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Let's Start Playing By Their Rules...Which Means No Rules

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[Graphic courtesy of Dr_No]

When was the last time the corporate wing of the Republican party played hardball? Hell...when was the last time the oh-so-polite wing of the conservative movement took off their bow-ties and got down into the muck with their enemies?

The answer is...never. The pompous asses who have controlled the political monologue of the right in America for far too long will never retake the territory they have lost. They lost it by using the convenient excuse that the high road is the only acceptable way. No back alley fighting for them! No...they lust after comity and bipartisanship and the wonderful collegial atmosphere of the Senate (that never existed except in their feeble brains).

Curiously, they became wealthy and powerful while we...the people for whom they claim to speak...became poorer and less free.

At least we know what the left believes, and we certainly know that they hate us and that we are their sworn enemies. Too bad that the corporatists who have co-opted the right continue to pretend that they are the only true conservatives, when the reality is far different. For instance, Speaker of The House Johnson may be the best we can do, but let us not pretend that he is anything other than a placeholder, managing the decline while simultaneously supporting exactly the opposite of what the base desires. Stripping away the rhetoric reveals that Johnson does not support American security, but does support Ukraine's, Israel's, and Taiwan's. Why?

Graft. Lack of a coherent political philosophy. Quid Pro Quo for the defense industry. Take your pick, or even better, embrace the power of "and!"

The left lies, cheats, steals, and the political hacks of the right smile and say, "may we have another?"

It is time to embrace the concept that winning is the only goal. Losing with honor is a pathetic and despicable mindset that simply does not belong in any rational political philosophy.

Donald Trump may not be running a perfect campaign, but does anyone doubt his desire to win? Does anyone doubt that he is a warrior? Sure, we all have complaints about his reticence with respect to the Deep State, and I could write volumes about his mistakes. But he did not go quietly, unlike almost every other Republican politician.

Warts and all, Donald Trump is our man, and hopefully he will embrace the idea that the coming election and, hopefully, his second term will require "Total War." But that war has already begun; it's just that the right hasn't admitted it yet.

In a recent CutJibNewsletter podcast with Jim Lakely, we discussed The Heartland Institute poll showing that significant numbers of Americans would cheat -- break the law -- to ensure their candidates won. That is obviously baked into the left's cake. The question is whether we will continue to lose elections, and our country, by playing a political game with rules, when our opponents laugh at those same rules.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM




Comments

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1 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:00 PM (fwDg9)

2 BD pup back in Gaza. We are so mad!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 12, 2024 12:03 PM (MEM6T)

3 Problem is no one is getting charged for vote fraud, and certainly not for massive vote fraud on the 2020 scale, but bet if the Marxists are in charge they will find vote fraud in 2024, if they have to make a mountain out of a ant hill

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:05 PM (fwDg9)

4 Didja see that Colorado has out California-ed California? The Town of Nederland granted "fundamental and inalienable rights" to water. Water is people too. They had to take it back (Indian givers?) because, turns out, people need to drink water to live.

https://shorturl.at/hktFK

Nederland is a small town above the People's Republic of Boulder and is Boulder squared.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:06 PM (L/fGl)

5 Well said CBD. I couldn't say it any better.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 12, 2024 12:06 PM (Ro12D)

6 Willowed comment on the book thread... again. Siiigh.

The blog marches on.

Posted by: mindful webworker - from here to there at May 12, 2024 12:07 PM (944rR)

7 After Trump, who would fight for us?

Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at May 12, 2024 12:08 PM (ofCHO)

8 No rules. Thems the new rules.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 12, 2024 12:08 PM (MsrgL)

9 I've long thought that the Democrats have no rules. I want my side to start playing by the same "rules". Which means, We Win! By any means necessary.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 12, 2024 12:08 PM (Ro12D)

10 Winston Marshall* is fighting back. Dude destroys Nanzi,to her face.
https://tinyurl.com/WinsMars
Winston (I did NOT kill myself) Marshall WAS the lead guitarist in pop band Mumford & Sons. They kicked him out b/c he defended Andy Ngo on X. He's a rising political star in the UK.
Wild, wacky stuff.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 12, 2024 12:09 PM (lPeS+)

11 Playing hardball? Pshaw hood fellow, this is not who we are. I dare say good day to you, SIR!! Now off to the country club for a round with the fellows.

- GOP

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:10 PM (FX9Vh)

12 "Stripping away the rhetoric reveals that Johnson does not support American security, but does support Ukraine's, Israel's, and Taiwan's. Why?"

I won't even remotely profess my support for what Republican leadership is doing. Nor have their priorities reflected the new and growing base of the party. Nonetheless, the politics of it as professed by some on Washington is to eliminate issues that could be damaging to gaining full majorities in Congress so that we can get through the next election. Democrats will not, to their electoral disadvantage, support any immigration bills Republicans are putting forth. Those bills may pass the House, but will never pass the senate and if they did, would be vetoed. The only choice is to hold the status quo until November, which forces Democrats to continue pushing through their destructive agenda. Ultimately, nobody in the party trusts Republicans. Every time we gain a majority, they bend the base over the barrel. But at this point I'll give them until November, then the party is over. There won't be any more excuses. FAFO.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 12, 2024 12:10 PM (L6Ng2)

13 The election was clean as a whistle!

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Georgia Election Board dumbfounded after finding out that 3,000 ballots were scanned twice in the 2020 election recount in Fulton County.

The board also revealed that 380,761 ballot images from machine count were “not available.”

Q: Does Fulton County know why there are not 380,761 ballot images from election day?
A: As with the investigators we have not been apprised of this allegation. This is the first I'm hearing about it.
General counsel for the secretary of state’s office Charlene McGowan confirmed that Fulton County broke the law in their recount.
“Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest in 2020.”
Despite this, the board refused to approve further investigation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:11 PM (L/fGl)

14 Yes Trump fights. He was in rare form at the NJ rally last night. Really tore Biden a new one (rhetorically)…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 12, 2024 12:12 PM (UHvkm)

15
After Trump, who would fight for us?

Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at May 12, 2024


There's always Rand Paul, and Vivek makes all the right 'America First' noise. After that, not too much.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:12 PM (RKVpM)

16 Also, Trump is a cannibal and may have eaten Biden's uncle.

https://shorturl.at/bpvyT

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:14 PM (L/fGl)

17 The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group's hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.

So we weren't giving Israel this intelligence before?

The Biden Administration cries crocodile tears over civilian casualties in Gaza, while withholding information that would allow Israel to better target the Hamas leadership.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:15 PM (uxCna)

18 "When was the last time the corporate wing of the Republican party played hardball?"

Against the Democrats, or against The People?

Because I'm pretty sure the latter is pretty common.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2024 12:15 PM (O7YUW)

19 "When was the last time the corporate wing of the Republican party played hardball?

The answer is...never. "

Mitch on the Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination. I'm not trying to be contrary, I agree with all the conclusions. My only guess is that it wasn't about fidelity to the base or principles (as if Mitch knows what that is). I think it was a beltway pissing contest and Schumer got got.

"It is time to embrace the concept that winning is the only goal. Losing with honor is a pathetic and despicable mindset that simply does not belong in any rational political philosophy." Amen

On the bright side, the difference between Lara Trump over that woman from the Mitt's binders seems like night and day. I think the plan is to have a sheetload of poll watchers to document shenanigans, among other things. I remain cautiously optimistic, but the CIA is tough to beat.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 12, 2024 12:17 PM (z+89e)

20
Hell...when was the last time the oh-so-polite wing of the conservative movement took off their bow-ties and got down into the muck with their enemies?

Lee Atwater?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2024 12:17 PM (63Dwl)

21 Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee

Congressional Democrats insist that the SAVE Act—which requires proof of citizenship to establish eligibility to vote in federal elections—is unnecessary because federal law (18 USC § 611) already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections.

Those making this argument ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren’t allowed to require proof of citizenship.

It’s therefore shockingly easy for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, leaving our elections dangerously vulnerable to foreign interference.

Anyone—even an illegal alien or other non-citizen—can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.

This is all on the honor system. No proof of citizenship is required.......

tinyurl.com/3b4rmchp

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2024 12:20 PM (NpAcC)

22 rhetoric reveals that Johnson does not support American security, but does support Ukraine's, Israel's, and Taiwan's. Why?



Same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:20 PM (FX9Vh)

23 There's always Rand Paul, and Vivek makes all the right 'America First' noise. After that, not too much.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Rand is my man, but his 2016 primary bid convinced me he's too wonkish to have mass electoral appeal. He makes amazing points, I nearly fully agree with him on everything, but he's a smallish guy who makes long, thoughtful arguments punctuated with zingers. Would have trouble pulling a presidential ticket on his own.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 12, 2024 12:20 PM (ftFVW)

24 Hillary Clinton-Produced Play Bombing During Peak Broadway Season Due to Being Unwatchable Monstrosity

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I saw Unwatchable Monstrosity open for . . . Well, OK, actually I didn't.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:20 PM (L/fGl)

25 Problem is no one is getting charged for vote fraud, and certainly not for massive vote fraud on the 2020 scale, but bet if the Marxists are in charge they will find vote fraud in 2024, if they have to make a mountain out of a ant hill
=====

I remember very clearly Jill Stein attempting a recount in WI after 2016. So much irregularity emerged that she dropped it (under orders) because Clinton looked even worse.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 12, 2024 12:21 PM (MIKMs)

26 Happy Mother's Day to our 'ettes that are moms.

Happy Heavenly Mother's Day mom. Miss you.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2024 12:21 PM (RJiwi)

27 Against the Democrats, or against The People?

Because I'm pretty sure the latter is pretty common.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2024 12:15 PM (O7YUW)

Exactly. People seem to not get that the R Party is not your friend. And it never was.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 12:22 PM (jUq8k)

28
I remember very clearly Jill Stein attempting a recount in WI after 2016. So much irregularity emerged that she dropped it (under orders) because Clinton looked even worse.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 12, 2024 12:21 PM (MIKMs)

I think that was MI not WI. But yeah they called off that recount very fast. Funniest part was she raised $5M or something from gullible leftist rubes for it. And of course she kept the money.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:22 PM (FX9Vh)

29 So we weren't giving Israel this intelligence before?

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You mean intelligence that might have saved the live of and freed American hostages? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO NOTICE THAT!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

30 -
You mean intelligence that might have saved the live of and freed American hostages? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO NOTICE THAT!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

Impeachment is not enough

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:24 PM (Akjoo)

31 Jill Stein was in Michigan; vote totals in Wayne County (Detroit) did not match ballots and poll books were missing. Judge stopped it but the fraud was never investigated.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 12, 2024 12:25 PM (I5U35)

32 Oh, and Khamenei's granddaughter (sans burka) is currently visiting New York, and is getting heckled by Iranian dissidents.

How the hell did she get a visa?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:26 PM (uxCna)

33 How the hell did she get a visa?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:26 PM (uxCna)

Does it surprise you that a pro-Hamas state department would give her a visa?

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:27 PM (FX9Vh)

34
Anyone—even an illegal alien or other non-citizen—can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.

I believe there has to be some sort of investigation of the individual if male to verify they have signed up with Selective Service.

However, non-citizens can sign up for Selective Service. Should be interesting if suddenly all sorts of Public Service Announcements begin appearing in the next few months. You'll know what they're up to.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:27 PM (RKVpM)

35 >How the hell did she get a visa?


she knows a guy
lives in the Kalorama neighborhood in DC

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:28 PM (/7KEl)

36 Ha ha ha ha!

Bluey is fucking with DEIsney by delaying their new "mini-sodes" airing on Bluey+, er, Disney+ by three months. The new episodes will air in Australia in June, but in the US three months later.

Bluey accounts for 29% of all minutes viewed on D+, over one BILLION minutes watched per WEEK. For episodes that are 8 minutes long

That Park Place has a video about it that dropped an hour ago.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 12, 2024 12:28 PM (ufFY8)

37 bin ladin had 19 children...that we know ...anybody keeping track of their whereabouts ??

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2024 12:28 PM (V13WU)

38 Sometimes one person has to show the way

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:28 PM (fwDg9)

39 Skinny decaf lattes are Hitler!

Wokies Boycott Starbucks for "Funding a Genocide"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:29 PM (L/fGl)

40 19 kids.
19 hijackers on 9/11.
Interesting coincidence.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:29 PM (FX9Vh)

41 Trump just had a rally in deep blue New Jersey in the middle of multiple bullshit lawsuits brought against him by the full weight of the US government and drew more people than any politician of either party has ever drawn to a political event in the history of New Jersey. I was not an early supporter of Trump but since the day he came down that escalator he has done things his way and is arguably the most successful politician in my lifetime.

He didn't just defy the odds to win the presidency, twice, he has exposed the rot in our politics and our party and pretty much singlehanededly changed both. Trump has done with the Republican Party what we watched the left do for years and he's now wearing it like a skin suit while battling the deep state and the media and beating all of them.

It wasn't just the size of the crowd yesterday, it was the makeup. Trump has changed the Republican Party into the party of everyman. He's fractured the left's alliances. He's not perfect by any means but he is, and I am shocked to admit this, the most essential person this country has had in generations. If this country is going to survive as we knew it, it will be largely because of Donald Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 12:29 PM (LkLld)

42 So we weren't giving Israel this intelligence before?

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You mean intelligence that might have saved the live of and freed American hostages? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO NOTICE THAT!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

Don't be silly, the intelligence community doesn't exist to serve the interests of the American people. Whatever gave you that idea?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 12:30 PM (xBked)

43 However, non-citizens can sign up for Selective Service.

Males of military age who get a US immigrant visa have to sign a form promising to sign up for Selective Service.

They're not citizens.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:31 PM (uxCna)

44 Why is Trump wasting time with rallies in NJ? Would make a lot more sense to go an hour away and do it in PA.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:31 PM (FX9Vh)

45 Remember when the US gave Iran intelligence on Israel ? To preempt a strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities ?

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2024 12:31 PM (V13WU)

46 who was VP at the time ? oh right, that guy

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2024 12:32 PM (V13WU)

47 > So we weren't giving Israel this intelligence before?
---


intelligence has value between states
you don't just 'give' it away
there's always a quid pro quo behind the scenes

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:32 PM (/7KEl)

48 It does bear repeating though that Trump intervened and suddenly Johnson moved forward with money for Ukraine and gave Biden everything he wanted. With Trump having some absurd fig leaf of "it's a loan"

I just think Teflon Don is as bad (if not worse) when it comes to actual policy than even GOPe types.

Lets not forget, Trump's last fight as President was sending another stimulus check to nearly everyone with Mitch McConnell (GOP-e) saying no.

Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:33 PM (wMRY8)

49 Doesn't one daughter live in the US?

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:33 PM (fwDg9)

50 @49 that was the case some years ago, yes

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2024 12:34 PM (V13WU)

51 That is the one thing everyone should have learned from the 8 years of Barack Mugabe.

There are no rules. Qualifications for office? Birther!
Track record and voting history? Pfft...none. Kollege record? Hey, I be black. None needed. Militant Rayciss Church you attended? Hey! I was in the back row. Are you a homo? No, I'm married to a ma...err..Mike..err what's her name. And on And on And on.

Let a republican out her dog down and the whole world grabs their pearls and faints dead away. Unqualified!

The Horror, The Horror...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 12, 2024 12:34 PM (R/m4+)

52
Lets not forget, Trump's last fight as President was sending another stimulus check to nearly everyone with Mitch McConnell (GOP-e) saying no.
Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:33 PM (wMRY

And pushing for “his” vax.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:34 PM (FX9Vh)

53 It is now a 'Trump: good or bad?' thread

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:35 PM (/7KEl)

54
Why is Trump wasting time with rallies in NJ? Would make a lot more sense to go an hour away and do it in PA.

♪ spent our weekends at the Jersey shore ♪

I'd bet more then half the people in Wildwood were PA residents, and maybe 10% Canadians.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:36 PM (RKVpM)

55 There are no rules. Qualifications for office? Birther!


Not this shit again. Even if he was born in Africa he is a natural born citizen since his mother was a citizen at birth.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:36 PM (FX9Vh)

56 And in other happy news for the Biden Administration, the incipient Russian offensive in Ukraine has already captured more territory than the much-ballyhooed Ukrainian offensive last summer.

There are reports that the money appropriated to build Ukrainian minefields and fortifications on the Russian border near Kharkov was stolen, and that the minefields and fortifications were never built.

We'll see if that is true or not.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:36 PM (uxCna)

57 Trump is good. And he does really stupid things.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:37 PM (FX9Vh)

58 Lets not forget, Trump's last fight as President was sending another stimulus check to nearly everyone with Mitch McConnell (GOP-e) saying no.
Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:33 PM (wMRY

And pushing for “his” vax.
Posted by: Montec
____

It's just so comical to me how the "base" seems to ignore everything related to policy when it comes to Trump and instead focuses on "Trump vs NeverTrump" silliness instead.

I'm voting Trump because there is no other option, but I'm not going to pretend Trump is some great conservative. He's not. He's good on the border (at least rhetorically) and he's not Biden, and that's about it.

But Trump outspent Obama and pretty much did everything Democrats wanted during Covid.

Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:37 PM (wMRY8)

59 Why is Trump wasting time with rallies in NJ? Would make a lot more sense to go an hour away and do it in PA.

Having the biggest political rally in the history of New Jersey does send a message.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM (uxCna)

60 After Trump, who would fight for us?
Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at May 12, 2024 12:08 PM (ofCHO)

Pale, Flabby and Rested.

Please clap!

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred And Loving It at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM (R/m4+)

61 Noor Bin Laden is daughter of Osama, is a based, anti-globalist journalist. She is good people.

Posted by: Hates WEF at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM (V5BDR)

62 US is actively looking for Zeleskyy replacement. Actively.

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM (V13WU)

63 Giants legend Lawrence Taylor stumps for Donald Trump at New Jersey rally as Hall of Famer confesses he's 'always been a Democrat until I met this man'

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM (/7KEl)

64 If this country is going to survive as we knew it, it will be largely because of Donald Trump.
=====

My own take is that because he earned his money and fame OUTSIDE of politics, he has a clearer vision and the ability to work for goals not necessarily approved by the mandarins.
I will never wholly support an (R) candidate without solid non-government experience.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 12, 2024 12:39 PM (MIKMs)

65 When was the last time the corporate wing of the Republican party played hardball? Hell...when was the last time the oh-so-polite wing of the conservative movement took off their bow-ties and got down into the muck with their enemies?
------------
Who was it who said (praisefully!) of Romney in 2012, "He showed us how to lose"? My response: WTF is wrong with you??

"Americans love a winner! And will not tolerate a loser! I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed!"
--George Scott Patton, Jr.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 12:39 PM (Be/+i)

66 You don't think there were thousands of Penn's People in NJ yesterday?

Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at May 12, 2024 12:40 PM (V5BDR)

67
Giants legend Lawrence Taylor stumps for Donald Trump at New Jersey rally as Hall of Famer confesses he's 'always been a Democrat until I met this man'

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM


I think he closes with the statement 'that from now on my family always votes Republican'. Saw it on X this morning.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:41 PM (RKVpM)

68 It doesn't matter if the R's win the majority in November, most Republican congress people are shit. There is no hope for this country. Get out while you can.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2024 12:41 PM (aFNOf)

69 I would be sure a sizable portion of rally were Pa residents

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:41 PM (fwDg9)

70 >>I'd bet more then half the people in Wildwood were PA residents, and maybe 10% Canadians.

It's pretty rare when you score a goal from behind your own blue line. Biden couldn't draw flies in Florida.

Trump is playing on the left's turf and drawing more people than they could dream of drawing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 12:41 PM (LkLld)

71 Noor Bin Laden is daughter of Osama, is a based, anti-globalist journalist. She is good people.
Posted by: Hates WEF at May 12, 2024 12:38 PM (V5BDR)
--------
Interesting. Goes along with the son of the Hamas founder who is anti-Hamas.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 12:42 PM (Be/+i)

72 I'm voting Trump because there is no other option, but I'm not going to pretend Trump is some great conservative. He's not. He's good on the border (at least rhetorically) and he's not Biden, and that's about it.


You’re my brother from another mother.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 12:42 PM (FX9Vh)

73 >Trump is playing on the left's turf and drawing more people than they could dream of drawing.

Posted by: JackStraw
---

I recall huge Trump rallies in the fall, 2020
thought his re-election was a lock

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:43 PM (/7KEl)

74 Who was it who said (praisefully!) of Romney in 2012, "He showed us how to lose"? My response: WTF is wrong with you??

McCain, who shut down his campaign in response to the financial crisis (huh?).

It was obvious that McCain viewed Obama's candidacy as a historic event, and that it was his job to play the Washington Generals against Obama's Harlem Globetrotters.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:43 PM (uxCna)

75 Well said CBD. I couldn't say it any better.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 12, 2024 12:06 PM (Ro12D)

That doesn't speak well of you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2024 12:43 PM (d9fT1)

76
Cape May and Wildwood was my stomping grounds. You get off the AC expressway and head south on the Garden State Parkway it's nothing but PA plates after Ocean City.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:44 PM (RKVpM)

77 Why is Trump wasting time with rallies in NJ? Would make a lot more sense to go an hour away and do it in PA.

Having the biggest political rally in the history of New Jersey does send a message.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

_____

Because it strokes Trump's ego, that's why hes doing all of this.

Of course its a complete waste of time and resources to be campaigning in a state you lost (twice) by around 15 points, but he gets to hear people chant his name.

he needs to just camp out in MI, PA, WI, AZ and GA.

Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:44 PM (wMRY8)

78 I just think Teflon Don is as bad (if not worse) when it comes to actual policy than even GOPe types.

Lets not forget, Trump's last fight as President was sending another stimulus check to nearly everyone with Mitch McConnell (GOP-e) saying no.
Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:33 PM (wMRY

You’re delusional. He’s not perfect but he’s better by leaps and bounds than anyone in our side. Just try to name a better alternative (don’t bother naming anyone who ran in the primary as that experience proved emphatically they’re not even close to being popular enough to actually win). Did Trump steal your girlfriend in college? You hate the guy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 12, 2024 12:44 PM (xT8gx)

79 I recall huge Trump rallies in the fall, 2020
thought his re-election was a lock
Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:43 PM (/7KEl)

Me thinks there was some cheatin' going on... I am worried about the "newcomer" votes though...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:44 PM (Akjoo)

80 Winston Marshall* is fighting back. Dude destroys Nanzi,to her face.
https://tinyurl.com/WinsMars


I encourage everyone to watch this. If nothing else, you'll spend the entire time cringing at the thought that that dessicated, demented crone, Nancy Pelosi, is representing our country.

She couldn't even keep her mouth shut so the other guy could speak uninterrupted. She's used to dealing with Republicans, I guess.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:45 PM (CsUN+)

81 Donald Trump may not be running a perfect campaign, but does anyone doubt his desire to win?

Back when some said Trump was running just to pump up his 'brand' and was going to throw the election to Hillary, and I didn't have Trump's measure yet, I watched a Joe Dan Gorman Intellectual Froglegs in which Gorman laid out how Trump was the kind of person who was absolutely 'in it to win it.'

That was my "Oh! Right!" ah-hah moment on Trump. Never had reason to doubt that assessment since.

One of my greatest thrills from politics was staying up late to hear Hillary had conceded.

Posted by: mindful webworker - from here to there at May 12, 2024 12:45 PM (944rR)

82 >>I recall huge Trump rallies in the fall, 2020
thought his re-election was a lock

It was. He won. If you haven't been following what's been going on in Georgia over the last week you should go look. And his support has only grown.

Anyone who still thinks the 2020 election was on the level is an idiot.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 12:46 PM (LkLld)

83
Trump acknowledged all the PA peeps in the audience when he was in Wildwood. Wife saw footage on NewsMax this am.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:46 PM (RKVpM)

84 I'm voting Trump because there is no other option, but I'm not going to pretend Trump is some great conservative. He's not. He's good on the border (at least rhetorically) and he's not Biden, and that's about it.


Even if that were true, and it's not, that's more than enough reason to vote for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:47 PM (CsUN+)

85 There is no place else to go
The world overall has always had totalitarian to strong arm governments from its beginning. The experiment of small government has probably ended

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:47 PM (fwDg9)

86 Will Hillary stand trial?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 12, 2024 12:47 PM (dg+HA)

87 Cape May and Wildwood was my stomping grounds.

Did my basic training in Cape May. Nice area.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2024 12:47 PM (aFNOf)

88 Will Hillary stand trial?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 12, 2024 12:47 PM (dg+HA)

Ummmmmmmmmmm...No.

Posted by: The Deep State at May 12, 2024 12:49 PM (R/m4+)

89
Did my basic training in Cape May. Nice area.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2024 12:47 PM


Coast Guard? That's all the military I seem to recall, but then I got off the Parkway and headed into town.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:49 PM (RKVpM)

90 So we weren't giving Israel this intelligence before?

The Biden Administration cries crocodile tears over civilian casualties in Gaza, while withholding information that would allow Israel to better target the Hamas leadership.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:15 PM (uxCna)

Probably not so much an "intelligence" operation as a "we looked at the receipts" situation.

Posted by: Reforger at May 12, 2024 12:49 PM (B705c)

91 Coast Guard? That's all the military I seem to recall, but then I got off the Parkway and headed into town.
Posted by: Divide by Zero


Yup. Brown water Navy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2024 12:49 PM (aFNOf)

92 The rallies are just about feeding Trump's ego. Not one voter gets "converted" at these things. No "swing voter" pops into a Trump rally, its the die hards that are already voting for him anyway.

I just wish Trump would stop wasting time on the converted and figure out who he needs to flip to win. And its not people in deep blue New jersey.

Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:50 PM (wMRY8)

93 > Males of military age who get a US immigrant visa have to sign a form promising to sign up for Selective Service.

They're not citizens.
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MILITARY ACCESSIONS VITAL TO NATIONAL INTEREST (MAVNI) RECRUITMENT PILOT PROGRAM
The Secretary of Defense authorized the military services to recruit certain legal aliens whose skills
are considered to be vital to the national interest. Those holding critical skills – physicians, nurses,
and certain experts in language with associated cultural backgrounds – would be eligible. To
determine its value in enhancing military readiness...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2024 12:51 PM (Q4IgG)

94
Yup. Brown water Navy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2024 12:49 PM


Ha. Never heard it referred to as such, but it sure fits Delaware Bay.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2024 12:52 PM (RKVpM)

95 The rallies are just about feeding Trump's ego. Not one voter gets "converted" at these things. No "swing voter" pops into a Trump rally, its the die hards that are already voting for him anyway.

Of course they don't. They're the already converted. The rallies serve the same purpose as a HS pep rally: to get folks enthused about the team so as to provide esprit de corps to the entire student body and get everyone working in one direction. What other purpose do football games serve?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:52 PM (CsUN+)

96 Catching up, as soon as the coffee kicks in I'll be here.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 12, 2024 12:53 PM (lCWOD)

97 NJ has 14 electoral votes
nothing to sneeze at

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:53 PM (/7KEl)

98 And, Dr_No, great graphic.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 12, 2024 12:53 PM (lCWOD)

99 It doesn't matter if the R's win the majority in November, most Republican congress people are shit. There is no hope for this country. Get out while you can.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2024 12:41 PM (aFNOf)
*******
It absolutely matters in order for Trump's agenda to get passed.
Imagine if Hillary had won in 2016. She would have been the one choosing the 3 justices for SCOTUS.

And I can guarantee they would have already let illegals become citizens and vote in federal elections.
They also would have decided on mandatory reparations.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2024 12:54 PM (NpAcC)

100 OT/ so Nurse Ratched had appendicitis ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:54 PM (Akjoo)

101 Here's a nice, unbiased report from AP on the new election law in GA.

With 2024 presidential contest looming, Georgia governor signs new election changes into law

ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia’s election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state, including defining probable causes for removing voters from the rolls when their eligibility is challenged.

Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The activists say they are rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of state.


Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:55 PM (CsUN+)

102 There are reports that the money appropriated to build Ukrainian minefields and fortifications on the Russian border near Kharkov was stolen, and that the minefields and fortifications were never built.

We'll see if that is true or not.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 12:36 PM (uxCna)

Madge McConnell and the rest of Gope have already explained, this isn't really about helping Ukraine, it's about weapons manufacturers getting paid.

And once they get paid? Who cares if the Ukes put the weapons to use or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 12:55 PM (ZCPyW)

103 Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The activists say they are rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of state.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:55 PM (CsUN+)

Debunked ? I think they meant to say proven

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:55 PM (Akjoo)

104 Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The activists say they are rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of state.

Got that? If you're for clean voter rolls, you're now an activist.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:56 PM (CsUN+)

105 I remember seeing a few articles of people who were at best fence sitting if not tending Left but went to Trump rally and changed their mind

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

106 >>>It wasn't just the size of the crowd yesterday, it was the makeup. Trump has changed the Republican Party into the party of everyman.
~~~~~

Can vouch for this. I was surprised at the number of minorities represented in yesterday's crowd. First, I was sitting right behind the black lady who was interviewed by Jesse Watters' man-in-the-street, Johnny Belisario. She was a rip. And there were many, many other black people in attendance. Also saw a large group of "Jews for Trump," as well as a smaller group of Sikhs. Sitting near us was also a Korean family of four, and then two Jewish ladies in front of us. But most surprising of all was the number of young people. Everywhere there were groups of "frat boys," some from Jersey and some from Philly. They were great--dressed from head to toe in Trump or other patriotic paraphernalia, rambunctious and full of fun.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 12, 2024 12:57 PM (3ImbR)

107 > There are reports that the money appropriated to build Ukrainian minefields and fortifications on the Russian border near Kharkov was stolen
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we've sent tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine
what have we changed

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:57 PM (/7KEl)

108 >>Of course they don't. They're the already converted. The rallies serve the same purpose as a HS pep rally: to get folks enthused about the team so as to provide esprit de corps to the entire student body and get everyone working in one direction. What other purpose do football games serve?


One of the hosts of yesterday's rally was New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew. He was Democrat. He flipped to Republican and has been a strong supporter of Trump in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 12:57 PM (LkLld)

109 With 2024 presidential contest looming, Georgia governor signs new election changes into law

ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia’s election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state, including defining probable causes for removing voters from the rolls when their eligibility is challenged.

Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The activists say they are rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of state.


Forgot the link:

https://tinyurl.com/yrswywpk

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:57 PM (CsUN+)

110 we've sent tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine
what have we changed
Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:57 PM (/7KEl)

The amount of Living males in Ukraine

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:58 PM (Akjoo)

111 The Secretary of Defense authorized the military services to recruit certain legal aliens whose skills
are considered to be vital to the national interest. Those holding critical skills – physicians, nurses,
and certain experts in language with associated cultural backgrounds – would be eligible. To
determine its value in enhancing military readiness...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2024 12:51 PM (Q4IgG)

Nidal Hasan has just asked for a paper application, since he doesn't have internet access.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 12:58 PM (ZCPyW)

112 we've sent tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine
what have we changed
Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 12:57 PM (/7KEl)

The amount of Living males in Ukraine
Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:58 PM (Akjoo)

I'm sure there are many weapons manufacture execs who have been able to pay for quality underaged hookers with that money.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 12:59 PM (ZCPyW)

113
WAR
it ain't nothin' but a heartbreaker
friend only to the undertaker

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:00 PM (/7KEl)

114 What is it good for?

Posted by: Elaine Benes at May 12, 2024 01:01 PM (dg+HA)

115 OT/ so Nurse Ratched had appendicitis ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2024 12:54 PM (Akjoo)

But she didn't get an Addadicktome

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2024 01:01 PM (T4tVD)

116 Amongst many other things, I think one of Trump’s biggest accomplishments was effectively banning the Bush family from the GOP. Reagan let them get their nose under the tent flap when he picked George Sr as his VP (his biggest mistake) and that begat two disastrous presidencies….. I’ll admit if it weren’t for Trump I would still to this day be fooled by the Bushes….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 12, 2024 01:01 PM (xT8gx)

117 Why is Trump wasting time with rallies in NJ? Would make a lot more sense to go an hour away and do it in PA.
~~~~~

A very large percentage of the people there were from PA. The Jersey Shore is where most Philly and PA people go when they go to the beach.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 12, 2024 01:02 PM (3ImbR)

118 What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:02 PM (/7KEl)

119 >>we've sent tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine
what have we changed

President.

The Russia collusion hoax was largely about Ukraine which suppled most of the fake dirt.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 01:03 PM (LkLld)

120 It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel... well, not fine. Not fine at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 01:03 PM (ZCPyW)

121 I meant the strategic situation on the ground in Ukraine

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:04 PM (/7KEl)

122 But there's no mean tweets.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 12, 2024 01:04 PM (dg+HA)

123 Of course they don't. They're the already converted. The rallies serve the same purpose as a HS pep rally.
~~~~~

To a degree, yes. But the two Jewish ladies by me told us they were former democrats converted by Trump, and of course there's LT who was on stage with DJT.

My point is that it's not just anecdotal--Trump is changing lots of minds, and his rallies show people that maybe they should at least look into switching.

After all, "What have (they) got to lose?"

Posted by: IrishEi at May 12, 2024 01:06 PM (3ImbR)

124 I was working in Army Accessions and Recruitment when MAVNI kicked off. I was a civilian program manager with a development team under me.

The number of foreign nationals that signed up for this, then within a month of being posted to wherever... just disappeared was... significant.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2024 01:07 PM (Q4IgG)

125 It's worth noting that E. Jean Caroll is Blago's mom.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 12, 2024 01:08 PM (wBaIH)

126 42 So we weren't giving Israel this intelligence before?

-
You mean intelligence that might have saved the live of and freed American hostages? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO NOTICE THAT!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 12, 2024 12:23 PM (L/fGl)
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A perspective you won't see from the MSM.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 12, 2024 01:08 PM (lCWOD)

127 I meant the strategic situation on the ground in Ukraine
Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:04 PM (/7KEl)

Oh that. Nothing. We've done nothing. We made it harder on Russia than they expected at first, but they recovered from that within weeks of being surprised.

They've since been doing pretty much exactly what they wanted. Took territory, kept it, and waited for the U.S. to get tired of this war. And now that we've sent more money, they're basically just blowing shit up, killing Ukes, and taking more territory, just to show they can.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 12, 2024 01:09 PM (ZCPyW)

128 if there were just some way you could audit a war

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:10 PM (/7KEl)

129 They were great--dressed from head to toe in Trump or other patriotic paraphernalia, rambunctious and full of fun.
=====

Fun is underrated as a political force.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 12, 2024 01:10 PM (MIKMs)

130 Noor bin Laden is maybe the niece of Osama, not daughter. she had like 24 bin Laden uncles. Osama was kinda exiled in 1994, so Noor probably barely knew him, if she even ever met him.

"Wafah Dufour (born 1975), daughter of Yeslam bin Laden, is an American model and aspiring singer-songwriter. She spent the early part of her life in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dufour, her little sisters Najia (1979) and Noor (1987), her mother (1954) and her father (1950) then moved to Geneva, Switzerland"

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2024 01:11 PM (Cus5s)

131
Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The activists say they are rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of state.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2024 12:55 PM (CsUN+)

Debunked ? I think they meant to say proven
Posted by: It's me donna
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Like the labels that they fling, 'Debunked' is so easy to say...and for Left/Liberal/Progressives (and the gulible) the saying of it makes it so.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2024 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

132 we need to airdrop a brigade of combat CPAs into Ukraine and find out just what the heck is going on there

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:12 PM (/7KEl)

133 we've sent tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine
what have we changed


According to General "Baghdad Ben" Hodges, we haven't even tried to win the Ukraine War.

I wonder what level of financial support of Ukraine he would consider to be sufficient.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 01:12 PM (uxCna)

134 it's like we send all this money to Ukraine and it just evaporates

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:13 PM (/7KEl)

135 if there were just some way you could audit a war
Posted by: Don Black
------

Pfft. It's easy.

Posted by: Robert MacNamara at May 12, 2024 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

136 I want mean tweets. I want every pencilnecked, potlickin, lib to be ridiculed, laughed at and derided at every opportunity.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2024 01:13 PM (D/6Qm)

137 Of course its a complete waste of time and resources to be campaigning in a state you lost (twice) by around 15 points, but he gets to hear people chant his name.

he needs to just camp out in MI, PA, WI, AZ and GA.

Posted by: Blago at May 12, 2024 12:44 PM (wMRY

If you are going to troll, at least have some minimal grasp of the facts. Trump is spending a lot of time in MI and WI.

It is also obvious that you don't know much about basic geography. NJ is right next to PA, and there is a huge amount of travel between the two states. Drive in any Jersey Shore town and you will see a large minority of PA license plates.

Up your pathetic game.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2024 01:13 PM (d9fT1)

138 More mush from General Baghdad Ben:

"Whoever comes after Putin can't be any worse."

Who could possibly be worse than that warmonger Hindenburg?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 01:16 PM (uxCna)

139 It’s a bit unfair to blame Trump for the vaccine. At the time, all the experts were predicting death everywhere and Trump responded like CEOs do- go fix this, do it now, and don’t tell me why you can’t. Had the predictions been true, and had the vaccines worked as expected, this would have been an amazing accomplishment. We don’t know what Trump would have done when the efficacy turned out to be less than stellar, because we had Biden who doubled and tripled down on stupid.

We also want to play by dem rules to win elections. The stimulus check was just that. It was vote buying. Plus, Trump is no social conservative, however, what he does bring to the table in terms of our economy, and surprisingly, as a statesman, are what I want back. I am not deluded into thinking he is perfect. He is far from it. But he is very good.

Posted by: Piper at May 12, 2024 01:16 PM (pZEOD)

140 > we've sent tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine
what have we changed
________________

Congress has passed five bills appropriating $175 billion in response to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2024 01:17 PM (Q4IgG)

141 Who could possibly be worse than that warmonger Hindenburg?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2024 01:16 PM (uxCna)
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Hmmm...an increasingly senile head of state of a country full of ferment...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 01:17 PM (Be/+i)

142 >>we need to airdrop a brigade of combat CPAs into Ukraine and find out just what the heck is going on there

We have been running Ukraine since 2014 when we overthrew the elected Russian leaning government and installed our own. It's not even in dispute, we have them picking the government officals on tape.

We've been sending billions to the people running this country while pretending we were in a righteous war to save democracy in Ukraine.

shake weights for everyone

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 01:17 PM (LkLld)

143 123 Of course they don't. They're the already converted. The rallies serve the same purpose as a HS pep rally.
~~~~~
...

My point is that it's not just anecdotal--Trump is changing lots of minds, and his rallies show people that maybe they should at least look into switching.

After all, "What have (they) got to lose?"
Posted by: IrishEi
------------------------------

Right, Trump rallys are Get Out the Vote on steroids.
He reinforces and reminds (this includes you, the reader) who he is and what he will do. This goes out nationally. Secondly, at every rally, he pulls locals up on stage and reinforces them to the audience. The local candidate on stage with Trump.
Trump is the singular force behind Trump Republicans being elected - city, county, state, and national Reps for that state.
The importance of his rally's cannot be overstated.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 12, 2024 01:19 PM (lCWOD)

144 Congress has passed five bills appropriating $175 billion in response to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2024 01:17 PM (Q4IgG)
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Ah. That could have (counts on fingers) built the border wall 35 times over.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 01:19 PM (Be/+i)

145 134 it's like we send all this money to Ukraine and it just evaporates
Posted by: Don Black at May

And yet the hero President, who outlawed elections and opposition parties, probably in support of precious democracy, has a wife outfitted in some pretty swanky outfits. Her burkin bag cost more than many people make in a year. Strange coincidence , I tell you. Zelensky himself is dressing far more dapper with far better fitting suits as he does his “send me money” tour. Again, correlation, causation. Right?

Posted by: Piper at May 12, 2024 01:22 PM (pZEOD)

146 Ah. That could have (counts on fingers) built the border wall 35 times over.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 01:19 PM (Be/+i)

And if we did it right, the land mine manufacturers would still get those sweet purchase orders from Uncle Sugar. It's a win/win.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 12, 2024 01:23 PM (z+89e)

147 Trannies could start volunteering for combat service in Ukraine

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 01:23 PM (fwDg9)

148 >Congress has passed five bills appropriating $175 billion in response to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
--

to what end
where's all the money
what did they spend it on

I mean, does Zelensky just take his checkbook over to Tanks R Us and buy a few battalions' worth of tanks?

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:25 PM (/7KEl)

149 No...they lust after comity and bipartisanship and the wonderful collegial atmosphere of the Senate

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Invitations to Beltway cocktail parties at May 12, 2024 01:26 PM (a3Q+t)

150 I mean, does Zelensky just take his checkbook over to Tanks R Us and buy a few battalions' worth of tanks?
Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:25 PM (/7KEl)
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That's how Axis & Allies works!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 01:26 PM (Be/+i)

151 Maria Bartoromo had some R stooge on and asked him almost point blank, and I am paraphrasing, "why aren't you out there on the steps of that NYC courthouse screaming for his unconstitutional lawfare persecution to end?"

And all she got was cut-paste blather.

When will ANY rep or senator do this? They are timid jackasses.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 12, 2024 01:27 PM (KiBMU)

152 147 Trannies could start volunteering for combat service in Ukraine
Posted by: Skip at

Do you remember the stories of Ukraine trannies saying they should not be drafted because they suddenly discovered they are women? And Ukraine said, yeah about that. Here is your gun. Interesting this didn’t get much reaction from our betters who keep trying to tell us that men are far better at being women than women are. I have to believe Putin, who I shockingly agree with in this space, was giggling about this whole thing.

Posted by: Piper at May 12, 2024 01:27 PM (pZEOD)

153 Happy Birthing Person's Day to "Big Mike"....

Posted by: Franklin Stein at May 12, 2024 01:27 PM (s+cGt)

154 152 PS Bob- I am not a Russian whatever. Just look at my bank account and this will be obvious.

Posted by: Piper at May 12, 2024 01:28 PM (pZEOD)

155 >And all she got was cut-paste blather.
---

The true answer would be 'because I want to be re-elected, and if I bring bad press down on myself, I might fail'

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2024 01:29 PM (/7KEl)

156 Sidelong observation: When will John F'n Kerry throw his Medal of Freedom over the White House fence? Or will he borrow someone else's?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 01:32 PM (Be/+i)

157 NJ is right next to PA, and there is a huge amount of travel between the two states.

Searching for some legendary Texas BBQ, no doubt. Sad.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2024 01:32 PM (a3Q+t)

158 Apparently there was a recent bill providing for penalties for voter fraud and the Donks voted against it because "it's already illegal".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2024 01:34 PM (cOq4q)

159 Happy Mother's Day to our 'ettes that are moms.

Happy Heavenly Mother's Day mom. Miss you.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2024 12:21 PM (RJiwi)

That's sweet. I like to pretend that my mother is dead and Publius' mama is mine. She's such a sweetheart, and wants to go to Red Lobster for Mother's Day.

So it shall be.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist - feeling mimsy as a borogove at May 12, 2024 01:35 PM (w6EFb)

160 One problem with breaking the rules: every minor infraction will be used to disqualify any gains the good guys make. What we need is a way to enforce the sane rules that protect our public life and hold the left accountable. No more tolerance for their constant excuses for bad faith actions.

Posted by: Emmie at May 12, 2024 01:35 PM (L9XrJ)

161
Those plump, perfumed, Ukrainian twin Princes of the Pentagon are rested and ready.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 12, 2024 01:36 PM (MIKMs)

162 41 If this country is going to survive as we knew it, it will be largely because of Donald Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2024 12:29 PM (LkLld)

A little ray of sunshine in a dark world. Thank you.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist - feeling mimsy as a borogove at May 12, 2024 01:38 PM (w6EFb)

163 Trump is in the arena, fighting for America As Founded.
He will most certainly get more legal votes than he did in 2020.
Perhaps enough to beat the cheat.
That's my prayer.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at May 12, 2024 01:42 PM (gxokI)

164 Jill Stein was in Michigan; vote totals in Wayne County (Detroit) did not match ballots and poll books were missing. Judge stopped it but the fraud was never investigated.
Posted by: Lirio100
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I think the one time Repubs got caught stuffing ballots was in Michigan as they (IIRC) and a recount rule that precincts not found in conformance with standards in recounts then their votes are tossed out of the recount and this is why the recount was stopped.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2024 01:43 PM (cOq4q)

165 The last time the GOP won a domestic policy fight was in the mid-90s under Newt over welfare reform.

Shortly thereafter the FNM went hog wild with claims that Newt, and his chosen successor Bob Livingstone, were having affairs and...they resigned.

Allowing Denis Hastert, pedo, to ascend to being the most powerful Republican in DC. Oh, and several Dem figures have said they knew he was a pedo at the time but just...decided not to talk about it.

And since then the GOPe has done basically nothing for its voters.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2024 01:45 PM (ibTVg)

166 It is criminal how no court ever took a vote fraud case

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 01:46 PM (fwDg9)

167 It is criminal how no court ever took a vote fraud case
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 01:46 PM (fwDg9)
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NO STANDING!! *gavel*

Posted by: Courts at May 12, 2024 01:47 PM (Be/+i)

168 It is criminal how no court ever took a vote fraud case
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 01:46 PM


No standing!

Posted by: Hawai'ian Judge #7 at May 12, 2024 01:48 PM (a3Q+t)

169 were thousands of Penn's People in NJ yesterday?

A female Philly rookie cop wandered her cruiser into NJ a few decades ago... with a suspect in the back.

Posted by: DaveA at May 12, 2024 01:48 PM (FhXTo)

170 It is criminal how no court ever took a vote fraud case
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 01:46 PM (fwDg9)
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NO STANDING!! *gavel*
Posted by: Courts at May 12, 2024 01:47 PM (Be/+i)

168 It is criminal how no court ever took a vote fraud case
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 01:46 PM

No standing!
Posted by: Hawai'ian Judge #7
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Horde mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2024 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

171 Horde mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2024 01:51 PM (XeU6L)
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That one was a pretty low bar, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 12, 2024 01:52 PM (Be/+i)

172 Controlled opposition, just like the Tories (Canadian and UK).

As much as I hope Trump wins, we ain't voting our way out of this 💩 🔥

Posted by: logprof at May 12, 2024 01:53 PM (TyYNF)

173 Having the biggest political rally in the history of New Jersey does send a message.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Message is I like to waste time and money in states I have less than zero chance of winning.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 01:54 PM (FX9Vh)

174 In the end the guns will come out and the Left will regret alerting the rules. Robespierre lives! Viva la revoluccion!

Posted by: Fred at May 12, 2024 01:54 PM (bXvrr)

175 The last time the GOP won a domestic policy fight was in the mid-90s under Newt over welfare reform.



The gop won the tax debate as well. At least in the 00s and 10s. And guns at the state level during the same time frame.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 01:55 PM (FX9Vh)

176 Not this shit again. Even if he was born in Africa he is a natural born citizen since his mother was a citizen at birth.
Posted by: Montec

Some people have unique takes on what 'natural' means.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2024 01:56 PM (cOq4q)

177 When was the last time the corporate wing of the Republican party played hardball? Hell...when was the last time the oh-so-polite wing of the conservative movement took off their bow-ties and got down into the muck with their enemies? The answer is...never.

Not true. "Conservative Inc" fought tooth and nail in 2016 to stop Trump, both in the primary and general elections. A National Review cover page against the Republican candidate? Mainstream party leaders, both elected and social, coming out supporting the dem candidate?

Oh...you meant fight against Dems...their staged, pro-wrestling "enemies".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 12, 2024 01:56 PM (ycI94)

178 Message is I like to waste time and money in states I have less than zero chance of winning.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2024 01:54 PM (FX9Vh)

This shows a fundamental ignorance of how the game is played. He drew a lot of PA voters, and he hinted that he is going to put NJ in play. There is no downside to this.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2024 01:57 PM (d9fT1)

179 Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 12, 2024 01:56 PM (ycI94)

Doing the bidding of their true masters...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2024 01:59 PM (d9fT1)

180 FIRST AT NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

181 It's indicative of how far we've fallen that a candidate would hold a rally is a state where one of the State's Congresswomen announced previously that said candidate wasn't welcome in New Jersey.

Posted by: Conservative, Inc. at May 12, 2024 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)

182 Trump is at best a Reagan Democrat.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 12, 2024 02:03 PM (IG7T0)

183 If you followed Scott Pressler, you'd know that a lot of the folks in NJ were from PA. Scott was out registering them to vote.

I hate this idea "you shouldn't go to that state because you can't win it". It sends a message that you will be President of the entire country, not just red states.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 12, 2024 02:05 PM (yeEu9)

184 Somebody break out the old

Trump Should
yadda-yadda


list meme

Posted by: DaveA at May 12, 2024 02:11 PM (FhXTo)

185 Message is I like to waste time and money in states I have less than zero chance of winning.
Posted by: Montec
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He converted an NJ politician from Dem to R he's sponsoring several down ballot candidates and gave them air time.

Even if he doesn't carry the state but Trump down ballot (they are very important, see: US House of Reps) candidates do win.
It's a big win.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 12, 2024 02:11 PM (lCWOD)

186 Time to wash the house.

Posted by: DaveA at May 12, 2024 02:11 PM (FhXTo)

187 Republican politicians are so odd. Paul Ryan would rather vote for the dimwit who pantsed him in the VP debate than sully his ballot by darkening the circle by Trump's name.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 12, 2024 02:13 PM (ogTiX)

188 Asaduddin Owaisi: India’s first Muslim prime minister will be a woman in a hijab

https://tinyurl.com/e7nm93sf

Posted by: Ciampino - loose leaves sink mowers at May 12, 2024 02:30 PM (qfLjt)

189 Authorities: Ohio police officer killed after being 'ambushed' on disturbance call; suspect sought

https://tinyurl.com/bdun8wh7

Is it just me or are these sort of calls plus traffic stops, that result in cop deaths or wounsed, becoming more common?

Posted by: Ciampino - loose leaves sink mowers! at May 12, 2024 02:38 PM (qfLjt)

190 187 Republican politicians are so odd. Paul Ryan would rather vote for the dimwit who pantsed him in the VP debate than sully his ballot by darkening the circle by Trump's name.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 12, 2024 02:13 PM (ogTiX)

put it this way: Paul Ryan is being paid very very well by the promoters of the dimwit who pantsed him in the VP debate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2024 02:41 PM (q3gwH)

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