Schumer Vows to Block Constitutionally-Required Impeachment Trial of Open Borders Czar Mayorkas

We had to burn the Constitution in order to save it.

Members of the United States Senate signed the "oath book" to assume the role of jurors on Wednesday afternoon, set to begin the impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. After the formal process of convening a court of impeachment, however, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addressed the upper chamber and confirmed he would attempt to prevent the trial from taking place.
The norm-breaking, duty-abdicating move by Schumer and Senate Democrats upsets 227 years of congressional history.
In his remarks from the Senate floor, Schumer said he would make two motions, one to dismiss each of the two articles of impeachment passed by the House earlier this year: the first article deals with the DHS secretary's "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" and the second article addresses Mayorkas' "breach of public trust."
The majority leader said seven points of order would be allowed on the motion to dismiss the first article but only one point of order would be allowed on the motion to dismiss the second article. Both motions would have 60 minutes of debate, Schumer outlined. Schumer said he would then move to adjourn the court of impeachment with just four minutes of debate on that question.
Schumer then raised a point of order to claim that the first article of impeachment against Mayorkas does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor and is therefore "unconstitutional," an ironic attempt to claim adherence to the Constitution in order to abdicate the Senate's constitutional duty.

Meanwhile, Sanctuary City Denver is cutting funding for the police in order to provide welfare to the illegal aliens they've invited to illegally squat in the city.

* The sanctuary city's progressive Mayor Mike Johnston unveiled a budget proposal on Wednesday, allocating $89.9m to assist undocumented migrants
As a result of this reallocation, the police and fire department are some of the those expected to face budget cuts
* The amount will be drawn from approximately $45 million that's used for public programs and services
* The city of Denver has announced plans to defund the police to pay for the migrant crisis as the democrat city strips cops' budget of $8.4 million.
The sanctuary city's progressive Mayor Mike Johnston unveiled a budget proposal on Wednesday, allocating $89.9 million to assist incoming undocumented migrants, whom he refers to as 'newcomers.'
The amount will be drawn from approximately $45 million that's used for public programs and services.
As a result of this reallocation, the police and fire department are some of those expected to face budget cuts.
Johnston claimed this was the best option available to provide services to migrants.

But Denver officials are meanwhile telling illegals to go to other blue state sanctuary cities.

In February 2018, Denver city leaders sent a valentine to foreigners interested in relocating to the progressive mountain city and a message to any elected officials looking to stop them.
Draped on Denver's City and County building was a large, blue banner: "Denver [HEART] Immigrants."
If it wasn't clear enough, then-mayor Michael Hancock posted on social media that it was a statement of "love" to let immigrants know that Denver is "an open and welcoming city."
Denver leaders unfurled that welcome banner six months after they passed an ordinance curtailing the city's ability to cooperate with federal immigration agents during a Trump-era crackdown on illegal immigration. Hancock also issued an executive order at the time directing city agencies to aid illegal immigrants in Denver and setting up a legal defense fund for them.
But six years later, amid a crisis that has seen more than 40,000 migrants arrive in the city since late 2022, Denver leaders appear to have a new message for some of their so-called "newcomers": If you stay in Denver, you will suffer.
"The opportunities are over," an official with new mayor Mike Johnston's office told a gathering of migrants in Spanish inside a city shelter in late March, according to a video obtained by a local television station. "New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more."
Denver has run out of resources, he told them, offering bus fare to somewhere, anywhere else.
"If you stay here," he added, "you are going to suffer even more, and I don't want to see this."
While the immigration crisis has hit Chicago and New York City hard, in large part due to Texas governor Greg Abbott's program of busing migrants to deep-blue sanctuary cities, it has absolutely hammered Denver, which is only a fraction of their size.
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To address a migrant-driven financial crunch, the city is now cutting hours at local rec centers, slashing park programming, and freezing hiring in some departments. To save a little money, the city has decided against planting flowers in some of its parks and medians this spring.

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Posted by: Big Star at April 17, 2024 04:32 PM (Modkf)

2 it's all Kabuki theater. R's are fucking useless.

Posted by: Big Star at April 17, 2024 04:32 PM (Modkf)

3 Due tell what High Crime Trump... oh forget it...

Posted by: Inogame at April 17, 2024 04:34 PM (53oGX)

4 Schumer, like Harry Reid before him, knows that decorum and 'muh norms' only matter when you're in the minority. When you have power just do what you want.

Posted by: Flyguy at April 17, 2024 04:34 PM (OYxA4)

5 This is stupid anyway, because first order of business with the R's in the house should have been Biden Impeachment. Period.
2 ridiculous impeachments get passes... this is why the R's lose.

Posted by: Inogame at April 17, 2024 04:35 PM (53oGX)

6 The GOPe is thoroughly controlled opposition. But, who still believes they oppose anything Schumer/Pelosi/Obama proposes?

Posted by: Jamaica at April 17, 2024 04:36 PM (IG7T0)

7 Denver has run out of resources, he told them, offering bus fare to somewhere, anywhere else.

Now you're doin' the Blue State Shuffle!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2024 04:36 PM (+myjY)

8 I see no solution but for more illegal aliens to head straight up the I25 corridor to protest Denver's bigoted treatment of illegal aliens.

Posted by: huerfano at April 17, 2024 04:37 PM (VGOMa)

9 Heh. That's Denver for ya.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2024 04:38 PM (0FoWg)

10 The Senate killed voted the impeachment of Mayorkas. The shitholeifcation of the nation gains speed. Meanwhile the designer trials against Donald Trump continue unabated.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 17, 2024 04:39 PM (IwS0P)

11 What we need to do is pass more laws to prevent the left from ignoring the law.........or something.

(shrugging shoulders) its all I got.

Posted by: JROD at April 17, 2024 04:40 PM (IlL6s)

12 Meanwhile, Sanctuary City Denver is cutting funding for the police in order to provide welfare to the illegal aliens they've invited to illegally squat in the city.

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I predicted this generally a couple of years ago.

Should make Denver a more attractive place to live, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

13 Remember:
All the Republicans in the Senate told us the Constitution required them to hold a trial on Trump's impeachment?

They are no longer controlled opposition-- they are the opposition.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 04:41 PM (yikga)

14 So let me get this straight....

Mayorkas absolutely refuses to uphold the law and do his appointed job according to the law and he cannot be touched.

Trump takes ONE PHONE CALL and suddenly the Dems can't impeach him fast enough.

Am I understanding that correctly?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2024 04:41 PM (7fElN)

15 Nice country you had here. Something happened to it.

Posted by: Zombie Alexis de Tocqueville at April 17, 2024 04:42 PM (J2vNu)

16 Remember when Trump was impeached and the assessment was "the Senate *must* hold a trial and can't simply dismiss charges?"

I remember that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:43 PM (HnUIn)

17
We had to ~~burn~~ wipe our collective asses with the Constitution in order to save it.

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FIFM

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (76r/Z)

18 I can't think of Schumer without thinking of slime.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

19 I knew back during the Monica Lewinsky trial that the Dems had no allegiance to anything but power. They have not changed.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (CsUN+)

20 The norm-breaking, duty-abdicating move by Schumer and Senate Democrats upsets 227 years of congressional history.
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LOL. Seriously? Norms? Duty? History?

This shit does not matter to them. At all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (HnUIn)

21 For as much of an evil bastard as Schumer is, he's a Gangsta.

Nobody in the GOPe would ever dare swing their microdicks around like that.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (UnA8+)

22 Regarding FISA, my understanding is it doesn't lapse for a year after expiring, correct?

Posted by: Ribbed at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (Ectld)

23 If I was a cynical person I would think the Republicans revealed the Club they are in today…

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

24 How can 40,000 additional hard working, undocumented immigrants not create additional wealth in Denver?

Posted by: Confused Denver Democrats at April 17, 2024 04:45 PM (snyZJ)

25 Greatest deliberative body is now the Greatest clown show on earth.

Suck it Phineas Taylor Barnum you ain't got nuttin on the Congress of the US.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2024 04:45 PM (SbFrc)

26 23 If I was a cynical person I would think the Republicans revealed the Club they are in today…
Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

They're the Renfield to the Democrats' Dracula.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:46 PM (UnA8+)

27 This is so weird. This is the perfect opportunity to do something without really doing anything. Impeaching Mayorkas accomplishes nothing really. So close to the election his absence would not be the least bit meaningful and would not really change any policy. But it would make those senators up for reelection LOOK like they are doing something. The number one issue in the country is illegal immigration so why not polish those credentials while at the same time doing absolutely nothing about the problem.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 04:46 PM (t/2Uw)

28 Remember when Trump was impeached and the assessment was "the Senate *must* hold a trial and can't simply dismiss charges?"

I remember that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:43 PM (HnUIn)

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"NORMZZZZ! What are they good for?"

"Nothing! Absolutely nothing!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 04:46 PM (76r/Z)

29 There is no way that DC can be reasoned with or worked with by “us”… It seems past overhauling.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (PCK5/)

30 27 This is so weird. This is the perfect opportunity to do something without really doing anything. Impeaching Mayorkas accomplishes nothing really. So close to the election his absence would not be the least bit meaningful and would not really change any policy. But it would make those senators up for reelection LOOK like they are doing something. The number one issue in the country is illegal immigration so why not polish those credentials while at the same time doing absolutely nothing about the problem.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 04:46 PM (t/2Uw)

Because it's more important to do the Power Move of giving Republicans the finger.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (UnA8+)

31 I walked passed a whorehouse in Thailand, and they very conveniently had a price list in the window. Very helpful.

I wonder if Schumer hands out a price list to his CCP and WEF overseers, or does he negotiate for each vote.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (sbbAa)

32 The sanctuary city's progressive Mayor Mike Johnston unveiled a budget proposal on Wednesday, allocating $89.9m to assist undocumented migrants
As a result of this reallocation, the police and fire department are some of the those expected to face budget cuts
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The City of Denver has about 720,000 people. The metro is enormous, but it's a sprawling city. Denver has fewer than a million residents.

This comes out to $125 per resident, including children. It's $268 per household.

Small price to pay to "do the right thing."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (HnUIn)

33 otters called

Posted by: amy schumer at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (vtyCZ)

34 29 There is no way that DC can be reasoned with or worked with by “us”… It seems past overhauling.
Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (PCK5/)

So, what do you propose to do about it, that doesn't involve *Fedposting*?

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:47 PM (UnA8+)

35 Abbott has bussed no where near the number that the government is flying in.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2024 04:48 PM (88juN)

36 Myackus looks like a nut sack with legs.

Fuck him and his mamma.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2024 04:48 PM (cDEsv)

37 Atlantic City mayor Marty Small Sr. accused of beating his teenage daughter unconscious with a broom.

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Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? Boy, if only somebody had told me . . .

Posted by: Mayor Marty Small Sr. at April 17, 2024 04:48 PM (FVME7)

38 28
"NORMZZZZ! What are they good for?"

"Nothing! Absolutely nothing!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 04:46 PM (76r/Z)
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I heard that in Jackie Chan's voice.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 17, 2024 04:48 PM (snyZJ)

39 21 For as much of an evil bastard as Schumer is, he's a Gangsta.

Nobody in the GOPe would ever dare swing their microdicks around like that.
Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:44

What an eloquent way to describe our whole blessed problem. 😂 I am so over everything right now. I see to donate quite a bit. They’ve gotten nothing for 2 years and this is exactly why.

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 04:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

40 I repeat:
The Dems are terrified to fail to do the will of their party's left.
The Reps are terrified to do the will of their party's right.

I really don't care about the state of the GOP's soul. I just want them afraid to defy us.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 17, 2024 04:49 PM (1bNHn)

41 Johnston claimed this was the best option available to provide services to migrants.
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And with that, he shows the truth.

Services for you - including basic safety services like fire departments - that you were taxed to provide are irrelevant as compared to the needs of illegal aliens.

Get used to it. You voted for it. You approved it. You re-approve it all the time. This is what you wanted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:49 PM (HnUIn)

42 Well, the illegals have to be concentrated in the cities if they are going to be used to illegally manufacture votes (which they are). Hence, the willingness to endure all the pain associated with them.

Posted by: Bugs and Circuses at April 17, 2024 04:49 PM (2DpKB)

43 Democracy dies in the Senate

Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 04:49 PM (v0R5T)

44 I guess were just going to have to learn to love our uninvited guests.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 17, 2024 04:49 PM (FVME7)

45 The GOP knew this impeachment wasn't gonna go anywhere with Schumer in charge. Mayorkas knew the impeachment wasn't gonna go anywhere with Schumer in charge. The GOP knew the best they could hope for was to get the Dems to defend this clown and the admins' open border policies during the election season.

It ain't rocket science and the GOP doesn't play to win.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 17, 2024 04:50 PM (YRsIm)

46 I look forward to serving our cultural enriching overlords.

But... seriously, some of these illegals have political aspirations and will soon run against the very politicians who were instrumental in getting them here.

When those entrenched politicos loose the very definition of "you voted for this" rears its ugly head.

My bets are on Karma.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Q4IgG)

47 Time walk away from the party and create another one, not simply try and reanimate a corpse.. let the “ yes buts’ “ begin…

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

48 Denver has run out of resources, he told them, offering bus fare to somewhere, anywhere else.

"If you stay here," he added, "you are going to suffer even more, and I don't want to see this."

Tough shit. Give up your salary and fire your staff. You invited them.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2024 04:50 PM (gkpAx)

49 Schumer then raised a point of order to claim that the first article of impeachment against Mayorkas does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor and is therefore "unconstitutional," an ironic attempt to claim adherence to the Constitution in order to abdicate the Senate's constitutional duty.
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The old "No jury would convict and he's too senile to charge and convict" trick. Third time we've fallen for it in the past nine years.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 17, 2024 04:51 PM (vtyCZ)

50 I expect an increase in cities bitching about immigration as a form of extortion to get more federal cash from biden in an election year.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 17, 2024 04:51 PM (sbbAa)

51 "The opportunities are over," an official with new mayor Mike Johnston's office told a gathering of migrants in Spanish inside a city shelter in late March, according to a video obtained by a local television station. "New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more."
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I saw this, and doubtless Denver really *is* trying to square the circle of remaining a "sanctuary" while reducing the burden of aliens.

But none of this talk matters because actions are louder. And the actions are clear: they'll drain other budgets to find funds to make sure that "the opportunities" are definitely *not* "over."

Who are they going to believe? Some chatterbox, or the friendly alien activist who tells them that it's all okay because they're cutting other budgets to continue providing them with services, and shows them the Spanish-language version of the announcement?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:51 PM (HnUIn)

52 It's been said before. But I think we all owe a drink to Abbott and DeSantis.

Alinsky rule #4 executed to perfection.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2024 04:51 PM (FxH7T)

53 ‘ We had to burn the Constitution in order to save it.’

Quick! Someone save Schumer!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 17, 2024 04:52 PM (jbnUc)

54 The old "No jury would convict and he's too senile to charge and convict" trick. Third time we've fallen for it in the past nine years.

I don't understand. Where does the banana go?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2024 04:52 PM (CsUN+)

55 Democracy dies in the Senate
Posted by: wth at

With thunderous applause
-senator Padme amidala

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 17, 2024 04:52 PM (MGB5H)

56 While the immigration crisis has hit Chicago and New York City hard, in large part due to Texas governor Greg Abbott's program of busing migrants to deep-blue sanctuary cities, it has absolutely hammered Denver, which is only a fraction of their size.
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Boo-fucking-boo-hoo.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (vtyCZ)

57 40 I repeat:
The Dems are terrified to fail to do the will of their party's left.
The Reps are terrified to do the will of their party's right.

I really don't care about the state of the GOP's soul. I just want them afraid to defy us.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 17, 2024 04:49 PM

The GOP has never been afraid of us. They never fight for us, ever. Milton Friedman's quote comes to mind. Politically profitable for the wrong person to do the right thing. We aren't there and unless we take back the schools and popular culture nothing will change.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (1oTv1)

58 While the immigration crisis has hit Chicago and New York City hard, in large part due to Texas governor Greg Abbott's program of busing migrants to deep-blue sanctuary cities, it has absolutely hammered Denver, which is only a fraction of their size.
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Lie. Abbott hasn't actually moved all that many aliens. They move outside the NGO structure and so aren't well-handled at the destination, but the total *he* has moved as compared to the NGOs is fairly small.

The way this is written seems to imply that Abbott is hammering Denver and if not for him, this wouldn't be a problem. That is absurd.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (HnUIn)

59 Time walk away from the party and create another one, not simply try and reanimate a corpse.. let the “ yes buts’ “ begin…
Posted by: tubal

How long have the Libertarians been trying to be a real party? 40 years?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

60 Marxists do no wrong against Marism until its a back stabbing charge

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (fwDg9)

61 54 The old "No jury would convict and he's too senile to charge and convict" trick. Third time we've fallen for it in the past nine years.

I don't understand. Where does the banana go?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2024 04:52 PM (CsUN+)

In the tailpipe.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (1oTv1)

62 Someone suggested Trump hold an election event every day after court. He could hit different neighborhoods in NYC especially in areas like AOC's district. Supposedly he raised a million dollars after the first day in court.
Keep it up Judge Mercan. Keep makinig people sympathetic when you deny him the right to go to his son;s graduation. You can't keep him from campaigning and giving him an unfair kangaroo court backdrop to do it is helping him. Keeping him in hte public eye. Lot of free publicity.
Don't think this is working out the way they thought it would.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (t/2Uw)

63 @47 Time to walk away from the party...

Again.

Our best option seems to be to vote for the party least likely to have you murdered in prison.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (snyZJ)

64 Get used to it. You voted for it. You approved it. You re-approve it all the time. This is what you wanted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

100%

As restaurant workers are finding out now here in Cali.

It's all fun and games until you have to live (suffer) the consequences.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (FxH7T)

65 21
‘ Schumer is, he's a Gangsta. ’

Why don’t you marry him?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (jbnUc)

66 I saw Suffering Wetbacks open for Dogs Die in Hot Cars at Trout's Nightclub in Bakersfield.

Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (v0R5T)

67 59 Time walk away from the party and create another one, not simply try and reanimate a corpse.. let the “ yes buts’ “ begin…
Posted by: tubal

How long have the Libertarians been trying to be a real party? 40 years?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

Yeah I know… but I honestly am out of ideas and am generally pissed off.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (PCK5/)

68 🫡 end of the Republic

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2024 04:54 PM (fwDg9)

69 Meh, I gave up pretending that we lived in a legitimate nation of laws four years ago.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 17, 2024 04:55 PM (wBaIH)

70 Crime at a former Denver Double Tree hotel, now an illegal alien shithole, is up 2900%. Nearby negatively impacted business are given the option by the City of Denver to fuck off.

https://youtu.be/3knBwqxqL44

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 17, 2024 04:55 PM (IwS0P)

71 57 The GOP has never been afraid of us. They never fight for us, ever. Milton Friedman's quote comes to mind. Politically profitable for the wrong person to do the right thing. We aren't there and unless we take back the schools and popular culture nothing will change.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 04:53 PM (1oTv1)

Popular Culture doesn't breed hardened soldiers.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:55 PM (UnA8+)

72 36 Myackus looks like a nut sack with legs.

Fuck him and his mamma.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2024 04:48 PM (cDEsv)

Well, with everything going to shit, at least you guys make me laugh.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 04:56 PM (1oTv1)

73 Impeaching Mayorkas accomplishes nothing really.

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Present public testimony every day for the next 7 months from tens of thousands of family members of raped, assaulted, and dead Americans as a direct result of the intentional #BidenBorderBloodbath.

Maybe connect Myorkas, the Biden Crime Family, and other traitors in the Deep State Junta to payments (in the form of both cash and sex slaves including children) from The Cartels ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 04:56 PM (76r/Z)

74 The House brought the impeachment... It's the Senate who is refusing to accept it... What more can they do... And I am no fan

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 04:56 PM (Akjoo)

75
Popular Culture doesn't breed hardened soldiers.
Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:55 PM (UnA8+)

Popular culture reinforces Marxist ideology.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 04:56 PM (1oTv1)

76 This sounds bad:

@RichardMeyerDC
·
1h
Holy cow.

The Texas grid operator (ERCOT) is forecasting 62 gigawatts of additional electric demand *on top of current projections.*

The new forecasted load for 2030 is 152 GW!

For perspective, the all-time peak in ERCOT is 86 GW.

The demand is here, folks. And it's huge.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (IG4Id)

77 Texas has shipped out around 100,000 illegals. Bribe'em has flown in 400,000.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (88juN)

78 tic tic. tic tic. tic tic. tic tic

Posted by: Braenard at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (8EMtQ)

79 Larry Schweikart said back in 2020 (I think) that he thinks either the Democrat or Republican Party would not survive intact post election. I really think the GOP is in Whig territory (I wish, the Whigs actually stood for good things).

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (YIxO9)

80 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Illegal migrant in New York speaks through a translator to complain about the free meals, housing, and more:

"Even on Ramadan we could not eat during breaks because the food is not good at all"

This was a New York City Council meeting regarding the treatment of black illegals:

https://tinyurl.com/hsvpsn2v

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (NpAcC)

81 This is part and parcel of the same concept around the spying bill. The constitution needs not be followed anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (lTGtQ)

82 I don't suppose anyone bothered to tell Schumer that whether or not it rises to the level of impeachment is a question for the House and they decided it did.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2024 04:58 PM (2UnvF)

83 The way this is written seems to imply that Abbott is hammering Denver and if not for him, this wouldn't be a problem. That is absurd.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Agree. But does the NGO transfers show up on MSNBC? I don't think so because they (dem mayors and others) want to blame Abbott and not Biden.

Ron and Greg caused it to reach a wider audience because Martha's Vineyard and the hypocrisy would never have been known.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2024 04:58 PM (FxH7T)

84 I guess were just going to have to learn to love our uninvited guests.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
.......

My New Neighbors. I hope they have a leaf blower I can borrow or maybe some masa harina corn flour.

Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 04:58 PM (v0R5T)

85 74 The House brought the impeachment... It's the Senate who is refusing to accept it... What more can they do... And I am no fan
Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 04:56 PM (Akjoo)

I am just disgusted and repulsed by the entire DC Club..

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (PCK5/)

86 No more norms.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (vFG9F)

87 I am just disgusted and repulsed by the entire DC Club..
Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (PCK5/)

Ditto

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (Akjoo)

88 Seen on Insty: 155mm artillery shell plants in Pennsylvania and the UK have had fires/explosions in the last 2 days.

Wonder what that's about...

Posted by: Ian S. at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (2ocoG)

89 88 Seen on Insty: 155mm artillery shell plants in Pennsylvania and the UK have had fires/explosions in the last 2 days.

Wonder what that's about...
Posted by: Ian S. at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (2ocoG)

Some of our Newcomers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:00 PM (Akjoo)

90 88 Seen on Insty: 155mm artillery shell plants in Pennsylvania and the UK have had fires/explosions in the last 2 days.

Wonder what that's about...
Posted by: Ian S. at April 17, 2024 04:59 PM (2ocoG)

We’ll never know, really…

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

91 The House brought the impeachment... It's the Senate who is refusing to accept it... What more can they do... And I am no fan
Posted by: It's me donna

Well, precedent set. If the GOPe gets the Senate back ( Hey, stop laughing~! ) they must reject every bill from the Democrats.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 05:00 PM (IG4Id)

92
Rules and norms are for Republicans.

You have to have a conscience to feel shame and know right from wrong.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (+oR7L)

93 Agree. But does the NGO transfers show up on MSNBC? I don't think so because they (dem mayors and others) want to blame Abbott and not Biden. ...
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2024 04:58 PM (FxH7T)
++++
No, but this article isn't from the MSM, it's from National Review.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (HnUIn)

94 >>Yeah I know… but I honestly am out of ideas and am generally pissed off.

If it makes you feel any better this was always going to end with Mayorkas not being convicted. No Republicans voted to drop the charges, it was a straight party line vote and Democrats have the majority. Coke head Murkowski voted present on the first article because she's a piece of shit but Democrats voted against both articles and no Republicans joined them.

I have no use for most in Congress but this Democrats decided to take a quick over Mayorkas rather than endure a trial and then voting to acquit him. For once this is all on Democrats.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (LkLld)

95 You know what I haven't heard in a while?

Predictions about Biden being replaced last second.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

96 I guess this too is my fault for not sending $20 (with 10X matching!) to the RNC to "fight the LIBERAL Democrats in DC and STOP their RADICAL agenda!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (yikga)

97 ++++
Lie. Abbott hasn't actually moved all that many aliens. They move outside the NGO structure and so aren't well-handled at the destination, but the total *he* has moved as compared to the NGOs is fairly small.

The way this is written seems to imply that Abbott is hammering Denver and if not for him, this wouldn't be a problem. That is absurd.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
- - -

Biden is literally sending American planes south of the border, picking up illegals & flying them here.
EVERY NIGHT.

Posted by: Braenard at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (8EMtQ)

98 The House brought the impeachment... It's the Senate who is refusing to accept it... What more can they do... And I am no fan

Well for one thing, they could just shut the whole thing down. Defund the US government. They control the house and the house controls the purse.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 17, 2024 05:02 PM (YRsIm)

99 No more norms.
Posted by: fd
......

Cheers will go bankrupt.

Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 05:02 PM (v0R5T)

100 Crotchety Old Jarhead, if only.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2024 05:02 PM (88juN)

101 >>The demand is here, folks. And it's huge.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM

Better get to building those turbines. There's still vacant space out there.

Posted by: huerfano at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (VGOMa)

102 95 You know what I haven't heard in a while?

Predictions about Biden being replaced last second.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

Not surprised... The "media" is calling him the Comeback Kid because he rose in one of the polls...Oh... He's also a snappy youthful dresser according to the NY slimes

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (Akjoo)

103 speaking of aliens, "US ship which helped establish the sea pier in Gaza catches fire, returns to home port"

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (V13WU)

104 I guess were just going to have to learn to love our uninvited guests.
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OTOH, the illegal shanty towns are the only place where you are free left in America, like the sewers in Demolition Man.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (yikga)

105 98 Well for one thing, they could just shut the whole thing down. Defund the US government. They control the house and the house controls the purse.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 17, 2024 05:02 PM (YRsIm)

========

Saying this is inconvenient because it ignores norms, traditions, and the political reality that America will savagely murder every elected Republican within minutes of it happening.

Saying that the House actually holds tremendous power on its own and could make sweeping changes if it so chose is malinformation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

106 I thought he would be replaced but it’s too late now.

Posted by: Braenard at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (8EMtQ)

107 Much enrichment, very diverse

@JackPosobiec 1m
Woman sentenced to 50 years for stealing baby from woman’s womb, killing mother in Chicago

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 05:04 PM (IG4Id)

108 Just rubbing our faces in it once again

Posted by: brak at April 17, 2024 05:04 PM (zeOhw)

109 Using a phone for this sucks.

Posted by: Braenard at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (8EMtQ)

110 107 Much enrichment, very diverse

@JackPosobiec 1m
Woman sentenced to 50 years for stealing baby from woman’s womb, killing mother in Chicago
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 05:04 PM (IG4Id)

=======

You know, if it had been a white cop...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

111 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

Your proposal is acceptable.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (YRsIm)

112 80 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Illegal migrant in New York speaks through a translator to complain about the free meals, housing, and more:

"Even on Ramadan we could not eat during breaks because the food is not good at all"

This was a New York City Council meeting regarding the treatment of black illegals:

https://tinyurl.com/hsvpsn2v
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 04:57 PM (NpAcC)

Then they aren't hungry enough.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (N39Ws)

113 "We're going to have to raise taxes on you, sorry. These illegal aliens we are bringing in illegally are costing a lot of money - we have to give them hotel rooms, food stamps, plus a couple of grand each every month so they can enjoy the life of leisure.

Oh, almost forgot. All of those services, like fire protection, police protection, road improvements, and so on that you pay those taxes for? We're going to have to cut back on those, just too much money going out the door.

Thanks for your votes."

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (lTGtQ)

114 Huh… all of this got me to thinking about how King Herod died… funny, that..

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (PCK5/)

115 The norm-breaking, duty-abdicating move by Schumer and Senate Democrats upsets 227 years of congressional history.

When the Fe'ral Government was overthrown on January 6th of 2021, there no longer was any need to acknowledge any former law, constitution or tradition.

The Occupying Enemy Force gets to raise its own flag (rainbow), tear down the previous nation's statues and establish is own holidays (eg. Juneteenth replacing Independence Day, Indigenous People's Day replacing Columbus Day and Transgender Whatever Day replacing Easter)

Apparently they can also import their own occupying replacement population too.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (4HcMG)

116 113 Oh, almost forgot. All of those services, like fire protection, police protection, road improvements, and so on that you pay those taxes for? We're going to have to cut back on those, just too much money going out the door.

Thanks for your votes."
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2024 05:05 PM (lTGtQ)

========

This was easily predictable years ago. It's in the Cloward-Piven handbook.

But AWFLs will be surprised when they realize that lowered police presence also includes their own neighborhoods.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:06 PM (GBKbO)

117
Could you imagine the difference if the Republicans controlled the Senate?

There would be none. Because Romney,Murkowski,Collins,Thune & company would be blocking impeachment.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 17, 2024 05:06 PM (+oR7L)

118 Joe Biden was replaced long ago, by an animatronic muppet manufactured by Jim Henson studios.

Posted by: That's Why He's as Glitchy as Max Headroom at April 17, 2024 05:06 PM (2DpKB)

119 "Woman sentenced to 50 years for stealing baby from woman’s womb, killing mother in Chicago"

There are some things that justify the death penalty especially if there is no doubt of guilt.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2024 05:07 PM (vFG9F)

120 Gateway Pundit reporting that the vote was taken 51-49 kills the impeachment.
227 years of history down the drain to protect a dementia patient.
Meanwhile Bidenn tells a story about answering a door in a towel with shaving cream on his face. And another one about his grandfather or maybe it was his uncle being in an airplane downed where there were cannibals.
How much longer can this go on?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 05:07 PM (t/2Uw)

121 119 "Woman sentenced to 50 years for stealing baby from woman’s womb, killing mother in Chicago"

There are some things that justify the death penalty especially if there is no doubt of guilt.
Posted by: fd at April 17, 2024 05:07 PM (vFG9F)

========

Let's not go overboard here. It's not like this lady turned against the Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:07 PM (GBKbO)

122
The new forecasted load for 2030 is 152 GW!

For perspective, the all-time peak in ERCOT is 86 GW.

The demand is here, folks. And it's huge.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

A couple more solar panels ought to do it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2024 05:08 PM (63Dwl)

123
But AWFLs will be surprised when they realize that lowered police presence also includes their own neighborhoods.

But AWFLs have been prepared for years through romance novels, TikTok and persistent virtue signalling to accept being raped and murdered by young, virile, swarthy foreign men.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 17, 2024 05:08 PM (4HcMG)

124 No more norms.
Posted by: fd
......

Cheers will go bankrupt.
Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 05:02 PM

Uh, little known fact, the term impeachment originated with the Georgian Native Americans, where they would, uhh, cover their disgraced chieftains in cut peaches and leave them in an anthill, hence, uh, "in peach mince" ~ Cliff Clavin (probably)

Posted by: Flyguy at April 17, 2024 05:09 PM (OYxA4)

125 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-51 - LC-39A -
Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
SpaceX targets Wednesday, April 17, for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Liftoff is targeted for 5:26 p.m. EDT, 21:26 UTC, and 23:26 CEST, with backup opportunities available until 9:24 p.m. EDT. If needed, additional opportunities are also available on Thursday, April 18, starting at 5:05 p.m. EDT.

https://www.youtube.com/live/DpO6uwMWns8

Posted by: Ciampino - not a stochastic launch at April 17, 2024 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

126 95 You know what I haven't heard in a while?

Predictions about Biden being replaced last second.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:01 PM (GBKbO)
———-

Because it was always complete bullshit? As a said at the time this was all the rage, there are factions that want the creepy old pervert gone. So there was a round of lazy, half-assed calls for him to step aside. When that predictably didn’t happen, the callers shrugged and said “hey we tried, now let’s get back to destroying the Bad Orange One.”

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2024 05:10 PM (+vxI1)

127 Colby Badhwar @ColbyBadhwar
🚨💥 BREAKING: Explosion at BAE's 155mm artillery shell filling facility, Glascoed, in Wales!

This comes 2 days after there was a small fire at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania, which makes 155mm shell bodies.

BAE tells the Sun that there was an explosion at a remote part of the site, where artillery shells are filled. There are no injuries and all personnel are accounted for.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 17, 2024 05:10 PM (vtyCZ)

128
Meanwhile Bidenn tells a story about answering a door in a towel with shaving cream on his face. And another one about his grandfather or maybe it was his uncle being in an airplane downed where there were cannibals.
How much longer can this go on?
Posted by: sharon

Forever

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2024 05:10 PM (63Dwl)

129 126 Because it was always complete bullshit? As a said at the time this was all the rage, there are factions that want the creepy old pervert gone. So there was a round of lazy, half-assed calls for him to step aside. When that predictably didn’t happen, the callers shrugged and said “hey we tried, now let’s get back to destroying the Bad Orange One.”
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2024 05:10 PM (+vxI1)

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But the convention, Elric! They could do things at the convention!

And Newsom was seen out of state for a day!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:11 PM (GBKbO)

130 The House, if they had any stones, would approve new articles of impeachment twice a week and transmit them to the Senate.

Tie up Senate business indefinitely until that slimy lizard mofo Schumer at least agrees to hold the trial.

Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2024 05:11 PM (oqH4h)

131 The new forecasted load for 2030 is 152 GW!

For perspective, the all-time peak in ERCOT is 86 GW.

The demand is here, folks. And it's huge.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

A couple more solar panels ought to do it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Not only can that level not be created without nuclear and many more gas plants, the current grid cannot handle it even if it could.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2024 05:11 PM (lTGtQ)

132 Because it was always complete bullshit? As a said at the time this was all the rage, there are factions that want the creepy old pervert gone. So there was a round of lazy, half-assed calls for him to step aside. When that predictably didn’t happen, the callers shrugged and said “hey we tried, now let’s get back to destroying the Bad Orange One.”
Posted by: Elric Blade

True but I have a feeling that he's going to have a med emergency before the election.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2024 05:11 PM (IG4Id)

133 BREAKING: Explosion at BAE's 155mm artillery shell filling facility, Glascoed, in Wales!

This comes 2 days after there was a small fire at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania, which makes 155mm shell bodies.

BAE tells the Sun that there was an explosion at a remote part of the site, where artillery shells are filled. There are no injuries and all personnel are accounted for.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 17, 2024 05:10 PM (vtyCZ)

Huh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 17, 2024 05:11 PM (R4t5M)

134 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Kenol Baptiste (30) stabbed 2 roommates to death in Middlesex, New York.

He invaded the country in July 2023 but was released into the country thanks to Biden’s parole app (CBP One).

He is from Haiti.

Biden’s Border Bloodbath continues:

https://tinyurl.com/3n8ju96x

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 05:12 PM (NpAcC)

135 "155mm artillery shell plants in Pennsylvania and the UK have had fires/explosions in the last 2 days."

I have no idea what is going on ... maybe they just cranked up the assembly line to dangerous levels, or the workers are putting in too much overtime? Or someone internal is sabotaging our war making abilities ... also possible/probable.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2024 05:12 PM (Cus5s)

136 Illegal migrant in New York speaks through a translator to complain about the free meals, housing, and more:

"Even on Ramadan we could not eat during breaks because the food is not good at all"

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This used to not be how Americans thought, but I'm beginning to realize that these people are more American than I am these days.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:12 PM (JuA5P)

137 120 How much longer can this go on?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 05:07 PM (t/2Uw)

Did you see that article about the girl trying to get a loan by wheeling in her dead uncle? So yeah. That is where we are.

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

138 Biden’s Border Bloodbath continues:

https://tinyurl.com/3n8ju96x
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 05:12 PM (NpAcC)

Sparks of Humanity

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (Akjoo)

139 134 He is from Haiti.

Biden’s Border Bloodbath continues:

https://tinyurl.com/3n8ju96x
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 05:12 PM (NpAcC)

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$5 says there's some lefty Twitter handle that does the same thing with homegrown crime, but they have to be really selective because they only want the white guys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

140 I’ll say it again: The US Government is the most evil institution on planet earth.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (MeWNy)

141 140 I’ll say it again: The US Government is the most evil institution on planet earth.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (MeWNy)

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Worse than Panda Express?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

142 I thought they only made paper in Scranton.

Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (v0R5T)

143 137 120 How much longer can this go on?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 05:07 PM (t/2Uw)

Did you see that article about the girl trying to get a loan by wheeling in her dead uncle? So yeah. That is where we are.
Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM

What in the everlovin hell? Weekend at Bernie's style?

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (1oTv1)

144 140 I’ll say it again: The US Government is the most evil institution on planet earth.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (MeWNy)

One of anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (Akjoo)

145 Could you imagine the difference if the Republicans controlled the Senate?

There would be none. Because Romney,Murkowski,Collins,Thune & company would be blocking impeachment.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 17, 2024 05:06 PM (+oR7L)

The point of the Mayorkas impeachment is not to help Republicans; the point is to hurt Democrat Senate incumbents. The Senate GOP caucus should make the most of it.

Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (rj6Yv)

146 This woman's aide was just killed over the weekend by an illegal in a hit and run.

>>@SenCortezMasto
There is no evidence that
@SecMayorkas
committed high crimes and misdemeanors, so I voted to end this waste of time.

>>Republicans could have made real policy changes, but they decided to play games and killed the bipartisan border package in favor of this frivolous impeachment.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (LkLld)

147 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

They got some fire noodles tho

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (MeWNy)

148 Did you see that article about the girl trying to get a loan by wheeling in her dead uncle? So yeah. That is where we are.
Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

No, but that is funny. Ima gonna go look for it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (R4t5M)

149 NORMS RESTORED-AHOY!

//Billy D Kristol on the SS Topper Bottoms

Posted by: sven at April 17, 2024 05:15 PM (X0I7i)

150 Wow, even Joe Manchin voted to dismiss, who the good, conservative people of West Virginia, returned to the Senate in 2018? The same people who are now supposedly losing a generation of kids to fentanyl?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 17, 2024 05:15 PM (YIxO9)

151 I’ll say it again: The US Government is the most evil institution on planet earth.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One
......

It's also the largest employer.

Posted by: wth at April 17, 2024 05:15 PM (v0R5T)

152 Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (Akjo)

I can’t name a worse one. Any country that does X, we do it in spades but it probably looks different

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:15 PM (MeWNy)

153 >>Republicans could have made real policy changes, but they decided to play games and killed the bipartisan border package in favor of this frivolous impeachment.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2024 05:14 PM (LkLld)

Yeah .. 5000 a week with multiple exemptions and more Immigration Judges to move them into the Country faster.. And don't forget the green cards

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (Akjoo)

154 Yet people on our side still can't understand why the average person doesn't automatically vote Republican.

Maybe because the average person senses in their core that Republicans are phony lying spineless cocksuckers?

Nah, couldn't be. Must be that all these people are "dumb" and just need to start "voting their own interests". Then they'll see how bad Democrats are!

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (lX8VI)

155 TJM, I was thinking about it and want to suggest that you get Fallout 76 ready to play. It's a pretty great game and has a lot of interesting things to explore, and there's not really much grinding unless you want to.

Plus there are lots of fun and funny things here and there in between the corpses. It's worth playing. Heck, I liked it a lot more than the mostly on rails Cyberpunk.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (JuA5P)

156 Old: The minimum wage is $0.00 if you don't have a job.

New: The Police Department budget is $0.00 if you don't have cops.

Denver cops should just quit en masse, and tell the city to go fuck itself when the inevitable happens.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (hBBK4)

157
143

What in the everlovin hell? Weekend at Bernie's style?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024

It’s awful. You have been warned.

https://tinyurl.com/k6xsxhd5

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

158 What is going to get cut vis-a-vis the police? Is it hiring, overtime, gas for patrol cars, ....?

Posted by: Ciampino - no police housecalls? at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (qfLjt)

159 Posted by: ... at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (lX8VI)

Repukes are terrible at messaging. They also don’t give a fuck.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (MeWNy)

160 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS
Pelosi: ‘Every day is a matter of life and death in Ukraine, of success or failure’ Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the critical issues facing current House Speaker Mike Johnson, as his fellow Republicans try to push him out over his efforts to pass Ukraine aid. April 17, 2024
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Aljazeera, 17 April 2024, News, Russia-Ukraine war
More than 50,000 Russians killed in Ukrainian ‘meat grinder’: Report

The rate of casualties accelerated last year as inexperienced troops arrived on the front lines.
Russian military casualties in the war with Ukraine have topped 50,000, according to research.

In part, "The BBC, whose Russian unit has been counting deaths since Moscow’s forces invaded the neighboring state in February 2022, revealed the number on Wednesday, noting that the rate of casualties accelerated in the second year of the conflict."

Doesn't count the civilian, either.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (NFX2v)

161 155 TJM, I was thinking about it and want to suggest that you get Fallout 76 ready to play. It's a pretty great game and has a lot of interesting things to explore, and there's not really much grinding unless you want to.

Plus there are lots of fun and funny things here and there in between the corpses. It's worth playing. Heck, I liked it a lot more than the mostly on rails Cyberpunk.
Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (JuA5P)

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The main problem is that I don't have a computer for it. I'll see if I can get my toaster to pull it off, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (GBKbO)

162

Demographics is destiny.

Posted by: Dr Huge Largemeat at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (d0xN7)

163 "155mm artillery shell plants in Pennsylvania and the UK have had fires/explosions in the last 2 days."

I have no idea what is going on ... maybe they just cranked up the assembly line to dangerous levels, or the workers are putting in too much overtime? Or someone internal is sabotaging our war making abilities ... also possible/probable.

Posted by: illiniwek

You know who are cheap hires? Illegal aliens flown in under cover of darkness by the junta and given social security cards without vetting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (lTGtQ)

164 Did you see that article about the girl trying to get a loan by wheeling in her dead uncle? So yeah. That is where we are.
Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 05:13 PM

Uncle Bernie is that you?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (QNSds)

165 Republicans had a chance to change *everything* with Trump in charge, and what's more he was willing if not enthusiastic to take all the heat for it.

They said........ "nah bro".

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (lX8VI)

166 Why do illegals need money? I thought they built this country and are a huge huge huge net positive economically where ever they go? At least that's what I'm told by smart liberals. These places should be rolling in cash thanks to the explosion of economic productivity and genius of illegal immigrants.

Posted by: realityman at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (xsWV3)

167 Wow, even Joe Manchin voted to dismiss, who the good, conservative people of West Virginia, returned to the Senate in 2018? The same people who are now supposedly losing a generation of kids to fentanyl?
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Don't forget Montana

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (yikga)

168 The main problem is that I don't have a computer for it. I'll see if I can get my toaster to pull it off, though.

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Good luck. IIRC the requirements are pretty low for just basic gameplay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:18 PM (JuA5P)

169 167 Wow, even Joe Manchin voted to dismiss, who the good, conservative people of West Virginia, returned to the Senate in 2018? The same people who are now supposedly losing a generation of kids to fentanyl?
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Don't forget Montana
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (yikga)

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Manchin's on his way out. Gotta secure that post-election paycheck.

Tester will win with 50% of the vote because he will do one ad where he holds a gun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:18 PM (GBKbO)

170 Don't forget Montana
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (yikga)

Right now that POS Tester has a pretty good lead... I don't get it

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:18 PM (Akjoo)

171 Mayorkas is a warrior who never folds. Love that man.

Posted by: Sid at April 17, 2024 05:19 PM (zMtyW)

172 161 155 TJM, I was thinking about it and want to suggest that you get Fallout 76 ready to play. It's a pretty great game and has a lot of interesting things to explore, and there's not really much grinding unless you want to.

Plus there are lots of fun and funny things here and there in between the corpses. It's worth playing. Heck, I liked it a lot more than the mostly on rails Cyberpunk.
Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (JuA5P)

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The main problem is that I don't have a computer for it. I'll see if I can get my toaster to pull it off, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (GBKbO)

Just tearfully explain to Dolley that you must have a new one.

Posted by: It's My Party at April 17, 2024 05:19 PM (2DpKB)

173 170 Don't forget Montana
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:17 PM (yikga)

Right now that POS Tester has a pretty good lead... I don't get it
Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2024 05:18 PM (Akjoo)

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1. Why trust a poll 7 months out from an election. What incentive is there to get it right?
2. Yeah, he'll probably win because Montana is dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:19 PM (GBKbO)

174 DHS statement on the Senate’s ending of DHS Secretary Mayorkas’ impeachment.

https://tinyurl.com/3wa4mhk5

Posted by: Ciampino - DHS is working with Mexico at April 17, 2024 05:20 PM (qfLjt)

175 You know, it's beginning to occur to me that we probably overreacted to 9/11.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 17, 2024 05:20 PM (YIxO9)

176 "Mayorkas, who was impeached"

Suggest change to stylebook when referencing that piece of shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2024 05:21 PM (Q4IgG)

177 Maybe because the average person senses in their core that Republicans are phony lying spineless cocksuckers?
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Even if everything the left says about Trump is true, he's still more honest than every single Republican in Congress.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:21 PM (yikga)

178 DHS statement on the Senate’s ending of DHS Secretary Mayorkas’ impeachment.
https://tinyurl.com/3wa4mhk5
Posted by: Ciampino - DHS is working with Mexico at April 17, 2024 05:20 PM (qfLjt)
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LOL. "On behalf of our boss, we approve of the Senate's refusal to proceed with any action against our boss."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 05:21 PM (HnUIn)

179 Launch T - 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/live/DpO6uwMWns8

Posted by: Ciampino - DHS is working with Mexico at April 17, 2024 05:21 PM (qfLjt)

180
Tester will win with 50% of the vote because he will do one ad where he holds a gun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:18 PM (GBKbO)

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And wear a cowboy hat!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 05:22 PM (PHnoB)

181 Really surprised about Manchin because he is not running for reelction. I thought he might be in line for a cabinet position in a R administration. Sinema out too. It should have been a no brainer to be nonpartisan on this and it would have helped those D senators up for reelection.
I really don;t get it. The Ds are pandering to small minorities while their base of blacks, ,hispanics, blue collar workers even young voters all moving towards Trump.
They are not going to get elected by Pro Palestinian or LGBTQs or AWFLs this time. That is all that is left of their base.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 05:22 PM (t/2Uw)

182 Just like Clinton and Trump, Mayorkas was impeached, but it takes 67 votes to convict.

This is more about optics and informing the voters about who is supporting Biden's disastrous border policies.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 05:22 PM (NpAcC)

183 LOL. "On behalf of our boss, we approve of the Senate's refusal to proceed with any action against our boss."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2024 05:21 PM (HnUIn)

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"Signed, Our Boss' Mother."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 05:23 PM (PHnoB)

184 Bad news. Olivia Munn had a double mastectomy.

Posted by: guy who always yells: "Show us yer tits!" at April 17, 2024 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

185 181 Really surprised about Manchin because he is not running for reelction. I thought he might be in line for a cabinet position in a R administration. Sinema out too. It should have been a no brainer to be nonpartisan on this and it would have helped those D senators up for reelection.
I really don;t get it. The Ds are pandering to small minorities while their base of blacks, ,hispanics, blue collar workers even young voters all moving towards Trump.
They are not going to get elected by Pro Palestinian or LGBTQs or AWFLs this time. That is all that is left of their base.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2024 05:22 PM (t/2Uw)

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Manchin and Tester are loyal Democrat soldiers who do as ordered. Sinema is a leftist through and through who valued her own position as a "key vote" in a divided Senate, but she's still a full-on leftist.

There's honestly very little to get.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:23 PM (GBKbO)

186 This is more about optics and informing the voters about who is supporting Biden's disastrous border policies.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2024 05:22 PM (NpAcC)

Yup.

Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2024 05:23 PM (rj6Yv)

187 88 Seen on Insty: 155mm artillery shell plants in Pennsylvania and the UK have had fires/explosions in the last 2 days.

Wonder what that's about...
Posted by: Ian S.
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Scranton Army Ammunition Plant
The U.S. Army makes 155 mm artillery shells at Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania as well as a General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility nearby in Wilkes Barre with currently producing 28,000 rounds a month. Jan '24

Strange; guess who visited Scranton.

My daddy used to say, you need to get them Russians, son.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 17, 2024 05:24 PM (NFX2v)

188 Fetterman's panties are in a wad over Israel, but not so much the USA.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 17, 2024 05:24 PM (YIxO9)

189 "You know who are cheap hires? Illegal aliens flown in under cover of darkness by the junta and given social security cards without vetting." Posted by: Thomas Paine

and they are healthier, since they were not forced to get the jab.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2024 05:25 PM (Cus5s)

190 Notice how all Republicans used Covidv as an excuse to stop doing town halls?

Weird how, with Covid over, none of them are back to doing them ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2024 05:25 PM (yikga)

191 "You know who are cheap hires? Illegal aliens flown in under cover of darkness by the junta and given social security cards without vetting." Posted by: Thomas Paine

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Tyson Foods approves of this message.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:25 PM (JuA5P)

192 Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2024 05:25 PM (2UnvF)

193 Gop: this is an insane abuse of the 702 system. We need to end it and close the FBI

Gope/left: Sounds great, but what if we give the FBI a new $100B HQ and give them unlimited access to all electronic communications in the US

GOP: only if we pass the bill in the middle of the night on the last day with no time to debate.

Gope/left: Deal!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2024 05:25 PM (PI/SC)

194 Ah Chuck Schumer--pond scum on toast.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 17, 2024 05:26 PM (cB7nX)

195 Also, as Tyson Foods figured out, the illegals aren't going to get all uppity and dissatisfied with conditions or pay because they know their employer can simply call the feds and have them replaced.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:26 PM (JuA5P)

196
It’s awful. You have been warned.

https://tinyurl.com/k6xsxhd5
Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2024 05:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

That's completely nuts!

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 17, 2024 05:26 PM (1oTv1)

197 >>Really surprised about Manchin because he is not running for reelction.

They were never going to vote to remove Mayorkas. It's not just him or Biden they are defending, they are defending the entire Democrat party because open borders is the position of the entire party. Some are more open about but they all support it.

The only decision they made today was do they end the trial now and take the heat for that or do they go through the trial, allow the evidence to be presented against Mayorkas and basically themselves. They decided this was the lesser evil. We'll see if they were correct.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2024 05:26 PM (LkLld)

198 Manchin has never been non partisan

Posted by: Braenard at April 17, 2024 05:26 PM (8EMtQ)

199 Show us your tits, Sid!

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 17, 2024 05:27 PM (JuA5P)

200 I think that this show is very appropriate for an election year.
Look! The Republicans are doing something about the Situation™!
It's uncanny, almost as if they are reading my mind.

Posted by: PG at April 17, 2024 05:27 PM (gQbO4)

201 I am not convinced or giving up Sundowner will be retired until their August Convention, until that day no one can be certain he will run or not.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2024 05:27 PM (fwDg9)

202 171 Mayorkas is a warrior who never folds. Love that man.
Posted by: Sid

I get it.

Sports Psychology for Tennis, Podcast: Do You “Fold” Under Pressure In Tennis

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 17, 2024 05:28 PM (NFX2v)

203 "There is no crisis at the border, and it's good that there is."
-The Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:28 PM (GBKbO)

204 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 17, 2024 05:34 PM (R4t5M)

205 Who knew blowing off an impeachment trial would be easy as 1-2-3, bing-bang-boom.

This nation is a joke and the GOP doesn't even rise to the level of court jester.

They are a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2024 05:35 PM (XV/Pl)

206 Cortez Masto votes to exonerate the killer of her administrative aid........ What a piece work this thing from Nevada really is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 17, 2024 05:35 PM (VYql4)

207 Manchin has no convictions whatsoever.

He could not decide whether to stand and applaud or remain seated during an applause line of a State of the Union speech. He's not exactly decisive, convicted, or a profile in courage.

Posted by: Fettermonster probably has more IQ and balls at April 17, 2024 05:36 PM (2DpKB)

208 Y’all see the new O’Keefe drop?

Chief Of Staff running the show and Clinton and Obama still involved.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 17, 2024 05:37 PM (MeWNy)

209 What's probably not being reported by US Pravda is how many non-MAGA citizens are being harassed, injured, killed by illegals. We saw the story earlier about a Democrat's senior advisor being offed, but you don't see much more.

There are plenty of stories about the illegals r@ping, killing and robbing "normal" Americans, but the propaganda outlets never tell you if the victim was aligned with the left.... only if they were on the right.

Control of the narrative is paramount.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2024 05:37 PM (Q4IgG)

210 I hope that the Governor Texas says F**K You, captures and sends all the illegals to New York......

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 17, 2024 05:37 PM (PYJJG)

211
they decided to play games and killed the bipartisan border package

Bipartisan border package aka amnesty.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2024 05:39 PM (63Dwl)

212 180
Tester will win with 50% of the vote because he will do one ad where he holds a gun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 17, 2024 05:18 PM (GBKbO)

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And wear a cowboy hat!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 17, 2024 05:22 PM (PHnoB)

Tester is a plagiarist! John Cornyn has the copyright on campaign ads of a RINO Senator holding a shotgun or rifle gun and wearing cowboy hat! With a voice over of the Senator reminiscing about his father teaching him to hunt, then promising voters he'll to defend the 2nd Amendment until his dying breath!

Posted by: Gref at April 17, 2024 05:40 PM (5fDan)

213 I hope that the Governor Texas says F**K You, captures and sends all the illegals to New York......
Posted by: Franklin Stein

No.

The Hamptons.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2024 05:42 PM (gkpAx)

214 Schumer is merely a symptom of a disease that's afflicted Congress since 1789. A disease that has gotten worse every year since: No accountability.

Yeah, yeah, in theory the voters hold Representatives and Senators accountable for their actions and inactions. How's that been working out?

Each House is Constitutionally empowered to make its own rules. Period. If Majority Leader Schumer doesn't try Mayorkas, waddaya gonna do about it? You want insider trading by Reps and Senators prohibited? Good luck getting a rule made for that changed in either House. Let alone a law. Congress imposed FOIA on the Executive Branch. But Congress has never legally required itself to make anything it does or writes public. Congress gave itself broad Executive Branch oversight powers, and that was upheld by Article III Courts. Congress holds the purse strings for the Exec Branch...and for itself. Checks and balances on Congress? C'mon, man! There's no such thing!

It's a wonderful and lifelong job if you can get it.

Posted by: Gref at April 17, 2024 06:00 PM (5fDan)

215 Nobody in the GOPe would ever dare swing their microdicks around like that.
Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2024 04:44 PM (UnA8+)

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Really? He was swinging his microdick?? It must be really micro, cause I didn't even see it. As the old saying goes "I've seen bigger dicks while changing diapers"

Posted by: Chillin the most at April 17, 2024 06:35 PM (0uQp2)

216 Shouldn't we be spying on Muslims ?

Posted by: Paul banned at April 17, 2024 06:41 PM (tCKcr)

217 Wait, what. Harvard Board of "Overseers", like on the good old Democrat plantation days. You know the guys with the whips that kept the slaves working hard.

Posted by: Hellen Know at April 17, 2024 06:55 PM (mBoP7)

218 So the Senate, with a magic-D majority, refused to take up the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas.

This surprises people? Really? What the hell did you expect they would do with them - hear them out? Sheesh.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 17, 2024 11:29 PM (TOe+Q)

219 Ole Chuck has a little more Naziism in him than I thought. His ancestors must be ashamed, though I doubt they are proud to see how Bruce Schumer turned out either.

Posted by: william ferrin at April 18, 2024 02:09 PM (R5tUd)

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