Biden's Third-Year Approval Rating the Worst Since... No, Guess

President Joe Biden's average job approval rating across his third year in office languished at the lowest point of any U.S. president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House, a Gallup poll released Thursday shows.
Biden's third year extended from Jan. 20, 2023, to Jan. 19, 2024 during which time he had an average job approval rating of 39.8 percent, the Gallup poll reveals.
The Hill points out Biden, whose current job approval rating is 41 percent, fared the worst in polls of all presidents' ratings since Carter, whose third-year polling average was 37.4 percent before he went on to lose his subsequent reelection campaign.
Carter's third year in office included some historic low points, including the Iran hostage crisis, soaring gas prices, unemployment levels, and double-digit inflation.
Biden fared worse in his third year than former President Donald Trump, whose average job approval in his third year was 42 percent, the report notes.

A Reuters-Ipsos poll finds Trump with a six point lead on Biden, but there's a big catch: Trump only has 40% support, which, as a proud graduate of Track 2 math, I can tell you is not a majority. Or even close to one.

Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus this week.
The nationwide poll of 1,250 U.S. adults showed Trump leading Biden 40% to 34% with the rest unsure or planning to vote for someone else or no one. The poll had a margin of error of three percentage points.
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As Trump handily beat his sole remaining primary challenger, Nikki Haley in New Hampshire on Tuesday, some 67% of respondents polled Monday through Wednesday said they were "tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new." Still, just 18% said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice.

If that 18% really doesn't vote, then Trump's 40% becomes, at the polls, close to 50%.

But that's a big if. Consider that Biden's poll numbers are particularly depressed right now because the left wants him to support Hamas' From the River to The Sea Jewish extermination policy.

Will they vote for Trump -- who imposed the so-called Muslim Travel Ban -- because of anger at Biden about his "support" for Israel?

Doubtful. A lot of this "I won't vote for Biden" stuff is just bluffing. Partisans say that early in general election season, but tend to "come home" by the fall.

Also, you can bet huge money that Reid Hoffman and George Soros and the Koch network will fund a "credible" Republican challenger to run as an independent for the express purpose of taking votes from Trump and allowing Biden to win states with 34-38% of the votes.

Who will it be?

Well, it will likely be Romney. He's a real cocksucker and will be proud to run a spoiler campaign to get his fren Biden re-elected.

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Trump's six-point lead held even when respondents were given the option of voting for third-party candidates, including anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with Trump drawing 36% support, Biden 30% and Kennedy 8%.

Right. But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one.

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Overall, the poll gave numerous signs that voters are not happy with their choices.
Seventy percent of respondents - including about half of Democrats - agreed with a statement that Biden should not seek re-election. Fifty-six percent of people responding to the poll said Trump should not run, including about a third of Republicans.
Biden has been weighed down by the widespread view that at 81, already the oldest person ever to be U.S. president, he is too old for the job.
Three-quarters of poll respondents agreed with a statement that Biden was too old to work in government, while half said the same about Trump, who at 77 would also be among the oldest U.S. leaders ever if returned to the White House. Just over half of Democrats saw Biden as too old while a third of Republicans viewed Trump that way.
Haley, 52, is trying to marshal dissatisfaction to turn around her well-financed but flagging campaign.
"Most Americans do not want a rematch between Biden and Trump," she said on Tuesday after her loss to Trump in New Hampshire. "The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election."

Speaking of: Liberal Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, who was, I believe, Nikki Haley's biggest backer, has suspended his donations to her.

Hoffman has said he'll vote for President Joe Biden in November but backed Haley financially because his "first priority is to defeat Trump." The Democratic donor gave $250,000 to Stand For America Fund Inc. last year, a pro-Haley super PAC, the New York Times reported.
"Prior to the primaries, we made an investment in Gov. Haley because we saw that her performance in New Hampshire might give her a path to defeating Donald Trump," Hoffman's political philanthropy adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn told Fox News.
But Mehlhorn said the LinkedIn co-founder needs to see a "path to victory" before making another donation to the former United Nations ambassador.

The Koch network is standing by their neocon open-borders loose-in-the-snootch gal-- for now.

A conservative group that has spent millions backing Nikki Haley's presidential campaign says it isn't giving up on her -- but acknowledges she faces an "uphill" battle and that it's focusing on Senate races.
Why it matters: AFP Action, a super PAC that has pushed for a Republican alternative to GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, has said it would "redouble" its efforts to back Senate candidates if it appeared Trump would be the Republican nominee.
The group -- part of the Americans for Prosperity network founded by billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother, David -- fears a Trump nomination would be a massive drag on other Republicans on the November ballot.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

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1 Right. But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one.

I have real doubts about that. He isn't retiring because he's had a sudden attack of humility.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2024 04:51 PM (CsUN+)

2 Doubtful that Utah goes for Rombley.

Posted by: McLurkerson at January 29, 2024 04:52 PM (wNDOJ)

3 I have to say, of all the things I've read in this blog today, your multiple uses of the word "snootch" really stood out to me. And your use of "pustular snootch" in a headline made me LOL so hard I just about wet my drawers.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 04:52 PM (aCVzN)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2024 04:52 PM (T4tVD)

5 A lot of this "I won't vote for Biden" stuff is just bluffing. Partisans say that early in general election season, but tend to "come home" by the fall.

I think it could go the other way, with a lot of people recognizing that the world is just too dangerous to reinstall Biden in the WH.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2024 04:52 PM (CsUN+)

6 40% support.
Prepping for the biggest vote fraud machine. Evah!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 04:54 PM (cOq4q)

7 All Americans vs Registered Voters vs Likely Voters. This seems like a poll of All Americans, so not surprising there are more undecideds there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 29, 2024 04:54 PM (eYoxG)

8 How far he has fallen, from 81 million 3AM ballots.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2024 04:54 PM (cf/0E)

9 Biden fared worse in his third year than former President Donald Trump, whose average job approval in his third year was 42 percent, the report notes.

I would just like to point out that Biden has been getting a tongue bath for the last three years, while Trump was continuously being attacked.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 29, 2024 04:54 PM (DRSnL)

10 Fart clam...and now pustular snooch. Magnificent!

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 29, 2024 04:54 PM (QN7a1)

11 In short, I expect this election to be *Latin alert* sui generis, which is a fancy way of saying unique, in a category of its own. You have two fatally damaged candidates (or they would be in a normal year) but you have to pick one.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2024 04:55 PM (CsUN+)

12 Never forget, today is the 5th Anniversary of the day Jussie Smollett was attacked

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Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 04:55 PM (i7Q7S)

13 Wait until they find out it was all Obama.

Posted by: ET at January 29, 2024 04:55 PM (Tkc3g)

14 >>> Well, it will likely be Romney. He's a real cocksucker...

Yeah, maybe, but Kamala has him beat there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 04:55 PM (cOq4q)

15 I live in Utah, and ol Romney kind of wore out his welcome.

Utah put him in in the first place because he did do a great job with the Salt Lake Olympics.

But his whole "Tortured Independent" path did not endear him much to all the voters except leftists.

Democrats are Romney's main support here in Utah now. There's a reason he isn't running for reelection. And it's entirely possible, indeed likely, that he gets called or assigned to be a mission leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He'd make a great leader for the Church in France, actually. If he gets called into church leadership, his political career is over.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at January 29, 2024 04:56 PM (AxRGS)

16 11.

"You have two fatally damaged candidates (or they would be in a normal year) but you have to pick one."
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Bullshit. "None of the above" is a perfectly valid response even if it's not printed on a ballot. If you want to know what the real way forward out of this mess is, look at what Governor Greg Abbott is doing down in Texas as he tells the Biden administration to pound sand.

This PSA brought to you by GryphCorp.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 04:57 PM (aCVzN)

17 "just 18% said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice."

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Anecdotal I know, but I had a conversation with friends over the weekend who are Democrats. They took it for granted Trump will win because "Biden needs to get out of there, he's lost" and they may not vote.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 04:57 PM (i7Q7S)

18 Joe is getting black folks killed in the Middle East.

Posted by: fd at January 29, 2024 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

19 "You have two fatally damaged candidates (or they would be in a normal year) but you have to pick one."
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Bullshit.

Why? Why can't you just make a point without being an asshole?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2024 04:58 PM (CsUN+)

20 Did you hear the idiot spokesmuppet talking about it? She is an incredibly stupid person.

Posted by: fd at January 29, 2024 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

21 All the conventional wisdom goes out the window when Trump is the nominee. Any other Republican would have put Biden away (including ones I strongly dislike) but with Trump, all bets are off.

I still say you need the backdrop of an economic panic to put Trump in the WH, I just don't see it unfolding in the next 10 months. Economy is stronger now than it was in 2022, and we saw how that went. Unemployment is under 4%, stock market all time high, gas prices down significantly, etc. Obama got reelected when unemployment was around 8%.

I am though optimistic about one thing, Trump is not going to go down over the abortion issue. We all know deep down, he's very pro-choice.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 04:59 PM (wMRY8)

22 “I lost my job, it costs me three times as much to buy eggs, I can’t afford a house, all my tax dollars are going to the Ukraine, I just got mugged yesterday in broad daylight, but Biden is doing a fantastic job!”

-the 39% who approve

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 04:59 PM (VTu1l)

23 Trump cannot win on the war COVID.

Biden beats him there with the Winter of Death and Despair, manditory subjugation to experimental clot shots, and flooding the country with diseased aliens.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 04:59 PM (cOq4q)

24 19.

Did I hurt your feelings?

SorryNotSorry

You lose me at "...you have to..."

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:00 PM (aCVzN)

25 All the conventional wisdom goes out the window when Trump is the nominee. Any other Republican would have put Biden away (including ones I strongly dislike) but with Trump, all bets are off.

Yup, this election is *Latin alert* terra incognita. The old rules don't work anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2024 05:00 PM (CsUN+)

26 Speaking of... has Jimmy Carter died yet?

Posted by: weew at January 29, 2024 05:00 PM (/uwTS)

27 It's time for stories about how smart and energetic Joe is and just how much he cares.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 29, 2024 05:00 PM (Gf82x)

28 You lose me at "...you have to..."

Who gives a shit?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (CsUN+)

29 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

30 28.

Apparently not the Trumpoids...

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aCVzN)

31 "You have two fatally damaged candidates (or they would be in a normal year) but you have to pick one."

Trump is only damaged by the Dem/Media conglomerate.
Joe is truly brain damaged.

Posted by: fd at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (vFG9F)

32 Let me stipulate for the record that polls are useless.

Also, if the poll doesn't factor in the level of "unexpected" ballots in certain key states then they'll be wrong.

Of course the answer to that is to tighten the polls as the election draws nearer. Everyone loves that story of the scrappy underdog who at the last moment starts to surge.

Then when he "wins" at 2am it's a veritable Rocky story for the ages, just like last time.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (FCbAQ)

33
If the traitors run Romney as third party, then the Dems don't even need the cheat.

I'd say that that really would be the bitter end of the Grifting Oleaginous Parasite party but I said that years ago already.

Maybe RFK Jr. should be Trump's running mate?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (x0n13)

34 Biden will drop out soon and be replaced.

Posted by: vic at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (A5THL)

35 29.

I can't imagine it being too much worse than it was in 2020 in the leadup to Trump's big loss to Biden. That doesn't mean it won't be worse, only that I can't imagine it.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (aCVzN)

36 Never forget, today is the 5th Anniversary of the day Jussie Smollett was attacked

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Posted by: Jay in PA

Should be a National Holiday.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (cOq4q)

37 > Democrats are Romney's main support here in Utah now. There's a reason he isn't running for reelection. And it's entirely possible, indeed likely, that he gets called or assigned to be a mission leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He'd make a great leader for the Church in France, actually. If he gets called into church leadership, his political career is over.

This seems right to me. As an aside, France is a HORRIBLE place to serve a mission now. It's one of the least productive mission regions on the planet and dealing with the French day in and day out leaves most missionaries very depressed.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (Odg76)

38 "Right. But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one."

Don't be so sure about that, Ace. If Romney had any strength in Utah - any at all - then he'd be running and not retiring. He probably won't do better than Egg McMuffin did at this point. Keep in mind, as well, that Biden's numbers will be lower this time than in 2020 - fewer Utahns that voted for him in 2020 will vote for him in 2024.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (TzDMn)

39 Democrats are Romney's main support here in Utah now. There's a reason he isn't running for reelection. And it's entirely possible, indeed likely, that he gets called or assigned to be a mission leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He'd make a great leader for the Church in France, actually. If he gets called into church leadership, his political career is over.
Posted by: GanGanowicz
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Considering the vast fortune that the LDS church has and Mitt's familiarity with how a hedge fund operates, it is very possible.

A third party usually works against the party in power as the disaffected don't go for the party in power but some will vote for a third party in opposition to the incumbent. See the 1912, 1980, 1992 elections this century where that occurred.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (ZcPYF)

40 29 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

They're working themselves up towards trying to murder near everybody sooner or later.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (eYoxG)

41 I am though optimistic about one thing, Trump is not going to go down over the abortion issue. We all know deep down, he's very pro-choice.
Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 04:59 PM (wMRY

You really shouldn't be stealing your talking points from the DU forum

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:03 PM (D7oie)

42 Biden, fawning press coverage, still manages terrible ratings.

PDT, despite despite hostile press coverage, still did better than Biden.

Romney refused to endorse Mike Lee in Utah. I don't think he made any friends with that move.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:03 PM (tT6L1)

43 37 > Democrats are Romney's main support here in Utah now. There's a reason he isn't running for reelection. And it's entirely possible, indeed likely, that he gets called or assigned to be a mission leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He'd make a great leader for the Church in France, actually. If he gets called into church leadership, his political career is over.

This seems right to me. As an aside, France is a HORRIBLE place to serve a mission now. It's one of the least productive mission regions on the planet and dealing with the French day in and day out leaves most missionaries very depressed.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (Odg76)

Sounds like a great place to send Romney then.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 29, 2024 05:03 PM (eYoxG)

44 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Yes, and that unfortunately helps Biden.

The average person knows this country will melt down if Trump is elected. It's a form of terrorism and sometimes it works. And they also know Trump loves to stoke those fires.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:04 PM (wMRY8)

45 "gas prices down significantly"

LOL

"Economy is stronger now than it was in 2022"

You are completely delusional.

Tell that to the tens of thousands being laid off.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:04 PM (i7Q7S)

46 Ugh polling.

Posted by: Smooth Up InYa at January 29, 2024 05:04 PM (i228p)

47 29 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

I think any miscalculation with the Texas standoff or a Trump win means they declare martial law. The violence will happen in the blue shit holes but if they dare go to a red state, they'd be staring down 200 million of us who are all armed to the teeth.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2024 05:04 PM (x0n13)

48 > Maybe RFK Jr. should be Trump's running mate?

RFK Jr is right on a couple of topics, but he's a dyed in the wool Maoist on many topics. He'd be a horrible running mate.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2024 05:05 PM (Odg76)

49 Nurse, please be careful, head on a swivel and have a bug out plan.

I'd sort of like to run the run n gun with you again in TX.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

50 Fani Willis and the Pustular Snooch, starring Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esquire as Indiana Jones.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (3CCua)

51 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

Get out of Seattle and other big blue cities.

Somehow I don't think they'll take over Bellevue (on the other side of the lake) - I recall that neighborhood militias were formed there when there was a rumor that BLM was going to make a visit.

Posted by: ARC of History! at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (YAtuc)

52 You’re the expert, Ace. I mean it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (IAd3D)

53 >>> "just 18% said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice."

Thanks. 18% of the ballots for Biden.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (cOq4q)

54 GD web sites are putting big obnoxious ads on all sites now that you can not block.

Posted by: vic at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (A5THL)

55 I’m disappointed. Joe should be south of Hoover.

Posted by: Allen at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (3tX6p)

56 I am though optimistic about one thing, Trump is not going to go down over the abortion issue. We all know deep down, he's very pro-choice.
Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 04:59 PM (wMRY

You really shouldn't be stealing your talking points from the DU forum
Posted by: Kindltot

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I'm calling it right now, after the primaries, you will see Trump dump the pro-life position.

He knows why Republicans are going down over this issue, and he's always been pro-choice.

I'm saying this as a positive for Trump, we're getting killed even in Red States on this. Before Roe vs Wade getting overturned, you could say you were pro-life and it was just an easy virtue signal.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (wMRY8)

57 47. And can you imagine the campaign ads that could come out of any Biden misstep in dealing with Abbott? If he doesn't squander it, there's absolutely NO doubt in my mind that Abbott has the upper hand in dealing with Biden right now. That Supreme Court ruling can be spun as a gift to any Republican anywhere with political ambitions right now.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (aCVzN)

58 This frightens me more than bidens four more years.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

I think it was Dr Drew, of all people, who talks about a similarity between the Jacobins in France who killed and killed until someone said no.
and then they got Napoleon.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (D7oie)

59 29 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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It isn't a real grass roots opposition but bought and paid for by Dem billionaires like Reid Hoffman. Most of the street level thugs of Anit Fa outside of strongholds like Seattle and Portland and their BLM counterparts are bussed around to create havoc across the country. FBI could end that crap in a minute if they wanted too but so could states.

A lot of that network of BLM and Anti fa are also their street soldiers in voter fraud along with common criminals. They use them as contractors for deniability.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (ZcPYF)

60 And that is with the propaganda a 110% supportive of the demented democrat dictator.

Posted by: Jukin at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (17s+e)

61 *looks out window*

Yep. Days definitely starting to get a bit longer.

That's a Good Thing.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 29, 2024 05:07 PM (T+Iwg)

62 My philosophy
(I think smart military types call it "embrace the suck.")

I am kind of rooting for a second biden term. Things have to get a lot worse before they turn around. I don't think any Republican can fix what is broken in this country, only delay (and prolong) the pain.
Yeah, this is very pessimistic, but I will still vote for trump -- this is just my way of dealing with a potential catastrophe.

The train derailed when that effete brown commie got elected and it has to fully crash before we can right it and get it back on the tracks.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 29, 2024 05:07 PM (hJm9K)

63 But Trump said, *****, well, you know.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 29, 2024 05:07 PM (IlMnl)

64 29 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

The thug veto.
The thug veto.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 29, 2024 05:07 PM (cVt7n)

65 Logically if you went by polls then you’d pick TrickyNikki as she would have the best chance of beating Biden

Except last time I looked she was only leading Biden by 2 while Trump led by 4

When DeSantis was still running his disapproval was only two points better than Trump and based on that he wasn’t anymore electable than Trump is

Only 6 percent of DeSantis supporters hate Trump so much they won’t vote for him, the rest are anywhere from I don’t like him but I’m not upset he’ll be the nominee to “i will buttfuck Fani Willis if that’s what it takes to get Trump back in”

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:07 PM (VTu1l)

66 Posted earlier that at least one of the US soldiers killed in Syria/Jordan was an African American woman. Turns out all three of the dead were African American. Biden does not care about soldiers and/or African Americans unless they give him 10%

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (hB1mF)

67 I'm saying this as a positive for Trump, we're getting killed even in Red States on this. Before Roe vs Wade getting overturned, you could say you were pro-life and it was just an easy virtue signal.
Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (wMRY

and you are listening to MSNBC and your friends down at the faculty lounge.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (D7oie)

68 This frightens me more than bidens four more years.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

In some respects I hope it happens. We can finally take the gloves off and put down the vermin while we still have the physical strength to do so.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (5FnZt)

69 62. It boggles me to think of how things could possibly get any worse in a second Biden term than they have been in his first. But my failure to understand a possibility doesn't necessarily invalidate it.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (aCVzN)

70 Former IRS consultant who leaked Trump’s tax records draws 5-year sentence

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

71 It's quite possible that Obama always knew Joe would be incredibly unpopular and this would be an easy way to get Big Mike on the ticket with any pesky primaries.

I don't trust either of those cocksuckers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (3aLWR)

72 A lot of sore losers still up in here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (Rfp4v)

73 I did not have sex with that Juan, Mr Hernandez.

Posted by: Nikki Hillary at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (ibTVg)

74 All you have to do to set off Trump is to cite polls he doesn't like or relevant information such as he's not bringing in enough Independents to win in the General. Just ask Kayleigh.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (ifHdv)

75 If you don’t hear about it, well, ask Mossad.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (IAd3D)

76 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (l312u)

77 But Trump said, *****, well, you know.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 29, 2024 05:07 PM (IlMnl)

And he is pro life, which is the kiss of death.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (D7oie)

78 Blago, abortion isn't about politics, it's about doing what is right despite political expediency.

Political expediency should be fighting words on the right, because our country has sold out from under us for "political expediency."

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (tT6L1)

79 Just keep in mind that a 5% win by a Republican is not enough for the later night votes fraud practiced by the Democrooks.

Posted by: vic at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (A5THL)

80 The average person knows this country will melt down if Trump is elected. It's a form of terrorism and sometimes it works. And they also know Trump loves to stoke those fires.
Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:04 PM (wMRY

Does he, though? I don't recall any riots by MAGATs taking place because of anything that Trump said as GEOTUS.

I'm going to ask a serious question here. What exactly has Trump said or tweeted that is characterized as so obnoxious or beyond the pale that it actually made someone turn against him? Now, I know that the MSM has taken Trump's tweets and editorialized around them to make them obnoxious or incendiary, but it was my casual observation that his tweets taken in context were just fine. I just never delved into it more deeply than that.

I'm guessing - and I'd like to be proven wrong - that this whole OrangeManBad stance was invented by the MSM, and a lot of people simply assumed it was true and ran with it.

I would like to know, however, so I'm asking.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 29, 2024 05:10 PM (TzDMn)

81 Wouldn't it be awesome if no one got to 270 and our next president was selected by the House? Oooh doggie!

Posted by: Syracuse1989 at January 29, 2024 05:10 PM (exm8+)

82 Former IRS consultant who leaked Trump’s tax records draws 5-year sentence
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

IRS code says for intentional release, up to ten years and ten thousand dollars PER VIOLATION

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:10 PM (D7oie)

83 "Posted earlier that at least one of the US soldiers killed in Syria/Jordan was an African American woman. Turns out all three of the dead were African American. Biden does not care about soldiers and/or African Americans unless they give him 10%"

They were above all else soldiers. Engineers to be exact. Let's not buy into the divisive racial rhetoric of the Left.

RIP. See you on the other side.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2024 05:10 PM (ifHdv)

84 Only 6 percent of DeSantis supporters hate Trump so much they won’t vote for him, the rest are anywhere from I don’t like him but I’m not upset he’ll be the nominee to “i will buttfuck Fani Willis if that’s what it takes to get Trump back in”

I preferred DeSantis to Trump because I thought he'd be a more focused executive but put me in the, ugh, backdooring Fani if that's what it take for Trump to win camp.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2024 05:10 PM (ibTVg)

85 Let them go nuts. This shit needs to come to a head sooner rather than later.

We've been like the two dudes at school who hate each other and are destined for the brawl in the parking lot after school.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM (3aLWR)

86 Former IRS consultant who leaked Trump’s tax records draws 5-year sentence
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

He leaked Musk's and Bezos' too. I think that is what really did him in.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM (V13WU)

87
vic,

DEMOCROOKS. I love it!

Posted by: four seasons at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM (PisyI)

88 I'm calling it right now, after the primaries, you will see Trump dump the pro-life position.

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

Blago is the Jim Cramer of AOS

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM (VTu1l)

89 Logically if you went by polls then you’d pick TrickyNikki as she would have the best chance of beating Biden

Except last time I looked she was only leading Biden by 2 while Trump led by 4

When DeSantis was still running his disapproval was only two points better than Trump and based on that he wasn’t anymore electable than Trump is

Only 6 percent of DeSantis supporters hate Trump so much they won’t vote for him, the rest are anywhere from I don’t like him but I’m not upset he’ll be the nominee to “i will buttfuck Fani Willis if that’s what it takes to get Trump back in”
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger

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You're polling against someone with 100% name recognition. "Guy on the street" doesnt know who Nikki Haley or Desantis is. They just don't. So they usually wont say they will vote for someone when they don't know them.

Also, I'm sure some of that is die hard Trumpers saying they won't vote for anyone but Trump on the Republican side.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM (wMRY8)

90 77. Pro life Republican politicians can split the baby quite easily on this issue if they remember that the Supreme Court IS in fact a part-and-parcel of the federal government itself. All you have to do is issue a statement somewhat along the lines of the following:

"Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, the issue is with the state legislatures where it belongs. That is the beginning and the end of my opinion on that matter. Thank you."

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM (aCVzN)

91 I'm thinking about Jim in Kalifornia. And I'm praying for him.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (Gf82x)

92 Lot of net chatter this weekend about Trump asking RFK Jr. about being his VP.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (i9ffA)

93 Blago is the Jim Cramer of AOS
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:11 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Jim Cramer at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (a3Q+t)

94 People have had years to prepare for what is coming.

At a minimum 2020 was your last chance for smelling salts.

Many chose to do nothing.

Posted by: Smooth Up InYa at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (i228p)

95 Speaking of... has Jimmy Carter died yet?
Posted by: weew at January 29, 2024 05:00 PM (/uwTS)

The PTB will keep him alive just like the Meat Puppet. Could you imagine the visual of Trump attending Jimmah's funeral alongside the Meat Puppet who is shaking hands with air?

Posted by: Catherine at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (ZSsrh)

96 If Trump wins I pin our chances of national survival at about 10%.

Of course that's a few thousand times higher then if we get a President Nikki or Mittens, and a few millions times higher then if President Tween Sniffer gets "re"-elected.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (ibTVg)

97 Former IRS consultant who leaked Trump’s tax records draws 5-year sentence
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

IRS code says for intentional release, up to ten years and ten thousand dollars PER VIOLATION
Posted by: Kindltot
____

The judge actually said they were upset the DOJ only brought such light charges, so he gave him the maximum.

Guy deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (wMRY8)

98 Political expediency should be fighting words on the right, because our country has sold out from under us for "political expediency."
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (tT6L1)

Political expediency is selling ones soul for the world. Some people consider that a good deal.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM (D7oie)

99 Don't worry about any of this. We won't let Orange Man Bad anywhere near the White House ever again. We have The Swifties on this. And then there's always the JFK option.

Posted by: CIA at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM (PWI4f)

100 > Former IRS consultant who leaked Trump’s tax records draws 5-year sentence

That's a mixed bag. On the one hand, I'm very happy he got some serious time. On the other, they decided to basically charge him on one count. He stole THOUSANDS of people's IRS files. If he'd stolen info on Obama, Biden, Pelosi, etc. he'd never see the light of day again.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM (Odg76)

101 Biden's Third-Year Approval Rating the Worst Since... No, Guess"

I know, I know...less popular than a gross of pustular snootches?

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM (gxokI)

102 92 Lot of net chatter this weekend about Trump asking RFK Jr. about being his VP.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (i9ffA)

Trump came out and said that was all bullshit.

Who knows.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM (3aLWR)

103 @83 Marcus T. Got to disagree. We should shove the divisive racial rhetoric of the left up their noses of the left every chance we get. I respect soldiers but the scum of the left got them killed and will get a lot more killed before they're done. Don't be nice to the murderous Marxist pukes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2024 05:14 PM (hB1mF)

104 I’d rather lose with Trump than win with the shit eater Nikki.

That’s the game the shit eater GOPe has played for decades. Time for some those chickens to come home to roost.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 29, 2024 05:14 PM (l312u)

105 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.
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I agree, but I'm curious how anyone who understands that would continue to waste any effort at all trying to live in peace with the Democrats and their supporters/backers.

Posted by: Methos at January 29, 2024 05:14 PM (Dnobf)

106 Posted earlier that at least one of the US soldiers killed in Syria/Jordan was an African American woman. Turns out all three of the dead were African American. Biden does not care about soldiers and/or African Americans unless they give him 10%
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM

In fairness, they're just folks.

Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre, Interlocutius for The Regime at January 29, 2024 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)

107 The judge actually said they were upset the DOJ only brought such light charges, so he gave him the maximum.

Guy deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (wMRY

100%, Blago. However, I bet that 5 years in the pokey translates into free as a bird in 18 months.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM (TzDMn)

108 85 Let them go nuts. This shit needs to come to a head sooner rather than later.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

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This is where I am at too.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM (hJm9K)

109 Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, the issue is with the state legislatures where it belongs. That is the beginning and the end of my opinion on that matter. Thank you."
Posted by: Gryph

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That's not an acceptable answer though for many pro-lifers. They view this as a battle "forever" and they're okay with losing elections over it. There's still a myriad of federal issues that involve abortion, like funding.

Remember, Trump said he wouldn't strip funding to Planned Parenthood because they help so many women.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM (wMRY8)

110 at the lowest point of any U.S. president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House

Dimmy, why you do this to me?

Posted by: joe biden's lord and master at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM (L81HX)

111 105.

...I'm curious how anyone who understands that would continue to waste any effort at all trying to live in peace with the Democrats and their supporters/backers.
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Heh. I'd love to go down to Texas just so I can call Greg Abbott and ask him to come out for a couple of lines of bowling and a few beers.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM (aCVzN)

112 Who knows.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM

Don't ask me.

Posted by: The Shadow at January 29, 2024 05:16 PM (a3Q+t)

113 Turns out all three of the dead were African American.

Well, I've known plenty of gentry leftists and lets just say they aren't going to cry over a few dead black soldiers.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2024 05:16 PM (ibTVg)

114 I would like to know, however, so I'm asking.

**********

As a bigly yuge Trump Ho supporter, I still accept that Trump wont acknowledge the mistakes he made over the pandemic, won’t acknowledge that the vaccine is dangerous, has misrepresented the actions DeSantis took during the pandemic, and has a tendency to pointlessly attack people who would be his allies (like Vivek)

I can’t control Trump though so while I wish there were some things that he would do better, I take the good with the bad

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:16 PM (VTu1l)

115 Its all going to be fine.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (ytSiK)

116
Turns out the Iranians are raciss?

How do they qualify for pallets of reparations anymore?

Posted by: Auspex at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (j4U/Z)

117 The soldiers killed Sunday in Jordan by Iran have been identified.

Sgt. William Rivers, 46, of Carrolton GA
Spc. Kennedy Sanders, 24, of Waycross, GA
Spc. Breonna Moffet, 23, of Savannah, GA.

They all belonged to an engineer unit stationed at Ft. Moore, GA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (lpPTQ)

118 While I was out in Nevada I went to visit the Mustang ranch near Reno, but there were no horses there ?? Only scantly dressed young girls ?? What happened to all the horses and I will be asking the BLM what happened and get to the bottem of this ecological mystery..

Posted by: Kumala Harris at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (rcLES)

119 109.

I understand that. But if you want a candidate to go the constitutionally sound route, that statement is really the only way to do it absent a constitutional amendment. And given how America responded to the Volstead act, I'd be really hesitant to encourage the possibility of a black market for abortions.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (aCVzN)

120 This election is going to be decided on immigration and immigration only. There is a convoy coming through ETex and heading to Eagle Pass.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (i0qY3)

121 At this point, is there anyone who understands what we're facing better than DJT?

I don't think so. People can sense that this is it. You put Mike Obama or Newsom in control and we are totally, irrevocably fucked.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:18 PM (3aLWR)

122 Heh. I'd love to go down to Texas just so I can call Greg Abbott and ask him to come out for a couple of lines of bowling
Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM

You just want to see how he rolls.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at January 29, 2024 05:18 PM (a3Q+t)

123 This is one reason I kind of preffered Trump to DeSantis. Not because I think Trump is more competent or capable, but because Trump forces the issue. Let the Left go "Bull Goose Loony" to defeat him, or let them burn the cities down after he wins.

Either way, we need to confront this. Each year, for decades, they have whittled away at society and we accept too much of their insanity. We need to wipe the slate clean.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 29, 2024 05:18 PM (hJm9K)

124 " Former IRS consultant who leaked Trump’s tax records draws 5-year sentence
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway"

Trump is a monster. They throw stuff at him and he just stomps on it. The villagers hate him so much they will do anything to rid the village of the pestilence.

Posted by: fd at January 29, 2024 05:18 PM (vFG9F)

125 "Remember, Trump said he wouldn't strip funding to Planned Parenthood because they help so many women.
Posted by: Blago "

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

You're a silly and ridiculous liar:

"Trump Administration Blocks Funds for Planned Parenthood and Others Over Abortion Referrals"

And:
"Planned Parenthood Condemns President Trump’s Signing of Bill That Threatens Health Care Protections for 4 Million Title X Family Planning Patients"

Take your stupidity somewhere else.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:18 PM (i7Q7S)

126 Jimmy Carter will remain 'alive' until the McCain funeral is over.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (lpPTQ)

127 tales from Gaza : "IDF unearths Hamas operation room in tunnel under Khan Yunis cemetery
Inside the tunnel, the forces unearthed the office of the eastern Battalion commander from the Khan Yunis Brigade, from where he directed the October 7 attacks, according to the IDF. "

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (V13WU)

128 Kamala, BLM is trying to kill them all

Posted by: Ben Had at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (i0qY3)

129 Somehow I don't think they'll take over Bellevue (on the other side of the lake) - I recall that neighborhood militias were formed there when there was a rumor that BLM was going to make a visit.
Posted by: ARC of History

Downtown Bellevue hosted a pro Palestine party in the street for six hours this weekend.

I have friends on the other side of the mountains. And I have friends on islands. I'll be fine once I can get there.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (TLhHb)

130 They thought they had the monster frozen in ice, but even that could not hold him.

Posted by: fd at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (vFG9F)

131 122.

If he sticks to his guns on this border business at least long enough to encourage other governors to follow suit in telling Biden to pound sand? I'd say there is a real possibility of a bromance developing.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (aCVzN)

132 these fkrs tunnels have tunnels

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (V13WU)

133 I do not believe Michelle O is a viable replacement for Joe. She's way to angry and probably is incapable of staying within the lanes as drawn by the Junta.

Gavin, however, would gladly play ball. Plus he brings an automatic 54 electoral votes. NY is probably guaranteed, too. Which is 28 more, I believe.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (tT6L1)

134 Jimmy Carter will remain 'alive' until the McCain funeral is over.

ETERNAL LIFE IS MINE!

Posted by: Liche Lord Jimmah at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (ibTVg)

135 'm saying this as a positive for Trump, we're getting killed even in Red States on this. Before Roe vs Wade getting overturned, you could say you were pro-life and it was just an easy virtue signal.
Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (wMRY

and you are listening to MSNBC and your friends down at the faculty lounge.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM (D7oie)

I can't believe I'm saying this but Blago is right on this issue. Roe in place meant any R could wrap themselves in pro-life virtue with no consequence. Now that it's overturned the activist side of politics is super energized and the so called pro-life R's don't have a plan or a message. It has been killing them and they've not a clue how to make the case for life.
Typical Rs and I reserve the option of claiming they're throwing some elections because the Rs are just slow Ds

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (FCbAQ)

136 Take your stupidity somewhere else.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:18 PM (i7Q7S)

I snortchuckled

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (3aLWR)

137 Political expediency should be fighting words on the right, because our country has sold out from under us for "political expediency."
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:09 PM (tT6L1)

Political expediency is selling ones soul for the world. Some people consider that a good deal.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:13 PM (D7oie)

------------

What if you sell it for 10% of your whoring crack addict son"s cut of the treasonous grift selling out your country to numerous foreign enemies?

Asking for an ambulatory vegetable-in-chief ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 29, 2024 05:20 PM (/8MUi)

138 Wonder if the parents of these brave young heros voted for Oatmeal brains ???

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at January 29, 2024 05:20 PM (rcLES)

139 Here is PP complaining about Trump's first FY budget stripping funding because of abortion.

But "Blago" here knows how Trump doesn't want to do that.

LOL

"This is the worst budget for women and women’s health in a generation. It singles out Planned Parenthood, guts programs designed to help women and their families put food on the table, get the medical care they need, and make ends meet."

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:20 PM (i7Q7S)

140 Joe is getting black folks killed in the Middle East.
Posted by: fd at January 29, 2024 04:58 PM (vFG9F)
.......

Sad. Slow Motion WW 3.
If they are not there to fight, bring every last one of them home.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2024 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

141 But haven't most WineMoms figured out they can still go to a baby killing state to get their freedom back?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:21 PM (3aLWR)

142 lol. Last election there were massive questions about vote integrity. In the end the elected a guy who ran from his basement with the IQ of a banana, who can't walk a flight of stairs without falling face down, goes to bed at 6:00pm and has the cogency of garret on meth. He proceeded to tank the economy with massive debt and inflation, opened the southern border to invasion, attacked the fossil fuel industry, directed the FBI and DoJ to go after parents at PTA meetings, Christian's at church and anyone else he didn't like while trying to covers the millions in bribes he took from foreign hostile nations and classified documents he hid in his garage. I'm sure I've missed a lot.

I think we'll be okay if Trump gets elected.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2024 05:21 PM (ifHdv)

143 17 "just 18% said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice."

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

Anecdotal I know, but I had a conversation with friends over the weekend who are Democrats. They took it for granted Trump will win because "Biden needs to get out of there, he's lost" and they may not vote.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 04:57 PM (i7Q7S)

Teachers and fed gov will be so out in force to vote that even if some Dems say they won't vote now, they will vote after their arms are twisted...or after they are just paid for their ballot ($20 if I list Biden - FIIIIINNNNNEEE!)...

This won't happen on the R side.

So, if the 18% is normally 9% R and 9% D...Joe is still getting 99% of his 9% while Trump will get almost 0% of his...now re-run the numbers.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:21 PM (exHjb)

144 Big Mike is not running

She doesn’t have the personality for it, which is to say, like Oprah, she is accustomed to being worshipped and adored by all without scrutiny and without ever being challenged

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (VTu1l)

145 In some respects I hope it happens. We can finally take the gloves off and put down the vermin while we still have the physical strength to do so.

Remember that it will happen under Biden’s final two and a half months and plan accordingly.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (EXyHK)

146 "At this point, is there anyone who understands what we're facing better than DJT?"

Tucker, Archbishop Vigano, a few others. But as for politicians, no.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (sPP0i)

147 135.

I consider myself pro-life and that's my message. If you want to address abortion and run for office, run for your state's legislature. The absence of the issue in the constitution means there's no constitutional authority vested in the federal government. The reversal of Roe v Wade was nothing more or less than a long-overdue recognition of this fact.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (aCVzN)

148 Gavin, however, would gladly play ball. Plus he brings an automatic 54 electoral votes. NY is probably guaranteed, too. Which is 28 more, I believe.

Newsome will lift the oil restrictions so he can comb his hair that Biden put in place...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (Qfk4E)

149 So what were Jimmy Carter's numbers during his fourth year while ABC News ran every night "America Held Hostage"?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (lpPTQ)

150 Sure, Biden will get the POC (People of Color) vote, but if we run Nikki!, we can get the POS vote. People of Snizz, that is.

Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (hqVaF)

151 If Trump somehow wins I am going to be very very disappointed if he does not immediately start calling out hits on his political opponents. I don't care if its only little FBI SWAT Stormtrooper roundups and J6 style gulags (AKA Obama. Bin Biden Junta) even though promised SEAL Team Six. There really aren't enough of those guys to run as any ops as needed.

Hell, throw Barney Fife into the stack.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (cOq4q)

152 You're a silly and ridiculous liar:

Posted by: Jay in PA
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"Donald Trump defended his support of Planned Parenthood on Sunday, saying the organization does good work that, quite frankly, men aren't in the best place to judge.

"I have many, many friends who are women who understand Planned Parenthood better than you or I will ever understand it," Trump told Chuck Todd, the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," in an interview Sunday. "And they do some very good work. Cervical cancer, lots of women's issue, women's health issues are taken care of."

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (wMRY8)

153 106 Posted earlier that at least one of the US soldiers killed in Syria/Jordan was an African American woman. Turns out all three of the dead were African American. Biden does not care about soldiers and/or African Americans unless they give him 10%
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2024 05:08 PM

In fairness, they're just folks.
Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre, Interlocutius for The Regime at January 29, 2024 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)

2 girls, 1 guy...and they are dead b/c someone else on the base f'ed up and didn't fire the defenses...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)

154 Heh. I'd love to go down to Texas just so I can call Greg Abbott and ask him to come out for a couple of lines of bowling
Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:15 PM

You just want to see how he rolls.
Posted by: Walter Sobchak

*sobs*

Bastard won't date me.
- AOC

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (3CCua)

155 Jimmy Carter is meeting death peacefully, with a smile of contentment on his face; knowing he is no longer our worst ever president.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (CecP5)

156 >>>Yep. Days definitely starting to get a bit longer.
That's a Good Thing.

Yup. I really noticed it today. A month ago it was dark by now.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

157 If you put all the illegals in one place they would be the 7th most populated state in the US.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (i0qY3)

158
2 girls, 1 guy...and they are dead b/c someone else on the base f'ed up and didn't fire the defenses...

Well then that no good b*tch shouldn't have tried hitting on MY man.

Posted by: The Private that didn't fire the defenses at January 29, 2024 05:24 PM (ibTVg)

159 152.

Trump comes from a long line of Manhattan real estate developers. His best qualification for the presidency was his ability to glibly say one thing while doing the complete opposite.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:24 PM (aCVzN)

160 You're hilarious blago

"Trump move to defund Planned Parenthood fulfills a promise"

Just stop digging, you're a clown.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:24 PM (i7Q7S)

161 I can't believe that some are still putting their trust in polls. Polls have been thoroughly corrupted also. Probably as much as election day voting.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (BdMk6)

162 This won't happen on the R side.

So, if the 18% is normally 9% R and 9% D...Joe is still getting 99% of his 9% while Trump will get almost 0% of his...now re-run the numbers.

Posted by: Nova Local
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Every election, Republicans have to earn the vote. This is not the case for Democrats, it's automatic.

If Biden killed a baby on stage, he's still get like 47% of the vote.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (wMRY8)

163 Gavin Newsom

Would you buy a used EV from this man?

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (v0R5T)

164
>>That's not an acceptable answer though for many pro-lifers. They view this as a battle "forever" and they're okay with losing elections over it. There's still a myriad of federal issues that involve abortion, like funding.

and that's where it falls apart. Dems got abortion legalized and then got it subsidized that led to massive funds going through dem operations to provide 'free' abortions...funds going through dem operations = graft, campaign money and more graft. Those opposed to abortions on its face ended up paying for almost all of it as working taxpayers that wanted no part of it.

Posted by: DanMan at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (8uzBS)

165 I'd feel better about voting for Trump if he'd commit to replacing public television and radio spending to fund The Gorilla Channel.

Posted by: Make Them Fight! at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (L81HX)

166 Yup. I really noticed it today. A month ago it was dark by now.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

Metaphor alert?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (cVt7n)

167 81 million votes. Totes above board.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 29, 2024 05:25 PM (R4t5M)

168 His best qualification for the presidency was his ability to glibly say one thing while doing the complete opposite.
Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:24 PM (aCVzN)

Like keeping 90% of the promises he made while running? That "complete opposite"?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 29, 2024 05:26 PM (sPP0i)

169 Sure, Biden will get the POC (People of Color) vote, but if we run Nikki!, we can get the POS vote. People of Snizz, that is.
Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2024 05:22 PM (hqVaF)

=====

Excuse me, I am a Person of Snizz. I will not be voting for Haley.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 29, 2024 05:26 PM (DRSnL)

170 Ok, hear me out:

Turner & Snootch
The Oddest Couple Ever Unleashed!

Turner, a hard-boiled detective bored with his small town beat and Snootch a dirty DA's toxic minge team up to solve a character assassination. Hijinks abound in this American buddy cop movie.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 29, 2024 05:26 PM (Y6IkP)

171 Hey! The sitting President got those kids killed! I am not kidding.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (vFG9F)

172 >>> I'd feel better about voting for Trump if he'd commit to replacing public television and radio spending to fund The Gorilla Channel.

That's a good idea.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (KRtlO)

173 168.

90% huh? That's rich, Trumpoid. I dunno how you pulled that number out of your ass, but Trump wasn't CAPABLE of fulfilling 90% of his promises no matter how WILLING he might have been.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (aCVzN)

174 Our biggest problem isn't the guy in the WH.

It's the fuckers in congress who keep own goaling on purpose.

You cannot have a uniparty who answers only to corporate donors and the flavor of the month special interest.

The country cannot survive that much longer.

Trumps first job has to be rallying our side in congress. He can't play lone operator in the WH and hope to accomplish much.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (3aLWR)

175 You're hilarious blago

"Trump move to defund Planned Parenthood fulfills a promise"

Just stop digging, you're a clown.
Posted by: Jay in PA
_________

Interview on NBC News' Meet the Press

"Well, look, I'm very pro-choice," Trump said when asked if he would ban partial-birth abortions as president. "I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still – I just believe in choice. And, again, it may be a little bit of a New York background, because there is some different attitude in different parts of the country. And, you know, I was raised in New York, and grew up and work and everything else in New York City. But I am strongly for choice and, yet, I hate the concept of abortion."

When asked again if he would ban partial-birth abortions, Trump said, "No. No, I am very pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it."

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (wMRY8)

176 Blago referencing 2016 comments, not what Trump did in office, is clever.

When you're stupid.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (i7Q7S)

177 Tucker, Archbishop Vigano, a few others. But as for politicians, no.
Posted by: Ordinary American
----------
I saw some Tucker video over the weekend and he offhandedly stated that the people in charge hate the country.

This is true.

He then said that no matter who gets voted into office, they just do what they want without any regard for what the voters want. This is also true, and a big problem. This is why we need a confrontation. A battle royale to clear out the schweinerie.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (hJm9K)

178 I'd feel better about voting for Trump if he'd commit to replacing public television and radio spending to fund The Gorilla Channel.

Same old Gorilla Channel but with snooty faux-British accents? COUNT ME IN!

Posted by: Gentry Liberals everywhere at January 29, 2024 05:27 PM (ibTVg)

179 Excuse me, I am a Person of Snizz. I will not be voting for Haley.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 29, 2024 05:26 PM (DRSnL)

Heh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (R4t5M)

180 Why do I get the feeling that we will be being walked at gunpoint to the ditch and ace will be telling us that he kept saying Trump was not that popular and that if we had only supported ANYONE else this would not be happening?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (di6C2)

181 Any pro-lifer who wants a national ban on abortion needs to rethink their position

Get the fuck out of our lives and stay the fuck out should be the standard platform in regards to the federal bureaucracy

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (VTu1l)

182 >>>Our biggest problem isn't the guy in the WH.
It's the fuckers in congress who keep own goaling on purpose.

yup. and we're not supposed to run against "our own party."

Except it's not our party. It's the Billionaire's Party.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

183 2 girls, 1 guy...and they are dead b/c someone else on the base f'ed up and didn't fire the defenses...

They probably did not have permission to fire unless they get the SecDef out of hospital bed to give the order. Their hands have to be tied just like in Vietnam there will be no crossing the 20th paralell

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (Qfk4E)

184 The America We Deserve

"I support a woman's right to choose, but I am uncomfortable with the procedures," Trump wrote. "When Tim Russert asked me on Meet the Press if I would ban partial-birth abortion, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no. "

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (wMRY8)

185 A lib friend of mine told me one of her main reasons to vote Democrat was because of reproductive freedom. I said, you mean "abortion", which she acknowledged. Then I asked if she knew what the health code was in NY. She said you mean "law". I said, no, Democrats moved it too the health code and out of the criminal code. I then told her the "no excuse" abortion period was six months. She called me a liar, until she looked it up. Then when I showed her the "exceptions" pretty much allowed abortion up until birth she was speechless.

There's a lot of education that needs to happen. Start explaining some of these things to people. Perhaps we may never agree on abortion, but the actual details of what are allowed matter.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (ifHdv)

186 IRS code says for intentional release, up to ten years and ten thousand dollars PER VIOLATION
Posted by: Kindltot

The pisser is, they only charged him with one count. E en though he released hundreds

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (b8J4P)

187 It seems to me that every time there's a headline about Biden's ratings hitting a new low they always seem to be the same as the last time.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (Gf82x)

188 Blago,

Trump was elected and stripped funding from Planned Parenthood.

I realize facts suck for you dumb narrative. But, they are still facts.

"Trump administration issues rule to strip millions from Planned Parenthood"

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (i7Q7S)

189 179 Excuse me, I am a Person of Snizz. I will not be voting for Haley.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 29, 2024 05:26 PM (DRSnL)

Heh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (R4t5M)

The Chair recognizes the Person from the District of Snizz for 5 mins.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (di6C2)

190 So, if the 18% is normally 9% R and 9% D...Joe is still getting 99% of his 9% while Trump will get almost 0% of his...now re-run the numbers.

You know what else Trump is going to get 0% of? The pre-printed in China, Ballots that the Dems will be counting at 2AM.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 29, 2024 05:29 PM (CecP5)

191 Taylor Swift is going to save Joe from defeat by endorsing him.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2024 05:29 PM (NpAcC)

192 176.

Like I said, say one thing, do another. It's a necessary skillset for millionaire real estate developers.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:29 PM (aCVzN)

193 >>>191 Taylor Swift is going to save Joe from defeat by endorsing him.

ugh, you're right...!

So gross.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (KRtlO)

194 183 2 girls, 1 guy...and they are dead b/c someone else on the base f'ed up and didn't fire the defenses...

They probably did not have permission to fire unless they get the SecDef out of hospital bed to give the order. Their hands have to be tied just like in Vietnam there will be no crossing the 20th paralell
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 29, 2024 05:28 PM (Qfk4E)

Apparently, they didn't know if it was our returning drone or an enemy drone...although how can you mess that up?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (exHjb)

195 Except it's not our party. It's the Billionaire's Party.

***********

That finally hit home when McConnell gave the finger to the tea party movement

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (VTu1l)

196 Sucks to be you, blago.

"Planned Parenthood is leaving the federal Title X family planning program rather than comply with new Trump administration rules regarding abortion counseling.

The new rules, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year, prohibit Title X grantees from providing or referring patients for abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or medical emergency.

"The Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X," said Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood's acting president, in a conference call Monday. "The impact of the Trump administration's gag rule will reverberate across the country."

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (i7Q7S)

197 A day or three before the 2016 election, a pollster interviewed with his friend Ann Coulter. He foresaw the undecideds going toward Trump, the "outsider".

Now Trump is in a different position, but he is still the outsider, fighting all the insiders. If people want to vote against BigGov, Trump is still the way to go.

That pollster died not long after that ... but I'm sure Hillary had nothing to do with it, probably.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (Cus5s)

198 176

How about you knock off the petty insults.

Trump clearly has a track record of being pro-choice, to say otherwise would be lying.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (wMRY8)

199 the stupidity of America, in which a presidential election can be decided by what a ditzy pop princess says, is grotesque.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (KRtlO)

200 I think any miscalculation with the Texas standoff or a Trump win means they declare martial law. The violence will happen in the blue shit holes but if they dare go to a red state, they'd be staring down 200 million of us who are all armed to the teeth.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2024 05:04 PM (x0n13)

Saw this in microcosm in the BLM riots.
Bring it. Its going to happen one way or another. Let's
get this party started.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (W/lyH)

201
All this "strip" talk gets me wondering:

Where is Joe Mannix?

Posted by: Auspex at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (j4U/Z)

202 Is a person of snizz a person who gets a lot of snizz or a person who has a snizz?

Like I'm a man of means means I have some cash in the bank.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (3aLWR)

203 Over $6 trillion in spending last year. More than the GDP of every country on Earth except the US and China.

If you think they let voters decide on where that money is spent, you’re smoking crack.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (uKeRS)

204
2 girls, 1 guy...and they are dead b/c someone else on the base f'ed up and didn't fire the defenses...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)

———

They are dead because the Deep State has a hard on for putting people where they don’t belong.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (l312u)

205 Does Joe know how unpopular he is?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (Gf82x)

206 But crack is plant based!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (Fp05R)

207 199 the stupidity of America, in which a presidential election can be decided by what a ditzy pop princess says, is grotesque.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (KRtlO)

Foretold in the greatest movie ever.

Idiocracy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (3aLWR)

208 "Trump move to defund Planned Parenthood fulfills a promise"

Planned Parenthood funding went up during the Trump years.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (Vu7A1)

209 100%, Blago. However, I bet that 5 years in the pokey translates into free as a bird in 18 months.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
------------
Federal sentencing laws don't allow parole or probation. Probably a min sec. prison though which is not exactly hell nor that much punishment other than not being free to leave whenever you want.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (ZcPYF)

210 198.

He has said he was pro-choice when it benefitted him politically to do so. He also kneecapped Planned Parenthood when it benefitted him to do so. Neither of you is wrong in pointing those facts out. You're just very selective in your memory based on your love of/disdain for the man.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:32 PM (aCVzN)

211 Jay In PA, you mean he's being clever by stating true facts which you don't like?

Can we have done with the fucking Trump pom-pom shit? Where anything negative said about trump, no matter how proveably, obviously true, is met with a barrage of SJW-style abuse intended to shut the speaker down?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:32 PM (KRtlO)

212 The America We Deserve

"The Trump administration is quietly helping states defund Planned Parenthood"

On January 19, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a short letter rescinding the Obama administration’s 2016 guidance, arguing that it “limited states’ flexibility with regard to establishing reasonable Medicaid provider qualification standards.”

The new letter doesn’t change the law; instead, it explains how the Trump administration plans to interpret and enforce it. Essentially, the Trump administration is signaling that it considers stripping Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood to be at least potentially legal, and is probably not going to try to stop states from doing it. That opens the door for states to keep Medicaid patients, many of whom are low-income, from using their insurance coverage at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:32 PM (i7Q7S)

213 199 the stupidity of America, in which a presidential election can be decided by what a ditzy pop princess says, is grotesque.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (KRtlO)

I think my bullshit/disgust meter pegged out (heh) about when that one media lady loudly proclaimed, in public that she would gladly give Bill a knob shine for 'saving abortion.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2024 05:32 PM (di6C2)

214 He'd make a great leader for the Church in France, actually. If he gets called into church leadership, his political career is over.
---------
Except he doesn't speak French worth a shit.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 29, 2024 05:32 PM (2yu8s)

215 There is no way Trump is getting reelected. None. They stole it once , they will steal it again.
The morning headline is Trump’s drag on House and Senate races

Posted by: Jamaica at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (Eeb9P)

216 205 Does Joe know how unpopular he is?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 29, 2024 05:31 PM (Gf82x)

Does Taylor Swift?

NFL fans hate her. Well, maybe not KC fans.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (3aLWR)

217 I don't know what so hard about saying "personally I don't believe in abortion or using federal money to fund it. But now it's up to the voters of each state to decide, as it should be", and leave it at that. It's just the truth.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (ifHdv)

218 Connecticut school district's vote to hold classes on Veterans Day, Columbus Day ignites controversy

Voters asked for it.

Posted by: vic at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (A5THL)

219 >>>Does Joe know how unpopular he is?

He knows he gets ice cream if he stays on script during a press op and goes right to Jill at stage right when it's over.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (KRtlO)

220 199.

I'll continue to believe in the stupidity of America as long as enough citizens continue to believe that voting in federal elections actually matters.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (aCVzN)

221 "Jay In PA, you mean he's being clever by stating true facts which you don't like?"

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

Trump said those things in 2016 during the campaign.

Pretending he didn't strip planned parenthood of funding is pretty damn retarded.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (i7Q7S)

222 The Swifties are almost exclusively young affluent white women and gay guys. The Dems already had that locked up. She brings them nothing.

Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (hqVaF)

223 Think again, they use gasoline in the making of cocaine. Nice solvent to extract what they want.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (uKeRS)

224 210 198.

He has said he was pro-choice when it benefitted him politically to do so. He also kneecapped Planned Parenthood when it benefitted him to do so. Neither of you is wrong in pointing those facts out. You're just very selective in your memory based on your love of/disdain for the man.
Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:32 PM (aCVzN)

Actually, I think Melania is absolutely 100% pro-life to her core. And absolute rock sold "life starts at conception" believer.

When Trump is listening to her, he is very pro-life. When he's not, he reverts to pro choice.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (exHjb)

225 49 Nurse, please be careful, head on a swivel and have a bug out plan.

I'd sort of like to run the run n gun with you again in TX.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

Same.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (v23vE)

226 217.

Damn skippy, Marcus. Like I said, if you want to make a difference as a pro-lifer, stay in your state. DC isn't the place to do it. It never was, but at least now the Supreme Court has made it somewhat official.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (aCVzN)

227 Swift and that vaccine pushing dumbass potted plant of a boyfriend aren't qualified to walk your dog. But totes take advice from them.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (ifHdv)

228 Oh great.

Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
31m
BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News

Posted by: IrishEi at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (p3BNh)

229
But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one.

Total bs conjecture. Who was the screw up from Utah last time who thought he had a chance? McMullin or something.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (nIvob)

230 >>> I preferred DeSantis to Trump because I thought he'd be a more focused executive but put me in the, ugh, backdooring Fani if that's what it take for Trump to win camp.
Posted by: 18-1

Staple a magazine cut-out of Tay-Tay's face to the back of her head if it helps.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (cOq4q)

231 It's like Trump dorked y'all's mom or something.

Posted by: nckate at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (ZGGD+)

232 Apparently, they didn't know if it was our returning drone or an enemy drone...although how can you mess that up?
Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (exHjb)

Because the enemy isn't stupid. They watched our guys, saw the pattern, and launched their drone when ours was returning...right on schedule.
Result: confusion, indecision, failure. And a lack of initiative probably due to restrictive ROE and/or standard operating procedure.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (W/lyH)

233 He has said he was pro-choice when it benefitted him politically to do so. He also kneecapped Planned Parenthood when it benefitted him to do so. Neither of you is wrong in pointing those facts out. You're just very selective in your memory based on your love of/disdain for the man.
Posted by: Gryph
___

And that's completely fair.

But at some point you have to ask yourself, where does Trump genuinely stand on the issue? To me, it's clear he's pro-choice.

And right now, at this moment in time, does Trump think it will help him to be pro-life or pro-choice? He's clearly making pro-choice noises right now.

the irony of all of this? I'm praising Trump for shifting on this, it's not worth 4 more years of Biden to virtue signal on the abortion issue.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (wMRY8)

234 215 There is no way Trump is getting reelected. None. They stole it once , they will steal it again.
The morning headline is Trump’s drag on House and Senate races
Posted by: Jamaica at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (Eeb9P)

That will be the VA headline, b/c it will be true here.

Hopefully, he has more headway in other states...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (exHjb)

235 >>>Trump said those things in 2016 during the campaign.
Pretending he didn't strip planned parenthood of funding is pretty damn retarded

All I saw was what Trump said. Did he cut Planned Parenthood spending? I'll need a cite for that. I don't know either way. I do know a lot of claims are made for Trump which have no sourcing.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (KRtlO)

236 224.

For Donald Trump, even marriage is transactional. I don't know to what degree Melania has anything to do with his political opportunism, but I think it's perfectly fair to say that he's approached every interview, every rally, and indeed every act in office with that same transactional politiquing in mind.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (aCVzN)

237 Too bad about Desantis.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 29, 2024 05:36 PM (Z8Yh2)

238 What does everyone think the venn diagram of people (women, this is only women) that would already vote for uncle diddle fingers and people who take their political advice from Tyler Swift looks like? I'd imagine it's pretty concentric.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 29, 2024 05:36 PM (Y6IkP)

239 BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News
Posted by: IrishEi at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (p3BNh

If Iran has anything big to shoot at us, they just might.

Iran 100% wants to bring the apocalypse on. They believe they are martyrs for Allah.

It's why Israel has to strike them before they can get a bomb made. They know Iran will start a nuclear war the moment they can.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:36 PM (3aLWR)

240 Didn’t we just bomb Hootie and the Blowfish last week? What’s he authorizing now?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2024 05:36 PM (uKeRS)

241 Nurse, they will go crazy no matter who the Republican nominee is. If Haley got it, they'd be foaming at the mouth over her. They used to get by with just calling the Repub nominee stupid. Now they call them Nazis. Trump was President before. Everyone else is inexperienced.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 29, 2024 05:36 PM (L8hCM)

242 231 It's like Trump dorked y'all's mom or something.
Posted by: nckate at January 29, 2024 05:34 PM (ZGGD+)

From the mouth of 'ettes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM (di6C2)

243 Did he cut Planned Parenthood spending? I'll need a cite for that. I don't know either way. I do know a lot of claims are made for Trump which have no sourcing.
Posted by: ace

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

I made like 6 references, including the head of PP whining to NPR about it.

Trump's first budget singled out PP's funding and the left went ape over it.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM (i7Q7S)

244 But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one.

Total bs conjecture. Who was the screw up from Utah last time who thought he had a chance? McMullin or something.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
___

If Romney runs, you can take both Utah and Arizona off the board. Maybe Idaho also.

Mormons view Romney as something between JFK and the Pope rolled into one.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM (wMRY8)

245 i mean, during the primary, there were trump supporters RIGHT HERE in the comments who argued DeSantis was more "extreme" on abortion and that Trump's moderation issue would better serve in the general.

I asked, during these times, for the Trump supporters who swore he was completely pro-life to have a discussion with those who said he was a moderate on the issue, hash the matter out, and come back with a unified take on the subject.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM (KRtlO)

246 Nurse, please be careful, head on a swivel and have a bug out plan.

I'd sort of like to run the run n gun with you again in TX.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

Same.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 29, 2024 05:33 PM (v23vE)
****

If you bring flowers will it be Guns 'N Roses?

Bwahahaha! I crack myself up!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM (W/lyH)

247 233.

For Trump, it's all a virtue signal. That's precisely WHY he is such a political opportunist! I genuinely believe that being a *celebrity* is more important to Donald Trump than being a *millionaire*. There's no political stand he's taken over the years on either side of the aisle that wasn't a virtue signal as far as he was concerned. But his fans eat it up anyway, and here we are.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (aCVzN)

248 232 Apparently, they didn't know if it was our returning drone or an enemy drone...although how can you mess that up?
Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:30 PM (exHjb)

Because the enemy isn't stupid. They watched our guys, saw the pattern, and launched their drone when ours was returning...right on schedule.
Result: confusion, indecision, failure. And a lack of initiative probably due to restrictive ROE and/or standard operating procedure.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (W/lyH)

Yeah, but drones are just stuff - if we had to replace a drone b/c we shot our own down, that would just be a day that ends in Y...and the military industrial complex would cheer. You always err to protect your people vs your assets - this is why pilots have eject buttons...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (exHjb)

249
Apparently, they didn't know if it was our returning drone or an enemy drone...although how can you mess that up?
Posted by: Nova Local

When training my troops in my Patriot battery back in the 80s, i was death warmed over on blue force friendly protect. I was alos death on nuclear heat setting on the right to self defense when an asset with lives were on the line.

These troops manning the defense were either;
1) hands tied with obscure and deliberately confusing ROW/WRA
2) stupid and untrained

This wasn't Patriot, so most likely some form of sholder fired (Stinger) or gun (ring mounted .50) in use as the defense.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (3CCua)

250 I'd be proud if Trump dorked my mom.

Go mom.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (3aLWR)

251 >>>Trump's first budget singled out PP's funding and the left went ape over it.

was it actually cut?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (KRtlO)

252 NOBODY seriously believes Taylor Swift is gonna swing 18% of the vote.

John Lennon couldn't do it against NIXON and he was really trying.

It's just the gayest psyop cover story for when Joe Biden's numbers jump about 20 points in 'late night counting'.

Posted by: Malicious Compliance at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (OBuuS)

253 I am listening to Christmas music because I really want it to snow before Opening Day.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (Eeb9P)

254 I think KC fans are tired of her shit, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 29, 2024 05:39 PM (R4t5M)

255 Some people like Pepsi
Some people like Coke
The wacky morning DJ says
"Democracy's a joke."

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 29, 2024 05:39 PM (os8zY)

256 The pisser is, they only charged him with one count. E en though he released hundreds
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at

An enterprising law firm could make bank with class action suit against that fuck.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2024 05:39 PM (IG4Id)

257
Connecticut school district's vote to hold classes on Veterans Day, Columbus Day ignites controversy

Juneteenth is probably during Summer vacation.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2024 05:39 PM (63Dwl)

258 It's just the gayest psyop cover story for when Joe Biden's numbers jump about 20 points in 'late night counting'.
Posted by: Malicious Compliance at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (OBuuS

I think someone correctly pointed out the Swifty vote is the same as the WineMom vote as the young stronk woman vote, etc etc.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:39 PM (3aLWR)

259 Where did the Pet thread go/

Posted by: vic at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (A5THL)

260 Oh great.

Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
31m
BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News
Posted by: IrishEi
......

Slow Motion WW 3
About to gear up a bit.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (v0R5T)

261 Result: confusion, indecision, failure. And a lack of initiative probably due to restrictive ROE and/or standard operating procedure.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (W/lyH)
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Gosh, I seem to recall losing a bomber in Kosovo because the military got lazy and used the same route to target twice.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (tT6L1)

262 29 I'm actually afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. The BLM riots will look like a walk in the park. The left will lose their minds and will start murdering anyone they think voted for him. The anger and hatred and violence will be nauseating.

This frightens me more than bidens four more years.

Not me. This is going to happen anyway. I want the chance to plant some communists. Might as well get it over with.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (kzHlT)

263 All I saw was what Trump said. Did he cut Planned Parenthood spending? I'll need a cite for that. I don't know either way

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

Trump admin tried a few accounting tricks to block funding to planned parenthood but with limited success

http://tinyurl.com/thu658s2

So funding did go up but it wasn’t from a lack of effort or because Trump went back on his promise

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (VTu1l)

264 I made like 6 references, including the head of PP whining to NPR about it.

Trump's first budget singled out PP's funding and the left went ape over it.
Posted by: Jay in PA
---------
Too many people skate by without doing much research at all here as well as other places.

No less than leftist fact checker PolitiFact says what you are saying is true
http://tinyurl.com/3h9p44mc

Quote:
"The Trump administration enacted a rule that effectively said that any facility receiving federal Title X funding cannot also be an abortion provider. Previously, abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood could receive Title X funds as long as the funds were only used for non-abortion services."

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (ZcPYF)

265 252 NOBODY seriously believes Taylor Swift is gonna swing 18% of the vote.

John Lennon couldn't do it against NIXON and he was really trying.

It's just the gayest psyop cover story for when Joe Biden's numbers jump about 20 points in 'late night counting'.
Posted by: Malicious Compliance at January 29, 2024 05:38 PM (OBuuS)

Nah, I think we are... more stupid than we were in the 70s. Fuck, are we boned.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2024 05:40 PM (di6C2)

266
Mormons view Romney as something between JFK and the Pope rolled into one.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM

For some reason they like open borders with lots of low information immigrants. I'm not implying they like stupid people to join up into the cult. That would be wrong.

But it's the truth.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 29, 2024 05:41 PM (nIvob)

267 I think KC fans are tired of her shit, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner
......

No KC fan here, but...
I'm sick of pictures of her red lipstick and pancake makeup.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2024 05:41 PM (v0R5T)

268 ace, it was Title IX funding and it was indeed cuts.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 29, 2024 05:41 PM (i0qY3)

269 I don't think Trump's term is going to be focused on things like PP or PBS.

I'm guessing it's going to be a lot of culling, a lot of judiciary stacking, border wall building and taco bowl eating.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2024 05:42 PM (3aLWR)

270 A Reuters-Ipsos poll finds Trump with a six point lead on Biden, but there's a big catch: Trump only has 40% support,

Oh noes! Time to get on the Nikki Haley train! Oh. That doesn't sound right.

Posted by: t-bird at January 29, 2024 05:42 PM (c8w39)

271 245 i mean, during the primary, there were trump supporters RIGHT HERE in the comments who argued DeSantis was more "extreme" on abortion and that Trump's moderation issue would better serve in the general.

I asked, during these times, for the Trump supporters who swore he was completely pro-life to have a discussion with those who said he was a moderate on the issue, hash the matter out, and come back with a unified take on the subject.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:37 PM (KRtlO)

Trump campaigns far to the left of where he governs(which is why there was a lot of concern about him on a variety of topics in 2016). I think it's pretty clear that DeSantis campaigned to the right, but faced the issue that it's difficult to distinguish that position from how Trump actually governed in practice.

From a political perspective, there aren't really many Republicans who could campaign to the left of Trump in the general election. Moreover he does so without alienating the right.

Whether he's personally pro-life or pro-abortion is psychoanalysis and a waste of time imo.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 29, 2024 05:42 PM (eYoxG)

272 The money quote from Politifact is
"It's important to note these changes have been in the regulatory realm rather than passed by Congress. Abortion rights advocates say that a victory by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this fall could reverse these policies.

For now, however, we rate this a Promise Kept."
------
Trump did what he could.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:42 PM (ZcPYF)

273 If you want to win the election, you need to make clear Democrats DRAFT and Republicans DON'T (with Nixon ending it). If you want to avoid fighting Biden's pointless wars, you vote the Rs b/c Rs don't believe in drafting...

This is the only way to move 18-29s from 80-20 Biden to something winnable like 60-40 Biden (as all the young men who are still Dems flip)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:43 PM (exHjb)

274 Whig, thank you. In a hurry I remembered the number wrong

Posted by: Ben Had at January 29, 2024 05:43 PM (i0qY3)

275 How Biden can "outperform" Carter: Reopen the U.S. embassy in Iran.

Posted by: Marooned at January 29, 2024 05:43 PM (kt8QE)

276 273.

Nixon prolonged the Vietnam War so he could get credit for ending the draft. He'd have been a Democratic wet dream if not for the pesky little Alger Hiss affair.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:43 PM (aCVzN)

277 Because the enemy isn't stupid. They watched our guys, saw the pattern, and launched their drone when ours was returning...right on schedule.

What are good idea, to be totally predictable and run according to a schedule.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 29, 2024 05:44 PM (cVt7n)

278 " I think KC fans are tired of her shit, too."

But those are not the ones she can influence, are they? I think her "base" is probably ? younger fans of her music?

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2024 05:44 PM (Cus5s)

279 Nood

Posted by: nckate at January 29, 2024 05:44 PM (ZGGD+)

280 Trumps' history on abortion from unfriendly Newsweek from 1999 to 2020, including Blago's quote...

http://tinyurl.com/46tpbecn

He changed his mind in 2011; and earlier statements involved Media trying to corner him about partial-birth abortions.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 29, 2024 05:44 PM (2yu8s)

281 "Trump's six-point lead held even when respondents were given the option of voting for third-party candidates, including anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr...."

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Ask me how I know you're a bullshit writer, for a bullshit organization.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 29, 2024 05:45 PM (dGCAG)

282 Concur Bif.
I'm not even sure the system to deal with the drone was local to the camp. We just don't know enough yet. But if both had been shot down, you could bet the farm there would have been a 15-6 investigation over why we lost an expensive asset...the only thing saving the commander is one of them blew up.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2024 05:45 PM (W/lyH)

283 271

Whether [Trump]'s personally pro-life or pro-abortion is psychoanalysis and a waste of time imo.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 29, 2024 05:42 PM (eYoxG)

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You got that right. No sense at all in trying to divine what he *really* believes. You can get conflicting answers from Trumpoids themselves depending on who you ask.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:45 PM (aCVzN)

284 276 273.

Nixon prolonged the Vietnam War so he could get credit for ending the draft. He'd have been a Democratic wet dream if not for the pesky little Alger Hiss affair.
Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:43 PM (aCVzN)

Ahh, kids don't know history, so they'd have no idea - Wiki would just tell them LBJ used the draft hugely in Vietnam and Nixon finally ended it. Details are beneath them...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 29, 2024 05:45 PM (exHjb)

285 Whether he's personally pro-life or pro-abortion is psychoanalysis and a waste of time imo.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

The dislike for Trump (with the exception of Covid) is more toward his personality and perceived shortcomings as he is now the Devil you Know as is Biden/Kumala. DeSantis, Nikki, or on the Dem side Gavin or Mooch are all the devil you don't know. Any Dem running in 2024 has to ditch the Biden/Harris record by default if elections still mean anything if there is a margin of fraud. Any other GOP nominee would simply be the new devil anointed by the media and Dem acolytes.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:46 PM (ZcPYF)

286
BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News

When Uncle Joe becomes FDR

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2024 05:46 PM (63Dwl)

287 Swift endorsed 2 candidates in her home state of TN - one a Dem Senate candidate who lost by double digits, and one a House candidate in a district that's gerrymandered for Dems. There's no real proof of her ability to boost a candidate.

Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2024 05:46 PM (hqVaF)

288 They're working themselves up towards trying to murder near everybody sooner or later.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 29, 2024 05:02 PM (eYoxG)

At least if the Leftards riot, you can machine-gun them in good conscience.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2024 05:46 PM (tkR6S)

289 BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News

Authorize away, Joe, and shit in the other.

Posted by: t-bird at January 29, 2024 05:47 PM (c8w39)

290 284.

It was in the pentagon papers. I was pretty credulous upon learning that myself from Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary, but further research on my part verified it.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:47 PM (aCVzN)

291 All I saw was what Trump said. Did he cut Planned Parenthood spending? I'll need a cite for that. I don't know either way. I do know a lot of claims are made for Trump which have no sourcing.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2024 05:35 PM (KRtlO)

He was the first-ever president to go and speak at a pro-life rally. I'll take that as an endorsement. As for spending. Doesn't congress contol that? And it certainly wasn't his fault the congress gave him no options but to consider huge omnibus budget bills?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 29, 2024 05:47 PM (BdMk6)

292 Oh wow,
I just noticed. All five supreme court justices voted against Texas in the border case Homeland Sec v. Texas.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 29, 2024 05:48 PM (hJm9K)

293 If Joe Exotic drops out, his voters will break hard for Trump.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 29, 2024 05:48 PM (ogTiX)

294 Shit, missed a word. corrected below

292 Oh wow,
I just noticed. All five FEMALE supreme court justices voted against Texas in the border case Homeland Sec v. Texas.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 29, 2024 05:48 PM (hJm9K)

295 I'm sick of alow motion WW3, it's annoying and boring ar the same time. I want them to get a move on, pick up the pace.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2024 05:49 PM (i9ffA)

296 I just watched a guy smoke a 40 lb wagyu brisket. I have no idea what it cost. Probably better than $1,000.
I would be terrified of trying.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 29, 2024 05:49 PM (Gf82x)

297 PDT cut funding for abortions in Mexico, I believe. A policy Joe promptly overturned.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 29, 2024 05:49 PM (tT6L1)

298 274 Whig, thank you. In a hurry I remembered the number wrong
Posted by: Ben Had

No problem. I don't have celebrity like hate and likes of pols that same people exhibit. To me, they are my employees and the rest of voters as public servants along with Congress and Scotus.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 05:49 PM (ZcPYF)

299 291.

One thing that Trump didn't do was retire a single penny of federal debt. Just as Governor Greg Abbott has impressed me with his willingness to tell Joe Biden to go pound sand, Trump *could* impress me by getting another term and insisting that Congress start retiring federal debt on pain of government shutdown.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:49 PM (aCVzN)

300 "BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News"

Nice that he gives them a heads up.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2024 05:52 PM (Cus5s)

301 The illegals should each be assigned a proportionate share of the federal debt that they must pay in order to remain the country. 20 million illegals over next 10 years would amount to $1.7 million each, assuming debt stays at $34T.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 29, 2024 05:53 PM (ogTiX)

302 301.

Or we could just deport them. I dunno...

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:54 PM (aCVzN)

303 Lot of net chatter this weekend about Trump asking RFK Jr. about being his VP.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2024 05:12 PM (i9ffA)

A loonie-toon Commie a heartbeat away from the Presidency? I don't think so.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2024 05:54 PM (tkR6S)

304 That sounds like the stable genius we know and love.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 29, 2024 05:55 PM (ogTiX)

305 And given how America responded to the Volstead act, I'd be really hesitant to encourage the possibility of a black market for abortions.
Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 05:17 PM (aCVzN)

Any woman who wants an abortion can hop on a plane and fly to a country where they available on demand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2024 05:59 PM (tkR6S)

306 292 Oh wow,
I just noticed. All five FEMALE supreme court justices voted against Texas in the border case Homeland Sec v. Texas.
Posted by: Gentlemen

Misconception. It was not a 'case' but a judicial ruling over whether the district court judge could issue a preliminary injunction. So you only got a per curiam order with no reasoning that dissolved the preliminary injunction. If the Border Patrol actually moved to cut the wire, then the facts of injury to Texas would no longer be speculative in a case.

Preliminary injunctions to prevent something require a) irreparable harm in waiting for the court to resolve the case and b) a strong likelihood that you will win the case when heard by the district court. High legal std. to meet for an injunction.

The court order presupposes no ruling and creates no precedent but merely maintains the status quo. But, the ironic thing is that the Border Patrol wants no part of cutting the wire leaving the junta frustrated with its minions as judicial jeopardy of losing the district court case lingers as well as political damage if Biden orders them to cut the wire directly and publicly.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 06:00 PM (ZcPYF)

307 We all remember Jimmy Carter stinking up the place in 1980 and yet he got 41% of the vote with Reagan eking out a 50.8% win.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2024 06:00 PM (aD39U)

308 305.

Most countries have more abortion restrictions writ-large than America did under the Roe v Wade regime. Personally, I'm okay with the whole "laboratories of democracy" thing from state-to-state. The discomfort of the barking leftist moonbats with such a situation is a damning indictment of modern civics education.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 06:01 PM (aCVzN)

309 i mean, during the primary, there were trump supporters RIGHT HERE in the comments who argued DeSantis was more "extreme" on abortion and that Trump's moderation issue would better serve in the general.

I asked, during these times, for the Trump supporters who swore he was completely pro-life to have a discussion with those who said he was a moderate on the issue, hash the matter out, and come back with a unified take on the subject.
Posted by: ace
___

Yep, I remember it well.

Posted by: Blago at January 29, 2024 06:01 PM (wMRY8)

310 I have friends on the other side of the mountains. And I have friends on islands. I'll be fine once I can get there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:19 PM (TLhHb)

Learn how to hot-wire a motorboat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2024 06:01 PM (tkR6S)

311 307 We all remember Jimmy Carter stinking up the place in 1980 and yet he got 41% of the vote with Reagan eking out a 50.8% win.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Maximum influence mark for the traditional media that claimed Reagan would lead us into a nuclear war. John Anderson, running as indy got the rest of the vote. Reagan won reelection going away as the fear mongering did not work in 84.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 06:02 PM (ZcPYF)

312 Excuse me, I am a Person of Snizz. I will not be voting for Haley.
Posted by: Jordan61

I need a "Snootches For Trump" shirt.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 29, 2024 06:03 PM (OX9vb)

313 306.

That kind of gels with why I believe Abbot's statement was so great. It leaves him plenty of wiggle room to deny violating a court order (which in point-of-fact he did not), while also virtually daring Biden to take action that could sink his re-election chances once-and-for-all. Realpolitik that would make any 70s-era diplomat proud.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 06:03 PM (aCVzN)

314 If George Wallace hadn't run in '68, Hubert Humphrey have won.

We really need to encourage RFKjr to go Independent.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2024 06:05 PM (aD39U)

315 I'm calling it right now, after the primaries, you will see Trump dump the pro-life position.

Lol. Sure sure.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at January 29, 2024 06:21 PM (OZjDX)

316 DC not the place for an anti-abortion ban? Well, maybe, if we bothered to follow the Constitution, but we don't, so that's that.

Also, ask yourself this question: if Germany deserved to burn for its treatment of Jews with 6 M dead, then what do we deserve for killing 60 M babies?

A Jew can fight, run, hide, and has like all men committed sin. A baby has none of this.

If not for the pro lifers, God might have decided to cook the Yellowstone Caldera off, and exterminate most of America. And I think He'd be justified to do so. We have been wicked to a degree that would make the Hitler of people's nightmares jealous of us for how evil we've been.

Posted by: Eric2 at January 29, 2024 06:31 PM (HMtpY)

317 Desantis lost get over it

Posted by: cmonman at January 29, 2024 06:34 PM (wgct4)

318 This frightens me more than bidens four more years.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2024 05:01 PM (aJVMf)

I think it was Dr Drew, of all people, who talks about a similarity between the Jacobins in France who killed and killed until someone said no.
and then they got Napoleon.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2024 05:06 PM (D7oie)

This misses an entire governmental system in between, the Directory.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 29, 2024 07:09 PM (eoQWY)

319 We all remember Jimmy Carter stinking up the place in 1980 and yet he got 41% of the vote with Reagan eking out a 50.8% win.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Maximum influence mark for the traditional media that claimed Reagan would lead us into a nuclear war. John Anderson, running as indy got the rest of the vote. Reagan won reelection going away as the fear mongering did not work in 84.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 06:02 PM (ZcPYF)

Peak nuclear war threats over Reagan was in the next election, 1984. The first election was mostly economy and the crippling foreign policy errors.

He won by even more in 84.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 29, 2024 07:11 PM (eoQWY)

320 "BREAKING REPORT: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East as early as tonight.. -Sky News"

Nice that he gives them a heads up.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2024 05:52 PM (Cus5s)

What does he call the bombing he was doing in Yemen all these weeks? I mean it was predictably ineffective in solving the problems like air campaigns always are, but it was military action.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 29, 2024 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

321 316.

I'm not morally or practically opposed to an attempt to amend the constitution to ban abortion. You're certainly welcome to try if you think you can get a sufficiently large number of states on board. But good luck with that.

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 07:31 PM (aCVzN)

322 The court order presupposes no ruling and creates no precedent but merely maintains the status quo. But, the ironic thing is that the Border Patrol wants no part of cutting the wire leaving the junta frustrated with its minions as judicial jeopardy of losing the district court case lingers as well as political damage if Biden orders them to cut the wire directly and publicly.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2024 06:00 PM

There was a senior border patrol agent on AM talk radio this morning here in Texas that said they have no intention of going in an cutting wire in Eagle Pass and currently there are no plans to go anywhere near that park. He said they have not received any orders to cut anything and will only go in and cut the wire if they are issued "lawful" orders to do so.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 29, 2024 08:25 PM (QNSds)

323 322.

"Lawful." Now there's a loaded word...

Posted by: Gryph at January 29, 2024 08:36 PM (aCVzN)

324 Did you see the Biden attack add during the NFC Championship Game Sunday?

Texas mom, waxing about how much she loves being a mom and her messy family ... Oh, and then I had a dangerous pregnancy, and I couldn't abort the kid, because of Donald Trump.

I think she even used the phrase "every woman's nightmare."

One of the things that always pisses me off about "Pro-Choicers" is they make their arguments on these minuscule, anomalous circumstances -- do you think a lot of women are having rape and incest babies? Show me the census numbers on that -- instead of how it's actually used. Birth control. Sexual convenience. Too self-centered to think about living for another, vulnerable human.

Anyway, I digress. So yet again Biden will run not on his record, but on scaring people not to vote for the other Boogeyman.

Posted by: FishingWithFredo at January 29, 2024 09:26 PM (jaTAe)

325 With Trump as the nominee, we deserve every bit of Hell that rains down on us.

The Trump Cult will end like most do: in death.

Posted by: MarleysGhost at January 29, 2024 09:56 PM (nC+3t)

326 We all know Brandon and his posse from the politburo is as popular as an STD. Trump is going to crush these clowns, not because he is so popular but because the Biden-Obama clown posse is so degenerate and disgusting.

Posted by: Rev Al at January 30, 2024 12:12 AM (EcD5Y)

327 If that 18% doesn't vote, the D's running the election will take their ballots, fill them out for Biden, and then scan them a couple dozen times each.

Posted by: Aarradin at January 30, 2024 04:44 AM (5kvQv)

328 321

Why amend the constitution? Just pass a law, or even better an executive order and some regulations.

We are in a post constitutional state of affairs. I thought I was fairly clear about that so I wonder why you bounce back to legality.

Posted by: Eric2 at January 30, 2024 01:17 PM (q7Vou)

329 Story from Fox: The FBI violated the constitution by searching apartment individual mailboxes for drugs without warrants for each mailbox. This is absolute BS, tell those SOBs to find a judge will write induvial warrants for hundreds of mailboxes,

Posted by: vic at January 31, 2024 08:49 AM (A5THL)

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