The RNC: Meet The New Boss...Same As The Old Boss

The RNC is rapidly approaching insolvency, but they have been feckless, useless, and a slush fund for corporate Republicans for many years. The reality is that the RNC does not care about election fraud...does not care about promoting conservative principles...does not care about strengthening grassroots Republican efforts...and certainly doesn't care about winning in general.

What they are good at is promoting their own incestuous interests and selected candidates who support what can only be described as the globalist approach to governance.

By the way; I am not suggesting that Ronna McDaniel is having an incestuous relationship with her uncle, Mitt Romney, although I have no evidence that she isn't.

But I am suggesting that the RNC is irreparably broken and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. That means from the smallest units of Republicans...the folks who are in the trenches trying to claw back some semblance of the rule of law in our elections. They are the ones who are not being funded, because their work is meaningless to the inside-the-beltway Republican elite.

GOP members criticize RNC's Ronna McDaniel for spending, weak grassroots work for 2024

After the failure of a "red wave" to materialize in the 2022 midterm elections and as the GOP looks to take back the White House, Republican Party members have criticized the lack of aid that both the 2020 alternate electors and grassroots have received as the RNC is experiencing financial trouble. Some are pointing to a lack of leadership from RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

2018, 2020, 2022 -- All massive failures on the part of the RNC, and Ronna McDaniel, as head of the RNC, is responsible. Why anyone would continue to support her is beyond me...except it isn't. It is obvious, and the reason is that the people who keep her in power think she is doing a good job, which seems to be subsuming the Republican party in a sea of Democrat party initiatives and allowing the creation of true one-party rule in America, instead of just de facto.

Because how the hell do you justify this massive boondoggle and surrender to the budget-busting, welfare-loving Democrat platform?

The House passes a bill to give parents a boosted child tax credit and businesses tax relief

On Wednesday night, the House passed the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 by a vote 357-70, which aims to boost the child tax credit, implement low-income housing credits and disaster relief, and give businesses an R&D tax break, among other things.
The bill won bipartisan support, with an endorsement from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who said in a Wednesday statement that it's "important bipartisan legislation to revive conservative pro-growth tax reform."

Sure...a multi-billion dollar expansion of the welfare state, but a few corporate Republican donors get some tax breaks! That is not a win-win for the American people...that is a huge loss. Print more money to pay for things we don't need and that are actually bad for society! That's the ticket!

And that word...that filthy word..."bipartisan." If you see it in the description of the legislative process you can know with almost 100% accuracy that you are about to get f*cked. Most of us vote AGAINST Democrat party policies, so why would we want to support a blend of those policies and the policies of the corporatists who currently hold a tenuous sway over the Republican party?

When the RNC figures that out, maybe they will be closer to understanding why their fundraising has cratered and there is a growing clamor for McDaniel's head on a platter. But rest assured, she will be around to oversee another catastrophic election in November of this year. Since she is actively working against the obvious Republican candidate and trying to undermine his grassroots support by starving them of funds, there is an excellent chance of a repeat of 2022.

And that is perfectly okay with the Republican party elites, whose idea of a successful election is a 20% increase in their defense industry stocks and enough cheap labor to keep those hedges manicured! Never mind that the typical American is being taxed into financial oblivion, pushed farther away from retirement because of government-caused inflation, and marginalized in favor of the most insane social engineering our country has ever faced. All tacitly or actively supported by the RNC!

I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I will enthusiastically support him and vote for him if he even hints at burning down the RNC...with McDaniel inside!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 I think the only thing I ever got from Ronna are unending emails.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:02 PM (D7oie)

2 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 04, 2024 12:02 PM (rbKZ6)

3 that was unexpected.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:02 PM (D7oie)

4 Dat you, Fitty?

In Reaction to NYC Migrant Madness, Rapper 50 Cent Says "Maybe Trump Is the Answer"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:03 PM (FVME7)

5 The two pillars of True Conservatism are unlimited immigration and corporate tax cuts.

Posted by: GOPe! at February 04, 2024 12:03 PM (YAtuc)

6 Apparently, the Ukes own us.

HBO Cuts Ties With Pro-Russian “White Lotus” Actor Milos Bikovic After Ukrainian Govt Complained, Role Will Be Recast

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I have no idea who Milos Bikovic is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:05 PM (FVME7)

7 RNC is really just an extension of the DNC. It's the same outfit, just with a little nicer door knocker.

Still populated by criminals.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2024 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)

8 Low turnout for Dim primary yesterday...30%? I guess they're gonna' flood the Rep primary for Nikki.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:06 PM (AwYPR)

9 The RNC has served its purpose: sabotaging the opposition to the DNC.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 04, 2024 12:07 PM (Eeb9P)

10 RNC....remember Michael Steele?....good times!

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:07 PM (AwYPR)

11 I knew I'd be willowed. From previous thread.

I'm going to be willowed , but if you get a chance pull up the post UFC fight interview of Renato Moicano, a Brazilian living in Florida.

I wish we could exchange thousands more immigrants like him for the native born America hating Leftists.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:08 PM (nNx7/)

12 HBO Cuts Ties With Pro-Russian “White Lotus” Actor Milos Bikovic After Ukrainian Govt Complained, Role Will Be Recast

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I have no idea who Milos Bikovic is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:05 PM (FVME7)

I don't get the sense he's any kind of saint. Apparently a Serbian with all the hate associated with those fellas.

But sure, why not. Let's have governments telling all sorts of businesses who they can and cannot associate with. That always works out well.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:09 PM (cWCpX)

13 Jim Breuer did a nice send up of the NPCs in that sidebar vid.

And, of course, it was a Trump-based bit, because the Orangemanbad switch is *always* toggled to "Fanatical Hate" in the NPC firmware, instead of the normal "Aimless Free-Floating Aggression" setting for literally everything else in life.

They can only flip that switch for a few targets at a time, or the NPCs run out of memory to fast to destroy anything, but one slot is *always* reserved for Orangemanbad.

That said, they switch other slots to "Fanatical Hate" frequently, if for short periods of time. I've seen them do rolling uphates for Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis, Russians, Jews, etc. to name a few of the NPC hatecycles of the last few years.

And every single time, the twisted, frothing, inchoate rage Breuer puts on his face for that stage bit is the same on millions of faces, and every face of every member of our ruling class.

The system is amazing... it works, every time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2024 12:09 PM (0FoWg)

14 RNC...Remember Lee Atwater ? Good times!

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:10 PM (V13WU)

15 The two pillars of True Conservatism are unlimited immigration and corporate tax cuts.
Posted by: GOPe!

Mayorkas Defiant Amid Border Invasion: “We Need” Even More Migrants

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Yeah, boy, you can't hardly find an illegal alien anywhere.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:10 PM (FVME7)

16 The loathsome Megan McArdle, Washington Post columnist, recently addressed a Tweet to "my fellow conservatives".

Let's see - you voted for Hillary in 2016, for Biden in 2020, and you're going to vote for Biden again in 2024.

McArdle is apparently trying to break Colin Powell's record, where he voted for the Democrat in five straight Presidential elections, while still claiming to be a "Republican".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:11 PM (YAtuc)

17 The DNC runs the RNC. The Left would never have gotten as far as it has in it's destruction of America unless it controlled both parties.

Posted by: FlatvilleBill at February 04, 2024 12:11 PM (uMGpS)

18 Maybe Mayorkas is on a cartel payroll ? I mean , that is the only explanation I have .

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:11 PM (V13WU)

19 And for those who keep saying these people are stupid, the pols and their associates. They're not stupid. They belong to a crime family. The family behaves the way they do, because that's how mafia works.

Obviously, the RNC is a lesser family to the DNC at this moment in time. They stay on their side of the street, and occasionally, when told to, they cooperate with the bigger crime family to secure whatever mutual task they have between them.

Stop Trump appears to be one such task.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:11 PM (cWCpX)

20 Low turnout for Dim primary yesterday...30%? I guess they're gonna' flood the Rep primary for Nikki.
Posted by: BignJames

Biden’s January Approval Rating in Election Year Is Lowest in History of All Modern Presidents

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:12 PM (FVME7)

21 >>>But I am suggesting that the RNC is irreparably broken
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This is a good thing. It's been bad for America for a long time.
Finally enough grass roots Republicans have done the necessary
thing and are strangling the GOP to death. -take that Mitch

Posted by: Braenyard at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (+wfSw)

22 Stop Trump appears to be one such task.
Posted by: BurtTC

MSNBC Identifies Trump as Somehow Being Behind Current Middle East Chaos

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It's quite simple. He said pussy. One thing leads to another. Middle East Chaos.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (FVME7)

23 HBO Cuts Ties With Pro-Russian “White Lotus” Actor Milos Bikovic After Ukrainian Govt Complained, Role Will Be Recast

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I have no idea who Milos Bikovic is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:05 PM (FVME7)

And what is this HBO and White Lotus?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (cOq4q)

24 So we get the obligatory "I'm not a Trump fan" at the end, following an entire column of why you SHOULD be a Trump fan.

Cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: tsj017 at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (nO4H1)

25 This year would be another 2022 (disappointing results for congressional GOP candidates) except the presence of Trump at the top of the ticket will really boost turnout and help republicans running for congress. Charlie Kirk is doing the work the RNC should be doing by identifying low propensity voters to get them to the polls. The RNC might not get what they want. I wouldn’t describe myself as optimistic because I know cheating will occur but I think there’s a chance Trump wins and brings a majority in both houses along with him. If that happens I’ll be recording CNN MSNBC FNC ABC NBC and CBS telecasts to watch on a loop for the rest of my days. Those would be some delicious tears!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:15 PM (1jdMT)

26 Finally enough grass roots Republicans have done the necessary thing and are strangling the GOP to death.

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Not enough. Not yet. It still lives. But I'm finally getting hopeful. Trump can't live forever, and without them, I think they finally die for good.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2024 12:15 PM (0FoWg)

27 >>>> I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I will enthusiastically support him and vote for him if he even hints at burning down the RNC...
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You'll probably vote for him even if he doesn't burn down the RNC.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 04, 2024 12:16 PM (+wfSw)

28 I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I will enthusiastically support him and vote for him if he even hints at burning down the RNC...with McDaniel inside!

Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments

Well, the entire RNC hates his guts and yet he endorsed Ronald McDonald Romney. Or did he "endorse" her with faint praise?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 04, 2024 12:16 PM (x0n13)

29 Without him (Trump), I meant.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2024 12:16 PM (0FoWg)

30 Low turnout for Dim primary yesterday...30%? I guess they're gonna' flood the Rep primary for Nikki.
Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:06 PM (AwYPR)

Yes… we knew that would happen. Trump still wins bigly…. I think he’ll get north of 60%

Still I find open primaries infuriating

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:17 PM (1jdMT)

31 Democrats bugger everything up by design. Not necessarily because they are stupid, it just looks that way, if your assumptions are flawed and you think they are well intentioned, but misguided.

Republicans are not inept or stupid either. Their role is to make you think they might (someday) maybe do something about these injustices. Maybe. Someday.

See Also: A football, Lucy, and Charlie Brown

Posted by: Common Tater at February 04, 2024 12:17 PM (50ztE)

32 Those of us who've sworn off party affiliation and/or have called for the extermination of the GOP know there are going to be consequences for that.

One of those consequences is likely going to be a lack of "Republicans" in congressional offices if the current crop of GOP losers is swept aside.

Given the trajectory of the country I doubt that even matters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2024 12:18 PM (Q4IgG)

33 2018, 2020, 2022 -- All massive failures on the part of the RNC, and Ronna McDaniel, as head of the RNC, is responsible. Why anyone would continue to support her is beyond me...except it isn't. It is obvious, and the reason is that the people who keep her in power think she is doing a good job, which seems to be subsuming the Republican party in a sea of Democrat party initiatives and allowing the creation of true one-party rule in America, instead of just de facto.

I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I will enthusiastically support him and vote for him if he even hints at burning down the RNC...with McDaniel inside!

Given that he has yet to walk back his endorsement of McDaniel, it's unlikely.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:18 PM (CsUN+)

34 Obviously, the RNC is a lesser family to the DNC at this moment in time.

It is how Putin's governs Russia - Putin allows a number of tame "opposition" parties to exist, who never disagree with him on anything significant.

Real opposition candidates are killed or imprisoned.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:18 PM (YAtuc)

35 So we get the obligatory "I'm not a Trump fan" at the end, following an entire column of why you SHOULD be a Trump fan.

Cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: tsj017 at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (nO4H1)

No you have a cult problem. It's not required to be a Trump fan to know that electing Trump is now our only path to stop the Left . if only temporarily.

I think there are better alternatives but you go to war with what you have.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:19 PM (nNx7/)

36 Well, the entire RNC hates his guts and yet he endorsed Ronald McDonald Romney. Or did he "endorse" her with faint praise?

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i belive last time it was more of "they are both great"...instead of, you know, "You are fired you RINO bitch", which he is very capable of saying , but for some reason did not! Why would that be ?? *maybe Ronna's convincing ass kissing, regardless of her failures..just a theory..

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:19 PM (V13WU)

37 Maybe Mayorkas is on a cartel payroll ? I mean , that is the only explanation I have .
Posted by: runner

With the name Alejandro Mayorkas he would do it gratas.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2024 12:19 PM (cOq4q)

38 Ronna McDaniel is the Wayne LaPierre of RNC chairpersons.

Posted by: BillyD at February 04, 2024 12:20 PM (F6Xpw)

39 Cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: tsj017 at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (nO4H1)

No...a recognition that Trump has many flaws, some of which are very possibly insurmountable in November 2024.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 12:20 PM (gSZYf)

40 MSNBC Identifies Trump as Somehow Being Behind Current Middle East Chaos

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It's quite simple. He said pussy. One thing leads to another. Middle East Chaos.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:14 PM (FVME7)

I think they have meetings in the morning, they look at whatever Biden has done/is doing, and then somehow create a story of how it's Trump doing it.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:20 PM (cWCpX)

41 without all the icky grassroots people they can go back to being honest power brokers without having to cater to the base. The first step is to rid the political landscape of any nucleus of dissidence.

When your realpolitik is based around reducing the number of people you have to keep sweet to keep in power, this is the sort of thing you have to do.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:20 PM (D7oie)

42 Everybody government is a Democrat, they just make the dumber ones call themselves Republicans.

Posted by: FlatvilleBill at February 04, 2024 12:20 PM (uMGpS)

43 Ronna McDaniel is the Wayne LaPierre of Michael Steeles of RNC chairpersons.

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:21 PM (CsUN+)

44 I always laughed at the RNC when Michael Steele was the Head Asshead.

He was so inefficient, dumb and corrupt, he made the democrats look good. People still gave the asshead money.

He endorsed Joe Biden in 2000.

Hahahahaha...what a tool.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 04, 2024 12:21 PM (R/m4+)

45 >>>
Well, the entire RNC hates his guts and yet he endorsed Ronald McDonald Romney. Or did he "endorse" her with faint praise?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Choose your battle wisely, yeah.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 04, 2024 12:21 PM (+wfSw)

46 Well, the entire RNC hates his guts and yet he endorsed Ronald McDonald Romney. Or did he "endorse" her with faint praise?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 04, 2024 12:16 PM (x0n13)

Frankly I have to ignore all of Trump's praise or criticism as he's all over the place. He relatively recently praised Gavin Newsom as one of the best governors during COVID.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:21 PM (nNx7/)

47 Well, the entire RNC hates his guts and yet he endorsed Ronald McDonald Romney. Or did he "endorse" her with faint praise?

That's kind of like being neutral about Ike vs Tojo. It's stupid. Most of the party hates her, and yet his ego won't allow him to say "yeah, that was a mistake", or the more anodyne "she's changed, and I can no longer endorse her".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)

48 Given that he has yet to walk back his endorsement of McDaniel, it's unlikely.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:18 PM (CsUN+)

yep. One should always expect a politician to say things like, "See that lady over there, the one with almost exclusive power over vast funds, political organization and access to advertising essential to my re-election? SHE IS A THIEVING CUNT!"

Yep, any politician will say that.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:24 PM (D7oie)

49 McArdle is apparently trying to break Colin Powell's record, where he voted for the Democrat in five straight Presidential elections, while still claiming to be a "Republican".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:11 PM (YAtuc)

Megan McArdle… that name rings a bell. Another “conservative” that fooled me during the W years. Unless I’m misremembering I also felt sorry for her at one point because she had been recently married and her new husband was hit and killed by a car while cycling…. She wrote a column about it. Or was that a completely different person?? The pre-covid years seem like another lifetime… or was the dividing line the golden escalator moment?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:24 PM (1jdMT)

50 Is there any Demoncrat too foul for the GOPe?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 04, 2024 12:24 PM (8Fdcq)

51 And that word...that filthy word..."bipartisan." If you see it in the description of the legislative process you can know with almost 100% accuracy that you are about to get f*cked.

Truer words were never spoken

Posted by: vic at February 04, 2024 12:26 PM (A5THL)

52 One should always expect a politician to say things like, "See that lady over there, the one with almost exclusive power over vast funds, political organization and access to advertising essential to my re-election?

Is it, though? If the whole base hates the people representing the party, does it really help to have funds and advertising. Who's the beneficiary, the party, or the candidate?

Regardless, don't then tell me he's the only guy willing to fight the GOPe. It's one or the other.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:26 PM (CsUN+)

53 We're getting the band back together...

Jewish university student in Berlin badly beaten by classmate in fight over Hamas war

30-year-old hospitalized after encountering pro-Palestinian student who punches him, kicks him while he’s on the ground amid furious argument; police search suspect’s home

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:26 PM (YAtuc)

54 >>No...a recognition that Trump has many flaws, some of which are very possibly insurmountable in November 2024.

You should take a look at the latest NBC poll released today and then watch the talking heads on NBC melt down. They seem less sure of a Biden win than many here.

Trump has his biggest lead ever over Biden now and contra to what was said by many supporters of other primary candidates he is winning big with Independents. Trump is fundamentally changing the Republican Party electorate regardless of what the RNC does. They are subordinate to him now. When the proposed taking a vote to end the primary and declare him the winner he told them not to and they didn't.

What many don't seem to get is the other candidates were running for support from the old electorate under the RNC. Trump has built his own base.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:26 PM (LkLld)

55 It is how Putin's governs Russia - Putin allows a number of tame "opposition" parties to exist, who never disagree with him on anything significant.

Real opposition candidates are killed or imprisoned.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:18 PM (YAtuc)

I stopped caring what other countries are doing. All of them.

Everyone in power in this country acts like every problem we have has originated in another country.

No, they haven't. Our problems are all home grown. Including EVERY time we go overseas and bomb other people in the world.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:26 PM (/HRq4)

56 “He’s expecting to lock up this nomination really quickly and I think that there will be changes made in the Republican National Committee very soon. I think that is about to happen and Republicans will get behind President Trump.”
So says Maria Bartiromo.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2024 12:27 PM (cOq4q)

57 Trump is fundamentally changing the Republican Party electorate regardless of what the RNC does. They are subordinate to him now. When the proposed taking a vote to end the primary and declare him the winner he told them not to and they didn't.

Then I guess he's at no risk telling Ronna to pound sand, so why doesn't he?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:28 PM (CsUN+)

58 “He’s expecting to lock up this nomination really quickly and I think that there will be changes made in the Republican National Committee very soon. I think that is about to happen and Republicans will get behind President Trump.”
So says Maria Bartiromo.

I hope that's true.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:28 PM (CsUN+)

59 Is there any Demoncrat too foul for the GOPe?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 04, 2024 12:24 PM (8Fdcq)

No, they go to prayer breakfasts with each other.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:29 PM (/HRq4)

60 “‘Bipartisan’ just means some particularly or especially egregious fuckery is being perpetrated on the American people”.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 04, 2024 12:29 PM (50ztE)

61 49 McArdle is apparently trying to break Colin Powell's record, where he voted for the Democrat in five straight Presidential elections, while still claiming to be a "Republican".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:11 PM (YAtuc)

Megan McArdle… that name rings a bell. Another “conservative” that fooled me during the W years. Unless I’m misremembering I also felt sorry for her at one point because she had been recently married and her new husband was hit and killed by a car while cycling…. She wrote a column about it. Or was that a completely different person?? The pre-covid years seem like another lifetime… or was the dividing line the golden escalator moment?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:24 PM

I think you mean Mary Katherine Ham.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 04, 2024 12:30 PM (rbKZ6)

62 I think the only thing I ever got from Ronna are unending emails.

I get unending calls from Cruz for Senate. I don't live in TX. I sent him some money in 2016, but nothing since. Ted, call off your dogs. You aren't getting any money from me.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

63 Unless I’m misremembering I also felt sorry for her at one point because she had been recently married and her new husband was hit and killed by a car while cycling…. She wrote a column about it. Or was that a completely different person?? The pre-covid years seem like another lifetime… or was the dividing line the golden escalator moment?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:24 PM (1jdMT)

I think that was Mary Katherine Ham.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (/HRq4)

64 We're getting the band back together...

Somebody noted the ironic fact that the Nazis were crushed in Europe, but Nazi ideology was successfully exported to the Islamic world (since most Muslims hate Jews), and Nazi ideology is now being imported back into Europe with mass immigration into Europe from Muslim countries.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (YAtuc)

65 1 I think the only thing I ever got from Ronna are unending emails.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:02 PM (D7oie)

Not even a shirt. Sad.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

66
Trump is fundamentally changing the Republican Party electorate regardless of what the RNC does.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:26 PM

I saw an interesting video on Twit/X in the past couple of days. The stereotypical Black barber shop with the brothers all sitting around having a chat and lamenting that fact that they used to have some money when Trump was in office and now they don't. It seemed kinda powerful. No mention of chains or any of the bullshit that Biden laid on them.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 12:32 PM (nIvob)

67 The old saying is negotiate when you can and compromise when you have to.

The GOPe always compromise when they don't have to.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:32 PM (nNx7/)

68 I'm too young to have known a Republican Party that wasn't mostly useless. It's why I cast a lot of third party votes in the 2010s and do not have a party affiliation.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:32 PM (PZvjL)

69 >>Then I guess he's at no risk telling Ronna to pound sand, so why doesn't he?

Why should he? To please you? You still won't like him.

When the general comes around he will use the RNC money. No sense starting and internecine war when he's busy fighting idiotic leftist lawfare and the Biden attack machine and the media.

No matter how many times you say Trump endorsed her it's meaningless. The RNC chair is elected by state RNC members who are part of the old guard. Neither Trump, Ron or anyone else has any say and I sure didn't see your complain or demand Ron distance himself from RNC donors and crackerjack RNC campaign consultants who helped him run a terrible campaign.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:32 PM (LkLld)

70 Vivek would make a great Chairman of the RNC.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 04, 2024 12:33 PM (R/m4+)

71 It is how Putin's governs Russia - Putin allows a number of tame "opposition" parties to exist, who never disagree with him on anything significant.

Real opposition candidates are killed or imprisoned.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:18 PM (YAtuc)

Unfortunately Russia culturally has had the choice between Peter the Great, or Ivan the Terrible

remember, both of them engaged in mass executions , the main difference is why. The current "red Tsar" has been very light handed in that regard.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:33 PM (D7oie)

72 8 Low turnout for Dim primary yesterday...30%? I guess they're gonna' flood the Rep primary for Nikki.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:06 PM (AwYPR)

Is it an open or closed primary? I mean, that still doesn't stop dems and "independents" from registering as Repubs and voting.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

73 Vivek would make a great Chairman of the RNC.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 04, 2024 12:33 PM (R/m4+)

Give him that chainsaw.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:33 PM (D7oie)

74 I think you mean Mary Katherine Ham.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 04, 2024 12:30 PM (rbKZ6)

I think that was Mary Katherine Ham.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (/HRq4)

Thx. I was having a Biden moment….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:34 PM (1jdMT)

75 Somebody noted the ironic fact that the Nazis were crushed in Europe, but Nazi ideology was successfully exported to the Islamic world (since most Muslims hate Jews), and Nazi ideology is now being imported back into Europe with mass immigration into Europe from Muslim countries.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (YAtuc)

Yeah, Wahabbist Islam really was created by the nazzies. Or cultivated and funded, I think they were birthed before the nazzie party was, but they sure were raised by them.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:34 PM (/HRq4)

76 and Nazi ideology is now being imported back into Europe with mass immigration into Europe from Muslim countries.

Ironically, this is backfiring for the Palestinian jihadis.

The obvious strategy to weaken and eventually destroy Israel is to get Israelis to emigrate to other countries, particularly the half-million or so Israelis who work in Israel's high-tech sectors.

Strengthening Jew-hatred in the West only makes it more obvious that Israel is needed as the ultimate refuge for the Jewish people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (YAtuc)

77 Is it an open or closed primary? I mean, that still doesn't stop dems and "independents" from registering as Repubs and voting.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

open

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (AwYPR)

78 Thx. I was having a Biden moment….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:34 PM (1jdMT)

I just knew Ham's husband died, I didn't recall the details. For all I knew McHorrible could have had a similar/different incident in her life.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (/HRq4)

79
Anyone else notice that potential Vice President Tucker Carlson is in Russia and might be doing a sit-down meeting with Putin?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (nIvob)

80 62 I think the only thing I ever got from Ronna are unending emails.

I get unending calls from Cruz for Senate. I don't live in TX. I sent him some money in 2016, but nothing since. Ted, call off your dogs. You aren't getting any money from me.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

Same here. I even canvassed for him in Kali back in 2016 for the primary. But yeah, it's like the roach motel of phone numbers and email once you give a dime.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

81 I sure didn't see your complain or demand Ron distance himself from RNC donors and crackerjack RNC campaign consultants who helped him run a terrible campaign.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:32 PM (LkLld)

I didn't see you criticize DeSantis's biggest donor switch to Trump. All the sudden that donor became non GOPe right.

Trump is going to be the nominee . Quit trying to get nominal voters for him to change their minds.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:37 PM (nNx7/)

82 67 The old saying is negotiate when you can and compromise when you have to.

The GOPe always compromise when they don't have to.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:32 PM (nNx7/)

They enjoy it. Like a sadist getting whipped, they always cry out, "More! Please Mistress!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

83 remember, both of them engaged in mass executions

Peter the Great also modernized the Russian Orthodox Church, and slaughtered and exiled anyone who protested, which is why there is a large group of Russian "Old Believers" in Woodburn, Oregon.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:39 PM (YAtuc)

84 I get unending calls from Cruz for Senate. I don't live in TX. I sent him some money in 2016, but nothing since. Ted, call off your dogs. You aren't getting any money from me.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

I sent $$ to a guy running against John Murtha (remember him?) in Pa. Everybody started calling/mailing.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:39 PM (AwYPR)

85 I think the only thing I ever got from Ronna are unending emails.

I get unending calls from Cruz for Senate. I don't live in TX. I sent him some money in 2016, but nothing since. Ted, call off your dogs. You aren't getting any money from me.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

I don't understand these complaints about political financial solicitations. It's normal operating procedure for every politician. Just part of the process you can easily ignore.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:39 PM (nNx7/)

86 Strengthening Jew-hatred in the West only makes it more obvious that Israel is needed as the ultimate refuge for the Jewish people.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (YAtuc)

I'm sure some have seen the Dave Smith/RFK Jr. argument yesterday.

Honestly, I think Smith beclowned himself, but I also see people online claiming he destroyed RFK over the whole Israel/Palestine issue.

Smith has a narrative, and won't allow himself to even consider the possibility he might be wrong, or that there could be some position that doesn't match his entirely, that can be allowed to remain uncondemned.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:40 PM (/HRq4)

87 78 Thx. I was having a Biden moment….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:34 PM (1jdMT)

I just knew Ham's husband died, I didn't recall the details. For all I knew McHorrible could have had a similar/different incident in her life.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM

I'm not sure he got hit by a car. I just remember that he was coming down a steep hill going very fast and lost control of his bike on a curve. They had a very young daughter and she was pregnant at the time.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 04, 2024 12:40 PM (rbKZ6)

88 Interview with Putin is a huge scoop, and any network journalist would kill to get it. But they are not permitted. I imagine if it does happen , Tucker will boost his visibility considerably. Any Tom , Dick and Harry can get a Zelenskyy interview.

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:41 PM (V13WU)

89 88 Interview with Putin is a huge scoop, and any network journalist would kill to get it. But they are not permitted. I imagine if it does happen , Tucker will boost his visibility considerably. Any Tom , Dick and Harry can get a Zelenskyy interview.

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:41 PM (V13WU)

Especially if money is involved and Biden gets his 10%.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

90 >>I didn't see you criticize DeSantis's biggest donor switch to Trump. All the sudden that donor became non GOPe right.

>>Trump is going to be the nominee . Quit trying to get nominal voters for him to change their minds.

Right, cause I'm not the one who constantly inserts Trump into everything. That would be the supporters of other candidates. See if you can spot the difference.

Of course Trump is going to be the nominee. That has been obvious for over a year. I don't care if you change your mind, do what you want. If you want 4 more years of Biden that is on you not me.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (LkLld)

91 Anyone else notice that potential Vice President Tucker Carlson is in Russia and might be doing a sit-down meeting with Putin?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM (nIvob)

I hope he does. Tucker seems to be able/willing to cover topics that nobody else will.

He would be condemned for speaking to Pootin, but I don't think Tucker gives a shit what those who will condemn him have to say.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (/HRq4)

92 Based on the comical amount of spam my parents get from both political and especially charitable organizations, I think if I'm gonna get into the contribution game I need to just set up my own little foundation with a P.O. box to shield my real address and phone number from the nonsense. Which is effort, and makes me not want to do it.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

93 Anyone else notice that potential Vice President Tucker Carlson is in Russia and might be doing a sit-down meeting with Putin?

The Vindemans and Adam Kinzinger are already denouncing Carlson as a traitor for interviewing Putin.

Weird that Mike Wallace was allowed to interview the Ayatollah Khomeini two weeks after the Iranians seized the American hostages without anyone calling him a traitor.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (YAtuc)

94 "I think there are better alternatives but you go to war with what you have."

You want a Republican Bill Bradley. I'll take the gavone from Queens.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (Gse2f)

95 Bible says we should pray for our leaders, but I keep thinking of the blessing for the Tsar in "Fiddler on the Roof":
"May the good Lord keep the Tsar...far, far away from us!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

96 The Democrat party has transformed itself from the party of the working man to the party of the rich coastal elites and the very poor. The middle class has no where to go with Democrats. The middle class gets holding the bag and paying for everything in perpetuity.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (MeG8a)

97 94 "I think there are better alternatives but you go to war with what you have."

You want a Republican Bill Bradley. I'll take the gavone from Queens.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (Gse2f)

I'm still available.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

98 I keep hearing "we have to give the Democrats what they want so the government doesn't shut down.

A shut down is almost the best we can hope for.

The spending needs to stop. That is what is driving Bidenflation and many of the problems heritage Americans actually face. Printing money to give to illegals to drive up the cost of housing/food is not a benefit.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:44 PM (ibTVg)

99 97 What has the GOP done for the average working man? Taxes are higher, the state grows, safety is worse, spending grows, insane liberal policies march on, more racist policies, crazed fascist agencies imposing policies that they have no authority to impose, and the GOP does what.

Remember the 9th and 10th amendments.

Burn it all down. The USA died with Lincoln.

Posted by: Obama's body man at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (EcD5Y)

Their cars are okay.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at February 04, 2024 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

100 They enjoy it. Like a sadist getting whipped, they always cry out, "More! Please Mistress!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

So then maybe "compromise" isn't the right word for it.

As they old joke goes... "I don't think you're really here for the hunt."

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:44 PM (/HRq4)

101 off tranny sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

102 I think if I'm gonna get into the contribution game I need to just set up my own little foundation with a P.O. box to shield my real address and phone number from the nonsense.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

You'd have to clean out the box every day...or have USPS on your ass.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:45 PM (AwYPR)

103 Why should he? To please you? You still won't like him.

Because, as has already been pointed out, most of the base hates her. Just because he wasn't my first choice doesn't mean he should just ignore everyone who thought like I did. It would be a tremendously unifying move for him to call for her dismissal while it can still make a difference in '24.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:46 PM (CsUN+)

104 The Vindemans and Adam Kinzinger are already denouncing Carlson as a traitor for interviewing Putin.

Then: We should always be willing to talk to our adversaries so we can understand each other. And calling someone a traitor just because they understand the needs and wants of the other side is a sign you have no ideas!

Now: How dare that traitor talk to anyone we claim is an enemy!

Posted by: The left at February 04, 2024 12:46 PM (ibTVg)

105 I'm not sure he got hit by a car. I just remember that he was coming down a steep hill going very fast and lost control of his bike on a curve. They had a very young daughter and she was pregnant at the time.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 04, 2024 12:40 PM (rbKZ6)

This being 2024, I probably shouldn't, but I can't help but wonder if the powers that be killed him.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:46 PM (/HRq4)

106 curiosity made me look it up.

"Brewer died in a collision with a car in Mount Airy, Maryland, while participating in a charity bicycle ride for cancer treatment programs.[2] He was married to Mary Katharine Ham, with whom he had two children."

that was 2015, Ham remarried in 2020 and now has three girls and a boy. Nice that some conservatives are "productive" ... though she did marry a liberal (I think) the first time. Wiki says this husband has no social media presence.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2024 12:46 PM (Cus5s)

107 98 The spending needs to stop. That is what is driving Bidenflation and many of the problems heritage Americans actually face. Printing money to give to illegals to drive up the cost of housing/food is not a benefit.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:44 PM (ibTVg)

Dude here gets it--the foundation for Bidenflation was really laid during the Covidian Age in 2020-2021 when money printer go BRRRRT.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:47 PM (PZvjL)

108 102 I think if I'm gonna get into the contribution game I need to just set up my own little foundation with a P.O. box to shield my real address and phone number from the nonsense.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

You'd have to clean out the box every day...or have USPS on your ass.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:45 PM (AwYPR)

Sign the box under "Heywood Jablowme"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

109 Russia had a difficult history, but any country with a 1000 year old history would. How many Catholics had to die and how many churches burn so Henry could bone Anne Boleyn ?

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (V13WU)

110 What has the GOP done for the average working man? Taxes are higher, the state grows, safety is worse, spending grows, insane liberal policies march on, more racist policies, crazed fascist agencies imposing policies that they have no authority to impose, and the GOP does what.

If you described the goals and statements of the GOPe without mentioning what party was saying it to the average Democrat voter in 2004 he'd ask when the communist party got so crazy.

Posted by: The left at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (ibTVg)

111 Based on the comical amount of spam my parents get from both political and especially charitable organizations, I think if I'm gonna get into the contribution game I need to just set up my own little foundation with a P.O. box to shield my real address and phone number from the nonsense. Which is effort, and makes me not want to do it.

I'm not sure, but I think that might be a problem since you're supposed to give them your ID so that they can verify that you're a US citizen, etc.

Of course, that rule doesn't apply to Democrats like Obama.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

112 The GOPe has a huge void to fill.

I am here to fill it.

Please clap.

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred And Loving It at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (R/m4+)

113 104 The Vindemans and Adam Kinzinger are already denouncing Carlson as a traitor for interviewing Putin.

Then: We should always be willing to talk to our adversaries so we can understand each other. And calling someone a traitor just because they understand the needs and wants of the other side is a sign you have no ideas!

Now: How dare that traitor talk to anyone we claim is an enemy!

Posted by: The left at February 04, 2024 12:46 PM (ibTVg)

Jane Fonda behind a Vietcong anti-aircraft gun: Patriotic!
Yeah, it was, for the Commie Vietnamese.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (ynpvh)

114
I think Putin would be astute enough to know that Carlson is in a very favorable area to be in a high position in the Trump administration and while he may be willing to listen for some indication of where Trump sits re Ukraine it could be a nothing.

For now. But it does show that Tucker as VP is willing to travel and isn't just going to go to ribbon cutting ceremonies or expound on Venn diagrams. Tucker's trip to Canada last week where he tore apart the Trudeau regime in a speech was really good stuff - an indication where he sits on so many leftist issues.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 12:49 PM (nIvob)

115 It won't be a replay of 2020. Many are waking up to Biden & Co being an existential threat to their prosperity and safety, and will vote for Trump or stay home (which is half a vote fro Trump).

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 04, 2024 12:49 PM (Gse2f)

116 Based on the comical amount of spam my parents get from both political and especially charitable organizations, I think if I'm gonna get into the contribution game I need to just set up my own little foundation with a P.O. box to shield my real address and phone number from the nonsense. Which is effort, and makes me not want to do it.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

I look at political contributions like sex with hookers.

Sure, it might feel good at the time, but you get the clap, and it keeps bothering you for every day of the rest of your life, but you brought it on yourself when you gave them money in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:49 PM (/HRq4)

117 That would be the supporters of other candidates. See if you can spot the difference.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (LkLld)

There ARE NO supporters of other candidates in any appreciable number, and around here there are almost literally none.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 12:50 PM (gSZYf)

118 In the real world I know exactly 0 Republican leaning voters that do not HATE Niki Hillary.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:50 PM (ibTVg)

119 Peter the Great also modernized the Russian Orthodox Church, and slaughtered and exiled anyone who protested, which is why there is a large group of Russian "Old Believers" in Woodburn, Oregon.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:39 PM (YAtuc)

Stalin and Brezhnev had nothing to do with that? Are you mad about the Hussites too?

My point was that he also executed the Streltsy en masse for rebellion against him, even if it was supposedly for his own good, and even swung the axe for a while. My point is that Russians have been slaughtering Russians for a long time. You have to take that into consideration when reviewing their history.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:50 PM (D7oie)

120 109 Russia had a difficult history, but any country with a 1000 year old history would. How many Catholics had to die and how many churches burn so Henry could bone Anne Boleyn ?

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (V13WU)

Interesting story about Henry. He was injured during a joust, and afterwards, (possibly due to a head injury), his personality changed. Like what happens when there's damage to the brain that impacts the moral circuitry.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

121 You want a Republican Bill Bradley. I'll take the gavone from Queens.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 04, 2024 12:43 PM (Gse2f)

I still long for a Republican Edmund Muskie, but alas, it is not to be.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:51 PM (/HRq4)

122 112 The GOPe has a huge void to fill.

I am here to fill it.

Please clap.

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred And Loving It at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (R/m4+)

Would Gerbils work?

Posted by: Richard Gere at February 04, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

123 Dude here gets it--the foundation for Bidenflation was really laid during the Covidian Age in 2020-2021 when money printer go BRRRRT.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:47 PM (PZvjL)

We spent just over 2 Trillion in the Middle East /Afghanistan on all military actions over a 20 year period.

We spent 6 trillion on COVID 'relief' in the first six months.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:52 PM (nNx7/)

124 personality changed. Like what happens when there's damage to the brain that impacts the moral circuitry.
Posted by: jim

Don't you dare insinuate that is my problem!
~Brandon

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 12:52 PM (t6VO+)

125 116 Based on the comical amount of spam my parents get from both political and especially charitable organizations, I think if I'm gonna get into the contribution game I need to just set up my own little foundation with a P.O. box to shield my real address and phone number from the nonsense. Which is effort, and makes me not want to do it.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

I look at political contributions like sex with hookers.

Sure, it might feel good at the time, but you get the clap, and it keeps bothering you for every day of the rest of your life, but you brought it on yourself when you gave them money in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:49 PM (/HRq4)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Jeb! at February 04, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

126 Nikki Haley appeared on Saturday Night Live.

That's as damning an indictment of her than anything else she has ever done.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 12:53 PM (gSZYf)

127 The GOPe has a huge void to fill.

I am here to fill it.

Please clap.

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred And Loving It

As Orwell said of Stanley Baldwin: "As for [Stanley] Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air.".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:53 PM (CsUN+)

128 We spent 6 trillion on COVID 'relief' in the first six months.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:52 PM (nNx7/)

Wachoo mean we?

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (AwYPR)

129 Interesting story about Henry. He was injured during a joust, and afterwards, (possibly due to a head injury), his personality changed. Like what happens when there's damage to the brain that impacts the moral circuitry.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

Lead and mercury used as medicine....

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (V13WU)

130 >>I think Putin would be astute enough to know that Carlson is in a very favorable area to be in a high position in the Trump administration and while he may be willing to listen for some indication of where Trump sits re Ukraine it could be a nothing.

We've been spoon fed bullshit from the media about Putin and Russia since the idiotic Russia hoax through the war in Ukraine. In fact, the two are intertwined.

I think the left is terrified of someone like Tucker who has a large following based on honest reporting getting an unedited interview with the guy they have been using for years to justify all of their corrupt acts.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (LkLld)

131 Trump named dropped Tim Scott and Kristi Noem as possible VP picks.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (nNx7/)

132 124 personality changed. Like what happens when there's damage to the brain that impacts the moral circuitry.
Posted by: jim

Don't you dare insinuate that is my problem!
~Brandon

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 12:52 PM (t6VO+)

I would never; Brandon's problem is probably congenital.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (ynpvh)

133 Speaking of incredibly bizarre things I ran across on YouTube, in Russia, New Year's is the big winter holiday (the Communist replacement for Christmas), and there is a Russian tradition of big, elaborate variety TV shows on New Year's Eve.

TV Channel "Russia" had one of these elaborate New Year's Eve shows in 2013, cohosted by Maxim Galkin, the leading Russian comedian (who is now in exile) and --- Volodymyr Zelensky.

Live from Moscow!

http://tinyurl.com/53ywddsr

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (YAtuc)

134 111 I'm not sure, but I think that might be a problem since you're supposed to give them your ID so that they can verify that you're a US citizen, etc.

Of course, that rule doesn't apply to Democrats like Obama.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

I'm also not totally sure on the rules, but I thought the whole thing with PACs is that they sit between the PAC donors and whatever the PAC throws money at. Maybe there's a minimum donation size or something to ensure that Big People can anonymously tweak the system but nobody else can.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (PZvjL)

135
We spent just over 2 Trillion in the Middle East /Afghanistan on all military actions over a 20 year period.

During the WoT the left would always complain about the cost and then go off on the need to instead spend 10X as much on something else...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (ibTVg)

136 Low turnout for Dim primary yesterday...30%? I guess they're gonna' flood the Rep primary for Nikki.

Posted by: BignJames

Try again... 4%, ~126,000 votes for 'Genocidal Joe'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (t6VO+)

137 " Any Tom , Dick and Harry can get a Zelenskyy interview."

But can they ask him about his mansion (s?) in Flordia without being escorted out at gunpoint?

idk about the mansion, that is a rumor (afaik). But he has surely collected a lot of loot, as have many administrators. Those four they recently caught was less than the tip of the iceberg ... and who knows, they may have been the whistleblowers and got framed. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (Cus5s)

138 Dude here gets it--the foundation for Bidenflation was really laid during the Covidian Age in 2020-2021 when money printer go BRRRRT.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:47 PM (PZvjL)

That, and a decade plus of fake low interest rates.

Both sides are guilty*

*There I go again, using the word "sides." It's not sides.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:55 PM (/HRq4)

139 126 Nikki Haley appeared on Saturday Night Live.

That's as damning an indictment of her than anything else she has ever done.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 12:53 PM (gSZYf)

Did she do any skits about a presidential "candidate" that took sweet, sweet Board positions because she's bought and paid for?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

140
Richard Gere comes from my part of Pennsylvania and because he supported Tibet and pissed off China, that's when that gerbil story started. I don't care to support China in any way and taking a stupid shot at Gere is stupid. China basically blacklisted Gere.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 12:55 PM (nIvob)

141 Obviously I wouldn't go out and create The PAC++ Project without also consulting the relevant lawyers...which is even more effort and makes me not want to do it.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 12:55 PM (PZvjL)

142 Nikki Haley appeared on Saturday Night Live.

==

wait, what ?? OK, makes sense.

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:55 PM (V13WU)

143 129 Interesting story about Henry. He was injured during a joust, and afterwards, (possibly due to a head injury), his personality changed. Like what happens when there's damage to the brain that impacts the moral circuitry.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

Lead and mercury used as medicine....

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (V13WU)

But mostly for diseases that required merkins afterwards.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (ynpvh)

144 Stalin and Brezhnev had nothing to do with that? Are you mad about the Hussites too?

The Old Believers in Oregon fled Russia after the Revolution, and got to Oregon eventually via Istanbul and Harbin.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (YAtuc)

145 TV Channel "Russia" had one of these elaborate New Year's Eve shows in 2013, cohosted by Maxim Galkin, the leading Russian comedian (who is now in exile) and --- Volodymyr Zelensky.

Lil Z ran as the more pro-Russian candidate in 2019. He promised to end the dirty way against the Eastern Uke people. And...once he got elected he did none of that, whether because he could not or did not want to we'll probably never know.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (ibTVg)

146 Interesting story about Henry. He was injured during a joust, and afterwards, (possibly due to a head injury), his personality changed. Like what happens when there's damage to the brain that impacts the moral circuitry.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

Another piece of trivia. He was playing real tennis when Anne Boleyn was executed.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (nNx7/)

147 Low turnout for Dim primary yesterday...30%? I guess they're gonna' flood the Rep primary for Nikki.

The Nose beat Biden in NH but then they found a bunch of votes for Biden so...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:57 PM (ibTVg)

148 140
Richard Gere comes from my part of Pennsylvania and because he supported Tibet and pissed off China, that's when that gerbil story started. I don't care to support China in any way and taking a stupid shot at Gere is stupid. China basically blacklisted Gere.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 12:55 PM (nIvob)

O-K-A-Y. Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

149 The Vindemans and Adam Kinzinger are already denouncing Carlson as a traitor for interviewing Putin.

-
Well, if two fine patriots like that don't like him . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 12:58 PM (FVME7)

150 Try again... 4%, ~126,000 votes for 'Genocidal Joe'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (t6VO+)

Whoa...talk about an involved electorate.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:58 PM (AwYPR)

151 All I can say about this is if you're too squeamish or lazy for a hot civil war and are still waiting for someone else to do something, then the Republican Party is all you've got right now.

Wonder why the RNC is the way it is? Because just like the stolen 2020 election, WE let it happen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 04, 2024 12:58 PM (BdMk6)

152 I just knew Ham's husband died, I didn't recall the details. For all I knew McHorrible could have had a similar/different incident in her life.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:36 PM

I'm not sure he got hit by a car. I just remember that he was coming down a steep hill going very fast and lost control of his bike on a curve. They had a very young daughter and she was pregnant at the time.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 04, 2024 12:40 PM (rbKZ6)

My wife occasionally gets irritated because, as she tells it, I have this bad habit of relating things that just aren’t so…. But I do it with such confidence people (including her) believe me. She says I’m lying….. I indignantly reply that I’m mistaken and a lie is intentional. We make up….. then I do it again a month later….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 12:59 PM (xT8gx)

153 Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:52 PM (nNx7/)

Wachoo mean we?
Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (AwYPR)

GLOWIE! GLOWIE!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 12:59 PM (/HRq4)

154
The Old Believers in Oregon fled Russia after the Revolution, and got to Oregon eventually via Istanbul and Harbin.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (YAtuc)

I know, and they wound up in Lac Labiche Alberta and Argentina too, and tend to travel between countries.
And they came IIRC from the Ukraine.

which is nice, and they are mostly polite and decent people (the ones not doing meth) that did construction and farming, but isn't much on the traditional forms of Russian governance.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 12:59 PM (D7oie)

155 Wachoo mean we?
Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (AwYPR)

I mean we since it was signed by Trump and we're going to vote for him.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 12:59 PM (nNx7/)

156
The Nose beat Biden in NH but then they found a bunch of votes for Biden so...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:57 PM

Didn't they 'find' some incredibly even number of votes like 50,000 for Biden?

Insane. Anyone who filled out a tax return with a number like that may as well bend over in preparation for the audit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 01:00 PM (nIvob)

157 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:00 PM (FVME7)

158 157 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:00 PM (FVME7)

Only when describing certain toilet paper as being like John Wayne: Rough, Tough, and doesn't take shit from anyone.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

159 Those four they recently caught was less than the tip of the iceberg ... and who knows, they may have been the whistleblowers and got framed. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2024 12:54 PM (Cus5s)

Yeah, when I saw there were arrests for skimming from the till, I assumed those were people who displeased the CIA.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:01 PM (/HRq4)

160 Only when describing certain toilet paper as being like John Wayne: Rough, Tough, and doesn't take shit from anyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

Taking a Duke might qualify as making fun.

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 01:02 PM (nNx7/)

161 157 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:00 PM (FVME7)

I also can't forget the amazing performance he did as Ghengis Khan.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

162 "Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

He's no Jenjis Khan.

Posted by: John F'n Kerry at February 04, 2024 01:02 PM (vFG9F)

163 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Well, yes, but not Randolph Scott.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:02 PM (CsUN+)

164 163 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Well, yes, but not Randolph Scott.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:02 PM (CsUN+)

Who?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:03 PM (ynpvh)

165
Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It starts like this:
"Well, pilgrim... "

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:03 PM (t6VO+)

166 Lil Z ran as the more pro-Russian candidate in 2019. He promised to end the dirty way against the Eastern Uke people. And...once he got elected he did none of that, whether because he could not or did not want to we'll probably never know.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (ibTVg)

If by "probably never know" you mean the CIA never gives up its secrets, then yeah.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:04 PM (/HRq4)

167 165
Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It starts like this:
"Well, pilgrim... "

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:03 PM (t6VO+)

"I want to to kill the men, rape the woman, and ride off with their sheep. And get it right this time!"--Rich Little as John Wayne's Ghengis Khan

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

168 "I am no fan of Donald Trump," Of course this cocksucker has to add this shitty little prefix just to let everybody know that He doesn't approve of Donald Trump- the pinky-lifting closet queen from some blog somewhere does not approve of Trump. Golf clap everybody, in support of the courageous declaration of this effete twink who does not wish it known that he in any way approves of that man Trump. You're a better man than Trump, clearly. Bravo, sir, bravo!

Posted by: I enjoy fellating my dog at February 04, 2024 01:04 PM (h0BGv)

169 Taking a Duke might qualify as making fun.
Posted by: Raw Sienna

Isn't that 'The Big Lebowski'?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (t6VO+)

170 I never occurred to me that polygyny was one of the three legs of the conservative platform, but Willard Romney has done his best to fuck the Republican 'movement.'

For that, we should all be thankful.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (EEgXH)

171 The Swamp turns them into the Uniparty

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (fwDg9)

172 Randolph Scott? Whatever happened to him, anyway?

Posted by: The Statler Brothers at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (NBVIP)

173 168 "I am no fan of Donald Trump," Of course this cocksucker has to add this shitty little prefix just to let everybody know that He doesn't approve of Donald Trump- the pinky-lifting closet queen from some blog somewhere does not approve of Trump. Golf clap everybody, in support of the courageous declaration of this effete twink who does not wish it known that he in any way approves of that man Trump. You're a better man than Trump, clearly. Bravo, sir, bravo!

Posted by: The Real No Fan Of Donald Trump at February 04, 2024 01:04 PM (h0BGv)

He should try insulting the gay mafia. Or the tranny triad. Or saying "All Lives Matter".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

174 Posted by: I enjoy fellating my dog at February 04, 2024 01:04 PM (h0BGv

Another cultist

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (nNx7/)

175 Nikki Haley appeared on Saturday Night Live.

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She basically pissed off everyone.

http://tinyurl.com/39yn6jcb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:06 PM (FVME7)

176 My biggest question about the near future is: how long will evils remain sufferable?

We know we're going to be betrayed again before, during, and after November. Are the people just going to bend over and take it again. That's probably the only issue in doubt, and at this point, where the only hope for America lies.

Posted by: Henry Brown at February 04, 2024 01:07 PM (CW90c)

177 Randolph Scott? Whatever happened to him, anyway?
Posted by: The Statler Brothers

He died.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:07 PM (t6VO+)

178 Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:00 PM (FVME7)

I'll say this much for him, at least he wasn't Cary Grant's secret husband.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:07 PM (23qBW)

179 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not John Wayne! Tell me you don't make fun of John Wayne!

Well, yes, but not Randolph Scott.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:02 PM (CsUN+)

Who?

http://tinyurl.com/bdedjx7f

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:07 PM (CsUN+)

180 175 Nikki Haley appeared on Saturday Night Live.

-
She basically pissed off everyone.

http://tinyurl.com/39yn6jcb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:06 PM (FVME7)

Seems like they confused Trump and Biden in terms of the mental foibles.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:07 PM (ynpvh)

181 Taking a Duke might qualify as making fun.
Posted by: Raw Sienna

Isn't that 'The Big Lebowski'?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:05 PM (t6VO+)

Is it? I'm one of the few that has only seen bits of the movie .

Posted by: Raw Sienna at February 04, 2024 01:07 PM (nNx7/)

182 "I am no fan of Donald Trump," Of course this cocksucker has to add this shitty little prefix just to let everybody know that He doesn't approve of Donald Trump- the pinky-lifting closet queen from some blog somewhere does not approve of Trump. Golf clap everybody, in support of the courageous declaration of this effete twink who does not wish it known that he in any way approves of that man Trump. You're a better man than Trump, clearly. Bravo, sir, bravo!

Posted by: The Real No Fan Of Donald Trump

You make an excellent, reasoned case. Just a few more posts like that, and you'll convince us all to shed our effete ways and fall in line behind Trump.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:08 PM (CsUN+)

183 PIXY has gone to sit it is rejected everything i write about inflation.

Posted by: vic at February 04, 2024 01:09 PM (A5THL)

184
I was looking at the box office numbers of some movie recently - sorry, I forget which one - and was shocked to see that 1/3rd of the revenue was from inside the USA, and 2/3rds was from outside the USA.

Hollywood will kiss China's ass. When told to jump, they'll say, "How high?" They blackballed Gere for his legitimate first amendment right.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 01:09 PM (nIvob)

185 What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Who are the white people of black people?

http://tinyurl.com/4pypvmb9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:09 PM (FVME7)

186 You make an excellent, reasoned case. Just a few more posts like that, and you'll convince us all to shed our effete ways and fall in line behind Trump.

Oh, wait, most of us have already said we'll support him in the election. Sure, we can't match your ~~slavish bootlicking~~ manly certitude, but that's why you're here, right?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:10 PM (CsUN+)

187 184
I was looking at the box office numbers of some movie recently - sorry, I forget which one - and was shocked to see that 1/3rd of the revenue was from inside the USA, and 2/3rds was from outside the USA.

Hollywood will kiss China's ass. When told to jump, they'll say, "How high?" They blackballed Gere for his legitimate first amendment right.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 04, 2024 01:09 PM (nIvob)

Oh, they do more than that. They'll do things even a street whore wouldn't do.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

188
Is it? I'm one of the few that has only seen bits of the movie .
Posted by: Raw Sienna

You've maybe heard "The dude abides"? That's from the big L.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:10 PM (t6VO+)

189 BTW; the Republican party went to sh&t about the same time.

Posted by: vic at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (A5THL)

190 Stuff to do. Good day all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (ynpvh)

191 Bartiromo interviewed President Trump for her Sunday morning show:

“She did OK, initially in the RNC, I would say right now, there’ll probably be some changes made,” he said in the Sunday morning interview.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (t0dAX)

192 Remember Hollywood endlessly tells us we are racist people we don't like...the Black Little Mermaid...but when they released it in China they obscured her face so you couldn't see she was black...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (ibTVg)

193
You know what this blog needs ? Trash talking internet ghetto dwellers and psycho pill poppers showing up under weirdo nics.

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (V13WU)

194
I think Trump won by 10MM votes but it doesn't matter because the RNC doesn't count the votes.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 04, 2024 01:12 PM (Eeb9P)

195 "31 Democrats bugger everything up by design. Not necessarily because they are stupid, it just looks that way, if your assumptions are flawed and you think they are well intentioned, but misguided.

Republicans are not inept or stupid either. Their role is to make you think they might (someday) maybe do something about these injustices. Maybe. Someday.

See Also: A football, Lucy, and Charlie Brown"

Spot-on. What's the definition of insanity, again?

Posted by: Henry Brown at February 04, 2024 01:13 PM (CW90c)

196 showing up under weirdo nics.
Posted by: runner

Just wait until we're closer to the election. They'll come out of the woodwork. (Looking at you Joe Xiden.)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:13 PM (t6VO+)

197 >>>Posted by: The Real No Fan Of Donald Trump

>You make no real sense when you try to communicate. Give it up and breathe easy.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at February 04, 2024 01:13 PM (EEgXH)

198 BTW; the Republican party went to sh&t about the same time.

Jan 6, 1999. The FNM convinced Newt and his chosen successor Bob Livingstone to resign because they had affairs (seriously...with adult willing women no less)

This allowed Denis Hastert, who the Dems knew was a pedo, to ascend to become the most powerful Republican in DC. And from then until when Trump was elected the Rs did nothing to stop whatever crazy ideas the left came up with.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 01:13 PM (ibTVg)

199 wasn't Cary Grant's secret husband

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I saw an ad for a Grant bio movie on Brit Box.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:14 PM (FVME7)

200 Just wait until we're closer to the election. They'll come out of the woodwork.

==

some are volunteers and some are not

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 01:14 PM (V13WU)

201 Just wait until we're closer to the election. They'll come out of the woodwork.
==
some are volunteers and some are not

And some are probably DNC plants to get people angry at Trump.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:16 PM (CsUN+)

202 Bipartisanship.

Years ago I had a friend who's phone message said that he and his wife Cheryl we unavailable to take any calls because they were working on a bipartisan agreement for their home and would get back as soon as possible.

A few of us knew what was happening when he would activate his alternate message which went like this;

Hi, Cheryl and I are unavailable to take any calls were working on a bipartisan agreement for our home we'll get back to you as soon as possible. The good news is Cheryl has agreed to play the role of the taxpayer.

We knew what that ment.

Posted by: T.L. Chap at February 04, 2024 01:17 PM (AWrkh)

203 Nice analysis, CBD

Sort of consistent with it, consider NY-3. This is Santos' (R-Liar & Thief) old district. So a Republican can obviously win it. Santos even beat a Dem incumbent Suozzi (sp?) in 2022, a bad year for the GOP.

The GOP nominee is a woman who is a former IDF paratrooper-- VERY good get for the GOP. Suozzi is the DEM nominee, & starts with very good name rec, obviously.

According to multiple reports, the DEMs are substantially outspending the GOP in this district. The special election is this month.

Anybody else see a glaring problem with that? If the RNC only has two dimes left, they should be spending 15 cents on this very winnable special election.

I concede that with the overwhelming GOP House majority, preventing the DEMs from flipping this seat really won't change much... what? the GOP House majority ISN'T overwhelming? In fact it's thinner than Celine Dion after a two-week fast, you say? Ok, my mistake. I guess it MIGHT be important to hold NY-3, then.

Posted by: mnw at February 04, 2024 01:18 PM (NLIak)

204 If Nikki oissed off Everyone that would be funny

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (fwDg9)

205 145 Lil Z ran as the more pro-Russian candidate in 2019. He promised to end the dirty way against the Eastern Uke people. And...once he got elected he did none of that, whether because he could not or did not want to we'll probably never know.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 12:56 PM (ibTVg)

That's what's most sad about the Ukraine debacle; they'd finally elected a guy who at least claimed that he wanted to do something about all the corruption and being a geopolitical MacGuffin for foreign asshats, and then all this shit happened. But, that's probably why the powers that be decided it was time for a proxy war.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (PZvjL)

206 !!!!!!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (w6EFb)

207 Years ago, before Trump ruined everything, college basketball games included the gender of the teams playing.
Now that normal people are in charge, that bit of patriarchal info is withheld.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (Eeb9P)

208 oh, you guys don't think Trump's people sort through the blogs, and his attack dogs don't go after those who dare to bring up anything other than saccharine praise of the master of the universe? how naive, how naive

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (V13WU)

209 It occurs to me that one of the reasons why the Usual Suspects are frothing at the mouth at the prospect of Carlson's interview with Putin is that a comparison between Putin's level of mental acuity and Biden's level of mental acuity is not a flattering one.

Remember when we made fun of how senile Leonid Brezhnev was?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2024 01:20 PM (YAtuc)

210 >>>What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

>The sound of one hand fapping a thunderous 10" erection.

I have solved a koan for the ages.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at February 04, 2024 01:20 PM (EEgXH)

211 Has McConnell come out and endorsed Trump yet?

Or are things still frosty between those two lovebirds....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2024 01:20 PM (Q4IgG)

212 That's what's most sad about the Ukraine debacle; they'd finally elected a guy who at least claimed that he wanted to do something about all the corruption and being a geopolitical MacGuffin for foreign asshats, and then all this shit happened. But, that's probably why the powers that be decided it was time for a proxy war.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (PZvjL)

He DID do something - he got in on the act.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 04, 2024 01:20 PM (w6EFb)

213 And apparently the DNC server still resides in Ukraine, right?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 04, 2024 01:21 PM (w6EFb)

214 Bartiromo interviewed President Trump for her Sunday morning show:

“She did OK, initially in the RNC, I would say right now, there’ll probably be some changes made,” he said in the Sunday morning interview.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (t0dAX)

Which, after 8 plus years of listening to Trumpspeak ought to make it perfectly clear to anyone paying attention that he's blasting her.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:21 PM (N2wCu)

215 wasn't Cary Grant's secret husband

-
I saw an ad for a Grant bio movie on Brit Box.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:14 PM (FVME7)

Yeah, Lucius Malfoy plays Grant.

I'm not interested in seeing it, but I'm assuming it features quite a bit about his relationship with Randolph Scott.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:22 PM (N2wCu)

216 Anybody else see a glaring problem with that? If the RNC only has two dimes left, they should be spending 15 cents on this very winnable special election.

But...but...but that would negatively affect my ability to stay at expensive spas and shop at LuLu Lemon!

Posted by: Ronna at February 04, 2024 01:23 PM (CsUN+)

217 what? the GOP House majority ISN'T overwhelming? In fact it's thinner than Celine Dion after a two-week fast, you say? Ok, my mistake. I guess it MIGHT be important to hold NY-3, then.

Posted by: mnw at February 04, 2024 01:18 PM (NLIak)

Exactly. Feckless, bordering on traitorous.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 01:24 PM (gSZYf)

218 Then you've come to the wrong place, because we make fun of everyone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Except for Mary Ann, Chuck Norris, and Ace, but mostly Mary Ann and Chuck Norris.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 04, 2024 01:24 PM (wCEeW)

219 Remember Hollywood endlessly tells us we are racist people we don't like...the Black Little Mermaid...but when they released it in China they obscured her face so you couldn't see she was black...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (ibTVg)

Did they really?

Some people have contrasted how that actress handled with grace the criticism leveled at her, versus the other Of Color Dinsey chix who keep saying everything is rayciss.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:25 PM (N2wCu)

220 Con district 3 is the northern half of Nassau county. The county and many local elections have gone red. I am back working on Center Island and lots of Suozzi and Pilop signs.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 04, 2024 01:25 PM (Eeb9P)

221 oh, you guys don't think Trump's people sort through the blogs, and his attack dogs don't go after those who dare to bring up anything other than saccharine praise of the master of the universe? how naive, how naive
Posted by: runner

I've read the average length of visit on AOSHQ is 3 minutes.
After reading the movie review that doesn't leave long for sorting thru comments.

Posted by: old chick at February 04, 2024 01:25 PM (sOete)

222 I've read the average length of visit on AOSHQ is 3 minutes.

==

sounds like Science

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 01:26 PM (V13WU)

223 Putin is asshoe, but if he (correctly) says in an interview that he was basically just doing an Iraq 2.0 with an apoalypse-free side of Cuban Missile Crisis, it's gonna short circuit some NPCs. That alone is reason enough for the powers that be to get indigestion.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:27 PM (PZvjL)

224 OT: I hate, Hate, HATE it when people say "price point" when they simply mean "price". That is all.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:27 PM (CsUN+)

225 The sound of one hand fapping a thunderous 10" erection.

Why, how you say, so small?

Posted by: Paolo at February 04, 2024 01:27 PM (wCEeW)

226 Children's psychiatrist tells white men they need to donate money to black women to celebrate equity this Black History Month

-
Here's the thing. I'm not a celebratory guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 04, 2024 01:27 PM (FVME7)

227 Republicans have no intention of turning around. The Republican governor of one of the reddest states kidnapped a child and sent them to WYOMING to have the child mutilated for the trannies. The GOP is lost.

Nothing will get done during Trump's term. It will be the dying gasp of the Republic.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 04, 2024 01:28 PM (OvBKV)

228 Children's psychiatrist tells white men they need to donate money to black women to celebrate equity this Black History Month

Congrats, dude, you got 15 minutes of attention, which is all you were really after.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:28 PM (CsUN+)

229 If Nikki oissed off Everyone that would be funny
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (fwDg9)

Considering who she works for, she can piss off everyone other than her masters, and still possibly win the Presidency.

I think her chances are some number above zero.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:28 PM (N2wCu)

230 Imagine the PTSD Willard Romney experiences every night in his dreams having been bested by Barack Obama.

If I was Mitt, I'd put a .357 blowpipe in my mouth and pull the trigger.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 04, 2024 01:29 PM (EEgXH)

231 Another great pick by Trump, Rona McRomney. Yeah, he totes is going after her.

*laughs so hard the sharts are poring out*

Trump privately endorsed McRomney. Even the RNC states that on their website.

You had a chance to change with Harmeet Dhillon, but the big money donors, the ones now backing Haley, agreed with Trump it had to be McRomney.

Posted by: Delusion if Thy Name at February 04, 2024 01:29 PM (VwNzI)

232 That's what's most sad about the Ukraine debacle; they'd finally elected a guy who at least claimed that he wanted to do something about all the corruption and being a geopolitical MacGuffin for foreign asshats, and then all this shit happened. But, that's probably why the powers that be decided it was time for a proxy war.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (PZvjL)

I've concluded Z was just a guy. He was poopular in his country, as an entertainer, and he thought he could be a politician who could do good.

Then he was elected, and learned who actually runs his country*.

*Hint: It's a three-letter agency with a building in an area that rhymes with Bangly.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:31 PM (N2wCu)

233 Years ago, before Trump ruined everything, college basketball games included the gender of the teams playing.
Now that normal people are in charge, that bit of patriarchal info is withheld.
Posted by: Jamaica at February 04, 2024 01:19 PM (Eeb9P)

This has been annoying to me recently. I’m flipping through channels and see something labeled “college basketball” so I tune in and it’s the female version which is about as boring as watching grass grow. Why can’t they label it “women’s college basketball”? IMHO the only female sport worth watching is tennis…. Because some of those players look incredible (Serena Williams was the exception obviously but Genie Bouchard was fun to watch…. As was Anna Kournikova

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 01:31 PM (xT8gx)

234 How do you folks feel about editing the nic of a troll, rather than editing the text of the comment? I think it might be fun...sort of a minimalist approach.

See #168....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 01:32 PM (gSZYf)

235 Nikki Haley is the perfect "throw-away" GOP candidate. Presuming the party doesn't back Trump she's toast anyway. Her political career's as good as dead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2024 01:33 PM (Q4IgG)

236 I approve of any and all measures that represent a net gain in quality entertainment. So, I'm all for it.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:33 PM (PZvjL)

237 Genie Bouchard was fun to watch…. As was Anna Kournikova

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 01:31 PM (xT8gx)

Smokeshows!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 01:34 PM (gSZYf)

238 Rona keeps throwing elections against Trump and his supporters, but they're too stupid to realize it. She is all in for the big money donors who apparently aren't giving anymore. That was the big reason to keep Rona. Not strategy. Not GOTV. Not a superior election legal strategy. The money. Outside groups and state level organizations have done more to stop election fraud then the RNC and Trump combined.

Posted by: Delusion is Thy Name at February 04, 2024 01:34 PM (VwNzI)

239 CBD showing his diabolical side!

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 01:34 PM (V13WU)

240 Children's psychiatrist tells white men they need to donate money to black women to celebrate equity this Black History Month

--

THIS money will finally be what makes them see the light, and the last 50+ years of $30T+ donations will finally be worthwhile.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Beau Beau Beau, Beau Beau Iran at February 04, 2024 01:34 PM (AIJ3L)

241 Haley v Biden is a great example of a ballot on which I'd vote Libertarian or Reform without an ounce of remorse. Just like 2012.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:35 PM (PZvjL)

242 Imagine the PTSD Willard Romney experiences every night in his dreams having been bested by Barack Obama.

If I was Mitt, I'd put a .357 blowpipe in my mouth and pull the trigger.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 04, 2024 01:29 PM (EEgXH)

People forget these things, but Rominy blasted Bobama in their first debate. He was quietly told not to do that again, so he didn't.

But then someone recorded a private conversation when he said the true part out loud (about not caring about the 47% who won't vote for him anyway). Then there was the press shouting "what about your gaffs," and all the other nonsense of that election cycle.

Still, on election night, he thought he won. He was more shocked than anyone that he didn't, and the autopsy of his campaign revealed the RNC essentially sabotaged it.

And ever since, he's been there butt boy, because the lesson he learned is to play ball with them, not to fight them.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:37 PM (4tMC7)

243 You know what this blog needs ? Trash talking internet ghetto dwellers and psycho pill poppers showing up under weirdo nics.
Posted by: runner at February 04, 2024 01:11 PM (V13WU)

Only if Xher changes Xhis name every day to spew. That is what we need, posters we can't trust, can't follow from post to post and who say intentionally provocative things.
I bless that poster for using spellcheck. Mebbe he can teach Raimondo a thing or two

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 01:38 PM (D7oie)

244 RNC and GOPe just want to be liked by the media

they don't necessarily want to win, politically- they just want to be in the game

the Game has money, attention, ass-kissing, book deals, consulting gigs, top-notch dinner reservations and great parking

like, RIGHT OUTSIDE the front door

Posted by: Don Black at February 04, 2024 01:38 PM (geLO8)

245 One thing it has done, Linus, it get me to skip over everything labeled college basket ball.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 04, 2024 01:38 PM (Eeb9P)

246 How do you folks feel about editing the nic of a troll, rather than editing the text of the comment? I think it might be fun...sort of a minimalist approach.

See #168....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 01:32 PM (gSZYf)

I LIKE IT!!

- That one bad guy in Robocop -

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Disgustipated at February 04, 2024 01:40 PM (T/Lqj)

247 >>>Haley v Biden is a great example of a ballot on which I'd vote Libertarian or Reform without an ounce of remorse. Just like 2012.

Posted by: CppThis

>I still don't get this. Who are the people backing Haley? She's a fucking lunatic! I may as well be backing Harris for her well known talent for extraordinary blowjobs.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 04, 2024 01:40 PM (EEgXH)

248 IMHO the only female sport worth watching is tennis….

-

Give womens volleyball a try. The beach trumps all, of course, but the indoor college womens volleyball, too.

Those young ladies are extremely talented and playing their hearts out, and usually at least half the team is above-average in looks.

Also they wear color-coordinated bows and paint their fingernails to match their outfits. It's still very feminine in a lot of ways, and it's great.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Beau Beau Beau, Beau Beau Iran at February 04, 2024 01:40 PM (AIJ3L)

249 Haley v Biden is a great example of a ballot on which I'd vote Libertarian or Reform without an ounce of remorse. Just like 2012.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:35 PM (PZvjL)

I might vote for Cornell West.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:41 PM (4tMC7)

250 someone else said it first- but why else would a person raise and spend tens of millions of dollars to land a job that pays a little over $170K a year

cuz once you're in, you're set for life

Posted by: Don Black at February 04, 2024 01:41 PM (geLO8)

251 It's good for him, I guess, but too much teeth.

Posted by: The Dog at February 04, 2024 01:41 PM (CsUN+)

252 >I still don't get this. Who are the people backing Haley?

Dems and Never Trumpers

Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2024 01:41 PM (n2vyf)

253 Knowing what we know now, I am not convinced Barky won his 2nd outright

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 01:42 PM (fwDg9)

254 How do you folks feel about editing the nic of a troll, rather than editing the text of the comment? I think it might be fun...sort of a minimalist approach.

See #168....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

heh, heh, heh...
Now go get 173 so there is no evidence of change!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:42 PM (t6VO+)

255 I may as well be backing Harris for her well known talent for extraordinary blowjobs.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 04, 2024 01:40 PM (EEgXH)

Do we have confirmation of the quality, or is it just the quantity? My guess is that she f*cked her way to her current position but that sex for her is a transaction. I think enthusiasm is vital to quality!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 01:42 PM (gSZYf)

256 Not that I can any longer afford to contribute (I cannot), but even if I could, not one single red cent will go to RNC in its current form.
They are uniparty filth.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at February 04, 2024 01:43 PM (gxokI)

257 The United States plans to undertake further strikes after the killing of three U.S. troops by Iranian-backed militias last weekend. "We intend to take additional strikes, and additional action, to continue to send a clear message that the United States will respond when our forces are attacked, when our people are killed. But first we will give them a 5 day warning to evacuaute and move the vital supplies and on day 6 give them the the targets and target coordinates. Rep. Omar will provide the information to her family and friends so that civilian casualties are kept low.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 04, 2024 01:44 PM (15lwl)

258 You had a chance to change with Harmeet Dhillon, but the big money donors, the ones now backing Haley, agreed with Trump it had to be McRomney.

Ah, Dhillon. RNCs own lawyer that battled voter fraud to zero victories.
She was there to box out pillow man, so there would be zero discussion of him even I. Conservative media. It worked.

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:44 PM (KCCqb)

259 name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 01:45 PM (AIJ3L)

260 Ah, Dhillon. RNCs own lawyer that battled voter fraud to zero victories.

And yet, how could she do worse than Ronna McDaniel?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:45 PM (CsUN+)

261 Mitch is the traitor. He is as uncious as his partner Schumer, kills new conservatives running for office in the cradle, and loves China almost as much as the Biden Regime.

Cut off the head of the snake and see what happens.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at February 04, 2024 01:45 PM (os8zY)

262 247 I still don't get this. Who are the people backing Haley? She's a fucking lunatic! I may as well be backing Harris for her well known talent for extraordinary blowjobs.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 04, 2024 01:40 PM (EEgXH)

Stonks-and-wars neocons are totally a thing, I've met them. Not exactly the way of the future going off age demographics, but enough that someone like Haley could convince herself that the ideology still has a fighting chance in the 2020s.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:45 PM (PZvjL)

263 See #168....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2024 01:32 PM (gSZYf)

Lmao!

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:46 PM (KCCqb)

264 How do you folks feel about editing the nic of a troll, rather than editing the text of the comment? I think it might be fun...sort of a minimalist approach.

See #168....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

With great power comes great responsibility.

Posted by: Ben Parker at February 04, 2024 01:46 PM (v+pQp)

265 Dems and Never Trumpers
Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2024 01:41 PM (n2vyf)

That's too simple, too much the old world view.

She's backed by the Big Money donors, the Deep State, the corporate media, and... Chi Nah.

Which means she might win, because there's a lot of power in that combination. It's not about left/right, or even at this point, Democrat v. Republican. "Our Democracy" is the new world order. Globalist, anti-democratic, anti-West. Destroy what was, replace with what will be.

It's a real existential threat, and continuing to see it as voters who are in an Us v. Them struggle is not to see what is really happening.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:46 PM (4tMC7)

266 He is as uncious as his partner Schumer

Unctuous? Vicious? Both are accurate.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:46 PM (CsUN+)

267 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Beau Beau Beau, Beau Beau Iran at February 04, 2024 01:40 PM (AIJ3L)

Female beach volleyball…. Good point!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 01:46 PM (xT8gx)

268 RANDOLPH SCOTT! was an artilleryman in WWI

he volunteered to serve in WWII but was rejected for medical reasons (lingering back injury)

he amassed a $100,000,000 fortune and died peacefully in bed at age 89

Posted by: Don Black at February 04, 2024 01:47 PM (geLO8)

269 "...although I have no evidence that she isn't." That is too damned funny.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at February 04, 2024 01:47 PM (d9Cw3)

270 Be like RANDOLPH SCOTT

Posted by: Don Black at February 04, 2024 01:48 PM (geLO8)

271 Female beach volleyball…. Good point!!

-

Apparently the top indoor women are competing there and in the Olympics. It's high on my list of "let's watch this" stuff.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 01:49 PM (AIJ3L)

272 Ah, Dhillon. RNCs own lawyer that battled voter fraud to zero victories.
She was there to box out pillow man, so there would be zero discussion of him even I. Conservative media. It worked.
Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:44 PM (KCCqb)

Why, it's almost like doing a victory lap at getting rid of the Haaavaaahd president, or forcing Miss Fanny out of that case in Georgia.

You can celebrate victories over these individuals, but you left the org in place.

You didn't win anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:49 PM (4tMC7)

273 Female beach volleyball…. Good point!!

-

Apparently the top indoor women are competing there and in the Olympics. It's high on my list of "let's watch this" stuff.

Would you still watch it if they wore burkas?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:49 PM (CsUN+)

274 How do you folks feel about editing the nic of a troll, rather than editing the text of the comment? I think it might be fun...sort of a minimalist approach.

See #168....

I think it's pretty damned funny!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2024 01:49 PM (q3gwH)

275 The GOP is not a legitimate opposition to leftism.

Posted by: Jim at February 04, 2024 01:50 PM (zhWvq)

276 Knowing what we know now, I am not convinced Barky won his 2nd outright
Posted by: Skip

There were irregularities...

A spreadsheer of Philly by precinct was avaiable.
Many had 100%+ turnout, 100% obama, 0% Romney, etc.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2024 01:50 PM (cOq4q)

277 If they actually cared about "tax relief" for the lower and middles classes, they'd do away with income tax altogether.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 04, 2024 01:50 PM (t1XYa)

278 253 Knowing what we know now, I am not convinced Barky won his 2nd outright
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 01:42 PM (fwDg9)

His first might not have been stolen in the same sense as the last few, but it included major shenanigans.
I'd bet his second was fixed too... his approval rating was bad. Media in both elections still had pull with people. That tipped the scales majorly in '08 and less so in '12

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:51 PM (KCCqb)

279 The GOP is not a legitimate opposition to leftism.

The GOP is legitimately opposed to having to work for a living and having no power to rule.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:51 PM (CsUN+)

280 . . . Like it is possible to do a proper spike wearing a burka . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 01:51 PM (D7oie)

281 Be like RANDOLPH SCOTT
Posted by: Don Black at February 04, 2024 01:48 PM (geLO

He was also banging Cary Grant most of his adult life.

No thanks.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:51 PM (4tMC7)

282
Would you still watch it if they wore burkas?
Posted by: Archimedes

The women's USA vs. the Iranian Burkas would be EPIC!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:52 PM (t6VO+)

283 Would you still watch it if they wore burkas?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:49 PM (CsUN+)

Absolutely not!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 04, 2024 01:52 PM (xT8gx)

284 Knowing what we know now, I am not convinced Barky won his 2nd outright
Posted by: Skip

Also, until that election 'are you better off' was the gold standard....
Economy was shit.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2024 01:52 PM (cOq4q)

285
The FBI, NSA, CIA and assorted alphabet agencies have been waging war on the Republican Party for decades now.

Trump's legal bills are just a taste of what you get if you oppose them.

The ops they have been running in Michigan are out in the open. Shutting up when the state threatens you is the default response.

Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2024 01:52 PM (j4U/Z)

286 And yet, how could she do worse than Ronna McDaniel?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:45 PM (CsUN+)

She was never running. There was zero intention for her to take over.

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:52 PM (KCCqb)

287 If they actually cared about "tax relief" for the lower and middles classes, they'd do away with income tax altogether.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 04, 2024 01:50 PM (t1XYa)

Legit question, asked elsewhere: If you can just print more money whenever you need it, then why are you taxing me in the first place?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:53 PM (4tMC7)

288 That tipped the scales majorly in '08 and less so in '12
Posted by: Inogame

Don't forget he was running McStain.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:53 PM (t6VO+)

289 Apparently the top indoor women are competing there and in the Olympics. It's high on my list of "let's watch this" stuff.

Would you still watch it if they wore burkas?
Posted by: Archimedes

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Oh goodness no. Like I said above, the young ladies who embrace their femineity do their hair and nails and wear coordinating bows to matches. Not the low level ones, either. The top tier teams and ladies. Wisconsin is a superpower and they're fairly unremarkable looking but still wonderful to watch play for both skill and grace/beauty:

http://tinyurl.com/2xz47lxu

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 01:55 PM (AIJ3L)

290 Don't forget he was running McStain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:53 PM (t6VO+)

Yeah, I've long thought he knew he wasn't supposed to win. Accidentally picked a VP that didn't agree to tank it for this historic election.
Bet he thought the hayseed from Alaska would make a fool of herself and give him cover for losing...

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:56 PM (KCCqb)

291 Would you still watch it if they wore burkas?
Posted by: Archimedes

-

Addendum:

At that point it would make just as much sense to watch the guys, and I have zero interest in them playing the sport.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 01:56 PM (AIJ3L)

292 I always thought that Sarah Huckabee Sanders had her shit together would be an excellent candidate for VP.

Take the party off into a new direction with a concerted course correction.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 04, 2024 01:56 PM (EEgXH)

293 Apparently the top indoor women are competing there and in the Olympics. It's high on my list of "let's watch this" stuff.

I misread your post. I thought you were talking about beach volleyball, in which the participants wear shorts that rival dental floss for coverage. Anyway, it was just a joke.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 01:57 PM (CsUN+)

294 Rombley came off as way too finance-focused to get the country out of a problem that was created by finance in the first place. And he was a little too war-happy at a time when the electorate had been heavily fatigued by over a decade of open-ended military adventurism.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:57 PM (PZvjL)

295 I always thought that Sarah Huckabee Sanders had her shit together would be an excellent candidate for VP.

Take the party off into a new direction with a concerted course correction.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Now that would be a winning combination!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:57 PM (t6VO+)

296 Oh goodness no. Like I said above, the young ladies who embrace their femineity do their hair and nails and wear coordinating bows to matches. Not the low level ones, either. The top tier teams and ladies. Wisconsin is a superpower and they're fairly unremarkable looking but still wonderful to watch play for both skill and grace/beauty:

http://tinyurl.com/2xz47lxu
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 01:55 PM (AIJ3L)

The only drawback is that the cheerleaders are trannies.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 04, 2024 01:58 PM (BdMk6)

297 Yeah, I've long thought he knew he wasn't supposed to win. Accidentally picked a VP that didn't agree to tank it for this historic election.
Bet he thought the hayseed from Alaska would make a fool of herself and give him cover for losing...
Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2024 01:56 PM (KCCqb)

If you can believe Palin, she made the specific accusation that they nailed her down, and wouldn't let her speak her mind.

It's hard not to see it as a deliberate effort by the RNC and the campaign handlers to lose.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:59 PM (4tMC7)

298 I'm glad I checked. The only White Lotus I know of the book by John Hersey. And I didn't think they were doing a show about the Chinese being slaveholders of whites.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 04, 2024 01:59 PM (L8hCM)

299 Rombley came off as way too finance-focused to get the country out of a problem that was created by finance in the first place. And he was a little too war-happy at a time when the electorate had been heavily fatigued by over a decade of open-ended military adventurism.
Posted by: CppThis

Don't ignore what he did for State Medicare.
He thinks of himself as an elite, as in Davos elite. He has never been conservative.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:59 PM (t6VO+)

300 Fun fact I learned watching womens volleyball:

The women stand however they want when the women serve. There are some rules on movement, but you can hold your hands wherever.

The men stand with their fingers laced across the back of their heads to protect their skulls from impact and position themselves in a particular pattern so that the ball will more likely glance off of players and not harm anyone if the serve is low.

There is that big of a difference between the sexes. Imagine how disheartening it must be to be a woman and watch a guy with pigtails and lipstick walk into the gym.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 02:00 PM (AIJ3L)

301 He thinks of himself as an elite, as in Davos elite. He has never been conservative.

He fooled me for sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 02:00 PM (CsUN+)

302 I misread your post. I thought you were talking about beach volleyball, in which the participants wear shorts that rival dental floss for coverage. Anyway, it was just a joke.

-

Oh, beach volleyball is the top womens sport for a reason.

And everyone knows that reason.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 02:01 PM (AIJ3L)

303 Legit question, asked elsewhere: If you can just print more money whenever you need it, then why are you taxing me in the first place?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 01:53 PM (4tMC7)

MMT demands that money be destroyed at some point in the cycle, and that the best way to do that is taxation at the earners level, to keep the money supply at a fixed level. In this way it prevents inflation.

this, by the way, is also a theoretical description of how the Soviet economy actually worked, with "taxation" substituting for "dearth of consumer goods priced at under cost, obligating Soviet citizens to save unspent wages in the state bank" creating the same solution of "no or little inflation"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 02:01 PM (D7oie)

304 1st at NOOD, 1st at peace

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

305 Rombley came off as way too finance-focused to get the country out of a problem that was created by finance in the first place. And he was a little too war-happy at a time when the electorate had been heavily fatigued by over a decade of open-ended military adventurism.
Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 01:57 PM (PZvjL)

But there were plenty of hold-your-nose and vote for the guy people. On this here webzine, and elsewhere.

He should have won. It should have been easy. The fact he didn't, is NOT because he was a bad candidate, and certainly not because the country was clamoring for four more years of the gay mocha Jesus.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 02:02 PM (4tMC7)

306 NOOD, NOODI NOOD

YOU HAVD BEEN WARNED!

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2024 02:02 PM (fwDg9)

307 >Oh, beach volleyball is the top womens sport for a reason.

girl figure skating
a leg man's delight

Posted by: Don Black at February 04, 2024 02:02 PM (geLO8)

308 We need strong governors more. And Scott Pressler tried for months to get McDaniels to respond about a plan to get out the vote and ballot harvesting. She won't talk to him. I know Trump met him. Pressler is in PA again, registering voters in places like gun shows. And he has a plan for ballot harvesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 04, 2024 02:02 PM (L8hCM)

309 Scott Pressler tried for months to get McDaniels to respond about a plan to get out the vote and ballot harvesting. She won't talk to him.

We should absolutely get on that...after the '24 election.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2024 02:03 PM (CsUN+)

310 MMT demands that money be destroyed at some point in the cycle, and that the best way to do that is taxation at the earners level, to keep the money supply at a fixed level. In this way it prevents inflation.

this, by the way, is also a theoretical description of how the Soviet economy actually worked, with "taxation" substituting for "dearth of consumer goods priced at under cost, obligating Soviet citizens to save unspent wages in the state bank" creating the same solution of "no or little inflation"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2024 02:01 PM (D7oie)

Well said, but apparently we're done with this thread, so...

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2024 02:04 PM (4tMC7)

311 I always thought that Sarah Huckabee Sanders had her shit together would be an excellent candidate for VP.

Take the party off into a new direction with a concerted course correction.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Now that would be a winning combination!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:57 PM (t6VO+)

This where the line is. I'd rather have a strong governor staying in the state rather than sending one to DC. DC is irreparably broken. Many states are not.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 04, 2024 02:04 PM (BdMk6)

312 I am one who believes that donating to the RNC would help GOP candidates in '24 less than a pilgramage to Lourdes would.

If you're a donor, there is a better way: TPUSA's political campaign arm Turning Point Action (TPA).

TPA eviscerates the RNC for its attempts to get GOP voters to vote early. The RNC has been flogging this dead horse since the day Jesus was born. TPA says that even if successful, the result would be net zero gain, or very close to it. That seems right to me. My reaction to this RNC effort is WTF? WHY? What is to be gained by merely shifting known GOP voters in this fashion?

TPA, otoh, prepares precinct level books in the 7 swing states only, identifying Republican-leaning voters who DIDN'T vote in either (or both) 2020 and 2016. So that grassroots precinct workers can concentrate on THESE voters. Now THAT makes sense! TPA is for real & displayed their research at their convention in Vegas recently-- the actual precinct books they've prepared.

Posted by: mnw at February 04, 2024 02:05 PM (NLIak)

313 It's a shame threads end so abruptly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 04, 2024 02:05 PM (AIJ3L)

314 MMT demands that money be destroyed at some point in the cycle, and that the best way to do that is taxation at the earners level, to keep the money supply at a fixed level. In this way it prevents inflation.

To curb inflation, ensure money is spent on
1) a good
2) a service.
Government is neither 1) nor 2).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 04, 2024 02:05 PM (8jCIK)

315 Rona doesn't get elected without Trump. Another of his boners. Why should he be rewarded if he changes now or recently after giving her his full support and working behind the scenes to keep the position?

She does so much damage as have so many of his endorsements and appointees.

Posted by: jeremiah at February 04, 2024 02:06 PM (+lYqz)

316 287 If they actually cared about "tax relief" for the lower and middles classes, they'd do away with income tax altogether.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 04, 2024 01:50 PM (t1XYa)

And replace it with what?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 04, 2024 02:06 PM (8jCIK)

317 299 Don't ignore what he did for State Medicare.
He thinks of himself as an elite, as in Davos elite. He has never been conservative.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 04, 2024 01:59 PM (t6VO+)

That too--a legislative and executive history of top-down statist meddling. He just wasn't appealing when one looked past the marketing, and those who only look at the marketing were gonna go for King Barry for obvious reasons.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 02:08 PM (PZvjL)

318 Sounds to me like TPA's got an actual ground game. Which is necessary if one wants to win an election.

Posted by: CppThis at February 04, 2024 02:10 PM (PZvjL)

319 315 Rona doesn't get elected without Trump. Another of his boners. Why should he be rewarded if he changes now or recently after giving her his full support and working behind the scenes to keep the position?

She does so much damage as have so many of his endorsements and appointees.

Posted by: jeremiah at February 04, 2024 02:06 PM (+lYqz)

Rona had the chair locked already as she rigged they game. Trump wouldnt get the nom w/o the RNC support. Once he has it, he can push her out.

Posted by: redchief at February 04, 2024 02:15 PM (HZ17I)

320 NEVER give to the RNC or the NRSCC or the NRCCC. Give only directly to individual candidates or to your local state or county GOP organizations.

Posted by: come with me if you want to live at February 04, 2024 04:30 PM (kvDvI)

321 Russia had a difficult history, but any country with a 1000 year old history would. How many Catholics had to die and how many churches burn so Henry could bone Anne Boleyn ?

Posted by: runner

Not sure if this is aa genuine retarded question or just you being sarcastic.

Churches were not burnt,Catholics were n ot driven out of England like Protestants werefrom France or Spain.

The Catholic church refused Henry a divorce to pitch England into a civil war to benefit Charles V -Henry's father had won the last civil war and a compromised succession could have destroyed the peace in England. The Catholic church attacked Catholic England and so invalidated its claim to represent the Christian faith in England.

Posted by: Thomas More at February 04, 2024 06:18 PM (yhf1y)

322 They gave up on CA years ago. Complete indifference. They live off the crumbs the Dems give them.

This is a state where over 30% of the vote for governor goes to these cardboard cutouts that they offer us. They don't even campaign. If they did, like Trump does, they could win.

Posted by: PJ at February 04, 2024 06:49 PM (G1dq6)

323 Bob Michel was the puppy dog of America. Minority Leader in the house. What a lovable loser!
But he wasn't, he was just a loser like most Congressional Republicans.

When we go off the fiscal cliff, soon, maybe we should sacrifice a few of the losers into a volcano. Very inclusive.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at February 05, 2024 12:17 AM (BJgzI)

324 David French wasn’t an outlier, he was a leading indicator, The Republican party has come to stand for treachery and impotence. Ironically, they must be destroyed before we can fight the Marxist left.

Posted by: Fen at February 05, 2024 11:47 AM (cV2we)

325 "criticized the lack of aid that both the 2020 alternate electors" Of course they didn't give money to out and out criminals. Even Trump isn't that stupid. And make no bones about it, Donald Trump has fully controlled the RNC since he won the nomination in 2016. It is 100% his creature. It does exactly what he wants, no more, no less. Hence why there was no nomination contest in 2020. Why they were going to end the nomination contest after new Hampshire til Trump was forced to withdrawal the demand due to the bad publicity.

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