Mitch McConnell Now Has a "Biden Moment" That Looks Like a Neurological Episode

I do not mean any disrespect to our elders, but we must end the Perpetual Gerontocracy in the Senate.

And Mitch McConnell has to be the first to go.

Wow. This doesn’t look good at all. Mitch McConnell looks like he just had a medical episode during a Senate press conference. pic.twitter.com/OPhoJ6YcfU
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 26, 2023

What just happened? 😨

pic.twitter.com/M4GADElAJU
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 26, 2023

McConnell says he merely "felt light-headed" and is all better now.

Sure.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he's "fine," after freezing during a news conference on Wednesday.
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, stopped speaking in the middle of remarks at his regularly scheduled weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. After a 30-second pause, his colleagues crowded around to see if he was OK and asked him how he felt. GOP Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming was seen gripping McConnell's arm and whispered to him, "Hey Mitch, anything else you want to say? Or should we just go back to your office? Do you want to say anything else to the press?"
He said nothing, and was led away from the press conference and towards his office by an aide. He returned to the news conference a few minutes later.
McConnell, asked by CNN what happened and if it is related to his fall earlier this year, said "No, I'm fine," and then moved on to other reporters.
A McConnell aide said that the senator "felt light headed and stepped away for a moment."

That's from CNN.

Nice of them to notice an elderly politician is having neurological problems and might not be fit for the job.

Wonder when they'll notice Joe Biden's dementia.

"I'm fine," McConnell says, and refuses to say more about his episode.

Incidentally, Kentucky has a Democrat governor. So if Mitch McConnell dies or has to resign, the Democrat appoints his replacement.

The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

This could have been avoided if McConnell had retired last time. Or the time before that.

But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.

Posted by: Ace at 03:10 PM

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1 This is just how a turtle gets when it's been on a post for too long.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:10 PM (guGkK)

2 I mentioned this before but these creepy politicians cling to power with Nosfuratu-type hands.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 26, 2023 03:11 PM (DcKNO)

3 To be fair to Mitch, at least he didn't whirr and click like Hillary does when she freezes up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (guGkK)

4 i noodled.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (B1FKF)

5 I'm not ageist. I just loathe the sumbitch.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (G0bXQ)

6

Some crack 'll fix him right up!

Posted by: Hunter Bidet, Running Down Jill's Inner Thigh at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (463zG)

7 McConnell won his last primary by 50 points.

This is honestly the fault of the people of KY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (LvTSG)

8 Fetterman was not available for comment.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (guGkK)

9 He needs a dose or five of whatever they're pumping into Biden.

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM (wNDOJ)

10 Oh, and Mitch now looks like my grandmother right before she died.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (LvTSG)

11 It's an homage to Biden.

Posted by: spindrift at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (iG1Nf)

12 We need a wholesale turnover. We also need age limits. If you are over 75, go home.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (vN+oL)

13 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Mitch the Bitch update:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 26m
REPORTER: "Can you address what happened at the start of the press conference..."

MCCONNELL: "I’m fine."

https://tinyurl.com/ycaffxaw
14 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (krqg6)

15 He pulled a Max Headroom.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Meh. A few solid bonks on the head with a hammer and he'll be fine.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 26, 2023 03:13 PM (guGkK)

17 CNN: McConnell is horribly old and needs to retire for the good of the country.

Also CNN: Biden looks like he could do fifty one-arm push-ups before bedding six virgins!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (G0bXQ)

18 Animatronics have come along way, but there are still bugs. I'm just grateful that he did not start singing "It's a Small World After All."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (ppBhU)

19 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (T4tVD)

20 I have no respect for the Junta elders

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (X9kXJ)

21 He fits right in with the rest of the vegetables in the Senate, Fetterman, Feinstein, et al.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (MeG8a)

22 Replacement for Bitch in the Senate?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (pohLc)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (aD39U)

24 Mandatory retirement age for all Federal positions, either appointed or elected, including the SC.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (MNhXM)

25 Mitch filling up his diaper. I see the same look with Biden all the time.

Posted by: bang-a-gong at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (XUmVF)

26 still, mcconnell didn't trip over a sandbag or anything like that. yeah, but he and some other the others ought to call it a day and not run for re-election.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (B1FKF)

27 This is honestly the fault of the people of KY. This is about me right My bad I voted for the fucker Staight ticket

Posted by: doug at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (8/lc0)

28 Die MF'er DIE!!!!

Fuck evil and these SOB's like Biden and McConnell that have contributed to destroying the greatest nation under God. I just hope they die on live television so I can enjoy it.

Posted by: JROD at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (IlL6s)

29 Lightheaded, my ass. He looked like he didn't even know where he was.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (DRSnL)

30 Dehydration prob

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (db5Fm)

31 Get on the cart with me, Mitch.

Posted by: Diane Feinstein at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (guGkK)

32 Restorin' so much normalcy to DC I can't stand it!

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (krQz2)

33 Lightheaded, absence seizure, let's not quibble when there's graft to be had.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (Bd6X8)

34 thanks, andycanuck.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (KRtlO)

35 Oh, no!

Anyway...

Asian Crime Report @activeasian
Naked woman shoots at cars near the Bay Bridge toll plaza yesterday. More lawlessness and danger in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instagram user sent me the video.

https://tinyurl.com/28ueuv28
41 seconds

Language not safe for work, especially; incidental nudity -- nudity during an incident!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (krqg6)

36 Quick, someone bring him some adrenochrome!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (G0bXQ)

37 I lothe the fucker

Posted by: doug at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (8/lc0)

38 this has happened to me when I remembered banging some skank in the ass

Posted by: REDACTED at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (us2H3)

39 "McConnell says he merely "felt light-headed" and is all better now."
Then he has arteries that are almost closed.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (M+A1B)

40 Wow.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (xTRSc)

41 27 This is honestly the fault of the people of KY. This is about me right My bad I voted for the fucker Staight ticket
Posted by: doug at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (8/lc0)

========

I can't be too harsh. I finally voted for Graham in 2020.

I'd voted against him every primary and general election for years before that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (LvTSG)

42 McConnell says he merely "felt light-headed" and is all better now.

Crap. So it wasn't a stroke.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (FAOo/)

43 Most of the Founding Fathers were in their 20s-40s. Now half of Congress looks like the Tales from the Crypt puppet

Posted by: brak at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (25k9m)

44 >>>30 Dehydration prob
Posted by: Thesokorus

probably from all the Crossfit he's doin'

Posted by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Personal Trainer at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (KRtlO)

45 I believe I heard something earlier about Mitch's decision to embark on a new career as a mime.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (guGkK)

46 34 thanks, andycanuck.
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Video of the CNN question you quoted, I'm guessing.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (krqg6)

47 Get on the cart with me, Mitch.
Posted by: Diane Feinstein at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (guGkK)
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Oi! I can't take 'em loike thet!

Posted by: Bring Out Yer Dead Guy at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (krQz2)

48 Karine J-P, when pressed, said Biden's very busy schedule included a ten minute podcast recording and two meetings. In between his two daily naps, that is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (X9kXJ)

49 Mitch McConnell : Till the wheels fall off baby!
https://tinyurl.com/wk678jkb

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (DeRoy)

50 Sinead O'Conner es muerte

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (G0bXQ)

51 "Wow, this doesn't look good at all."

Well, that's certainly one perspective.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (KbCG3)

52 As your elder, it's o.k. Ace.

I'm not nearly as old as Mitch McConnell and I have no political power I want to cling onto.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (Keyt1)

53 Now, in a right world, his family and friends would say "Hang it up Mitch."

In clown world we'll just pretend nothing is wrong.

Thing is he didn't just lose his train of thought. he looked like he didn't know where he was. And looked quite feeble.

The Guy is freaking 81. My mother said things started going down hill at 80.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (t4ES/)

54 Brain fart.

Posted by: Norman Spiny at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (K6nRl)

55 I'm sure KJP will be out before a podium soon, talking about how there was no issue with McConnell, that he's healthy as ever, that no one ever suggested he step down, that 80 is the new 40, that we've already addressed this health issue and that we're not going to keep talking about it.

Just as I'm sure no democrats will pounce on or seize the issue.

Posted by: red speck at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (0Id0S)

56 >>>Crap. So it wasn't a stroke.

just a transitory one, no big deal.

My medical opinion: Just do some more 5 pound dumbbell curls1

Posted by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Personal Trainer at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (KRtlO)

57 Term limits?

I'd settle for age limits. With Exceptions only made when public medial cognitive exams are issued on a bi-annual basis.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

58 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

59 wtf do these people stay in office so long? It's not like they need the money.

Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (0zJ6Q)

60 45 I believe I heard something earlier about Mitch's decision to embark on a new career as a mime.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (guGkK)

That was just a mime meme.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (M+A1B)

61
McConnell won his last primary by 50 points.

This is honestly the fault of the people of KY.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

=========

Republican primary voters are insane. Cf. that deluded Romeo in South Carolina who was ousted as governor only to come back as a Congressman.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (lCaJd)

62 Why do I think this will be the lead on all State Controlled networks.
The final cure of cancer will only appear on Newsmax.

Posted by: FRED at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (2znMt)

63 Jeezus...

I thought for sure he was gonna fall over right then and there.

The "Best and Brightest", "Hale and Hearty"...

Fetterman and Biden look better then Mitch right now.

Oye!!!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (CCSxw)

64 Our leaders are truly the best!

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (v0R5T)

65 So is what the Roman Citizenry experienced at the end of their empire? We are running on vapors with everything. At least the WiFi is still functioning, for now.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (tiR3O)

66 45 I believe I heard something earlier about Mitch's decision to embark on a new career as a mime.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (guGkK)

He is shopping for a suitable garden vegetable to emulate.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (pohLc)

67 But Judges...

Yea, they hang onto power like ticks on a deer. It's addictive I would imagine. Him dying or resigning won't change the trajectory of the Nation. We're still doomed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (sAmhv)

68 wtf do these people stay in office so long? It's not like they need the money.
Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (0zJ6Q)
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Must be the power then.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (krQz2)

69 58 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Matt Bevin went too hard against the teachers' unions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (LvTSG)

70 little insider-trading, he'll be fine....

Posted by: poconohound at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (lMYp+)

71 Mitch wears a bracelet that reads, WWJBD.

*What Would Joe Biden Do*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (BdMk6)

72 My money's on mini-stroke.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (R38qh)

73 Too bad for Mitch he doesn't have cancer.

Posted by: President Potatohead at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (guGkK)

74 Lightheaded, my ass. He looked like he didn't even know where he was.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (DRSnL)

He had a stroke. They'll just never tell us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

75 McConnell, asked by CNN what happened and if it is related to his fall earlier this year, said "No, I'm fine," and then moved on to other reporters.
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Perfectly normal behavior to just segfault and reboot like that, huh?

I mean that seriously. With our decrepit ruling class holding on to power through benefit of their deals with the devil, this kind of thing is distressingly - and embarrassingly - common.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (t0OGg)

76

Rectal Hammertime!

Posted by: Paul Peelousey at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (463zG)

77 third party gave beshere the win

Posted by: doug at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (8/lc0)

78 Wonder when they'll notice Joe Biden's dementia.
++++
The moment he puts an 'R' after his name.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (t0OGg)

79 McConnell did stop Garland from being on the SC. I don’t care what his motivations were , that is a significant move.

And it doesn’t matter how much I dislike Trump, I will always be grateful he prevented Hillary from being President.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (MNhXM)

80 It is at this moment when Mitch is looking to the future and planning for his Licht ceremony.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (krQz2)

81 61 Republican primary voters are insane. Cf. that deluded Romeo in South Carolina who was ousted as governor only to come back as a Congressman.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (lCaJd)

========

Let's put it out there: from a policy perspective, the guy who walked into the SC statehouse with a pig, refusing to accept a budget of out of control spending, is still better than most Republicans, even if he does go hiking on the Appalachian trail.

That's not praise for Mark Sanford but damnation of the Republican Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (LvTSG)

82 i recall arkansas in the 1990s passing term limits on maybe just members of the house of reps, and the sup court ruled it unconstitutional on the grounds that approximately it denied the voters to right to elect who they wanted to elect.

or whom, i couldn't decide

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (B1FKF)

83 >>>65 So is what the Roman Citizenry experienced at the end of their empire? We are running on vapors with everything. At least the WiFi is still functioning, for now.

yup!

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (KRtlO)

84 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

Because Mitch wanted that guy to be governor.

And both sides run the cheating together.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (db5Fm)

85 The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.
++++
This is the way. Odd how Republican politicians so rarely say, "how many divisions do you have" before going on and doing it anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (t0OGg)

86 58 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

The moron voters were disenchanted by a plethora of articles stating that Matt Bevin was a nepotist, without proof.
One has to understand that the first time since the Civil War that KY went red was in the late 1990's.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (M+A1B)

87 Stroke me Stroke me!
(Stroke! Stroke!)

Posted by: Billy Squier at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (vN+oL)

88 Missed him by that much.

Posted by: DEATH as played by Don Adams at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (vTR7i)

89 You know, it's funny, Barrasso. I tried every tincture and poultice and tonic and patent medicine there is, and all I really needed was the blood of a young boy.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (aD39U)

90 Lightheaded, my ass. He looked like he didn't even know where he was.

The demon that inhabits him went on an unscheduled smoke break.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (p8A+W)

91 Term limits?

I'd settle for age limits. With Exceptions only made when public medial cognitive exams are issued on a bi-annual basis.
Posted by: Sponge

61 yrs of age. If commercial pilots can't be trusted to safely transport 200 passengers, some decrepit 80 yr old can't be trusted to vote for 300 million people.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (FAOo/)

92 McConnell's 'episode' today mean the propaganda arm of the junta can focus on that instead of the dear leader's drug addicted, tax cheat and grifter of a son's legal entanglement.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (Q4IgG)

93 Repeal the 17th Amendment. The Framers knew what they were doing.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (goJt/)

94 You're going a bit overboard with the senile oldies, Comrades!

Posted by: The Zombie Soviet Politboro! at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (2tUFv)

95
Rectal Hammertime!
Posted by: Paul Peelousey at July 26, 2023 03:19 PM (463zG)

Shit that's funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

96 But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.
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That an Satan. The devil takes care of his own. And making a deal with the devil is its own motivation to hold on and never retire until dead - and to die as late as possible. They know what happens to them next.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (t0OGg)

97 I can at least count to 10.

Posted by: Incitatus at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (guGkK)

98 I fully expect Jon Fetterman to take up a bill requiring mental health and age requirements for GOP candidates. Biden will sign it in a big ceremony flanked by Pelosi and Hank Johnson.

Posted by: red speck at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (0Id0S)

99 Juxtapose this against Trump. I mean, is it really any wonder why our country is in the shape it's in.

We get a guy who could go toe-to-toe with the media for hours, and he's runoff after a quick four years by a set of geriatrics who think soup broth is the definition of a hearty meal.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (KbCG3)

100 I can at least count to 10.
Posted by: Incitatus at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (guGkK)
++++
Disqualified from office!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (t0OGg)

101 "I do not mean any disrespect to our elders"

Ehhhh I come from a family w/ GOP lobbyists and office holders, so I think I'm fairly confident that I mean disrespect for our elders.

Bunch of short sighted, greedy, rent-seeking bullshit with some country club cargo cult layered on top. And those are just the ones that aren't prog plants.

Posted by: somedood at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (wK4hU)

102 Couldn't happen to a ~~nicer guy~~ bigger piece of shit...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (XMwZJ)

103 Sinead O'Connor died at 56? But Mitch and Joe live on!
At least now maybe I won't have to listen to Tony Benett and lady GaGa songs all weekend.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

104 84 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

Because Mitch wanted that guy to be governor.

And both sides run the cheating together.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:20 PM (db5Fm)

That could be too, but I lived there in the 90's and I was shocked how many residents were dyed in the wool dems, no matter what, just because "Daddy was always a democrat". They absolutely loved Bubba.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (M+A1B)

105
Unpopular take: he had a dizzy spell and it passed. He's fine.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (lCaJd)

106 It's amazing that these sickly dinosaurs in DC just don't ever seem to die. They must have round-the-clock medical care to keep them alive. Still, odds are that one of these weeks 3 or 4 of them are going to drop dead. Capitol rotunda will be busy.

Posted by: Chances Are at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (ik/65)

107 The Politburo was younger when they started to dropov.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (8zqxZ)

108 With Exceptions only made when public medial cognitive exams are issued on a bi-annual basis.

Leave it to us to determine who is fit to be in office!

Posted by: The Woke American Medical Association! at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (2tUFv)

109 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.

Louisville. The city that has a "church" that hosts Drag Queen Gospel Hour.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (p8A+W)

110 Lovely. Like watching the old Soviet Politburo on top of Lenin's Tomb on May Day.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (uY1j2)

111 Looks like a TIA, no? Ace is right, they cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's sick.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (ebhEj)

112 Who is actually running our government?

Anyone else curious?

Posted by: DaisyB at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (AbL8c)

113 Unpopular take: he had a dizzy spell and it passed. He's fine.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (lCaJd)
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Certainly possible. But he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (t0OGg)

114 Got O'Connor though.

Posted by: DEATH as played by Don Adams at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (vTR7i)

115 re 77: libertarians ran a candidate because the repub candidate refused to take the no new taxes pledge. all the other statewide offices that year went to repubs, including a black guy who was maybe the first black person elected to statewide office there.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (B1FKF)

116 I smell opportunity!

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (2znMt)

117 I hereby nominate Madame Tussaud as President of the Senate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (guGkK)

118 Bitch wasn't having a stroke. He was just reacting to his preview of eternity, that is Satan just slipped in the tip.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (pohLc)

119 the fault of the people of KY.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:12 PM

Our product brings a lot of happiness to a lot of people. Tribology isn't for sissies, you know.

Jam up and jelly tight!

Posted by: The People of KY at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (a3Q+t)

120 Candidate quality bitches!

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (Jk9SN)

121 If he were lightheaded, he would've likely swayed back and forth before falling down, or at a minimum, have to catch himself with his legs to prevent falling down.

He's lying. They're lying. He had a stroke.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

122 Looks like a TIA, no? Ace is right, they cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's sick.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (ebhEj)
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What is a "TIA?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (t0OGg)

123 Octogenarians that have not lost cognitive ability are an exception.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (MNhXM)

124 So is what the Roman Citizenry experienced at the end of their empire? We are running on vapors with everything. At least the WiFi is still functioning, for now.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators

e-Bread and iCircuses.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (jzzG8)

125 I mean, even Capt. Pike is beeping “What the hell?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (xTRSc)

126 18 Animatronics have come along way, but there are still bugs. I'm just grateful that he did not start singing "It's a Small World After All."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 03:14 PM (ppBhU)

McConnell's Handlers are frantically trying to get in touch with Joe's Handlers, to ask where they got the equipment currently installed in Joe's skull. Joe's stuff is not perfect but it does not go into total lock-up if cameras are running.

Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (AMIL/)

127 Means "Joe's cool"; and Pelosi. Plug and play....

Posted by: poconohound at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (lMYp+)

128 Wonder if they can piggyback Mitch on top of McCain's funeral.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

129 Posted by: DEATH as played by Don Adams at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (vTR7i)

How funny would it be if Death approached you and it was Barney f*cking Fife.

Or Jack Tripper's landlord.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

130 At ZH, they're prolly talking about adenochrome.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (QCuNO)

131 So what were Diane Feinstein's comments on Turtle?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (yRved)

132 If McConnell goes then Feinstein, Fetterman and the rest need to go.

No options. Gone.

Congress is not a senior living/psychiatric, long term facility.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (YXFH/)

133 Who is actually running our government?

Anyone else curious?
Posted by: DaisyB at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM

No.

Posted by: B. Hussein Soetoro at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (a3Q+t)

134 Congress is not a senior living/psychiatric, long term facility.
Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2023 03:24 PM (YXFH/)
++++
Evidence says otherwise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (t0OGg)

135 Was never much of a Sinead O'Conner fan. I only recall one song and it was written by Prince. She sang back up for Peter Gabriel's 'Please Talk To me' from his 'Us' album. She seemed a very broken woman. RIP.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (sAmhv)

136 > wtf do these people stay in office so long? It's not like they need the money.

1. They're important. People bow and scrape and beg them for money. They pretend to make big decisions. They get the best seats at the best restaurants and eat food prepared by great chefs at the top of their game. Young hot women battle to get your attention.

2. A lot of these old fucks are THE business for their entire extended family. Their entire clan gets into the best schools, gets put on boards of trillion dollar companies, get all sorts of business deals, etc.

You get privilege, power, sex, money, and you're practically untouchable. The whole thing is intoxicating for you and everyone around you.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (R38qh)

137 >>>Unpopular take: he had a dizzy spell and it passed. He's fine.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Dizzy spells cause you to stare blankly into space and ignore all questions put to you, like "are you okay"?

no they don't.

I get dizzy spells when I get dehydrated. They do not cause this kind of aphaisic seizure.

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (KRtlO)

138 O'Conner was only 56. What did she die of?

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (sAmhv)

139 They absolutely loved Bubba.
Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (M+A1B)

Well Bubba ran a great campaign. His policies were nationally appealing. He was abaolutely lying but his stated intentions were very appealing to large segments of the population.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (db5Fm)

140
Sinead O'Conner es muerte

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM

Rip up a picture of the Pope
Live another quarter century
At my age, sounds like a good deal

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (enJYY)

141 I wonder if Mitch loves him some Tapioca too.

Posted by: JOHN FETTERMAN at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (2znMt)

142 The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.
____________

I would imagine the legal wrangling over this will go on as long as McConnell's term has left. The idea being Kentucky can find a suitable Democrat to replace whoever the GOP puts up in McConnell's place. If it comes to that.

Oh, and Bashear can eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (Q4IgG)

143 ++++
What is a "TIA?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (t0OGg)

A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a temporary period of symptoms similar to those of a stroke. A TIA usually lasts only a few minutes and doesn't cause permanent damage. Often called a ministroke, a TIA may be a warning. About 1 in 3 people who has a TIA will eventually have a stroke, with about half occurring within a year after the TIA.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

144

His Bluetooth vibrating butt plug accidentally cross connected with a capital police private chat line and the vibration got turned up to 11...

Posted by: Pervo Pete at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (463zG)

145 How funny would it be if Death approached you and it was Barney f*cking Fife.

Or Jack Tripper's landlord.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Fritz Schultz

Posted by: SFGoth at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (QCuNO)

146 I don't know if things will be better or not, but I am ready for the Silent Generation and the Older Boomer Set to leave office. But apparently, taking the route of George Washington is a no go for most of them. Death comes for all of us thankfully.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (sX1BW)

147 Can one of the crack lawyers at this top military blog explain this to me (plea deal):

The judge questioned why it was filed under a provision that gave her no legal authority to reject it.

How is that possible? What provision would the defense teams* file under that somehow would keep the judge from rejecting the plea deal? And if such a provision is possible, why is the court involved at all.

*As Ace stipulated, both teams are working for the defense.

Posted by: Candidus at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (Q7KYg)

148 he were lightheaded, he would've likely swayed back and forth before falling down, or at a minimum, have to catch himself with his legs to prevent falling down.

He's lying. They're lying. He had a stroke.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

If they knew he had a stroke he wouldn’t have returned for follow up questions. The chances of having additional strokes are present and he would be foolish to return if they knew.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (MNhXM)

149 I think it’s “TIE,” not “TIA.”

“temporary ischemic event,” i.e., a mini-stroke. My Dad had them before the full stroke that killed him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (xTRSc)

150 58 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
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The cities don't have to be solid blue, just blue enough that they can institute enough fraud to overcome the outlying red areas.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (YIVH2)

151 Barney's only got 1 bullett

Posted by: poconohound at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (lMYp+)

152 How funny would it be if Death approached you and it was Barney f*cking Fife.

Or Jack Tripper's landlord.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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I'd laugh if Death shot himself in the toe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (krQz2)

153 O'Conner was only 56. What did she die of?
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (sAmhv)

Likely suicide. She wuz fukkedindahead.

Her 17 year old son committed suicide last year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

154 time. Or the time before that.

But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.

----------

*Dianne Feinstein has ~~entered the chat~~ been wheeled-in to the Stroke Room*

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (pGv7z)

155 Joe Mannix, Ill give you that one.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (YXFH/)

156 A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a temporary period of symptoms similar to those of a stroke. A TIA usually lasts only a few minutes and doesn't cause permanent damage. Often called a ministroke, a TIA may be a warning. About 1 in 3 people who has a TIA will eventually have a stroke, with about half occurring within a year after the TIA.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)
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Oh, okay. I've seen that happen. I didn't know what it was called.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (t0OGg)

157 138 O'Conner was only 56. What did she die of?
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (sAmhv)

Her last and final brain cell pooped out.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (pohLc)

158 Senate ICU declares Mitch McConnel fit for duty.

Light hydration and a cookie and he’s fit as a fiddle.

Posted by: 13times at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (szcdd)

159 >>>>but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it

Is he claiming it violates the US Constitution or KY Constitution?

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (xPl2J)

160 see pa.

Posted by: poconohound at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (lMYp+)

161 wtf do these people stay in office so long? It's not like they need the money.

Because they need the MORE MONEY. Peon.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (ebhEj)

162 Mitch is okay. He just had the longest brain fart Man has ever seen.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (krQz2)

163 115 re 77: libertarians ran a candidate because the repub candidate refused to take the no new taxes pledge. all the other statewide offices that year went to repubs, including a black guy who was maybe the first black person elected to statewide office there.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (B1FKF)

That's Daniel Cameron, as AG. By the grace of God I he will be the next Governor. Very strong conservative leader.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (M+A1B)

164 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Heh.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2bcbet

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (R38qh)

165 Hilariously, the GOPe picks today (of all days) to fret in public over the "risks" of impeaching Biden and his gang of criminals.

Un-fucking-real.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (X9kXJ)

166 Senate ICU declares Mitch McConnel fit for duty.

Light hydration and a cookie and he’s fit as a fiddle.
Posted by: 13times at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (szcdd)
++++
The senate has its own ICU?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (t0OGg)

167 Just like the glory days of the Soviet Union with a string of gerontocrats dying in office.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (3vCGB)

168 The judge questioned why it was filed under a provision that gave her no legal authority to reject it.

Gosh. It's a mystery

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (Jk9SN)

169 No. Iden must be the first to go

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (MwHgU)

170 Because they need the MORE MONEY. Peon.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (ebhEj)
++++
The gap between "more" and "enough" never closes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

171 wtf do these people stay in office so long? It's not like they need the money.

Because they need the MORE MONEY. Peon.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (ebhEj)
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At this point, they don't want to be the ones eating bugs.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (krQz2)

172 Biden

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (MwHgU)

173 What did she die of?
Posted by: Puddleglum

Was participating in a lesbian Wiccan orgy, had a dog femur shoved up her ass, it snapped during vigorous rogering, perforated her bowel and she got septic....

Posted by: Pervo Pete at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (463zG)

174 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Heh.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2bcbet
Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (R38qh)
++++
He'll work for his dad's campaign.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

175
If they knew he had a stroke he wouldn’t have returned for follow up questions. The chances of having additional strokes are present and he would be foolish to return if they knew.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (MNhXM)

They put him in a room, asked him questions, then approved his zombie ass to come out and answer a few simple questions.

It's like the body double on the balcony bait and switch.

He will have tests in private later today and we'll never know about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

176 SELL! SELL! SELL!

Wall Street Silver @WallStreetSilv 1h
Jim Cramer just said to buy one of the Largest Banks in the United States ... Wells Fargo 😳

Rest In Peace $WFC

Inverse Cramer

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (krqg6)

177
That's not praise for Mark Sanford but damnation of the Republican Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

=========

His primary challenge to Trump in 2019 does not impress me. I believe he's been a regular GOPer in Congress. I can't remember the details now, but I know there have been some goofy statements and votes. I'm curious, is there not one better Republican in South Carolina?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (lCaJd)

178 It was a stutter.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (e1q+J)

179 Good thing Thune the Goon was right there to prop him up.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

180 129 Posted by: DEATH as played by Don Adams at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (vTR7i)

How funny would it be if Death approached you and it was Barney f*cking Fife.

Or Jack Tripper's landlord.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Someone around here posted an anime short about Death. Death was a young, cute, smart alec but sweet, girl. It was a strange but compelling anime. The soon to be dead guy was some frustrated artist. I liked the story.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (sAmhv)

181 You get privilege, power, sex, money, and you're practically untouchable. The whole thing is intoxicating for you and everyone around you.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (R38qh)
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Far more lucrative and less dangerous than being a mob boss, I suppose.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (YIVH2)

182 61 yrs of age. If commercial pilots can't be trusted to safely transport 200 passengers, some decrepit 80 yr old can't be trusted to vote for 300 million people.
Posted by: rickb223

Didn't that age limit for pilots change recently? There was talk about letting them fly till 67, IIRC.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (tQL7r)

183 Kentucky has a Democrat governor. So if Mitch McConnell dies or has to resign, the Democrat appoints his replacement.

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So, Dems get a junior Senator in exchange for their second most powerful and senior Senator? Sounds like a fine thing to me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (o5Ht6)

184 It is amazing to me how these people never die. They turn into mummies right before our eyes, but they still have a heartbeat

Posted by: Drc at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (vbaSG)

185 @WallStreetSilv 1h
Jim Cramer just said to buy one of the Largest Banks in the United States ... Wells Fargo 😳

Rest In Peace $WFC

Inverse Cramer
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (krqg6)
++++
Yup. WFC is done for.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (t0OGg)

186 The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

----------

Strikes me as being against the KY constitution which may give him sole authority. If it does, then I'm inclined to agree with Basher. Still no harm in trying to gum up the works. If it is simply a law, they should have just given themselves the right to appoint.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (sX1BW)

187 >>>Is he claiming it violates the US Constitution or KY Constitution?

KY i imagine. He would argue that the KY constitution's grant of power to him to make appointments is not restricted in the constitution itself, and that to restrict him requires a constitutional amendment, not a law, which does not have the same level of authority as a constitution.

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (KRtlO)

188 Was participating in a lesbian Wiccan orgy, had a dog femur shoved up her ass, it snapped during vigorous rogering, perforated her bowel and she got septic....
Posted by: Pervo Pete

That is oddly specific.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (FAOo/)

189 The gap between "more" and "enough" never closes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)
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At some point, you've made enough money!

Posted by: Guy With a 15 Million Dollar Seaside Mansion On America's Most Elite Island at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (krQz2)

190 re 77: libertarians ran a candidate because the repub candidate refused to take the no new taxes pledge. all the other statewide offices that year went to repubs, including a black guy who was maybe the first black person elected to statewide office there.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (B1FKF

Did the Dem candidate make the no new taxes pledge?

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (MNhXM)

191 That's a tonic-clonic seizure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (RIvkX)

192 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

Don't you dare take away our draw.

Posted by: Kid from Justified at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (3vCGB)

193 177 His primary challenge to Trump in 2019 does not impress me. I believe he's been a regular GOPer in Congress. I can't remember the details now, but I know there have been some goofy statements and votes. I'm curious, is there not one better Republican in South Carolina?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (lCaJd)

======

He was a member of the Freedom Caucus (not that that means too much), but yeah, he was anti-Trump from the beginning. He waffled with endorsements until, at the last second, he endorsed Cruz.

Trumpism is not my barometer for how good people are on policy, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (LvTSG)

194 Someone around here posted an anime short about Death. Death was a young, cute, smart alec but sweet, girl. It was a strange but compelling anime. The soon to be dead guy was some frustrated artist. I liked the story.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (sAmhv)
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Was it based on Neil Gaiman's Sandman? As I recall, the Death in that graphic novel series was like that. She was NOT the Grim Reaper, just a young woman/girl who was often compassionate towards the recently deceased. But don't piss her off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (YIVH2)

195 I guess the power and money is the juice for these types of people. Does McConnell enjoy a day out on a lake fishing, camping, snow skiing, flying a plane, hunting, traveling? Why you would stay so long in politics like this when you could be out enjoying other more meaningful things is beyond me. But I do know workaholics and people who enjoy chasing a buck and that is their thing in life. Staying in something like this til' you're .0001% away from keeling over on television to me would be embarrassing.

Posted by: JROD at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (IlL6s)

196 How many nepots will go without this year should Turtle go belly up? Think of the chillrun.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (yRved)

197 Change his diaper, give him another shot of that special stimulant/adenochrome cocktail that keeps our gerontocracy going, and he'll be good as new, out there Unipartying his heart out on behalf of us all

Posted by: brak at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (25k9m)

198 You could see McConnell's eyes were fixed when he stopped speaking.

He's on the way to the boneyard.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (YXFH/)

199 Was participating in a lesbian Wiccan orgy, had a dog femur shoved up her ass, it snapped during vigorous rogering, perforated her bowel and she got septic....
Posted by: Pervo Pete

Think she had moved on to Islam a while back. Maybe she back talked the wrong dude.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (tH96z)

200 >>>178 It was a stutter.

it was a pun. No, it was the one that says the same thing backwards as forwards.

Posted by: Pet Shop Guy at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

201 The gap between "more" and "enough" never closes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

Income rises to meet expenses.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (db5Fm)

202 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
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The cities don't have to be solid blue, just blue enough that they can institute enough fraud to overcome the outlying red areas.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2023 03:26 PM (YIVH2)

---------

I imagine similarly to The McCain Machine still f*cking us here postpartum in AZ, The McConnell Machine controls much of KY politics at the state level.

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (pGv7z)

203 It's a stutter!

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (/rK9l)

204 Sock off

Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (sX1BW)

205 but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it

Is he claiming it violates the US Constitution or KY Constitution?

When a Democrat utters the word "unconstitutional" xe is not referring to an actual constitution, body of law or cultural traditions, rather "unconstitutional" is emotionally defined as: "It obstructs my means to power"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (p8A+W)

206 The senate has its own ICU?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM

It should with all those fossils in there. Shit, make it an assisted living facility.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (GwxCX)

207 Kentucky has a Democrat governor. So if Mitch McConnell dies or has to resign, the Democrat appoints his replacement.

—

Eh won’t make a difference. Ds already have 51 and with GOPe more like 54. And the replacement will be up for election in 2024 anyway.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (e1q+J)

208 122 What is a "TIA?"

Transient Ischemic Event
mini stroke

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (ebhEj)

209 I-uh, uh-I-uh,, f-f-feel, feel-uh, light-uh, lightheaded

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at July 26, 2023 03:31 PM (5hfjS)

210 At some point, you've made enough money!
Posted by: Guy With a 15 Million Dollar Seaside Mansion On America's Most Elite Island at July 26, 2023 03:29 PM (krQz2)
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Not these guys - including him. They've never *made* a dime.

They sure have *gotten* money, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (t0OGg)

211 138 O'Conner was only 56. What did she die of?
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:25 PM (sAmhv)
_______________

I don't think they're saying. But my money is on suicide, big time. I'll give anyone odds if they wanna bet . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

212 Has someone here mentioned that Sinead O'Connor is now dead? She was younger than I.

Bummer.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (b8LUX)

213 Miss Lindsey still looks alive. Must be those regular Ukrainian hot beef injections

Posted by: Regular joe. Not just mad, Samuel L Jackson mad at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (nnp+f)

214 194

You are correct. In Sandman, death is a cute, young woman.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (YXFH/)

215 Income rises to meet expenses.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (db5Fm)
++++
Ahhh, yes. Inverse Parkinson's Law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (t0OGg)

216 Unpopular take: he had a dizzy spell and it passed. He's fine.

I'm still going with absence seizure. Dude was completely checked out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (Bd6X8)

217 The senate has its own ICU?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (t0OGg)
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Where do you think Feinstein hangs out when she's not in the Senate chamber?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (YIVH2)

218 194 Someone around here posted an anime short about Death. Death was a young, cute, smart alec but sweet, girl. It was a strange but compelling anime. The soon to be dead guy was some frustrated artist. I liked the story.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (sAmhv)
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Was it based on Neil Gaiman's Sandman? As I recall, the Death in that graphic novel series was like that. She was NOT the Grim Reaper, just a young woman/girl who was often compassionate towards the recently deceased. But don't piss her off.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Maybe. I have to get ready for work. Maybe I'll look later.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (sAmhv)

219 164 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

It also says he's subject to random drug and alcohol testing.

This is gonna be great...

Posted by: JEM at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (ilAWQ)

220 Maybe just syncope? Is he known for these episodes?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (RIvkX)

221 He needs to start using my old work-out routine!

It kept me going indefinitely!

(well, that and my underling clerks...and a cooperative press)

Posted by: Zombie Ruth Bader Ginsberg at July 26, 2023 03:33 PM (l0Cy4)

222 Sorry, I was wrong. “TIA” is correct — “transient ischemic attack.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:33 PM (xTRSc)

223 Slow news day.

Posted by: Norman Spiny at July 26, 2023 03:33 PM (K6nRl)

224 The cities don't have to be solid blue, just blue enough that they can institute enough fraud to overcome the outlying red areas.

You can have an area that is "red" in terms of living eligible voters, but the Democrats have access to generations of "blue" voters in the cemeteries whose ballots will be dutifully harvested and submitted as needed to fortify the election.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:33 PM (p8A+W)

225 You could see McConnell's eyes were fixed when he stopped speaking.

He's on the way to the boneyard.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (YXFH/)

---------

I can hear Satan practicing:

"Welcome to the boneyard
We got fun and games .."

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:33 PM (pGv7z)

226 The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

The KY GOP is worse than the PA GOP. Hard to believe, but it is.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (H5/Lp)

227 I think it is TIE now. When I was working in the nursing home we called it TIA, the A being accident.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (ebhEj)

228 216 Unpopular take: he had a dizzy spell and it passed. He's fine.

I'm still going with absence seizure. Dude was completely checked out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 26, 2023 03:32 PM (Bd6X

_____________

I'm going with spontaneous orgasm

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

229 The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

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Why didn't they just say the replacement has to be from the same Party? That's defensible as constitutional as it is closer to the will of the people/voter.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (BsBkM)

230 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

Louisiana currently has a D governor. Montana had a D governor forever. Hell, Wyoming had a D governor between 2003 and 2011.

Voters scan be really retarded, even in red states.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (e1q+J)

231 Where do you think Feinstein hangs out when she's not in the Senate chamber?

In a dark cave where she can rest upside-down.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:35 PM (p8A+W)

232
Many Don't Know Mitch Rowed Crew in College - a limerick

Mitch laughed it off as a joke
When he had a brain freeze as he spoke
In a cloudy foggy haze
He relived his rowing days
Heard the coxswain chanting, "Stroke, Stroke, Stroke!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 26, 2023 03:35 PM (zLLgI)

233 Has someone here mentioned that Sinead O'Connor is now dead? She was younger than I.

Bummer.
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Maybe she had a really good bath.

Posted by: Dolores O'Riordan at July 26, 2023 03:35 PM (tH96z)

234
Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Heh.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2bcbet
Posted by: bonhomme

===========

Loophole: he has to have or SEEK employment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:35 PM (lCaJd)

235 What's impressive is he's not even the most feeble Senator.

You have DiFi of course.
But there's Fetterstein.
And the NM guy who was out for weeks cause of a stroke.

And there's those who we don't even know ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (GxzZh)

236 A McConnell aide said that the senator "felt light headed and stepped away for a moment."

Bullshit. He didn't step away - he was led away and very gingerly while he shuffled. He was held on to as the fear of him falling was real and he had a blank, frozen stare that was eerie. People that have had mini-strokes exhibit the same signs.

Posted by: Cheri at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (oiNtH)

237 Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

—-

I’ll allow it.
- Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (e1q+J)

238 He needs to start using my old work-out routine!

It kept me going indefinitely!

(well, that and my underling clerks...and a cooperative press)

Posted by: Zombie Ruth Bader Ginsberg at July 26, 2023 03:33 PM (l0Cy4)

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Adrenochrome FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (pGv7z)

239 Voters scan be really retarded, even in red states.
Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (e1q+J)
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They think that balance between those who want to destroy the country and those who don't is a good kind of balance.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (krQz2)

240 Republican Gov candidate was too Trumpy for Mitch so the machine bagged him.

Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (53oGX)

241 The KY GOP is worse than the PA GOP. Hard to believe, but it is.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM (H5/Lp)

Well, Mitch is in charge after all. And prob cut the deal that included CA GOP wrapping things up.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (db5Fm)

242 Retirement age 65.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (ADK7f)

243 The KY GOP is worse than the PA GOP. Hard to believe, but it is.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2023 03:34 PM

KY GOP, fitting name.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 26, 2023 03:36 PM (GwxCX)

244 3 Octogenarians that have not lost cognitive ability are an exception.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:23 PM (MNhXM)

I've had numerous relatives live well into their 90's that were still mentally sharp to the day until they died.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (BdMk6)

245 "Celebrity" forensic scientist Dr Henry Lee found liable for wrongful convictions that resulted from fake findings Lee magicked out of thin air.

https://tinyurl.com/3be3nbxj

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (R38qh)

246 TIA, the A being accident.
Posted by: TecumsehTea

********

cough**attack**cough

Posted by: Muldoon at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (zLLgI)

247 For all the talk of "oh no, cant term limit them", ANY block on these fuckers' will to power is a net good. Limiting them any way we can is what needs to happen.

Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (7VCus)

248 I imagine similarly to The McCain Machine still f*cking us here postpartum in AZ, The McConnell Machine controls much of KY politics at the state level.
Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (pGv7z)
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Almost certainly correct. If you look at the population density distribution in KY, there are three main areas: Lexington, Louisville, and the cities across the river from Cincinnati, OH. Frankfort, the capitol, is located just outside Lexington. Everywhere else is sparsely populated by comparison (<100 / sq. mi--often much less).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (YIVH2)

249 TMZ has the BIG CONGRESS STORY of the day:

UFOs

They are holding a Congressional Sub-Committee hearing on UFOs today.

Posted by: rd at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (V82nB)

250 Loophole: he has to have or SEEK employment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

He's an artiste!

Posted by: Cheri at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (oiNtH)

251 The McConnell Machine controls much of KY politics at the state level.
Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:30 PM (pGv7z

It used to be the Barbour machine before he handed the keys to Mitch, and it was, is, and will remain the dominant faction in that worthless long-con called the Gay Ol' Party.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (o5Ht6)

252 How funny would it be if Death approached you and it was Barney f*cking Fife.

Or Jack Tripper's landlord.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

In Greek mythology Thanatos was the Grim Reaper and Sisyphus (the king who pushes the boulder uphill all day long in Hades) managed to lock him in his own shackles, depriving Hades of souls for like an entire week.

Sisyphus was a wild man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (guGkK)

253 Voters can be really retarded, even in red states.
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You mean like the ones who still won't vote for that guy who said "pussy?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (GxzZh)

254 Good.

Hey Ho The Old Fart Has To Go!

Die already you old criminal...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (b+YaX)

255 Crap. So it wasn't a stroke.

Probably was but a very mild one.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (nfrXX)

256 The deal in Kentucky regarding McConnell, if he has to step down or croaks is like this; Bashear is the governor, a democrat. The KY constitution says if a member of congress dies, or resigns his/her office for whatever reason the governor must choose a person off a list provided by the party currently holding the congressional office.

Bashear says it's unconstitutional (Kentucky's constitution) and will ignore it.

If it comes to this I foresee a lengthy legal fight. It would almost be better to keep McConnell in office, hidden away until the next election... like the Democrats are doing with DiFi, Fettermonster, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (Q4IgG)

257 I've had numerous relatives live well into their 90's that were still mentally sharp to the day until they died.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (BdMk6)

Still the exception and you are an exception to have 'numerous' relatives live well into their 90's.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (BsBkM)

258 There are younger senators, J.D. Vance, for instance. I wonder how he feels surrounded by these very impaired people.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (MeG8a)

259 Republican Gov candidate was too Trumpy for Mitch so the machine bagged him.

That and the teacher unions came out in full force.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (p8A+W)

260 >>> Maybe she had a really good bath.
Posted by: Dolores O'Riordan at July 26, 2023 03:35 PM (tH96z

Zombie!!!

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (HdaaF)

261

Sinead O'Connor? She was just named head White House chef...

Posted by: Pervo Pete at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (463zG)

262 TIA, the A being accident.
Posted by: TecumsehTea

Well sure, nobody gets one on purpose.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (guGkK)

263 >.Where do you think Feinstein hangs out when she's not in the Senate chamber?

Mobile ICU

Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (geLO8)

264 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Heh.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2bcbet
Posted by: bonhomme

===========

Loophole: he has to have or SEEK employment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:35 PM (lCaJd)

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The Satanic Temple is expanding rapidly and hiring!

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (pGv7z)

265 Reason why these people live forever?

Not even Satan wants these pricks around. Hell might start to get a bad reputation.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (KbCG3)

266
How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade

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Dja ever hear about what would happen in California without LA and San Fran?

I really REALLY wish we would split up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (lCaJd)

267 Add him to my list I wish would stroke out

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (xhxe8)

268
In Greek mythology Thanatos was the Grim Reaper and Sisyphus (the king who pushes the boulder uphill all day long in Hades) managed to lock him in his own shackles, depriving Hades of souls for like an entire week.

Sisyphus was a wild man.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (guGkK)

Sisyphus > Cookie puss

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

269 Transient Ischemic Event
mini stroke
Posted by: TecumsehTea

That's what keeps Joe Biden's heart popping like a one cylinder engine.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (FAOo/)

270 The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

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Apparently, Basher believes it violates the 17th A, which it most certainly does not.

Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (sX1BW)

271 Sad.

These men can't lead us out of our domestic downfall, nor are they in any position to be making decisions resulting in World War.

Mitch looks like one of those kings from the LOTR movies, gone mad from grasping at power under the influence of little whispers in his ear.

No amount of adrenochrome harvested from trafficked children can reverse course for him now. His next appointment is with Satan in hell.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (Zqeqr)

272 When I’m 70 I want to chill on a beach somewhere and give no fucks about much else. And I think most people are like this.

If you’re 80 and still working it means you have no life outside work. Work is everything. And that’s sad as fuck.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:39 PM (e1q+J)

273 There are younger senators, J.D. Vance, for instance. I wonder how he feels surrounded by these very impaired people.

Because the Senators are props and the work is performed by lobbyists and staffers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:40 PM (p8A+W)

274 > Loophole: he has to have or SEEK employment.

True. Around here, you have to do three job contacts a week to keep your unemployment.

All you have to do for those three contacts is to apply to three jobs. ANY three jobs. So you can submit your resume to three jobs for which you're grossly unqualified and where you'll never get a callback and you're good for another week.

It takes five minutes max.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:40 PM (R38qh)

275 I really REALLY wish we would split up.

Working on it. Stand by.

Posted by: San Andreas Fault at July 26, 2023 03:40 PM (ppBhU)

276 164 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

++++

He has a job. He trains German Shepherds.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 26, 2023 03:40 PM (XeHMZ)

277 And the governor of KY is a Dem. So if Mitch goes under...

Posted by: Floridachick at July 26, 2023 03:40 PM (8gVPa)

278 I want to see and meet an actual person who voted for this guy.

Posted by: RealityMain at July 26, 2023 03:40 PM (liB0E)

279 Republican Gov candidate was too Trumpy for Mitch so the machine bagged him.

That and the teacher unions came out in full force.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (p8A+W)

Doesn't explain the vast majority of the other Republicans being elected. Was the vote total for governor so much more than other statewide races?

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:41 PM (BsBkM)

280 Rat bastards would give up until you drag their dead body from the podium

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 03:41 PM (xhxe8)

281
Been a while since the last time I looked but the replacement for McConNotWell's position was no prize.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 26, 2023 03:41 PM (enJYY)

282 The White House and the halls of congress smell like a nursing home.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (GwxCX)

283 My own mom is 90, lives with us. She's very sharp, can recall dates with uncanny accuracy, beats me at poker, helps with the household chores and isn't on a single medication. She was driving her own car until a year ago.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (MeG8a)

284 272: my father was 80 and was still working because…well, he wanted to, to stay active. To keep his brain going. What is sad as fuck is sitting around at 80 just waiting to die.

He really didn’t need the money. He was getting money for watching the sun rise and set. He just wanted activity and to get out of the house.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (u79Vq)

285 The Constitution allows states to determine what counts as residency.

Elected officials must be residents of their state.

A simple law that residents must spend at least 25% of their time in-state would eliminate most dinosaur Senators and Congressmen.

Because when they get that bribed, they never go "home."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (GxzZh)

286 Rat bastards would give up until you drag their dead body from the podium
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 03:41 PM

But, I thought.....

"At some point, you've made enough money."

- - - Barack Hussein

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

287 "But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks."

I would disagree with this if there was one shred of evidence to the contrary.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (iziT8)

288 Been a while since the last time I looked but the replacement for McConNotWell's position was no prize.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 26, 2023 03:41 PM (enJYY)

No shit. He'd be replaced by a member of the Republican Party, so whoever it is is a duplicitous crook with a secret love for man-ass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (o5Ht6)

289 I'll tell you this, he needs to vacate as Minority Leader.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (krQz2)

290 > When I’m 70 I want to chill on a beach somewhere and give no fucks about much else. And I think most people are like this.

I could do that for two weeks max, then I'd be bored.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (R38qh)

291 Mitch, buddy. It's time to hang up the skates.

Diane Finestein in a Captain Pike chair.

Posted by: Archer at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (gmo/4)

292 TMZ has the BIG CONGRESS STORY of the day:

UFOs

They are holding a Congressional Sub-Committee hearing on UFOs today.

Posted by: rd at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (V82nB)

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Please tell me they used a Giant Cone of Silence.

Lie if you must ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (pGv7z)

293 Doesn't explain the vast majority of the other Republicans being elected. Was the vote total for governor so much more than other statewide races?

You're starting to sound like one of those election-denying insurrectionists.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (ppBhU)

294 Kentucky didn't send their best.

Guess we need him to survive till the Dem gov' is gone, but maybe someone else should be in his role as Senate leader for R's. ("I'm fine" like the man at the bridge in Monty Python movie ... "come back and fight like a man")

Posted by: illiniwek at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (Cus5s)

295 266

Louisville and Lexington are about as Leftist as can be. Anyplace you have a University town.

We need to defund Universities. Bigly. All they are anymore is a fuck-fest for entitled brats. Most of whom come out dumber than when they went in. And THAT is not hyperbole. I is serious

Posted by: Uncle Rick at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (tQ0Tc)

296 Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (MeG8a)
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Go clean your room!

Posted by: gourmand's mom at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (RIvkX)

297 253 Voters can be really retarded, even in red states.
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You mean like the ones who still won't vote for that guy who said "pussy?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 26, 2023 03:38 PM (GxzZh)

========

What about the ones who will only vote for the guy who said pussy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

298 Add him to my list I wish would stroke out
Posted by: Skip

Ohhh myyyyy~!

Posted by: George Takeitupme at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (jzzG8)

299 One more note about Sinead O'Conner. She converted to Islam in 2018. Some are saying that she's now a good Muslim.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (Bd6X8)

300 I could do that for two weeks max, then I'd be ~~bored~~ hungry.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (ppBhU)

301 My own mom is 90, lives with us. She's very sharp, can recall dates with uncanny accuracy, beats me at poker, helps with the household chores and isn't on a single medication. She was driving her own car until a year ago.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (MeG8a)

Where my grandmother wasn't driving for years, she was just short of 99 this year and was much the same. Only took tylenol for arthritis pain and flonase for allergies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

302 "At some point, you've made enough money."

- - - Barack Hussein
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM

Well his chef did.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 26, 2023 03:43 PM (GwxCX)

303 Honestly, if they could get away with working after death, they would. The only thing holding them back is that they haven't figured out how to do a weekend at bernie's press conference.

Posted by: Weekend at Bernies Place in DC at July 26, 2023 03:44 PM (sh1GZ)

304 Never forget people in KY very cheerfully keep re-electing Mr. McConnell. And I’m not in favor of term limits either. That’s just a lazy solution for lazy voters that in the end make lazy voters even more lazy.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:44 PM (u79Vq)

305 174 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Heh.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2bcbet
Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:27 PM (R38qh)
++++
He'll work for his dad's campaign.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

Nah, he'll be hired by the Teamsters as Deputy Assistant Manager for Public Affairs, California District.

Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2023 03:44 PM (AMIL/)

306 That is a TIA stroke, my wife has them and they are scary as fvck. His brain is fried and he has no business being in the senate let alone in a leadership position.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 26, 2023 03:44 PM (ncXxy)

307 United States Capitol And Retirement Home.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:44 PM (krQz2)

308 All you have to do for those three contacts is to apply to three jobs. ANY three jobs. So you can submit your resume to three jobs for which you're grossly unqualified and where you'll never get a callback and you're good for another week.

It takes five minutes max.
Posted by: bonhomme at Ju

Yep. I got laid off once in May and decided fuck it I’m taking the summer off since unemployment is enough to keep me going a few months. Apply to 3 jobs on LinkedIn Sunday night. And that was my weekly “job search”. Best summer I ever had.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (e1q+J)

309 I’m on Team Grim Reaper on this one.
If they insist on holding office for life then bring on the end of same

Posted by: Ex GOP at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (ExFoQ)

310 The White House and the halls of congress smell like a nursing home.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (GwxCX)

In your average nursing home the old people screw each other indiscriminately.

These people screw the rest of us.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (iW7Ee)

311 If I have to retire at 68 to 72, so should they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

312 >>> When I’m 70 I want to chill on a beach somewhere and give no fucks about much else. And I think most people are like this.

I could do that for two weeks max, then I'd be bored.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (R38qh)

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Agreed. I gave up an invite to my wife and I to hang on a house boat with friends for a week. 3-4 days maybe. But an entire week? Nope.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (HdaaF)

313 Interesting that most think BO is actually running things, which makes sense because he is way more low profile than you would think he would be, but we all used to think that BO was just a front man for very good reasons....

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (b/34k)

314 You'll pry this Senate seat from cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Senator Dianne Feinstein, bitches! at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (RIvkX)

315 At least with the naked woman you knew when she ran out of ammo that she couldn't reload.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (4780s)

316 TMZ has the BIG CONGRESS STORY of the day:

UFOs

They are holding a Congressional Sub-Committee hearing on UFOs today.
Posted by: rd at July 26, 2023 03:37 PM (V82nB)
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Talk about a deliberate distraction and obvious op.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (t0OGg)

317 In your average nursing home the old people screw each other indiscriminately.
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That sounds hawt!

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (yRved)

318 My own mom is 90, lives with us. She's very sharp, can recall dates with uncanny accuracy, beats me at poker, helps with the household chores and isn't on a single medication. She was driving her own car until a year ago.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (MeG8a)
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Women live longer than men. I heard one doctor say that estrogen is a sort of antioxidant.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (krQz2)

319
Yep. I got laid off once in May and decided fuck it I’m taking the summer off since unemployment is enough to keep me going a few months. Apply to 3 jobs on LinkedIn Sunday night. And that was my weekly “job search”. Best summer I ever had.
Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (e1q+J)

Remember, the taxman still cometh.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

320 Obama doesn't run shit and he never did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (o5Ht6)

321 I’m on Team Grim Reaper on this one.
If they insist on holding office for life then bring on the end of same
Posted by: Ex GOP at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (ExFoQ)

JFK's death was less gruesome.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (iW7Ee)

322 The thing is, old people have little resiliency. As we were discussing on the Art Thread this morning. Even if they look like they’re in good shape, they can decline precipitously due to one adverse event (usually a fall).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (xTRSc)

323 That is the face you make the first time you realize somebody shit in your pants.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (GTQR/)

324 "Republican primary voters are insane. Cf. that deluded Romeo in South Carolina who was ousted as governor only to come back as a Congressman.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (lCaJd)"

We must work to control who makes it to the primary.

The PUbby COC play book is designed to give you a choice between disgusting or their boy.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (lCWOD)

325 At least with the naked woman you knew when she ran out of ammo that she couldn't reload.
Posted by: From about that Time at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (4780s)

You forgot about the storage hole.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (BsBkM)

326 My own mom is 90, lives with us. She's very sharp, can recall dates with uncanny accuracy, beats me at poker, helps with the household chores and isn't on a single medication. She was driving her own car until a year ago.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (MeG8a)

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That's awesome, I pray that I'm blessed enough to still retain my mad poker skillzzzz and be alive at that age sanzzzz dementia.

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (pGv7z)

327 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Heh.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2bcbet
Posted by: bonhomme

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Loophole: he has to have or SEEK employment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Ambassador to Nauru.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (FAOo/)

328 Honestly, if they could get away with working after death, they would.

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They can always resort to the elect their younger widow spouse trick.

Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (sX1BW)

329 Women live longer than men. I heard one doctor say that estrogen is a sort of antioxidant.
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As long as they don't break a hip.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (yRved)

330 285: this. My former rep, TX-13’s Mac Thornberry, was ostensibly from Clarendon. But he spent most of his time in DC after awhile. I joked that after he decided not to run again in 2020 that he was going to retire by moving home to DC.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (u79Vq)

331 He just wanted activity and to get out of the house.
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This is why there is golf, fishing, the Elks club. Having a job in your 70s is not something I want to see catch on . . .

Posted by: i'm just sayin at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (sh1GZ)

332 Dribble, dribble, dribble, drool.

Posted by: GOP at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (VsUo2)

333 I know guys who've been working in casinos twenty years don't have a license.

Posted by: Archer at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (gmo/4)

334 Great news! - the Media

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 26, 2023 03:47 PM (0t3vP)

335 For anyone conflicted on rooting for the Reaper here, keep in mind that nothing would make McConnell and his ilk happier than if everyone on these boards would permanently go away.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (KbCG3)

336 In your average nursing home the old people screw each other indiscriminately.
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That sounds hawt!
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (yRved)

Big Pharma thinks so. They pump Viagra and penicillin into these places like prune juice and canned pears.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (iW7Ee)

337 Never forget people in KY very cheerfully keep re-electing Mr. McConnell. And I’m not in favor of term limits either. That’s just a lazy solution for lazy voters that in the end make lazy voters even more lazy.

This baffles me. Conservatives conserving the system that fails them. Two terms and out.

Posted by: Ex GOP at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (ExFoQ)

338 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade

I guess you've never heard of the batshit left wing cities in TX that occupy the I-35 corridor.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (BdMk6)

339 You'll pry this Senate seat from cold, dead hands.
Posted by: Senator Dianne Feinstein, bitches! at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM

Your proposal is acceptable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (FVJNG)

340 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job.

Posted by: bonhomme
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You're hired!

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (krQz2)

341 Every time one of these old farts in Washington sneezes, Zelensky gets the flu.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (wnpoX)

342 I didn’t mean literally every day on a beach. I meant my plan is to move to a beach town. And then do other things like travel and shit. Point is none of what I do will involve anything to do with my old job,

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (e1q+J)

343 McConnell had an episode a couple months ago eerily similar to this one. He was standing next to the speaker at the podium and just zonked out. Someone put a video up using "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" to coincide with McConnell's blackout. This is the second time, in public, that he has displayed this behavior.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (XeHMZ)

344 That is the face you make the first time you realize somebody shit in your pants.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (GTQR/)
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My first thought was he was relieving his bladder into his catheter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (RIvkX)

345 315 At least with the naked woman you knew when she ran out of ammo that she couldn't reload.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 26, 2023 03:45 PM (4780s)

You never worked in a jail or prison, I'll bet.

Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (AMIL/)

346 324 "Republican primary voters are insane. Cf. that deluded Romeo in South Carolina who was ousted as governor only to come back as a Congressman.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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South Carolina and a number of Southern states like Alabama and Georgia have open primaries. Dems often vote in them to select their least worst option such as Ladybugs Lindsay in the Senate.

That is a part of why we cannot have nice things.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (9hLLz)

347 There are plenty of ways to keep mind and body active besides work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (xTRSc)

348 318 My own mom is 90, lives with us. She's very sharp, can recall dates with uncanny accuracy, beats me at poker, helps with the household chores and isn't on a single medication. She was driving her own car until a year ago.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:42 PM (MeG8a)
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Women live longer than men. I heard one doctor say that estrogen is a sort of antioxidant.
Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:46 PM (krQz2)

It's lifestyle driven. Men who work hours and jobs that women tend to live the same period. Most men tend to run themselves into the ground working.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (eYoxG)

349 338 This baffles me. Conservatives conserving the system that fails them. Two terms and out.
Posted by: Ex GOP at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (ExFoQ)

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Closed primaries is a small step towards sanity. Both KY and SC have open primaries, but SC's GOP put a question on their primary ballots last year asking for support of closed primaries. The response supporting closed primaries won.

The people want it. Now, will the SC GOP do something about it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (LvTSG)

350 Posted by: Elric Blade

Oops. Read your comment wrong.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (BdMk6)

351 It's a rare human who can still function at 80, it can happen but why push it if it can't?

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (xhxe8)

352 Yep. I got laid off once in May and decided fuck it I’m taking the summer off since unemployment is enough to keep me going a few months. Apply to 3 jobs on LinkedIn Sunday night. And that was my weekly “job search”. Best summer I ever had.

The company I just worked for shuttered last week. So I tried that same stunt you described. This morning I was doing onboarding paperwork for a new gig. This is when tech is in the dumpster.

Some of us aren't as "lucky".†

† Though I'm financially secure, if I'm not working, I'm not happy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (p8A+W)

353
True. Around here, you have to do three job contacts a week to keep your unemployment.

All you have to do for those three contacts is to apply to three jobs. ANY three jobs. So you can submit your resume to three jobs for which you're grossly unqualified and where you'll never get a callback and you're good for another week.

It takes five minutes max.
Posted by: bonhomme

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In Hunter's case, he ought to focus on burger-flipping jobs and the like. Those are the people who would never hire him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (lCaJd)

354 He was thinking back to his youth in the late 1870s.

Posted by: Mitch's Twitch at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (VsUo2)

355 Red State published the list of pre trial conditions Hunter must meet. He had to register with the LA county parole board and they will monitor if he is indeed meeting conditions.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (8Xj/Y)

356 "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" to coincide with McConnell's blackout. This is the second time, in public, that he has displayed this behavior.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (XeHMZ)

Soon Mitch....very soon...

Posted by: Death at July 26, 2023 03:50 PM (b+YaX)

357 Like said above, looks like a TIA stroke. Hardware is fried.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 26, 2023 03:50 PM (OgrpQ)

358 That's awesome, I pray that I'm blessed enough to still retain my mad poker skillzzzz and be alive at that age sanzzzz dementia.

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Should have included "and with wifey at my side and still healthy."

That sounds greedy, I know, but a man can dream ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 03:50 PM (pGv7z)

359 Women live longer than men.

Because we're ready.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:50 PM (FAOo/)

360 There are plenty of ways to keep mind and body active besides work.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (xTRSc)

Porn is a lifesaver.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (BdMk6)

361 69 58 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

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Matt Bevin went too hard against the teachers' unions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (LvTSG)
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He wont "win" again. The current AG (Cameron) had over 800K votes and Beshear barely squeaked by even with cheating with under 600K votes.. (and the rampant undercounting of Bevin's vote tally especially in Jefferson and Lafayette counties). Cameron is a shoo in even with voter fraud and Senile Mitch won't go anywhere until Cameron is guv and appoints whoever Mitch wants to appoint..

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (9B/d8)

362 For anyone conflicted on rooting for the Reaper here, keep in mind that nothing would make McConnell and his ilk happier than if everyone on these boards would permanently go away.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 26, 2023 03:48 PM (KbCG3)

Cocaine Mitch said, proudly, the most important business his party has to do is keep killing as many people in Ukraine as possible.

His death might very well be the moral equivalent of someone having taken out Hitler pre-1933.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (iW7Ee)

363 Dunno how many said it first but count me as one more in favor of this new and improved McConnell that seems less likely to stab us in the back.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (iOt02)

364 Sounds like a petit mal epileptic fit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (iAZie)

365 339 How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor?????? It's as red as red can be, and unlike red states like TN and TX, it doesn't have big left-leaning cities to fraud up votes.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Mitch worked with GOPe in Kentucky to take out GOP Gov. Matt Bevin in 2019 who ran against McConnell in the GOP primary. Think Beshears is done though in 2023 as his reelection coalition has shrunk quite a bit. Incidentally, in Mitch's reelection, there were some interesting anomalies in voting patterns in some counties.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (9hLLz)

366 274: or just apply to a job where you are qualified but have zero chance of getting hired because “you don’t know people”.

This is America. You get hired because you know people. So know people. Oh, you don’t know people? Starve.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (u79Vq)

367 The people want it. Now, will the SC GOP do something about it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023

No.

Posted by: Perpetual Senator, Closet Case, and Corrupt Sadist Lindsey Graham at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (o5Ht6)

368 356 Red State published the list of pre trial conditions Hunter must meet. He had to register with the LA county parole board and they will monitor if he is indeed meeting conditions.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (8Xj/Y)

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Think the county parole board that oversees Hollywood is used to high profile clients breaking such conditions and turning a blind eye?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (LvTSG)

369 McConnel is obviously mental unstable and should resign immediately !!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (9e2kV)

370 I hope someone remembers to unchain those young Chinese boys from the basement wall when Mitch keels over.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (G0bXQ)

371 I don't many old ladies who play poker, but dozens who will cut your heart out over a game of mah jongg.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (RIvkX)

372 It's lifestyle driven. Men who work hours and jobs that women tend to live the same period. Most men tend to run themselves into the ground working.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (eYoxG)
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I'm not saying it's not. But a biological advantage would still play a role.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (krQz2)

373
Red State published the list of pre trial conditions Hunter must meet. He had to register with the LA county parole board and they will monitor if he is indeed meeting conditions.
Posted by: Jen the original

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What are they like? Are they as competent as LA's Child Protective Services?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (lCaJd)

374 Closed primaries is a small step towards sanity. Both KY and SC have open primaries, but SC's GOP put a question on their primary ballots last year asking for support of closed primaries. The response supporting closed primaries won.

The people want it. Now, will the SC GOP do something about it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (LvTSG)

Since the gate is already open... Campaign finance reform that says ONLY money from that district can be spent IN that district.

Including Nationwide organizations. We need to figure out how to stop the idiot billionaires funding candidates in places they don't live.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (oHd/0)

375 I'll work right up until I die, God willing. I come from nothing and will need the income up until the end. There's no retirement plan for me that doesn't involve exploring the mouthfeel of a .45. Besides, as near as I can tell, my employer needs me; it's not like Millennials or Zoomers want to work.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (ppBhU)

376 That is the face you make the first time you realize somebody shit in your pants.
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If you laughed at that, well, one of these days sonny, that's not going to be funny. No sir. Not. Funny.

Seriously, in my 20's used to laugh about the 50-60 year olds who would constantly repeat the same stories as if they had never told us before. Now I do that story telling thing without realizing it. If I live long enough, I will surely see the day when spontaneous downloads are a problem. Getting old sucks. So, for that, he has my sympathy. For being a malignant tic on the body politic, he does not.

Posted by: i'm just sayin at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (sh1GZ)

377 Muldoon

Right, attack. Ok, I've been out of nursing for . . .15 years. And I only worked for one, so . . .

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2023 03:53 PM (ebhEj)

378 350: it would be nice if TX had closed primaries.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:53 PM (u79Vq)

379 † Though I'm financially secure, if I'm not working, I'm not happy.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (p8A+W)

This is a uniquely American thing. I used to be like that then one day realized, wait a second, this is dumb. Work is a means to an end, not the end itself.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:53 PM (e1q+J)

380 "Talk about a deliberate distraction and obvious op."
Actually that UFO hearing was planned some months ago. I'll watch it all later. There was an Air Force officer earlier who swore under oath that the US government has a) the remains of a non-human biological "pilot" and b) technology not of this earth. Including a craft that looks like the size of a city bus, and you go inside and it's the size of a football stadium.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 03:53 PM (MeG8a)

381 I didn't know there was a UFO hearing today because of all the Hunter drama. One guy testified that the Fed recovered "non human" material from UFOs. WTH?

I don't know what to think about all this but what those pilots have seen and captured things on video that are a bit complicated to explain away, so there is that.

And right in the middle of Pride Season, Hunter's deal blowing up, and Mitch having a stroke. I need a drink.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (0zz77)

382 I'm fine.

Posted by: The frozen head of Ted Williams at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (Xrfse)

383 Red State published the list of pre trial conditions Hunter must meet. He had to register with the LA county parole board and they will monitor if he is indeed meeting conditions.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (8Xj/Y)

LOL. Yeah. Sure they will.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (BdMk6)

384 Norman. Coordinate!

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (4I/2K)

385 Sinead O'Conner es muerte

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM

Rip up a picture of the Pope
Live another quarter century
At my age, sounds like a good deal

——-

Her son committed suicide and she said she had nothing to live for.
People with talent are blessed but there are too deep in shit to see it.

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (MwHgU)

386 Rand Paul is there because it's the one seat both parties fight over. They don't fight over Gov, and they don't fight over Mitch.

My sister is a GOP state representative in KY. What you said is true, very true.

I did speak to a number of local party leaders and the hatred for Mitch is overwhelming. They speak confidently that they will remove him.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (p8A+W)

387 I-uh, uh-I-uh,, job? w-w-w-what's, uh, what's that?

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (5hfjS)

388 The same reason you wonder why nobody votes out Mitch McConnell. The GOP in the state, get this, never sends much of a candidate for Gov. And the DNC, don't let me blow your mind here, never sends much of anything to challenge Mitch.

Rand Paul is there because it's the one seat both parties fight over. They don't fight over Gov, and they don't fight over Mitch.
Posted by: The Way It Is at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (7bopJ)

Some people claim Mitch's voting operation is very similar to operations in places like Maricopa County, AZ and Milwaukee, WIS.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (iW7Ee)

389 376 Since the gate is already open... Campaign finance reform that says ONLY money from that district can be spent IN that district.

Including Nationwide organizations. We need to figure out how to stop the idiot billionaires funding candidates in places they don't live.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 26, 2023 03:52 PM (oHd/0)

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That would just end up leading to the creation of little non-profits with local addresses in every district that gets money filtered through them. There is no law that is going to "fix" the money issues in politics. We've already seen this year how ActBlue uses registered voters as cutouts without their knowledge to filter money to their campaigns.

And the more time goes on, the less I'm convinced that actual monetary investment in elections has serious effects that outweigh facts on the ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (LvTSG)

390 >How the fuck does Kentucky have a Democrap governor??????

I imagine it's like a lot of places- the people on the dole and the people on the state payroll can outvote the rest

Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (geLO8)

391 Rather than a iden moment, it may have been a Nadler moment. He returned after a Depends change.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (CngVe)

392 No Sympathy.

It's time for Mitch to go out behind the barn and get ready for the Glue Factory.

Posted by: XTC at July 26, 2023 03:55 PM (UnA8+)

393 Mitch was just doing his best Porky Pig impression

Posted by: Mitch's Twitch at July 26, 2023 03:55 PM (VsUo2)

394 388 My sister is a GOP state representative in KY. What you said is true, very true.

I did speak to a number of local party leaders and the hatred for Mitch is overwhelming. They speak confidently that they will remove him.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:54 PM (p8A+W)

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They didn't in 2018. Then they let him sabotage the GOP's efforts at governor in 2019.

*jerking motion*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:55 PM (LvTSG)

395 Imagine the horrors of making them live under our rules- work until you're 65 if you're lucky, then live off your SS and Medicare. Again, if you're lucky.

Posted by: t-bird at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (6KMiG)

396 > or just apply to a job where you are qualified but have zero chance of getting hired because “you don’t know people”.

Fortunately, I work in an industry where that hasn't been an issue. I've had no problem getting jobs for which I'm qualified without knowing people.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (R38qh)

397 I am Lump

Posted by: Fetterman's Lump at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (Vu7A1)

398 322: don’t remind me.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (u79Vq)

399 This could have been avoided if McConnell had retired last time. Or the time before that.

But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.

Yeah, a reverse RBG here

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (ufFY8)

400 And the more time goes on, the less I'm convinced that actual monetary investment in elections has serious effects that outweigh facts on the ground.

I think spending a lot of money on a campaign actually lowers the candidate's chances.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (ZGrMX)

401 We're on the verge of WWIII and these are our leaders.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (FVME7)

402 I didn't know there was a UFO hearing today because of all the Hunter drama. One guy testified that the Fed recovered "non human" material from UFOs. WTH?

Yeah, the local Drone Club's experimental aircraft suffered a bird strike.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (p8A+W)

403

Yeah, a reverse RBG here
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (ufFY8

Which is NOTHING like reverse cowgirl.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

404 381 † Though I'm financially secure, if I'm not working, I'm not happy.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (p8A+W)

This is a uniquely American thing. I used to be like that then one day realized, wait a second, this is dumb. Work is a means to an end, not the end itself.
Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:53 PM (e1q+J)

It's not the Work that makes the man, but the Responsibilities.

Posted by: XTC at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (UnA8+)

405 But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.

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They are basically the same as crime bosses.

Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (sX1BW)

406 Our medical establishment deems young athletes to have the same risk profile from respiratory infections as The Turtle. Sounds reasonable.

Posted by: Zek at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (5FPX4)

407 He hath shat himself

Posted by: Mitch's Twitch at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (VsUo2)

408 77 I'll work right up until I die, God willing. I come from nothing and will need the income up until the end. There's no retirement plan for me that doesn't involve exploring the mouthfeel of a .45. Besides, as near as I can tell, my employer needs me; it's not like Millennials or Zoomers want to work.

Ther are easier ways to end it, not encouraging, just saying

You won’t have to clean up the mess

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (MwHgU)

409 Hmm just brain storming here but is there a chance Mitch made a 'Nadler' in his trousers?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (DeRoy)

410 Sounds like a petit mal epileptic fit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I also wondered about this. My late husband (with a brain tumor) had those, and looked just like that.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (tQL7r)

411

Good thing he wasn't using an exercise band on a treadmill!

Posted by: Hairy Reed at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (463zG)

412 403 And the more time goes on, the less I'm convinced that actual monetary investment in elections has serious effects that outweigh facts on the ground.

I think spending a lot of money on a campaign actually lowers the candidate's chances.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2023 03:56 PM (ZGrMX)

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It's how Eric Cantor lost in 2014.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)

413 Open primaries is such a bizarre notion. It’s like we have this club and we vote on things within the club, but anyone who isn’t a member can show up and vote

Nowhere else in society does that happen. But for choosing out “leaders”, Sure let’s do it.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (e1q+J)

414 399: I may have solved that problem as well.

But it is still idiotic that in order to get hired “it’s not what you know but WHO you know!” is a thing. This thinking leads straight to corruption.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (u79Vq)

415 Sinead O'Conner es muerte
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (G0bXQ)

What of? She wasn't very old.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (iAZie)

416 In more good news, the Washington Post is on track to lose 100 million this year alone!

Not bad for a pet project.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (G0bXQ)

417
a reverse RBG here
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

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He did do that one thing for us. He kept Merrick Garland off SCOTUS.

Course he voted to confirm him as AG... I wonder how he feels about that now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (lCaJd)

418 408 But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.

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They are basically the same as crime bosses.
Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (sX1BW)

Crime bosses that live long enough do retire. Most of them just die before they can make a safe exit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (eYoxG)

419 The McConnell episode could not have been a better metaphor for a federal government that is pining for the fjords.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (ogTiX)

420 So if the Dem Gov. picked a Dem as replacement would we notice ?

Posted by: it's me donna at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (bs+z0)

421 He wont "win" again. The current AG (Cameron) had over 800K votes and Beshear barely squeaked by even with cheating with under 600K votes.. (and the rampant undercounting of Bevin's vote tally especially in Jefferson and Lafayette counties). Cameron is a shoo in even with voter fraud and Senile Mitch won't go anywhere until Cameron is guv and appoints whoever Mitch wants to appoint..
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 26, 2023 03:51 PM (9B/d

Sounds like Kentucky should just vote for Zelensky, and cut out all these middlemen.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (iW7Ee)

422 418 Sinead O'Conner es muerte
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:17 PM (G0bXQ)

What of? She wasn't very old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (iAZie)

Everyone is implying it's self inflicted

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (G0bXQ)

423 Hunter Biden's release conditions state he must have a job

I believe "Bagman" is a job, Mr Smartypants.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (CecP5)

424 Been thinking about that for about ten years now. I don't need to "work". I hate work, and what I work at.

Huh. I love what I do, mostly because I wanted to work in as many business domains is as practical. When people ask what I'm looking for in the next gig, my first response is "To Avoid Groundhog Day".

I get to play mad scientist and get paid well to do it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (p8A+W)

425 The whole world i wondering why America doesn't fix this.

Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (5iWXt)

426 422 The McConnell episode could not have been a better metaphor for a federal government that is pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (ogTiX)

And some Viking funerals

Posted by: it's me donna at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (bs+z0)

427 Sinead O'Conner is room temperature

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (xhxe8)

428 Mitch should retire, but I guess he'd rather die on camera.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

429 This could have been avoided if McConnell had retired last time. Or the time before that.

Or the time before that, or the time before that, or the time before that, or the time before that, or the time before that, or the time before that, and on and on!

WE NEED TERM LIMITS!

Posted by: SteveF at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (bbPGk)

430 Art Bell used to play a country western style song, to wit (iirc):

"Oh, Lord, if I'm abducted, don't let it be the Grays. The little gray guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away. They talk without talking, and walk without walking, and such. They'll truss you up like a Christmas turkey and you won't like where they touch."

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (MeG8a)

431 416: well, this is a country where many people think silly obstacles like citizenship is no bar to voting in an election. (But then, the United States is not remotely a serious country.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (u79Vq)

432 "They cling to power like dehydrated ticks"

Describes John McCain well.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (i7Q7S)

433 Matt Bevin went too hard against the teachers' unions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 26, 2023 03:18 PM (LvTSG)

Or not hard enough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (iAZie)

434 What of? She wasn't very old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2023 03:58 PM (iAZie)

She was upset about the Tucker Carlson/Ice T video.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (iW7Ee)

435 Slow news day.

Rarrrr.

Posted by: The Gorn at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (aD39U)

436 Which is NOTHING like reverse cowgirl.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 26, 2023 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

*Off to Aldi's to get brain bleach*

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 26, 2023 04:01 PM (ufFY8)

437 56 years

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 04:01 PM (xhxe8)

438
Sounds like Kentucky should just vote for Zelensky, and cut out all these middlemen.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Xi for President! Write him in.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 04:01 PM (lCaJd)

439 Sinead O'Conner is room temperature
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2023 03:59 PM (xhxe

Her condition is stable.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2023 04:01 PM (aD39U)

440
WE NEED TERM LIMITS!
Posted by: SteveF at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (bbPGk)

I'm all for six terms in the senate, but seven is just too far!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 04:01 PM (iW7Ee)

441 I saw Ladybugs Lindsay open for Alien Ant Farm at Home Farm in 2010.

Posted by: ShainS at July 26, 2023 04:02 PM (pGv7z)

442 431 Mitch should retire, but I guess he'd rather die on camera.
Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

I think many of us would rather watch politicians die on camera too.

Just not on their own terms.

Posted by: XTC at July 26, 2023 04:02 PM (UnA8+)

443 Crap. So it wasn't a stroke.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 03:16 PM (FAOo/)

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hahhahahahaah

You believe him???? That's ridiculous.

Pro tip: Politicians lie their asses off for their own benefit.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 26, 2023 04:02 PM (DcKNO)

444 I retired at 60. No regrets and don't plan on looking for another job.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 04:02 PM (BsBkM)

445 > Mitch should retire, but I guess he'd rather die on camera.

Posted by: wth

I don't understand why these super-old bastards, who have spent decades enriching themselves thru their access to the levers of government, won't just go the f*** away and die

seriously just die already

Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (geLO8)

446 Think I am all caught up on the Hunter situ:
1. His lawyers tried to corrupt the court and got caught.
2. Judge says Hunter doesn't get the James Bond get out of jail free forever card.
3. Plea deal becomes only gun and tax charges for slap on hand.
4. Hunter rejects!
5. Hunters lawyers get away with the attempted fraud.

Correct me on what I got wrong please.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (8GBH4)

447 It's me Donna called it. KY governor appoints his own democrat self Senator and slides in there like a...well......lubricated something or other.

Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (5iWXt)

448 One thing driving these times is two generations - Silents and Boomers - that simply can't come to terms with letting go of power.

I'm not going until I've spent all your money, Scogg.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (aD39U)

449 432: CA has had term limits since 1990. CA is not a model for governance.

Term limits are a lazy solution for lazy voters who simply refuse to get off their asses and participate in government because it takes up too much time, is boring, and…and…and IT’S TOO HARD!!! And ultimately it leads to MORE laziness.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (u79Vq)

450 as a republican, I am ready to offer McConnell as the first forced retirement. In a bipartisan effort.

Posted by: JayInAmes at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (yGu6h)

451 Xi for President! Write him in.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 04:01 PM (lCaJd)

I'm pretty sure Pooh Bear is smart enough not to want to get on board this flaming trainwreck.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (iW7Ee)

452 Mitch just swallowed something Chinese that didn't agree with him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (S75Fo)

453 I generally like my job. But I don’t kill myself for my employer. Call it quiet quitting or whatever the new buzzword is. I think too many people invest too much of themselves into work. And as I said above it’s a uniquely American thing. Both good and bad I guess because without that mentality we wouldn’t have become what we became. But the downside is we’re a rich but generally miserable country.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (e1q+J)

454 Rather than a Biden moment, it may have been a Nadler moment. He returned after a Depends change.

I'm not going to watch the video to see if this is plausible but it does make for an interesting political question:

Is it better to admit to a Biden or a Nadler?

Instead we will get: "This is not the senility incident you are looking for"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (p8A+W)

455 Mitch should retire, but I guess he'd rather die on camera.
Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

I agree with him.

If he retires he'll be replaced by a younger worthless piece of shit who won't give me the small, simple pleasure of watching him die in front of a world that hates him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (o5Ht6)

456 Though I'm financially secure, if I'm not working, I'm not happy.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 03:49 PM (p8A+W)

This is a uniquely American thing. I used to be like that then one day realized, wait a second, this is dumb. Work is a means to an end, not the end itself.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 03:53 PM

That's not really unique to America, older Japanese men are like that as well. Most keep working until they are in their 80s and some keep at it until they are 90+ years old.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (ncXxy)

457 >>Sinead O'Conner is room temperature

she always struck me as an angry karen type
just bitching to be bitching

Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (geLO8)

458 449 I don't understand why these super-old bastards, who have spent decades enriching themselves thru their access to the levers of government, won't just go the f*** away and die

seriously just die already
Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (geLO

Because they want to take us all with them. They can't stand the idea of society continuing to function without them in charge.

Hence trying to start WW3 with Putin and Xi.

Posted by: XTC at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (UnA8+)

459 106 It's amazing that these sickly dinosaurs in DC just don't ever seem to die. They must have round-the-clock medical care to keep them alive. Still, odds are that one of these weeks 3 or 4 of them are going to drop dead. Capitol rotunda will be busy.
Posted by: Chances Are at July 26, 2023 03:22 PM (ik/65

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The only way these dying fossils leave us in a bunch is if Tapioca Joe blunders us into a nuclear war, and DC goes in a flash with Congress in session.

I actually had high hopes that COVID-19 was going to cut a swath through that Gerontologic Club called the US Congress.

Did any Congress critter die from COVID? Not even Morbidly Obese Nadler?

Posted by: rd at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (H9BVW)

460 "If you’re 80 and still working it means you have no life outside work. Work is everything. And that’s sad as fuck."

Some people have no choice.

Posted by: pawn at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (wsHtO)

461 Mitch just swallowed something Chinese that didn't agree with him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (S75Fo)

His wife's fluids?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 26, 2023 04:05 PM (ufFY8)

462 Replacing Mitch with a democrat is simply admission of reality.

Posted by: 13times at July 26, 2023 04:05 PM (szcdd)

463 I retired at 60. No regrets and don't plan on looking for another job.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 04:02 PM (BsBkM)

No regerts. Except the tattoo.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 04:05 PM (iW7Ee)

464
That's not really unique to America, older Japanese men are like that as well. Most keep working until they are in their 80s and some keep at it until they are 90+ years old.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (ncXxy)

Yeah Japan has it too. There it’s more of an honor/respect thing vs a “my work is my life” thing though.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 04:05 PM (e1q+J)

465 I actually had high hopes that COVID-19 was going to cut a swath through that Gerontologic Club called the US Congress.

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Covid 19 seems to be causing far more harm to the young who were forced to take an experimental vaccine that destroys their heart.

Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at July 26, 2023 04:06 PM (sX1BW)

466 This is honestly the fault of the people of KY.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures

Mitch is a Dominion groupie.

Posted by: clutch at July 26, 2023 04:06 PM (9UmRs)

467 Term limits?

We need actual elections, first, and then we can see where we are.

Posted by: t-bird at July 26, 2023 04:06 PM (d7sC9)

468 >>Did any Congress critter die from COVID? Not even Morbidly Obese Nadler?

Posted by: rd

I know, right
what a gyp
some pandemic

Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:07 PM (geLO8)

469 Did anything REAL come out of the UPF meeting?

Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at July 26, 2023 04:07 PM (Qb66T)

470 I actually had high hopes that COVID-19 was going to cut a swath through that Gerontologic Club called the US Congress.

Did any Congress critter die from COVID? Not even Morbidly Obese Nadler?
Posted by: rd

Proof positive that they DIDN'T get the clot shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 04:07 PM (FAOo/)

471 One thing driving these times is two generations - Silents and Boomers - that simply can't come to terms with letting go of power. I think it's mortality driven. Two groups simply scared as shit to die. Covid rustled their jimmies. It was mortality staring them in the face.

The other thing really is rent seeking. Silents and Boomers are all on the hunt for that guaranteed income. Rent. Pure and simple.
Posted by: The Way It Is at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (7bopJ)

Bless your heart.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 04:07 PM (BdMk6)

472 Did anything REAL come out of the UPF meeting?
Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at July 26, 2023 04:07 PM (Qb66T)

I’m going to guess several billion tax dollars will be spent because of it.

Posted by: Montec at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (e1q+J)

473
1. His lawyers tried to corrupt the court and got caught.
2. Judge says Hunter doesn't get the James Bond get out of jail free forever card.
3. Plea deal becomes only gun and tax charges for slap on hand.
4. Hunter rejects!
5. Hunters lawyers get away with the attempted fraud.

Correct me on what I got wrong please.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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#1 and #5 are irrelevant to the plea deal thing, unless it mildly prejudiced the judge.

#4 update: Hunter accepted. His James Bond card is revoked. HOWEVER, that merely means the DOJ CAN charge him for other crimes. Whether it ever WILL charge him is another matter.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (lCaJd)

474 Why do we need to fix this? Let it collapse and die. Our elected officials should be tasked to selecting the private sector corporations that will carry out the very limited responsibilities of the federal government. On a related note: we are eventually going to default on the national debt - why wait?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (ogTiX)

475 I hope Mitch's punishment is eternal 69 with Pelosi.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (iayUP)

476 I like to watch TV all day.

Posted by: Mitch "Chauncy" McConnell at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (vcOmj)

477 461 she always struck me as an angry karen type
just bitching to be bitching
Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (geLO

She was a Muslim.

They're not allowed to be happy.

Posted by: XTC at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (UnA8+)

478 I'm pretty sure Pooh Bear is smart enough not to want to get on board this flaming trainwreck.

This flaming trainwreck can be turned around.

Drill, Baby, Drill Drill Gaia like a prom date.

Take Vivek's strategery to decimate and cripple the Deep State and take it to the next level EO every agency preventing them from actively enforcing any regulation. (let the States do their thing since every state has a mirror agency of the feds)

Open up H1Bs to Taiwan engineers, loan guarantees to build silicon fab plants and forget about spending hundreds of billions on defending Taiwan. Otherwise close the borders.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (p8A+W)

479 Covid 19 seems to be causing far more harm to the young who were forced to take an experimental vaccine that destroys their heart.

Isn't it interesting how Covid didn't take a single one of these geriatric fucks? Almost like they had access to something other elederly populations didn't.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (ppBhU)

480 Course he voted to confirm him as AG... I wonder how he feels about that now.

*drools*

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 26, 2023 04:08 PM (Vu7A1)

481 she always struck me as an angry karen type
just bitching to be bitching
Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official

She struck me as a long-term drug user.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 26, 2023 04:09 PM (jzzG8)

482 I actually had high hopes that COVID-19 was going to cut a swath through that Gerontologic Club called the US Congress.

Maybe COVID-19 was oversold.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 26, 2023 04:09 PM (glGDV)

483 One of my coworkers is 82 yrs. old. She is physically impaired, and really shouldn't be tasked with having to deal with the public. I have to keep reminding myself that someday I may be her age and in a position that requires patience from others.

Posted by: kallisto at July 26, 2023 04:09 PM (dCxaZ)

484 WTF is a 'silent'

Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:09 PM (geLO8)

485 I actually had high hopes that COVID-19 was going to cut a swath through that Gerontologic Club called the US Congress.

Maybe COVID-19 was oversold.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 26, 2023 04:09 PM (glGDV)

One word: Horse Paste. They got it, you didn't.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (aD39U)

486 The trial of the chick who killed and dismembered a dude is now in the jury instruction phase.

Rekieta is bitching about the defense attorney, the judge, and the State. LOL.

He also went on a truly epic rant earlier about the NECESSITY of going through the effort in allowing a defense to be offered. It will probably be a separate video excerpt.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (ufFY8)

487 Geez people!

He was taking a couple of minutes of silence in regard to Sinead O'Connor's passing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (krQz2)

488 thanks Blonde.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (8GBH4)

489 But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.
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They are basically the same as crime bosses.
Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold)

John McCain was DYING of cancer and he STILL would not resign his Senate seat. These people are redonkulous and not worthy of anyone's resepect.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (vcOmj)

490 Nood!

Posted by: Zombie Sinead O'Connor at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (PiwSw)

491 I actually had high hopes that COVID-19 was going to cut a swath through that Gerontologic Club called the US Congress.

ikr? I wonder why they all survived??

Posted by: they didn't get the jabb at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (dCxaZ)

492 NOOD: Cardiac Events

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (ppBhU)

493 This could have been avoided if McConnell had retired last time. Or the time before that.

But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks.

__________________________________

There is only one way out of the mafia . . . in a velvet lined box (bottom of the East River, underneath the endzone of the Meadowlands, etc.).

Posted by: Bamanarama at July 26, 2023 04:10 PM (uH1aC)

494
453 432: CA has had term limits since 1990. CA is not a model for governance.

Term limits are a lazy solution for lazy voters who simply refuse to get off their asses and participate in government because it takes up too much time, is boring, and…and…and IT’S TOO HARD!!! And ultimately it leads to MORE laziness.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 26, 2023 04:03 PM (u79Vq)
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Werner Wilhelm Deblasio was elected mayor in an election when 14% of the eligible voters turned out.

Posted by: rd at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (Ysz4n)

495 Used to do empirical work about that. The relationship (at least in the 90's through McCain Feingold) was that the relationship between money and campaign victory is non linear. My results from same party primaries and general elections at the time indicated that perhaps the relationship was a cubic function---basically a certain amount of money is necessary to get in the game which is also probably correlated with district political support anyway, then the relationship between money spent and a chance of victory goes negative until you reach a point where gobs and gobs of money like Corzine v. Franks in NJ or Michael Huffington for a CA congressional seat buy you the election in effect and the relationship becomes positive again.

This was also before widespread electronic voting platforms though.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (9hLLz)

496 WTF is a 'silent'
Posted by: DB

Silent Generation. The adults in the room when the Greatest Generation went off to war.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (FAOo/)

497 >Did any Congress critter die from COVID? Not even Morbidly Obese Nadler?

Posted by: rd

Interesting to look up the notable deaths from the Spanish Flu. Not many names you would recognize but the reasons the were notable could be acknowledged as important and would be shocking for similar positions today.

Who was the most famous to die of COVID?

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (BsBkM)

498 Posted by: The Way It Is at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (7bopJ)

Bless your heart.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2023 04:07 PM (BdMk6)

Yeah, part of me thinks I'd prefer to check out before the Millennials take over completely.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (iW7Ee)

499 Posted by: DB - shadowy FIFA official at July 26, 2023 04:09 PM (geLO

Born 1927-1945

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (vN+oL)

500 You know what's ironic? Us 29 year olds are talking about how rotten and worthless old people are.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 26, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)

501

Posted by: A Silent at July 26, 2023 04:12 PM (Vu7A1)

502 That is a TIA stroke, my wife has them and they are scary as fvck. His brain is fried and he has no business being in the senate let alone in a leadership position.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Or operating heavy equipment, flying an airplane, or performing surgery.

Yet, there are all those old codgers, that just won't give it up.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 26, 2023 04:12 PM (vcOmj)

503 Posted by: The Way It Is at July 26, 2023 04:00 PM (7bopJ)

You seem nice.

Posted by: The frozen head of Ted Williams at July 26, 2023 04:13 PM (Xrfse)

504 Werner Wilhelm Deblasio was elected mayor in an election when 14% of the eligible voters turned out.
Posted by: rd at July 26, 2023 04:11 PM (Ysz4n)

What was the turn out in NYC for the 2020 Presidential election? Yeah big change in voting attitude. /s

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2023 04:13 PM (BsBkM)

505 Mitch just swallowed something Chinese that didn't agree with him
Posted by: Smell the Glove
.......

Heh. He was waiting to see if it was coming up or going down.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2023 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

506 My former boss at NASA just retired, he's 81, sharp as a tack and I pity the young fool who attacks him. A young guy went up to him when he was lifting weights and said "I hear you do martial arts, I guess that means you could beat me up." His answer was "No, predicting the outcome of a fight is a fool's errand, there are too many variables to say before hand who would win, and who would lose. But here is what 50 years of martial arts does give me, I'm not afraid to find out which one of us would win."

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 26, 2023 04:14 PM (CecP5)

507 Did y'all see Hannity and RFK Jr?

RFK came with receipts showing Ukraine and Russia were coming to equitable agreements when on TWO key occasions, the US blew up the deals.

Hannity's NPC brain had nothing to say to this. Putin thug. Putin dictator. Putin evil. The US shouldn't fight wars half-assed. The US shouldn't foot everyone's military bill.

Holy crap do I hate Hannity.

https://tinyurl.com/236yjc78

Posted by: bonhomme at July 26, 2023 04:14 PM (R38qh)

508 BTW!!! A Hunter Biden original selling for 300k is straight out of a movie. James Cann, Hugh Grant and Adriannes brother from Rocky star. There are parts where a mobsters psycho son makes whacko paintigs that sell at auction to launder money. Yup true story..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at July 26, 2023 04:15 PM (DeRoy)

509 464 "If you’re 80 and still working it means you have no life outside work. Work is everything. And that’s sad as fuck."

Some people have no choice.

This. One big medical expense, particularly if you don't have employer provided medical insurance, can wipe out all your savings. If you are the healthy one, you work to put food on the table and keep the lights on. Or, if your loved one dies, you keep working because it fills the hours. Not everyone works because they are greedy.

Posted by: Moki at July 26, 2023 04:19 PM (JrN/x)

510 I've known a surprising number of physicians who worked well beyond their "too old to be safe at what they are doing" age.

I have neuropathy, an essential tremor and declining vision and knew it was time to get out of the game when I was 62 after a young patient asked me (while I was doing an ultrasound study) "Why does your hand shake like that?" A sobering moment.

I have zero respect for those who hang on to the point of shuffling around the hospital aimlessly like some sort of shambling Ghost of Surgery Past.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 26, 2023 04:19 PM (zLLgI)

511 He had a TIA. It does weird things to your brain and he should be at home being taken care of, not in DC. But he probably doesn’t know he’s in DC.Our country is f$?&ed.

Posted by: Megthered at July 26, 2023 04:23 PM (qyBMo)

512 Sweet HeyZeus, get the hook for McConnell. These people hang on to their job for dear life. I've been saying term limits since the '70's. But noooo, neither the GOP or the Dem's didn't want to hear about that one. Why because they all, sooner or later, become corrupt. As the man said, "It's time to drain the swamp."

Posted by: sidney at July 26, 2023 04:38 PM (Uy/WF)

513 Louisiana currently has a D governor. Montana had a D governor forever. Hell, Wyoming had a D governor between 2003 and 2011.
Voters scan be really retarded, even in red states.
Posted by: Montec
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Maybe both sides are so fucked up that the voters are looking for gridlock.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 26, 2023 04:45 PM (CngVe)

514 Good thing legislation is usually kept under a thousand pages long so these elder statesmen can process it all.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at July 26, 2023 04:57 PM (aXxgO)

515 Zucker has to update the Meta app in the ol' senator's noggins.

Posted by: LWC at July 26, 2023 05:18 PM (x4ce5)

516 Asian Crime Report @activeasian
Naked woman shoots at cars near the Bay Bridge toll plaza yesterday. More lawlessness and danger in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instagram user sent me the video.

https://tinyurl.com/28ueuv28
41 seconds

Language not safe for work, especially; incidental nudity -- nudity during an incident!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 26, 2023 03:15 PM (krqg6)

Run her ass over.

Posted by: Paul Kersey at July 26, 2023 05:30 PM (Zvtjl)

517 97 I can at least count to 10.
Posted by: Incitatus at July 26, 2023 03:21 PM (guGkK)

I laughed out loud.

Posted by: free tibet at July 26, 2023 05:35 PM (iNp3L)

518 My M-i-L is 91 and is currently living with my S-i-L helping with the new litter of 10 golden retievers. Second time in a year. She does say the puppies do wear her out but she stays for the whole two months.

Posted by: free tibet at July 26, 2023 05:55 PM (iNp3L)

519 If he retires he'll be replaced by a younger worthless piece of shit who won't give me the small, simple pleasure of watching him die in front of a world that hates him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2023 04:04 PM (o5Ht6)

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McConnell has been a truly loathsome person over the last twenty-plus years, going out of his way to wreck real conservative candidates of both the Tea Party and MAGA.

He not only has sabotaged careers but damaged the personal reputations of those he deemed a threat to his hold on power in the Senate, with zero remorse for his actions. He is a despicable man and one hopes he has his comeuppance. Despite all that, I can't wish death on someone. Even him.
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Just saying.

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