It's Happening: ABC "News" Reports That RFKJr. Will End His Presidential Bid Tomorrow and Endorse Trump

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to drop out of the presidential race by the end of this week, sources familiar with the decision tell ABC News.
Sources tell ABC News that Kennedy plans to endorse Donald Trump -- but when asked directly by ABC News if he will be endorsing the former president, Kennedy said, "I will not confirm or deny that."
"We are not talking about any of that," he said.

Here's my big-brained blogger take on that: A non-denial is not a denial.

It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.

Sources cautioned the decision is not yet finalized and could still change, with one source adding that Kennedy's hope is, in part, to finalize things quickly in order to try to blunt momentum from the Democratic National Convention.
One possible scenario being discussed is for Kennedy to appear on stage with Trump at an event in Phoenix on Friday, though the sources cautioned that Kennedy's thinking could always change and sources close to Trump say no plan for Friday is finalized.

For his part, Trump said he would be "honored" to have RFKJr.'s endorsement.

He also points out that the Democrats have rigged the election against RFKJr.

Former President Trump spoke to "FOX & Friends" on Thursday about whether Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. might drop out of the race and endorse him.
"He is a very good person. If he endorsed me, I would be honored by it. I would be very honored by it. He really has his heart in the right place. He is a respected person," Trump said.
"But, overall, I thought the Democrats, he was a Democrat, I don't know what he is right now. But he was a Democrat. They treated him very badly. I think he would have, he goes around saying he would have beaten [President] Biden in the primary. I think there was a good chance," Trump said.

I thought that RFKJr.'s running mate, Nicole Sheridan, would object to this and throw a wrench into the works. She's a far-left San Francisco tech millionaire, after all.

But no, she's on board, and she's spitting fire about the rigged election:

Kennedy's running mate, Nicole Shanahan, recently told Fox News that they were considering dropping out and endorsing Trump. She added that "there's only one party that has obstructed a fair election for us, and unfortunately it was the Democratic Party."

Video of that below.

Kennedy will be speaking in Phoenix tomorrow at 2pm Eastern, or 11 am local time. Trump is speaking in the neighboring suburb of Glendale that evening.

I thought that Trump might join RFKJr. on the stage to accept the endorsement, but that seems dangerous: RFKJr.'s people will be deeply disappointed he's dropping out, and will not be receptive to seeing Trump take their dreams away.

But this report by Colin Rugg is almost certainly correct: Kennedy will speak at his own rally in the morning, and then speak at Trump's rally that evening.

Here is the sign-up link for Trump's AZ rally this Friday.

If I were a betting man, I would bet RFK Jr. will be there. https://t.co/PrpUOD3ysT
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 21, 2024

Kennedy's voters may not be very persuadable. After all, most of them understood that RFKJr. could not win and that did not deter them from supporting him. They had the opportunity to support Trump, a man with a much better chance of becoming president. They passed that opportunity over.

However, if Kennedy and Shanahan continue talking about the Democrat's attack on democracy, and making it clear that Kamala Harris is the reason they can't get on more ballots -- maybe some will peel off to support Trump.

Also, many Democrats have "come home" to support Kamala, abandoning RFKJr. Maybe RFKJr. can make them reconsider their decision to vote for the Communist. They won't go to Trump, but maybe RFKJr. can convince them that Democrats are the real threat to democracy.

If Kennedy and Shanahan can get a bigger audience for the messages below, we might have something here.

America is lucky it’s not in a civil war right now, yet we are in a kind of cold civil war. What is this experiment we call America? Let us look back and remember who we are, and how our greatest leaders—like Abraham Lincoln—comported themselves in the face of civil war. We must… pic.twitter.com/KiaHXYpPph
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 21, 2024

🚨BREAKING: RFK Jr.’s VP, Nicole Shanahan, says their campaign is considering joining forces with Trump to prevent a Harris/Walz administration.

RFK endorsing Trump is the natural move. They both are sworn enemies of the CIA, FBI, and the military machine.

RFK can help a lot… pic.twitter.com/KRdoT9y9j9
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 20, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:39 PM

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1 Duck!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:39 PM (c39uV)

2 Sorry.

That's how they ended dad's political run.

Never mind.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:40 PM (c39uV)

3 So what will that result in in terms of voter shift?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 02:40 PM (i24o9)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Told ya it'd be a good willow......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Hundreds affected...

Posted by: Stateless at August 22, 2024 02:41 PM (jvJvP)

7 Ace piqued too soon?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 22, 2024 02:41 PM (tT6L1)

8 However, if Kennedy and Shanahan continue talking about the Democrat's attack on democracy, and making it clear that Kamala Harris is the reason they can't get on more ballots -- maybe some will peel off to support Trump.

Most will probably just stay home.

As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:41 PM (xCA6C)

9 The Harris-Biden administration supports the movement that assassinated Robert F. Kennedy Senior.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at August 22, 2024 02:41 PM (8JeQD)

10 Well. I think they will peel off some of their moderate supporters to Trump-Vance.

Honestly I can see it.

This is good. It's so good, regardless of "strategy"- it's a fantastic sign for the country I think.

I really don't want a civil war, and I don't want a Communist (full) takeover. I want a future here for my kids.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (s3qiR)

11 But no, she's on board, and she's spitting fire about the rigged election:

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False.

This election isn't rigged. It's fortified.

Which makes it alright.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

12 People are saying PDJT will make RFK Jr CIA director! that would be fun

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (s3qiR)

13 They are working on throwing one opposition candidate in prison - in a sane world ALL opposition candidates would be uniting behind Trump.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (oZhjI)

14 Cook claims that Trump would hold a 46-26 advantage over Kamala with RFK voters in swing states. Who knows if that’s true but could be a big deal.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (Y8lzz)

15 So what will that result in in terms of voter shift?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

0.0%
Not worth chasing. "Good job. Moving on" would be optimal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (IG4Id)

16 The Dems pissed off 2 people who did not roll over for it, looks like. They chose… poorly.

Posted by: tubal at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (PCK5/)

17 I really don't want a civil war, and I don't want a Communist (full) takeover. I want a future here for my kids.
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So you must accept the Empire of Ghettoes.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (FmapG)

18 Willowed:
Kansas has Clay Center.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

So he's going to be putty in the hands of the defensive line?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (KAi1n)

19 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.

Excellent take on VF.

https://tinyurl.com/yey3n5sh

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (xCA6C)

20 Allies.

We need allies to win over the Orcs of Mordor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (u82oZ)

21 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.
Posted by: Archimedes

Reasonably good-looking, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (v6JzV)

22 Wait. Who is Nicole Sheridan?

Posted by: Trying to keep up at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (dg+HA)

23 I really don't want a civil war, and I don't want a Communist (full) takeover. I want a future here for my kids.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (s3qiR)

Me, too. I just hope that it's not mostly wishful thinking.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (i24o9)

24 However, if Kennedy and Shanahan continue talking about the Democrat's attack on democracy, and making it clear that Kamala Harris is the reason they can't get on more ballots -- maybe some will peel off to support Trump.

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I've always assumed that RFK's electorate were disaffected, older Democrats who hate what the party has become but also hate Republicans because Republicans suck (no argument).

They wanted a return to Camelot which some of the eldest may remember but many just keep up as an ideal because their parents had JFK and RFK shrines in their homes, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

25 One possible scenario being discussed is for Kennedy to appear on stage with Trump at an event in Phoenix on Friday,
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The Secret Service is salivating at all the extra chestfeeding time

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (4DWWO)

26 Let's hope this helps.

I'll try not to be black-pilled about our future for a few days.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 22, 2024 02:44 PM (N1DT3)

27 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.
Posted by: Archimedes

And still pleasanter to listen to than RFK.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 02:44 PM (v6JzV)

28 Does the "attack on Democracy" line actually move voters, or is it just a cover story for all the nasty shit Democrats usually do.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:44 PM (4DWWO)

29 I still think a good number of that RFK Jr voters will now pull the lever for Harris . And the rest will just stay home.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (B1dzx)

30 Kennedy siblings and cousins gonna stroke out.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (rJ48h)

31 I tend to like some things about Kennedy, but I wonder if he still believes people with my convictions should be jailed or otherwise punished. I don't recall -- I think it was climate change? He said deniers should be jailed? Something like that.

Posted by: Emmie at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (Sf2cq)

32 Impact Theory? Sounds violent. Like a bullet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (63Dwl)

33 SFGoth

Their JV football team, raised on farms and corn-fed beef that would die happy, could wreck a lot of people. Be careful.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (u82oZ)

34 Serious question.

If RFKjr can't convince people to vote for him, how will he convince people to vote for Trump?

Posted by: Just Lily at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (unyjc)

35 I noticed Shanahan's uptalking. I'd rather listen to Kennedy. He sounds terrible but at least he's got a reason to sound like he does.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (tT6L1)

36 Nicolette Larsen would be a great addition to the Trump team

Posted by: Oglebay at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (7fVdQ)

37 Mind blown.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (lCxSB)

38 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.
Posted by: Archimedes

Reasonably good-looking, though.

She could look like a 21-year old Sophie Marceau, and I still couldn't tolerate it.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (xCA6C)

39 Nicole Sheridan

Who wants to be the one to tell him?

Posted by: Oedipus at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (Z6vKV)

40 Who is Nicole Sheridan?
Posted by: Trying to keep up at August 22, 2024

***
A '70s singer (I think), and a typo by Ace, but mostly a typo by Ace

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (J2vNu)

41 Peak Ace is second-best Ace

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (xcxpd)

42 40 Who is Nicole Sheridan?
Posted by: Trying to keep up at August 22, 2024

***
A '70s singer (I think), and a typo by Ace, but mostly a typo by Ace
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (J2vNu)

She is a porn actress.

Posted by: tubal at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (PCK5/)

43 41 Peak Ace is second-best Ace
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (xcxpd)

=======

Eh...he's no Lamont.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

44 I really don't want a civil war, and I don't want a Communist (full) takeover. I want a future here for my kids.

People in Hell want ice water. My wants, thus far, have had exactly jack shit to do with reality.

Posted by: Who Cares at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (dVxi/)

45 It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.

It's not me! It's you!

That's Chuey level cruelty. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (khgu5)

46 He sounds terrible but at least he's got a reason to sound like he does.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (tT6L1)

This is about us, isn't it.

Posted by: the brainworms at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (OguvZ)

47 I listened to more of that Shanahan interview. If you didn't know who she was, you'd think she was a Republican (of some sort) talking about cutting spending and such. There must be a strain of leftist who realizes that you can't do "Great Things" without things (like a functioning economy). Who knows, but she was the antithesis of someone like Harris.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (KAi1n)

48 I heard that his running mate is rich and injected a bunch of cash into the campaign. Is that right?

I wonder how she feels about cutting a check for a few million bucks and then having the campaign fall apart.

Unless she was looking to do an in-kind donation (endorsements, etc.) to Trump, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (HnUIn)

49 0.0%
Not worth chasing. "Good job. Moving on" would be optimal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (IG4Id)

That's what I suspect, given historical experience with the middle of the road, high-minded, fence-sitting types. Very stubborn and not given to reasoning out of their positions.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (i24o9)

50 Angry, sarcastic ace is the best ace.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (u82oZ)

51 Nicolette Sheridan was an actress.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (v6JzV)

52 Nicole Sheridan is "an actress," according to IMDb. And that's all they say. Pr0n, or softcore maybe?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (J2vNu)

53 It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.
++++
So it *is* your fault - you just won't be judged for it by the likes of us.

Works for me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (HnUIn)

54 Does RFKjr still have a worm eating his brain?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (FfSAJ)

55 Everyone is talking about CW now.

They will never allow T to be sworn in.

They say BAMN. They mean it.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (ov3uv)

56 Shanahan pointed out that the DNC hired people to fraudulently join their campaign, and set about making legal problems for them. That is how badly they have been treated.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (lTGtQ)

57 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.
Posted by: Archimedes

Just imagine hearing that in bed. (I'll be in my bunk....)

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (KAi1n)

58 Paxton needs to be AG - but JFK and his side kick Sharidan can run HHS - they'd both kick ass and take names.

Posted by: Boswell at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (K+UlC)

59 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:41 PM (xCA6C)

Shanahan has an interesting background. She's probably a billionaire, and she got it through the tech industry. More precisely, she got the bulk of it through her marriage to Sergey Brin (she was Wife #2).

That marriage ended shortly after it was discovered that she had a brief fling with Brin's friend...Elon Musk.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (sjkMN)

60 I'll believe it when I see it. This is probably RFK blackmailing the DNC with this threat to get a better offer to support them.

Posted by: Biergood at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (PwgSL)

61 Nicolette Sheridan was an actress.

She was the eponymous Sure Thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (xCA6C)

62 RFK Jr. is garbage. He wants to jail those that don't suck the gorebull warmening cock. He's not a free speech advocate.

He's just pissed because the Democrat party, the party of his FAMILY, embarrassed him and kicked him aside.

Keep him and his entire bloodline out of DC and we'll be better off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

63 Trump is barely four miles away from me heading up Montezuma Pass to have a look-see at the border in AZ.

That area has the 30 foot fence up, but he'll be able to look just to the west into San Rafael Valley where it is still just barbed wire and anti-vehicle hedgehogs. Border enforcement has been left to our local LEAs as most of our USBP staff was sent to Texas. As a result we lead the nation in get-aways and US citizens (often children) coming down in borrowed or stolen cars to smuggle illegals north.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (l7Kbv)

64 DNC is failing at the #1 most important part of fascism/socialism: making the trains run on time. They've been behind every single night apparently. We'll see if they can get it together tonight so Kamala's speech is during prime time and not at midnight. Who will they cut if they have to?
Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 01:18 PM
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Wendy Patterson @wendyp4545 3h
Breaking News: Kamala Harris isn't going to accept the DNC nomination until 10:45 pm

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (c39uV)

65 Nicole Sheridan is "an actress," according to IMDb. And that's all they say. Pr0n, or softcore maybe?

I'm imagining more than one commenter has an "incognito mode" tab search going on

Posted by: brak at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (NGHTx)

66 56 Shanahan pointed out that the DNC hired people to fraudulently join their campaign, and set about making legal problems for them. That is how badly they have been treated.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (lTGtQ)

=======

But they wouldn't fill out absentee ballots illegally and then drop them off at unmanned drop boxes without surveillance hundreds at a time.

That would be too far.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

67 Posted by: Who Cares at August 22, 2024 02:46 PM (dVxi/)

Can you throw in a few more "Shits" in your posts?. Then I will probably know which poster this is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (dTTBf)

68 Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (KAi1n)

Socially liberal
Fiscally Conservative

It’s an oxymoron IMO and what destroyed the Republican Party.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (B1dzx)

69 I think I will go with Nicolette Sheridan for the win

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (NtVYv)

70 We need allies to win over the Orcs of Mordor.

It's not about R's vs. D's. As we've learned, that's fake and contrived to keep us at odds with each other. It's NWO Globalism versus free men and women.

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (/tXXR)

71 Kennedy's running mate, Nicole Shanahan, recently told Fox News that they were considering dropping out and endorsing Trump. She added that "there's only one party that has obstructed a fair election for us, and unfortunately it was the Democratic Party."
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LOL. Yeah. Trump had to win a primary. He had to win the nomination. The DNC didn't really have a primary series this year. They handed it to Biden by icing everyone else at the start, then panicked and iced Biden and handed it to Harris. It has been the least "democratic" nomination process I've ever seen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (HnUIn)

72 "It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels."

The testosterone is off the charts.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (KAi1n)

73 I never really could make a definitive case who RFK hurt the most.

RFK endorsing Trump is a plus, but I always wondered was that other liberal option for disaffected Democrats maybe a siphon that helped Trump? Obviously that's now gone, no Democrat leaner still marks RFK on their ballot.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (5qUbx)

74 I must have been thinking of Nicolette Larsen. Or Nicollette Sheridan of Desperate Housewives.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (J2vNu)

75 I know some people here think it's over. Well, it is, but not for the reasons they think.

Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

Better start making $3 donations to the DNC through ActBlue if you want even a shot at a lower bunk in the Joy Camps.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (TTO0Z)

76 argument).

They wanted a return to Camelot which some of the eldest may remember but many just keep up as an ideal because their parents had JFK and RFK shrines in their homes, or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

A church I once belonged to bought the deceased old ladies house that was in the adjacent lot. We went inside to start cleaning it to make it class rooms and there it was. A shrine to jfk and rfk built up in the cellar room. Candles and memorabilia coins, plates... sainted halos. Weird.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (lCxSB)

77 Nicolette Sheridan was an actress.

She was the eponymous Sure Thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (xCA6C

Very quotable movie when I was a young man.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (B1dzx)

78 Nicolette Sheridan was an actress.

She was the eponymous Sure Thing.
Posted by: Archimedes

Back when Reiner could reasonably entertaining movies.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (v6JzV)

79 Breaking911 @Breaking911 8m
BREAKING: Supreme Court partly grants GOP request to enforce Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship voting law - NBC

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (c39uV)

80 RFK basically air dropped into 1968 because Johnson announced he was dropping out in March. This caused a lot of consternation and confusion, and factions quickly coalesced between the Democrats. There was a lot of momentum, but I'm not persuaded he would have won. The idea generally was to support Humphry, the VP.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (mW8AH)

81 My guess is that Kennedy and Nicole Shanahan (great name !) supporters mirror Keenedy and Shanahan, so if those two are spitting nails and are ticked off at the Ds, their supporters are as well.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (V13WU)

82 However, if Kennedy and Shanahan continue talking about the Democrat's attack on democracy, and making it clear that Kamala Harris is the reason they can't get on more ballots -- maybe some will peel off to support Trump.
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I think this is probably the thought process, yes. Or that these disaffected RFK guys will harangue their lib friends into not voting at all. We saw a lot of that - unplanned, I think, but real - when Ron Paul was running in 2008. Paul's supporters were ruthless about everyone else and when Paul dropped, it became evangelism for "flip everyone else the bird, too."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (HnUIn)

83 76 A church I once belonged to bought the deceased old ladies house that was in the adjacent lot. We went inside to start cleaning it to make it class rooms and there it was. A shrine to jfk and rfk built up in the cellar room. Candles and memorabilia coins, plates... sainted halos. Weird.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (lCxSB)

========

That was healthy because JFK was a god amongst men.

Saying Trump was unfairly targeted by the legal system that ad hoc'd their way to a felony conviction on crimes that aren't felonies is just cult behavior, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

84 Don't underestimate the taxidermist vote.

The biggest thing, in my mind, is that a lot of the loony Left are big RFK admirers even if they are supporting Harris.
These are also the people most susceptible to the propaganda that Trump is evil, narcissistic, incompetent, threat to democracy,.......

But what this does it is *normalizes* Trump. How bad can he be if he can find common ground with RFK? Maybe the DNC really are the baddies after all. And that deflates support from one subset of the loony Left

Posted by: Gentlemen, we mourn our recent loss at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (8ibgJ)

85 In other words, I am cautiously optimistic about the whole thing.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (V13WU)

86 I also think RFKJ's supporters may be persuaded toward Trump if it's clear he is planned for a Cabinet role.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (4+3qm)

87 But they wouldn't fill out absentee ballots illegally and then drop them off at unmanned drop boxes without surveillance hundreds at a time.

That would be too far.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Exactly, just 95s at a time.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (CIS44)

88 People are saying PDJT will make RFK Jr CIA director! that would be fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid

So, PDJT makes RFK DCIA? You said a mouthful.

Lou Costello: What'd he say? What'd he say?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (khgu5)

89 Some guy on FOX yesterday said it would hurt Trump.. Mike Thissen or something.. I got the impression that he was not a fan of Trump's so....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (IyPmt)

90 Socially liberal
Fiscally Conservative

It’s an oxymoron IMO and what destroyed the Republican Party.
Posted by: polynikes

That's not what destroyed the Republican party. Electing hypocrites with plenty of blackmail potential is what did that. Name three SL/FC Republicans who ever held office.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (KAi1n)

91 Kennedy polls between 4-8% in most swing states, so it's enough to make a big impact. Most of the voters that would have gone to Harris had already swung over according to the polls.

His positions are closer to old school JFK dems than the current dem party including some restrictions on abortion. I think it could make a huge difference in close states.

Posted by: ChristiCat at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (glKb4)

92 Nicolette Larson died in 1997.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (rJ48h)

93 A church I once belonged to bought the deceased old ladies house that was in the adjacent lot. We went inside to start cleaning it to make it class rooms and there it was. A shrine to jfk and rfk built up in the cellar room. Candles and memorabilia coins, plates... sainted halos. Weird.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (lCxSB)
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"Political figure religious paraphernalia" always weirds me out. Obama and Fauci votive candles, etc.

Weird. Wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (HnUIn)

94 Definitely a plus for Trump, even just by blunting the Dems' convention attention.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (su8+V)

95 Wendy Patterson @wendyp4545 3h
Breaking News: Kamala Harris isn't going to accept the DNC nomination until 10:45 pm
Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (c39uV)

On the one hand, Trump must know that he only needs one debate to finish off Kamala. He's got to be loving this.

On the other hand, I don't think that Trump took the stage at his RNC until after 10 PM. She's certainly doing better than Biden starting his speech after 11:30 PM Eastern.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (sjkMN)

96 I don't think RFK brings many voters with him, because I don't think he has many voters. But what he does for Trump is pop this idiotic "Danger to Our Precious Democracy!!!" balloon. Whatever his faults, RFK is not some Che Guevara type. He wants what's best for America. And he sees that the bigger threat to this country comes from the party that's trying to keep people OFF the ballot.

Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (hqVaF)

97 Shanahan has an interesting background. She's probably a billionaire, and she got it through the tech industry. More precisely, she got the bulk of it through her marriage to Sergey Brin (she was Wife #2).

That marriage ended shortly after it was discovered that she had a brief fling with Brin's friend...Elon Musk.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
___

If the Google guys weren't such assholes, I might feel bad she stole all that money from him.

You really have to be a dumbass to get married at all and be a billionaire.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (5qUbx)

98 LOL. Yeah. Trump had to win a primary. He had to win the nomination. The DNC didn't really have a primary series this year. They handed it to Biden by icing everyone else at the start, then panicked and iced Biden and handed it to Harris. It has been the least "democratic" nomination process I've ever seen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (HnUIn)
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I find it interesting the DNC refused to let RFK Jr primary Joe. I think RFK Jr would have been a formidable opponent to PDT.

There is something about RFK Jr that really bothers the Junta and I'll be darned if I know what it is.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

99 Breaking911 @Breaking911 16m
MANHUNT: Authorities in Arizona search for man who allegedly threatened to assassinate Trump at his border visit today
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https://tinyurl.com/yc2dtc62
Screencaps of description and photo; also wanted for failing to register as a sex offender.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (c39uV)

100 The point is not "what RFK, Jr. voters will do now."

The point is the emerging zeitgeist.

Btw, I've been taking Kennedy-moves-to-Trump as a done deal for two days already.

As for Shanahan, getting mugged by DEM thuggery turned her around, it would seem. I can see how it might have.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (NLIak)

101
Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

Better start making $3 donations to the DNC through ActBlue if you want even a shot at a lower bunk in the Joy Camps.

probably. what a stupid time we live in

Posted by: brak at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (NGHTx)

102 Who knows, but she was the antithesis of someone like Harris.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:47 PM (KAi1n)

The difference is striking, and policy differences notwithstanding, you could almost accept a loss to someone that could string more than three words together without sounding like a DEIdiot.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (i24o9)

103
It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.

It's not me! It's you!

We bought our tickets.
We knew what we were getting into.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (63Dwl)

104 There is something about RFK Jr that really bothers the Junta and I'll be darned if I know what it is.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 22, 2024 02:52 PM (tT6L1)
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It's the same thing that bothers them about Trump.

RFK isn't down with the program. He is opposed to a couple of key components of the Party's ambition. He isn't as bad as Trump in this regard, but anything less than *full* alignment is unacceptable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)

105 56 Shanahan pointed out that the DNC hired people to fraudulently join their campaign, and set about making legal problems for them. That is how badly they have been treated.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (lTGtQ)

Ugh. Democrats do the shittiest things. But sure they are the party of equity and fair play.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (lCxSB)

106 What the f*ck is it with seemingly every Hi-Tech billionaire being a far leftist?

Like in WTF F*ck!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (BN9Gq)

107 People are saying PDJT will make RFK Jr CIA director! that would be fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Director of the NSA - much hilarity and righteousness shall ensue..

Posted by: Boswell at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (K+UlC)

108 What the Kennedy endorsement does more than anything is dent the Precious Democrat Narrative of these appointed heroes and saviors protecting the world from evil.

Trump understands Narrative maybe better than anything else, and this is where the win here is the biggest.

Disruption is key if you want to render a psy op less effective or even ineffective. It may actually be the only thing that can do it. Because in directly fighting one you often only manage to strengthen it - sort of like how denying you're a racist is exactly what a racist would do. So you have to do an end around on it and that's what the RFK endorsement is. Remember only Nazis and racists, the scum of the earth, support Trump. This is a KENNEDY.

Trump's appearance on the nation's stage was a major dent in a 10 to 15 year web the Uniparty had carefully spun around a quietly suffocating country. Hence the "response" to him.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (4DWWO)

109 DNC is failing at the #1 most important part of fascism/socialism: making the trains run on time.

---------------

Kommie-la/Tampon Tim 2024 -- Make Cattle Cars Run On Time Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (PBEFk)

110 They wanted a return to Camelot

Are we forgetting about Big Mike's toned arms?

And the glamour and fashion of Mooch?

That crap lasted about 3 months...

Posted by: Stateless at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (jvJvP)

111 Nicorette Sheridan was a hard-charging Civil War general who tried to quit smoking.

Posted by: spindrift at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (OguvZ)

112 It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.

Not everyone comes here for peak-level Ace. Some of us come here for Ace-level cruelty.

Posted by: VDH at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (TTO0Z)

113 85 In other words, I am cautiously optimistic about the whole thing.
Posted by: runner at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (V13WU)

He won’t lose votes and will gain some. No downside.

Posted by: tubal at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (PCK5/)

114 Daphne Zuniga was better looking than Nicolette in The Sure Thing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (v6JzV)

115 Wendy Patterson @wendyp4545 3h
Breaking News: Kamala Harris isn't going to accept the DNC nomination until 10:45 pm
Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (c39uV)

Trump accepted the nom at 9:45 PM CDT or so and spoke for 2 hours.

Let's see what this sniveling drunk c*nt does.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

116 As for Shanahan, getting mugged by DEM thuggery turned her around, it would seem. I can see how it might have.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (NLIak)

Which is kind of funny because I don't think she was previously politically ambitious.

Not sure her reasoning for jumping onto a ticket with RFK, but the dems probably should've thought twice before pissing off a couple of very wealthy people.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (KbCG3)

117 Kennedy polls between 4-8% in most swing states, so it's enough to make a big impact. Most of the voters that would have gone to Harris had already swung over according to the polls.
Posted by: ChristiCat
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The problem is, all that support doesnt flow to Trump.

he was an empty vessel that each side thought was on their team.

Ultimately, RFK is a left-winger (except on BigPharma) that got more miffed at Democrats than Trump, so thats why he's doing this as payback.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (5qUbx)

118 We never were told who won the Iowa primary caucus night a few years back.

Hell, invite Bernie Sanders too. Didn't he get robbed by the Democrats as well? To be sure the DNC is a private organization and can make the rules for nominating and the rest of it. Plus, Bernie Sanders.

But it shows that Americans aren't allowed to pick and choose their leaders. This starts at the local level and metastasizes over time into the bizarro-world funhouse mirror world we live in today.

"Here Are Your Choices America. Pick One"

How's that workin' out for ya?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (mW8AH)

119 What the f*ck is it with seemingly every Hi-Tech billionaire being a far leftist?

Like in WTF F*ck!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (BN9Gq)

It's WAY EASIER to corrupt the left, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

120 So, PDJT makes RFK DCIA? You said a mouthful.

Lou Costello: What'd he say? What'd he say?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 22, 2024

***
Bud Abbott: ""We share and share alike, don't we? When I had two girls, didn't I share one with you?"

Lou Costello: "Yours had teeth."

Bud: "She wasn't that bad."

Lou: "She had so much bridgework, every time I kissed her I had to pay a toll."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (J2vNu)

121 115 Wendy Patterson @wendyp4545 3h
Breaking News: Kamala Harris isn't going to accept the DNC nomination until 10:45 pm
Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 02:48 PM (c39uV)

Damn... Gonna interfere with Gutfeld that I record

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (IyPmt)

122 12 People are saying PDJT will make RFK Jr CIA director! that would be fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (s3qiR)

He does have a family history of illegally wire tapping political enemies.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (wIXTi)

123 "Nicolette Larson died in 1997"

It's gonna take a lot of love to get me on the ballot.

Posted by: Zombie Nicolette Larson at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (hqVaF)

124 Hell, invite Bernie Sanders too. Didn't he get robbed by the Democrats as well? ...
Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (mW8AH)
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I doubt it. It's possible, but I doubt it. I think Bernie was in on it. It was a grift.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (HnUIn)

125 101
Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

Better start making $3 donations to the DNC through ActBlue if you want even a shot at a lower bunk in the Joy Camps.

probably. what a stupid time we live in
Posted by: brak at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (NGHTx)

Be funny if Tay Tay who canceled her tour because of Islamic terror plots endorsed the party who endorses Islamic terror plots. By funny I mean vacuously stupid.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (lCxSB)

126 Director of the NSA - much hilarity and righteousness shall ensue..
Posted by: Boswell

Press secretary. RFK,Jr. has the rugged, handsome face of a 1920's silver screen stud.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (KAi1n)

127 The Secret Service is salivating at all the extra chestfeeding time

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (4DWWO)
_______________

Agent Fupa is practicing her quick draw skills.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (7gQkP)

128 101
Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

Better start making $3 donations to the DNC through ActBlue if you want even a shot at a lower bunk in the Joy Camps.

probably. what a stupid time we live in
Posted by: brak at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (NGHTx)

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This is why Marsha Blackburn failed to win her Senate seat, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

129 If what they said was true all along--"RFK on the ballot would hurt tump"--then that would indicate more of his voters, when freed up, would vote tump over harris.

Posted by: sumatralime at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (BudYP)

130 RFK isn't down with the program. He is opposed to a couple of key components of the Party's ambition. He isn't as bad as Trump in this regard, but anything less than *full* alignment is unacceptable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)

He went against the Covid cult. He broke the newest first rule of dem club.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (KbCG3)

131 However, if Kennedy and Shanahan continue talking about the Democrat's attack on democracy, and making it clear that Kamala Harris is the reason they can't get on more ballots -- maybe some will peel off to support Trump.
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But Orangeman is too bad!

Posted by: NPC #1138 at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (krQz2)

132 Daphne Zuniga was better looking than Nicolette in The Sure Thing.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024

***
Daphne was the standout on Melrose Place -- and she had some real competition there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (J2vNu)

133 Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

I think Taylor Swift is an idiot if she endorses Kamala and I'd think the same if she endorsed Trump not because Ttump is not the better choice-obviously-, but I think Billionaire pop stars need to stay out of politics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (dTTBf)

134 It's WAY EASIER to corrupt the left, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I dunno about that, the checks the D congress critters get from google, meta etc are much larger than the like 5K the Rs take to get bought

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (CIS44)

135 That was healthy because JFK was a god amongst men.

The same JFK who the Navy brass wanted to court-martial for allowing his PT boat to idle out of gear - in violation of SOP ? Or the JFK whose daddy bought thousands of copies of Profiles in Courage so that it would hit the best-seller list ? Or the JFK who kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis but placing missiles in Turkey ?

That JFK ? The guy that was about as popular as the plague until he ate that bullet ?

Posted by: Who Cares at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (dVxi/)

136 122 12 People are saying PDJT will make RFK Jr CIA director! that would be fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (s3qiR)

He does have a family history of illegally wire tapping political enemies.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (wIXTi)

I predict that if appointed to head the cia that RFK wont have had himself kill himself.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (lCxSB)

137 I come here to see if Ace is en fuego.

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (TTO0Z)

138 59.

Nicole Shanahan is still married to Sergey, they are separated. Elon denies the affair.

Nicole is a lawyer, she started a company that manages patents, which she sold and now heads a philanthropic company that supports reproductive viability. It also dabbles in criminal justice reform and eco sustainability. She is 1/2 Chinese, and her dad apparently had significant mental health struggles.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (pZEOD)

139 I will admit to not being that politically astute. With that said, I really don't care if RFK Jr. endorses Trump. The cult like worship surrounding that family has always annoyed the hell out of me. I don't trust RFK Jr because, well, he's a Kennedy. That's a tree with rotten fruit. Do not trust.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (sAmhv)

140 135 That was healthy because JFK was a god amongst men.

The same JFK who the Navy brass wanted to court-martial for allowing his PT boat to idle out of gear - in violation of SOP ? Or the JFK whose daddy bought thousands of copies of Profiles in Courage so that it would hit the best-seller list ? Or the JFK who kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis but placing missiles in Turkey ?

That JFK ? The guy that was about as popular as the plague until he ate that bullet ?
Posted by: Who Cares at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (dVxi/)

=======

Le sigh...

Wound tight, you are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

141 Trump didn't start out an enemy of the IC.

They chose the fight.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (krQz2)

142 108 What the Kennedy endorsement does more than anything is dent the Precious Democrat Narrative of these appointed heroes and saviors protecting the world from evil.

Trump understands Narrative maybe better than anything else, and this is where the win here is the biggest.

Disruption is key if you want to render a psy op less effective or even ineffective. It may actually be the only thing that can do it. Because in directly fighting one you often only manage to strengthen it - sort of like how denying you're a racist is exactly what a racist would do. So you have to do an end around on it and that's what the RFK endorsement is. Remember only Nazis and racists, the scum of the earth, support Trump. This is a KENNEDY.

Trump's appearance on the nation's stage was a major dent in a 10 to 15 year web the Uniparty had carefully spun around a quietly suffocating country. Hence the "response" to him.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (4DWWO)

Totally agree. What's even better is that RFKJ times this for the day after the DNC. Any gains that might have taken place for Kamala after the convention (Narrator: They Didn't) will be blunted after the RFKJ announcement.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (sjkMN)

143 "Political figure religious paraphernalia" always weirds me out. Obama and Fauci votive candles, etc.

Weird. Wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

What about shrines to Stalin? OK, those were required by law, kind of like what we have coming.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (lTGtQ)

144 What the f*ck is it with seemingly every Hi-Tech billionaire being a far leftist?

They were usually the nerd that was picked on all thru school. This is payback.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (khgu5)

145 I think there's FAR more Taylor Swift hate than love.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (5qUbx)

146
A shrine to jfk and rfk built up in the cellar room. Candles and memorabilia coins, plates... sainted halos. Weird.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:50 PM (lCxSB)

__________

Not weird at all. Lots of Old Catholic Ladies had fantasies of getting rogered by JFK.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (1Nxff)

147 An RFK Jr endorsement of Trump will probably get him a few votes but most might stay home. Some independents who were on the fence might go to Trump if they see a third party candidate jumping to Trump. It will not impact the average Dem voter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (qKpsC)

148 I predict that if appointed to head the cia that RFK wont have had himself kill himself.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (lCxSB)

Suicided himself via12 stab wounds in the back.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (aw2/Z)

149 Name three SL/FC Republicans who ever held office.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (KAi1n)

Off the top of my head. I only listed one fro CA. You should know at least a dozen.

Susan Collins
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lisa Murkowski
Donald Trump
Phil Scott

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (B1dzx)

150 RFK isn't down with the program. He is opposed to a couple of key components of the Party's ambition. He isn't as bad as Trump in this regard, but anything less than *full* alignment is unacceptable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)
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Ah, you're thinking the Junta is going for complete control and RFK Jr isn't completely on board with that program.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (tT6L1)

151 127 The Secret Service is salivating at all the extra chestfeeding time

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (4DWWO)
_______________

Agent Fupa is practicing her quick draw skills.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (7gQkP)

Scuse me while I whip this out.

Posted by: Usss Agent kanna holsterit at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (lCxSB)

152 Stan: Mark Hamill is the Gollum of Smeagols.

Why are you always on about Mark Hamill, Stan?

Stan: I want to be Mark Hamill.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (MX0bI)

153 People have been polling this.

40% of his support will go to Trump

17% will go to Harris

The rest stay home.

That is a net +1 nationality to Trump moving him to +3 or +4.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (eifUp)

154 If I were Trump I'd use this to argue that I'm the Unity/National Salvation ticket.

"Even the great Kennedy Democratic Dynasty sees the perilous situation we are in. The time for petty partisan politics is over. We don't have 4 more years to give to a regime that jails its opponents, steals our money, and invites invaders to literally take our homes - because in more more years we won't still have a country to save"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (oZhjI)

155 >>> Impact Theory? Sounds violent. Like a bullet.

I really like that podcast. He and his wife built the company Quest, which makes really good keto products, because they couldn't find products in stores she could eat due to several health issues she has.

He and his wife both have podcasts that deal with building confidence and empowerment, white-pilling people that they can change their lives. They do really good, interesting interviews. It's not one of those navel gazing podcasts, they actually want good conversations to happen. Recommend!

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (QAK8m)

156 138 59.

Nicole Shanahan is still married to Sergey, they are separated. Elon denies the affair.

Nicole is a lawyer, she started a company that manages patents, which she sold and now heads a philanthropic company that supports reproductive viability. It also dabbles in criminal justice reform and eco sustainability. She is 1/2 Chinese, and her dad apparently had significant mental health struggles.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (pZEOD)

Piper - thanks for the correction.

BTW: your hash is thisclose to being legendary.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (sjkMN)

157 What the f*ck is it with seemingly every Hi-Tech billionaire being a far leftist?

Like in WTF F*ck!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 22, 2024 02:53 PM (BN9Gq)

---------------

"You will be made to join the oligarchy or be destroyed by it."

-- Shit Trump & Musk Said, Vol. II

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (PBEFk)

158 The thing that frost my buns is the Libertarians. They WILL vote for their candidate, even though their candidate has even less of a chance than a snowball in hell.

I know -- if candidates get a certain number of votes, they get some money. Whoop-de-doo. Some things matter a little more than that. And Kamala NOT winning IS MUCH, MUCH more important that the Libertarian candidate getting money from the Federal government. (Which really, isn't that a bit hypocritical for a Libertarian -- sticking their hand out for government money?)

Posted by: Someone Else at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (IrqeV)

159 Totally agree. What's even better is that RFKJ times this for the day after the DNC. Any gains that might have taken place for Kamala after the convention (Narrator: They Didn't) will be blunted after the RFKJ announcement.

both of you (three dots and darrell) make great points AND I think the support of RFK absolutely implies the support of a large swath of tech bros.

that is incredibly important.

you guys can be a little too phlegmatic about everything it gets a tad tiring.

I also like RFK a lot. I don't think I'm stupid. and I don't care if you think I am. I am not.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (s3qiR)

160 Trump's appearance on the nation's stage was a major dent in a 10 to 15 year web the Uniparty had carefully spun around a quietly suffocating country. Hence the "response" to him.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (4DWWO)

Totally agree. What's even better is that RFKJ times this for the day after the DNC. Any gains that might have taken place for Kamala after the convention (Narrator: They Didn't) will be blunted after the RFKJ announcement.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 02:57 PM (sjkMN)

RFK is also a pretty decent speaker and can be combative when needed. Kind of like a different shade (ha!) of Vivek.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (KbCG3)

161 " .... but anything less than *full* alignment is unacceptable."
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Those paying attention noticed this feature long ago. It is perhaps a good way of trying to get through to someone (or yourself), it's always a good time to part with control-freak totalitarian collectivist thinking no matter the source. It's never the good-guys who censor speech and lock up dissidents.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (mW8AH)

162 This is a KENNEDY.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 02:54 PM (4DWWO)

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So, I've been thinking about this lately. How many younger people even get what being a Kennedy means? I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

163 I think there's FAR more Taylor Swift hate than love.
Posted by: Blago

exactly, ok she sells out all these concerts, well Texas sells out all their games too, but their are a lot more not texas fans than there are fans.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (CIS44)

164 Off the top of my head. I only listed one fro CA. You should know at least a dozen.

Susan Collins
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lisa Murkowski
Donald Trump
Phil Scott
Posted by: polynikes

Which one of them was a fiscal conservative?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (KAi1n)

165 One of my clients just got back from London. She went to see Taylor in concert. Some people have a lot of disposable income.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (pZEOD)

166 We bought our tickets.
We knew what we were getting into.

Not me! I was just walking down the street one day, minding my own business, when a press gang grabbed me and the next thing I knew, I was out at sea, chained to a laptop. Damn those Brits!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (xCA6C)

167 The media seems to have a hard time finding disaffected Democrats.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (FfSAJ)

168 Even if this means Trump gets an only an extra 0.1% of the vote, I’ll take it. Every little bit counts.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (aw2/Z)

169 I think there's FAR more Taylor Swift hate than love.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 02:58 PM (5qUbx)
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You sound like an optimist.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (krQz2)

170 92 Nicolette Larson died in 1997.

Dammit, I always enjoyed the Far Side.

Posted by: Hammer Thyme at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (og5mY)

171 "People are saying PDJT will make RFK Jr CIA director! that would be fun"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (s3qiR)

Indeed...considering RFK, Jr believes the CIA killed his uncle and father. It would be fantastic to see what is under all those CIA rocks that they've been hiding for years.

Posted by: JTSmith at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (FxdZx)

172 Which one of them was a fiscal conservative?
Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (KAi1n)

They all claimed to be.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (B1dzx)

173 That's far more than nothing, it's a solid starting point for getting the message about the Democrats rigging the election out beyond our social circles.

Posted by: Harlock at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (V4KNu)

174 I am proud of Bobby, Jr, my law school classmate, for doing the right thing. The Dems are so power-mad that they drove a Kennedy (a Kennedy!!!) to endorse a Republican. Never thought I would see a hardened leftist like Bobby do this, but the growing tyranny is now so obvious that anyone with a lick of integrity has to do something.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (sFNX2)

175 Harris 2024
From Camelot to Cumalot

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (4DWWO)

176 Press secretary. RFK,Jr. has the rugged, handsome face of a 1920's silver screen stud.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:55 PM (KAi1n)

I want Vivek for that...killer.

RFK needs to be where old-style liberals had the most angst over in the past and were driven to change - Intel, Homeland Security (domestic terrorist BS), or HHS with the mandatory government forced vaccines...

Posted by: Boswell at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (K+UlC)

177 I think Billionaire pop stars need to stay out of politics.

agree, and that's the advice they usually get from their management, but then the ego sets in...

Posted by: brak at August 22, 2024 03:01 PM (NGHTx)

178 144 What the f*ck is it with seemingly every Hi-Tech billionaire being a far leftist?

that's mainly the "paperwork American" ones.

to be frank.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (s3qiR)

179 You know what, if you go to say YouTube and try see if there are any interviews with RFK or Nicole Sheridan there is literally nothing there from any MSM outlet.

There is literally nothing on her from any source.

The only thing you can find are MSM outlets telling you about the lady but no interviews of the lady herself.

Weird.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (XV/Pl)

180 That's not what destroyed the Republican party. Electing hypocrites with plenty of blackmail potential is what did that. Name three SL/FC Republicans who ever held office.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 02:51 PM (KAi1n)

GOPe destroyed GOPe. Trump just ripped of their masks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (i24o9)

181 exactly, ok she sells out all these concerts, well Texas sells out all their games too, but their are a lot more not texas fans than there are fans.

Got that right.

Boomer Sooner

Posted by: Hammer Thyme at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (og5mY)

182 I want Vivek for that...killer.

RFK needs to be where old-style liberals had the most angst over in the past and were driven to change - Intel, Homeland Security (domestic terrorist BS), or HHS with the mandatory government forced vaccines...
Posted by: Boswell

Elon made a joke about doing it the other day.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (CIS44)

183 That marriage ended shortly after it was discovered that she had a brief fling with Brin's friend...Elon Musk.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
___

What does that say about the guy Elon Musk is.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

184 MANHUNT: Authorities in Arizona search for man who allegedly threatened to assassinate Trump at his border visit today

Boy, I'll bet they're putting maximum effort into this one. Like maybe a sign on a telephone pole, "Did you do this?"

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2024 03:02 PM (uAczH)

185 Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (pZEOD)

Are you still lying on the floor?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (v6JzV)

186 So, I've been thinking about this lately. How many younger people even get what being a Kennedy means? I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
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Yep. I was in 3rd Grade when he got popped. My parents, the GI Joe Generation was in shock. As late as the early 1980s you could go into homes that had his picture over the TeeVee. It was weird for that generation to accept watching the thing they defended with their lives erode.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (FmapG)

187 165 One of my clients just got back from London. She went to see Taylor in concert. Some people have a lot of disposable income.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (pZEOD)

Tickets in Europe are much cheaper. For the same price of a secondary market ticket here, you can go to the concert there and have a vacation out of it.

And is it any different than people spending thousands of dollars for Super Bowl or final 4 tickets? This is the girl version of that.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (aw2/Z)

188 Daphne was the standout on Melrose Place

I wonder about some of you people sometimes.

Posted by: spindrift at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (OguvZ)

189 Tough to say what RFK's impact is. He is polling at 3-5% which suggests he has some small but real constituency. I always thought it obvious that he would pull more votes from Democraps than Trump. Which of course is why the Dums did him dirty and tried to get rid of him (and actually get him murdered).

I think his endorsement will probably mean more Dums will stay home and not vote at all, which is a good thing. I suspect his support is mostly moderate Dums including those old timers who still have fond memories of JFK. I doubt they can bring themselves to vote for the Demon Trump. But they probably won't vote for Kumswala either.

Certainly RFK and Shanahan are fumingly livid over getting fucked over by the DNC. They will certainly do everything they can to fuck the DNC back. That may be the best news of all.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

190
That marriage ended shortly after it was discovered that she had a brief fling with Brin's friend...Elon Musk.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August

He says he didn’t.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (pZEOD)

191 I think getting kicked off the New York ballot for a BS lawfare type pettifogging reason was the last straw for Bobby.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (sFNX2)

192 What does that say about the guy Elon Musk is.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 0

I think they both denied it ever happened,

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (B1dzx)

193 I have renounced Taylor and all of her schemes.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (krQz2)

194 I have renounced Taylor and all of her schemes.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (krQz2)

195 Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (pZEOD)

You probably don't talk about politics with your clients, but do you think a Taylor Shift endorsement would affect her voting choice?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (dTTBf)

196 I also like RFK a lot. I don't think I'm stupid. and I don't care if you think I am. I am not.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (s3qiR)

Trust me; I may be the last person that thinks you're stupid.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (sjkMN)

197
Fiscal liberal: wants to spend $1,000,000,000 on lebian poetry studies.

Fiscal conservative: willing to spend $999,999,999 on lesbian poetry studies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (1Nxff)

198 btw Jill Stein is on X going back and forth with Nicole about how the same things have been done to her

they're also blocking Cornell West here in PA from even appearing

what the DNC is doing is beyond the pale. they are working a coup on this country it's not just about getting Trump.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (s3qiR)

199 Can't they do anything about his voice?

Posted by: It's irritating at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (dg+HA)

200 So, I've been thinking about this lately. How many younger people even get what being a Kennedy means? I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

Don't know to the extent they even care. But I think the propaganda is still strong, like how Jeopardy mentions Nixon every other night. They don't let their stories go easily and Trump uses it against them.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (4DWWO)

201 Hopefully we have people printing ballots and creating hard drives so when our commanding lead evaporates at Midnight Do you think We’ll have created enough votes to offset theirs. Any chance of that happening? We

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (KAhj1)

202 193 I have renounced Taylor and all of her schemes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (krQz2)

194 I have renounced Taylor and all of her schemes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (krQz2)
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Ace, check with the hampsters.

I did not post that twice.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (krQz2)

203 198 btw Jill Stein is on X going back and forth with Nicole about how the same things have been done to her

they're also blocking Cornell West here in PA from even appearing

what the DNC is doing is beyond the pale. they are working a coup on this country it's not just about getting Trump.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (s3qiR)

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Then Stein shouldn't have fucking dropped her 2016 Michigan lawsuit, that dumb bitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

204 I have 2 daughters that are in that pre-teen/teen age and they are "Swifties" but they've told me its definitely now "uncool" to like Taylor Swift among their peers. It's probably the 80's equivalent of being a "New Kids on the Block" fan.

I just loathe Taylor Swift because she was "too famous" and every song is her being toxic towards men. All the woman does is whine about how terrible her life is.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (5qUbx)

205 Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

I think Taylor Swift is an idiot if she endorses Kamala and I'd think the same if she endorsed Trump not because Ttump is not the better choice-obviously-, but I think Billionaire pop stars need to stay out of politics.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (dTTBf)

As Michael Jordan once said -- "Republicans buy shoes too"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (n7h9X)

206 One of my clients just got back from London. She went to see Taylor in concert. Some people have a lot of disposable income.
Posted by: Piper

Meh. Years ago I flew to Germany to see 2 Blue Oyster Cult shows. $500 and it was a great mileage run. Even got to hang out with Buck Dharma a bit. As fantastic a guitarist as he is, he is an even better human being. Humble, smart, friendly, *and* an honorary Moron. I even flew to Australia to see them (that one I burned miles for a business-class seat though). Now if your client paid for the full package (1st class, limo, prime seats, fancy hotel), that's different.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (KAi1n)

207 Pardon my typos

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (KAhj1)

208 People who are parsing "where RFK, Jr. voters will go" are missing the forest for the trees.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (NLIak)

209 also like RFK a lot. I don't think I'm stupid. and I don't care if you think I am. I am not.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (s3qi

Yeah I liked his excuses for why he acted crazy. Damn brain worms and Tuna fish sandwiches.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (B1dzx)

210
I think they both denied it ever happened,
Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (B1dzx)

That's not how it works anymore. GUILTY until PROVEN innocent, remember?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

211 208 People who are parsing "where RFK, Jr. voters will go" are missing the forest for the trees.
Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (NLIak)

========

I see no forest.

I only see this twig.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

212 Did that guy who lost his 10mm socket find it?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (FmapG)

213 Fiscal liberal: wants to spend $1,000,000,000 on lebian poetry studies.

Fiscal conservative: willing to spend $999,999,999 on lesbian poetry studies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:03 PM (1Nxff)

And then brag how he cut spending.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (aw2/Z)

214 195 Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (pZEOD)

You probably don't talk about politics with your clients, but do you think a Taylor Shift endorsement would affect her voting choice?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August

Not at all. I don’t talk politics because I am not interested in alienating anyone willing to pay me. But I don’t see her caring beyond “hey, this was a really fun concert”.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (pZEOD)

215 People who are parsing "where RFK, Jr. voters will go" are missing the forest for the trees.
Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:05 PM (NLIak)

Tell us what we’re missing?

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (B1dzx)

216 TayTay is "Recording Artist" popular. She can sell 20 million albums online. In a country of 350 million people.
Assuming all those people are voting age (They aren't) and that they all vote (They won't) that leaves Kamala 60 million votes short. But yeah, TayTay is the key to victory!

Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (hqVaF)

217 199 Can't they do anything about his voice?

What's wrong with it?

Posted by: Froggy from the little rascals at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (og5mY)

218 She is 1/2 Chinese, and her dad apparently had significant mental health struggles.

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"Is she a ChiComm spy honeypot by chance?"

/Asking for a Treasonous CongressCritter (D-Beijing) still on The House Permanent Select Committee on "Intelligence."

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (PBEFk)

219 People have been polling this.

40% of his support will go to Trump

17% will go to Harris

The rest stay home.

That is a net +1 nationality to Trump moving him to +3 or +4.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (eifUp)

Thanks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (i24o9)

220 Nicole Shanahan

Ack! Her vocal fry.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (64Zez)

221 199 Can't they do anything about his voice?

he is trying. he talks about the new therapies and various things doctors are working with him on .. it's sad. it actually does sound a bit better so maybe something is working?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (s3qiR)

222 That marriage ended shortly after it was discovered that she had a brief fling with Brin's friend...Elon Musk.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
___

What does that say about the guy Elon Musk is.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024

***
"DUDE! My bro! High five!"

Posted by: Straight Male Techies Everywhere at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (J2vNu)

223
now heads a philanthropic company that supports reproductive viability.

What do they mean by reproductive viability?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)

224 They all claimed to be.
Posted by: polynikes

And I claim to be 5'7 and 3/4". But *I'm* telling the truth. (It's just easier to write 5'8".) Either you are or you aren't fiscally conservative. There's no "claim to be".

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (KAi1n)

225 Meh. Years ago I flew to Germany to see 2 Blue Oyster Cult shows. $500 and it was a great mileage run. Even got to hang out with Buck Dharma a bit. As fantastic a guitarist as he is, he is an even better human being. Humble, smart, friendly, *and* an honorary Moron. I even flew to Australia to see them (that one I burned miles for a business-class seat though). Now if your client paid for the full package (1st class, limo, prime seats, fancy hotel), that's different.
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Did they play Go GO Godzilla?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (FmapG)

226 I only see this twig.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Dude, wait until you're off the clock, at least.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (v6JzV)

227 It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.
......

That's why I come here. Have you read any of my stupid comments?

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (v0R5T)

228 * speaks in gravely voice*

Suck my dick, jack.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (Py+sj)

229 Tay-Tay endorsed Phil Bredeson for Senator from Tenn. Ask Senator Bredeson how that worked out for him.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (sFNX2)

230 Game it out -

How many RFK voters will now vote Kamala
How many will now stay home
How many will switch to Trump as an FUDNC vote

Trump gamed it out.

Also there was at least a not insignificant chance that Dumbocrats could have bought him off.

I mean they called McCain a vampire, warmonger, stupid and senile but he was so bought his funeral is still going.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (4DWWO)

231 So, I've been thinking about this lately. How many younger people even get what being a Kennedy means? I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

Don't know to the extent they even care. But I think the propaganda is still strong, like how Jeopardy mentions Nixon every other night. They don't let their stories go easily and Trump uses it against them.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (4DWWO)

I was born under JFK and saw RFK get shot on the news in like kindergarten. Camelot was never part of my life, just Teddy and the Dead Kennedys.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (n7h9X)

232 I think Taylor Swift is an idiot if she endorses Kamala and I'd think the same if she endorsed Trump not because Ttump is not the better choice-obviously-, but I think Billionaire pop stars need to stay out of politics.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (dTTBf)

She endorsed Biden last election. She even baked Biden cookies. She loves abortion and hates Marsha Blackburn.

Posted by: Spypeach at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (UuB/1)

233 Trust me; I may be the last person that thinks you're stupid.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

I'm not sure that came out the way you intended.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (xCA6C)

234 I did not post that twice.

Posted by: Axeman

I expected it to appear three times.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (lTGtQ)

235 Cornhole West. There's a name ya don't hear too much any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (mW8AH)

236 You probably don't talk about politics with your clients, but do you think a Taylor Shift endorsement would affect her voting choice?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August

Not at all. I don’t talk politics because I am not interested in alienating anyone willing to pay me. But I don’t see her caring beyond “hey, this was a really fun concert”.
Posted by: Piper

I never talked politics with any of my people either, yet it was how I got run out of my GM position at the gym in Boston, because I was form the south and the assumed who I was, beacuse I was not one of them. I fucking hate Boston.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (CIS44)

237 Its definitely dumb for Taylor to get political, I seem to remember something about her dad urging her to not wade in those waters.

But it seems clear she wants to do something in Hollywood and this gets you a seat at the table.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (5qUbx)

238 200 So, I've been thinking about this lately. How many younger people even get what being a Kennedy means? I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

My daughter was ranting on about pdt one day, I said at least he didn't kill anyone like the Kennedy family. Wait what? She looked up chappaquidic and was horrified. Lime she realized she was getting only half the story from the propaganda outlets. One tiny flicker of change of position showed on her face.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (lCxSB)

239 People have been polling this.

40% of his support will go to Trump

17% will go to Harris

The rest stay home.

That is a net +1 nationality to Trump moving him to +3 or +4.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2024 02:59 PM (eifUp)

So the other polls that say him being on the ballot was going to hurt the Dems was wrong?

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (B1dzx)

240 I can bearly stand this announcement.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (Py+sj)

241 173 Harlock

Yes! Drop by more often.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (NLIak)

242 >>> Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

There was a poll the left slobbered over that said that a third of the people polled said they would FOR someone if Swift endorsed them. They conveniently ignored that a third of the same people polled said they would vote AGAINST someone swift endorsed. So it's a wash according to that poll.

She will feel pressured to endorse. But her dream of winning an Oscar and being a legit movie star, which she craves and which I think the left promised her for shilling for politicians, hasn't come true. I suspect she's disillusioned by wading into politics. But they still own her, so I suspect we will have to do a Kamala endorsement at some point.

She already has the stink of loser on her for endorsing political candidates that lost handily. The media have forgotten but I haven't. Her popularity didn't get those candidates over the finish line in her home state.

Her tour has been a success because she's been relatively non political. I don't know if she wants to kill all that goodwill by endorsing a political risk.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (QAK8m)

243 What's wrong with it?
Posted by: Froggy from the little rascals

*fist bump*
-- Eugene Pallett

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (v6JzV)

244 RFK off the ballot helps all R down ballot chances at the federal, state, and local level...

That matters almost as much, if not more, than the top choice...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (exHjb)

245
"Is she a ChiComm spy honeypot by chance?"

/Asking for a Treasonous CongressCritter (D-Beijing) still on The House Permanent Select Committee on "Intelligence."
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (PBEFk)

I don’t think so, she grew up poor and started budding tables at 12. She is no conservative. Or she wasn’t.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (pZEOD)

246 @183

>>What does that say about the guy Elon Musk is.........

He likes to f**k hot adult women with an eye towards procreation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (XV/Pl)

247 A sound engineers nightmare: Johnny Matthis at a RFK Jr. rally.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (krQz2)

248 242 She will feel pressured to endorse. But her dream of winning an Oscar and being a legit movie star, which she craves and which I think the left promised her for shilling for politicians, hasn't come true. I suspect she's disillusioned by wading into politics. But they still own her, so I suspect we will have to do a Kamala endorsement at some point.

She already has the stink of loser on her for endorsing political candidates that lost handily. The media have forgotten but I haven't. Her popularity didn't get those candidates over the finish line in her home state.

Her tour has been a success because she's been relatively non political. I don't know if she wants to kill all that goodwill by endorsing a political risk.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:08 PM (QAK8m)

======

The Rock needs to be mentioned in here.

He endorsed Biden in 2020. He has outright refused to endorse in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

249 Not at all. I don’t talk politics because I am not interested in alienating anyone willing to pay me.

That's no way to run a business.

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (xCA6C)

250
I dunno about that, the checks the D congress critters get from google, meta etc are much larger than the like 5K the Rs take to get bought
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 02:56 PM (CIS44)

Their dumbasses are still trying to figure out HOW to play the game and not piss off their entire base.

EVERYONE KNOWS the dems are bought an paid for. R's still keep the front they're not up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

251 She loves abortion and hates Marsha Blackburn.
Posted by: Spypeach
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Isnt it funny she lives in Tennessee so she doesnt have to pay pesky income taxes, but is otherwise totally liberal.

Let's see her live in a blue state and give $100 million away

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (5qUbx)

252 245 Budding? Bussing. Sheesh.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (pZEOD)

253 Nicolette Larsen's version of "Lotta Love " by Neil Young is a classic. She died from a brain bleed caused by an addiction to pills.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (qKpsC)

254 What joke did Vance tell that was fact checked?

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (w8VPD)

255 19 As I noted this morning, that Shanahan woman was one of the worst cases of vocal fry I've ever heard.

Excellent take on VF.

https://tinyurl.com/yey3n5sh
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 02:43 PM (xCA6C)

; )

Posted by: m at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (64Zez)

256 A lot of people including military personnel lost their careers, jobs over the Biden-HARRIS mandatory covid 'vax' policies - that didn't affect other federal personnel.

Welcome them.

Posted by: L - If... at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (Cgxcl)

257 Did they play Go GO Godzilla?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yeah. It's kinda mandatory. One of their "Big 3". There's only 1 show since 1981 where they didn't play the "Big 3" - that was the Hardcore Fans show in 2008 where they played 21 songs not named Godzilla, Burnin' For You, or Don't Fear the Reaper (or Cities on Flame).

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (KAi1n)

258 224 They all claimed to be.
Posted by: polynikes

And I claim to be 5'7 and 3/4". But *I'm* telling the truth. (It's just easier to write 5'8".) Either you are or you aren't fiscally conservative. There's no "claim to be".
Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (KAi1n)

The 'fiscally conservative' isn't the problem, it's the 'socially liberal' part. When the social begins to conflict with the fiscal, the fiscal part always loses out. At the end of the day, those politicians want to hang out with the social crowd*

*I may denigrate it, but social pressures are - at least in the short term - far more powerful than fiscal ones. That's why we have consumer credit, after all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (sjkMN)

259 Better start making $3 donations to the DNC through ActBlue if you want even a shot at a lower bunk in the Joy Camps.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2024 02:49 PM (TTO0Z)

Never!

Born free, dying free.

Cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (JCLJi)

260 The Rock needs to be mentioned in here.

He endorsed Biden in 2020. He has outright refused to endorse in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Didnt Clint Eastwood endorse Biden also? Who is famously Republican

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (5qUbx)

261
He likes to f**k hot adult women with an eye towards procreation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:09 PM (XV/Pl)

Sorry. If he actually f*cked the wife of a friend, he's a piece of shit and I have nothing for him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

262 Some facts.
The Dems wanted RFK off the ballot because he hurt Dems. I think that is a safe assumption.

So him dropping out is good for Dems, right?

But if he endorses Trump that has to reduce the damage. Probably cancel it out, and maybe even move the needle toward Trump.

To counter this, the Dems will start a hate campaign toward RFKJr. Not just what they had been doing, but getting personal and vicious.

Posted by: Gentlemen, we mourn our recent loss at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (8ibgJ)

263 @237

>>But it seems clear she wants to do something in Hollywood and this gets you a seat at the table.

At her current status, she is the table, there is no need for her to wade into politics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)

264 as far as kids - my boys are unapologetic Trump supporters lol. it's ok for Gen Z males to do this.

my daughter is stuck - afraid to even hint at supporting him. but she doesn't like Biden or Kamala at all. she WAS going to vote for RFK. so we'll see. I won't ask her but my guess is either she holds her nose and goes with the boys or just doesn't vote top of ticket. that's a good thing, tbh. it's the best one can hope for with a lot of the young girls now. at least around here! probably not so bad in other parts of the country.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (s3qiR)

265 What joke did Vance tell that was fact checked?

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 22, 2024 03:10 PM (w8VPD)
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He said "Knock, Knock" without a door.

The nerve of that guy!

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (krQz2)

266 Swift endorsement only would help marginally with enthusiasm and turnout amongst young single women voters, but that's a group obviously the left relies on. And it's a group that is generally pretty apathetic about voting. Not a game changer but one the media will go on and on about.

But it seems clear she wants to do something in Hollywood and this gets you a seat at the table.

right

Posted by: brak at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (NGHTx)

267 So, I've been thinking about this lately. How many younger people even get what being a Kennedy means? I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

You're not THAT old.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (i24o9)

268 Their dumbasses are still trying to figure out HOW to play the game and not piss off their entire base.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Well, they're doing a BANG UP job of that. Failing spectacularly on both ends.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (CIS44)

269 TayTay came out of the Democrat closet in 2018. Her popularity only grew since then. I doubt it was because of her politics, but it sure as hell didn’t harm her fame or success.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (aw2/Z)

270 Swift has campaigned on abortion. She claims like the Charlottesville Lie that that's what motivated her to "get political". That too is a lie.

Shouting loud for baby murder makes her a bought and paid for Whore For Satan.

And yes, you can buy a billionaire, just not with money.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (4DWWO)

271 263 At her current status, she is the table, there is no need for her to wade into politics.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

There's been talk for a couple of years of her directing a feature film. She's been directing a bunch of her own music videos, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

272 But the Kamaela has Julia Louis-Duffus (last relevant 30 years ago)(who always endorses Democrat presidential candidates)!

How can you counter such firepower?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (VAkB9)

273 Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:07 PM (KAi1n)

You must have had a afternoon toke because you are all over the place. I provided you names of Republicans who ran as fiscally conservative and socially liberal like you asked.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (B1dzx)

274 Swift got a little freaked by the terrorist threat to her concerts in Vienna. I think she'll avoid politics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (qKpsC)

275 Sunshine Dave

I know you're a polls-and-numbers guy. Good on you.

But this (Kennedy going Trump) is about a lot MORE than his poll numbers.

It's about shifting some attention in a new direction.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (NLIak)

276 Don't know to the extent they even care. But I think the propaganda is still strong, like how Jeopardy mentions Nixon every other night. They don't let their stories go easily and Trump uses it against them.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (4DWWO

Yep question to a glowing anders last night was kamala.

Love the global warming propaganda questions the best.

Allfor they party.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (lCxSB)

277 I also like RFK a lot. I don't think I'm stupid. and I don't care if you think I am. I am not.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (s3qiR)

I CAN HANDLE THINGS. I'M SMART, NOT LIKE EVERYBODY SAYS, LIKE DUMB. I'M SMART, AND I WANT RESPECT.

* I keed, I keed. I don't like RFK myself. But the important thing, for me anyway, is that the other side would prefer to have him but we do instead.

Posted by: FREDO CORLEONE at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (LEs0w)

278 >>Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

You could probably count on one hand the number of people who weren't planning to vote for Harris but now will because of Taylor Swift. Not a whole lot of Swifties in the Trump orbit.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (LkLld)

279 257 Did they play Go GO Godzilla?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yeah. It's kinda mandatory. One of their "Big 3". There's only 1 show since 1981 where they didn't play the "Big 3" - that was the Hardcore Fans show in 2008 where they played 21 songs not named Godzilla, Burnin' For You, or Don't Fear the Reaper (or Cities on Flame).
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I saw them open for Alice Cooper in 1974. I was sauced as hell.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (FmapG)

280
I wish some entertainment type would just say, "Hey, I'm just a performer. My political opinion carries no more weight than a plumber, hairdresser or funeral director."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (1Nxff)

281 I'll just go ahead and admit I didn't expect this.

My humility is boundless. Yuge.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (woPEM)

282 I would like to add to my earlier comment:

RFK's supporters are even whackier than he is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

283 Its definitely dumb for Taylor to get political, I seem to remember something about her dad urging her to not wade in those waters.

But it seems clear she wants to do something in Hollywood and this gets you a seat at the table.
Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024

***
She's already gotten a foot in the Tinseltown door. She's been featured in a couple of movies, not as the star but in significant speaking roles. I don't think she set the screen afire in either one, but she could improve.

Posted by: Straight Male Techies Everywhere at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (J2vNu)

284
Well, they're doing a BANG UP job of that. Failing spectacularly on both ends.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (CIS44)

Keeping true to form, then.

See? You're not pissed enough to not vote Republican, yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

285 There's been talk for a couple of years of her directing a feature film. She's been directing a bunch of her own music videos, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Well she sure can't act for shit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (CIS44)

286 254 What joke did Vance tell that was fact checked?

That the DNC was held in Chicago so Walz could legitimately say he had visited a combat zone.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (sFNX2)

287 Nicolette Larsen would be a great addition to the Trump team
Posted by: Oglebay at August 22, 2024 02:45 PM (7fVdQ)

Isn't she on the other side of life?

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (89Sog)

288 274 Swift got a little freaked by the terrorist threat to her concerts in Vienna. I think she'll avoid politics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (qKpsC)

Her "relationship" with Pfizer's most prominent spokesman says otherwise.

She'll say something eventually. It won't matter.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (KbCG3)

289 What joke did Vance tell that was fact checked?

That the DNC was held in Chicago so Walz could legitimately say he had visited a combat zone.
Posted by: Martin Tell

Its a damn good joke.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:13 PM (5qUbx)

290 I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

*cough*

BULLSHIT!!!

*cough*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

291 @261

>>Sorry. If he actually f*cked the wife of a friend, he's a piece of shit and I have nothing for him.

Musk is a known horndog, dude has something like 12 children with 3 or four different women.

Do not leave your woman alone with Elon Musk, dude is hornier than a Amorous Chihuahua.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (XV/Pl)

292 I saw them open for Alice Cooper in 1974. I was sauced as hell.
Posted by: Pudinhead

That would've been a great show. They got their touring start as BOC opening for Alice. Somehow a bill with Mahavishnu Orchestra and The Byrds didn't work too well.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (KAi1n)

293 At her current status, she is the table, there is no need for her to wade into politics.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)

She's already swimming in it.

Lena Dunham stalked her on Twitter until they became "friends" because it wasn't right that Tay Tay wouldn't endorse Hillary. Next election cycle Taylor was out and shouting proud on icepicks in baby skulls.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (4DWWO)

294
The Tay Tay constituency of bitter wine box cat ladies is voting Democratic anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (1Nxff)

295 Julia Louis Dreyfuss was on Veep. Which is a funny show. That was in the 2010s maybe even into the 2020s? Can’t remember when it ended. She’s pretty popular on the left for that show.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (aw2/Z)

296 Dont get the fear of Swift endorsing. She baked Joe cookies and it didnt matter.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (7PziG)

297 I'm almost old enough to eat from the senior menu at Denny's, and JFK and RFK died before I was born.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

Yet those media f*cktards fact-checked it and determined "the location was determined before it was known Walz would be the nominee."

You don't hate the media enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

298 Nicole Shanahan is cute. The vocal fry is a put off.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (geKVs)

299 JFK in late '63, the press and the usual suspects kneecap Barry Goldwater, barely five years later LBJ drops out in March, April MLK killed, and then RFK. Going into 69 by July the Astronauts had landed on the Moon, and Mr. Kennedy and the unfortunate incident with Mary Jo was relegated to the back pages. Manson "family" murders was within a week or two of that, and then the mud-filled frolic with no food or sanitation known as the Wood Stock Festival. The only woodstock I liked was on a Garand or M14, something like that. Kill a Commie for Mommie!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (mW8AH)

300 278 >>Once Taylor Swift endorses Kum-ah-la, it's over.

You could probably count on one hand the number of people who weren't planning to vote for Harris but now will because of Taylor Swift. Not a whole lot of Swifties in the Trump orbit.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (LkLld)

I know a few, my wife being one of them. She's good at separating the art from the artist.

I, on the other hand...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (KbCG3)

301 What joke did Vance tell that was fact checked?

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo
......

The chicken never actually crossed the road.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (v0R5T)

302 And once Taylor bent the knee, she got big movies and big endorsement deals like Capital One.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (4DWWO)

303 Keeping true to form, then.

See? You're not pissed enough to not vote Republican, yet.
Posted by: Sponge -

I don't vote for anyone I dont actually support. After Romney I said "never again". I just havent crossed over to being willing to pull the D lever to try and get osmeone ousted yet, I was going to against Cole this year, but after the attempted assignation ill just sit out that race again.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (CIS44)

304 my daughter is stuck - afraid to even hint at supporting him. but she doesn't like Biden or Kamala at all. she WAS going to vote for RFK. so we'll see. I won't ask her but my guess is either she holds her nose and goes with the boys or just doesn't vote top of ticket. that's a good thing, tbh. it's the best one can hope for with a lot of the young girls now. at least around here! probably not so bad in other parts of the country.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:11 PM (s3qiR)

She needs to write in something at the top of the ticket so it doesn't get filled in for her...even if it's Mickey Mouse...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (exHjb)

305 Before linking to this story, I looked this guy (Bruce Heyman) up. Appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Canada during Barack Obama's presidency, and he's listed as a Democrat.

He sounds worried about the upcoming election. Good.

(Oh and this article is coming in sourced from the Canadian Press, and let's just say I'm not exactly surprised to see such a left-leaning piece from them.)

https://is.gd/dgS3mZ

Former U.S. ambassador to Canada gives 'tsunami warning' about Trump

A former United States ambassador to Canada is sounding the alarm that a second Donald Trump presidency would cause chaos for Canadians as he urged Americans abroad that their votes could prove crucial in the presidential election.

Bruce Heyman, who served as ambassador from 2014 to 2017, gave Canada a "tsunami warning."

"If Donald Trump is elected president, Canada is at great risk," he said.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (O7YUW)

306 mnw are you talking about the mRNA thing?

I think that will be the new direction. PDJT has already been hinting that way. RFK will have shown him the light. I actually think that might have honesty happened.

maybe it's finally time.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (s3qiR)

307 Yes, Jill Stein is confirming the sabotage, too, against RFK and her own campaign.

This should be big news. Will the media ignore this too?

Posted by: PJU at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (G1dq6)

308 Call me Elon!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (Y8lzz)

309 Somehow a bill with Mahavishnu Orchestra and The Byrds didn't work too well.
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Yeah, well the Byrds were pretty much done as an act and Mahavishnu's shelf life was extremely short.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (FmapG)

310 The problem is, all that support doesnt flow to Trump.

he was an empty vessel that each side thought was on their team.

Ultimately, RFK is a left-winger (except on BigPharma) that got more miffed at Democrats than Trump, so thats why he's doing this as payback.
Posted by: Blago

Not all of it but when they switched to Harris Kennedy lost support and most of the dems that were going to go to her already switched. He really is moderate if you read all his positions. The anti-vax crowd that likes him will either stay home or swing to Trump.

If the Dems thought it would help them they wouldn't be suing and wasting money to get him off the ballot. The New Yorker wouldn't have wasted there time on the road-kill bear/biker expose if they thought destroying Kennedy would hurt Kamala.

Posted by: ChristiCat at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (glKb4)

311 "If Donald Trump is elected president, Canada is at great risk," he said.

how is a country already destroyed at further risk from the US having a good President?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (s3qiR)

312 I don't vote for anyone I dont actually support. After Romney I said "never again". I just havent crossed over to being willing to pull the D lever to try and get osmeone ousted yet, I was going to against Cole this year, but after the attempted assignation ill just sit out that race again.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (CIS44)

I will just not vote before I pull the lever for a D.

I'd

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

313 Elections are won at the margin. Will every RFK voter go for Trump? No. But if more do than go for Kamala it’s a win. Will every TayTay fan suddenly vote Kamala? No. But if a few do, who otherwise wouldn’t have, it’s a win.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (aw2/Z)

314
Sorry. If he actually f*cked the wife of a friend, he's a piece of shit and I have nothing for him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

__

he denies it and my understanding is he's friends with Sergey still, so who knows.

WSJ has a weird vendetta against Musk and goes out of their way to ding him

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (5qUbx)

315
"If Donald Trump is elected president, Canada is at great risk," he said.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2024 03:15 PM (O7YUW)

________

Of what? The last thing we should want is Quebec.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:17 PM (1Nxff)

316 Bahahahaha.

All merchandise for #StarWars ‘THE ACOLYTE’ has been removed for the Disney Online Store

(Insty)

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 03:17 PM (xCA6C)

317 Yes, Jill Stein is confirming the sabotage, too, against RFK and her own campaign.

This should be big news. Will the media ignore this too?
Posted by: PJU at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (G1dq6)

Meh. One for the cables......

Posted by: Charles Gibson at August 22, 2024 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

318 >>> Swift got a little freaked by the terrorist threat to her concerts in Vienna. I think she'll avoid politics

That redpilled some of her fans. I'm enjoying the "swifties for Trump" vids popping up. It's not a huge number, but even swaying a few voters is a win.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (QAK8m)

319 307 Yes, Jill Stein is confirming the sabotage, too, against RFK and her own campaign.

This should be big news. Will the media ignore this too?
Posted by: PJU at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (G1dq6)

=======

That dumb bitch could have dismantled the DNC in 2016.

Her lawsuit showed that Detroit had 10 ballots in a box that was labeled as having 1000.

She dropped the suit. Fuck her. Fucker her with Satan's pineapple cock.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

320
I will just not vote before I pull the lever for a D.

I'd
Posted by: Sponge - F*

This has been my approach to Tom Cole for a number of cycles. But that crusty old backstabbing fuck isnt going anywhere. I was just about to the point of going that way to try and get him out, its only 2 years. But not now.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (CIS44)

321 308 Call me Elon!

You're Elon

Posted by: Taylor's Dad at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (og5mY)

322 he denies it and my understanding is he's friends with Sergey still, so who knows.

WSJ has a weird vendetta against Musk and goes out of their way to ding him
Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (5qUbx)

I get all that. Why I said "If."

If he has that in him, he's a garbage human.

Who knows if he did or not.

I've never been big on the Musk bandwagon, so take that for what it's worth.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

323 Did that guy who lost his 10mm socket find it?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:06 PM (FmapG)

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One word: ~~Plastics~~ Electromagnet.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (j7VgS)

324 Hm, that would be Larson on "Tell Me Why" on After The Gold Rush, then. Not too many chicks sang on NY tunes, maybe Linda Ronstadt or somebody like that. Might have to listen close.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (mW8AH)

325 Call me Elon!
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz

OK. Hi, Elon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:19 PM (v6JzV)

326 I'm going to see Alice Cooper in a few weeks. He's opening for Rob Zombie. I'm glad a lot of these older acts are still touring. Otherwise, despite being 29, I'd never see them as I didn't do concerts when I was younger.

Posted by: still haven't seen BOC at August 22, 2024 03:19 PM (LEs0w)

327 So the other polls that say him being on the ballot was going to hurt the Dems was wrong?
Posted by: polynikes
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Yes.

He hurt Biden. He doesn't hurt Harris. Right now he is a net negative for Trump, especially in the midwest swing states.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2024 03:19 PM (eifUp)

328 @316

>>All merchandise for #StarWars ‘THE ACOLYTE’ has been removed for the Disney Online Store

Sweet, now all of the children in Africa will have some other toys besides the Rose Tico and Rey Skywalker castaways.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:19 PM (XV/Pl)

329 I wish some entertainment type would just say, "Hey, I'm just a performer. My political opinion carries no more weight than a plumber, hairdresser or funeral director."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:12 PM (1Nxff)
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At one time, that was Brad Pitt.

But there were vicious rumors about him secretly being conservative. Because who else would misuse "their platform" so abusively?

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:19 PM (krQz2)

330 I wish some entertainment type would just say, "Hey, I'm just a performer. My political opinion carries no more weight than a plumber, hairdresser or funeral director."
Posted by: Hadrian t

This is quite famously Kurt Russel's stance. "Im just a dumb actor, why should anyone give a fuck what I think" (or something to that effect)

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:20 PM (CIS44)

331 He really is moderate if you read all his positions. The anti-vax crowd that likes him will either stay home or swing to Trump.

Posted by: ChristiCat

___

I would disagree with the "moderate" label, I think he's firmly on the Left, but he's mad at the party machinery.

Sort of like an ultra-right conservative that hates GOPe more than the Democrats.

maybe RFK has had a red pill in the last few years, but all of his policy position have been ultra hard left with the exception of Big Pharma that Democrats used to hate until about 10 years ago.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:20 PM (5qUbx)

332 Here's my big-brained blogger take on that: A non-denial is not a denial.

It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here. You know this is me working at peak levels.

(Scribbling furiously) This is gold!!!!!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at August 22, 2024 03:20 PM (JCZqz)

333 Manhunt underway in Arizona for suspect who threatened to kill Trump as former president lands in border state

https://tinyurl.com/yrthvv6v

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2024 03:20 PM (NpAcC)

334 RFK’s message was Biden and Trump both suck,
I m the alternative. And a lot of Dems agreed and said yeah this is a good choice. But now Kamala is an acceptable choice to those Dems. He is absolutely hurting Trump more with Biden out.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (aw2/Z)

335 326 I'm going to see Alice Cooper in a few weeks. He's opening for Rob Zombie. I'm glad a lot of these older acts are still touring. Otherwise, despite being 29, I'd never see them as I didn't do concerts when I was younger.
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Alice's I'm Eighteen hit when I was Eighteen. We are sort of related.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (FmapG)

336 306 mnw are you talking about the mRNA thing?

I think that will be the new direction. PDJT has already been hinting that way. RFK will have shown him the light. I actually think that might have honesty happened.

maybe it's finally time.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (s3qiR)

If RFKJ gets PDJT to change his views on that 'organically', that would truly be huge. Getting duped on the efficacy of mRNA would be a great platform to run on for the last 70 days of the election. There is a lot of pent-up anger about how that went down, and if the Dems have gone all-in on defending Biden's actions in that regard, Trump can open up a whole new front with Undecideds by going after Big Pharma fully on this.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (sjkMN)

337 TayTay's constituency isn't just "wine box cat ladies." It's also gay men.

Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (hqVaF)

338 >>>"If Donald Trump is elected president, Canada is at great risk," he said.

I hope Trump makes a rule that Canadian men are forbidden from wearing Speedos on American beaches. That'll fix 'em.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (LkLld)

339 291
Musk is a known horndog, dude has something like 12 children with 3 or four different women.

Do not leave your woman alone with Elon Musk, dude is hornier than a Amorous Chihuahua.
Posted by: Thomas

6 with his first wife, 3 with Grimes and 3 with the head of his nueralink company, but he never calls her his girlfriend. 2 of this 3 are twins and I think he had twins with his first wife, too.

I feel kind of stalkerish that I know this, esp with my secret crush on him.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (pZEOD)

340 I assume any relatively big name in Hollywood that isn't pushing his/her politics is right of center (at least by Hollywood standards) so Chris Pratt, Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman, etc..

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (oZhjI)

341 This has been my approach to Tom Cole for a number of cycles. But that crusty old backstabbing fuck isnt going anywhere. I was just about to the point of going that way to try and get him out, its only 2 years. But not now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:18 PM (CIS44)

I would've still considered it if the left hadn't turned into the commie Hitler concentration camp party that's willing to do what they can to kill me.

Now? I'd rather loose my balls in a freak chainsaw accident than vote for a D.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

342
Trump would hold a 46-26 advantage over Kamala with RFK voters in swing states. Who knows if that’s true but could be a big deal.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens

+++++++++++++++++

I don't get the math. 46-26. Is it supposed to add up to 100, or is that some sort of range? (Damn wide range.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (lCaJd)

343 SHIT!!!!!

Strike one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

344 Breaking News!!!

My Brainworms have talked to RFK Jr's Brainworms and tomorrow night RFK Jr will appear at Trump's rally to-

give Trump a dead bear, saying that he (RFK Jr)

"Couldn't bear Kamala to be President".

You heard it here first, folks.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (eDfFs)

345 Well the SC upheld some of the Arizona election law that was being contested but I can't parse from Fox or CNN articles exactly what that means. Very light on the details.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (Y8lzz)

346 306 Orchid

I was thinking more of loathsome DEM lawfare, and election law shenanigans.

When Trump talks about these things? He might as well save his breath, as far as anybody who isn't already MAGA goes.

Kennedy making the same points, based on recent personal experience? Validating what Trump has been saying? THAT would be new, & it might resonate with some persuadable voters, imo.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (NLIak)

347 I wish some entertainment type would just say, "Hey, I'm just a performer. My political opinion carries no more weight than a plumber, hairdresser or funeral director."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

THIS IS NOT A THREAT YOU ARE A GANGSTER

Posted by: Robert DeNiro at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

348 342 I don't get the math. 46-26. Is it supposed to add up to 100, or is that some sort of range? (Damn wide range.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (lCaJd)

========

The other 28% would then vote for someone else or not vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

349 I once read that Alice Cooper and Pat Boone were big buds. Go figure.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (v6JzV)

350 If Donald Trump is elected president, Canada is at great risk," he said.

In all honesty one of the goals of any sane American politician should be regime change in the People's Republic of Canuckistan

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (oZhjI)

351 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, mocked CNN reporter Alayna Treene for fact-checking a joke he made about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

"My little theory about why they decided to have the convention in Chicago is, you know, Tim Walz has been going around saying that he served in war, and maybe they did it in Chicago, so that he could actually accurately say that he visited a combat zone," Vance remarked as the crowd began cheering.
====
Alayna Treene @alaynatreene Aug 20
Vance in WI says his "little theory" about why Democrats chose to host their convention in Chicago is "so that [Walz] could actually, accurately say that he went, he visited a combat zone"

Democrats selected Chicago in April 2023 — long before Biden even considered dropping out

Sean Davis @seanmdav Aug 21
The journos are so dumb and broken they’re now fact-checking obvious jokes.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (c39uV)

352 I don't get the math. 46-26. Is it supposed to add up to 100, or is that some sort of range? (Damn wide range.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (lCaJd)

It’s 46-26 for people who will vote. The rest won’t vote for anyone.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (aw2/Z)

353 @326

>>I'd never see them as I didn't do concerts when I was younger.

If your favorite act from your youth is still touring you better catch them now, because in the next 5-10 years, pretty much every act still touring from the 60's to the early mid 90's generation is going to calling it a career.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)

354 Wait.

that's Strike TWO.

It's already been a long day........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

355 Also it's nice to see an actual consequence for Democrat Fuckery. Won't stop them, probably won't even slow them down, but it's nice just the same.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:24 PM (4DWWO)

356
TayTay's constituency isn't just "wine box cat ladies." It's also gay men.
Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (hqVaF)

__________

Cocaine bathhouse boys, then.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:24 PM (1Nxff)

357
I don't get the math. 46-26. Is it supposed to add up to 100, or is that some sort of range? (Damn wide range.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (lCaJd)

========

The other 28% would then vote for someone else or not vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

+++++++++++++++

Huh, seems like 28% is a big chunk of voters to go 3rd party or stay home.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:24 PM (lCaJd)

358 334 RFK’s message was Biden and Trump both suck,
I m the alternative. And a lot of Dems agreed and said yeah this is a good choice. But now Kamala is an acceptable choice to those Dems. He is absolutely hurting Trump more with Biden out.
Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (aw2/Z)

Which makes 100% sense b/c the voters who were going for him were thinking...
Biden - old with tons of baggage
Trump - old with tons of baggage
RFK - less old with no baggage

RFK wins, with Trump getting 2nd choice...

But now it's...
Trump - old with tons of baggage
RFK - less old with no baggage
Harris - EVEN less old with no real baggage b/c she's not Biden and she's a first

Harris wins (and she has grabbed a bunch of RFK's voters already) with RFK getting 2nd choice...

RFK needs to change the message to his own voters to get them to switch...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 22, 2024 03:25 PM (exHjb)

359 Wait.

that's Strike TWO.

It's already been a long day........
Posted by: Sponge

But the weekend starts in 30 min! (for me anyway)

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:25 PM (CIS44)

360 Wait.

that's Strike TWO.

It's already been a long day........
Posted by: Sponge

Given what you've been going through lately, I think we should suspend the three strikes rule for you for awhile.

I'll speak to Doof about it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:25 PM (v6JzV)

361 Huh, seems like 28% is a big chunk of voters to go 3rd party or stay home.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:24 PM (lCaJd)

Makes sense. RFK was the “both parties suck” candidate. So both parties still suck right?

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:25 PM (aw2/Z)

362 Democrats selected Chicago in April 2023 — long before Biden even considered dropping out
--------

Even their factchecks on jokes are a lie. Biden dropping out could have been planned - with or without Biden - and likely was, long before that.

Which means Harris and Walz could have easily been chosen before 2023.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:25 PM (4DWWO)

363 357 Huh, seems like 28% is a big chunk of voters to go 3rd party or stay home.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:24 PM (lCaJd)

=======

A quarter of, optimistically, 4-5% of the electorate.

Third party candidates have always underperformed their polling in actual vote totals for decades, though.

I doubt so much of the RFK polling because I doubt that any pollster has gotten a large enough sample to measure anything with any level of confidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

364 It depends on what percentage of RFK, Jr.'s supporters have a job in government. Government workers are going to vote like their jobs, job perks, and job retirement benefits depend on it. I think government employment is the mainspring for Dem turnout.

Posted by: mrp at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (rj6Yv)

365 When Trump talks about these things? He might as well save his breath, as far as anybody who isn't already MAGA goes.

Kennedy making the same points, based on recent personal experience? Validating what Trump has been saying? THAT would be new, & it might resonate with some persuadable voters, imo.

Posted by: mnw
___

Agree with this. RFK saying it carries more weight.

Trump needs to drop the "I'm being treated unfairly" routine that seems to dominate everything, its just not going to win the voter he's going after.

Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (5qUbx)

366
January 22, 2025: President Trump signs EO forbidding travel to Florida and Arizona by Canadians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (1Nxff)

367 I hope Trump makes a rule that Canadian men are forbidden from wearing Speedos on American beaches. That'll fix 'em.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (LkLld

I promise I will never wear a Speedo on any beach.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (FfSAJ)

368 I used to run the indoor track with Alice Cooper when he visited the Hudson Valley. I didn’t bother him but he was a really nice guy when we did interact. He looked old then and that was 25 years ago.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (B1dzx)

369 Huh, seems like 28% is a big chunk of voters to go 3rd party or stay home.

Prior to 2020 the turn out was something like 60% in presidential election years.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (oZhjI)

370 RFK Jr should quote Reagan, "my party left me."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (35YvA)

371 I feel kind of stalkerish that I know this, esp with my secret crush on him.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:22 PM (pZEOD)

Better watch out. He'll swoop in and impregnate you, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (i24o9)

372 I once read that Alice Cooper and Pat Boone were big buds. Go figure.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (v6JzV)
---
Golfing buddies.

"Alice" is quite the scratch golfer.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (krQz2)

373 Well hell.
I just scrolled thru the 200's and no Mannix chick.
Sadz.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (W/lyH)

374 Huh, seems like 28% is a big chunk of voters to go 3rd party or stay home.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

well 28% of 4%

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (CIS44)

375 353 @326

>>I'd never see them as I didn't do concerts when I was younger.

If your favorite act from your youth is still touring you better catch them now, because in the next 5-10 years, pretty much every act still touring from the 60's to the early mid 90's generation is going to calling it a career.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)

That's absolutely true, but those tickets are *expensive*. Those guys know that this is a huge chance to get retirement wealth for their golden years, so they're going after those Boomer wallets big-time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (sjkMN)

376 Sorry 35 years ago.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (B1dzx)

377 >>> Lena Dunham stalked her on Twitter until they became "friends" because it wasn't right that Tay Tay wouldn't endorse Hillary. Next election cycle Taylor was out and shouting proud on icepicks in baby skulls.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:14 PM (4DWWO)

I remember reading about that back in the day, it was creepy and gross. If Lena was a man, the way she behaved, stalking Swift in order to befriend and groom her, would have gotten Dunham a restraining order from Swift's lawyers.

Taylor credits Dunham as one of the people responsible for changing her mind on abortion.

I don't know how close they are anymore though. Jack Abramoff is Swift's main producer, and he and Lena were dating at the time Taylor befriended Lena. So some of that friendship might have been calculated.

Lena and Jack weren't going to get married until gay marriage was legal nationally. Then it was and surprise! Jack didn't ask to marry her. They broke up and he ended up with a much skinnier girl.

Yes, I hate I can remember all this crap about Celebs but can't remember my passwords.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (QAK8m)

378 Do not leave your woman alone with Elon Musk, dude is hornier than a Amorous Chihuahua.
====

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 14m
JUST IN - Police hunting for two bulldog-type dogs after man found dead in suspected attack at house in UK's Birmingham - BBC
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They don't care about the dead guy; it seems the bulldogs made an X post retweeting a disparaging meme about Chihuahuas.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (c39uV)

379 Musk is a known horndog, dude has something like 12 children with 3 or four different women.

doing my part on that depopulation bomb

Posted by: Elon "FuckMaster" Musk at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (NGHTx)

380 I once read that Alice Cooper and Pat Boone were big buds. Go figure.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:23 PM (v6JzV)
---
Golfing buddies.

"Alice" is quite the scratch golfer.
Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (krQz2)

He also was friends with Glenn Campbell. They golfed together as well

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (NtVYv)

381
But the weekend starts in 30 min! (for me anyway)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:25 PM (CIS44)

Well, I'm off tomorrow as well, but spending a significant portion of the day in a vehicle moving the daughter back to college.

Gotta take the dog north to stay with the brother for the weekend, see what the uncle who came in town to see his brother, likely one last time, is doing and decide if I want to watch my dad stare at me like I have horns and yell at nurses as he waits to die..........

......*insert link to Napoleon XIII song link here*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

382 379 doing my part on that depopulation bomb
Posted by: Elon "FuckMaster" Musk at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (NGHTx)

=======

The Epic Rap Battles of History video missed this line.

For shame.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

383 371
Better watch out. He'll swoop in and impregnate you, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

If that happens, it will be a true miracle. 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (pZEOD)

384 I'm of the position that this will DIRECTLY affect very few voters, but the optics of it will be INDIRECTLY advantageous to Trump.

Net positive.

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (pZ0Mr)

385 January 22, 2025: President Trump signs EO forbidding travel to Florida and Arizona by Canadians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (1Nxff)
===
Maine too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (RIvkX)

386
That won't get RFK jr any future invites to Kennebunkport.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (+oR7L)

387 Better watch out. He'll swoop in and impregnate you, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

After Piper makes him do 5,000 jumping jacks, even he won't have the energy.

(Thinking of Gary Larsen's "Aerobics in Hell" Far Side.)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (v6JzV)

388 Crap I got the last name wrong! Swift's producer is Jack Antonoff. Close but completely off.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (QAK8m)

389 I think the RFK, Jr. endorsement (if/when it happens) will have an effect. It's not decisive, but such things matter during a turnout election.

Posted by: mrp at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (rj6Yv)

390 Well, I'm off tomorrow as well, but spending a significant portion of the day in a vehicle moving the daughter back to college.

Gotta take the dog north to stay with the brother for the weekend, see what the uncle who came in town to see his brother, likely one last time, is doing and decide if I want to watch my dad stare at me like I have horns and yell at nurses as he waits to die..........

......*insert link to Napoleon XIII song link here*
Posted by: Sponge - F*c

Ugh, prayers man

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (CIS44)

391 In a couple years Swift will be on the Fair circuit playing to half filled bleachers.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (W/lyH)

392 You must have had a afternoon toke

Afternoon delight >>>>>>> afternoon toke

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (Xnrdt)

393 @324 Larsen sang backup for Young, The Eagles, Ronstadt band Jackson Browne amongst others

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (qKpsC)

394 Trump needs to drop the "I'm being treated unfairly" routine that seems to dominate everything, its just not going to win the voter he's going after.
Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:26 PM (5qUbx)

Maybe instead of a pure bean counting scheme, it's a defense for, you know, actually being treated unfairly? Instead of letting Democrats do it and write their own narrative with impunity? Nah you probably know better.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (4DWWO)

395 In case you weren't aware WaPo came out with a *story* saying that Joe had been going down hill for a long time.

It also said Biden insiders had been trying to cover it up.

Biden insiders....

Like most reporters--including at the WaP!

This is immensely deceptive considering how many news organizations were spreading the "sharp as a tack" Gospel before the debate collapse.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (krQz2)

396 391 In a couple years Swift will be on the Fair circuit playing to half filled bleachers.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (W/lyH)

======

In a couple of years, she will do Eras Tour 2: Electric Bugaloo and make another billion dollars.

Chick's popular. You don't have to like her, but she's popular.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

397 Well hell.
I just scrolled thru the 200's and no Mannix chick.
Sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes

Mannix is currently unemployed. He had to lay his girls off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (v6JzV)

398 That won't get RFK jr any future invites to Kennebunkport.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (+oR7L)

Might get him one to Butler.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (4DWWO)

399 I was thinking more of loathsome DEM lawfare, and election law shenanigans.

When Trump talks about these things? He might as well save his breath, as far as anybody who isn't already MAGA goes.

Kennedy making the same points, based on recent personal experience? Validating what Trump has been saying? THAT would be new, & it might resonate with some persuadable voters, imo.

totally agree!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (s3qiR)

400 @375

>>That's absolutely true, but those tickets are *expensive*. Those guys know that this is a huge chance to get retirement wealth for their golden years, so they're going after those Boomer wallets big-time.

Damn skippy, I got tickets to see Duran Duran at The Garden in October. Not cheap. But as present for the wifey, it's going to be well appreciated.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2024 03:31 PM (XV/Pl)

401 326 I'm going to see Alice Cooper in a few weeks. He's opening for Rob Zombie. I'm glad a lot of these older acts are still touring. Otherwise, despite being 29, I'd never see them as I didn't do concerts when I was younger.

====

It's been almost a decade since I saw it but AC puts on a really fun show. No surprise that the musicians he brings along are top notch.

Posted by: sharksauce at August 22, 2024 03:31 PM (y7wyF)

402 I said I wouldn't marry Lena until gay marriage was legal and until she was no longer fat and ugly. Did I mumble the second part? Perhaps, but she was also eating at the time which sounds like a chainsaw going through metal, so she is just as much to blame.

Posted by: Jack Abramoff at August 22, 2024 03:31 PM (hqVaF)

403 In a couple of years, she will do Eras Tour 2: Electric Bugaloo and make another billion dollars.

Chick's popular. You don't have to like her, but she's popular.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, I don't get this flash in the pan sentiment

She's only getting stronger.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 03:31 PM (KbCG3)

404 >>> 336 306 mnw are you talking about the mRNA thing?

I think that will be the new direction. PDJT has already been hinting that way. RFK will have shown him the light. I actually think that might have honesty happened.

maybe it's finally time.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (s3qiR)

If RFKJ gets PDJT to change his views on that 'organically', that would truly be huge. Getting duped on the efficacy of mRNA would be a great platform to run on for the last 70 days of the election. There is a lot of pent-up anger about how that went down, and if the Dems have gone all-in on defending Biden's actions in that regard, Trump can open up a whole new front with Undecideds by going after Big Pharma fully on this.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 03:21 PM (sjkMN)

It occurred to me that RFK Jr as AG would make sense to be the guy to go after Tony SCIENCE! Fauci, not to mention whatever three letter agencies have refused to provide declassified info about his father's and uncle's murders.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 22, 2024 03:31 PM (FnneF)

405 Crap I got the last name wrong! Swift's producer is Jack Antonoff. Close but completely off.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:29 PM (QAK8m)
---
Who's Anton?

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)

406 I think government employment is the mainspring for Dem turnout.
Posted by: mrp
......

Yeah, and I'm sick of paying their salaries.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

407 363 TJM

Agreed about the tiny sample.

I keep saying that this isn't about smallball "Where will RFKJ voters go now?"

It's about re-focusing public attention among voters who ignore what Trump himself says.

Posted by: mnw at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (NLIak)

408 Not the Mannix Girl:

https://tinyurl.com/4y6peu55

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (/7KEl)

409 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

Lady Gaga took over for Madonna and Swift took over from Lady Gaga.

All three of them will continue to make big bucks as they age.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (B1dzx)

410 >maybe some will peel off to support Trump

Won't happen, but they might stay home from the polls out of disillusionment, which is the real goal.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (0Go0g)

411 Jack Onandoff? That's one of my nicknames.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (4DWWO)

412 Just heard an interesting observation made by Matt Boyle from Breitbart News: one of the reasons that Dem Convention is being poorly managed (speakers ignoring pleas too shorten their speeches) is that NONE of the other Dem hopefuls want her to win -- so that they have a shot in 2028.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (NY0W1)

413 Sorry. If he actually f*cked the wife of a friend, he's a piece of shit and I have nothing for him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

__

he denies it and my understanding is he's friends with Sergey still, so who knows.

WSJ has a weird vendetta against Musk and goes out of their way to ding him
Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:16 PM (5qUbx)

I don't trust WSJ on business news, I certainly won't believe their gossip columnist.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (n7h9X)

414 Well hell.
I just scrolled thru the 200's and no Mannix chick.
Sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes

Mannix is currently unemployed. He had to lay his girls off.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
.....

Maybe he should become a cop.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

415 Get woke go Broke

Advance Auto Parts went all in on DEI. Stock is down 16% today.

Hope bankruptcy is near.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (aw2/Z)

416 couple years Swift will be on the Fair circuit playing to half filled bleachers.

After the hog calling contest

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (DW1Aq)

417 After Piper makes him do 5,000 jumping jacks, even he won't have the energy.

(Thinking of Gary Larsen's "Aerobics in Hell" Far Side.)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024

We have different colored lights for different classes. Red is for our weight class. I have called it Pure Hades as a joke.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (pZEOD)

418 349 I once read that Alice Cooper and Pat Boone were big buds. Go figure.
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I think it was Glen Campbell and Alice. They were neighbors and both really like golf.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (FmapG)

419 *TO shorten

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (NY0W1)

420 Swift won't publically back Kamala, after that attack on her fans. I bet she stays out of it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (dDSBl)

421 I'm sick of people making fun of names like mine!

Posted by: Jack Steveoff at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (krQz2)

422 412 Just heard an interesting observation made by Matt Boyle from Breitbart News: one of the reasons that Dem Convention is being poorly managed (speakers ignoring pleas too shorten their speeches) is that NONE of the other Dem hopefuls want her to win -- so that they have a shot in 2028.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (NY0W1)

=======

It would be funny if, in his pique, Shapiro cleared the pursuit of lawsuits against Philly workers to dampen down on their ballot box stuffing...which then spun out of control and led to the uncovering of the extent of PA's election chicanery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

423 ...every song is her being toxic towards men. All the woman does is whine about how terrible her life is.
Posted by: Blago at August 22, 2024 03:04 PM (5qUbx)

This is how I've always felt about her. Every song was about her stealing somebody's man.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 22, 2024 03:35 PM (JCLJi)

424 If he actually f*cked the wife of a friend, he's a piece of shit

Gavin Newsom has entered the chat.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 22, 2024 03:35 PM (DW1Aq)

425 29 year olds in 1963… these Beatles are a flash in the pan. In a couple of years nobody will remember the.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:35 PM (aw2/Z)

426 420 Swift won't publically back Kamala, after that attack on her fans. I bet she stays out of it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (dDSBl)

Would be a huge surprise to this observer if the world's most famous pop star didn't have a thing to say about one of the most important elections in history.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (KbCG3)

427 I've heard a few Swift songs... don't get the hype

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (/6GbT)

428 Jack Onandoff? That's one of my nicknames.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:33 PM (4DWWO)
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Onan didn't need any help, from what I read.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (krQz2)

429 What I'm waiting on is ABC to find sources that will tell them chemicals in the water are indeed, causing frogs to turn gay.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (dGCAG)

430 14 Cook claims that Trump would hold a 46-26 advantage over Kamala with RFK voters in swing states. Who knows if that’s true but could be a big deal.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (Y8lzz)

If true, why would Democrats spend so much effort and money getting RFK off of state ballots? I guess we have to drop the candidate out to find out who supported the candidate.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (qUkBO)

431 Mannix is currently unemployed. He had to lay his girls off.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (v6JzV)

Reminds me that PepBoys is suffering under bidenomics. Manny doesn't know if he should lay Moe or Jack off.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (W/lyH)

432 Hear! Hear!

Posted by: Ribbed at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (Ectld)

433 She needs to write in something at the top of the ticket so it doesn't get filled in for her...even if it's Mickey Mouse...
Posted by: Nova Local
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I prefer Daffy Duck but fill the slot for sure.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (geKVs)

434 Swift won't publically back Kamala, after that attack on her fans. I bet she stays out of it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (dDSBl)

I wouldn't bet on this. Usually bought means you stay bought.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (4DWWO)

435 421 I'm sick of people making fun of names like mine!
Posted by: Jack Steveoff at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (krQz2)

Yeah. tell me about it.

Posted by: Michael Huntz at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (sjkMN)

436 Mannix is currently unemployed. He had to lay his girls off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (v6JzV)
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He was told to lay off his staff.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (krQz2)

437 Well, update.

They are doing hospice for my dad, so they're moving a hospital bed in the house either today or tomorrow, so as I take the dog up to my brother's, I'll go out there and see what's going on..........

What a wonderful experience this whole thing is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

438 427 I've heard a few Swift songs... don't get the hype
Posted by: A dude in MI at August

Bubble gum pop. That’s all it is.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (pZEOD)

439 430 14 Cook claims that Trump would hold a 46-26 advantage over Kamala with RFK voters in swing states. Who knows if that’s true but could be a big deal.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 22, 2024 02:42 PM (Y8lzz)

If true, why would Democrats spend so much effort and money getting RFK off of state ballots? I guess we have to drop the candidate out to find out who supported the candidate.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (qUkBO)

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Cook is going off of public polling which has massive issues even if you disregard all of its other massive issues. RFK's vote get was so small, there was essentially no way to get a good enough sample of their voters to accurately measure statistically who they were, what they wanted, or who else they might vote for.

I'd honestly trust the DNC's lawsuits more than Cook's analysis. The DNC spends more on one internal poll than the entire media does on a month of polls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

440 Alice Cooper now lives and works as a radio DJ in the Phoenix Valley -- and is a born-again Christian.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (0NaN+)

441 Yes, I hate I can remember all this crap about Celebs but can't remember my passwords.
Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:27 PM (QAK8m)

make your passwords celebrity gossip.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (n7h9X)

442 I can’t stand Drake. But tens of millions of people love his music. Not everything I like is popular or vice versa. And that’s OK.

Posted by: Twilled at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (aw2/Z)

443 It would be funny if, in his pique, Shapiro cleared the pursuit of lawsuits against Philly workers to dampen down on their ballot box stuffing...which then spun out of control and led to the uncovering of the extent of PA's election chicanery.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 22, 2024 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

I caught part of Shapiro's speech yesterday. My reaction was, "this guy is trying to sound Presidential, so as to contrast himself with the idiots on the ticket."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

444 What I'm waiting on is ABC to find sources that will tell them chemicals in the water are indeed, causing frogs to turn gay.
Posted by: BurtTC
.....

That's really sad because frogs really need a watertight asshole.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

445 437 Well, update.

They are doing hospice for my dad, so they're moving a hospital bed in the house either today or tomorrow, so as I take the dog up to my brother's, I'll go out there and see what's going on..........

What a wonderful experience this whole thing is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

People who run Hospice are angels. But I am so sorry you are going through this. I can empathize so much and it just sucks. Big hugs.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (pZEOD)

446 >>NONE of the other Dem hopefuls want her to win -- so that they have a shot in 2028.

I think that's the real reason so many of them declined to be her VP.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (LkLld)

447
I've heard a few Swift songs... don't get the hype
Posted by: A dude in MI

___________

Resonance with divorcees and fags.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (1Nxff)

448 I've heard a few Swift songs... don't get the hype
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 22, 2024 03:36 PM (/6GbT)

She's the Lena Dunham of Taylor Lorenz's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

449 425. My grandfather thought those four were talentless communist gays.

He got one out of three anyway.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (7PziG)

450 >>> Lady Gaga took over for Madonna and Swift took over from Lady Gaga.
All three of them will continue to make big bucks as they age.Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2024 03:32 PM (B1dzx)

No one stays on top forever. I don't know what will dim Taylor Swift's star one day... marriage and babies? Her teen angst songs finally not resonating when she's in her 60s? But something will happen.

I do suspect she's jealous of Gaga, who has a huge music fanbase, a powerhouse of a voice, AND has acting chops plus an Oscar for her mantel. There's still a lot of successes eluding Swift that she's fighting to get.

She forgets how jealous Hollywood is though. Plenty of people will not be rooting for her to achieve those things, even if they smile to her face and buy her concert tickets for their daughters.

Posted by: LizLem at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (QAK8m)

451 Jill Stein's recount in Michigan was stopped by a judge because several poll books had gone "missing". He ruled that a recound was therefore not possible.

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 22, 2024 03:40 PM (I5U35)

452 and is a born-again Christian.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (0NaN+)

Aren't we all....

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:40 PM (4DWWO)

453 Who needs to feel better? Toilet paper fell out of Nancy Pelosi’s pants leg on stage!

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:40 PM (pZEOD)

454 I think RFK remaining on the ticket would take more from Trump than Harris, so even if it doesn't swing "Independents" his just not-running is a net positive.

Trump should also appoint him CIA Director, with the portfolio of making sure to burn it to the ground. After what they did to his uncle, and possibly his father, he should be about as motivated as anyone I could think of.

Posted by: Zek at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (Dv+Zf)

455 Alice Cooper now lives and works as a radio DJ in the Phoenix Valley -- and is a born-again Christian.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (0NaN+)

I saw Alice on Phil Donahue or some similar morning show way way back. Sipping a beer, not acting like a stoner and said he wasn't, and telling everyone the shows are just acts and plays not satanic. Seemed like a nice guy and I liked a lot of his music.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (n7h9X)

456 Breaking News: Kamala Harris isn't going to accept the DNC nomination until 10:45 pm
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They want to keep viewership down and make a cut of the "highlights" to play tomorrow.

Posted by: Tinfoil Hat Brigade at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (1iFfV)

457 In many ways, Swift is the opposite of Bubble Gum pop. Instead of "Oooh baby, I love you so much!" it's more of "Oooh, I hate you so bad and think you're life needs destroyed for not worshipping a goddess like me!"
That's why the message appeals more to cat women and catty gay men, and less to teens.

Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (hqVaF)

458 >>If true, why would Democrats spend so much effort and money getting RFK off of state ballots? I guess we have to drop the candidate out to find out who supported the candidate.

Because they started the fight to get him off ballots when Biden was the nominee not Harris.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (LkLld)

459 As a result we lead the nation in get-aways and US citizens (often children) coming down in borrowed or stolen cars to smuggle illegals north.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)

If we had a competent leadership at any level, people doing that would be indicted and imprisoned for slave-trading

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (hB7mE)

460
People who run Hospice are angels. But I am so sorry you are going through this. I can empathize so much and it just sucks. Big hugs.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2024 03:39 PM (pZEOD)

Thank you. I'm just slightly overwhelmed right now. I really should just go do something else for a while instead of crying on here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

461 "They wanted a return to Camelot."

It wasn't Camelot; it was the energy and excitement the Kennedy clan brought with them. JFK followed eight years of Ike and eight years of Truman. It signaled the end of the bleak Recession and war years. The future was beckoning and it was going to be glorious!

Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (NcHb9)

462
I wish some entertainment type would just say, "Hey, I'm just a performer. My political opinion carries no more weight than a plumber, hairdresser or funeral director."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

+++++++++++++++++

Brad Pitt did that once. After that Seven Years in Tibet movie, he was being asked for his deep, informed opinion of the "situation" in Tibet. "I'm a man who wears makeup," was his answer.

It's true, but I'm saying this just to get willowed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (lCaJd)

463 Mannix is currently unemployed. He had to lay his girls off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 03:30 PM (v6JzV)
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He was told to lay off his staff.
Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (krQz2)

There are so many directions one could take this.

I'm not sure what to do. Maybe leave it to less... imaginative mortals to run with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (dGCAG)

464 453 Who needs to feel better? Toilet paper fell out of Nancy Pelosi’s pants leg on stage!
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Well, she's no Jerry Nadler.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (FmapG)

465 and is a born-again Christian.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 22, 2024 03:38 PM (0NaN+)
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He named his autobiography: Alice Cooper, Golf Monster

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (krQz2)

466 Trump should also appoint him CIA Director, with the portfolio of making sure to burn it to the ground. After what they did to his uncle, and possibly his father, he should be about as motivated as anyone I could think of.
Posted by: Zek at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (Dv+Zf)

Or some inspector general prosecutor over that and Fauci's kingdom.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (n7h9X)

467 Drake's Coffee Cake?

https://youtu.be/4ZU05h3U2Hw

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (dg+HA)

468 In many ways, Swift is the opposite of Bubble Gum pop. Instead of "Oooh baby, I love you so much!" it's more of "Oooh, I hate you so bad and think you're life needs destroyed for not worshipping a goddess like me!"

la la la fuck the patriarchy la la la

x31 tracks and 10 special editions

Posted by: Taydolph Swiftler at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (NGHTx)

469 I'm sick of people making fun of names like mine!
Posted by: Jack Steveoff at August 22, 2024 03:34 PM (krQz2)

Yeah. tell me about it.
Posted by: Michael Huntz at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (sjkMN)

Pikers.

Posted by: Simon Shorthose at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

470 This Asian lady is sorry to keep y'all waiting:
http://tiny.cc/by2jzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (HnUIn)

471 Who needs to feel better? Toilet paper fell out of Nancy Pelosi’s pants leg on stage!
Posted by: Piper
.....

I was hoping for her teeth to fall out of her mouth.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2024 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

472 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

You can moan here any time

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2024 03:43 PM (4DWWO)

473 Our pastor met Alice Cooper in a restaurant (Alice was at another table at a Bible study)

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 22, 2024 03:43 PM (/6GbT)

474 461 "They wanted a return to Camelot."

It wasn't Camelot; it was the energy and excitement the Kennedy clan brought with them. JFK followed eight years of Ike and eight years of Truman. It signaled the end of the bleak Recession and war years. The future was beckoning and it was going to be glorious!
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Meh. Camelot, the play, was a Broadway hit in 1960 so they just drafted off that buzz to sell JFK to the ladies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 22, 2024 03:43 PM (FmapG)

475
I saw Alice on Phil Donahue or some similar morning show way way back. Sipping a beer, not acting like a stoner and said he wasn't, and telling everyone the shows are just acts and plays not satanic. Seemed like a nice guy and I liked a lot of his music.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2024 03:41 PM (n7h9X)

He doesn't drink, never did drugs, is a near scratch golfer and LOVES baseball.

He's a man's American man.

Posted by: Simon Shorthose at August 22, 2024 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

476 Well,

Strike 3.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

477 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 22, 2024 03:44 PM (ZUxK6)

478 Apparently, RFK doesn't need another summer house like Bernie.

@NicoleShanahan

My old Dem buddies have been flooding me with frantic calls, texts, and emails. Unlike Ro, I wouldn’t dream of airing those private conversations publicly, but the message is clear: they’re terrified of the idea of our movement joining forces with Donald Trump. When I point out what the Democratic Party and their super PACs have done to sabotage our campaign, their response is always, “but Trump is worse.” Here’s an idea: stop suing us. Let us debate. Quit rigging the media and the polls. It’s a simple formula, people—get with it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2024 03:44 PM (LkLld)

479 maggots nood

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 22, 2024 03:44 PM (c39uV)

480 I am a Taylor Swift Virginia. I've never heard a song.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 22, 2024 03:45 PM (FfSAJ)

481 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Asian lady who doesn't wear much clothing at August 22, 2024 03:46 PM (dg+HA)

482
Tay-Tay was in the movie "Amsterdam" and was okay.

But, didn't leave much of an impression.

Like her music.

Both Madonna and Lady Gaga have much more talent than she does.

I think Tay-Tay is in a sweet spot right now that has no major musical talent, but she's kinda cute and girly for 30+ year old women who still want to be thought of as cute and girly,

so she'll do until someone with real talent comes along.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2024 03:46 PM (eDfFs)

483 What a wonderful experience this whole thing is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

It really is. You go through it because it matters, and you can't love people without this being part of the equation.

Some day you'll be on the other side of it, and if you've lived your life right, there will be plenty who are in pain and sorrow because they are losing you.

Not me though. I don't intend to die.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2024 03:47 PM (dGCAG)

484
Taylor Swift I don't get either, except she is a talented musician and poser and little girls worship her.

Heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" for the first time in 20 years while waiting in a store and gotta say my pulse started. You don't hear any early Beatles stuff anymore, shame.

Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2024 03:48 PM (j4U/Z)

485 Not me though. I don't intend to die.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2024 03:47 PM (dGCAG)

So far so good

Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 22, 2024 03:53 PM (P4Pk9)

486 Virgin not Virginia.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 22, 2024 03:53 PM (FfSAJ)

487 >>>It's not my fault I just wrote that stupid sentence. You're the ones who come here.

I only come here for the fish puns. And I have to hold a gun to my head to do that.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 22, 2024 03:53 PM (Y1sOo)

488 Gotta take the dog north to stay with the brother for the weekend, see what the uncle who came in town to see his brother, likely one last time, is doing and decide if I want to watch my dad stare at me like I have horns and yell at nurses as he waits to die..........
......*insert link to Napoleon XIII song link here*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Still praying for the Lord to hold you and the Mrs. in his hands, and give you strength.

You're doing the right things. They're not easy. But they're right.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 22, 2024 03:58 PM (JCLJi)

489 The Kennedy family wouldn't endorse RFK Jr. and I always wonder if it is a power/money thing about them staying with the Dem establishment or are there other juicy background stories on why they won't. Might be a little of both.

I would like to see Ben Carson appointed as Surgeon General and Rand Paul as head of HHS. RFK Jr. is too much of a wildcard to me.

Posted by: Cheri at August 22, 2024 03:58 PM (oiNtH)

490 Advance auto sucks for returns and part quality, I refuse to get anything there

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 22, 2024 03:59 PM (/cBnn)

491
462
I wish some entertainment type would just say, "Hey, I'm just a performer. My political opinion carries no more weight than a plumber, hairdresser or funeral director."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Well, Alice Cooper for one. ""First of all, why do people think rock stars know more than they do?" he said. "That is the biggest fallacy in the world — if anything, we're dumber. We're not smarter than anybody else. I mean, why do you think we're rock stars?"

"When I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 22, 2024 03:59 PM (y9nCu)

492 Not the Mannix Girl:

https://tinyurl.com/4y6peu55
Posted by: Don Black

Tina Louise...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 04:01 PM (v6JzV)

493 >>>She forgets how jealous Hollywood is though. Plenty of people will not be rooting for her to achieve those things, even if they smile to her face and buy her concert tickets for their daughters.
Posted by: LizLem
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Not a fan but I think Lady Gaga has professional grade (classically trained) skills that Swift does not possess.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2024 04:04 PM (geKVs)

494 474 461 "They wanted a return to Camelot."

It wasn't Camelot; it was the energy and excitement the Kennedy clan brought with them. JFK followed eight years of Ike and eight years of Truman. It signaled the end of the bleak Recession and war years. The future was beckoning and it was going to be glorious!
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Meh. Camelot, the play, was a Broadway hit in 1960 so they just drafted off that buzz to sell JFK to the ladies.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Many people were not thrilled with Kennedy becoming (his daddy buying) president.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2024 04:07 PM (geKVs)

495 I think all Elon's kids are IVF

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2024 04:08 PM (dDSBl)

496 sock off

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 22, 2024 04:46 PM (7gQkP)

497 lonesome George Gobel and spooky old Alice were golf partners

Posted by: yoeman at August 22, 2024 04:53 PM (j1QfB)

498 I’m more worried about what Trump will have to give up to get these two proggies on his side. They’ll be the first ones to stab him too. Dumb move. Tell them to move on.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 22, 2024 04:54 PM (sOA7y)

499 RFK, Jr wants so called Climate Crinimals treated like War Crinimals once tried to take a Woman News Reporters Microphone and he belongs to aa Eco-Freak group Water Keepers who lost big Lawsuits against Poultry and Pork Farmers

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 22, 2024 04:54 PM (wGqjj)

500 44 I really don't want a civil war, and I don't want a Communist (full) takeover. I want a future here for my kids.

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So, a (partial) Communist takeover is acceptable? Not to me.

Posted by: GraniteLady at August 22, 2024 05:05 PM (SEshB)

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