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Wednesday Morning Rant
Hats off to Nikki Haley. Between her campaign and the Nikki-boosting PACs, she managed to suck north of $130 million out of the Republican establishment per OpenSecrets. In keeping with Haley's political philosophy, over three quarters of her fundraising came from large donors. Her campaign and PACs have torched at least $115 million. It takes talent and hard work to burn through that much Establishment money in a matter of months and have nothing to show for it. Quite an achievement.
Nikki Haley also deserves significant credit for learning a lesson that countless others have learned before. Like Michael Bloomberg before her, she has demonstrated that flushing away large sums of money and flooding the airwaves with the message won't deliver victory for a hated candidate and platform. Time and again, US presidential hopefuls try this strategy and time and again they finally bow out of the contest, assured of their defeat. This is not new, but it was apparently new to Haley. She has now gained a valuable piece of experience, so chalk up another accomplishment. Nikki Haley also managed to accomplish something fairly few well-known and Party-backed candidates have managed before. Haley was a "real" candidate, with real backing and decent name recognition. Despite this, she achieved the unusual state of total non-consideration. There have been many passionate and even vicious arguments over the Republican candidates. Trump and DeSantis both raised everything from unwavering enthusiasm to unhinged ire among their supporters and detractors. Nikki Haley managed to raise nothing but contempt from the base and nothing but a weary sense of duty from the check-writing establishment. The only passion for Haley was the low-rent public passion-for-hire of washed-up and irrelevant ConInc pundits desperately trying to maintain their own alms from the establishment check-writers. Despite all of her accomplishments, she has now suspended her campaign. It's over, though surely some operations will continue for a bit, as her campaign still has a few million dollars to incinerate. Haley's accomplishments represent a lesson learned by many before her and that will surely be learned by many that follow in the increasingly expensive and irrelevant presidential campaign pageantry: that no amount of money, shrieking, laudatory press or think-pieces can make people want you.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (bving)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (JMAcK)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (JMAcK)
Posted by: Fenderbender at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (r72iY)
Posted by: JT at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (T4tVD)
No one has ever accused her of not being a party gal.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (1Z8zZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (1Z8zZ)
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LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 11:02 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (IG4Id)
"Uh, what now?"
-- No Labels Party
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (6IDWi)
2 Firsticles!
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (pZ64F)
3 erste!!
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (bving)
4 1st
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (JMAcK)
Eat my dust!!!
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (JunzL)
Looks like Fani hired a taxpayer funded media analysis to show how her media exposure was paying off.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (a1415)
That by itself should have been disqualifying, but she sure did everything she could to cozy up to the evil that runs our country and our party.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (JMAcK)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (oCjPU)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (LkLld)
Really?
NeverTrump has been wearing dresses longer than the current tranny fad.
Posted by: DaveA at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (FhXTo)
How long before the GOP comes to grip with what's happened?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)
Other than the 115 million reasons mentioned in the article, that is.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (uUxLK)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:05 AM (5sOEG)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 11:05 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 11:05 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Oddbob at March 06, 2024 11:05 AM (sNc8Y)
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Gotta get rid of the riff raff.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Advo at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (VHN21)
Ugh.
This food tastes like used tampons, old beach condoms, dead fish, and shaved leg hair.
Do. Not. Want.
Posted by: The Dogs at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (nFnyb)
Michael Huffington has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (9yWhg)
She will be the "presumptive frontrunner" for months.
She will drop out before Super Tuesday.
Remember when Mike Pence was the Trump-killer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
She was essentially Democrat Lite.
Worse, she openly courted Democrat voters to cast ballots in the GOP primaries to beat Trump, as if these people had any interest whatsoever in voting for her in November. Talk about taking John McCain-ism to the next level!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (oCjPU)
She continued a long tradition within the halls of elitedom in the GOPe of caving to the left.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (1Z8zZ)
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I'd get rid of the 3 point line.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (sX1BW)
Rove noted Haley drew more than 20 percent of the vote in many states such as Virginia, Massachusetts and Maine...Rove has previously warned the GOP is heading for self-destruction if they give the former president another nomination.
Haley is at 237,000 in VA right now. If even 1% of of those voters don't vote for drumpf that's 2370 votes lost. doesn't sound like much but in this swing states the margins are razor thin and things like that add up.
Joe and the Dem team are earning many more absolute votes vs the magats.
Rove is one of the principal architects of the modern (make that medieval) Republican Party. This was inevitable, even without Trump. I hope Rove gets to see the monster he fed (and that fed him) for so long collapse in a smoldering heap.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (YAtuc)
I think most if not all of the former GOP hopefuls like Vivek and Ron also suspended not ended their campaigns. It has to do with arcane campaign finance rules more than anything and not so that they can jump back in the race at a later date.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (LkLld)
The money doesn't hurt though.
Posted by: Mr. S. Honeycum, Esq. at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (wxQ61)
Fine line between tradition and requirement.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (ycI94)
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That's pretty materially and obviously false based on the states I've looked at.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)
The only thing that Nikki's Victories prove is that
Open Primaries are supported only by political parties that want to lose in the general election.
And here we are.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (nFnyb)
How long before the GOP comes to grip with what's happened?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)
There's a bunch of people round these parts who haven't come to grips with DeSantis suspending his campaign. I predict it'll be a while.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (1Z8zZ)
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (CIS44)
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (K/ZDf)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (ycI94)
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Okay. Your terms are acceptable.
The GOP can reform or die. If it dies, then so be it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:09 AM (DeFcY)
Even CNN admitted the obvious last night. Right now Trump is the favorite to win in November.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 11:09 AM (LkLld)
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I'd get rid of the 3 point line.
Posted by: SH (no more socks)
Mandate half the team on court must be women at all times! You'll be doubling your viewing demographic! It's guaranteed gold!!!
Posted by: Nonexistent WNBA enthusiasts at March 06, 2024 11:09 AM (ycI94)
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I never watch regular TV, but have Tubi on a lot for background noise. She absolutely blanketed that platform. For weeks on end, every break was a Nikki commercial.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2024 11:09 AM (mupln)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:09 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: mr tmz at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)
Didn't a white guy invest basketball?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (1Z8zZ)
Shit, if ai thought we could destroy the GOP by nominating El Jefe again, I'd actually be enthusiastic about it.
Posted by: Where are the Babylonians when you need them? at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (wxQ61)
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We are going to need more plumbers this year.
- Dems
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
Not really.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (1Z8zZ)
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not all Europeans, he sais that the like of Giannis, Wemby, Gobert etc can stay. I'll leave it to you to figure out what is different about them vs say Jokic or Luka
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (CIS44)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (YAtuc)
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They'd get some of them back.
But not enough to win major elections ever again. But permanent rump party is the ideal scenario for the GOP.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Yes. James Naismith.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (DeFcY)
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His terms are acceptable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Yep. James Naismith.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (9yWhg)
Raytheon Lowers Flags To Half-Staff After Nikki Haley Drops Out
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (IG4Id)
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The Lakers announce today the signing of their new star female power forward: Lebronitha James.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (sX1BW)
Raytheon Lowers Flags To Half-Staff After Nikki Haley Drops Out
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (IG4Id)
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Rough
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)
Have we forgotten Jeb! that quickly ?
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (6zjv5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (Rls1J)
Stolen from a similar game that he had seen being played years earlier in Africa.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 11:07 AM (ycI94)
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That's pretty materially and obviously false based on the states I've looked at.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I'm sure you're already aware, but DU isn't thebsort of place to rely on for fact/reality-based analysis.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (ycI94)
I wonder what word they use for "reality" in their world.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (KbCG3)
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How come it never dawns on these 'tards that the GOP is heading for self-destruction by their insistence on shoving GOPe big gov't party players like McCain, Romney, Bush, Haley in our faces? They've all lost. The people don't want them. Yet Rove, in his infinite lack of wisdom, doesn't seem to care. They are the ones that are sending the party into oblivion. Not Trump.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (mupln)
Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (vFG9F)
-- Endless wars!
-- Unlimited immigration!
-- Lower corporate tax rates!
Posted by: Darling Nikki! at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (YAtuc)
Without caring about Arenas or who he is or what he's talking about this seems racist.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (rWwta)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (YAtuc)
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They want to exert control over the presidential primary like they do in machine states and their statewide races in places like Kentucky again.
Before 2016, they did exert that control. Look at 2012 and how Scott Walker went from conservative promise to nothing once the donors got hold of him and made him squishy on immigration.
The idea that they won't be able to do that again after Trump is gone is silly. They will do it again. Whether they can succeed is more a matter of degree than a pass/fail question.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
How many of those votes were cast by Democrats?
And as for "self-destruction" of the GOP, that's a feature not a bug. He's the protest against the establishment vote. AGAIN. THIRD TIME NOW.
It's like these talking heads/analysts are incapable of learning. It's been 9 years, Rove, did you really think you can make this go away by pretending it's still not happening?!?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (pZ64F)
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Definitely not hot enough as a curry.
Posted by: Ciampino - Mild, Hot, Very Hot, Hellfire - Durban Indian Market sign at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (KbCG3)
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"My truth."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (6zjv5)
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By the time all is said and done, Haley probably outspent Jeb! in absolute terms, and certainly did so in terms of the daily average burn.
But not by all that much. Jeb! really hoovered up the cash.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (HnUIn)
Have we forgotten Jeb! that quickly ?
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (6zjv5)
Jeb! We hardly knew ye!
Posted by: naturalfake at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (nFnyb)
Posted by: mr tmz at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (rJ48h)
I saw some clips from the NBA recently and its a joke. The team game of Bird/Johnson became the show off game of Jordan became the thug ball of James where there are no rules and the games are fixed.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I'm sure you're already aware, but DU isn't thebsort of place to rely on for fact/reality-based analysis.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (ycI94)
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But they have all the answers!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: mr tmz at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (rJ48h)
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He knows. He doesn't care. He understands the reality, which is that the Party machinations are all a game and that he is paid to play that game.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (KbCG3)
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"My truth."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (DeFcY)
Impeccably done, Captain.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (KbCG3)
I literally LOLed.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (JssEl)
They're good with exclusion and slavery as long as it's not them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (Rls1J)
It's brutal
Pro tip: Do not piss Ms Ashley Merchant off.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (a1415)
How many of those votes were cast by Democrats?
I've seen statistics that 80% or more of get voters were Ds.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Considering the number of GOPe/RINO-types in power at all levels EXCEPT whatever Trump personally runs for, I'd say it's a safe bet.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (ycI94)
Trump is the nominee and it's quite likely America First types will be taking over leadership of the RNC. Johnson is making some good first steps in the House and Mitch is finally leaving.
Trump has changed the GOP from a country club/business aligned party to a blue collar working man's party that is bringing in new voters all the time including minorities and younger voters who are seeing they have no future with Democrats.
The old GOP is dying. There's no going back.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
Would he keep the tall Chinese, or just officially turn it into the Negro Basketball League?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (ou9hh)
Yeah ... and I think the guy got one delegate. They should form a ticket. Run third party.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (6zjv5)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (KbCG3)
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*gracious bow*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Considering the number of GOPe/RINO-types in power at all levels EXCEPT whatever Trump personally runs for, I'd say it's a safe bet.
Posted by: Moron Analyst
Simply look at the Mitch acolyte who is giving the rebuttal tomorrow and is climbing up the odds boards to be VP.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (CIS44)
‘ Gilbert Arenas Wants to Fix the NBA by Getting Rid of “All Europeans” ’
Maybe all the masochists still watching sportsball will finally realize they’re giving money and attention to people that hate them.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (58LrU)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (4p0Xq)
Yep - like Miss Lindsey proposing a Senate bill to ban abortion nationwide right before the 2020 election.
Miss Lindsey didn't want the Republicans to retake the Senate, since the new Republican Senators wouldn't support keeping Miss Lindsey in the Senate leadership, so he deliberately sabotaged the Republicans' electoral chances.
Posted by: Darling Nikki! at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (JssEl)
It's like they really, really hate that a Christian white dude from Serbia is the best player in the NBA right now. . .
Nikola Jokic says "Hiya!" to Gilbert Arenas.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 11:16 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (ibTVg)
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I have no idea.
But in line yesterday, I saw only Republican ballots get handed out. Now, the Dems have no reason in the slightest to vote in the primary this year, especially in my locale where the candidate selection was the only issue - but this is still suspicious. *No* Democrats in the half hour I was there? Seems odd.
There was certainly some "crossover" vote, but I have no idea how much.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:17 AM (HnUIn)
Russia’s Daily Casualties in Ukraine the Highest Yet, With Almost 1,000 Men Lost Per Day
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)
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Sounds like a landslide; a massive repudiation, even.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 06, 2024 11:17 AM (d6sK7)
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (mupln)
They don't care. They're getting paid and they expect to be able to continue the grift until it all falls apart. They don't give a tinker's cuss what happens to the the country as long as they get a share of the death price.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:18 AM (1Z8zZ)
There was certainly some "crossover" vote, but I have no idea how much.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:17 AM (HnUIn)
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Did TN have important state-level primaries for Democrats?
NC did, and the numbers on the D side were healthy.
Though, my county had more Nikki votes than Joe votes, and Trump was triple either of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Montec at
Got absolutely KILLED by iowa/ohio state ladies game on saturday.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 06, 2024 11:18 AM (CIS44)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2024 11:19 AM (58LrU)
Posted by: Generic Whiterun Guard at March 06, 2024 11:19 AM (Zz86T)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:18 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Yup. They aren't thinking of the future beyond tomorrow's rake-off. There is no future. We're in late-stage looting now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 11:13 AM (rWwta)
He's black so it may seem racist but, definitionally, it isn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:19 AM (1Z8zZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:20 AM (a1415)
It's brutal
Pro tip: Do not piss Ms Ashley Merchant off.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (a1415)
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Yep, she has answers for everything...and the receipts!
Posted by: WisRich at March 06, 2024 11:20 AM (G0vdT)
Raytheon Lowers Flags To Half-Staff After Nikki Haley Drops Out
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM (IG4Id)
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Rough
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:12 AM
Chuy-level cruel, but fair.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:21 AM (5sOEG)
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What's the worst that could happen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:21 AM (FVME7)
"Suspended." Code word for "we've still got money to grift!"
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 06, 2024 11:22 AM (Rbu5d)
Fuck 'em. Spot both teams 100 points, and put two minutes on the clock.
There is your average NBA game, in a nutshell.
Besides. They're long overdue to rename the game as "Thugball".
Can't wait to not watch the Atlanta Glocks vs. the St. Louis Hi-Points! But, the Washington Bullets just *might* make a comeback. But, for accuracy's sake (swidt?)...we'll call 'em the Washington Dum-Dums, this time around.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 06, 2024 11:22 AM (e6UQI)
Sans Trump, we're looking back on three possible presidential runs headed by people like Haley and Pence, supported heartily by our Romneys and McConnells.
Haley's political career was dead and buried well before this little stunt. But it was nice that the voters got to piss on her grave a little.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:22 AM (KbCG3)
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What's the worst that could happen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:21 AM (FVME7)
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Japanese planes could be sent to Pearl Harbor without triggering WWII.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
Not quickly enough, but this is good news, nonetheless.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 06, 2024 11:22 AM (XPM1I)
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:23 AM (d/fBw)
Mrs VIA is sitting with me on the couch watching this.
And she is amazed at how clear and concisely Ms Merchant is laying out the facts, and the order of the events.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:23 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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thanks for the chuckle
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:23 AM (oCjPU)
Posted by: ShainS
Ha! Love that nickname!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)
Bet it's closer to November than to May.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)
I have zero context to this joke, but I laughed anyway.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 06, 2024 11:24 AM (cf/0E)
She occasionally lapses into vocal fry and uptalking. I'll ignore it because I really like smart women.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:24 AM (CsUN+)
This post is positively dripping with the most delicious sarcasm I have seen in a while. Cudos to you, Joe!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (cRrcX)
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Maybe for some NBA teams. I watch the Cavs and they move the ball around a lot. They'll have nights where 6-7 players score in double figures. Many of their opponents in the East play the same way. This is very entertaining to watch with all the player movement and passing.
While I appreciate LeBron for carrying the team to an NBA championship (along with Kyrie), it was ugly to watch when LeBron would go to isolation mode. It appears a lot of teams have moved on past this style of basketball.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (fs1hN)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 06, 2024 11:24 AM (cf/0E)
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It's got monkeys and coconuts, both of which are inherently funny.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (DeFcY)
He'll get his ass in front of the ethics committee for anything less.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (yikga)
FIFM.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Gavrilo Princip at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (l2PRJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
You know who else caused the death of millions of Russians (and still lost the war)?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (NReIw)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (DeFcY)
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Funny enough to offset Rove with a whiteboard, which is also funny but in a fairly dark, "snorting with contempt" kind of way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (tkR6S)
There is your average NBA game, in a nutshell.
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Better: just put 2 minutes on the clock
I can't understand a sport where it's routine to give up 90-100 points a game and still 'win'
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (oCjPU)
Good point in this. Laudatory press. You the candidate may think your ads sounds great, the press themselves are lavish with their praise of themselves, but if either are unable to recognize how incredibly out of touch the press is with mainstream America, the message is lost and the candidate is painted with an unflattering brush.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (W/lyH)
I'll bet people at orderly, tidy Tea Party marches thought this. The moment Don is gone, voluntarily or not, it's going back, and he's not really the marked departure many seem to think. It only seems so because of the way the uniparty has persecuted him. Otherwise, he'd be the GOP's version of Bill Clinton. Nothing short of a national collapse is going to bring down the uniparty, including it's GOP wing.
Posted by: Don't Get High On Your Own Supply at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (wxQ61)
Posted by: Gavrilo Princip at March 06, 2024 11:25 AM (l2PRJ)
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But if one little Archduke gets killed then everyone LOSES THEIR MINDS!!!
Posted by: The Joker at March 06, 2024 11:27 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:27 AM (oCjPU)
I can get past it as well.
This is a well choreographed performance, the likes of which I have never seen.
She and her questioner are like two dance partners, working in perfect sync.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:27 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 06, 2024 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Patrick Carroll at March 06, 2024 11:28 AM (7Ozoq)
I can't understand a sport where it's routine to give up 90-100 points a game and still 'win'
Not a fan of bowling ?
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:28 AM (6zjv5)
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Please let it be so. But, the cabal of three letter government agencies will go scorched earth to prevent the new GOP from ever getting power.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2024 11:28 AM (fs1hN)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Yes. James Naismith.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (DeFcY)
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Amazingly I learnt that from Bill Cosby while still in Africa.
Posted by: Ciampino - Very Hot curry for me at March 06, 2024 11:28 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: P.G.T Beauregard at March 06, 2024 11:28 AM (l2PRJ)
Posted by: Don't Get High On Your Own Supply at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (wxQ61)
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True.
But when it "goes back" post-Trump, it will go back to a hollowed-out party with a fraction of its prior support. Yes, it will go back on policy, practice and everything else, but it will not go back to its pre-Trump level of support. When the GOP retrenches in the post-Trump era - and it absolutely will - it will be a shadow of its former self. That suits the GOP perfectly well, and they'll be happy with it as it's their ideal position. They'll grift until the end, and deliver nothing. Every year it will get smaller, but that won't bother them at all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:29 AM (HnUIn)
So the departure of McCarthy, McDaniel, and now McConnell in the space of a year is just a coincidence?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:29 AM (6zjv5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I just came so hard!!
- Turtle McConnell
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (YofvK)
I kind of think that ship has sailed.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (CsUN+)
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Yeah, Beauregard. He was a military genius. Just ask him.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: Ciampino - Very Hot curry for me! at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (qfLjt)
It's brutal
Pro tip: Do not piss Ms Ashley Merchant off.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I was just watching the State's attorney in front of the Judge arguing basically that the Defense only wanted to embarrass and harass Willis and Wade. Willis's father was a well respected member of the community, that Bradley's text answers to Merchant were only speculative, and on and on.
Posted by: Cheri The Snow Roach at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (oiNtH)
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Pure poetry.
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (W2/FY)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Yes. James Naismith.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:11 AM (DeFcY)
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Amazingly I learnt that from Bill Cosby while still in Africa.
Posted by: Ciampino - Very Hot curry for me at March 06, 2024 11:28 AM (qfLjt)
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Basketball was originally a very white and often very Catholic game. IIRC, many of the indoor basketball courts were in churches. The original basketball stars were white and many were Irish. It wasn't until much later did blacks enter the sport and soon after dominate it.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 06, 2024 11:31 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:29 AM (HnUIn)
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That will just keep open its right flank, letting anyone come in and dominate the GOP at the national level who offers even a modicum of populism.
The GOP donors will do everything to Scott Walker all of those candidates, but it's unclear how well it will work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:30 AM (W2/FY)
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Thank you. I take that as high praise.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:31 AM (HnUIn)
And she is amazed at how clear and concisely Ms Merchant is laying out the facts, and the order of the events.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:23 AM
Regards to Mrs. VIA.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:31 AM (5sOEG)
The GOP donors will do everything to Scott Walker all of those candidates, but it's unclear how well it will work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
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Yup. The scramble over the dual corpses of Party and Country will be interesting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)
One of the more darkly hilarious parts of independent Ukraine is the Ukrainians' attempt to rewrite history - elevating Nazi collaborators to the status of national heroes and whatnot.
Up until ten minutes ago, it was universally acknowledged that "Ukraine" meant "borderland" - "krai" in Russian means edge or border, and a number of Russian provinces are called "krai" because they are on the edge of Russia.
This, of course, reflects the fact that Ukraine is on the border of Russia.
Nope, nope, nope - a Ukrainian/American professor is now explaining on X that everyone is wrong - that
""Ukraine" in Ukrainian is "Україна" [Ukrajina], which means "our country." The word actually consists of two parts: "Krajina" meaning country, and "U a preposition similar to "In"."
Nothing to do with "borderland".
Please rewrite your language guides accordingly.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)
As someone pointed out to Trey on Sunday, its about what Americans want and need right now and who can deliver that, not about the personality of who is running. Americans are voting for Trump because they are voting for what they need and think he can deliver that - and unity, kissing GOPe butt, making kissy face, blah blah blah, just isn't part of that equation.
Posted by: Boswell at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (K+UlC)
BIDEN: "My poll numbers? The last five polls you guys don't report. I'm winning -- five! Five in a row!"
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Hotgas claims Biden actually said this yesterday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (l2PRJ)
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 11:33 AM (YofvK)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:33 AM (a1415)
The GOP donors will do everything to Scott Walker all of those candidates, but it's unclear how well it will work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Upstarts like Lake and JD Vance will garner outsized support. Whether they inspire more of the same is the question.
Either way, the GOP will look to co-opt them or sabotage them. Then it's simply a numbers game.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 11:33 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)
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And, since the GOP doesn't seem to understand how to appeal to its own base because it despises it so, it's just going to keep using the same tactics over and over again.
I think the reform of the GOP is still apace.
I don't think we've hit the cusp where things are actually going to change in DC (Johnson just going with CRs instead of shutting down the government is proof enough of that), but the GOP in 10 years should be very different from the GOP that found a way to give Obama cover for the Iran deal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:34 AM (9yWhg)
Yeah. The invader that, even after being treated as a liberator, decided "nah - we don't need ya'".
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:34 AM (6zjv5)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2024 11:34 AM (yikga)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:34 AM (a1415)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)
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OTOH, I understand that "Chicago" is from an Illini phrase meaning "stinking ground."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:35 AM (DeFcY)
A game they will lose. They can try to co-opt or sabotage, but they no longer have the juice. If they did, Nikki would be cruising to the nom.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (rWwta)
She say Hi back!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:34 AM
The RMBS Mom is already looking forward to NoVa and TX. Hope to see you both there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (5sOEG)
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"You hate me! You REALLY hate me!"
/I'm REALLY disappointed that she didn't spin her Super Tuesday evisceration as a WIN ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (mlhUa)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:34 AM (9yWhg)
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Bring back the Principality of Novgorod!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: Northernlurker "
Check the right boxes.
Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (vFG9F)
A game they will lose. They can try to co-opt or sabotage, but they no longer have the juice. If they did, Nikki would be cruising to the nom.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)
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I think Trump is unique in American politics, and I don't think it's clear if anyone will be able to recreate his appeal to the Republican base and the largely apolitical working class.
Donor money is mighty persuasive to people trying to quickly fund a presidential campaign.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
http://tiny.cc/l4ucxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)
well the way I understand it, in bowling, the guy with the most points wins
basketball is the same, but in basketball you're supposed to try to keep the other team from scoring
that's not allowed in bowling
it would pretty easy, though- as soon as your opponent rolls the ball, you run over into his lane and stop the ball with your foot
bowling matches would end in 0-0 ties
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (oCjPU)
I'd like to say there's no chance that there is an unofficial quota with lower scores, but that would be a lie.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (CsUN+)
I kind of think that ship has sailed.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Like when Vindman claimed that Trump was not following 'our' foreign policy with respect to Ukraine, which lead to impeachment? Yes, I know, there are many of these examples.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (fs1hN)
Same here!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (a1415)
http://tiny.cc/l4ucxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)
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WTF is with those nails?
2/10
Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
Hotgas claims Biden actually said this yesterday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM
I saw the video this morning. Decrepit looking dude yelling at the reporter reciting non-existent polling data.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (RKVpM)
Can't wait to not watch the Atlanta Glocks vs. the St. Louis Hi-Points! But, the Washington Bullets just *might* make a comeback. But, for accuracy's sake (swidt?)...we'll call 'em the Washington Dum-Dums, this time around.
Posted by: Jim at March 06, 2024 11:22 AM (e6UQI)
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Dum-Dums: does that refer to the ammo or to their combined intellect?
Posted by: Ciampino - Hot curry for me! at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (qfLjt)
FINALLY!!!(starts putting all the eggs in one basket............AGAIN)
I'd wait until we make it past November then start making bold proclamations
Posted by: JROD at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (IlL6s)
Tell them in no uncertain terms - quit worrying about Nikki's frenz feels...worry about yourself and the nation. They'll get over it.
Posted by: Boswell at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (K+UlC)
Donor money is mighty persuasive to people trying to quickly fund a presidential campaign.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Rush could have.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (xFG0d)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (oCjPU)
http://tiny.cc/l4ucxz
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Definitely worthy of the Art thread.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (fs1hN)
Hotgas claims Biden actually said this yesterday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM
I saw the video this morning. Decrepit looking dude yelling at the reporter reciting non-existent polling data.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 06, 2024 11:37 AM (RKVpM)
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Biden thinks it's 2002 and the election they're talking about is his Senate re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
Donor money is
If that were true, the three Macs would still be in office. What you're describing would more accurately describe 2016 and 2020. I think the worm has turned, and shows little inclination to go back.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight
I thought "Chicago" was Swahili for "Jurassic Park".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:39 AM (6zjv5)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 11:39 AM (xFG0d)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight
Novgorod was actually a Republic. It did have an elected prince, but his function was pretty much restricted to leading the army in time of war.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:39 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 11:40 AM (rWwta)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 06, 2024 11:40 AM (7PziG)
http://tiny.cc/l4ucxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)
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Not a fan of these staged "sexy" pics, such as this one where she just happens to be standing there holding the bikini top straps in her hands. But bangable.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 06, 2024 11:40 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (oCjPU)
She also exposed all the 'rock-ribbed conservatives' who invented the decorum litmus test.
We can see where more people stand, thanks to Nikki Haley.
Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (5q/cj)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:38 AM (CsUN+)
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McConnell is still in power. McCarthy lost because he's an idiot and thought he could both rule the House like McConnell ruled the Senate and that Democrats would help him in an internal power struggle.
Ronna going is the only one of those three that marks a change in GOP internal structure possibly born from the change in the makeup of the GOP's voting habits, but even then, it's a second-order effect that's not actually tied to any voting. It's unclear if the RNC will actually change in any material way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Like when Vindman claimed that Trump was not following 'our' foreign policy with respect to Ukraine, which lead to impeachment? Yes, I know, there are many of these examples.
See my # 201. Vindman was a long time ago.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)
In the book 'Find me the votes' , and in the church at the podium, Fani declared that God had told her to prosecute.
So with God on her side, how can we condemn her?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
She's got a very sweet face. Kinda has a girl-nextdoor quality about her.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (9yWhg)
She also exposed all the 'rock-ribbed conservatives' who invented the decorum litmus test.
We can see where more people stand, thanks to Nikki Haley.
Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM (5q/cj)
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GOP candidates need to be perfect moral exemplars who say all the right uniparty things.
Democrat candidates can pinch little girl nipples on camera.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:39 AM (6zjv5)
Have you tried watching American Football on ICE?
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (dKiJG)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (5sOEG)
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You bring your mom to MoMe's?
That's awesome ... my wifey really wants to go to one in TX.
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (CNXEJ)
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (ytSiK)
Posted by: nogooddeed at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (7h6Mx)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (oCjPU)
I don't think Trump is great or special in any way. Just the opposite. Trump shows us just how easy it is to be better than the series of limp dicks offered by the GOP. Even his vain, egocentric, unfocused and undisciplined ass could be better.
Perot would have been better - but the GOP hasn't been exposed then, and the electorate was more brand loyal.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (6zjv5)
It's a script. Don't bother indulging a response with thought. It's not even aimed at you.
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:43 AM (TE7BU)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 06, 2024 11:43 AM (++4z6)
He has the office, but not the power. He's a lame duck, and his ability to steer the GOP to his liking is severely compromised.
McCarthy is an idiot, we agree. That doesn't mean Johnson isn't a completely different kind of speaker.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:43 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:43 AM (TE7BU)
There are lots of dumb lawyers. Always have been. It's not the profession of smarties everyone thinks. (Trust me on this; I'm a lawyer who's been practicing a little more than 20 years now.)
But like a lot of institutions, law has taken a turn for the worse in the recent past. Lots of low tier law schools pumping out near-unemployable morons is part of it, along with the corruption of elite institutions, which favor many things like race over merit. There's an unquenchable hunger in the profession for black and brown and female faces, and the game is being rigged in many ways to ensure they make the grade even if they don't.
TL;DR: Things are less honest now and merit is valued less. But law has always had a fair number morons of the not-the-good-kind variety.
Posted by: Loon at the Bench in Houston, For Example at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (wxQ61)
Posted by: nogooddeed
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"You Oughtta Know", Alanis Morrisette
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (oCjPU)
Perot would have been better - but the GOP hasn't been exposed then, and the electorate was more brand loyal.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (6zjv5)
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I've seen way too many promising GOP upstarts fall apart at the national level because donors called them and said, "Fall in line, or no money."
That's part of the uniqueness of Trump. He didn't buckle when he got the national spotlight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (1Z8zZ)
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LOL
Posted by: Will Folkes at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (iNp3L)
I just saw that they made a mini-series remake of "The Prisoner" back in 2009 with Jim Caviezel.
Was it any good? Is it worth looking up and streaming?
Posted by: naturalfake at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (nFnyb)
Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (vFG9F)
Please rewrite your language guides accordingly.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)
The change game began when we were instructed to remove "The" from before "Ukraine."
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (Rbu5d)
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Ah, I took the opposite meaning from the phrase "that ship has sailed". In that case, I hope so.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (fs1hN)
She's got a very sweet face. Kinda has a girl-nextdoor quality about her.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:41 AM
Notice the spread where the picture is taken? Something I tend to notice is the young women with no piercings or tats always get their pictures taken on expensive yachts or waterfront estates, while the tatted ones look like their picture was taken at a Motel 6.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (RKVpM)
Vindman and the Democrats set a new precedent when they decided that failure to agree with the "inter-agency consensus" was an impeachable offense.
You Can't Disagree With The Bureaucracy!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:43 AM (CsUN+)
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Johnson is different and better.
But he's still passing CRs while just trying to prevent the worst votes from hitting the floor. He's what we should call a cuck of a leader, to be honest. Playing defense, at best.
He represents some small hope, but small hopes get snuffed out quickly in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (vFG9F)
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I've got cats, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't eat a garage door opener.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (Rbu5d)
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I got that wrong for a year.
But I'm a dumbass so...
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 11:46 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality
I really regret my past ridicule of Perot now.
I wonder how well he and Trump knew each other.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (6zjv5)
You don't seem to know how the GOP got "exposed".
But then you likely don't remember the fever pitch of rancid shit that was thrown Trump's way from conservatives like "us" when he went against the Bushes.
Go back and read the threads. Trump not being special and the Republican Party being exposed are incompatible thoughts. It took balls, smarts and a spine to do what he did.
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (TE7BU)
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 11:36 AM (rWwta)
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Any idiot can get a law degree. That was true 20 years ago when I was in law school. Especially if you have the right skin color or otherwise have a Victim Status Card to wave around.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (iFTx/)
I just saw that they made a mini-series remake of "The Prisoner" back in 2009 with Jim Caviezel.
Was it any good? Is it worth looking up and streaming.
I like it. It was anti-pharma. It was well-done.
I am also the only person in the continental U.S. who is of this opinion. Everyone else I know who watched it hated it intensely.
Posted by: Loon at the Bench in Houston, For Example at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (wxQ61)
Ashleigh Merchant's testimony before the Georgia Senate hearing is flaying Fami and Sweetdick.
Georgia State Police need to put out an APB for sweet, sweet Fani before she skips town.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (xG4kz)
that's not allowed in bowling
Sports tend to be persnickety about how defense is allowed to take place, besides. I mean, take football. I get what they're going for there, but it's disappointing use of land mines is considered a non-starter.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 06, 2024 11:48 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (TE7BU)
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I remember how, during the 2016 primary, Trump calling the Iraq War a mistake was going to doom his campaign, especially in veteran friendly SC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
Illegal...
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:48 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 06, 2024 11:45 AM (Rbu5d)
Neither Russian nor Ukrainian has articles, so I don't know where that "the" came from to begin with. Maybe via German?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:48 AM (9yWhg)
That's part of the uniqueness of Trump. He didn't buckle when he got the national spotlight.
Again - it wasn't like he was largely self-funded. He simply did not cave. That doesn't make him special. It just shows how limp-dick all the offerings before him were.
Do the damn job. Quit worrying so much about keeping the job. Trump is no more qualified or talented than many here. Thats the point. Trump isn't great as much as the GOP before him has been that damn bad for a long, long time.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (6zjv5)
I really regret my past ridicule of Perot now.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:46 AM
I'm proud of the fact I wasted my vote on Perot. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. He knew what the score was, what was coming.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (TE7BU)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (EweRc)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 06, 2024 11:48 AM (OUMaO)
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Or area-denial artillery bombardments.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (1ow1X)
Actually, that mirrors an even bigger fight in Russian that has been going on for decades - whether you refer to Ukraine as "na Ukraine" or "v Ukraine".
"Na Ukraine" implies that Ukraine is a self-contained geographical unit, while "v Ukraine" implies that Ukraine is merely part of a larger geographical unit.
You'll never guess who uses "na Ukraine" and who uses "v Ukraine"...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (YAtuc)
Wade even had one of Fani's garage door openers. Maybe he was going over to feed the cat.
Posted by: fd
He's a "backdoor man" ... and Fani is just the type of Sleigh Kween who would appreciate that about him.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 11:50 AM (xG4kz)
Again - it wasn't like he was largely self-funded. He simply did not cave. That doesn't make him special. It just shows how limp-dick all the offerings before him were.
Do the damn job. Quit worrying so much about keeping the job. Trump is no more qualified or talented than many here. Thats the point. Trump isn't great as much as the GOP before him has been that damn bad for a long, long time.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (6zjv5)
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I never asserted that he self funded, just that he didn't buckle.
Considering how many do buckle regularly, I'd call that special and unique.
Sure, it seems obvious how to continue to appeal to the base, but then why does it take a NY real estate mogul to actually do it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:50 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 06, 2024 11:47 AM (iFTx/)
*gives Elric Blade the stinkeye*
Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee, JD (UVA) at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM (dKiJG)
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Nothing more fun than midnight co-ed broomball while in college at the nearby hockey rink against a rival dorm back in the day.
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (J7bmC)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (TE7BU)
Remember, War Karen has 3-inch heels as ammunition or something something. Don't underestimate her pumps!
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (EweRc)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (TE7BU)
Yeah, but, overestimating her costs you a fortune!
Posted by: Lame-ass Democrat and GOPe Supporters of Nikki Haley at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (nFnyb)
I've seen way too many promising GOP upstarts fall apart at the national level because donors called them and said, "Fall in line, or no money."
That's part of the uniqueness of Trump. He didn't buckle when he got the national spotlight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
The only person who can get away with something like this is the person who has billions to spend of their own money, is willing to spend it, and has no actual blackmailable past.
And a cast iron will to deal with the hysteria of the deep state and Media who go batcrap crazy at being sidelined.
Did anyone think Donald J. Trump would be that guy?
Posted by: Just Lily at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (fq4dD)
-- Moe Howard
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
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I was stubbornly supporting Bush and the war. I've made a 180 on both.
Defending Bush is what happens when you're a foolish idealogue. I've changed. Ukraine, Covid, Trump, Obama, DOJ warfare, it's eye-opening to say the least.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (JeYYB)
If you poll only Democrats, you can't get 92% approval of Biden's administration. So, Haley got the most activist of Dem voters--if they actually voted for Haley and weren't screwing around with the exit polls.
Those aren't Republicans, those very likely aren't Independents, those are activist Dems.
Posted by: Axeman at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (krQz2)
It was a republican only caucus, a "party" if you will.
I checked in voters with their id, as well as counted ballots. It's a small precinct, so I either knew the voters or I knew their name.
Idaho allows party switching with 30 days notice, I believe.
I can tell you that the ballots that went for Haley came from noted democrats who posed as republicans. I know this because they all asked if they could use their own pen . They were black ink, and the voter booth had blue pens. I think they did it as a sort of passive aggressive fuck you move.
All the Haley ballots were marked with black pen. Trump won 87% to13%, which was remarkably consistent throughout the state.
Posted by: Derak at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (e8f0f)
Posted by: Snake Plissken at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Elric Blade
All thanks to my time teaching Advanced Competitive Theory in the Peace Corps.
Posted by: Ted Stryker at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (f746Z)
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Unless you get them all drunk in the bar, then invite them to grind on you in your car in the parking lot at closing time. I mean it worked for you back in the day....
Posted by: Will Folkes at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (dlEpE)
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (TE7BU)
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I am filled with shame that I didn't work this into the word hole.
Sigh.
Opportunity status: missed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (HnUIn)
If he does, it will reinforce their corruption and willingness to cover for their champions.
Heads we win, tails they lose.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (CsUN+)
I was in those threads - all the way back to the Romney wars. I haven't changed. But congrats, some of you finally connected the two dots millimeters apart all the way back to ObamaCare failure theatre.
Trump didn't do anything brilliant. He simply didn't play ball, and he walked to the front of the line. Without focus or discipline, but he walked to the front all the same.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (6zjv5)
That's awesome ... my wifey really wants to go to one in TX.
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 11:42 AM
Yup. And she had a blast. The pistol crowd will testify that she shot respectably in TX.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:53 AM (5sOEG)
Go to YouTube, and search for Viva Frei.
Then bookmark for daily posts by him as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:53 AM (a1415)
Defending Bush is what happens when you're a foolish idealogue. I've changed. Ukraine, Covid, Trump, Obama, DOJ warfare, it's eye-opening to say the least.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 11:51 AM (JeYYB)
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I'm not sure I'd label as being an ideologue, unless you were ideologically dedicated to spreading democracy to every corner of the world.
I attribute it more to partisanship (at least my experience with it from high school with W as president on) than actual ideology.
Now? First state I move to where I have to register by party? Unaffiliated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
me too.
And it's an important acronym
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:50 AM
Why, yes. Yes, it is.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:54 AM (5sOEG)
I can't understand a sport where it's routine to give up 90-100 points a game and still 'win'
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (oCjPU)
Basketball: too much scoring, boring.
Soccer: too little scoring, boring.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2024 11:54 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 06, 2024 11:54 AM (/SHEi)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Any truth to the idea that Moscow was settled in ancient times by peoples from Ukraine?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:54 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Snake Plissken at March 06, 2024 11:52 AM (RHGPo)
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That is 4 people per mile of the total system, and a bit better than two people per station.
Two more cops or cop analogues per station, in addition to the transit cops (not sure of the current counts).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:54 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Any truth to the idea that Moscow was settled in ancient times by peoples from Ukraine?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:54 AM (IG4Id)
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Any truth to the idea that first all the lands were in possession of grass, and we should give the land back to the grass?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Eromero at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (o2ZRX)
Oh right I now know who you are.
Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, always certain.
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (TE7BU)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (pohLc)
Posted by: WisRich at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (pohLc)
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I seriously, seriously doubt that.
The Lindsay Graham machine would back her to the hilt in SC which, combined with her name recognition, could get her the Senate seat, say, if Tim Scott decided to be Trump's VP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
the Kievan Rus were all the groups of people living in those areas -- there wasn't realy a "Ukraine" area that settled Moscow
Posted by: brak at March 06, 2024 11:56 AM (25k9m)
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Maybe so.
Again, thinking Muslim third worlds wanted freedom and Democracy was "a bit misguided."
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 11:56 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (pohLc)
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If she had one anyway. I'm not sure she did.
But I also wouldn't bet on it. They might trot her out again in '28. It would be pretty typical.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Montec
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Walking Violations at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (a1415)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
Nope. She's done. Pissed off too many people in a very public way. Stabbed too many backs. She is liz Cheney.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (pohLc)
Posted by: WisRich at March 06, 2024 11:55 AM (G0vdT)
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I visualize that it will go like this:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/37788084359507856/
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (DeFcY)
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (MvF+J)
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: bang-a-gong at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (XmOAX)
Russians and Ukrainians are genetically identical, and Kiev is a lot older than Moscow, so it is quite possible.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (YAtuc)
Notice the spread where the picture is taken? Something I tend to notice is the young women with no piercings or tats always get their pictures taken on expensive yachts or waterfront estates, while the tatted ones look like their picture was taken at a Motel 6.
Men in generally pretty clear want women without tats/odd piercings and make that clear.
Yet if I turn on the Whatever podcast I hear a lot of "nuh uh plenty of guys still hit on me!" followed by "but not the guys I want".
It is the most obvious sort of line to draw but they don't...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (cf/0E)
Posted by: WisRich
From the pics I saw of her, she holds up quite well. Playtex works wonders.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (9yWhg)
Music to Fani's ears --
1st salesman: Cash for the merchandise, cash for the button hooks
3rd salesman: Cash for the cotton goods, cash for the hard goods
1st Salesman: Cash for the fancy goods
2nd salesman: Cash for the noggins and the piggins and the frikins
3rd Salesman: Cash for the hogshead, cask and demijohn. Cash for the crackers and the pickles and the flypaper
4th Salesman: Look whatayatalk. whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayataalk, whatayatalk?
5th Salesman: Weredayagitit?
4th Salesman: Whatayatalk?
1st Salesman: Ya can talk, ya can talk, ya can bicker ya can talk, ya can bicker, bicker bicker ya can talk all ya want
but is different than it was
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 11:59 AM (xG4kz)
that is an absolutely beautiful piece of writing!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 11:59 AM (i9ffA)
Posted by: Snake Plissken at March 06, 2024 11:59 AM (RHGPo)
Trump beat the prophesied one, Hillzebub, which was the Democrat equivalent of the destruction of the Temple and Babylonian exile (psychologically). They went mad, before Trump did anything.
Trump showed up and had the temerity to think that being elected President entitled him to be president and made him the leader of his party. Virtually no GOP pol was on board with that. They went mad almost as soon as the Dems did.
I'm not sure Trump really did much to expose anyone. That's not a knock on him. His existence appears to have triggered elites in both parties almost immediately. They exposed themselves.
Posted by: Trump's Name is a Killing Word at March 06, 2024 12:00 PM (wxQ61)
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 12:00 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (YAtuc)
All Hail the Kievan Rus! (who were mostly Vikings)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 12:00 PM (i9ffA)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 12:00 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 06, 2024 12:00 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (HnUIn)
Her campaign slogan could be a tried and true one.
"It's my turn!"
Posted by: Just Lily at March 06, 2024 12:00 PM (fq4dD)
BIDEN: "My poll numbers? The last five polls you guys don't report. I'm winning -- five! Five in a row!"
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Does Joe know something sentient beings don't know?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (rWwta)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 11:59 AM (i9ffA)
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I Agree.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Elric Blade
I'm telling you that the black is the better athlete
and he practices to be the better athlete and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes all the way to the Civil War when, during the slave trading, the owner, the slave owner, would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid, see. That's where it all started.
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy The Greek at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (/SHEi)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (MvF+J)
They've had writing and philosophy and such for thousands of years. If they wanted Democracy, they'd have it. Hell, I don't want Democracy.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (6zjv5)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (HnUIn)
On her behalf, she was many times better than Harris, a woman who also has Indian heritage though she shoved that aside for politics as Obama shoved his White heritage aside. Good or bad, Haley has administrative experience in an executive branch of government, as does DeSantis. Going in cold at the top of any agency or branch of government makes it almost impossible to act with purpose. It takes years of learning, or constant movement, becoming a moving target that can seldom be hit. (O)
She suspended her campaign, as did DeSantis & others, not perish.
Be careful, darlings. Think like opponents, progressives.
CBS News, Politics, December 21, 2016, Which candidates did the seven "faithless" electors support? By Julia Boccagno
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 06, 2024 12:01 PM (GshMh)
Russians and Ukrainians are genetically identical, and Kiev is a lot older than Moscow, so it is quite possible.
Kievan Rus was founded by Swedes who worked their way into modern Russia.
Their first capital was in the northwest - Holmgard/Novogord, but soon their capital became Kiev. This lasted from about 900 to 1200-something.
The Mongols invaded and conquered most of them and hundreds of year later Muscovy, later Russia, because the center of their civilization. Muscovy/Russia then spent hundreds of years fighting with Mongols/Poles/Lithuanians, and Turks to reclaim those old Rus lands, including most of modern Ukraine.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (JeYYB)
Posted by: WisRich at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (G0vdT)
Russia’s Daily Casualties in Ukraine the Highest Yet, With Almost 1,000 Men Lost Per Day
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)
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Ukraine casualties again are zero (they don't have any more men that can be killed).
Posted by: Ciampino - who is supplying those stats? at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (qfLjt)
Men in generally pretty clear want women without tats/odd piercings and make that clear.
Yet if I turn on the Whatever podcast I hear a lot of "nuh uh plenty of guys still hit on me!" followed by "but not the guys I want".
It is the most obvious sort of line to draw but they don't...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 11:58 AM (ibTVg)
It's like there's a difference between high class hooker and $20 whore. Imagine that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (i9ffA)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (MvF+J)
Yes, but in VA...
306K Biden + 240K Haley = 546K anti-Trump votes
436K Trump + 40K other votes in Dem primary = 476K anti-Biden votes
In VA, there's no chance...not unless this whole thing is such a landslide, we're looking at 500+ EVs for Trump...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (RHGPo)
The appeals court deemed that the term "administration of justice" doesn't cover Congress's role in the electoral certification process.
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 12:03 PM (RHGPo)
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Yep. Mostly Swedes. The word Rus comes from Rooti which means Oarsman. The locals asked the Vikings to organize and run things cuz they couldn't do it themselves.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 12:03 PM (FmapG)
Any truth to the idea that Moscow was settled in ancient times by peoples from Ukraine?
Nope. Settled and civilized by Vikings. Y'know, those heavily melanated and scowling visages folks rendered so lifelike for us by Goggle's Hegemini AI app.
It's the back story to the creation of the "Black Russian" cocktail, donchano?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 12:04 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 12:04 PM (V13WU)
There are very few people who could have not only endured and fought back against the never ending lawfare, intel and media attacks and not only come back for more but actually got stronger. Trump is absolutely unique. He has exposed DC to millions of people and changed the trajectory of the party and the country. It's silly to pretend anyone could do what he is doing.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 12:04 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Ciampino
There not in Pennsylvania?
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 06, 2024 12:04 PM (GshMh)
I have my ideas based on what the left says (I always believe the opposite).
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (JeYYB)
I wonder how well he and Trump knew each other.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)
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[Found this online @ Quora posted before Perot's death and after Trump's victory in 2016; I guess I don't remember Trump running in 1999 as the Reform Party candidate:]
"Ross Perot and Donald Trump were actually good friends at one point, I’m not sure how close they are today. Although Perot hasn’t come out to discuss any candidate in this election publicly, Donald Trump did run for President in Perot’s Reform Party in 1999."
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (IKoPB)
One of the many stupid ironies of the NAZIs and their racial views is the Poles and Russians they though genetically inferior had plenty of Nordic ancestors. I mean...the idea of blonde/redhaired Russians or Poles aren't particularly unusual...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: diceydeuce at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (wWkjp)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (i9ffA)
Posted by: Trump's Name is a Killing Word
I think, in a way, that the biggest mistake the Democrats made when Trump was elected, was not "working" with him, and by that, I mean co-opting him.
If Schumer would have come out and decided to work and compromise with DJT in 2017, I honestly doubt that Trump would have remained as popular with his populist base.
Because they would have eventually co-opted with DJT on all the important issues.
But instead, the Democrats and in part, the GOPe went ballistic in opposing DJT, and actually pushed him to the more polarizing populist positions that he took that have actually endeared him to much of the country.
And in retrospect, they would have done even worse to Ross Perot, if he had been elected in 1992. The actual idea that Perot could fix things without any partisan loyalty was actually pretty mind-boggling. Perot was an odd duck, and I don't think he was stupid or bad, just sometimes very odd.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Pudinhead
There's a lot of controversy on that second point. Normanists v. Anti-Normanists.
Also controversy on the etymology of "Rus'," but that's not as politically charged as the other one.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 12:02 PM (RHGPo)
I love that woman!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 06, 2024 12:06 PM (GshMh)
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 12:06 PM (V13WU)
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rotund female POCs
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 12:06 PM (oCjPU)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 11:53 AM (5sOEG)
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Double-plus awesome!
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 12:06 PM (IKoPB)
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2024 12:06 PM (K/ZDf)
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024
So hot Russian mail order brides are Scandinavian?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 06, 2024 12:07 PM (rWwta)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 06, 2024 12:08 PM (bving)
They killed all the Russkies yesterday and they'll kill them all again tomorrow!
Russia’s Daily Casualties in Ukraine the Highest Yet, With Almost 1,000 Men Lost Per Day
It's like the battles for Khorramshahr, over and over again!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 12:08 PM (xG4kz)
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Posted by: Plainoldtoast at March 06, 2024 12:09 PM (ytSiK)
Brookings, Commentary
Supreme Court’s “faithless electors” decision validates case for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
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What laws/rules does your state have?
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 06, 2024 12:09 PM (GshMh)
I think, in a way, that the biggest mistake the Democrats made when Trump was elected, was not "working" with him, and by that, I mean co-opting him.
If Schumer would have come out and decided to work and compromise with DJT in 2017, I honestly doubt that Trump would have remained as popular with his populist base.
Because they would have eventually co-opted with DJT on all the important issues.
But instead, the Democrats and in part, the GOPe went ballistic in opposing DJT, and actually pushed him to the more polarizing populist positions that he took that have actually endeared him to much of the country.
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I fully expected that Trump would make deals with the progressives and sell the country down the river so he could be shown as the Great Deal Maker of All Time with his luxurious and fabulous deals.
I was SHOCKED when he actually tried to keep his campaign promises.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 06, 2024 12:10 PM (fq4dD)
Posted by: Trump's Name is a Killing Word
What he did, and this is the thing, is acted as if the game actually played by the rules they've always been selling us. When in fact is hasn't, not for quite some time, possibly since before most of us here were born. He didn't know the unwritten rules of the game and he didn't consider them legitimate. That's what he did that set it off.
He is a catalyst, not be dint of who he is, but who he isn't.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 06, 2024 12:11 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 12:11 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2024 12:05 PM (i9ffA)
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Haley/Heard 2024 -- Two Bed-Shitters for the Price of One!
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 12:12 PM (IKoPB)
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 12:13 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 12:15 PM (RHGPo)
Better: just put 2 minutes on the clock
I can't understand a sport where it's routine to give up 90-100 points a game and still 'win'
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 11:26 AM (oCjPU)
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Raise the hoop 5-6 feet. No more dunking.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's how you get to the goal & not the scoring at March 06, 2024 12:19 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 11:57 AM (pohLc)
Even Liz will get a job since she has shown she will do exactly as instructed.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2024 12:23 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2024 12:23 PM (D7oie)
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Plenty of unelectable Pubs can get jobs in DC. Look at Krysinger.
Posted by: Axeman at March 06, 2024 12:25 PM (krQz2)
It was a useful tool and it got spread around to the Russians and English and even the French in the 19th century, and you can guarantee that the "founding myths" of a country will be in congruence with actual historical and archaeological fact whenever those facts support the claims of supremacy and legitimacy for the state.
Otherwise, you might as well be reading comforting fairy tales.
Oh, and the initial proponents really were the Brothers Grimm.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2024 12:31 PM (D7oie)
Shirley she will hand Trump whatever campaign funds she has left. Or publicly return it from whence it came.
Right?
Posted by: birdog at March 06, 2024 01:44 PM (SFGDK)
Besides sounding like Putin, that argument is nonsense. "Arizona was part of Mexico, so it should be part of Mexico now." Sounds dumb, doesn't it?
Talk to Ukrainians. I knew immigrant Ukraine families in the 50's who got out in the post-WW2 confusion, and they were vehement about being not Russian. I worked with Ukrainian immigrants 10 years ago, and they got pissed if you called the Russian. There is a Ukraine national identity. Look up Holodomor.
Ukraine is necessary as a buffer. If Russia takes it over, there will be Russian troops facing Polish troops. The Poles viscerally hate the Russians. There WILL be "border incidents". All the jokes upstream about Fort Sumpter and Archduke Ferdinand? Poland is a NATO member. Article 5.
Give Russia Crimea officially, as well as de facto, along with a corridor through the Donbas. Keep Ukraine a buffer, agree they stay out of NATO, but let them in the EU. Keep bleeding Russia until they agree.
Posted by: buddhaha at March 06, 2024 02:49 PM (ofoQk)
Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at March 06, 2024 05:21 PM (kvDvI)
Was her dad a mailman perhaps?
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you made blogging look easy. The overall look of your website is fantastic, as well as the content!
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