video of happy supporters cheering for him, praying with him, and praising him robbed Jake of all that.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (V1QHJ)

84 Trump, DeSantis, or McGee?

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (gf7Ez)

85 Yeah Ron should go on CNN,

Posted by: Rbastid at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (gTzDk)

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Disagree. Nobody should go on CNN.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

86 Okay Educators, wow me.
Wow me hard.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 14, 2023 03:48 PM (m+wls)

87 As stupid as it can be, "owning the libs" is much better than, "censoring the right."

I'll take our side of that dumb equation every day of the week.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 03:48 PM (KbCG3)

88 OK, two demands - we get to eat the stale scones. At Starbucks we had to just kept selling them no matter how hard and cumbly they got.
Posted by: Former Starbucks Guy at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (Sau30)

Eww.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (DRSnL)

89 Well, the chick in question's nickname is Jiggle Tits McGee, if that helps.

That nickname also belongs to Brian Stelter, so be careful where you say it.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (ZGrMX)

90 My only fear for this great nation is that Trump is replaced, as a nominee, by Ron DeSantis, Super Nazi.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (lyP95)

91 CNN’S JAKE TAPPER ON TRUMP: “We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”

I am still trying to figure out exactly what Trump said that is dangerous? Pussy? Crazy Nancy? [Jeb] is "an embarrassment to himself and his family.”? "To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it."?

Old school journalism: freedom of speech. New school journalism: censorship of pollical opponents.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (qxLut)

92 The biggest reason Trump won in 2016 was his campaign was fun. 2020 was more of a greatest hits/ reunion tour.

That's why (besides the fraud) neither Don or Ron will win in 2024-- they're just not fun.

Yesterday was the closest in a long time to Trump going back to 2016; like the giving rides on his helicopter at the Iowa state fair.

That, more than anything, was why Jake insisted they cut away-- the greatest trick of rhetoric is to attack the image you created of your enemy, not the reality of your enemy.
Trump out having fun, chatting and having a good time with regular people is a deadly counter to the fake super-villian evil hater that no one likes that they tell their viewers he is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (Et4sD)

93
Saw something incredibly entertaining to me today. Apparently Yuengling has always had a light beer. But today it was predominately displayed - two huge pallets. The boxes are colored predominately blue like Bud Light. I don't suppose it was an accident?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (enJYY)

94 20 > We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 03:37 PM (V1QHJ)

Sounds like Stelter.

Posted by: m at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (4tUZx)

95 Yeah, I watched the episode, Tucker is bringing it. Hope he doesn't suddenly get a hankering for visiting Ft. Marcy Park.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (dGCAG)
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He's up in Maine, I think, so it should be easy to avoid.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (fxrF8)

96 Disagree. Nobody should go on CNN.

If it upsets Fake Tapper, *everyone* should go on CNN.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (ZGrMX)

97 Is Courage in Cocksuckery kind of like Brave and Stunning Man Boobery?

Jonah is asking for a friend.

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (6Tc2R)

98 Tired of his drama...

Yeah, 'cause Trump spent the last 7 years investigating himself, resulting in bullshit charges from the deep state/whoever is running the Biden administration.

Posted by: Ann at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (f8S4C)

99 Do you get a painful feeling
When you throw em at the ceiling

Oh my goodness! I am still giggling.

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

100 That is cute. Sure, Ace. There will be no drama with RDS. Because if there is no drama, we know where he sided with regards to Tucker's 3rd episode.
If the deep state says "Yeah, we are gonna leave RDS alone" It is not a good thing.

I think you’re confusing created drama with opposition propaganda .

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (MNhXM)

101 Wasn't there a time when we did not think Tapper was an unobstructed douche nozzle?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

102 50 DeSantis needs to come out and strongly condemn our Ukraine meddling, or I'm done with him.

If you watched Tucker On Twitter Ep. 3, you'll understand that isn't a possibility.

The only thing you can say and avoid destruction by entrenched D.C. that would denounce our actions in Ukraine would be "We need to get out of Ukraine and start a war with China".

America now exists almost solely as a perpetual war nation. If they stop killing foreigners, the whole system crashes.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 03:43 PM (QZTwm)

Correct. There is only a pro-Ukrainian war narrative permitted. Anything to the contrary will be confined to dark corners. It's not just Trump. It is RFKJr or anyone like him among Democrats, too.

Tucker nailed it.

To reiterate, the indictment was wargamed and seen as a way to assure catastrophic Republican losses up and down the ticket. If Trump is nominated, he loses enough LIV's to get blown out. If DeSantis or anyone else gets nominated, the base stays out and that person gets blown out. Quite a few elected Republicans like McConnell are fine with that. A larger number are too stupid to realize it.

We will be lucky not to die in a nuclear war.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (KSNKu)

103 Trump's drama

a.k.a. The press throwing a tantrum every time Trump bucks the leftwing orthodoxy

Weak willed people confuse me.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (UNQS9)

104 90 My only fear for this great nation is that Trump is replaced, as a nominee, by Ron DeSantis, Super Nazi.
Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (lyP95)

=========

We will reminisce about the good old days of elder statesman Donald Trump and wonder what happened to the safe, understanding, and intelligent MAGA movement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (LvTSG)

105 Oh, for Pete’s sake! Off, Nirvana sock!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (8B697)

106 I am still trying to figure out exactly what Trump said that is dangerous?

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (qxLut)

=====

I mean, his words caused a mob of people to commit the most violent acts in the whole history of our country, so...

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

107 Is the video of Trump with his supporters in a diner readily available online? I would like the see that. I am glad that people are praying for him and supporting him.The people who fled oppressive regimes know that trying to take out leaders by bogus charges is quite common.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (Keyt1)

108 I think Pence is acting a part, because he swore he would in exchange for... something. I don't think he's part of the pedo corruption but they gave him something to buy him.

Trump has three easy defenses as I see it:
-These materials were declassified
-The ex president has high classification for obvious reasons so its okay for me to have these documents even if they were not declassified
-If you do not enforce this law on anyone else, then its not a valid law and you cannot enforce it on me, even if what I did WAS illegal, which it was not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM (0hOvj)

109 Nobody should go on CNN.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM

Especially their on-air "talent".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM (KkFZv)

110 I am beyond disgusted with the Republican Party's silence on the utterly lawless attacks on Donald Trump, and that includes Gov. Greg Abbot (who just knifed Ken Paxton in the back) and Gov. Ron DeSantis. This party is what it is. It exists to serve itself, and grifts endlessly. It's all a pose.

Trump was the greatest president of my lifetime, and he succeeded with 100% of Democrats and 90% of Republicans attacking him. Imagine what we could have done with a united party. It is to weep.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM (KEWDx)

111 When it comes to journalism I always say honesty is the right policy. My buddy Jake and I shared many a poncho together, cuddled up in the twilight of a hostile combat zone, our faces touching, trying to keep warm, Jake's hands suddenly reaching....

Brian Williams

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM (rLD7a)

112 He's up in Maine, I think, so it should be easy to avoid.

I thought Tucker was in Florida. Isn't that where Fox built his studio for him?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM (ZGrMX)

113 On Friday, he was, of course, given a "Walter Cronkite Award" for Courage in Cocksuckery or whatever.

He was given this award because "journalists" want to proclaim that this is their job -- not the boring repetition of who said what, but the exalted position of being High Priests of the Cult of "Truth," deciding for the world what is true and what is false, and what is sayable and what is forbidden.
***

The media is second only to Hollywood in their mutual mastabatory efforts to award themselves some bullshit award.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 03:52 PM (e4fEA)

114 You may recall that one of the issues with the 2020 election was that if you dared to suggest there might have been some irregularities, you were instantly deplatformed. That's a very powerful tool to go along with vote stealing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 14, 2023 03:52 PM (H9sxy)

115 Wasn't there a time when we did not think Tapper was an unobstructed douche nozzle?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

=====

I am guilty of that. I don't know about anyone else.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 03:52 PM (DRSnL)

116 I love to go on CNN

Posted by: guy who pisses on everythng at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (us2H3)

117 I am still trying to figure out exactly what Trump said that is dangerous?

He keeps pointing out that the virus came from a Chinese lab, that Biden stole the election, and that we need to bring our boys home and defend the border. That's dangerous stuff, man!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (0hOvj)

118 You're going to have to grow up and let a single negative statement about trump go sometimes.
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023

Look. I wish Trump was an orator like William Jennings Bryan. But he isn't

Make a case for RDS other than "The left will be nicer to him". Because they won't.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (WGUfL)

119 22 Jeesh, AOC really needs to dial back the eyes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at

I think she needs to get her thyroid checked.

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

120 79 If only 50% of eligible voters vote in a big election, that leaves a lot of room for fraud. Detroit had precincts with more than 100% turnout.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I keep saying this.
This was part of the 2020 hearings. In Detroit the numbers submitted to the canvasing board do not add up on election night. They are fake and can never be audited.
Precinct captains show up and say "Our guy got 1000 votes. Here are 900 ballots and records showing 800 people voted."
"Welp, this can't be right - I guess we just trust the tally and ignore the evidence, and we can never check since it is impossible unless the numbers submitted add up in the first place."

That is Detroit, and probably every inner city controlled by Dems.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (Sau30)

121 Yeah, I watched the episode, Tucker is bringing it. Hope he doesn't suddenly get a hankering for visiting Ft. Marcy Park.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:47 PM (dGCAG)
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He's up in Maine, I think, so it should be easy to avoid.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (fxrF

You would think, but you underestimate the persuasiveness of the bus drivers on the Clinton Express line.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (dGCAG)

122 Dooooooo

Your boobs hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie em in a knot
Can you tie em in a bow
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder like a regimental soldier

Do your boobs hang low?

Do your boobs hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie em in a knot
Can you tie em in a bow?
Do you get a painful feeling
When you throw em at the ceiling

Do your boobs hang low?

Posted by: nurse ratched

Now do sea otters. I currently atoning for disparaging them by calling them sea pigeons the other day. That was totally out line and potentially dangerous speech. I have an excuse: I hadn't been drinking - work with me; I am trying here to be a better person.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (qxLut)

123 Trump's drama

a.k.a. The press throwing a tantrum every time Trump bucks the leftwing orthodoxy

Weak willed people confuse me.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at June 14, 2023 03:50 PM (UNQS9)

Obtuse people confuse me.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (MNhXM)

124 Well, the chick in question's nickname is Jiggle Tits McGee, if that helps.
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That nickname also belongs to Brian Stelter, so be careful where you say it.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 03:49 PM (ZGrMX)
++++
HA!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (t0OGg)

125 117 I am still trying to figure out exactly what Trump said that is dangerous?

"Take the vaxxine".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (QZTwm)

126 Wasn't there a time when we did not think Tapper was an unobstructed douche nozzle?

He was one of the very few reporters who would ask tough questions of Obama and report on anything bad for the guy. I mean, its a low bar, but compared to the rest of CNN he seemed pretty heroic at the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (0hOvj)

127
I'm amused that a non-redacted variant of "cocksucker" has re-emerged on the AoS home page after a long absence.

Long Live Wicket

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (n+4am)

128 Hasn't Jonah Goldberg assured us that Jake Tapper is fair and balanced?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (VdGjU)

129 >>> Trump's drama

a.k.a. The press throwing a tantrum every time Trump bucks the leftwing orthodoxy

maybe stuff like taking classified documents and (allegedly) showing them off to people to show what a great big man you are

but sure, DeSantis is going to do that. Trump cannot be criticized, period, so any criticism of him must be illegitimate, and every negative opinion of him MUST be due to "loving the deep state" or "being afraid of the liberals."

Everyone here who's grown tired of Trump just doesn't have the COURAGE that you brave anonymous-commenters do!

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (KRtlO)

130 He's up in Maine, I think, so it should be easy to avoid.

I thought Tucker was in Florida. Isn't that where Fox built his studio for him?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM (ZGrMX)
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Some pointy end of the country on the eastern side. It's a blur to me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (fxrF8)

131 Here eyes make A-OC look like she has some kind of illness that causes bulging eyes, and why they bring her on as any expert on anything is risible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (Keyt1)

132 I am beyond disgusted with the Republican Party's silence on the utterly lawless attacks on Donald Trump, and that includes Gov. Greg Abbot (who just knifed Ken Paxton in the back) and Gov. Ron DeSantis. This party is what it is. It exists to serve itself, and grifts endlessly. It's all a pose.

Trump was the greatest president of my lifetime, and he succeeded with 100% of Democrats and 90% of Republicans attacking him. Imagine what we could have done with a united party. It is to weep.
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 14, 2023 03:51 PM

I think I've spotted the problem.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (KkFZv)

133 Jeesh, AOC really needs to dial back the eyes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at

I think she needs to get her thyroid checked.
Posted by: Piper

I would suggest electro shock therapy as a good staring place.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (qxLut)

134 110 I am beyond disgusted with the Republican Party's silence on the utterly lawless attacks on Donald Trump, and that includes Gov. Greg Abbot (who just knifed Ken Paxton in the back) and Gov. Ron DeSantis. This party is what it is. It exists to serve itself, and grifts endlessly. It's all a pose.

Trump was the greatest president of my lifetime, and he succeeded with 100% of Democrats and 90% of Republicans attacking him. Imagine what we could have done with a united party. It is to weep.
Posted by: Sam Adams at June

Gov. DeSantis was not silent. https://tinyurl.com/42wwudpp

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

135 Now do sea otters. I currently atoning for disparaging them by calling them sea pigeons the other day. That was totally out line and potentially dangerous speech. I have an excuse: I hadn't been drinking - work with me; I am trying here to be a better person.
Posted by: Lost In Space

That's not what got you in trouble

You know what you did.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2023 03:56 PM (dCMcd)

136 Make a case for RDS other than "The left will be nicer to him". Because they won't.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (WGUfL

We’ve only talked about RDS successes as governor of Florida and his current plans if elected President but keep claiming RDS supporters have only said ‘ the Left will be nicer to him’

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 03:56 PM (MNhXM)

137 Many is the time AOC, in her barmaid days, heard "Hey, Skull, howzabout another Bud Light down here".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 03:56 PM (rLD7a)

138 He keeps pointing out that the virus came from a Chinese lab, that Biden stole the election, and that we need to bring our boys home and defend the border. That's dangerous stuff, man!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (0hOvj)

Tucker came hard last night on the likes of Mike Pompeo, and how Pompeo in particular sidled up to Trump, cooed in his ear, and then stabbed him in the back at every opportunity. Including yesterday.

Trump's great crime is not that he said "pussy," it's that he said fedgov doesn't exist as a constant gravy train for domestic and international grifting.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:56 PM (dGCAG)

139 maybe stuff like taking classified documents and (allegedly) showing them off to people to show what a great big man you are

As I understand it, these documents directly show Biden's corruption, Russian payoffs to the Clintons, and Ukrainian graft. I'd be showing those to everyone who'd listen, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

140 To anyone here with connections to the DeSantis team, his Twitter people really need to pump the breaks.

They are full-throttle insult Trump's voters. Trump as well of course, but that is to be expected. But eventually, won't they need Trump's voters for the general? Or is their strategy "Screw them, will make it up with other voting blocs."?

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (AbL8c)

141 Well, we'd better collectively get behind somebody, because time is running out. At an accelerated pace.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (Xrfse)

142 126 Wasn't there a time when we did not think Tapper was an unobstructed douche nozzle?

He was one of the very few reporters who would ask tough questions of Obama and report on anything bad for the guy. I mean, its a low bar, but compared to the rest of CNN he seemed pretty heroic at the time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (0hOvj)

When some big magazine like Vanity Fair did a big spread on Jake and his homelife, he became way too big for his britches.

Posted by: m at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (4tUZx)

143 We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.

***

Eat a wheelbarrow full of unwashed assholes, Jake.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (wb1YC)

144 Lost in Space, you had better atone. Because every Halloween, the Great Sea Otter rises out of the most sincere kelp patch he can find to bring abalone to all the good boys and girls.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (8B697)

145 >>>Make a case for RDS other than "The left will be nicer to him". Because they won't.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

trump didnt do nuffin

he's a good boy, he's turning his life around, he's going to apply to CUNY

desantis just never gets into trouble because he's a kiss-ass and his uncle is on the police force

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (KRtlO)

146 Rachel Maddow last night announced that they would not carry Trumps address to those invited to Bedminster when he arrived. She and MSNBC got blowback on Twitter from their own viewers. Asking why Maddow thought she should get to pick and choose what is news and what is not. She and Tapper are mad Trump was not in jail post arraignment as a flight risk to Russia for selling secrets to them.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 14, 2023 03:58 PM (LslHz)

147 *looks inside the room*

*shakes head and quietly walks away.*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2023 03:58 PM (BdMk6)

148 I just wish I could understand why it has to be one or the other like this. Its not like this is Reagan vs Mondale, they're both good candidates.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:58 PM (0hOvj)

149 Fake Jake's distress should be a wakeup call for the left but it won't be. Jake (so stupidly) believes the legal spectacle will shake voters support of Trump and MAGA ideas, when Americans recognize this as only one more persecution of Trump.

Biden kept documents in his car, his garage, every office he ever had, including one where Chinese intel officials were frequent visitors, and he wasn't even President.

Zoobama has to this fucking day thousands of classified documents he intends to put in his "library", once they finish stealing parkland in Chicago.

Kerry has documents. Brennan has documents. Morell has documents. Clinton had a goddamn illegal alien maid keeping track of her classified documents!!

Jake Tapper does not comprehend any of this. It is truly bizarre.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 03:58 PM (trEbh)

150 I would suggest electro shock therapy as a good staring place.
Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM

Up the voltage.

Posted by: Dr. Jerome Hathaway at June 14, 2023 03:58 PM (KkFZv)

151 144 Lost in Space, you had better atone. Because every Halloween, the Great Sea Otter rises out of the most sincere kelp patch he can find to bring abalone to all the good boys and girls.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Ok. That's pretty funny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (dCMcd)

152 Well, we'd better collectively get behind somebody, because time is running out. At an accelerated pace.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (Xrfse)

We will after the primaries. At least I will. I can’t say the same for Trump advocates.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (MNhXM)

153 140 They are full-throttle insult Trump's voters. Trump as well of course, but that is to be expected. But eventually, won't they need Trump's voters for the general? Or is their strategy "Screw them, will make it up with other voting blocs."?

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (AbL8c)

=========

Meh.

We're in primary season. Pretty much all of this will be forgotten once the voting's done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

154 >>>nyone here with connections to the DeSantis team, his Twitter people really need to pump the breaks.

They are full-throttle insult Trump's voters. Trump as well of course, but that is to be expected. But eventually, won't they need Trump's voters for the general? Or is their strategy "Screw them, will make it up with other voting blocs."?

...

a trump asshole just called me "weak willed" for not being super-enthusiastic about the cult but yeah, I'll get right on chiding the DeSantis people about their online behavior consisting of only insulting people into compliance

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (KRtlO)

155 i wonder if flossing is hard for aoc after she's chewed through a 2 by 4. maybe she can get a job doing commercials for ipana.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (B1FKF)

156 Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 03:56 PM (dGCAG)

If you want to hear something brutal, check out the Mike Pence interview on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show today. I've always been "meh" about those two, but if Pence has skin anywhere on his body now I would be surprised.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (KSNKu)

157 140 To anyone here with connections to the DeSantis team, his Twitter people really need to pump the breaks.

They are full-throttle insult Trump's voters. Trump as well of course, but that is to be expected. But eventually, won't they need Trump's voters for the general? Or is their strategy "Screw them, will make it up with other voting blocs."?

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (AbL8c)

It's the problem of the allies and team he has from the Republican party. They weren't interested in winning these voters then, they're not interested in winning these voters now.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (eYoxG)

158 So I see this headline at MarketWatch:

Does the 14th Amendment disqualify Donald Trump from being elected president again?

WTF? What does the 14th have to with Trump running for a second term?

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (G0vdT)

159 We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous

Then: They truth will set you free

Now: The true is too dangerous to be said freely.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (lc5cP)

160 Large Brown Areolas Like Burnt Pancakes > Saggy Pelosi Boobs

Posted by: AOC at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (dQWfI)

161 Charlie Kirk reports Seattle PD have been told "until further notice" they must stop enforcing any property crimes causing less than $750 in damage.

https://tinyurl.com/yvdjdm9s

Next time you see a Biden sticker on a car in Seattle? You have free rein to do less than $750 in damage to it. Break some windows for equity!

Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (V1QHJ)

162 Jeesh, AOC really needs to dial back the eyes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at

I think she needs to get her thyroid checked.
Posted by: Piper

I would suggest electro shock therapy as a good staring place.
Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (qxLut)
........

Fetterman with tits.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

163 Lost in Space, you had better atone. Because every Halloween, the Great Sea Otter rises out of the most sincere kelp patch he can find to bring abalone to all the good boys and girls.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM

Let's not even think about what the Great River Otter does...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (KkFZv)

164 >>>It's the problem of the allies and team he has from the Republican party. They weren't interested in winning these voters then, they're not interested in winning these voters now.

why can't they behave like the Trump people and offer DeSantis voters a respectful hearing?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (KRtlO)

165 the Great Sea Otter rises out of the most sincere kelp patch he can find to bring abalone to all the good boys and girls.

If he could bring some Ambergris, that's worth a whole lot more

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (0hOvj)

166 Here eyes make A-OC look like she has some kind of illness that causes bulging eyes, and why they bring her on as any expert on anything is risible.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (Keyt1)

It's because they believe AOC's bulgy-eyes give her hypnotic powers and they want to hypnotize their viewers to obey and endorse the woke viewpoint.

She's sorta like Hypno-Toad but less attractive.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (fb7jX)

167 So, about that Lincoln fellow…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (8B697)

168 But eventually, won't they need Trump's voters for the general?

You beat the enemy that is in front of you.

I have no dog in the fight, I don't really care either way.

When it's rabbit season, you kill rabbits.
When it's duck season, you kill ducks.
When it's primary season, you hunt primary opponents.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (QZTwm)

169 Tucker came hard last night on the likes of Mike Pompeo, ..
Posted by: BurtTC

Tucker seems to foreshadow events. When he rants about someone they are about to be revealed as a major scumbag.

I liked Pompeo but have not seen any news of him since the election until the Tucker Ep.3. (I like that he was strong on china) It seems there is a reason Tucker went after him. I wonder what.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (Sau30)

170 136
We’ve only talked about RDS successes as governor of Florida and his current plans if elected President but keep claiming RDS supporters have only said ‘ the Left will be nicer to him’
Posted by: polynikes at

This. And I don’t know anyone has ever said the left will be nicer. I know I have said he is less bombastic and more presidential, which he is and that is truth. I appreciate that about him. It doesn’t mean I don’t understand the amazing things Trump did in office. I would vote for him again. But I like DeSantis, too. It’s possible to appreciate them both.

Did we eat all the banana bread?

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

171 I commented to a Tweet and immediately got some snide response, calling me a cult member. When I pointed out this was not a good way to get votes for your candidate, I was told that was the candidates job. I don't call people names and I gave real concerns about a DeSantis candidacy. Being snotty towards potential voters worked out so well for Hillary.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (ouTlx)

172 I am still trying to figure out exactly what Trump said that is dangerous?
"Take the vaxxine".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (QZTwm)

Today sir you win the internet.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (lc5cP)

173 153 140 They are full-throttle insult Trump's voters. Trump as well of course, but that is to be expected. But eventually, won't they need Trump's voters for the general? Or is their strategy "Screw them, will make it up with other voting blocs."?

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (AbL8c)

=========

Meh.

We're in primary season. Pretty much all of this will be forgotten once the voting's done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

These voters are a major part of the primaries, Trump won on them in 2016 when no one else was courting them. Looks like it'll be that way again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (eYoxG)

174 Some pointy end of the country on the eastern side. It's a blur to me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2023 03:55 PM (fxrF

Having grown up in classrooms that had the American map, I was surprised the first time I saw that Maine was not, in fact, a pointy end of the continent.

But yeah, still, anywhere east of the Mississloppy, at this point I have no need for it.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (dGCAG)

175 Now do sea otters. I currently atoning for disparaging them by calling them sea pigeons the other day. That was totally out line and potentially dangerous speech. I have an excuse: I hadn't been drinking - work with me; I am trying here to be a better person.
Posted by: Lost In Space

That's not what got you in trouble You know what you did. Posted by: nurse ratched

Oh boy, that is going for the jugular move. My grandmother used to play that card. My life always got worse after that. I surrender. Total capitulation.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (qxLut)

176 To anyone here with connections to the DeSantis team, his Twitter people really need to pump the breaks.

They are full-throttle insult Trump's voters.

The Trump surrogates are just as rude, and were doing it first. Mind you, telling Kurt Schlichter that he's a pussy just keeps not ending well for them.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (ZGrMX)

177 No one is worse on twitter than Trump fans, no one. And no I'm not concerned that Trump people won't support DeSantis if he's the nominee, unless they want Trump to spend the rest of his life in jail.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (lyP95)

178 He’s already made a comment on Ukraine a month ago.
Posted by: polynikes

Pretty sure he pulled a John Forbes Kerry -- climate envoy on that one. He initially thought we ought to get off Ukraine because 'not in our national interest...' only to unhook from Jeb days later to tell the world that Ukraine is very important for our democracy - paraphrased.
It could as easily have been John Cornyn or taken from JC's stance. Cornyn. the second level shell in Mitch's posse.

Posted by: micky at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (3byMq)

179 Every day, more and more, if it isn't PDT I'm on board for Vivek.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (rLD7a)

180 It doesn’t matter how much some (including even Ace!) might want DeSantis; it’s clear at this point that Republican primary voters overwhelmingly (by 30-40% points) want Trump. DJT will win the nominating contest easily. It won’t be close. Maybe that’s what the deep state wants… all this crap is clearly helping Trump. On the other hand, be careful what you wish for…. Some may be tired of the so-called drama, but Trump is the most talented politician on the national scene since Reagan and even more importantly he intuitively grasps those policies that are best for the country.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (xT8gx)

181 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (eYoxG)

What has their Twitter team done. Given Trump a nickname? Posted another clip of Trump with Fauci? How dare they.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (MNhXM)

182 72 Dawns and Jennifers are almost always hot.

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Cobain at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (8B697)

Jens are fun.

Jennies are real fun.

Jennifers are not to be fucked with.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (KbCG3)

183 WTF? What does the 14th have to with Trump running for a second term?
Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM

The lefty circle jerk focuses on this language:

"Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (KkFZv)

184 164 >>>It's the problem of the allies and team he has from the Republican party. They weren't interested in winning these voters then, they're not interested in winning these voters now.

why can't they behave like the Trump people and offer DeSantis voters a respectful hearing?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (KRtlO)

Trump's platform is already largely unobjectionable to DeSantis voters.

Nor afaik is his team or Trump going after DeSantis's voters, just DeSantis himself.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (eYoxG)

185 > No one is worse on twitter than Trump fans, no one.

Abortion fans are worse.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 04:03 PM (V1QHJ)

186 Elex Michaelson
@Elex_Michaelson
NEWS: @GavinNewsom says he met with @sheriffsalazar to "compare notes" about potential criminal prosecutions of @RonDeSantis. Bexar County, TX is investigating the Florida funded flight of migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
@CAgovernor is investigating migrants' flight to CA. Video: twitter.com/i/status/1668983836036718596
7:08 AM · Jun 14, 2023

Newsom says he’d agree to a debate against DeSantis moderated by Hannity https://tinyurl.com/2p9aa252

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 14, 2023 04:03 PM (MFZ8i)

187 Next time you see a Biden sticker on a car in Seattle? You have free rein to do less than $750 in damage to it. Break some windows for equity!

Come on you now how this works.

If Joe the Hobo breaks into your car and causes less then $750 in damages it is fine.

If you damage a liberal's car it will be a hate crime and you will go to PMITA prison.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:03 PM (lc5cP)

188 Jennifers are not to be fucked with.

So no Jennifer Jason-Leigh or Jennifer Connelly?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (0hOvj)

189 >>>
Nor afaik is his team or Trump going after DeSantis's voters, just DeSantis himself.

but we "weak willed" people confuse criticism of the candidate with attacks on the supporters.

I'm glad Trump supporters are smart enough to see the difference between the two things, and not just keep claiming that any negative statement about trump is a terrible insult directed at them!

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (KRtlO)

190 Tapper seems to be the kind of guy that sniffs his own farts.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (VMFAF)

191 179 Every day, more and more, if it isn't PDT I'm on board for Vivek.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (rLD7a)

PDT with Vivek as VP?

Posted by: m at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (4tUZx)

192 I liked Pompeo but have not seen any news of him since the election until the Tucker Ep.3. (I like that he was strong on china) It seems there is a reason Tucker went after him. I wonder what.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (Sau30)

Tucker alluded to the fact that he's had conversations with others inside the Trump White House, and they were clear on the fact that Pompeo was the single worst perpetrator of flattering Trump, and undermining him behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (dGCAG)

193 so lemme ask, did the f i b have the doc about the five mil payoff to dopey joe before the election in 2020? and if so, they decided to hide it? hmm. move along.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (B1FKF)

194 If he's going to go on, and make some attention grabbing headlines, it's more important in Jan and not Jun.
---
While I agree this is conventional wisdom, I think all the old rules are out the window.
If Ron is going to beat Trump, he has to start grabbing news cycles now.
Because it's a huge hill to peel away Trump voters. And they're not going to go to him by default now, so he's got to start now.
"New and Improved" MAGA ain't sizzle.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (Et4sD)

195 Tapper seems to be the kind of guy that sniffs his own farts.

Tapper probably insists that he doesn't fart, like women claim.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (ZGrMX)

196 Yes, Ace. The allegations! The allegations are serious! We can't ignore the allegations! Trump peed on a russian hooker on a bed in a hotel room once occupied by Obama!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (WGUfL)

197 189 >>>
Nor afaik is his team or Trump going after DeSantis's voters, just DeSantis himself.

but we "weak willed" people confuse criticism of the candidate with attacks on the supporters.

I'm glad Trump supporters are smart enough to see the difference between the two things, and not just keep claiming that any negative statement about trump is a terrible insult directed at them!
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (KRtlO)

Is some rando new nic on these forums the Trump campaign?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (eYoxG)

198 Tucker's rant last night is a must listen
https://legalinsurrection.com/tucker on the indictment of trump and-americas principles at stake

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (xhxe8)

199 > So no Jennifer Jason-Leigh or Jennifer Connelly?

Connelly destroyed her national monuments.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (V1QHJ)

200 Tapper seems to be the kind of guy that sniffs his own farts.

And demands his interns compliment them.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (lc5cP)

201 a trump asshole just called me "weak willed" for not being super-enthusiastic about the cult but yeah, I'll get right on chiding the DeSantis people about their online behavior consisting of only insulting people into compliance
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 03:59 PM (KRtlO)

It just seems like an odd strategy, but these are strange days.

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (AbL8c)

202 191 Yep. That would do nicely.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (rLD7a)

203 Tapper seems to be the kind of guy that sniffs his own farts.

Yeah he always has that look on his face like a celebrity forced to work the soup kitchen, with all the awful little people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (0hOvj)

204 177 No one is worse on twitter than Trump fans, no one. And no I'm not concerned that Trump people won't support DeSantis if he's the nominee, unless they want Trump to spend the rest of his life in jail.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 14, 2023 04:02 PM (lyP95)
-----------

Trumpers: "Just watch me....wait what? Huh, Ohhhh fudge!$%."

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (G0vdT)

205 If Joe the Hobo breaks into your car and causes less then $750 in damages it is fine.

If you damage a liberal's car it will be a hate crime and you will go to PMITA prison.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:03 PM (lc5cP)

=====

This guy gets it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (DRSnL)

206 >>> @GavinNewsom says he met with @sheriffsalazar to "compare notes" about potential criminal prosecutions of @RonDeSantis.

So their plan is to put all the R candidates in prison? That's not third world or anything.

Posted by: DJ at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (uosPt)

207 Has Trump gotten Jr. to stop telling people they should drink Bud Light while watching Disney movies?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (ZGrMX)

208 >>> It doesn’t matter how much some (including even Ace!) might want DeSantis; it’s clear at this point that Republican primary voters overwhelmingly (by 30-40% points) want Trump. DJT will win the nominating contest easily.

so this week polls AREN'T made for strippers, right?

it's weird how the polls are garbage one week and 100% golden accurate the next. Please tell me what sophisticated methods you're using to distinguish between the two. Because I'm sure it can't be anything as stupid as "if a poll favors trump, it's good, if a poll shows trump losing, it's 'rigged'," right?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (KRtlO)

209 Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Laugh but descendants of Confederates are next. Then all Southerners. Then White People. Welcome to Maoism.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (KbmMB)

210 James Freeman points out today how the DOJ is treating Trump totally contrasts with how they treat Biden, whose document crimes as Senator and Veep have none of the defenses PDJT has (as President). Biden has been investigated to a longer period, has far more numerous instances of evident crime, treated the documents more cavalierly and has refused to explain anything. But Trump gets indicted.

The DOJ works for the Junta. Did so even when Trump was President and they sent Comey into the Oval wearing a wire.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:07 PM (fweVu)

211 Newsom says he’d agree to a debate against DeSantis moderated by Hannity https://tinyurl.com/2p9aa252
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at

Because Hannity will talk the whole time so it won’t really be a debate?

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

212 It seems there is a reason Tucker went after him. I wonder what.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (Sau30)

I noticed that also. On Tucker's episode on the CIA being involved with the assassination of JFK he mentioned that the show had offered Pompeo an opportunity to come on and talk about it as Pompeo has been CIA director, and that he had refused. Tucker then mentioned that was not typical as Pompeo was considered a friend of the show. Wonder if it is something going back to that, or if there was another issue even before that.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (5IobZ)

213 Jake Tapper does not sniff his own farts. As learned from Brian Williams, he attempts bites at bath tub bubbles.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (rLD7a)

214 I am still trying to figure out exactly what Trump said that is dangerous?
"Take the vaxxine".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 03:54 PM (QZTwm)

Today sir you win the internet.
Posted by: 18-1

Oddly enough that is one Trump ever said that Jake Trapper didn't find dangerous.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (qxLut)

215 Dooooooo

Your boobs hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie em in a knot
Can you tie em in a bow
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder like a regimental soldier

Do your boobs hang low?

Do your boobs hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie em in a knot
Can you tie em in a bow?
Do you get a painful feeling
When you throw em at the ceiling

Do your boobs hang low?

Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm a gonna nominate Nurse R for mayor of Hooterville.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (c4rbO)

216 But DeSantis is a Nickelback fan!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (8B697)

217 So their plan is to put all the R candidates in prison? That's not third world or anything.

I'd suggest the next time an illegal murders someone and they have evidence the illegal came through CA they charge Newsom with conspiracy to commit murder.

Fight fire with fire.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (lc5cP)

218 "You have free rein to do less than $750 in damage to it. Break some windows for equity!"

Go for the windshield. That's apparently the cheapest to replace.

I'm told that the smaller the window, the more expensive it is.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (ou9hh)

219 I really don't care who gets the Republican nomination. The primaries are the primaries. I do, however, expect...nay...demand a united front following the convention. And I want a VP that I can trust. And I want the campaign to be vicious. Rip the media and this administration.
Make the deep state be so obvious in the cheat that after the Republicans lose, in a clear Third World bullshit election, that there isn't a one million person march in DC, but a two million person march.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (e4fEA)

220 139 maybe stuff like taking classified documents and (allegedly) showing them off to people to show what a great big man you are

As I understand it, these documents directly show Biden's corruption, Russian payoffs to the Clintons, and Ukrainian graft. I'd be showing those to everyone who'd listen, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

--------------
Again, The highly recommended Robert Barnes rant I linked yesterday, Barns makes the point that an ex-president is able to show whatever he wants to whomever he wants. De-classification is only to allow *others* to be able to publish the documents. His argument is that that is the only way to interpret Article 2.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (Sau30)

221 Guess I'll come back later, since this thread is apparently devolving into another RonDon slapfight.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (DRSnL)

222 Tucker alluded to the fact that he's had conversations with others inside the Trump White House, and they were clear on the fact that Pompeo was the single worst perpetrator of flattering Trump, and undermining him behind his back.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2023 04:04 PM (dGCAG)

Another formerly respected cabinet member or a member of the administration that no longer supports Trump so he must be a traitor to Trump.

I like when an interviewer asked him if he was supporting Trump for President. ‘ oh God no ‘

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM (MNhXM)

223 @GavinNewsom says he met with @sheriffsalazar to "compare notes" about potential criminal prosecutions of @RonDeSantis. Bexar County, TX is investigating the Florida funded flight of migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

***

Gavin Newsome may not the biggest idiot in California but he better hope Eric Swalwell doesn't come down with something fatal.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM (wb1YC)

224 If you damage a liberal's car it will be a hate crime and you will go to PMITA prison.

OpSec is important, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM (ZGrMX)

225 OT-Somebody I know is filling out job applications online. She was asked her preferred pronouns. In addiition to the usual ones she got:

xe/zem
ze/hir
ey/em
Hir/hir
fae/faer
Hu/hu

I don't even know what most of those are supposed to mean, except that fae/faer sounds like you identify as fairy-thee one with wings, not a rude name for gay people. I guess it's too much to hope we've reached peak insanity

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM (Keyt1)

226 Ace badly needs to get some self awareness.

This whining about mean things being said for not wanting Trump looks as petulant and exhaustively dramatic as Ace says Trump is. DeSantis is going to lose the primaries by 25 points or more precisely because his backers, and the man himself, have come off as nothing but weak and whiny since his announcement.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (zlj/K)

227 Stop wasting your time hoping DeSantis will win the nomination - he's not going to

Posted by: Deadrody at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (ntLlh)

228 Charlie Kirk reports Seattle PD have been told "until further notice" they must stop enforcing any property crimes causing less than $750 in damage. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (V1QHJ)
++++
Legalizing crime always has such great outcomes!

It was a mere 8 years that I had to take a business trip to Seattle. Downtown. Had to park off-site because the customer didn't allow vendors to use their parking garage. I had to park at a paid lot and walk a couple of blocks to the office. I got there early and left late. At no time did I feel unsafe. Seattle was just a city. I didn't get the attraction, but it wasn't an abject shit hole like San Francisco.

It looks like they're closing the gap, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (t0OGg)

229 Laura Loomer is the worst. Is she on Trump's side or trying to make him look bad?

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (lyP95)

230 Every day, more and more, if it isn't PDT I'm on board for Vivek.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door
........

I like Vivek, he's like the little rabid chihuahua nipping at everybody's heels. The media will hate him worse than Trump.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

231 Gavin Newsome may not the biggest idiot in California but he better hope Eric Swalwell doesn't come down with something fatal.

Scott Weiner has to be in that running, and also Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (ZGrMX)

232 If DeSantis is VP, I look forward to seeing Casey and Melania together on stage.

Maybe with Ivanka, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (8B697)

233 211 Newsom says he’d agree to a debate against DeSantis moderated by Hannity https://tinyurl.com/2p9aa252
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at

Because Hannity will talk the whole time so it won’t really be a debate?
Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:08 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Hannity gave Newsom a 60 minute infomercial for his presidential campaign on his show the other day so he could slam DeSantis at the behest of Trump.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (MFZ8i)

234 Eh bien, il semble que j’avais raison.

Posted by: Ce gars qui pense toujours que ca commence. at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (fxrF8)

235 Oddly enough that is one Trump ever said that Jake Trapper didn't find dangerous.

Someone earlier mentioned Berlusconi publicly admitted none of the pol/elites actually got the clot shot.

And he is exactly the sort of person that would admit to it if true...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (lc5cP)

236 208 >>> It doesn’t matter how much some (including even Ace!) might want DeSantis; it’s clear at this point that Republican primary voters overwhelmingly (by 30-40% points) want Trump. DJT will win the nominating contest easily.

so this week polls AREN'T made for strippers, right?

it's weird how the polls are garbage one week and 100% golden accurate the next. Please tell me what sophisticated methods you're using to distinguish between the two. Because I'm sure it can't be anything as stupid as "if a poll favors trump, it's good, if a poll shows trump losing, it's 'rigged'," right?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (KRtlO)

What's also weird is that if Trump partisans believed the polls, it seems like they should be willing to indulge us holdouts and dissenters more gladly. After all, if victory is assured, what is there to get so upset about?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (ppBhU)

237 >>>220 139 maybe stuff like taking classified documents and (allegedly) showing them off to people to show what a great big man you are

As I understand it, these documents directly show Biden's corruption, Russian payoffs to the Clintons, and Ukrainian graft. I'd be showing those to everyone who'd listen, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

--------------
Again, The highly recommended Robert Barnes rant I linked yesterday, Barns makes the point that an ex-president is able to show whatever he wants to whomever he wants. De-classification is only to allow *others* to be able to publish the documents. His argument is that that is the only way to interpret Article 2.

...

all possible, but please stop claiming that Desantis is going to do all the very borderline/edge of legal stuff Trump does.

The claim is always made that they'll just go after DeSantis for all the stuff they went after trump for -- refusing to even admit, for one second, that Trump rides the line and does so very sloppily and for no good reason (that is, no reason like "advancing our political interests")

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (KRtlO)

238 De-classification is only to allow *others* to be able to publish the documents. His argument is that that is the only way to interpret Article 2.

Ex Presidents always have extremely high clearances because they are tapped on by sitting presidents for their experience. I mean, I doubt Biden's team is calling Trump but that's how its worked in the past. "Hey, President Eisenhower, when you were dealing with Krushchev, did you bring up x?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (0hOvj)

239 CNN would get better ratings by hiring South American weather girls than having Doll Eyes Alex on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (F8pUa)

240 I guess it's too much to hope we've reached peak insanity
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM

Peak insanity can never be reached...only approached.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (KkFZv)

241 230 In spite of staying at every $60 a night and under on I40 from here to Kingman AZ, I like Vivek.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:12 PM (rLD7a)

242 This bikini blonde enjoys hanging out in trees much more than she enjoys watching dunder-headed apparatchiks vomit out propaganda on an also-ran cable news backwater:
https://is.gd/CaOtEc

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 04:12 PM (t0OGg)

243 Ron DeSantis is not going to be the nominee, period.

He's not going to be the VP.

His consolation price is going to go back to being an mostly excellent Governor and bulwark against an increasingly tyrannical and out of control FEDGov.

The sooner people Grok this the better off we all will be.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 04:12 PM (WDtZv)

244 Then: They truth will set you free

Now: The true is too dangerous to be said freely.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (lc5cP)

The truth doesn't set you free. Historically you get at least an ass-whipping for telling the truth. Ostracism, imprisonment or death in many other cases. Especially telling truth that is contra the beliefs, rules, diktats, positions, or narratives of the power figures in a given hierarchy.

Posted by: I've always hated this expression at June 14, 2023 04:12 PM (fE1zA)

245 238 "De-classification is only to allow *others* to be able to publish the documents. His argument is that that is the only way to interpret Article 2."

Ex Presidents always have extremely high clearances because they are tapped on by sitting presidents for their experience. I mean, I doubt Biden's team is calling Trump but that's how its worked in the past. "Hey, President Eisenhower, when you were dealing with Krushchev, did you bring up x?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (0hOvj)

Even people high in the bureaucracy tend to have that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:12 PM (eYoxG)

246 I'm a gonna nominate Nurse R for mayor of Hooterville.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Haven't you heard, "the bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle."? Be careful here and whatever you do, do not bring up sea otters.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (qxLut)

247 225
I don't even know what most of those are supposed to mean, except that fae/faer sounds like you identify as fairy-thee one with wings, not a rude name for gay people. I guess it's too much to hope we've reached peak insanity
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June

Well guess where we are now? I just saw a job posting saying the company won’t discriminate against people’s actual race or the race they identify as. This should be fun of that catches on!

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

248 Tapper seems to be the kind of guy that sniffs his own farts.

Tapper probably insists that he doesn't fart, like women claim.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:05 PM (ZGrMX)
........

Women fart?

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

249 it's weird how the polls are garbage one week and 100% golden accurate the next. Please tell me what sophisticated methods you're using to distinguish between the two. Because I'm sure it can't be anything as stupid as "if a poll favors trump, it's good, if a poll shows trump losing, it's 'rigged'," right?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (KRtlO)

I could be wrong, but I believe this because in addition to the polls (which aren’t even close BTW) it’s a simple fact that Trump dominates the news cycle. He sucks all the oxygen out of every room. I doubt 5% of GOP primary voters could tell you what DeSantis has said about anything lately. But I guarantee you, they know what’s going on with Trump and know he’s being treated unfairly. This easily translates into votes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (xT8gx)

250 all possible, but please stop claiming that Desantis is going to do all the very borderline/edge of legal stuff Trump does.

I am certain that DeSantis would be much less of a loose cannon, but maybe he also might be a bit too restrained, too. Its hard to know without traveling to an alternate universe where Spider-Man is a velociraptor and DeStantis actually wins the election.

Trump's wild and unpredictable nature is not simply a drawback, is what I'm saying. Sometimes its a virtue, in a time when everyone is trying to handcuff and silence him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (0hOvj)

251 Man, lots of nicks I've never seen before attempting to tell Ace how to run his own site. *puts some popcorn in the microwave*

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (ZGrMX)

252 The Allen Ginsburg purple guy on bench, what did I do to deserve that eye offense? I will have to get seriously drunk tonight and still have a nightmare about that freak.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (Uv0D2)

253 If DeSantis goes on a F** News show like Hannity I will have to support a different candidate, Zombie General Pinochet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (fweVu)

254 I don't even know what most of those are supposed to mean, except that fae/faer sounds like you identify as fairy-thee one with wings, not a rude name for gay people. I guess it's too much to hope we've reached peak insanity
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM (Keyt1)
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Peak Insanity is like Peak Stupid, in that it's purely hypothetical. It can be achieved, but its achievement is perfectly coincident with the extinction of the species and so nobody is around to observe it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (t0OGg)

255 Hmm. I thought the way to refer to DJT in derogatory tones is to call him Drumpf.

Similarly, MAGA is MAGAt.

Posted by: micky at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (3byMq)

256 it's weird how the polls are garbage one week and 100% golden accurate the next. Please tell me what sophisticated methods you're using to distinguish between the two. Because I'm sure it can't be anything as stupid as "if a poll favors trump, it's good, if a poll shows trump losing, it's 'rigged'," right?

Posted by: ace

Until the election process is cleansed of misfeacance, the name on the ballot is irrelevant.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 04:14 PM (c4rbO)

257 This whining about mean things being said for not wanting Trump looks as petulant and exhaustively dramatic as Ace says Trump is. DeSantis is going to lose the primaries by 25 points or more precisely because his backers, and the man himself, have come off as nothing but weak and whiny since his announcement.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at June 14, 2023 04:10 PM (zlj/K)
227 Stop wasting your time hoping DeSantis will win the nomination - he's not going to

Posted by: Deadrody

So then why not just ignore us? You keep saying Trump has a mortal lock on the nom, but you don't act like you really believe it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 04:14 PM (eOEVl)

258 "We’ve only talked about RDS successes as governor of Florida and his current plans if elected President but keep claiming RDS supporters have only said ‘ the Left will be nicer to him’"

Success in a state with a GOP legislature is a pretty low bar. And given the degree past candidates, other than Trump, disregarded or reversed their campaign plans and positions, I'm not sure that's a great thing to cling to.

The counter-argument to DeSantis is that he won't be able to withstand the assault coming for him and, either way, he's likely going to be closer to George W. Bush than Trump in most ways.

It really is odd that people who claim to hate and distrust the GOP establishment are not bothered AT ALL by that establishment's support and embrace of DeSantis.

Posted by: MBunge at June 14, 2023 04:14 PM (2tWdQ)

259 Then: They truth will set you free

Now: The true is too dangerous to be said freely.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:00 PM (lc5cP)
++++
Then: The truth will set you free.
Now: Tell the truth and we'll set you on fire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 04:14 PM (t0OGg)

260 All of my lefty relatives are extremely pi$$ed that trump was not jailed and held with no bond or given a huge bond and had to wear an ankle monitor and surrender his passport. They are also furious that the judge did not issue a gag order. One of them is literally foaming at the mouth because trump is successfully campaigning on his indictment.

They were convinced that this time it was the end for trump.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (ncXxy)

261 >>> 225 I guess it's too much to hope we've reached peak insanity

Some apps also ask for sexual preference, which I thought was illegal in the before times.

Posted by: DJ at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (uosPt)

262 I find it possible to believe many things at once.

For instance, I think the indictment of Trump is a travesty.

I also think there exist other candidates that could also be successful, besides Trump.

I don't think those two things are at odds.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (QZTwm)

263 Be careful here and whatever you do, do not bring up sea otters.
Posted by: Lost In Space

I rather be dangerous than careful.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (c4rbO)

264 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2023 04:11 PM (KkFZv)

I am glad (Is it wrong to say that?) that I don't not have any close dealings with men who wear dresses and have a beard and call themselves a woman, and women who've chopped off their breasts and gotten a fake penis and now think they're a man. If I run into these people I will call them by the first name they want-probably-, but I'm not going to play games with pronouns. I will simply use their first name always.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (Keyt1)

265 249 it's weird how the polls are garbage one week and 100% golden accurate the next. Please tell me what sophisticated methods you're using to distinguish between the two. Because I'm sure it can't be anything as stupid as "if a poll favors trump, it's good, if a poll shows trump losing, it's 'rigged'," right?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (KRtlO)

I could be wrong, but I believe this because in addition to the polls (which aren’t even close BTW) it’s a simple fact that Trump dominates the news cycle. He sucks all the oxygen out of every room. I doubt 5% of GOP primary voters could tell you what DeSantis has said about anything lately. But I guarantee you, they know what’s going on with Trump and know he’s being treated unfairly. This easily translates into votes
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 14, 2023 04:13 PM (xT8gx)

DeSantis's strategy is currently to try to focus on Conservative votes.

Problem is at best he's going to split that with Trump. So with Trump basically keeping his share of the working class, there's no way for DeSantis to win.

That btw is why Trump attacked DeSantis on Social Security, it differentiates Trump from DeSantis to the Trump voters.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (eYoxG)

266 Tucker then mentioned that was not typical as Pompeo was considered a friend of the show. Wonder if it is something going back to that, or if there was another issue even before that.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont

good point
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Pompeo was the single worst perpetrator of flattering Trump, and undermining him behind his back.
Posted by: BurtTC

Yeah, but I think that was known. he was playing both sides but his actions on china supported Trump, and his speeches were right in line with what Trump was saying and trying to do.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (Sau30)

267 Success in a state with a GOP legislature is a pretty low bar.

And yet it's a bar almost every other GOP governor routinely fails to clear.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (ZGrMX)

268 So their plan is to put all the R candidates in prison?

Only the one who's a threat. So relax, Chris Christie fans.

Posted by: t-bird at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (CaJIi)

269 How the hell would a guy with a weird name like Vivek Ramaswamy win a Presidential race?

Barack Hussein Obama

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (rLD7a)

270 I find it possible to believe many things at once.

For instance, I think the indictment of Trump is a travesty.

I also think there exist other candidates that could also be successful, besides Trump.

I don't think those two things are at odds.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (QZTwm)
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^^^^^
This.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (fxrF8)

271 Vivek Ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard….

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (PCK5/)

272 How the hell would a guy with a weird name like Vivek Ramaswamy win a Presidential race?

Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (rLD7a)
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Millard Fillmore

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (fxrF8)

273 Saying that DeSantis would tske his own people to D, and airly dismissing the effect on FL with "it will always be red" is dumb. It's a legitimate question as are questions about how DeSantis did in the House.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (ouTlx)

274 You guys playing cards?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (ZLI7S)

275 "tired of his drama ..."
"want DeSantis to win the nomination ..."

When we get back to no drama (the right's version of "restoring norms"), then we can all go back to sleep, blinded once more to all the shenanigans.

Posted by: Coki at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (IelBY)

276 At no time did I feel unsafe. Seattle was just a city. I didn't get the attraction, but it wasn't an abject shit hole like San Francisco.

It looks like they're closing the gap, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June

Yeah, but aren’t you a cop?

(Sorry. I humor only myself sometimes. Yes, I am just like this is real life).

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

277 173 These voters are a major part of the primaries, Trump won on them in 2016 when no one else was courting them. Looks like it'll be that way again.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (eYoxG)

=========

I still think that Trump is going to walk away with this nomination easily.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

278 Success in a state with a GOP legislature is a pretty low bar. And given the degree past candidates, other than Trump, disregarded or reversed their campaign plans and positions, I'm not sure that's a great thing to cling to.

The counter-argument to DeSantis is that he won't be able to withstand the assault coming for him and, either way, he's likely going to be closer to George W. Bush than Trump in most ways.

It really is odd that people who claim to hate and distrust the GOP establishment are not bothered AT ALL by that establishment's support and embrace of DeSantis.
Posted by: MBunge at June 14, 2023 04:14 PM (2tWdQ)

Y'all realize that Trump isn't exactly some fire-breathing conservative, right? Regardless of the reaction to his every waking moment, the guy governed within the expected parameters of a politician. The ONLY radical things he did were just following through on things other politicians have said they would do.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (KbCG3)

279 Oh and one of the name callers was Amish Dude.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (ouTlx)

280 I could be wrong, but I believe this because in addition to the polls (which aren’t even close BTW) it’s a simple fact that Trump dominates the news cycle.

I think that town hall really did him a favor, it reminded everyone how good he is off the cuff.

Like the debates, remember when he was ripping on the Clinton and Obama administrations for having all the power and time to fix the tax code and laws so that rich super corps weren't taking advantage of it.

Hillary demanded to know some examples of what he meant about the broken system, and Trump responded "I know its broken because I take advantage of it"

It was 90 degrees off every politician's response, nobody was ready for that level of honesty and insider position. Hillary was completely taken aback.

Trump is a wild card, he's too off the cuff but most of the time it really works and when he's on, he's ON.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (0hOvj)

281 There was a broadcaster named Tapper
Whose ratings were down in the crapper
His junk was so small
Hardly visible at all
It’s sad, but that is the capper

Posted by: Doc Emmett Brown and His Band of Renown at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (VsUo2)

282 I think that I am coming around to the idea that Trump is the inevitable nominee. But I like Desantis a good bit. I think this allows me to vote for Ron in our primary to increase his visibility for 2028 while still letting Trump have his chance at vengeance.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (aD39U)

283 It really is odd that people who claim to hate and distrust the GOP establishment are not bothered AT ALL by that establishment's support and embrace of DeSantis.

I know you think this is a killer argument, but it's not. Just because people I don't like support a candidate, that doesn't mean I can't support the candidate. Why would I give the GOPe the power to make me support any candidate?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (eOEVl)

284 Success in a state with a GOP legislature is a pretty low bar.

And yet it's a bar almost every other GOP governor routinely fails to clear.

Forget about the current dispute, this shit is just plain true in general.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (ppBhU)

285 I guess it's too much to hope we've reached peak insanity
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 04:09 PM
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We have a year and change to go before that happens. Then, if the "Steal 2: Philly/Arizona/Atlanta Boogaloo" doesn't play well, I expect peak insanity to keep going until President Trump's third impeachment reaches the floor of the Senate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (fweVu)

286 245. Exactly. Remember when during Trumps administration people like Comey still had a security clearance after he was fired. Kerry was flying around the world on charters meeting with enemies and negotiating?

Posted by: Jen the original at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (LslHz)

287 201 It just seems like an odd strategy, but these are strange days.

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM (AbL8c)

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It's called primary season.

It happens every few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

288 GavinNewsom says he met with @sheriffsalazar to "compare notes" about potential criminal prosecutions of @RonDeSantis. Bexar County, TX is investigating the Florida funded flight of migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

Unhuh. Anywhere else they would call this conspiracy.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (e4fEA)

289 >>>So their plan is to put all the R candidates in prison?

Only the one who's a threat. So relax, Chris Christie fans.

Fans? There's more than one?

Also, they'd need a bigger prison.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (ZGrMX)

290 Posted by: DJ at June 14, 2023 04:15 PM (uosPt)

Oh, they asked that too. Apparently if you don't ask what they're Gay or straight or bisexual or polyamorous or whatever-it can be considered discriminatory. This woman applying for jobs is a conservative Christian woman in her fifties. Very smart. Very capable. Her mind boggles at these sorts of things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (Keyt1)

291 >>> I doubt 5% of GOP primary voters could tell you what DeSantis has said about anything lately.

Don't say "gay"! And book bans.
And he started a fight with Mickey Mouse.

That's all I got.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (w1gm/)

292
Trump is a wild card, he's too off the cuff but most of the time it really works and when he's on, he's ON.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (0hOvj)

He's a very talented showman, which is pretty useful in the age of television.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:19 PM (eYoxG)

293 282 I think that I am coming around to the idea that Trump is the inevitable nominee. But I like Desantis a good bit. I think this allows me to vote for Ron in our primary to increase his visibility for 2028 while still letting Trump have his chance at vengeance.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM (aD39U)

A one-term president with nothing to lose and every reason to go apeshit is Trump's best differentiator.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:19 PM (KbCG3)

294 253 If DeSantis goes on a F** News show like Hannity I will have to support a different candidate, Zombie General Pinochet.
______

Sorry, but ZGP is supported by the establishment. Only ZGF (Zombie General Franco) has the support of the masses.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 14, 2023 04:19 PM (TCKep)

295 258 Success in a state with a GOP legislature is a pretty low bar. And given the degree past candidates, other than Trump, disregarded or reversed their campaign plans and positions, I'm not sure that's a great thing to cling to.

The counter-argument to DeSantis is that he won't be able to withstand the assault coming for him and, either way, he's likely going to be closer to George W. Bush than Trump in most ways.

It really is odd that people who claim to hate and distrust the GOP establishment are not bothered AT ALL by that establishment's support and embrace of DeSantis.
Posted by: MBunge at June 14, 2023 04:14 PM (2tWdQ)

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My argument is that the election is fortified and it doesn't matter who wins the GOP nomination. I'll still vote for DeSantis because I think he would make a better president, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

296 Y'all realize that Trump isn't exactly some fire-breathing conservative, right? Regardless of the reaction to his every waking moment, the guy governed within the expected parameters of a politician. The ONLY radical things he did were just following through on things other politicians have said they would do.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM

I remember way back in 2016 there were a whole bunch of people on this very blog that claimed trump was a dark horse candidate who's only goal for running in the primary was to throw the election to hillary. And even if he won, he would immediately turn into a democrat lite.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (ncXxy)

297 After hearing Tucker I am more convinced the Deep State Junta is going to charge Trump with selling documents to Putin and keep thos Russian Collusion going

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (bg7kl)

298
A one-term president with nothing to lose and every reason to go apeshit is Trump's best differentiator.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:19 PM (KbCG3)

A lame duck President is not dangerous.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (MNhXM)

299
If you want to hear something brutal, check out the Mike Pence interview on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show today. I've always been "meh" about those two, but if Pence has skin anywhere on his body now I would be surprised.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat

And they said they were going to interview Chris Christie also.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (63Dwl)

300 Unless he dies, Trump will win the Alabama Primary easily.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (aD39U)

301 I'm on board for PDT. If not him, Vivek. After that, Desantis. Has anybody noticed the Desantis photos in the media are becoming less and less flattering? Like a sudden fear setting in.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (rLD7a)

302 I doubt 5% of GOP primary voters could tell you what DeSantis has said about anything lately.

He's definitely better in terms of social conservatism and protecting families, but he isn't a tenth the campaigner and politician that Trump is. He's got very little charisma, but he's solid and grounded.

And after Trump and Biden's wild chaotic ride, voters may very well be ready for something more solid, reliable, and grounded.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (0hOvj)

303 And yet it's a bar almost every other GOP governor routinely fails to clear.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (ZGrMX)

Like Asa H. Couldn't rustle up the courage to sign the bill from the Arkansas legislature protecting kids from butchery.

Posted by: Emmie -- are you on the ArkanOklaMoMe email list? at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (Emce2)

304 267 Success in a state with a GOP legislature is a pretty low bar.

And yet it's a bar almost every other GOP governor routinely fails to clear.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2023 04:16 PM (ZGrMX)

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Because we have a fucking terrible political class.

DeSantis should be middle of the road.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

305 @272

>> It's a legitimate question as are questions about how DeSantis did in the House.

DeSantis was a literally unknown to anyone except his family congressman from 2012 to 2018.

I'm a political junky and pretty much have watched every congressional committee hearing and presser over the last 15 years at least.

The first time I saw the guy, Donald Trump was giving a rally for him.

And now he thinks he's got the minerals to take on Trump?

Not gonna happen Meatball.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (WDtZv)

306 The great Trump v. DeSantis rumble. Trump is my president but this is a long primary and I want to see how DeSantis develops and holds up during it. He could be a great candidate and a great president but presidential politics are a whole different level of crazy and have a nasty habit of grinding the pretenders into bits. At this time I can't imagine that anything could change my mind about my president - I have seen all the good, the bad, the crazy and nothing has changed my mind about him and that he was greatest president in my life. But Gov. DeSantis, from what I have seen, is a credible man and deserves a fair hearing.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (qxLut)

307 Middle school students had a mini-revolt against a forced "pride" event. Check out the crazy eyes on the school Principal.

Probably the most insidious moment comes at the end. One of the posters from this event features two people waving gay pride flags. Above that is a Tennessee Williams quote, "What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains."

Think about that. The poster is teaching kids that nobody is straight. If you think you're straight, you're wrong.

https://tinyurl.com/bdyyamfn

Posted by: bonhomme at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (V1QHJ)

308 "That is not a defense": Ex-Mueller prosecutor says Trump's post-arrest speech was a "confession". "There is absolutely no legal authority that supports the idea that a president could assert, for example, that classified records are 'personal.' That would still be true even if such records were declassified," Jason Baron, former director of litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, told CBS News...

Hanging is too good for him.

bet TFG has never read the Presidential Records Act. As usual he’s latched on to something fed to him by aides and knows not of what he speaks.

Or the Constution, or the Bible, which he brandished for that photo op after violently dispersing peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square.

I've heard commentators speculate that Jack Smith didn't want Trump to be jailed and to have minimal conditions imposed because he'll go out and incriminate himself further as he did at Bedminister, or commit more crimes.

Section 3, 14th Amendment. Insurrectionists are automatically disqualified from holding public office. Trump? Insurrectionist. Period.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (JCZqz)

309 A one-term president with nothing to lose and every reason to go apeshit is Trump's best differentiator.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:19 PM (KbCG3)

A lame duck President is not dangerous.
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (MNhXM)

Except to the deep state.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (e4fEA)

310 it's weird how the polls are garbage one week and 100% golden accurate the next. Please tell me what sophisticated methods you're using to distinguish between the two. Because I'm sure it can't be anything as stupid as "if a poll favors trump, it's good, if a poll shows trump losing, it's 'rigged'," right?

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2023 04:06 PM
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Trump supporters are running wild on Twitter with a poll from Quinnipiac showing Trump with a large lead over DeSantis in the primary without mentioning it also shows Trump losing to Biden 48-44 in the general.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (MFZ8i)

311 all possible, but please stop claiming that Desantis is going to do all the very borderline/edge of legal stuff Trump does.

Posted by: ace

I never said any such thing. I am OK with either candidate and refuse to take a side. I love them both with respective caveats.

I hate that the blog gets into these battles and have not contributed to the dissension

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (Sau30)

312 Only the one who's a threat. So relax, Chris Christie fans.

Fans? There's more than one?
.......

Nope, he ate them.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

313 I like Vivek too. Might be better as Attorney General.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (ouTlx)

314 He's definitely better in terms of social conservatism and protecting families, but he isn't a tenth the campaigner and politician that Trump is. He's got very little charisma, but he's solid and grounded.

And after Trump and Biden's wild chaotic ride, voters may very well be ready for something more solid, reliable, and grounded.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (0hOvj)

From the perspective of the primary, the problem with DeSantis's approach(or rather that of his campaign), is they're too focused on one category. And he's going to end up splitting Conservatives with Trump no matter how much he focuses on it, it's too hard to get brand differentiation there.

They should map the entire field of potential voters and be splitting as much as possible of each group from Trump.

Remember Trump was pulling over Bernie Bros of all people?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (eYoxG)

315 Jesus, you people. DeSantis beat Gillum by 32,000 votes in 2018, he won reelection by 1.5 million votes in 2022, which is more if you need help with that.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (lyP95)

316 It kind of sucks to watch Trump and DeSantis try and destroy each other. If they could get over themselves and team up, we might actually have a chance at defeating the cheat and then the DS.

Posted by: pawn at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (wsHtO)

317 DeSantis should be middle of the road.

Trump is a moderate Democrat from the 90s.

DeSantis wouldn't have stood out from the crowd of Republicans in the 90s.

And yet here we are where the FNM tells us the Republicans have moved far right...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (lc5cP)

318 I am a single issue voter. My issue is:

Who will piss of the left the most?

Absolutely 100% Trump.

Posted by: Weasel at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (RG6z4)

319 308 bet TFG has never read the Presidential Records Act. As usual he’s latched on to something fed to him by aides and knows not of what he speaks.

Or the Constution, or the Bible, which he brandished for that photo op after violently dispersing peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 14, 2023 04:22 PM (JCZqz)

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I wonder if this person can cite the part of the Act that says that presidents have to get permission from his underlings to declassify something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

320 After hearing Tucker I am more convinced the Deep State Junta is going to charge Trump with selling documents to Putin and keep thos Russian Collusion going
Posted by: Skip

They seem to be "honor-bound" to only charge him with things that THEY do.

In other words, someone got peed on and liked it.

Posted by: t-bird at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (CaJIi)

321 That is cute. Sure, Ace. There will be no drama with RDS. Because if there is no drama, we know where he sided with regards to Tucker's 3rd episode.
If the deep state says "Yeah, we are gonna leave RDS alone" It is not a good thing.

You're going to have to grow up and let a single negative statement about trump go sometimes.

Posted by: ace

Will he, though?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (eOEVl)

322 >This. And I don’t know anyone has ever said the left will be nicer.
Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

No one has seriously said that. It's an OnlyTrumper strawman. The real argument is that RDS will not step on his own dick like Trump does, and has a track record of actually delivering what he promises. And I'm souring quite a bit on RDS lately, but a fair hearing should be given to these arguments. But nuance is for fagz when it comes to tribal politics.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (tcxoK)

323 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 04:21 PM (WDtZv)

He was elected three times to the House before he ran for Governor.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (MNhXM)

324 300 Unless he dies, Trump will win the Alabama Primary easily.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June

I think you are absolutely right, but have you seen the signs up on 181 and 104? “Desantis - Trump without the drama”. Home grown ones. I saw a few similar ones up near Auburn, too.

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

325 315 Jesus, you people. DeSantis beat Gillum by 32,000 votes in 2018, he won reelection by 1.5 million votes in 2022, which is more if you need help with that.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (lyP95)

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He doesn't have a plan to counter the vote cheating in AZ, MI, PA, or GA.

Neither does Trump.

There is one candidate who takes voter fraud seriously: Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to win the 2024 election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

326 I'd like a candidate that has both of the best qualities of Trump and DeSantis. There, I said it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (TCKep)

327 it’s a simple fact that Trump dominates the news cycle. He sucks all the oxygen out of every room.
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Imagine the first debate.
The absolute very first question is going to be, "Did Biden win 2020?"
And every single question after that is going to be an attack on Trump.

How insane is it to think you can win over Trump voters when every topic is about Trump? Exactly what topic in 2024 will not be about Trump?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (Et4sD)

328 And even if he won, he would immediately turn into a democrat lite.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2023 04:20 PM (ncXxy)

I expected this to happen. Then I watched what Trump was doing and saw him acting out of love for Americans and America. I was very glad to have been wrong about him.

Posted by: Emmie -- are you on the ArkanOklaMoMe email list? at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (Emce2)

329 Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2023 03:45 PM (TC7Gi)

My mom taught me that son when I was just a young boy. The only difference was she used "continental" rather than "regimental" soldier.

Posted by: Archer at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)

330 Trump's wild and unpredictable nature is not simply a drawback, is what I'm saying. Sometimes its a virtue, in a time when everyone is trying to handcuff and silence him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor a

It is a result of his ego, but his ego is also what made him go against all the pressure from the "experts" trying to force his hand on decisions. Anyone going against the deep state needs a really big ego.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (Sau30)

331 I still think that Trump is going to walk away with this nomination easily.

If I had to bet money, I'd say you're right, despite preferring Desantis. But as a matter of politics, this ought to make it easy for Trump and his supporters to be magnanimous in victory, indulging their opponents, and using their opponents' criticisms to sharpen their swords.

Now, Trump himself likely cannot do that because of his ego and general crudity in speech. But his supporters ought to know better. They're going to need all those other Republicans eventually. And a lot of us, in response to the GOPe's endless backstabbing, are far past "Fuck you, where else are you going to go?" as an argument for showing up to the polls.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (ppBhU)

332 Here is some shocking news to those with hair on fire about either Trump or DeSantis.

Both are flawed imperfect human beings.

But they both FIGHT.

Does Kristi Kreme or Mittels Rombley the Boneless Pork Rectum fight?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:25 PM (F8pUa)

333 Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (tcxoK)

Curious to why the recent souring?

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:25 PM (MNhXM)

334 331 If I had to bet money, I'd say you're right, despite preferring Desantis. But as a matter of politics, this ought to make it easy for Trump and his supporters to be magnanimous in victory, indulging their opponents, and using their opponents' criticisms to sharpen their swords.

Now, Trump himself likely cannot do that because of his ego and general crudity in speech. But his supporters ought to know better. They're going to need all those other Republicans eventually. And a lot of us, in response to the GOPe's endless backstabbing, are far past "Fuck you, where else are you going to go?" as an argument for showing up to the polls.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (ppBhU)

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This primary is not going to be different from any other primary ever.

Kamala called Biden a racist to his face on national television.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

335 "That is not a defense": Ex-Mueller prosecutor says Trump's post-arrest speech was a "confession". "There is absolutely no legal authority that supports the idea that a president could assert, for example, that classified records are 'personal.' That would still be true even if such records were declassified," Jason Baron, former director of litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, told CBS News...
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Fu*k you jason baron. Go read the regs, dumbass.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (e4fEA)

336 It is a result of his ego, but his ego is also what made him go against all the pressure from the "experts" trying to force his hand on decisions. Anyone going against the deep state needs a really big ego.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (Sau30)

People always leave out the last year of his administration.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (MNhXM)

337 Would it be inflammatory for me to suggest that in one aspect DJT deserves your vote for no other reason than to stick it to those bastards?

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (ArbhN)

338 There is one candidate who takes voter fraud seriously: Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to win the 2024 election.

We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics

Posted by: Joe Biden tells the truth for once at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (lc5cP)

339 If DeSantis goes on a F** News show like Hannity I will have to support a different candidate, Zombie General Pinochet.
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How about Hannity's retarded, unwanted step-son Erick Erickson?
Cause that was one of his first stops after announcing ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (Et4sD)

340 Vivek could also be a great Secretary of HUD (Housing and Urban Development). Do away with those screwy key and towel deposits his ancestors cooked up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (rLD7a)

341 If I had to bet money, I'd say you're right, despite preferring Desantis. But as a matter of politics, this ought to make it easy for Trump and his supporters to be magnanimous in victory, indulging their opponents, and using their opponents' criticisms to sharpen their swords.

Now, Trump himself likely cannot do that because of his ego and general crudity in speech. But his supporters ought to know better. They're going to need all those other Republicans eventually. And a lot of us, in response to the GOPe's endless backstabbing, are far past "Fuck you, where else are you going to go?" as an argument for showing up to the polls.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (ppBhU)

There's always going to be assholes out there.

I'm not fussed about the primary. Just commenting on the campaign strategies being employed.

Trump is running his campaign like he always does, finding as many wedges as possible and attacking the unity of the opposing coalition to split people off.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:27 PM (eYoxG)

342 Does Kristi Kreme or Mittels Rombley the Boneless Pork Rectum fight?

I'll take on any man that cuts in front of me at the all you can eat pasta bar and I will f*ck him up.

Posted by: Chris Christie at June 14, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

343 Trump is playing the lightning rod in my view, distracting people like Tapper as an example until the show actually starts. When Biden steps aside the Dems have jack and shit, when Trump does so it will be like Moses parting the waters. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 14, 2023 04:27 PM (oWBc3)

344 Here is some shocking news to those with hair on fire about either Trump or DeSantis.

Both are flawed imperfect human beings.

But they both FIGHT.

Does Kristi Kreme or Mittels Rombley the Boneless Pork Rectum fight?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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This.

I'll add that one guy can't fix this, no matter who it is. Well, except Jesus.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (aBJcM)

345 Jake was angry because some of the patrons of the Cuban restaurant sang Happy Birthday to PDT & the film crew caught and ran it. He's the reasonable old guard, ever guiding and righting.
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Ben Collin's award acceptable speech was goofy interesting. For example, "Some of them are trying to run a parallel ground war. Some of them are trying to sell cars. So far the plan has worked." What?

And, edited for Twitter, "The next time (YOU'RE IN AN EDITORIAL MEETING AND) someone asks you to couch the truth with a lie pushed by a powerful person, what will you do? Will you help that liar? Or will you fight?" Emphasis added because the spoken & written quote differed. (Listen to the entire acceptance speech.)

That's one scared kid.
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With those shoes on, even I can out run it. And, how about those panties for book thread?

Posted by: L - very tired at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (GshMh)

346 Does Kristi Kreme or Mittels Rombley the Boneless Pork Rectum fight?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:25 PM (F8pUa)
........

Well, Kristi fights abdominal gas every night.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

347 This primary is not going to be different from any other primary ever.

Kamala called Biden a racist to his face on national television.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Calling Biden a racist is one thing, it potentially discourages his supporters from voting for him. Calling Biden's voters racists would be dumb though, only hardens their position.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eYoxG)

348 IMO Trump is like Grant. He fights and it's bloody, but he fights.

Posted by: Archer at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

349 For the record I am a tireless fighter.

Why every time I pass a mirror I have to fight the urge to look at my perfect hair.

And I'll tell you, I win at least half of those fights

Posted by: Willard Mittens Romneycare at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (lc5cP)

350 "Kamala called Biden a racist to his face on national television."

This is completely acceptable as she was telling the truth.

Posted by: pawn at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (wsHtO)

351 I voted for Trump in 2016, I voted for Trump in 2020, I will vote for Trump in 2024 and no matter how many people stamp their feet and whine about Trumps "drama," I'm not voting for anyone else.

If Trump doesn't ultimately win the nomination, doubtful l will vote for that person.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (WDtZv)

352 It's called primary season.

It happens every few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

It's not 2012 anymore where this is a scrimmage before the big game. It's a very different country.

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (AbL8c)

353 "If we could just find a less controversial, more polished representative, they will surely let us out. The guy they keep throwing in solitary for trying to start a revolution is making us unpopular with guards."

- Future Conservatives in the Camps

[Carpe Donktum]

Posted by: Coki at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (IelBY)

354 It's not a process thing, it's an existential thing. People are starting to realize this.

Posted by: mrp at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (rj6Yv)

355 Fact is, Trump can't staff another administration. He's run off anyone with integrity and no one can afford to take a job where you provide your own defense attorneys on Day One. He burns bridges with quality people over minor disputes. The only people he can hire are jokers and thieves.

Sad but true.

Posted by: spongeworthy at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (vZqvS)

356 In spite of staying at every $60 a night and under on I40 from here to Kingman AZ, I like Vivek.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

I have too and bunch more. Some even had electricity and doors that stayed shut. Then there was the scent of curry.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (qxLut)

357 347 Calling Biden a racist is one thing, it potentially discourages his supporters from voting for him. Calling Biden's voters racists would be dumb though, only hardens their position.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eYoxG)

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Biden told all black people who weren't going to vote for him that they weren't black.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

358 @340 an appallling comment, if humor was the attempt, it missed.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (oWBc3)

359 >>If I had to bet money, I'd say you're right, despite preferring Desantis. But as a matter of politics, this ought to make it easy for Trump and his supporters to be magnanimous in victory, indulging their opponents, and using their opponents' criticisms to sharpen their swords.

Do you think you might be able to get DeSantis fans to stop telling people who prefer Trump they are in a cult every few minutes? A seemingly very large cult. The idea that the insults only go one way is silly.

That might be helpful in lowering the temperature.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

360 348 IMO Trump is like Grant. He fights and it's bloody, but he fights.

Posted by: Archer at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

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And neither understood the unwritten rules of DC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

361 I'll add that one guy can't fix this, no matter who it is. Well, except Jesus.

Well there is the story of Hercules and a certain stable... but boy did it take awhile. And well he is Hercules.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (F8pUa)

362 I like Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy. None of them are perfect and none of them come with guarantees. Every single one of them is going to disappoint me in some way.

Posted by: Emmie -- are you on the ArkanOklaMoMe email list? at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (Emce2)

363 DeSantis/RFK jr ticket would be unbeatable. Calling my shot.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (KbmMB)

364 Eh, I'm out. Maybe see y'all later this evening.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (Xrfse)

365 Nowadays, if you loose an election, you go to the gallows to hang.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (m+wls)

366 Kamala called Biden a racist to his face on national television.

It's the only thing I like about her.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (Bd6X8)

367 358 347 Calling Biden a racist is one thing, it potentially discourages his supporters from voting for him. Calling Biden's voters racists would be dumb though, only hardens their position.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eYoxG)

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Biden told all black people who weren't going to vote for him that they weren't black.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

Well Biden has dementia and his people decided the best approach was to hide him in a basement so...

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (eYoxG)

368 353 It's called primary season.

It happens every few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

It's not 2012 anymore where this is a scrimmage before the big game. It's a very different country.
Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM (AbL8c)

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Is this the most important election ever?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

369 My thinking is also Trump is like your worst woman scorned, he needs a broad sword and a path to the Deep State

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2023 04:31 PM (xhxe8)

370 "If Trump doesn't ultimately win the nomination, doubtful l will vote for that person.
Posted by: Thomas Bender "

I'll withhold judgement on that until the day of the election. You never know what might happen. Ron just might punch Joe right in his big mouth.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2023 04:31 PM (ArbhN)

371 A lame duck President is not dangerous.
Posted by: polynikes

No longer true. Now it is all done behind the scenes with a phone and pen and as the shit-master said "after the election I will have a lot more flexibility" to do whatever the f--- I want without having to worry about the damned voters.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:31 PM (Sau30)

372 And neither understood the unwritten rules of DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG

And Grant was victorious and didn’t delegate his leadership to General Fauci.

Okay last snark. I’m out.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:32 PM (MNhXM)

373 I voted for Trump in 2016, I voted for Trump in 2020, I will vote for Trump in 2024 and no matter how many people stamp their feet and whine about Trumps "drama," I'm not voting for anyone else.

If Trump doesn't ultimately win the nomination, doubtful l will vote for that person.

So, I'm just keeping track of those who say they won't vote for anyone but Trump (OTers).

Thus far, I have:
trev006 (may he rest in peace)
Cat Ass Trophy
Thomas Bender
There was one more, but I've forgotten his name.
That's four that I know of.

When I ask who are the ODers, people say Blago, but he's never actually said that AFAIK. So zero. Don't let anyone tell you that the petulant, childish people are evenly distributed.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 04:32 PM (eOEVl)

374 69

Is this the most important election ever?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

I have been hearing that for a long long time…

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (PCK5/)

375 It's hard to believe the primaries won't be over for *another entire year.*

Fuuuuuck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (oINRc)

376 The rain has been a big nothingburger.....

Posted by: JT at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (T4tVD)

377 There is one candidate who takes voter fraud seriously: Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to win the 2024 election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)
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He would win, except he won't be running. Too old and demented. Any challenger willing to stay in the race past South Carolina, and withstand the Propaganda Press pressure to get out, can beat him. Literally anyone.

Biden can't win, because he can't leave his house and primary challenges require retail politicking.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (jtgLT)

378
No longer true. Now it is all done behind the scenes with a phone and pen and as the shit-master said "after the election I will have a lot more flexibility" to do whatever the f--- I want without having to worry about the damned voters.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:31 P

Hopefully there will not be a SC opening in that last year.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (MNhXM)

379 Godzilla/Rodan 2024

That is a winning ticket.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (F8pUa)

380 378 There is one candidate who takes voter fraud seriously: Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to win the 2024 election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)
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He would win, except he won't be running. Too old and demented. Any challenger willing to stay in the race past South Carolina, and withstand the Propaganda Press pressure to get out, can beat him. Literally anyone.

Biden can't win, because he can't leave his house and primary challenges require retail politicking.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (jtgLT)

I feel fairly confident Biden will "run" and "win".

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (eYoxG)

381 From the perspective of the primary, the problem with DeSantis's approach(or rather that of his campaign), is they're too focused on one category.

Yeah there's not a lot of daylight between DeSantis and Trump and I think each is trying to distinguish themselves by different approaches. Its interesting to watch but ultimately meaningless.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (0hOvj)

382 318 I am a single issue voter. My issue is:

Who will piss of the left the most?

Absolutely 100% Trump.
Posted by: Weasel at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (RG6z4)
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You know, the Dem's had a similar situation in 2020. They could of let Bernie take the nomination, pissing off the Right, but they got smart, realized Bernie couldn't win the General, got everyone behind Biden and they won.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

383 Is this the most important election ever?!

In fairness in every election since 2008 or so I've lost rights so...it kind of is true.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lc5cP)

384 352.
If Trump doesn't ultimately win the nomination, doubtful l will vote for that person.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June

I reluctantly voted for Trump in 2016 and quickly learned the error of my ways. I proudly voted for him in 2020 and would vote for him in 2024. But I am not blind to his flaws, and would support DeSantis. I am obviously on the fence and listening to both of them. While I am not at all convinced our elections are ever going to be legit again, I won’t just not vote in the chance I am wrong. Otherwise, I am party to everything that is happening right now, but worse. If there is a way to stop the left, I want to be part of it.

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

385 376 It's hard to believe the primaries won't be over for *another entire year.*

Fuuuuuck.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (oINRc)

What's worse is Diablo 4 is kind of a drag. Not terrible but not great either.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (eYoxG)

386

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has clarified his stance that transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military, despite his insistence that transgender people suffer from a mental disorder.

Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign clarified to the Daily Caller that the candidate only supports transgender people in administrative roles and opposes accommodations being provided by the military. He also said he opposes a blanket ban and thinks it should be looked at on a case to case basis.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (63Dwl)

387 I thought we were making fun of Tapper.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

388 Hopefully there will not be a SC opening in that last year.

Depends if the Wise Latina stays away from the sugary treats.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (F8pUa)

389 What's the political career look like for DeSantis if he's put on the ticket and loses? Does he go back to being governor of Florida?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (Q4IgG)

390 There was a young Rep. name of Sandy
Who made all of the commentors randy
She despised Donald Trump
Who eyed her ripe rump
But she banged him ‘cus he was a grandee

Posted by: If you're a celebrity ... at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (VsUo2)

391
You know, the Dem's had a similar situation in 2020. They could of let Bernie take the nomination, pissing off the Right, but they got smart, realized Bernie couldn't win the General, got everyone behind Biden and they won.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

In terms of legit elections I think Bernie would've been more formidable than Biden.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (eYoxG)

392 l, got everyone behind Biden and they won.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14

I don’t believe they truly won. But they got Biden in office, that is for certain.

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

393 I hope Trump gets out of the race, because he is a terrible candidate, too old and proven ineffective last go-round as a candidate, but I doubt he listens to me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (jtgLT)

394 Godzilla/Rodan 2024

That is a winning ticket.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (F8pUa)
.......

They would turn DC into rubble.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (v0R5T)

395 390 What's the political career look like for DeSantis if he's put on the ticket and loses? Does he go back to being governor of Florida?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (Q4IgG)

=======

He's term limited. So, he'll go senate.

Also, nood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

396 What's the political career look like for DeSantis if he's put on the ticket and loses? Does he go back to being governor of Florida?

Losing isn't a fatal blow. Just ask Presidents Nixon and Reagan.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (eOEVl)

397 Does Kristi Kreme or Mittels Rombley the Boneless Pork Rectum fight?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:25 PM

Absolutely...just not for anything the base wants. But they'll argue strenuously to give ground to the left, to compromise on immigration, to not stand and fight social issues (not the hill to die on), etc.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (JCZqz)

398 384 Is this the most important election ever?!

In fairness in every election since 2008 or so I've lost rights so...it kind of is true.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lc5cP)

18-1 Johnson is right. Or at least he isn't wrong.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (ppBhU)

399 393 I don’t believe they truly won. But they got Biden in office, that is for certain.
Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

========

Bernie isn't part of the machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

400 Piper

Joey Bidet is the tired old man they selected King.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (F8pUa)

401 Fox News Rumor: Grand jury indicts Penny in subway chokehold case.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (qxLut)

402 It's hard to believe the primaries won't be over for *another entire year.*

Fuuuuuck.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2023 04:33 PM (oINRc)

Take heart, the Republican nomination will be sewn up after the March 5th Primaries so, just more than eight months.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (aD39U)

403 393

I don’t believe they truly won. But they got Biden in office, that is for certain.
Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

The same scenario is on tap for 24…

Posted by: tubal at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (PCK5/)

404 He also said he opposes a blanket ban and thinks it should be looked at on a case to case basis.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 04:35 PM (63Dwl)

Civilian contractor if necessary ( unique skill ie; translator , IT.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (MNhXM)

405 392
You know, the Dem's had a similar situation in 2020. They could of let Bernie take the nomination, pissing off the Right, but they got smart, realized Bernie couldn't win the General, got everyone behind Biden and they won.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

In terms of legit elections I think Bernie would've been more formidable than Biden.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 14, 2023 04:36 PM (eYoxG)

In a legit election, Bernie is the nominee in 2016.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:37 PM (KbCG3)

406 Ali Shitbar's show now going on about Judge Cannon...
ineffectual, VERY little trial experience, aPpOiNtEd by Trump, whether she'll follow the law or ...

She must recuse herself!!1!11

Posted by: micky at June 14, 2023 04:38 PM (3byMq)

407 318 I am a single issue voter. My issue is:

Who will piss of the left the most?

Absolutely 100% Trump.
Posted by: Weasel at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM (RG6z4)
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That is, of course, a great pro-Trump argument. But they hate every Republican (even Boneless Pork Rectum of Utah).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2023 04:38 PM (jtgLT)

408
This Trump vs DeSantis stuff started months ago. I was whining recently that election season is 18mo out of very 24. But it's more like 21 at this point. It's just relentless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2023 04:38 PM (oINRc)

409 This was part of the 2020 hearings. In Detroit the numbers submitted to the canvasing board do not add up on election night. They are fake and can never be audited.
Precinct captains show up and say "Our guy got 1000 votes. Here are 900 ballots and records showing 800 people voted."
"Welp, this can't be right - I guess we just trust the tally and ignore the evidence, and we can never check since it is impossible unless the numbers submitted add up in the first place."

That is Detroit, and probably every inner city controlled by Dems.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 03:53 PM (Sau30)

Don’t forget the big cardboard panels that were pre-staged outside Cobo Hall, then plastered across the windows at vote stealing time.

Posted by: clutch at June 14, 2023 04:38 PM (9UmRs)

410 They would turn DC into rubble.

You say that like it's a bad thing?

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at June 14, 2023 04:39 PM (VMFAF)

411 They would turn DC into rubble.

You don't have to keep convincing me, I already said yes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)

412 If Trump doesn't ultimately win the nomination, doubtful l will vote for that person.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 04:29 PM

And that right there is exactly what this entire evolution is about, disenfranchising republican voters. Thanks for playing into the democrats plan.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2023 04:39 PM (ncXxy)

413 Happy 248th birthday US Army ... and many more
(Stars and Stripes)

https://tinyurl.com/345udfjr

To say I have mixed feelings about today would be an understatement.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 14, 2023 04:39 PM (NsjpS)

414 but they got smart, realized Bernie couldn't win the General, got everyone behind Biden and they won.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

I think Bernie would have gotten more legitimate votes than Biden did. But Bernie only knows how to grift for himself, and the deep state wants people who can spread the graft around better.

Posted by: Emmie -- are you on the ArkanOklaMoMe email list? at June 14, 2023 04:40 PM (Emce2)

415 359 Let me put it to you in authentic frontier Latin gibberish..

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2023 04:41 PM (rLD7a)

416 >There is one candidate who takes voter fraud seriously: Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to win the 2024 election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 14, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

You cut to the heart of it. Threadwinner.

I mentioned this issue when RDS announced, and I remember some moron saying he would give RDS some time to come out with a statement about it. I'm pretty sure RDS hasn't said boo about election integrity since then, so this is all academic shit flinging for the next 18 months.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at June 14, 2023 04:41 PM (tcxoK)

417 I think Bernie would have gotten more legitimate votes than Biden did. But Bernie only knows how to grift for himself, and the deep state wants people who can spread the graft around better.

Exactly. They would have elected Josef Mengele's bones with the fraud, who ran was irrelevant. But they couldn't control Bernie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2023 04:42 PM (0hOvj)

418 People always leave out the last year of his administration.
Posted by: polynikes

Not leaving it out, just not blaming him as the initiator of the madness, in fact he was fighting for sanity. He was up against everyone and was the only guy saying that we need to look at the costs. He failed, but he did not fail as badly as most.

I also don't blame him for the vaccine since he clearly saw that as a way to stop the madness. In reality, he was tricked into supporting the vaccine big pharma wanted all along.

I was against the lockdowns from the start, but at first I saw the vaccine as hopeful. I liked his strategy of pushing the decisions onto the states, but they all locked down (with him pushing lockdowns - I think to prevent bad coverage before the election.)

So in total he was manipulated and he worried about getting reelected. Two failures but compare that to other Presidents....

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2023 04:42 PM (Sau30)

419 >Curious to why the recent souring?
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 04:25 PM (MNhXM)

Hasn't addressed election integrity. I think he's getting his head all twisted from his advisors and/or money men, kind of like how Tucker mentioned Pompeo worked over Trump. Used a shitty AI-generated fake photo of Trump hugging Fauci. I don't truck with that kind of bullshit.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at June 14, 2023 04:43 PM (tcxoK)

420 Hmmm. Wonder what JiggleTits McGee is up to? (I mean, it's not like I bookmarked her TikTok page or anything)

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

421 313 I like Vivek too. Might be better as Attorney General.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2023 04:23 PM
Well, supposedly his law school was paid for by Soros family.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2023 04:44 PM (Uv0D2)

422 Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy

A second look at a Triumvirate?

Worked for the Roman Republic. Until it didn't.

Posted by: Archer at June 14, 2023 04:44 PM (gmo/4)

423 We'll keep plenty busy. March 15th, The Times of Indian reported, in part, US lawmakers are doubling down on support for India in its in its ongoing troubles with what they say is an expansionist and predatory China...

And, btw, Indian would also like the Kashmir region from Pakistan.

Posted by: L - very tired at June 14, 2023 04:45 PM (GshMh)

424 /hides from the DeS Trump firefight...

I do note that ALL the old school GOP is coming out against Trump. EVERY SINGLE ONE. And they are all getting major Air Time suddenly.

Right as it is being proven that the FBI and DOJ interfered in the LAST election... with no consequences on the horizon.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 14, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)

425 413 Happy 248th birthday US Army ... and many more
(Stars and Stripes)

https://tinyurl.com/345udfjr

To say I have mixed feelings about today would be an understatement.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 14, 2023 04:39 PM (NsjpS)

today is Flag Day... Mine is hanging upside down.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 14, 2023 04:49 PM (oHd/0)

426 Just going to say that it's fucking annoying that we have guys like Trump and DeSantis as the de facto party heads and they can't align or unite to make this movement what it should rightfully be.

Fucking. Annoying.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2023 04:51 PM (KbCG3)

427 Godzilla/Rodan 2024

That is a winning ticket.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2023 04:34 PM (F8pUa)

This I can support!

Posted by: DaisyB at June 14, 2023 04:51 PM (AbL8c)

428 When I worked in TV, this would have been a faux pas so extreme that there would have been meetings, disciplinary action and a stern warning about it after the show went off-air.

The on-camera "talent" does *not* dictate the terms of the show. That is handled by the director and the producer. Even for a show like Carlson's where the talent is in charge, once you're on air the control room calls the shots. Unless the control room is fucking up (deviating from the run-down, failing cues, running the wrong packages, etc.), you don't talk to them. If there's something really wrong, you improvise and cut to commercial and then once you're not on the air you can shout it out with the control room.

This is wildly unprofessional and the fact that CNN tolerates this shit is really telling.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2023 03:40 PM (t0OGg)

Yep. My experience has been the same. Over 35 years in the NY broadcast TV business. The news director would sometimes be sitting behind the producer in the control room, but any wild deviation from the run down would result in a very tense meeting immediately following the newscast. I retired three years ago.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 14, 2023 05:01 PM (Zvtjl)

429 413 Happy 248th birthday US Army ... and many more
(Stars and Stripes)

https://tinyurl.com/345udfjr

To say I have mixed feelings about today would be an understatement.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming
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Understandable, but thank you for your service. And G*d bless America.

Posted by: L - very tired at June 14, 2023 05:04 PM (GshMh)

430 420 Hmmm. Wonder what JiggleTits McGee is up to? (I mean, it's not like I bookmarked her TikTok page or anything)
Posted by: wth at June 14, 2023 04:43 PM

Oh my! Missing an hour!

Posted by: L - very tired at June 14, 2023 05:06 PM (GshMh)

431 179 Every day, more and more, if it isn't PDT I'm on board for Vivek.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 14, 2

That's where I am! Politicians are too good at hiding who and what they are, and Vivek ( like Trump) is NOT a politician.

Posted by: Chillin the most at June 14, 2023 05:08 PM (0uQp2)

432 ....Mine is hanging upside down.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 14, 2023 04:49 PM (oHd/0)

We're still talking flags here, right? Right?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 14, 2023 05:18 PM (Zvtjl)

433 The Trump RDS fights on here must be good for business. Ace starts most of them.

Posted by: Dum-Dum Shitlord at June 14, 2023 05:19 PM (L498I)

434 Yeah, ace. You got ground down by all the constant press. And you internalized it. So now it's Trump's fault that the enemies of America attacked a change agent.

Get ready for fewer change agents. Status quo assured.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at June 14, 2023 05:24 PM (UNQS9)

435 Trump's wild and unpredictable nature is not simply a drawback, is what I'm saying. Sometimes its a virtue, in a time when everyone is trying to handcuff and silence him.

It just wasn't there when we needed it in 2020.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 14, 2023 05:35 PM (XnY2L)

436
You guys playing cards?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2023 04:17 PM

Yeah I got somebody behind ace saying he's holding a queen, a 2, a 3, and a 7 and 9.

While I got two pair. A big pair.

Ron's path to 1600 runs right through Mar Lago.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 14, 2023 05:37 PM (enJYY)

437 Ron hasn't looked like he's ready for the big time for a little while now. He needs to find a way to grab some momentum. Tap into that High Energy Press Conference Ron dropping nukes on journoscum side of himself more often.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at June 14, 2023 06:23 PM (9mRsW)

438 257

Archimedes, why should I ignore you? A weird thing to say.

I don't really believe it? Well, I don't really believe you trotting out two of the oldest tricks in the internet slapfight book is going to work. I have no way to prove to you that I really believe it. You have no way to prove that I don't. You can believe or disbelieve me as you like. It's a weird thing to fight over though.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at June 14, 2023 06:43 PM (9mRsW)

439 Well, we'd better collectively get behind somebody, because time is running out. At an accelerated pace.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 03:57 PM (Xrfse)

SMOD 2024. If you want to get accelerated....

Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2023 07:16 PM (fnmJK)

440 Ace,
I remember a time a few years ago when you were unjustly mired in “drama” that was also not of your own doing. We stood with you . It was the right thing to do. It’s also right to stand with Trump. He’s been vilified enough.

Posted by: Whippet at June 14, 2023 07:50 PM (UX21q)

441 Yes Ace, we all know you prefer Desantis and want to have his love child. We get it! After all, mean tweets and personality "antics" is what the 2024 election is all about. 🙄

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Posted by: DeanBowling at June 15, 2023 05:14 AM (gMabG)

443 If it's not too late to post, I think what got Trumps maralago residence raided was a comment he made saying... we got em, we got em all.
That got them fearful as to what he had. He has them all worried that their charade will be more exposed than it already is.
I think a trump/rfk Jr ticket would cause much heartburn and angst among our "betters".

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