Democrats Save Mike Johnson's Ukraine Spending Package

With the support of Democrats, the House Rules Committee has advanced Speaker Mike Johnson's package of foreign aid bills for Ukraine and Israel. The legislation, which overcame significant opposition from congressional Republicans, will now be voted on by the full House over the weekend.
Key Details:
The House Rules Committee voted 9-3 to advance the package, with Democratic support being a rare occurrence for Republican bills.
Republican Reps. Chip Roy, Thomas Massie, and Ralph Norman voted against the rule, expressing frustration that aid to Ukraine was not paired with conservative border security provisions.
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The package of bills providing aid to Israel, Ukraine, and other allies was advanced after Democrats took the unusual step of supporting a procedural vote for Republican bills. This move was met with opposition from Republican Reps. Chip Roy, Thomas Massie, and Ralph Norman, who voted against the rule due to their dissatisfaction that aid to Ukraine was not paired with conservative border security provisions.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson had previously pushed to pair aid to Ukraine with border security provisions. However, his efforts were met with resistance, leading to several rules failing on the floor, largely due to objections from the right flank of the party. Despite calls from several members of the Republican conference to raise the threshold to bring a motion to oust the speaker, Johnson announced that the House "will continue to govern under the existing rules."

Greg Price
@greg_price11
BREAKING: The House just voted overwhelmingly to advance the foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza.
The vote was 316-94 with 165 Democrats and 151 Republicans voting yes.
Up next, there's going to be separate vote on foreign aid to each nation which will then be fused together in one package that will be sent to a senate in a procedural move known as MIRV.
No border security, no amendments, just Republican leadership working with Democrats to fund wars across the globe.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:12 PM

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Posted by: GF at April 19, 2024 01:12 PM (tUCgX)

2 Yyttty

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 19, 2024 01:13 PM (ny95y)

3 America Last

Posted by: JSchuler at April 19, 2024 01:13 PM (l6eKM)

4 You can invade any day now, China.

I don't even care if you end me.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 01:13 PM (UnA8+)

5 Damn. Do I get a free point for doing it on my phone?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 19, 2024 01:13 PM (ny95y)

6 Republicans. Always looking out for the interests of their enemies....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2024 01:13 PM (0eaVi)

7 cha-ching

cha-ching

cha-ching

$$$$$$$$$$$

yeah babay

Posted by: Zelensky at April 19, 2024 01:14 PM (AR07F)

8 The families of the christian school tranny shooter are claiming copyright to the manifesto to block its release.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:14 PM (PI/SC)

9 >>which will then be fused together in one package that will be sent to a senate in a procedural move known as MIRV.

MIRV is apparently congressional nomenclature for f**king the American tax pay up the squeakhole.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 01:15 PM (oJb1g)

10 The package of bills providing aid to Israel, Ukraine, and other allies ...
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Including Hamas!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:15 PM (HnUIn)

11 I was wondering if this would be next. I was just reading about this on Breitbart. Do I laugh? Do I cry? Do I revisit my go fund me for my own private island?

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 01:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

12 "No border security, no amendments, just Republican leadership working with Democrats to fund wars across the globe."

So another day ending in "y" then?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

13 House Speaker Mike Johnson had previously pushed to pair aid to Ukraine with border security provisions. However, his efforts were met with resistance, leading to several rules failing on the floor, largely due to objections from the right flank of the party.
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That's some spin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:15 PM (HnUIn)

14 Also demonstrating that the RINOs don't care about the [U.S.!!] border either or they would have at least gotten that out of it.

Also money for Gaza hidden in the "Israel" money.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 01:16 PM (vtyCZ)

15
Dead girl, live boy, or goat? They look at you with those big eyes and how can you say no?

Posted by: Achmed at April 19, 2024 01:16 PM (RKVpM)

16 sent to a senate in a procedural move known as MIRV.

multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle ?

so they're nuking us now?

sounds about right

Posted by: Zelensky at April 19, 2024 01:16 PM (AR07F)

17 off corrupt grey tshirt wearing puppet leader sock

Posted by: brak at April 19, 2024 01:16 PM (AR07F)

18 *In Dalek Voice*

Consolidate, Consolidate, Consolidate . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 19, 2024 01:16 PM (MIKMs)

19 in a procedural move known as MIRV

Isn't a MIRV some kind of multi-warhead missile or something? Appropriate if true.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2024 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

20 MIRV is apparently congressional nomenclature for f**king the American tax pay up the squeakhole.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 01:15 PM (oJb1g)

This means war! (heads)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (0eaVi)

21 "He had his reasons."
-the best defense I've heard...which is pretty shit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

22 From what I am reading, no amount of money can save Ukraine. They lack the basics, infantry.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (MeG8a)

23 @greg_price11
BREAKING: The House just voted overwhelmingly to advance the foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza.

The vote was 316-94 with 165 Democrats and 151 Republicans voting yes.
...
No border security, no amendments, just Republican leadership working with Democrats to fund wars across the globe.
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I'm sure glad they're all up there on that hill fighting for us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (HnUIn)

24 well, i guess it boils down to a single vote this november for PDJT or no one. not even going to have to worry about voting down ballot now.

and i expect them to cheat on those as well. but honestly, why would they, it's not like the GOPe disagrees with the dems

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (bving)

25 Yyttty
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone

Yay titty?

I concur.

The actual post topic?

Our Betters can EABOD.

Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (RMjPd)

26 Where's the money coming from?
Ha ha. I crack myself up.

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

27 The families of the christian school tranny shooter are claiming copyright to the manifesto to block its release.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:14 PM (PI/SC)
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How? They didn't write it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (HnUIn)

28 "The House just voted overwhelmingly to advance the foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza."

"And Gaza." We are literally financing both sides of the Israel-Hamas war. Like "literally" in its actual meaning. MIC and grifters are gonna make serious bank, though. That's all that matters.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

29 "He had his reasons."
-the best defense I've heard...which is pretty shit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

You know who else had his reasons?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (0eaVi)

30 A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle aimed right up your ass!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (vtyCZ)

31 I guess we just didn't send them enough money.

Pay harder, everyone!

Posted by: Eeyore at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (1bNHn)

32 Wonder if we will ever know the definitive truth about why the hill for every single establishment pol to die on is sending more and more money to Ukraine?

Posted by: Azjaeger at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (Yh3Xo)

33 I was going to say that at least Mitch the Turtle can die happy now, because he said that Ukrainian support was the most important thing on his agenda.

But reality hit. As soon as this money is allocated, they'll be beating the drum for the next trough to be filled.
It'll never end until there is a Russian flag over kyiv.
Maybe not even then. There was a Nazi flag over Paris once.

Americans, wait your turn in line. We'll get to you eventually.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (FCbAQ)

34 29 "He had his reasons."
-the best defense I've heard...which is pretty shit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

You know who else had his reasons?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (0eaVi)

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Judas?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

35 Up next, there's going to be separate vote on foreign aid to each nation which will then be fused together in one package that will be sent to a senate in a procedural move known as MIRV.
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Appropriate, really. A MIRV is an "multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle" - a multi-warhead design that lets you send multiple warheads to the enemy on a single rocket.

It's a pretty good metaphor for what they're doing to the American people. They usually aren't nearly so clever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (HnUIn)

36 The deeper in debt you get, the easier it is to rationalize spending even more.

Hey, we're already up shit creek. Let's party while the dopes are still raising our credit limit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (GkFGh)

37
Was Mike Johnson an early round graft choice for Speaker?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (RKVpM)

38 So Johnson, like McCarthy before him, depends on Dem support to advance his bills against the wishes of the most conservative Republicans. And yet some people at the HQ will be despondent when I tell them I don't give a fuck if Johnson is deposed or control of the House changes hands.

Posted by: Not Gonna Support This Anymore at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (myMpi)

39 And $9B for Hamas and Gaza as another bipartisan payout to the Ds

Posted by: Fuzzy at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (UCh5E)

40 Afternoon.

Congratulations to soon to be Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (JAhdn)

41 If voting mattered, we wouldn't let you do it.

Posted by: The Uniparty at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (a3Q+t)

42 From what I am reading, no amount of money can save Ukraine. They lack the basics, infantry.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
......

and rodents are eating the edible electric cables on the equipment

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (v0R5T)

43 You know who else had his reasons?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2024 01:18 PM (0eaVi)

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Judas?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

And funnily enough....

Posted by: Bag o' Money at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (0eaVi)

44 Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (Y6Wgg)

45 I'm starting to think that having a succession of closeted homosexuals as their legislative leaders isn't working out for Republican voters.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (3vCGB)

46 The weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (V1/1/)

47 And $9B for Hamas and Gaza as another bipartisan payout to ~~the Ds~~ Iran
Posted by: Fuzzy at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (UCh5E)
++++
FIFY

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (HnUIn)

48 38 So Johnson, like McCarthy before him, depends on Dem support to advance his bills against the wishes of the most conservative Republicans. And yet some people at the HQ will be despondent when I tell them I don't give a fuck if Johnson is deposed or control of the House changes hands.
Posted by: Not Gonna Support This Anymore at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (myMpi)

======

But he stopped the immigration bill! (which, I'm betting, will pass the House before the end of the year)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

49 "Hey guys, I had to strip out the things you want so that the dems would vote for the things they want. You understand." -- Yet another "conservative" SOTH

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (KbCG3)

50 27 The families of the christian school tranny shooter are claiming copyright to the manifesto to block its release.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:14 PM (PI/SC)
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How? They didn't write it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (HnUIn)
_________

Anyone still think this manifesto is just the usual insane tranny ranting? Or is everyone on my side of the thinking that it directly implicates other actors that the Regime does not want implicated?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

51 It's ok, we knew it was a uniparty in Washington anyway.

Posted by: waelse1 at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (5NG/N)

52 Covenant School victims families' are fighting against the release of shooter Audrey Hale's writings, likening their release to stealing Taylor Swift's songs and violating copyright.

Their lawyers argue that her writings should not be released because the families own the copyright to her writings, after Hale's family gave them up.

“Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (PI/SC)

53 From what I am reading, no amount of money can save Ukraine. They lack the basics, infantry.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2024 01:17 PM (MeG8a)
++++
Nothing that American boys that bleed Red, White and Blue can't solve!

Posted by: It wouldn't surprise me at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (HnUIn)

54 Vote harder next time.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (Y6Wgg)

55 It's like a 70s talk show.

MIRV griftin'.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (9yWhg)

56 50 Anyone still think this manifesto is just the usual insane tranny ranting? Or is everyone on my side of the thinking that it directly implicates other actors that the Regime does not want implicated?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

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"I was approached by Kamala, groomed by Obama, and the Pritzker family bought me my guns."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

57 @36

>>The deeper in debt you get, the easier it is to rationalize spending even more.

Fun True Fact: The GOP has controlled the power of the purse for 22 of the last 30 years.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (oJb1g)

58 We fund our friends and enemies on borrowed $$.
I want to do a clockwork orange to somebody.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (J8LnB)

59 The weekend is coming The weekend is coming
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (V1/1/)
.......

At least it's not the British.

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (v0R5T)

60 From what I am reading, no amount of money can save Ukraine. They lack the basics, infantry.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

/-

Dude none of this is about Ukraine winning or losing. It a money laundering operation for Democrats and Ukraine oligarchs.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (Y6Wgg)

61 And yet some people at the HQ will be despondent when I tell them I don't give a fuck if Johnson is deposed or control of the House changes hands.
Posted by: Not Gonna Support This Anymore at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (myMpi)

I don't want the Dems running the house committees and killing any investigations.

Posted by: Liberty at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (e8fK3)

62 “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift

clearly, it's pretty much exactly the same

Posted by: brak at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (AR07F)

63 Covenant School victims families' are fighting against the release of shooter Audrey Hale's writings, likening their release to stealing Taylor Swift's songs and violating copyright.

Their lawyers argue that her writings should not be released because the families own the copyright to her writings, after Hale's family gave them up.

“Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

WTF?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:23 PM (9yWhg)

64 57 Fun True Fact: The GOP has controlled the power of the purse for 22 of the last 30 years.

Let that sink in.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (oJb1g)

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"Don't be so hard on them. They used their exclusive ability to control spending bills to defund both NPR and PP, build a wall for a cool $5 billion, AND audited the Pentagon, cutting out tens of billions of dollars of waste.

I mean, that's what extended Republican control of the House did, right?"
-30 years ago

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

65 56 50 Anyone still think this manifesto is just the usual insane tranny ranting? Or is everyone on my side of the thinking that it directly implicates other actors that the Regime does not want implicated?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

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"I was approached by Kamala, groomed by Obama, and the Pritzker family bought me my guns."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)
_______

"And Obama told me the truth about his drowned 'chef'"

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

66 37
Was Mike Johnson an early round graft choice for Speaker?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 01:19 PM (RKVpM)

Sadly, there aren't any fire-breathing warriors there that we'd actually approve of.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 01:24 PM (UnA8+)

67 65 "And Obama told me the truth about his drowned 'chef'"
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

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That his soufflés always collapsed out of the oven?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

68 It's like a 70s talk show.

MIRV griftin'.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (9yWhg)

With a sidekick of sex trafficking.

Posted by: Arthur Treacher at April 19, 2024 01:24 PM (0eaVi)

69
Nothing that American boys that bleed Red, White and Blue can't solve!

Posted by: It wouldn't surprise me at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM

My vote is for a draft 100% composed of recipients of student loan debt relief. If Women's Studies Majors can't rein the Russkies in then no one can.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 01:24 PM (RKVpM)

70 It's like a 70s talk show.

MIRV griftin'.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (9yWhg)

A tip of the cap to you, sir.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 19, 2024 01:24 PM (FCbAQ)

71 So there is honor among thieves.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 01:24 PM (o2ZRX)

72 @67

>>That his soufflés always collapsed out of the oven?

There were at least 3 Odd Couple episodes that hinged on collapsed soufflés.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 01:25 PM (oJb1g)

73 28 "The House just voted overwhelmingly to advance the foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza."

"And Gaza." We are literally financing both sides of the Israel-Hamas war. Like "literally" in its actual meaning. MIC and grifters are gonna make serious bank, though. That's all that matters.

oceania has always been at war with oceania

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 01:25 PM (v3pYe)

74 "And Obama told me the truth about his drowned 'chef'"

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

Yet another blockbuster story the media was very, very uncurious about.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:25 PM (KbCG3)

75 ... Their lawyers argue that her writings should not be released because the families own the copyright to her writings, after Hale's family gave them up.

“Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (PI/SC)
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That's retarded, sir.

If copyright is surrendered, it enters the public domain. You can't just go and claim it for yourself.

Not to mention that this might not be copyrightable anyway, because it was produced in connection with a crime. And even if it is copyrightable, and somehow these people can claim to own the copyright, that doesn't justify secrecy and fair use would certainly apply anyway.

This is pretty dumb.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:26 PM (HnUIn)

76 I LOVED Sarah Jessica Parker in 'Whore Horse'. The movie was sad, though. All those poor horsies in WW1!

Posted by: Cicero KABOOM! KID low-carb cannibal diet guru at April 19, 2024 01:26 PM (hirWM)

77 39 And $9B for Hamas and Gaza as another bipartisan payout to the Ds
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To help them in the election against RFKJ and Trump, both.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 01:26 PM (vtyCZ)

78 75 Not to mention that this might not be copyrightable anyway, because it was produced in connection with a crime. And even if it is copyrightable, and somehow these people can claim to own the copyright, that doesn't justify secrecy and fair use would certainly apply anyway.

This is pretty dumb.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:26 PM (HnUIn)

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Maybe the school really is a hotbed of abuse and some of the parents know that they're implicated?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

79 “Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (PI/SC)

Best. Analogy. Ever.

Posted by: Judge Swifty at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (OguvZ)

80 BOHICA, taxpayers!

Posted by: boynsea at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (cx155)

81 So, are the victims' families planning to publish the manifesto themselves and profit from its sale? That would seem to be the only reason for insisting on the copyright. If so, it's a really ghoulish thing to do, profiting off the deaths of their loved ones.

My guess is that there's some ambulance-chasing lawyer putting them up to this shit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (9yWhg)

82 Maybe the school really is a hotbed of abuse and some of the parents know that they're implicated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)
++++
I don't care what the reason is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (HnUIn)

83 Who knew they were so picky?

@MailOnline 4h
'They wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden's 'unacceptable' suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle https://trib.al/ZiJMJ2P

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (IG4Id)

84 “Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”

What the actual fuck? This is the stupidest legal argument since the last time Ketanji Jackson opened her pie hole.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

85 The families of the christian school tranny shooter are claiming copyright to the manifesto to block its release.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:14 PM (PI/SC)

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Netflix and DEIsney will be in a bidding war to buy the movie rights.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (LGZQv)

86 I don't want the Dems running the house committees and killing any investigations.
Posted by: Liberty at April 19, 2024 01:22 PM (e8fK3)

Since those investigations have been the source of so many sternly worded letters and speeches, and the occassional talk show appearance for bloviating, I understand.

It's hard to let that kind of entertainment go.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (FCbAQ)

87 >>> I'm starting to think that having a succession of closeted homosexuals as their legislative leaders isn't working out for Republican voters.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (3vCGB)

It cracks me up that a lot of O'Keefe's sting videos center around getting honey-pot guys to bedazzle gay boys in different administrations and corporations. They blab and blab. I'm sure the Rs are the same, just gayer. Cawthorn hinted at that.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 01:28 PM (Y6IkP)

88 Covenant School victims families' are fighting against the release of shooter Audrey Hale's writings, likening their release to stealing Taylor Swift's songs and violating copyright.

Their lawyers argue that her writings should not be released because the families own the copyright to her writings, after Hale's family gave them up.

“Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (PI/SC)

It's like using right to privacy as justification for beating your spouse to death. As long as it was in the privacy of your own home, right?

Fucking lawyers, man...

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:28 PM (JAhdn)

89 It cracks me up that a lot of O'Keefe's sting videos center around getting honey-pot guys to bedazzle gay boys in different administrations and corporations. They blab and blab. I'm sure the Rs are the same, just gayer. Cawthorn hinted at that.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 01:28 PM (Y6IkP)

Cawthorn getting railroaded out of his seat by the Ronna Romney RNC also hints at that.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2024 01:29 PM (2ocoG)

90 Oh, wait. I see that the shyster attorneys are already involved.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:29 PM (9yWhg)

91 i'll bet mccain is real proud of the speaker, whereever he (i mean johnson, maybe he's at lunch now, we can readily imagine where mccain is if not whose ass he's kissing)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 19, 2024 01:29 PM (B1FKF)

92
When future historians write of the 100 years war between Papua New Guinea and the United States, Joe Biden isn't gonna look too good. What a bonehead.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 01:29 PM (RKVpM)

93 >>> Who knew they were so picky?

@MailOnline 4h
'They wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden's 'unacceptable' suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle https://trib.al/ZiJMJ2P
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 01:27 PM (IG4Id)

It's a good thing they never invented Lawry's Seasoned Salt.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 01:30 PM (Y6IkP)

94 The junta has a majority in Congress.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2024 01:30 PM (RIvkX)

95 Is Johnson's litter box being held hostage?

Posted by: Furry Squirrel with Giant Furry Nuts at April 19, 2024 01:30 PM (Zz86T)

96 The kids are alright.

Biden says little kids giving him the finger "happens all the time" as he's driving through rural towns

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (FVME7)

97 Thing about manifestos is that they're meant for free public consumption by their very nature.

No one ever paywalled a manifesto.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (JAhdn)

98 Why are we giving money to Gaza??? Further why giving our money to anyone outside of the USA?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (d2bW3)

99 Leave Johnson alone! If we keep resisting him, we'll end up with Speaker Jeffries! Is that what you want?

Posted by: Sen. Cardin's Gay Intern at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (Txzd6)

100 97 Thing about manifestos is that they're meant for free public consumption by their very nature.

No one ever paywalled a manifesto.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (JAhdn)

=======

The best are behind paywalls.

Send $25 to my Venmo, and I'll show you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

101 It's not called the Uniparty for nuthin.

Posted by: mrp at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (rj6Yv)

102 That the victims families are fighting so ferociously against the truth coming out sure activates the almonds, doesn't it?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (O1gXl)

103 No one ever paywalled a manifesto.

the NYT put the Unabomber's right in the first section

Posted by: brak at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (AR07F)

104 93 It's a good thing they never invented Lawry's Seasoned Salt.

i hear that in papua new guinea it's called bosey's seasoned salt.

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (v3pYe)

105 96 The kids are alright.

Biden says little kids giving him the finger "happens all the time" as he's driving through rural towns

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (FVME7)

Are you sure he means it the way the rest of us do?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (KbCG3)

106 Yasir Arafat's pension and widows just got fatter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (RIvkX)

107 When future historians write of the 100 years war between Papua New Guinea and the United States, Joe Biden isn't gonna look too good. What a bonehead.

The New Guinea...ins? ate a 9 year old girl and Biden had a heart attack and died.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (2ocoG)

108 Cawthorn getting railroaded out of his seat by the Ronna Romney RNC also hints at that.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2024 01:29 PM (2ocoG)

Thumb Tillis played a large role in it, too.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:33 PM (JAhdn)

109 Why are we giving money to Gaza??? Further why giving our money to anyone outside of the USA?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (d2bW3)
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1. Because the US is a current ally of Iran and a historical ally of Israel and it is an election year so the US is doing what it always does and is trying to have its cake and eat it, too by supporting both sides of the conflict in hops of holding on the associated interest groups within the Party.
2. Because we're an empire, and empires have to support their possessions and retain favorable access to them. Like all empires before us, we are dying of bankruptcy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:33 PM (HnUIn)

110 The junta has a majority in Congress.

It's not a junta. It's the expression of the political will of two parties that agree on one thing - there should only be two political parties.

It's been like this since the end of WW II. So much so, that even Ike spoke out about it as we walked out the White House door.

Its why I laugh, mock, and cuss whenever anyone talks about "taking back" the GOP. It was never ours to begin with.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:33 PM (rcDDC)

111 Pupusa New Guinea? That sounds delicious.
-- Joe Biden

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:33 PM (9yWhg)

112 The best are behind paywalls.

Send $25 to my Venmo, and I'll show you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

*Taps chin*

Alright, give me the link.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:34 PM (JAhdn)

113 It's not a tranifesto, it's an operetta. She hasn't even had time to set it to music.

Posted by: zombie clarence darrow at April 19, 2024 01:34 PM (myMpi)

114
Why are we giving money to Gaza??? Further why giving our money to anyone outside of the USA?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM

There seems to be some sort of one to one correspondence between the people who hate us and the amount of money we give them.

I think a movie was made decades ago about some tiny country who declared war on the USA just for the graft.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 01:34 PM (RKVpM)

115 105 96 The kids are alright.

Biden says little kids giving him the finger "happens all the time" as he's driving through rural towns

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 01:31 PM (FVME7)

Are you sure he means it the way the rest of us do?

we're just hoping he doesn't mean it the way they do in papua new guinea.

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (v3pYe)

116 Its why I laugh, mock, and cuss whenever anyone talks about "taking back" the GOP. It was never ours to begin with.

yes, we've always been the real RINOs

Posted by: brak at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (AR07F)

117 Stop with the drama!

You're still voting R in Nov!

Posted by: Speaker MAGA Mike at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (tN3kf)

118 112 *Taps chin*

Alright, give me the link.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:34 PM (JAhdn)

========

Shit!

*scrounges around for decent facsimile of a manifesto*
*dusts off old book found in corner*
*reads cover haphazardly, fails to recognize it as Julia Child's Guide to French Cooking Volume II*

*sends link*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

119 There seems to be some sort of one to one correspondence between the people who hate us and the amount of money we give them.

True. Putin doesn't give a fuck about us for the most part, so DC is big mad about it.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

120 “Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”

What if Tay-tay's songs were the primary evidence in a major crime? Would that change things? I imagine it would. No one would be allowed to hide evidence behind a claim of copyright.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (/y8xj)

121 What if Tay-tay's songs were the primary evidence in a major crime? Would that change things? I imagine it would. No one would be allowed to hide evidence behind a claim of copyright.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (/y8xj)
++++
More than that, assume she wrote the song explicitly as a part of the commission of the crime.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:36 PM (HnUIn)

122 I think a movie was made decades ago about some tiny country who declared war on the USA just for the graft.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Mouse That Roared. I think Peter Sellers was in it. Never seen it, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:36 PM (9yWhg)

123 I would be sanguine about markedly decreasing foreign military aid, in particular to Israel, if it weren't the policy of the current administration to give Iran everything they want, including many billions of dollars.

Israel needs the counterbalance of military aid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2024 01:36 PM (gSZYf)

124 "Why are we giving money to Gaza???"

So Hamas can spend all their money on fighting Israel ... of course.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2024 01:36 PM (Cus5s)

125 Tangent:

My favorite bit of historical idiocy from a politician was when someone said that without copyright, we'd never have Shakespeare...who wrote without copyright and had his stuff stolen all the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

126
It's like a 70s talk show.

MIRV griftin'.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

MIRV Griffith

https://youtu.be/7KSOTfLFVwc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2024 01:37 PM (63Dwl)

127 I used to vote straight ticket R. Now I vote for a few Rs, Ls, and Indy’s. Now “Republican” to me is defined as a person affiliated with a party that is willing to lie to a greater number of people. That brand is pure garbage. Fuck it, bring on the burning times.

Posted by: Cooldawg at April 19, 2024 01:37 PM (FvNw3)

128 The "spice" must flow.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 19, 2024 01:37 PM (bNf8H)

129 *reads cover haphazardly, fails to recognize it as Julia Child's Guide to French Cooking Volume II*

*sends link*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

Is it me or are these bomb making instructions very high in carbs?

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:37 PM (JAhdn)

130 >>> Republican Reps. Chip Roy, Thomas Massie, and Ralph Norman voted against the rule, expressing frustration that aid to Ukraine was not paired with conservative border security provisions.
-----------------

Doesn't mean that these three are Conservative. They coat roomed this, determined it wasn't going to pass, then picked the nay voters who needed/wanted to burnish their home credibility.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:37 PM (PRpm0)

131 Mike Johnson Finds a Way, Despite the Odds. House Speaker Mike Johnson is on the verge of doing something hardly anyone expected: passing a comprehensive foreign aid package that adequately funds the Ukrainians in their fight against the Russians.

Johnson has made himself the primary target of the Freedom Caucus by requiring Democrats to come to his aid on the Rules Committee. After the committee vote, Johnson won’t be done relying on Democrats: He’ll need their votes to pass the rule to bring the bills to the House floor, and maybe again to fend off an attempt by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her allies to oust him.

Johnson’s gambit depends on his getting support from Democrats on the Rules Committee. But here’s the thing: That just doesn’t happen. Like, ever. The Twitter account Ringwiss notes that “It would appear that never in recorded history have minority members of the Rules Committee voted in favour of reporting a rule to make up for majority votes against it.”

I want to stress that this is not a done deal by any means. Many things can happen in the next 48 hours that could blow it all up.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 19, 2024 01:38 PM (JCZqz)

132 I'm starting to think that having a succession of closeted homosexuals as their legislative leaders isn't working out for Republican voters.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at April 19, 2024 01:20 PM (3vCGB)

Not like the out-of-closet ones are any better.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 01:38 PM (tkR6S)

133 This is some MKUltra shit, innit?

@8NewsNow
Fire breaks out at historic Oregon hotel used in 'The Shining'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 01:38 PM (IG4Id)

134 If we all focus on one artery in his skull, maybe we can pop it like popcorn.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 01:39 PM (J8LnB)

135 FUCK 'EM ALL

Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:39 PM (RqMDa)

136 My favorite bit of historical idiocy from a politician was when someone said that without copyright, we'd never have Shakespeare...who wrote without copyright and had his stuff stolen all the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't think copyright enforcement came to be a big thing until Dickens came along and started going after folks who were doing unauthorized stage adaptations of his works.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:39 PM (9yWhg)

137 >>Not like the out-of-closet ones are any better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 01:38 PM (tkR6S)
___
But less susceptible to blackmail.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 19, 2024 01:39 PM (bNf8H)

138 Somebody set himself on fire outside the Trump trial.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (+zECz)

139 “Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court. “We are in the same position as Ms. Swift. This is copyright and shouldn’t be public.”

Imagine, if someone killed your child - and you know they were both batshit crazy and also wrote down exactly why they should be mocked, minimized, and otherwise frozen out of the public square as well as all those like them - and yet you engaged in lawfare to make sure that doesn't happen.

And that's these parents. A lot of dumb shit gets said around here, and I've said some dumb shit as well - like this next nugget. That a liberal is just a conservative that hasn't been mugged yet. Turns out, that's not how it works at all.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (rcDDC)

140 You will never change national policy long term by voting. The system in DC is too rich and too entrenched. Replace one Lindsey Graham you get a Lindsey Graham clone in xer place. You must change the system itself and what that requires most Americans don't have anymore. The Founders didn't rid themselves of the British Crown by voting.

Posted by: Pantloadius Hero of the Greeks at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (Yg/ZT)

141 Anyone still think this manifesto is just the usual insane tranny ranting? Or is everyone on my side of the thinking that it directly implicates other actors that the Regime does not want implicated?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

Bingo!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (tkR6S)

142 Do you get the feeling that this is just the last of the paper shuffling before the collapse? I do.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (lTGtQ)

143 The Senate of the Late Roman Republic was a mockery of representative government. Just a collection of corrupt, venal, self-dealing oligarchs trying to outmaneuver each other and grab as much wealth and power as humanly possible, in a system that had lost any semblance of accountability or civic duty.

But even a piece of shit like Quintus Servilius Caepio the Elder would blush if he could see what's become of this once-mighty Republic. It's just astounding to behold.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (0FoWg)

144 so, it seem slike some protestor just set himself on fire at the PDJT trial....

hope he's not well done and not too crispy...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (bving)

145 What you stop to think about it, this shithole Johnson is basically saying "I don't give a shit that this country is going down in flames, we're going to send taxpayer money all over the globe, to satisfy our corporate overlords."

In another time, another place, this would be considered treason. A more sane and reasonable time and place than the nightmare in which we are living.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (dGCAG)

146 >>>1. Because the US is a current ally of Iran and a historical ally of Israel and it is an election year so the US is doing what it always does and is trying to have its cake and eat it, too by supporting both sides of the conflict in hops of holding on the associated interest groups within the Party.
2. Because we're an empire, and empires have to support their possessions and retain favorable access to them. Like all empires before us, we are dying of bankruptcy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Well said. And same from Divide By Zero

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (d2bW3)

147 More than that, assume she wrote the song explicitly as a part of the commission of the crime.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:36 PM (HnUIn)

You don't even need the analogy.

What if she wrote a "song" that was exactly this particular text in question?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2024 01:41 PM (GkFGh)

148 >>>Somebody set himself on fire outside the Trump trial.
Posted by: Lost in Space

Sadly, it wasn't Biden.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2024 01:41 PM (d2bW3)

149 Somebody set himself on fire outside the Trump trial.
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (+zECz)

We should all be so lucky.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:41 PM (dGCAG)

150
The Mouse That Roared. I think Peter Sellers was in it. Never seen it, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

==========

Peter ustinov. I haven't seen it either but I want to. We should have a watch party.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 19, 2024 01:42 PM (ny95y)

151
An Egyptian investigative journalist who exposed the acquisition of a luxury villa by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy’s mother-in-law in El-Gouna has been found dead, according to a report on Friday by El Mostaqbal.

The independent journalist, Mohammed Al-Alawi, reported on the purchase of the villa for $4.85 million in August by Olga Kiyashko, leaking alleged documents as proof of his claims. The report raised questions of corruption and misappropriation of US financial aid to Ukraine by the Zelenskyy family.

look, maybe Zelensky needs another house

Posted by: brak at April 19, 2024 01:42 PM (AR07F)

152 I'm so pissed at this... Damned Johnson... I bet McCarthy wouldn't have been any worse.. Probably better

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:42 PM (Akjoo)

153 Johnson’s gambit depends on his getting support from Democrats on the Rules Committee. But here’s the thing: That just doesn’t happen. Like, ever. The Twitter account Ringwiss notes that “It would appear that never in recorded history have minority members of the Rules Committee voted in favour of reporting a rule to make up for majority votes against it.”

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 19, 2024 01:38 PM (JCZqz)

It would appear that Johnson's sole role was to get more money for Ukraine without positively impacting the border. Given that he may even be ousted over this, looks like a kamikaze mission.

Wouldn't be shocked if he faces a vote, gets ousted and then retires. He has played his part. That'll do, pig. That'll do.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:43 PM (KbCG3)

154 so, it seem slike some protestor just set himself on fire at the PDJT trial....

hope he's not well done and not too crispy...
Posted by: SturmToddler

The Papuan consulate just placed a call to Uber Eats...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:43 PM (9yWhg)

155 I'm so pissed at this... Damned Johnson... I bet McCarthy wouldn't have been any worse.. Probably better
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:42 PM (Akjoo)
++++
McCarthy never met a spending or amnesty bill he didn't love.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:43 PM (HnUIn)

156 Not in the too distant past there was complaint about MTG wanting to dump Johnson. Well...?
I think, basically, Johnson is a good guy and MTG would better serve by using some of her physEd workout routines on some house members, Out behind the barn if necessary. Also, Stefanic is not without responsibility, she's the whip and should learn how to use it.

Steffi, call up Tom DeLay he's got some advice you can use.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:43 PM (PRpm0)

157 We'll get em next time, champ!

Posted by: Speakers Hastert, Boehner, and Ryan, soon McCarthy at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (tN3kf)

158 What's the person got to do around this place to get a bill to close the southern border?

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (+zECz)

159 Let me ask a question that I hope gets answered. Could Johnson be doing this to appease the RINOs so that they don't resign or become Dems and the Republicans loose the majority? If that happens the Democrats ram this bill through anyway but Republicans loose the Speaker

Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (RqMDa)

160 Do you get the feeling that this is just the last of the paper shuffling before the collapse? I do.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 19, 2024 01:40 PM (lTGtQ)

They say trannies are prominently on display in several past civilizations, just before the collapse.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (dGCAG)

161 The Russians are slowly grinding the Ukes into dust. Nothing that they're voting on in DC will change the outcome , it'll just produce more dead. If the Russians do win they could create chaos in US by releasing all of the records showing how many US politicians are in on the grift

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (Wjvnb)

162 My favorite bit of historical idiocy from a politician was when someone said that without copyright, we'd never have Shakespeare...who wrote without copyright and had his stuff stolen all the time.

Almost all of Shakespeare's plays are adaptations of earlier works. IIRC The Tempest is the only actual original plot; the rest were really just punched up with better dialogue. (And a character tweaked here and there.)

That's not a slam on the Bard. Trends change-- sometimes adaptations are all the rage, sometimes not.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (l8gTz)

163 What you stop to think about it, this shithole Johnson is basically saying "I don't give a shit that this country is going down in flames, we're going to send taxpayer money all over the globe, to satisfy our corporate overlords."

Most people don't think - I know that. I know it by just a little over fifty years of observation.

Most people, early on, develop a set of behaviors. And those don't change. We call them "beliefs" - I call them "faiths". And their typical response, when the currents of life run counter to their set course, is to row harder. Like a boat with no sail and no rudder.

That's people.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (rcDDC)

164 The British who until now voted Tory have decided to go with "No Seats," wherein they either stay home or vote for Labor to crash the faux two-party system and accelerate the country's collapse. That idea is not without merit.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (KSNKu)

165 Not really cheering for it, but a Russian victory over Ukraine could open the Ukraine files for the world to see just how deep the corruption in Ukraine really runs. I've long since concluded that Ukraine is one of the key hotspots / transfer points for world-wide corruption. If those files are ever opened, we would learn that there isn't a significant politician in the world who is not dancing to some tune which is being called through that corrupt network.

Posted by: Beelzebubba at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (TOe+Q)

166 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 01:45 PM (fwDg9)

167 I don't think copyright enforcement came to be a big thing until Dickens came along and started going after folks who were doing unauthorized stage adaptations of his works.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:39 PM (9yWhg)

The notable success of the ribald musical Cum Dumpster Havisham was the last straw for Dickens.

Posted by: spindrift at April 19, 2024 01:45 PM (OguvZ)

168 wow, so just saw the video, that dude was fully engulfed. no getting out of that one.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (bving)

169 As one does...

@BNONews 1m
JUST IN: Man sets himself on fire outside Manhattan Criminal Courthouse

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (IG4Id)

170 Has the time come for a new party to replace the Republican party?

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (+zECz)

171 Let me ask a question that I hope gets answered. Could Johnson be doing this to appease the RINOs so that they don't resign or become Dems and the Republicans loose the majority? If that happens the Democrats ram this bill through anyway but Republicans loose the Speaker
Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (RqMDa)

No. Johnson is doing this because he's a gay homosexual pedophile, and doesn't want them to release the photos of his victims, nor the autopsy results.

Same result, so frankly, I don't care why, as it obviously doesn't make a damn bit of difference who's in the Speaker chair.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (dGCAG)

172 168 wow, so just saw the video, that dude was fully engulfed. no getting out of that one.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (bving)

What was he protesting ? Life ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (Akjoo)

173 170 Has the time come for a new party to replace the Republican party?
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (+zECz)

It did: 1996.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:47 PM (KSNKu)

174 "If the Russians do win they could create chaos in US by releasing all of the records showing how many US politicians are in on the grift"

or maybe they just keep the kompromat as leverage against those politicians? It seems most of Congress is owned by someone, or by multiple someones.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2024 01:47 PM (Cus5s)

175 Has the time come for a new party to replace the Republican party?
Posted by: Lost in Space

You misspelled "Uniparty."

And, yes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:47 PM (9yWhg)

176 173 170 Has the time come for a new party to replace the Republican party?
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (+zECz)

Yes.. The No Bullshit Party

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (Akjoo)

177 >>>JUST IN: Man sets himself on fire outside Manhattan Criminal Courthouse

MAGA cultist or TDS wacko?

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (xPl2J)

178 Johnson is supposed to be on Bongino's show in 15 minutes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (63Dwl)

179 You notice the Big Promise of the usual Failure Theater isn't even being bothered with?

I mean, not too many years ago, they'd at least try to lie to us that, if we eat this shit sandwich today, we'll get steak tomorrow.

The most famous being passing Obamacare in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

Now?
It's all F you voters, we're doing what we want.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (yikga)

180
The Russians are slowly grinding the Ukes into dust. Nothing that they're voting on in DC will change the outcome , it'll just produce more dead. If the Russians do win they could create chaos in US by releasing all of the records showing how many US politicians are in on the grift

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM

Yup. I think Vlad already knows plenty, but something in his KGB background implores him to never show his cards. Odd, to me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (RKVpM)

181 Johnson is turning into another Rino, I think any conservative can be conned into the Deep State in a matter of time

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (fwDg9)

182 No. Johnson is doing this because he's a gay homosexual pedophile, and doesn't want them to release the photos of his victims, nor the autopsy results.

No idea if he's gay, or a pedo. I do know he's a Republican highly enough connected to get a leadership position. So he's an asshole - because it takes an asshole to get a leadership position in the GOP.

All he's doing is pushing forward the collective will of the GOP.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (rcDDC)

183 Somebody set himself on fire outside the Trump trial.
Posted by: Lost in Space

Were they able to save his pussy hat?

Posted by: burn bitch burn at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (myMpi)

184 No. Johnson is doing this because he's a gay homosexual pedophile, and doesn't want them to release the photos of his victims, nor the autopsy results.

Same result, so frankly, I don't care why, as it obviously doesn't make a damn bit of difference who's in the Speaker chair.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (dGCAG)

The mysterious "black son" who had not been legally adopted and turned up in California arrest records says "hi." As I recall, Matt Gaetz had a Cuban version.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (KSNKu)

185 I wonder how many spending bills would be passed if they included a forensic accounting of where all the money went and penalties for diverting funds back to Congress or their families?

Posted by: Advo at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (VHN21)

186 >>>
Wouldn't be shocked if he faces a vote, gets ousted and then retires. He has played his part. That'll do, pig. That'll do.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Running through speaker after speaker is not the answer. Those estray Republicans, and there are many, must be wrangled in before the Speaker can do his job.

Johnson is a good man who has been lashed to the barrel. That rules committee needs its butt kicked and those 151 strays need to go through the dipping vat.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (PRpm0)

187 What good would would opposing this bill do if Republicans loose the House and the Democrats pass it anyway ?

Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (RqMDa)

188 The Russians are slowly grinding the Ukes into dust. Nothing that they're voting on in DC will change the outcome , it'll just produce more dead. If the Russians do win they could create chaos in US by releasing all of the records showing how many US politicians are in on the grift
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 19, 2024 01:44 PM (Wjvnb)

What blows my mind is france, which isn't even part of Nato, calling for Nato troops to go in and try to change the outcome.

Think about that one. We've had too many American lives lost because of french fudgery, and the U.S. mindlessly allowing ourselves to be sent in to clean up after them.

Never again.

Gee, where have I heard that phrase before.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (dGCAG)

189 wow, so just saw the video, that dude was fully engulfed. no getting out of that one.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (bving)

What was he protesting ? Life ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:46 PM (Akjoo)

not any more....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:50 PM (bving)

190
Not really cheering for it, but a Russian victory over Ukraine could open the Ukraine files for the world to see just how deep the corruption in Ukraine really runs.

FAKE DOCS!

Posted by: It's what they'll say at April 19, 2024 01:50 PM (63Dwl)

191 Hey, do you think they will do a poll to see how much support there is for these give-a ways with the American people?

Posted by: Orson at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (dIske)

192 Has the time come for a new party to replace the Republican party?

It came when the response to the Tea Party wave was the GOP crushing the Tea Party wave. But people, being what they are, just had to believe in the GOP - because that's what they believed for a few decades - and also shout down anyone who suggested any different.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (rcDDC)

193 Running through speaker after speaker is not the answer.

Works for me. Barracks emperors. If they can't produce, they get it in the neck. Too bad, so sad.

Posted by: but what will become of capital gains?!? at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (myMpi)

194 Congrats on funding the foreign wars, speaker Johnson! So what’s next?

SoTH : now were gonna cut social security and medicare!

Posted by: Oglebay at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (7fVdQ)

195 159 Let me ask a question that I hope gets answered. Could Johnson be doing this to appease the RINOs so that they don't resign or become Dems and the Republicans loose the majority? If that happens the Democrats ram this bill through anyway but Republicans loose the Speaker

Posted by: anon
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Yes. And those 151 and those on the rules committee should be actively opposed at home.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (PRpm0)

196 Johnson has done some good, impeachment, biden inquiry, investigation of Hunter, etc

Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (RqMDa)

197 What good would would opposing this bill do if Republicans loose the House and the Democrats pass it anyway ?
Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (RqMDa)

What good would it do, if someone intends to rape you in the ass, to resist him, if he's just going to end up raping you anyway.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (dGCAG)

198 The only purpose of the Republican Party was to provide the illusion that voters had a "choice". They no longer even provide that service.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 19, 2024 01:52 PM (PWI4f)

199 This bikini brunette at twilight is pretty sure that the US congress does not have the best interests of Americans in mind:
http://tiny.cc/if4txz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:52 PM (HnUIn)

200 Yes. And those 151 and those on the rules committee should be actively opposed at home.

And be labeled as pariahs to the party.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:52 PM (PRpm0)

201 Somebody has just set himself on fire outside the Trump trial.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Child Molester! at April 19, 2024 01:52 PM (YAtuc)

202 Johnson is a good man who has been lashed to the barrel. That rules committee needs its butt kicked and those 151 strays need to go through the dipping vat.

Horse. Shit. Nobody made Johnson do a damn thing. He does what he does because he wants to. This is what he's done.

And it's not like he was drafted into the job. Do the job. No more bitching because "it's hard" or "we have to do something".

Johnson is a jack-ass. Like all those before him.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (rcDDC)

203 Johnson has done some good, impeachment, biden inquiry, investigation of Hunter, etc
Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (RqMDa)

yeah, but i suspect he only did it knowing that schumer, romney, et al were going to protect him by not allowing anything to actually happen

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (bving)

204 Johnson has done some good, impeachment, biden inquiry, investigation of Hunter, etc

And where are the results to show for it?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (/y8xj)

205
What good would it do, if someone intends to rape you in the ass, to resist him, if he's just going to end up raping you anyway.

Maybe you stop the next few rapes?

Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (RqMDa)

206 No idea if he's gay, or a pedo. I do know he's a Republican highly enough connected to get a leadership position. So he's an asshole - because it takes an asshole to get a leadership position in the GOP.

All he's doing is pushing forward the collective will of the GOP.
Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:48 PM (rcDDC)

Yeah, I don't know either, but as they say, at this point what difference does it make.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (dGCAG)

207 200 Yes. And those 151 and those on the rules committee should be actively opposed at home.

And be labeled as pariahs to the party.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:52 PM (PRpm0)

They are perfect reflections of the Republican Party, those 151. Either ditch that controlled opposition motherfucker or keep being used like a little bitch.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:54 PM (KSNKu)

208 Running through speaker after speaker is not the answer. Those estray Republicans, and there are many, must be wrangled in before the Speaker can do his job.

Johnson is a good man who has been lashed to the barrel. That rules committee needs its butt kicked and those 151 strays need to go through the dipping vat.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:49 PM (PRpm0)
++++
Lashed to the barrel, crushed by the barrel.

Do it enough times and either the party shitbags fall into line, or the party collapses under its own weight and dies. Either way, it's an improvement over the duplicitous scumbags who piss me and claim it's raining.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:54 PM (HnUIn)

209 Somebody has just set himself on fire outside the Trump trial.

Boy, somebody was really pissed off that he missed out on the Trump malt giveaway at Chik-Fil-A.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 01:54 PM (9yWhg)

210 202 Johnson is a good man who has been lashed to the barrel. That rules committee needs its butt kicked and those 151 strays need to go through the dipping vat.

Horse. Shit. Nobody made Johnson do a damn thing. He does what he does because he wants to. This is what he's done.

And it's not like he was drafted into the job. Do the job. No more bitching because "it's hard" or "we have to do something".

Johnson is a jack-ass. Like all those before him.
Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (rcDDC)

Yeah, his hands were so tied here that he...appealed to the opposition to approve the bill.

F him.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:54 PM (KbCG3)

211 Let me ask a question that I hope gets answered. Could Johnson be doing this to appease the RINOs so that they don't resign or become Dems and the Republicans loose the majority?
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Possibly.
But highly unlikely.

1) why wasn't a promise to pass this good enough to keep those who already left?
2) notice how--after saturation coverage attacking his family just after he became Speaker, it all ... just stopped?
Have you ever, ever, ever known the left to just stop attacking a Republican? Especially if they have a juicy "weird family" angle?

He's been turned.
And see my prior, how they are not even bothering lie to us with future promised action.
You're seeing a broken man who has given up.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2024 01:55 PM (yikga)

212
Funny, I don't see anyone else wanting the Speakers job. Why is that?

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 19, 2024 01:55 PM (+oR7L)

213 206 No idea if he's gay, or a pedo. I do know he's a Republican highly enough connected to get a leadership position. So he's an asshole - because it takes an asshole to get a leadership position in the GOP.
---------------

Wrong. He was pushed into the job because No One Else would take it. It's a crappy job because the House is infested with turncoats.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (PRpm0)

214 Believe me I am furious over this - I am just wondering if I can convince myself that there is any silver lining at all

Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (RqMDa)

215 212
Funny, I don't see anyone else wanting the Speakers job. Why is that?
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 19, 2024 01:55 PM (+oR7L)

I think , roll up your sleeves, Jordon wanted it...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (Akjoo)

216 Johnson is doing his master's bidding.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (4XwPj)

217 Quite something how Johnson and McConnell always deliver what the Left wants. Amazing stuff there.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:57 PM (KSNKu)

218 Johnson is a jack-ass. Like all those before him.
Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:53 PM (rcDDC)

Yeah, his hands were so tied here that he...appealed to the opposition to approve the bill.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:54 PM (KbCG3)

We see this here, constantly. Always the same folks. The GOP Apologists. It's just no their fault - time and time and time again.

My analogy holds. Most people don't "think" as I'd define it - they don't critically analyze cause and effect and change assumptions accordingly. They make up their mind, jump in a rowboat, point the bow in a direction - and then row like Hell regardless of what happens next.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:57 PM (rcDDC)

219 The Graft Must Flow. Alpha, Omega, That's All That Matters.

Posted by: davidt at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (SYTee)

220 Running through speaker after speaker is not the answer.
-----------
Works for me. Barracks emperors. If they can't produce, they get it in the neck. Too bad, so sad.
Posted by: but what will become of capital gains?!? at April 19, 2024 01:51 PM (myMpi)

Hmmm, running through speaker after speaker.

My only question is, running them through with what?

Maybe we can find some short swords like the one used by the 17 year old kid who gutted the Japanese socialist pol back in 1960.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (dGCAG)

221 Trump said the right thing the other day.. There is an ocean between us so Europe needs to pick up the Tab....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (Akjoo)

222 But... I was told by the GOP that the vote to put Johnson in the speaker position was THE MOST REPREHENSIBLE THING EVAH, because they were WORKING WITH MUH DEMZZZ to do it.

Funny how that goes, eh?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (0FoWg)

223 Wrong. He was pushed into the job because No One Else would take it. It's a crappy job because the House is infested with turncoats.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (PRpm0)

Oh ... bullshit. Nobody made him take the job. He took it because he wanted it.

If you don't want the job ? Don't take the damn job. They can't make you.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (rcDDC)

224 http://tiny.cc/if4txz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:52 PM (HnUIn)

Aloha!

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (0j+Qe)

225 217 Quite something how Johnson and McConnell always deliver what the Left wants. Amazing stuff there.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:57 PM (KSNKu)

=======

And if we don't vote R no matter what, Democrats will get what they want!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

226 But... I was told by the GOP that the vote to put Johnson in the speaker position was THE MOST REPREHENSIBLE THING EVAH, because they were WORKING WITH MUH DEMZZZ to do it.

Funny how that goes, eh?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (0FoWg)
++++
It's all one Party. The Speaker stuff last year as a target of opportunity for the Inner Party, this one is business as usual for the Uniparty.

Totally different.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (HnUIn)

227 Smart enough to do the job. Dumb enough to take it.

Posted by: Two key attributes at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (s2YO2)

228 You'd never accept "but he's a good man" as an excuse if you were an investor in a private enterprise that was failing and losing all your money, but people somehow convince themselves it's a reasonable approach to government. I don't care if any of my leaders are good or bad. Politicians are almost universally scum. The results are all that matters. Produce or fuck off. I owe them nothing.

Posted by: They're supposed to be working for me at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (myMpi)

229 Also hidden in the bill is a clause that will provide funding for 5 to 10 "hispanic or Brazilian landscapers or construction workers" to attend to the needs of Speaker Johnson's wife every other Saturday evening at the Baton Rouge Days Inn.

Posted by: Looziana Cucks in Da Hous at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (qUkBO)

230 Johnson?

Never heard of him.

Posted by: Lockheed-Martin at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (GkFGh)

231 It's a crappy job because the House is infested with turncoats.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (PRpm0)

Are they turncoats? What if the coats they are wearing have always been the coats they have worn, and have not been turned at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (dGCAG)

232 221 Trump said the right thing the other day.. There is an ocean between us so Europe needs to pick up the Tab....
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (Akjoo)

=======

Ukraine is a regional border conflict, no more.

If Germany is worried about it and wants to do something, they should send in their own army.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

233 Also hidden in the bill is a clause that will provide funding for 5 to 10 "hispanic or Brazilian landscapers or construction workers" to attend to the needs of Speaker Johnson's wife every other Saturday evening at the Baton Rouge Days Inn.
Posted by: Looziana Cucks in Da Hous at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (qUkBO)
++++
With the US Treasury's vast holdings, they're only springing for the Days Inn?

Man, being Outer Party really does suck, eh?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (HnUIn)

234 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

http://tiny.cc/yf4txz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (eyxn4)

235 228 You'd never accept "but he's a good man" as an excuse if you were an investor in a private enterprise that was failing and losing all your money, but people somehow convince themselves it's a reasonable approach to government. I don't care if any of my leaders are good or bad. Politicians are almost universally scum. The results are all that matters. Produce or fuck off. I owe them nothing.

Posted by: They're supposed to be working for me at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (myMpi)

A good man doesn't turn his back on his country's largest problems to fill the pockets of a crowd invested in perpetual war.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (KbCG3)

236 Video of this self immolation?

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

237 Oh ... bullshit. Nobody made him take the job. He took it because he wanted it.

If you don't want the job ? Don't take the damn job. They can't make you.
Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (rcDDC)

And furthermore, if the threat is merely that they will take the job away from you, if you don't give them everything they want... how is that a threat, if you never wanted the job in the first place?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:01 PM (dGCAG)

238 Haven't heard much lately about the bio-weapons labs in Ukraine.

Posted by: davidt at April 19, 2024 02:01 PM (SYTee)

239 Are they turncoats? What if the coats they are wearing have always been the coats they have worn, and have not been turned at all.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (dGCAG)
++++
Yup.

"RINO" does not mean what most people say it means. If this kind of action pisses you off and feels like a betrayal and you are also a Republican, *you* are the RINO, not the congressmen.

Matt Gaetz is a RINO. Kevin McCarthy is not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:01 PM (HnUIn)

240 Ukraine is a regional border conflict, no more.

If Germany is worried about it and wants to do something, they should send in their own army.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

About that...

Posted by: Zombie Erwin Rommel at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (sHgnb)

241
Oh ... bullshit. Nobody made him take the job. He took it because he wanted it.

If you don't want the job ? Don't take the damn job. They can't make you.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This
======================

First up and first in. Yup, slick as greased lightening he slid into that job.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (PRpm0)

242 We would be better off, quite seriously, with no Speaker. Put a Ukraine bill, an Israel bill, and a Border bill up. And let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (rcDDC)

243 For what purpose does the senator from Raytheon rise?

Posted by: The senator from Lockheed Martin at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (s2YO2)

244 the 17 year old kid who gutted the Japanese socialist pol back in 1960.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 01:58 PM (dGCAG)

Otoya Yamaguchi, PBUH.

I looked at buying a print of that photo for my office, but it's pretty pricey. Still might do it anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (0FoWg)

245 > Video of this self immolation?

There's video of the fire at the link.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (eyxn4)

246 Bongino won’t push Johnson. He still thinks it’s important the speaker is a member of the Republican Party… LOL

Posted by: Cooldawg at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (FvNw3)

247 Typical Bee Sting:

Mike Johnson unzips skin suit to reveal that he's been Kevin McCarhty all along.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (xPJvm)

248 For what purpose does the senator from Raytheon rise?
Posted by: The senator from Lockheed Martin at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (s2YO2)
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Collusion, of course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (HnUIn)

249 Johnson's doing what he's doing because this is what he's being paid for. They all do it. They all have a price. His price to be uber-RINO was met.

If someone's price isn't met they'll vote however they feel... or vote "present." Or not vote at all.

Personally, I think the left generally has a grip on the majority of the funds congress has access to so they can bribe themselves. It would, perhaps, explain why so many of the GOP vote with the left even though it's against their constituent's wishes.

To fix this, the processes that put these assholes in office needs to be fixed first.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 02:02 PM (Q4IgG)

250 Are we sure it was a for or against Trump?

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:03 PM (fwDg9)

251 ...

I would kind of like to stop referring to what this shitdick does as a "job".

He ain't getting no fucking W-2. He's a worm who wormed himself into a position of power, and he will be remunerated handsomely in ways that neither you nor I nor the IRS will ever be privy to.

He ain't some damn turkey-and-swiss for lunch GC hired to build a new wing off an office building no one works in. He's a fucking politician. Fuck him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2024 02:03 PM (GkFGh)

252 225 217 Quite something how Johnson and McConnell always deliver what the Left wants. Amazing stuff there.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:57 PM (KSNKu)

=======

And if we don't vote R no matter what, Democrats will get what they want!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

The grift has about run its course at the national level. I stand by an earlier prediction that this is the GOP's last competitive federal election. The Left will try to prop it up because it also needs, albeit less frequently, an excuse for what it does, too, but that may be too big of a lift. I wouldn't be shocked if the subsequent bundling of the Ukraine and Israel money is solely for the benefit of the Left, to wit, their base would and may still go apeshit over money going to Tel Aviv. "But we had to do this to fight Putin!"

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 02:03 PM (KSNKu)

253 We would have been better off if we had just sent Putin a hundred billion dollar bribe not to invade. But then all the crooks in DC might not have gotten their cut.
Ukraine is a bottomless money pit.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (Lo97M)

254 "RINO" does not mean what most people say it means. If this kind of action pisses you off and feels like a betrayal and you are also a Republican, *you* are the RINO, not the congressmen.

Matt Gaetz is a RINO. Kevin McCarthy is not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I am a Constitutionalist.

Only what the Constitution explicitly enumerates.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (sHgnb)

255
And if we don't vote R no matter what, Democrats will get what they want!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024

Pay attention to this 'unrealized gains' taxation proposal for a Biden second term. I don't think even the uniparty is in favor of flat out communism and wealth redistribution. But if we don't keep the (D)'s out of office it will become real.

That's the only reason I vote (R) anymore. 'Prevent defence' - and I know the line that 'the only thing the prevent defence does is prevent you from winning'. But that's football and not the tax code.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (RKVpM)

256 Also hidden in the bill is a clause that will provide funding for 5 to 10 "hispanic or Brazilian landscapers or construction workers" to attend to the needs of Speaker Johnson's wife every other Saturday evening at the Baton Rouge Days Inn.
Posted by: Looziana Cucks in Da Hous at April 19, 2024 01:59 PM

The Paolo, his lobbying efforts have, how you say, borne fruit.

Posted by: Paolo at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (Wnv9h)

257 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

Not that I doubt it, but confirmed or speculation?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (/y8xj)

258 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:01 PM (HnUIn)

Seriously? Help me understand

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (YRsIm)

259 Believe me I am furious over this - I am just wondering if I can convince myself that there is any silver lining at all
Posted by: anon at April 19, 2024 01:56 PM (RqMDa)

Soon enough, someone will set off the first nook, everyone else will retaliate, and the world will self-immolate.

Not just nutjobs in front of courthouses and embassies.

So we got that going for us. Which is nice.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (dGCAG)

260 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

http://tiny.cc/yf4txz
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (eyxn4)

Fuck off with the pixellation to hide the idiot's I.D. Fucker did it in public.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (tkR6S)

261 Martini Farmer maybe then Fetterman's price hasn't been met,or he is just out there and could care less

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:05 PM (fwDg9)

262 >>>Are they turncoats? What if the coats they are wearing have always been the coats they have worn, and have not been turned at all.

Posted by: BurtTC a
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If they aren't turncoats then we should look at the states are they from and see who supports those positions. There's an election coming maybe they have an opponent that needs a couple of bucks.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:05 PM (PRpm0)

263 260 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

http://tiny.cc/yf4txz
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (eyxn4)

Fuck off with the pixellation to hide the idiot's I.D. Fucker did it in public.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------------------------------

One at a time is just not enough.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:06 PM (PRpm0)

264 I am a Constitutionalist. Only what the Constitution explicitly enumerates.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (sHgnb)

Me too. And both parties, as well as a broad swath of folks here, would lose their shit if we actually paid attention to the 10th. Nations that observe such a thing as the 10th don't, collectively, "do great things".

Well - I'm all great things out. Sick of them. Sick of who gets to pick them. Leave me alone. I insist.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:06 PM (rcDDC)

265 We would have been better off if we had just sent Putin a hundred billion dollar bribe not to invade. But then all the crooks in DC might not have gotten their cut.
Ukraine is a bottomless money pit.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (Lo97M)

Yeah, and the half million or so dead Ukrainians would be better off too.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:06 PM (dGCAG)

266 Quite something how Johnson and McConnell always deliver what the Left wants. Amazing stuff there.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 01:57 PM (KSNKu)

More to the point: Johnson and McConnell always get what they want.

What they want is what the uniparty wants.

If the left disagreed, they'd find themselves F'd, too. But they don't, so they aren't.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:07 PM (KbCG3)

267 One at a time is just not enough.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:06 PM (PRpm0)

They ought to have the courtesy to pre-announce such events, so we'd have a chance to show up with sticks and wieners to roast.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:08 PM (tkR6S)

268 @253

>>Ukraine is a bottomless money pit.

And the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae is going to be when Ukraine is finally recognized as a military loss, we get to pay for the reconstruction and revitalization.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 02:08 PM (dg6j6)

269 Hey maybe some retard will get himself run over by a bulldozer at the next Trump outing.

There's always hope. And they're not very creative.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2024 02:08 PM (GkFGh)

270 Seriously? Help me understand
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 02:04 PM (YRsIm)
++++
This is what the GOP is. This is what it always does, like clockwork. The GOP claims to stand for X, Y and Z (they tell you it's raining) and then proceed to partner with their pals in the "other party" to do the opposite (they piss on you).

The GOP does not believe anything it *tells* you it believes, and neither do its members in good standing. A damn near perfect track record of open collaboration with the "other party" belies its stated positions.

This is the GOP. This is what courses through its veins and directs its compass. The party itself is exactly what it looks like. If you're not down with it, you - not they - are the "in name only" member of that party.

The likes of Rand Paul and Matt Gaetz - the ones who appear to believe the stated positions (or will at least pretend to) are the odd men out, and are hated by their "own" party while often-disparaged so-called "RINOs" all hang out after work and have a drink together with their "opponents" in the "other party."

So which ones are "name-only" Republicans in reality? It's folks like Matt Gaetz and Rand Paul.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM (HnUIn)

271 Types...deletes...

Wonders when speaker dick face will bring a bill to the floor for OUR national security...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM (GTqXr)

272 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

http://tiny.cc/yf4txz
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 02:00 PM (eyxn4)

lol at the guy who thinks whacking Mr. Flambé with his coat is helping somehow.

No, no, my guy. This calls for marshmallows.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Bej1H)

273 Wonders when speaker dick face will bring a bill to the floor for OUR national security...
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM

#twoweeks

Posted by: Mistah Speakah at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Wnv9h)

274 As much as I dis-like what Johnson did, unfortunately the majority of the republicans in the Senate seem to want to keep sending money to Ukraine

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Akjoo)

275 If they aren't turncoats then we should look at the states are they from and see who supports those positions. There's an election coming maybe they have an opponent that needs a couple of bucks.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:05 PM (PRpm0)

As has been noted elsewhere, these Gopes tend to come from so-called "red" states.

Complacent voters, pulling the lever for incumbents. And then when people get sick of the "turncoats," some stalwart conservative, like say, an Eyepatch Crenshaw comes along and tells everyone how conservative he is, you guys, and voters vote for him.

Then it takes another decade or three to get that slimy prick out of his chair. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:10 PM (dGCAG)

276 https://www.disclose.tv/id/lo6lrgxl6l/

Link from comment at Legalinsurrection.com
Unblurred out of flameman

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:10 PM (fwDg9)

277 As much as I dis-like what Johnson did, unfortunately the majority of the republicans in the Senate seem to want to keep sending money to Ukraine
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Akjoo)
++++
So?

That's the Senate's problem, not the House's.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:10 PM (HnUIn)

278 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.
......

THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 02:10 PM (v0R5T)

279 This is what the GOP is. This is what it always does, like clockwork.

Remember when, under Obama, they passed a clean eight page bill to defund most of ObamaCare ? Then, when they actually controlled the House, Senate, and White House - they never put that same bill on the floor again ?

That's a tell. Regardless of what certain high folks repeatedly tell you.

Posted by: Its Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (rcDDC)

280 233 Man, being Outer Party really does suck, eh?

were, there are perqs. like the choco ration, which keeps going up.

Posted by: parsons at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (v3pYe)

281
That's the Senate's problem, not the House's.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:10 PM (HnUIn)

Too many in the House wanted it too..

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Akjoo)

282
Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

That dude is never going to regain consciousness. He should be happy that he never regains consciousness.

Country has gone insane.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (RKVpM)

283 Too many in the House wanted it too..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Akjoo)
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And Johnson, apparently, was one of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (HnUIn)

284 MIRV: Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle.

They are going to nuke the Senate.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (JTwsP)

285 And the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae is going to be when Ukraine is finally recognized as a military loss, we get to pay for the reconstruction and revitalization.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 02:08 PM (dg6j6)

In the immortal words of Otter: You f**ked up, you trusted us.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (dGCAG)

286 He seems to be moving while burning 🔥, not sure how much could be involuntary muscle contractions

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (fwDg9)

287 One Democrat immolating himself is a tragedy.

A million Democrats immolating themselves is the beginning of the road back to normalcy in this country.

Posted by: Everyday Rockets at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (qUkBO)

288 The likes of Rand Paul and Matt Gaetz - the ones who appear to believe the stated positions (or will at least pretend to) are the odd men out, and are hated by their "own" party while often-disparaged so-called "RINOs" all hang out after work and have a drink together with their "opponents" in the "other party."

So which ones are "name-only" Republicans in reality? It's folks like Matt Gaetz and Rand Paul.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
-------------------------------------

You're going to confuse some people.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (PRpm0)

289 281
That's the Senate's problem, not the House's.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:10 PM (HnUIn)

Too many in the House wanted it too..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Akjoo)

=======

Speaker has total control over what goes to the floor.

He could have worked with committees to get a good border bill to voting shape, gotten that to the floor, and said, "No Ukraine funding until this passes."

He could even go so far as to say, "No more CRs until the border is closed," shut down the government until the next Congress, and gone fishing

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

290 287 One Democrat immolating himself is a tragedy.

A million Democrats immolating themselves is the beginning of the road back to normalcy in this country.
Posted by: Everyday Rockets at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (qUkBO)

Do they know it was a Dem ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (Akjoo)

291 Just remember:
MIRV=Multiple Intercontinental Reentry Vehicles

WOPR say "Hi! Would you like to play a game?"

Posted by: s_tenhoff at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (2waQ7)

292 Flaneguy is toast, he died then and there, watch link I posted

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (fwDg9)

293 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

http://tiny.cc/yf4txz
Posted by: bonhomme

Fuck off with the pixellation to hide the idiot's I.D. Fucker did it in public.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

One at a time is just not enough.
Posted by: Braenyard

Note to the Horde. Don't do that shit around me. I'm not a fireman.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (sHgnb)

294 He could even go so far as to say, "No more CRs until the border is closed," shut down the government until the next Congress, and gone fishing
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
++++
That's Not Who We Are (tm)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (HnUIn)

295 People only care about self-immolation when it's Buddhist monks doing it.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (Bej1H)

296 Too many in the House wanted it too..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Akjoo)

And Johnson was the one man who could have stopped it.

He stood astride history, and bravely said "Let's f**k over America, to please our overlords, both foreign and domestic."

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

297 He seems to be moving while burning 🔥, not sure how much could be involuntary muscle contractions
Posted by: Skip

All of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (sHgnb)

298 People only care about self-immolation when it's Buddhist monks doing it.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (Bej1H)

Cultural appropriation, if ever I've seen it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

299 Are we sure he was protesting against Trump?
What more could he want, there has to be 4 trials going to send him to prison

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (fwDg9)

300 296 Too many in the House wanted it too..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Akjoo)

And Johnson was the one man who could have stopped it.

He stood astride history, and bravely said "Let's f**k over America, to please our overlords, both foreign and domestic."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

I know, just want to know why ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (Akjoo)

301 One at a time is just not enough.
Posted by: Braenyard

A good start.

Posted by: Just The Punchline at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM (rcDDC)

302 I know, just want to know why ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (Akjoo)
++++
To please their patrons and keep their seat at the trough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM (HnUIn)

303 Why would a Leftist light himself up over this? This travesty of justice gives them all raging blue-veiners. Seems likelier to be a despondent Trump supporter, from where I'm standing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM (0FoWg)

304 Is there any way that the Dem convention won't be a circus with wackjobs lighting themselves on fire everyday while police hose the crowds? I guess they could shut the whole city down and I don't put it past them, but I think there will be some proper crazy.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (Y6IkP)

305
Bongino won’t push Johnson. He still thinks it’s important the speaker is a member of the Republican Party… LOL
Posted by: Cooldawg

He's arguing with him right now about FISA warrants.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (63Dwl)

306 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

Not that I doubt it, but confirmed or speculation?
Posted by: Oddbob

Video.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (sHgnb)

307 Meanwhile, there might be an unsuccessful Khe Sanh in Niger and nobody cares.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (0EOe9)

308 Boom, roasted....

Whut? Too soon?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (IG4Id)

309 303 Why would a Leftist light himself up over this? This travesty of justice gives them all raging blue-veiners. Seems likelier to be a despondent Trump supporter, from where I'm standing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM (0FoWg)

That's what I think... Yet another thing to blame Trump for

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (Akjoo)

310 Such a litany of impotent pithy comments. AOS: Your virtual Dennys full of Geriatric GOPers.

Posted by: MikeN at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (kKUVf)

311 Methinks sparky thought immolation would be a quicker death than it was.

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (bPal/)

312 I know, just want to know why ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:14 PM (Akjoo)

At this point blackmail seems the most obvious answer.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (dGCAG)

313 He seems to be moving while burning 🔥, not sure how much could be involuntary muscle contractions
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (fwDg9)

Looks like he kicked off a flaming sneaker.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (tkR6S)

314 As above...

Outside Courthouse
A man has set himself on fire outside the Donald Trump trial in horrifying scenes.

No idea about motivation yet.

It’s possible the victim may be a Trump supporter if CNN is any indication. Fiery but peaceful…

https://tinyurl.com/4d5x5866
45 seconds; NSFW

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (vtyCZ)

315 291 Just remember:
MIRV=Multiple Intercontinental Reentry Vehicles

hmm. *scribbles note* winged mirvs = mirv griffins

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (v3pYe)

316 I can't listen to Bongino. The man takes about a five minute thought - and stretches it out for about sixty.

Posted by: It's Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (rcDDC)

317 Triumph Forsaken covers those Buddhist self immolation, Mark Moyar puts a lot of it as Communists and Propaganda as the Buddhist s were a small percentage and the reporters were inflating they were the majority.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (fwDg9)

318 He probably left a Jew-hating manifesto.

Posted by: Everyday Rockets at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (qUkBO)

319 Bongino interviewing Johnson. Doing a good job with questions.

Posted by: Spypeach at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (UuB/1)

320 NY Post is speculating the man might be homeless.

https://tinyurl.com/56dmsnep

Via Drudge.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (Bej1H)

321 Burning man? Someone said,

"Something appeared to fly from his body as a group of people rushed to try to put the fire out"

Yeah. His soul. And it was on fire and fell to the ground also.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (sHgnb)

322 306 My thoughts too. He means well but stretches it to last a episode

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (fwDg9)

323 309 303 Why would a Leftist light himself up over this? This travesty of justice gives them all raging blue-veiners. Seems likelier to be a despondent Trump supporter, from where I'm standing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM (0FoWg)

That's what I think... Yet another thing to blame Trump for
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:16 PM (Akjoo)

These people make no sense on their best day. Dude could be doing this as a way to protest climate change that's disproportionately impacting tranny Palis.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (KbCG3)

324 Why would a Leftist light himself up over this? This travesty of justice gives them all raging blue-veiners.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM

You're applying logic here, something that's not a hallmark of the left. Dude was probably protesting Israel and blaming it on Trump.

Posted by: Bert G at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (VARTN)

325 74 "And Obama told me the truth about his drowned 'chef'"

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

Yet another blockbuster story the media was very, very uncurious about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 01:25 PM (KbCG3)
_____

Yea. Even after it was revealed that Obama lied about his whereabouts at the time of the murder . . . err, drowning. A healthy, athletic 40-something man who was apparently an experienced paddleboarder just up and drowns while paddleboarding. Nothing to see here at all.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (iFTx/)

326 MikeN, the fulltime pivot man at the DNC Convention.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (R4t5M)

327 316 I can't listen to Bongino. The man takes about a five minute thought - and stretches it out for about sixty.

well, he *does* have four hours to fill (three hour radio show + one hour podcast)

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (v3pYe)

328 These people make no sense on their best day. Dude could be doing this as a way to protest climate change that's disproportionately impacting tranny Palis.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (KbCG3)
++++
Yeah. Self-immolation is usually strongly correlated with bugnuts crazy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (HnUIn)

329 I don't know about humans ... but that's an awful way to cook steak. Do not recommend.

Posted by: It's Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (rcDDC)

330 This even pales in comparison to the FISA reup since there was an established history of it being misused against Republican voters. Sort of like not muttering a word when non-violent misdemeanants were put into solitary confinement and tortured in Our Democracy.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (KSNKu)

331 nood, you bastiches.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (IG4Id)

332 NY Post is speculating the man might be homeless.

https://tinyurl.com/56dmsnep

Via Drudge.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (Bej1H)

He came home.

Posted by: Stan at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (tkR6S)

333 Another insane Democrat self-immolates, this time in front of Trump's trial.

http://tiny.cc/yf4txz
Posted by: bonhomme

Good grief, what an awful way to die. Just stick a gun in your mouth and get it over quickly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (9yWhg)

334 307 Meanwhile, there might be an unsuccessful Khe Sanh in Niger and nobody cares.
-------
Or Dien Bien Phu.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (vtyCZ)

335 That's why I am wondering if it was a Leftist, that makes no sense.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (fwDg9)

336 I suspect that a lighted match thrown at Biden would cause him to light up with a whoof, dessicated corpse that he is.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (SQ3Sy)

337 329 Uncle Bosey went down that way with a little A1 on the side.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (0EOe9)

338 Bongino interviewing Johnson. Doing a good job with questions.
Posted by: Spypeach at April 19, 2024 02:17 PM (UuB/1)

Is he asking him why he's such a rancid piece of shit?

If not, I'm not interested.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (dGCAG)

339 NY Post is speculating the man might be homeless.

https://tinyurl.com/56dmsnep

Via Drudge.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (Bej1H)

Wonder what the headline will be tomorrow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (R4t5M)

340 294 He could even go so far as to say, "No more CRs until the border is closed," shut down the government until the next Congress, and gone fishing
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
++++
That's Not Who We Are (tm)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:13 PM (HnUIn)

======

It's who I am!

Makes me a RINO, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

341 Will somebody tell me what burning man's thoughts on current events are because I find his fiery demonstration compelling and I am prepared now to change my mind.

Posted by: Said Literally No One, Ever at April 19, 2024 02:21 PM (qUkBO)

342 I need some info with someone who tracks these things:

Was there any border-including package that would have gotten through the Senate?

Is there some reason a borders-only bill can't make some progress? At least it would force Democrats to vote specifically for open borders.

Posted by: MartynW at April 19, 2024 02:22 PM (sHP7b)

343 324 Why would a Leftist light himself up over this? This travesty of justice gives them all raging blue-veiners.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:15 PM

You're applying logic here, something that's not a hallmark of the left. Dude was probably protesting Israel and blaming it on Trump.
Posted by: Bert G at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (VARTN)

I see a desperate attempt to get people to watch cable and other state propaganda organs again. CNN may cut a check to the dude's estate or something.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 19, 2024 02:22 PM (KSNKu)

344 NY Post is speculating the man might be homeless.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:18 PM (Bej1H)

Wonder what the headline will be tomorrow.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2024 02:20 PM (R4t5M)

City makes progress on homeless problem - that'll be the top line at the Times.

Posted by: It's Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:22 PM (rcDDC)

345 Johnson is clearly very easily influenced by (if not a paying member) of the deep state. Bongino was soft on him.

Posted by: Cooldawg at April 19, 2024 02:22 PM (FvNw3)

346 “Imagine us going to Taylor Swift’s residence and they collect Ms. Swift’s writings and found 10 new songs,” the attorney said in court

I can imagine quite a few things I would like to see happen to this attorney and that family.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (yOPBE)

347 I'm not sure why Shareblue wastes money trolling right wing comments sections anymore. The Party has moved on from discourse and persuasion. They don't need to sway people or grind them down. Seems like it's just a way for David Brock to get checks from the Donks at this point, and I can't see why they write the checks for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (0FoWg)

348 If Johnson can get the border bill passed then he can say "Ta daa"

Otherwise, this guy should be metaphorically shanked

It should have been included in the "MIRV". The fact that it's not means that he can't get it passed, so it's all about optics on the surrender. Good luck to him - this would have worked in 2004, but not in 2024. That's the silver lining I guess

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (5C4od)

349 Someone once told me that if your friends won't trade with you and you can't do business with your enemies you won't accomplish much. Sometimes you gotta go along to get along but you gotta stand on principles.

I don't think Johnson or the GOP have principles. It remains to be seen if Gaetz and Jordan do. When it comes time to draw the ire of everyone for standing on principle, we'll see how those two do.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (YRsIm)

350 I thought the self-immolator might be one of our guys but I suppose homeless fits too that I hadn't considered.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (vtyCZ)

351 KJP tells reporters the White House has no official statement about Israel's strikes on Iranian targets last night, and she's going to be "super mindful"* and not speak to some reports that may be out there or speculate about anything. The reporters keep asking and asking, though.

So, Loser Joe and the DNC are still strategerizing about what they can say that will cost them the fewest votes in Dearbornistan. I guess CAIR has not yet told Joe how to dance on this one.

*Super mindful is a term she's now using 30+ times every press conference; it's her go-to delay tactic now and it gives her an all-purpose reason she can't answer any embarrassing questions. As in, I have to be super-mindful that investigations of the events at Columbia yesterday are on-going, so I'm going to be super-mindful and not respond to any questions on this.

What a stupid, execrable person.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (5fDan)

352 Notice that only 94 GOP congressmen voted against it. When you only got 25% of the House, you're a minority party and you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking you can do jack shit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (jNav6)

353

316 I can't listen to Bongino. The man takes about a five minute thought - and stretches it out for about sixty.
Posted by: It's Always Been Like This

That's 5 more minutes of thought than Hannity puts into anything on any given day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2024 03:09 PM (jNav6)

354 But nothing for America or Americans these rotten Democ-Rats

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 19, 2024 05:34 PM (wGqjj)

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