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Establishment Protegee of Mitch McConnell and Confirmed NeverTrumper John Thune Wins Senate Leadership Vote

#NotMyMajorityLeader.

Thune only has a majority because of Trump's agenda and Trump's voters.

But he will now execute McConnell's agenda of thwarting Trump's agenda and Trump's voters at every turn.

Usually he will do so as McConnell did -- sneakily. He will claim to support Trump's agenda publicly and then arrange tactical "losses."

He has a coward's heart.

Sen. John Thune will replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as Republican Senate Majority Leader after a close contest Wednesday that took two ballots to resolve.

Thune, McConnell's top deputy and an establishment favorite, must guide a conference hungry for changes after McConnell's iron grip. He's also tasked for guiding President Donald Trump's agenda through the Senate, advancing his nominees swiftly and moving Trump's aggressive legislative agenda.

Thune received 23 votes on the first ballot -- four short of locking up a victory. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) received 15, and Sen. Rick Scott 13.

On the second ballot, Thune secured a victory over Cornyn 29 to 24.

Republicans convened Tuesday night for a leadership forum organized by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) as they grappled with who best to lead them through the Trump administration and beyond.

Those discussions centered on how to return more autonomy to individual senators as well as effectively advance a conservative agenda after McConnell often partnered with Democrats to advance legislation, most notably spending bills, disfavored by conservatives.


Newt Gingrich talked about whether Trump would publicly champion Scott on 2Way (Mark Halperin's podcast).

Would Trump intervene? he asked. Only if Trump believed his intervention would result in a win for Scott. He wouldn't intervene in a losing cause. Senators are bitchy and vengeful and if you thwart them, they will sabotage you. (Of course, Thune and Cornyn and the rest of the gang of liberals already plan on sabotaging Trump.) So intervening only makes sense if it will result in a win.

Remember John McCain and his traitorous vote on ObamaCare?, Gingrinch asked.


I guess the Liberal Establishment Caucus is just too big. We need to do something about that huh?

Gingrich said that when you plan to take on members of your party, you have to consider the costs of winning, how much you're "bruising" the people you run over.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:28 PM




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1 Booo.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (DTX3h)

2 called 'em

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (CIS44)

3 I just don't understand why voters would pick Trump and not pick Republicans for Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

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Posted by: Non-attorney spokesperson. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (x5nKy)

5 GOPe gonna GOPe

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (N0dT2)

6 Get ready for massive spending bill GOP 2024. Hope they come up with a catchy name like the dems do.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 13, 2024 01:29 PM (ZBPS6)

7 The Senate openly rejected Trump.

Honestly, why make it public? Not like it wasn't a given from the beginning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:29 PM (tT6L1)

8 He has a coward's heart.

So you're saying there is no iron in his words of death?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (ExV1e)

9
Prima donna leading the prima donna caucus.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (EsZUh)

10 Remember John McCain and his traitorous vote on ObamaCare?, Gingrinch asked.


The moment I switched from Republican to independent and never gave another dime to ghe GOP.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (mzM2O)

11 I'll give Thune the benefit of the doubt for now. If he can whip the GOP into confirming Trump's nominee's and agenda in the first 100 days, I'll be pleased. Otherwise, primary his ass.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (DJ7uY)

12 It is up to the people of South Dakota to make Thune a pariah.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (z/jjr)

13 Remember John McCain and his traitorous vote on ObamaCare?, Gingrinch asked.

=======

"Oh, gosh. He defeated us guys. We were so close. Just, drat. Better luck next time. Donate today!"
-Mitch

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

14 Heard there was a better choice but is what it is

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (AYz4A)

15 I guarantee you Grassley and Ernst voted for Thune. *spit*

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (JfxgE)

16 Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)

I hope Ken Paxton takes a real personal interest in Cornyn over the next two years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

17 How do the Senate votes work exactly? Because I find it ... unlikely that a majority of Republicans in congress think he'll do the best job with the current political mood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (Hh1ER)

18 I'll give Thune the benefit of the doubt for now. If he can whip the GOP into confirming Trump's nominee's and agenda in the first 100 days, I'll be pleased. Otherwise, primary his ass.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (DJ7uY)

in 6 years

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (CIS44)

19 The story of Why we lost a few Senates seats in states which Trump won (like N ).

People loathed the top of the ticket and voted for Senator only.

The end.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (V13WU)

20 Guess what state Thune wishes he was the Governor of.

Guess who is going to Washington DC.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (Z8Yh2)

21 It grinds my gears that McConnell gets to groom and install his own successor/puppet. We will never be rid of him it seems.

It doesn't get more swampy than John Thune. He's near the bottom of every think tank scorecard of Republicans.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (V6W16)

22 If Thune says “we should now come together for the American people”, someone should punch him in the nuts right there. That’s how we know BOHICA.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (PR+PB)

23 Is Thune proof that all politicians are bastards or is it just the GOP that has so many fucking rats that NY gives them the side eye?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (mzM2O)

24 He has a coward's heart.

when Elon was asked why he endorsed Trump, he could see that at the time of Trump's attempted killing, the man exhibited courage beyond expectations.

A courageous man is the opposite of a coward. The coward has to shield himself by other cowards in his cabal.

The courageous man draws other heroes to him.

my money's on Trump the Hero, not Thune the Zero

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (dCxaZ)

25 Alas, Ted Cruz, we thought we knew you.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (lmXzp)

26 At least it’s not Cornyn. True story. They changed it from Cornhole when his family emmigrated to the US.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (ZBPS6)

27 >>How do the Senate votes work exactly? Because I find it ... unlikely that a majority of Republicans in congress think he'll do the best job with the current political mood.


They are voting for whomever they believe will be best positioned to keep the Senate Gravy Train rolling along for them and their families.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (z/jjr)

28 I looked at the vid on the sidebar, TJM.


Yacht Rock is officially a thing.
Bona fide you might say.

Ace's playlist has hit the big time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (6ydKt)

29 As the saying goes, Republicans hold office, Democrats hold power.

Well, at least we can move to vacate the chair in the house, and have some fun with that spectacle if things get out of hand, we need something like 80 GOP Senators to even have a shot at mid-level production.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)

30 If it was inevitable that Scott would lose, I'll take Thune over Cornyn.

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (4OdbI)

31 This is why I fucking hate politics.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (xPJvm)

32 Winning
Winning
Winning
Winning
Winning
Nope
Winning
Winning

Thanks, Senate GOPer's

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (guGkK)

33 I like the cut of this Malcolm chap's jib.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (z0QHk)

34 I just don't understand why voters would pick Trump and not pick Republicans for Congress.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Only thing that I can think of, is they want gridlock.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (kPAiX)

35 Silver lining: it was a close-ish vote.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (g/4UX)

36 #REPEAL17

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (z/jjr)

37 I'm sort of amused by Thune. He's taking over leadership and no matter what he does to appease the left, he'll still be vilified.

I don't think Thune thought this one through.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (tT6L1)

38 Does Thune at least not have the China connections that Mitch has?

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (v6JzV)

39 McConnell allowed 3 bad choices. We have the worst and know it's the worst. Can everyone stop acting like Scott would have been awesome?

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (N0dT2)

40 Cruz voted for him??

The same Cruz who was pissed at McConnell for giving him nothing more to campaign on than a good luck wish?

That Ted Cruz voted for Thune?

WTF?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (mzM2O)

41 @23

>>Is Thune proof that all politicians are bastards or is it just the GOP that has so many fucking rats that NY gives them the side eye?

He's been in Washington for 27 years, so this is pretty much a next guy moves up deal.

Unfortunately, this is how the GOPe operates.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)

42 EOs and fighting the lawless judiciary to exercise clear executive authority (see “Muslim ban” fiasco).

Insh’allah this leads to repudiation of a federal court at some point. Might be biggest contribution Trump can make to a possible recovery path.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (hf6W+)

43 Everyone who has the sadz over this predictable senate leader pick, remember that Trump has a huge signal boost now with Twitter/X, and the podcasters whose huge audiences love them some Trump.

If/when Thune acts against Trump, he won't be able to stand the meme-age and the heat delivered by the New Borg in Town,
He will crumble like the coward-clown that he is.

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (dCxaZ)

44 Don't get it twisted. The GOP still hates you.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:35 PM (ksjMr)

45 I'll note that Thune last won election in 2022, so he's up again in 2028. If he betrays us in any way, SD is a LOT smaller a state to mobilize for a primary than Texas is...

Posted by: American Hawkman at November 13, 2024 01:35 PM (9VDxG)

46 Bannon says the real vote will leak. If it doesn't, those facing reelection in 2026 will almost all say they voted for Scott. That is possible, but not likely.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 01:35 PM (Cus5s)

47 I'm hoping Trump has an Incheon-level flanking strategy ready to go.

Because the senate has mastered trench warfare.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 13, 2024 01:35 PM (0uOD2)

48 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

49 from
Delenda Est NBC News:

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison for sharing military secrets online

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (dCxaZ)

50 Thune will carry turtle's agenda forward which is not all bad. Turtle is not and never has been a t-rump sycophant. The fact that the gqp chose their leader against the wishes of der leader is also a very good thing

McConnell is very much a Trump toady. He had the power to stop this monster at many turns. He supports Trump.

Not always, he's absolutely in favor of the Ukraine war. And spoke publicly and privately against him. I am not giving praise…just saying he's certainly the lesser of 2 evils

Words are cheap. He stole 2 Supreme Court justices from Dems and didn’t lead his caucus to vote to impeach Trump-twice.

Will Thune show some backbone and push back against Trump's agenda. Probably No. When Trump tried to repeal ACA in 2017, there were only 3 Republican senators who voted no: McCain, Collins, Murkowski. Thune voted for the repeal.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (JCZqz)

51




*blink*






Posted by: Mitch McConnell at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (guGkK)

52 We need something to increase DC turn-over.
Presidential firing privileges.
1 SC judge/term.
1 Senator/year.
1 Congressman/bill.

Staff goes down with them.

They have to beat their own prior vote to retain position.

Posted by: DaveA at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (FhXTo)

53 11 I'll give Thune the benefit of the doubt for now. If he can whip the GOP into confirming Trump's nominee's and agenda in the first 100 days, I'll be pleased. Otherwise, primary his ass.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (DJ7uY)

In 2028. Too late for Trump to stop him.

Good news is in that video ace included at the end, however. Average people have figured out how the sausage gets made in DC. That means that it will be harder to hide the shiv. Thune may not pay, but others will.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (2m0Vp)

54 48 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

That he is. My goodness. *fans self*

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (DJ7uY)

55 The Senate was intended to represents the interests of the state governments, now it represents the interests of the Federal govt. and the only ways to get removed is via hospice.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (ZBPS6)

56 There is some evidence that Thune is down with Trump's agenda, including public statements by Thune.

I'd like to believe that. I don't believe that. But I'll let it slide for now to see how this actually plays out before I set Thune on fire. What else can we do? I was assured by many that Mike Johnson was a great pick for Speaker. He turned out to be meh.

My point is we never know what we're going to get until we get it. Plus, I'm still in orgasmic mode after Trump's landslide cock-crushing and aren't ready to think bad thoughts yet.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

57 So the winning hits a speed bump

So, what do we do about this 'Thune' ?

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (/7KEl)

58 50 Will Thune show some backbone and push back against Trump's agenda. Probably No. When Trump tried to repeal ACA in 2017, there were only 3 Republican senators who voted no: McCain, Collins, Murkowski. Thune voted for the repeal.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (JCZqz)

=======

"Also, I can't believe my health insurance is so much more expensive than it was in 2007."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

59 Thune won? Fine. Play the game the way the left does. Pretend to be pleased and a good sport, then find all the dirt on him you can. ALL the dirt. The stuff he doesn't want his wife, kids, grandma to ever know. Hold it over him until he buckles.

No more playtime with these losers thinking it's still the old games as usual. We have a country to save.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (wcIbG)

60 [Reprising my comment & whig's response earlier:]

My understanding is that the VP -- as the President of the Senate -- can preside over Senate sessions and thus, instead of a Treasonous Majority Leader like a McConnell or a Thune, can choose whom to recognize for proposed legislation & debate (and which Traitors to ignore).

I've heard that Trump considered doing this in his first term, but of course that rat-bastard Pence wouldn't cooperate.

Let's have JD Vance run the Senate daily when they're in session -- and have frequent recesses so that Trump can make recess appointments. MOAR BOSS MOVES!
======
It is actually the constitutional option. Only leaders in the House and Senate specified by the Constitution are the Speaker of the House and the Vice President of the US who is also President of the Senate. The rules of either house flow downhill from those particular offices.

In many states, the Lt. Gov fulfills the original role of the VP in the US Constitution by running state Senates (sometimes that is affected somewhat by party control).

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 11:40 AM

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (lP9TH)

61 The House and Senate, last time, thwarted PDT's agenda, knowing EO's were much more easy to discard than legislation.

We'll see if Congress plays the same game this time around.

My default position is: Yes, yes they will.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (tT6L1)

62 AOC asked people in her district who voted for Trump and voted for her, why they did that. Lots of interesting reasons. The most common was I want someone to keep Trump in check followed by Gaza. And by Gaza they mean they hate that Harris doesn’t hate Jews enough, which is really stupid when you consider Trump is way pro-Israel. It’s weird.

So to answer the question how could people vote Trump and democrats for the house/senate…there ya go. Lots of people out there who don’t see politics back and white like we do.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (g/4UX)

63 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (JCZqz)

These guys are sounding much more sane these days.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (DJ7uY)

64 In better news, clearly the happiest man in America at the moment is Joe Biden welcoming Donald Trump to the White House.

Joe has the biggest smile on his face...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:38 PM (uxCna)

65 This is part of why I am annoyed with how presidential candidates run on mind controlling congress. "If I am elected, I will do this thing that only congress can accomplish!"

No, you won't. Because you can't. The GOPe still hates Trump and wants him out of office. They aren't so stupid as to be open about it this time, but they will still work against him while pretending to be his friend.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:38 PM (Hh1ER)

66 This is the actual reason why I don't actually get that worked up over who's sitting in the White House. nThere is always, and will almost always remain in the future, an unbreakble gridlock in the halls of power, regardless of who is president. Power-hungry do-nothing ideology-free drones occupy most o the Senate seats, and ultiamtley thwart, retard, undermine and water-down any president's agenda. Always has been, always will be, I suspect.

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:38 PM (pMi6S)

67 Every GOP Senator has way, way more in common with, say Patty Murray, Richard (Dick) Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar etc. then they have with any of their own voters.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 01:38 PM (fs1hN)

68 I'm curious to hear what Scott Jennings has to say about this. He worked for Mitch, so it will be interesting to see if he throws the GOPe under the bus.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 13, 2024 01:38 PM (2m0Vp)

69 Wisconsin Reps did the same, they put excrement Robin Vos back in despite him having over seen a loss of seats despite Trump's win here. The party is just committed to failure.

Posted by: Bete at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (LX4y3)

70 Don't get it twisted. The GOP still hates you.

Posted by: ...

=====

"Why tell the rubes to fuck off once if you can tell them to fuck off twice?"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (0uOD2)

71 The only thing worse than Republican control of the Senate is Democrat control of the Senate.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (ksjMr)

72 Why, after winning resoundingly the presidency would we have to put up with Thune???

Posted by: Just saying at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (UOmPn)

73 Thune speaking. Good so far about implementing the Pres agenda including border security and energy independence. No kissing up to Dems. Pissed on Biden/Harris /Schumer policies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (b2/S2)

74 Appoint Thune and Cornyn to some not-shit ambassadorships or something. Problem solved.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (2ocoG)

75 >>> Bannon says the real vote will leak.

Fiesty Bannon is best Bannon. And he has a lot of revenge still to enact.

He promised he'd leak the votes, I hope he delivers. And all the senators who voted Thune/Cornyn against the will of the people/Trump can go down.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (wcIbG)

76 I just don't understand why voters would pick Trump and not pick Republicans for Congress.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Only thing that I can think of, is they want gridlock.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (kPAiX)


I was being, what you call, sarcastic on account of John Thune being selected as the next Republican blockage in the artery of improving America.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (ExV1e)

77 > clearly the happiest man in America at the moment is Joe Biden welcoming Donald Trump to the White House.

Joe has the biggest smile on his face...
----

'Don, it's your clusterf*** now.'

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:40 PM (/7KEl)

78 These guys are sounding much more sane these days.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (DJ7uY)
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The others are fiddling with their Play-Doh while strings of drool trail from their Prozac-slackened mouths.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 01:40 PM (z0QHk)

79 lol.

Same ol' GOP.

Posted by: Just sayin at November 13, 2024 01:40 PM (8VHs6)

80 Silver lining: it was a close-ish vote.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (g/4UX)


Yeah? Shithead #2 almost beat Fuckstain #1.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:40 PM (ExV1e)

81 The Clinton's knew how to get things done.

Posted by: Stateless at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (jvJvP)

82 63 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (JCZqz)

These guys are sounding much more sane these days.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder

True. Only half of them think McConnell is a Trump cultist rubber stamp.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

83 Very disappointing that Scott only got 13 votes in the initial round. He had some baggage from when he was the FL governor I guess. Still it shows what a corrupting influence DC is. It is rare that congress critters don't become more loyal to their DC buddies then to their voters after being in the swamp for a while.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (zYCTH)

84 >Appoint Thune and Cornyn to some not-shit ambassadorships or something. Problem solved.
----

you can decline an appointment

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (/7KEl)

85 On one hand, Thune could be playing 4 dimensional chess and he's secretly gonna shift right much to Turtle's dismay.

Ok the other hand, Thune pushed for a secret ballot for a reason.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (mzM2O)

86 clearly the happiest man in America at the moment is Joe Biden welcoming Donald Trump to the White House.

Joe has the biggest smile on his face...


The pictures are gonna be the greatest meme template yet. "And then we realized Michael Malice is right, she actually is a day-drinking retard". (photo: Trump leaning in to say something and Joe laughing his ass off).

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

87


Dont trust these sleazebags.

Dude reminds of of a dumber Senator Geary.

Definitely skeltons in that closet. Could be another Larry "WIDESTANCE" Craig.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (et1vG)

88
Democrats: Hope and Change

Republicans: Dope and Mange

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (ksjMr)

89 85 Ok the other hand, Thune pushed for a secret ballot for a reason.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:41 PM (mzM2O)

========

It's been a secret ballot forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

90 >>> 81 The Clinton's knew how to get things done.

Thune and McConnell, come meet us in the park at night, alone...

Posted by: The Arkancide Machine at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (wcIbG)

91 The adoption of the 17th Amendment was/is not much different than the push to remove the Electoral College.

It removed a portion of the people's voice in Senate Elections.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (z/jjr)

92 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)


I thought it was a guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (ExV1e)

93 I just don't understand why voters would pick Trump and not pick Republicans for Congress.

There are three possible answers:

1) People that only care about the presidency and did vote for the other offices
2) People that won't vote for Republicans, except Trump
3) People that had an issue with THAT specific Republican and not Trump

or I guess 4) Fraud

In theory you could get an answer to this pretty easily if you have some money and time and just interview people that voted for say Trump and not Hovde. This should be one of the most important things the GOP is doing now. Well, if it was an actual opposition party.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (oZhjI)

94 "Did I tell you the name of the game boy?

We're gonna ride the gravy traaaaiiiinnnnnn...."

Posted by: Thune says have a cigar at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (25k9m)

95 >>Cruz voted for him??

The same Cruz who was pissed at McConnell for giving him nothing more to campaign on than a good luck wish?

That Ted Cruz voted for Thune?

WTF?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (mzM2O)
__
Cruz voted for Scott on the first ballot. When Scott was eliminated, he voted for Thune.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (bNf8H)

96 If Trump can do deals with Putin, Kim jong ding dong, and Ping pong whatever in China; then Trump should be able to do a deal with Thune.

John Galt lives.

Posted by: Going deep. Out at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (pbmKi)

97 The pictures are gonna be the greatest meme template yet. "And then we realized Michael Malice is right, she actually is a day-drinking retard". (photo: Trump leaning in to say something and Joe laughing his ass off).

Imagine how awful a person Kamala must be to make Biden into this

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (Hh1ER)

98 Not going to sweat this just yet.
I have trust in Trump.
He has a plan.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (W/lyH)

99 >>How do the Senate votes work exactly? Because I find it ... unlikely that a majority of Republicans in congress think he'll do the best job with the current political mood.
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All these votes are bought. Some are bought by what might be taken away (power, positions,) some are bought by what might be revealed (blackmail) and some are bought by what graft will come their way (or to their families.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (v57ms)

100 Congress doesn't even make law anymore. Judges, bureaucrats, and the chief executive make law now.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (TIizU)

101 It's been a secret ballot forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)


No shit?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (mzM2O)

102 Hitler was known for his brilliant sense of humor.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (ksjMr)

103 Dont trust these sleazebags.

Dude reminds of of a dumber Senator Geary.

Definitely skeltons in that closet. Could be another Larry "WIDESTANCE" Craig.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller


Or Denny Hastert.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (v6JzV)

104 He promised he'd leak the votes, I hope he delivers. And all the senators who voted Thune/Cornyn against the will of the people/Trump can go down.
Posted by: LizLem

I think that works mostly for young women looking for promotion, not old white dudes....

Unless your boss is Obama.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (JCZqz)

105 60 [Reprising my comment & whig's response earlier:]
...Let's have JD Vance run the Senate daily when they're in session -- and have frequent recesses so that Trump can make recess appointments. MOAR BOSS MOVES!
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It is actually the constitutional option. Only leaders in the House and Senate specified by the Constitution are the Speaker of the House and the Vice President of the US who is also President of the Senate. The rules of either house flow downhill from those particular offices.

In many states, the Lt. Gov fulfills the original role of the VP in the US Constitution by running state Senates (sometimes that is affected somewhat by party control).

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 11:40 AM
Posted by: ShainS --

Thank you, ShainS and whig! A great end-run solution to the problem of Thune.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (2m0Vp)

106 66 This is the actual reason why I don't actually get that worked up over who's sitting in the White House. nThere is always, and will almost always remain in the future, an unbreakble gridlock in the halls of power, regardless of who is president



Same here.

It's like Biden, he had full co troll and yet he didn’t really. Even within the full control of the house and senate, there are many warring factions that rarely can come to any agreement. In parliamentary systems it’s the same phenomenon. We just have the parliamentary system inside of the two major parties. It’s an unofficial parliamentary system.

It’s a good thing long term that neither side can ever really have all the power.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (g/4UX)

107 Thune isn't up for election until 2028, so a primary opponent isn't going to scare him a bit.

Trump is going to have to pull some Machiavelli out to maneuver around and over some of these GOPe types.

...and Trump never did shy away from using pork spending to get what he wanted in the first term.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (6ydKt)

108 Or a Blue Plains "Special" that flushes the whole Senate at once.

Posted by: DaveA at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (FhXTo)

109 always will be, I suspect.
Posted by: zombie


Ahem.

Posted by: Doom at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (FhXTo)

110 What has always mystified me is what motivates these dinosaurian bureaucrats like McConnell and Thune (and dozens of other on both sides of the aisle):

They don't actually have any strong ideology. And yet they are desperately power-hungry.

But if they don't have any particular ideology then for what purpose do they even want power? to impose -- what agenda? The agenda of Kafkaesque gridlock and wheel-spinning?

I understand a wild-eyed ideologue on the Left or the Right craving power to re-mold society as he sees fit, but I don't understand inert overweight soulless old NPCs craving power.

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (pMi6S)

111 Thune has a shitty senate record, that's for sure. But I'll wait to see how he does before I condemn him to terminal fulminating ass cancer.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (g8Ew8)

112 It's a big club and Trump isn't in it.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (ksjMr)

113 101 It's been a secret ballot forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)


No shit?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (mzM2O)

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No shit. It's how they've always elected their caucus leaders.

The only reason the Speaker of the House vote isn't secret is because the Constitution demands a public roll call vote for that position. Caucus leader isn't a governmental position. It's a party position.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

114 >>Thune isn't up for election until 2028, so a primary opponent isn't going to scare him a bit.


Trump is going to have to cover South Dakota in Bridges to Nowhere.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (z/jjr)

115 That Ted Cruz voted for Thune?

He announced that he'd vote for Scott in the first round so I assume he did. In the second round, he could either vote for Thune or Cornyn so if he did vote for Thune, at least he took the opportunity to spit in Cornyn's eye. So I'm OK with that.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (/y8xj)

116 36 #REPEAL17
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (z/jjr)

My thoughts exactly. As originally constructed, each senator is beholden to the legislature in his state and subject to recall and replacement.

SD has a pretty conservative legislature as I recall.

Repeal the 17th amendment.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (QGaXH)

117 I would imagine Trump has kompromat on Thune, as he does on the rest of the GOP (and probably the Democrats too.) At least, he should have. Some of it is probably in those "sensitive documents" the feds were keen on getting back.

A discussion between Trump and Thune over policy and Trump's agenda would be interesting... assuming my imagination isn't bent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (Q4IgG)

118 Well, we'll now see how much Trump has learned from 1 Admin to the next. He can force Rs to fall in line...or be forced out. He really only has to say the word.

I mean, I assume no one will be contributing to the NSRC. Take away the money, and make Thune (and the senators bleed) and have to be nice to Trump to get RNC money for their elections...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (exHjb)

119 What has always mystified me is what motivates these dinosaurian bureaucrats like McConnell and Thune (and dozens of other on both sides of the aisle):

They don't actually have any strong ideology. And yet they are desperately power-hungry.

But if they don't have any particular ideology then for what purpose do they even want power? to impose -- what agenda? The agenda of Kafkaesque gridlock and wheel-spinning?

I understand a wild-eyed ideologue on the Left or the Right craving power to re-mold society as he sees fit, but I don't understand inert overweight soulless old NPCs craving power.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (pMi6S)

$$$

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (ksjMr)

120 92 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

I thought it was a guy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (ExV1e)

Well. Piper is an 'ette.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (2m0Vp)

121 Appoint Thune and Cornyn to some not-shit ambassadorships or something. Problem solved.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (2ocoG)

Russia and China? Russia and Ukraine? Afghanistan and Iran?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (VNX3d)

122 I have trust in Trump.
He has a plan.
Posted by: Diogenes

Exactly. It all worked out in the end. 4 years in the wilderness, under constant attack, have forged him into vengeful MechaTrump!

Posted by: Q-Anon and the Conservative Treehouse at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (JCZqz)

123 >>My thoughts exactly. As originally constructed, each senator is beholden to the legislature in his state and subject to recall and replacement.


An THEIR 2 Year Terms temper the 6 year Term afforded to the Senators.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (z/jjr)

124 Well, I know McConnell is an utter piece of shit.

Thune has a chance not to be.

That's the best silver lining I can see.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (mzM2O)

125 Cornyn may be open to Sec Interior or something. He will never be leader, and now he knows it.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (7PziG)

126 Hitler was known for his brilliant sense of humor.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (ksjMr)


The dude could literally fart on command!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (+myjY)

127 First order of business is to primary both Thune and Cornyn. That's they're RINO senators from two reliably RED states is an abomination.

Second, the Senate should try and implement some of hte same kind of rules that got McCarthy shitcanned in the House. I don't know if there are even any rules or processes for calling for a change in leadership, but there fucking SHOULD be.

Posted by: deadrody at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (OeYsY)

128 What has always mystified me is what motivates these dinosaurian bureaucrats like McConnell and Thune (and dozens of other on both sides of the aisle):

They don't actually have any strong ideology. And yet they are desperately power-hungry.

But if they don't have any particular ideology then for what purpose do they even want power? to impose -- what agenda? The agenda of Kafkaesque gridlock and wheel-spinning?

I understand a wild-eyed ideologue on the Left or the Right craving power to re-mold society as he sees fit, but I don't understand inert overweight soulless old NPCs craving power.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (pMi6S)

One word: Money.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (g8Ew8)

129 Imagine how awful a person Kamala must be to make Biden into this
____

Remember when Dr Jill kissed Kamala's husband full on the lips in full view of everyone at the SOTU?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (fs1hN)

130 Thune is my senator.

He is completely beholden to Bid Ag. You know, the folks that are spraying pesticides and weed killers on al our food.

His biggest fights will be with RFK Jr fixing the food supply.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (CHh/T)

131 I understand a wild-eyed ideologue on the Left or the Right craving power to re-mold society as he sees fit, but I don't understand inert overweight soulless old NPCs craving power.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (pMi6S)

Same reason people become leaders of the HOA.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (g/4UX)

132 TJM, even if it has been a secret ballot forever (which I get there are benefits to so you don't get shivved by the king if you voted against him), that can change.

I love that Elon/Vivek's DOGE is going to be transparent about what they are cutting and ask for input. Also that they are going to post the worst examples they find of government waste up on a wall of shame, and let us laugh at it and mock it. Exciting new days ahead.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (wcIbG)

133 >>Thune and McConnell, come meet us in the park at night, alone...

Send in the polar bear with the chainsaws

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (Y1sOo)

134 What has always mystified me is what motivates these dinosaurian bureaucrats like McConnell and Thune (and dozens of other on both sides of the aisle):

They don't actually have any strong ideology. And yet they are desperately power-hungry.


Your analysis can stop right there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (+myjY)

135 Thune is a giant killer. And they helped him when he beat Daschle. 20 year senority to boot. Thune will be great on Judges, but yes on legislation he will not want to go full Maga either.

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (YCxFk)

136 From last thread by Mr Ghost:

New York Post
@nypost

Couples are turning to kinky sex to save their relationships: survey https://trib.al/inoW05G


If I'm reading the article correctly it appears that millennial women need an app or an actual therapist to tell them to go have kinky sex with their husbands/boyfriends even though they claim to be bored with their regular sex.

I mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (oZhjI)

137 So we are being optimistic about this, I see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (QoyXi)

138 I'm in the camp that this was, not only, anticipated by the Trump team (since McConnell made this announcement months ago, and Thune was likely to win), but they planned for it. Trump put Noem in the DHS spot which opens up the SD Governor's position. Thune has some new grandkids back in SD. That Governor position is likely looking pretty sweet right about now. Thune couldn't pull out because Scott would beat Cornyn in a straight up match up. Oh my, what a dilemma.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (dIske)

139 Hitler was known for his brilliant sense of humor.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (ksjMr)

The dude could literally fart on command!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (+myjY)
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The diet of turnips, carrots, cabbage and potatoes didn't help.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (z0QHk)

140 The only consolation (maybe) is Munster Jaw is slightly better than Cornyn. Both reach across the aisle suck the CoC's dick motherfuckers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (gm9Sb)

141 I mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (oZhjI)

Do they need an app to know that big boobs are wonderful?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (QoyXi)

142 108 Or a Blue Plains "Special" that flushes the whole Senate at once.
Posted by: DaveA

Pssst! Séance me! I've got a great idea to pitch you!

Posted by: Zombie Guy Fawkes at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

143 It's been a secret ballot forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)


Silence! Your facts have no power here, old* man.

*Yeah, yeah, I know you're only, like, twelve.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

144 40 Cruz voted for him??

The same Cruz who was pissed at McConnell for giving him nothing more to campaign on than a good luck wish?

That Ted Cruz voted for Thune?

WTF?
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Leadership dynamics in the Senate are where the public sees the 10 percent of the iceberg that is above water. 90 percent of the iceberg is never seen.

And, outside interference in the leadership elections is generally frowned up (Bush getting rid of Trent Lott was the rare exception) and resented by senators. All of them always think they would be a better president than who got elected.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (ctrM5)

145 "Well. Piper is an 'ette.
Posted by: Darrell Harris"\


What???

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (vFG9F)

146 Well, they won't have John Cornyn's giant, bulbous, pulsing forehead to kick around any more.

Posted by: John Cornyn at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (paSBy)

147 I love that Elon/Vivek's DOGE is going to be transparent about what they are cutting and ask for input. Also that they are going to post the worst examples they find of government waste up on a wall of shame, and let us laugh at it and mock it. Exciting new days ahead.
Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (wcIbG)

I love that too. Always thought public shaming is highly underrated as a deterrent to bad behavior.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:47 PM (DJ7uY)

148 Remember when Dr Jill kissed Kamala's husband full on the lips in full view of everyone at the SOTU?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (fs1hN)

And then wouldn't even look at him (or her) on Monday.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (CIS44)

149 92 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

I thought it was a guy.
Posted by: I used to have a different

He is.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (p4NUW)

150 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

I thought it was a guy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:42 PM


Well, Piper's an 'ette, so...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (ZANHd)

151

Skeletons in the closet?

My dude, Congress IS the closet.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (ksjMr)

152 In other news, Ukraine is apparently developing nuclear weapons, preparing for a US aid cutoff.

The London Times:

❗️🇺🇦Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)

153 132 TJM, even if it has been a secret ballot forever (which I get there are benefits to so you don't get shivved by the king if you voted against him), that can change.

I love that Elon/Vivek's DOGE is going to be transparent about what they are cutting and ask for input. Also that they are going to post the worst examples they find of government waste up on a wall of shame, and let us laugh at it and mock it. Exciting new days ahead.
Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (wcIbG)

=======

Of course it can change.

But it's not going to change, and expecting entrenched power centers to change things for their own detriment is silly.

Trust me, this fight is going to be long forgotten by January, much less the 2028 election.

I remember when people were saying that Republicans would never win elections again because they helped pass the Infrastructure bill of 2021.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

154 That's the best silver lining I can see.

Yeah, that's where we have to be now. We know he'll be awful but maybe not as awful as McConnell.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (Hh1ER)

155 You know who else knew how to get things done?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (Q0kLU)

156
$$$
Posted by: ...

One word: Money.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons


There are easier ways to make more money in the private sector, I would imagine.

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (pMi6S)

157 Who will be in charge of Senate elections and fundraising in 2026? Important. Scott, who I wanted, did a shit job in that role in 2022

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (YCxFk)

158 114 Trump is going to have to cover South Dakota in Bridges to Nowhere.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (z/jjr)

-- --

It might come to that, haha.

At least he won't have to pay off Thune's wife with a cabinet post like Turtle got from two administrations.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (6ydKt)

159 Senators are bitchy and vengeful and if you thwart them, they will sabotage you.
__________________

But don't they look to the RNC for campaign funds? And doesn't Trump control the RNC?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (YqDXo)

160







Man! This Zegler chick is really doing everything she can to tank that 'Snow White' movie. Which is kind of funny because I know the kid actors have to go through social media training.

I imagine Rachel would be a demon in the sack. An angry demon.

From GatewayPundit.


Actress Rachel Zegler wrote, “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”

In the post, she complained that her infant daughter may never get to have an abortion.

“I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. Leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn’t want. Leaning us towards a world that is fearful.”

The actress said she is “here with you,” to “cry, to yell, to hug.

Posted by: Stateless at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (jvJvP)

161 Cruz voted for Scott on the first ballot. When Scott was eliminated, he voted for Thune.
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Did you think he would vote for Cornyn?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (AdHga)

162 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

LOL They act like its that easy to make a nuke.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (Hh1ER)

163 mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (oZhjI)

There are period apps. Which I guess remind women that they have a period every month?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (g/4UX)

164 So the winning hits a speed bump

So, what do we do about this 'Thune' ?

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (/7KEl)

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

"It's too Thune to tell ..."

/obligatory Mike Tyson

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (lP9TH)

165 154. Yes. Cronyn is awful, a Bush slacker. Much worse than Thune.

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (YCxFk)

166 If I'm reading the article correctly it appears that millennial women need an app or an actual therapist to tell them to go have kinky sex with their husbands/boyfriends even though they claim to be bored with their regular sex.

I mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?

Posted by: 18-1
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Self selected sample from a freaking ap seller. NY Post is basically doing an ad for the ap with this lousy story about a lousy survey conducted by a company with an ap.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (ctrM5)

167 I would think a secret ballot would be to Scott's advantage. Assuming secret means secret to even the senators, not just secret to the public.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (ckQml)

168 159 But don't they look to the RNC for campaign funds? And doesn't Trump control the RNC?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (YqDXo)

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The RSCC is the primary mover of election funds for the senate.

That's been under Mitch's control for more than a decade.

It's unclear to me if any changes are going to happen around the leader's ability to direct funds from it with Mitch no longer in the position.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

169 162 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

LOL They act like its that easy to make a nuke.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (Hh1ER)


Well, there are YouTube videos now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (+myjY)

170 Hitler was known for his brilliant sense of humor.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (ksjMr)


The whole Holocaust thing was just a practical joke that got out of hand?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (ExV1e)

171 Well. Piper is an 'ette.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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She knows the rule.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (ksjMr)

172 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

oh no quick better give them another 100 billion tax dollars

Ukraine can pound sand

Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (25k9m)

173 I imagine Rachel would be a demon in the sack. An angry demon.

I get the opposite impression: she'd be a starfish that laughed at you

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (Hh1ER)

174 Greg Price @greg_price11 1h
I don't think Joe Biden has ever been happier in his entire life.

https://tinyurl.com/3puwmfx9
39 seconds; politeness over transition!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (hovnC)

175 The London Times:

❗️🇺🇦Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)
__________________

OK. Let's see it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (YqDXo)

176 Thune thinks St. George was killed because of RACISM.

This is pathetic, but entirely on brand.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (i7Q7S)

177 Nice to know the American taxpayer has not only funded nuclear programs in Iran, but, also Ukraine!

Thanks, US government! You're just bound and determined to make sure someone starts a nuclear war, aren't you?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (tT6L1)

178 That explains the tights. I wasn't going to say anything.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (vFG9F)

179 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)
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That'll go a long way toward calming things down.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (z0QHk)

180 Hitler was known for his brilliant sense of humor.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:43 PM (ksjMr)

The dude could literally fart on command!
Posted by: Cicero

Zieh an meinem Finger.

Posted by: Adolf H. at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (JCZqz)

181 Power hungry without any other goal is a bridge to nowhere. Congress commissions many off them. It's all a means (cash grab) and never an ends (achievement of a goal).

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (wBaIH)

182 "It's too Thune to tell ..."

/obligatory Mike Tyson
Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (lP9TH)

That got a laugh.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (QoyXi)

183 The actress said she is “here with you,” to “cry, to yell, to hug.
Posted by: Stateless
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Mentally ill people in showbiz should be seen and not heard.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (ctrM5)

184 I'm not as plugged in as you politix junkies, but I gather Thune is one of those country club Republicans who sees his job as advancing his corporate donors' interests

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (/7KEl)

185 52 In other news, Ukraine is apparently developing nuclear weapons, preparing for a US aid cutoff.

The London Times:

❗️🇺🇦Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)


That's it, Rage Munchkin. Try blackmail.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (mzM2O)

186 “I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in.

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Well, ms Zegler, there is a solution to that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (CIS44)

187 >>> 120 92 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

Right?? He's the real sexiest man of the year. People got it wrong.

I said this yesterday...if he ever runs for president, liberal women won't know what to do with themselves.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (wcIbG)

188 >>It might come to that, haha.


'10,000 Bridges'

Posted by: SoDak License Plate at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (z/jjr)

189 Unsurprisingly - the Senate is composed mostly of about 100 bitches who think they can be a better President than the current one.

Posted by: Java Joe at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (WaLgG)

190 LOL They act like its that easy to make a nuke.

They're trying to send a message.

OTOH, for low-grade WMDs, Ukraine definitely has enough high-level nuclear waste that it could disperse as a weapon.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (uxCna)

191 Well, there are YouTube videos now.

Oh the technique is pretty well known. Its gathering the materials that's the challenge.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (Hh1ER)

192 From last thread by Mr Ghost:

New York Post
@nypost

Couples are turning to kinky sex to save their relationships: survey https://trib.al/inoW05G


If I'm reading the article correctly it appears that millennial women need an app or an actual therapist to tell them to go have kinky sex with their husbands/boyfriends even though they claim to be bored with their regular sex.

I mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (oZhjI)
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That's a planted article from a website/app that specializes in promoting "kinky" sex and selling items for that purpose. So take it with a grain of salt. That, plus their description of what is "kinky" seems like normal sex or at least nothing risque.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

193 How do you guys presume to know who voted for whom, if it's a SECRET ballot?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (ckQml)

194 Senate RePukes once again confirming that Republicans are too stupid to govern. Just bleeping unbelievable.

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg - Buff Mayor, Total Hack at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (sHvce)

195 If Trump can do deals with Putin, Kim jong ding dong, and Ping pong whatever in China; then Trump should be able to do a deal with Thune.
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But Putin, Jing, and Xi don't want to kill all of Trump's voters!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (hovnC)

196 171 Well. Piper is an 'ette.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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She knows the rule.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024

What picture is needed? That Hegseth is hot? That I am a girl? I am so confused right now.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (p4NUW)

197 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)
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That'll go a long way toward calming things down.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Maybe if they hadn't trusted Obama and the European community, and instead kept the nukes on their land, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (JCZqz)

198 Rachel Zegler is wishing her lack of peace on Trump supporters? Projection really is a thing on the left.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (tT6L1)

199 Maybe Elon and Vivek will find some juicy info on certain Senators' finances

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (/7KEl)

200 ❗️🇺🇦Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)
__________________

OK. Let's see it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah, I'd need to see the notes. The could BUY one given all the fucking money we have shoveled at them, but the engineering expertise to build one? Meh.

Japan would be the shortest if they decided to go. Everyone else would need to bulk up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (QoyXi)

201 The Times:

Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance, according to a briefing paper prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.

The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads.

With no time to build and run the large facilities required to enrich uranium, wartime Ukraine would have to rely instead on using plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods taken from Ukraine’s nuclear reactors.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (uxCna)

202 Former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, conservative lawyer who argued Bush 2000 recount case, dead at 84

His wife, Barbara Olson died on Flight 77 on 9/11

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (RHGPo)

203 Actress Rachel Zegler wrote, “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”
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How? You gonna take Christ away from us?

Hint: It's been tried

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (ksjMr)

204 Actress Rachel Zegler wrote, “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”
_______________

Forget it, Toots, your 15 minutes is up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (YqDXo)

205 What picture is needed? That Hegseth is hot? That I am a girl? I am so confused right now.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (p4NUW)
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Yes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (tT6L1)

206 Leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn’t want.
Posted by: Stateless

So you expect your baby daughter to grow up and be a ho? Who practices no contraception? Great expectations you got for your kiddo there, sugar tits.

These people are sick, sick, sick.

Oh, and did I mention that they are sick?

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (v6JzV)

207 Well, there are YouTube videos now.

Oh the technique is pretty well known. Its gathering the materials that's the challenge.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (Hh1ER)


I'm sure that in 1985 you can buy plutonium at every corner drugstore. In 1955 it's a little hard to come by!

Posted by: Doc Brown at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (+myjY)

208 THune will be good on Tax cuts and Judges. Probably shit on all else. Thankfully senate has nothing to door with border, except funding

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (YCxFk)

209 193 How do you guys presume to know who voted for whom, if it's a SECRET ballot?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (ckQml)

We can see the white smoke.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (QoyXi)

210 Apparently, there is a rumor floating around Congress, that anyone who tries to thwart Trump‘s agenda will have Elon Musk’s money primarying against them. That may be enough to keep a good amount of them in line. And honestly, for what Musk is doing lately, I wouldn’t doubt it.

Posted by: keena at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (RiTnx)

211 “I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in.

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Well, ms Zegler, there is a solution to that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (CIS44)

If she can sing and dance, she should try Bollywood. I don't think she has a chance, but it would get her out of the US.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (VNX3d)

212 196 171 Well. Piper is an 'ette.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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She knows the rule.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024

What picture is needed? That Hegseth is hot? That I am a girl? I am so confused right now.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (p4NUW

Send em a picture of your horse.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (mzM2O)

213 Maybe if they hadn't trusted Obama and the European community, and instead kept the nukes on their land, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place?
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It was Billy Clinton that got Ukraine to give up their nukes.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (AdHga)

214 I don't think the 17th was properly ratified.
Why would state legislatures vote to loose their own reps in the fed gov?
I think we need a forensic audit of all the Amendments starting at the end of the civil war.
Put Nevada and Vermont back into territory status.
Them being states and proper constitutional passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments are a bit at odds with each other.

Posted by: Reforger at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (xcIvR)

215 He learned how to throw his voice.
And he can toss a fart.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (TIPo8)

216 It's unclear to me if any changes are going to happen around the leader's ability to direct funds from it with Mitch no longer in the position.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Those are the secret deals by senators on an item by item basis for Thune winning. I would imagine that Cruz had a talk with Thune about the RSC excluding sitting senators from being funded by the mutual self aid fund that the RSC is.

But, the RSC pales if Trump controls the RNC and basic fundraising for the party.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (ctrM5)

217 Actress Rachel Zegler wrote, “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”

*THUMP!!!!*

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Agent's Forehead Hitting The Desk at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (+myjY)

218 All three of Cocaine Mitch's picks sucked the big one, as you might expect of that Manchurian leader.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (Da7Vv)

219 Patrick Webb @RealPatrickWebb 24m
BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)

220 I love that Elon/Vivek's DOGE is going to be transparent about what they are cutting and ask for input. Also that they are going to post the worst examples they find of government waste up on a wall of shame, and let us laugh at it and mock it. Exciting new days ahead.
Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (wcIbG)


Agreed. That money gets spent because people don't know. Make it public. Make them defend spending that money when Trump says to cut it. They're all cowards.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (ExV1e)

221 131 I understand a wild-eyed ideologue on the Left or the Right craving power to re-mold society as he sees fit, but I don't understand inert overweight soulless old NPCs craving power.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (pMi6S)

Same reason people become leaders of the HOA.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald


As in, some people just have a personality flaw in that they crave power somply for power's sake? Like, trhey are actually Sadists at heart (in the original sense of "Sadist" - someone who derives pleasure from controlling people)?

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (pMi6S)

222 216 Those are the secret deals by senators on an item by item basis for Thune winning. I would imagine that Cruz had a talk with Thune about the RSC excluding sitting senators from being funded by the mutual self aid fund that the RSC is.

But, the RSC pales if Trump controls the RNC and basic fundraising for the party.
Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (ctrM5)

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I can imagine secret deals. It'd be nice to know them.

I'm as important as any senator. I am a citizen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

223 You know that gif of the Witcher turning his head and slowing saying fuuuuuck.

That's how I feel about Thune.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (jyAD3)

224 Disney delayed putting out Snow White over a year, hoping the furor over her idiotic remarks would die down and people would forget. They even trotted her out on a podcast to talk about how much she loved the old animated movie and all. But she cannot keep her idiot hole shut.

And the woman has very little on her resume. Her big hit was the Hunger Games prequel, and it didn't make a lot (she wasn't even in it that much). Her big claim to fame is the dreadful box office bomb remake of West Side Story. Basically she's acting like she has Meryl Streep clout but is barely an actress.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (Hh1ER)

225 Maybe if they hadn't trusted Obama and the European community, and instead kept the nukes on their land, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place?

Ukraine had nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union, but they didn't have the codes needed to detonate the devices.

It would be like Louisiana trying to use the nukes stored at Barksdale Air Force Base.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (uxCna)

226 Well…at least our SecDef is hot.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

That he is. My goodness. *fans self*
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (DJ7uY)
________________

Hegseth is married, ladies. Well, for the 3rd time. Maybe you have a shot after all. LOL.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

227 #111 Zombie, probably for the sex.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (+m37i)

228 Well, there are YouTube videos now.

Oh the technique is pretty well known. Its gathering the materials that's the challenge.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (Hh1ER)

That, and finishing it before you die from radiation poisoning.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (VNX3d)

229 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna

DJT: Run Kodos, he has a board with a nail in it!

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (ksjMr)

230 Speaking of Corporate whores, is Paul Ryan hiding out?

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (YCxFk)

231 In other news, Ukraine is apparently developing nuclear weapons, preparing for a US aid cutoff.

The London Times:

❗️🇺🇦Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)

Without our money he won't be able to afford nuke bomb development.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (g8Ew8)

232 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Blue_Plains_Advanced_
Wastewater_Treatment_Plant

Posted by: DaveA at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (FhXTo)

233 If I'm reading the article correctly it appears that millennial women need an app or an actual therapist to tell them to go have kinky sex with their husbands/boyfriends even though they claim to be bored with their regular sex.

They were expecting the therapist to tell them to start sleeping around... for their mental health.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (ExV1e)

234 If the Ukraine used a rudimentary nuke against Russia the rest of the Ukraine not occupied by Russia would be as radioactive as Chernobyl

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (b2/S2)

235 223 You know that gif of the Witcher turning his head and slowing saying fuuuuuck.

That's how I feel about Thune.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (jyAD3)

We have elon money. We need blackmail material. Incentivize.

Every problem has a solution.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (QoyXi)

236 Yeah, I'd need to see the notes. The could BUY one given all the fucking money we have shoveled at them, but the engineering expertise to build one? Meh.

Japan would be the shortest if they decided to go. Everyone else would need to bulk up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (QoyXi)
_________________

Yep. Detonators for implosion devices need high-frequency capacitors (krytons) with wires of precisely the same length because electricity moves at 30 cm/nanosecond, and any mismatch will cause the implosion to fail.

So some serious engineering is involved.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (YqDXo)

237 Scott is popular with the base, but he has never been popular with the other Senators. They don’t like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (pnaBz)

238 160
Man! This Zegler chick is really doing everything she can to tank that 'Snow White' movie.

The DT's of staying away from social media must have gotten the better of her. She seemed to be doing a good job of keeping her gob shut for most of this year.

Posted by: Octochicken at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (oCS0o)

239 Actress Rachel Zegler wrote, “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”

In the post, she complained that her infant daughter may never get to have an abortion.

“I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. Leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn’t want. Leaning us towards a world that is fearful.”

The actress said she is “here with you,” to “cry, to yell, to hug.

Posted by: Stateless at November 13, 2024 01:49 PM (jvJvP)

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

"When will you realize ...
Vienna Venezuela waits for you!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (ijga9)

240 They were expecting the therapist to tell them to start sleeping around... for their mental health.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (ExV1e)
________________

Cure for hysteria?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (YqDXo)

241 The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads.
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Fat Man was the implosion device. It was not simple. That's why they needed to test it at Alamogordo.

Little Boy was the "gun" device. They knew it would work without having a test.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (z0QHk)

242 Every problem has a solution.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (QoyXi)

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I do like the way you think.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (jyAD3)

243 do Elon and Vivek know they will face a constant blizzard of lawsuits, starting the day Trump takes office?

they will need an entire division of lawyers

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (/7KEl)

244 Maybe if they hadn't trusted Obama and the European community, and instead kept the nukes on their land, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (JCZqz)

It was Bill Clinton.

I trusted Bill Clinton in a deal to give up my nukes and all I got was a lousy million corpses and 20% of my country laid waste.

Posted by: Ukraine at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (x5nKy)

245 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

MIC is in panic to get you Trumpublicans on board.

Super-secret Israeli decoders have determined Iran was backing Trump assassins.

Failure to give Ukraine another $200 billion means nuclear war.

Sadly, most conservatives will get in line and back more forever war, because they really have no discernment.

Posted by: Just sayin at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (8VHs6)

246 59 Thune won? Fine. Play the game the way the left does. Pretend to be pleased and a good sport, then find all the dirt on him you can. ALL the dirt. The stuff he doesn't want his wife, kids, grandma to ever know. Hold it over him until he buckles.

No more playtime with these losers thinking it's still the old games as usual. We have a country to save.
Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (wcIbG)
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Exactly. He can be made to do the right thing, even if it's for reasons of fear or greed. To quote the great political philosopher Londo Mollari, "They don't care WHY you do what you do, so long as you do it."

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (QdGJh)

247 Thunder is my senator. He sent me an "I'm going to fight for you ..blah..blah..." letter once. I responded that I didn't want to hear from him until he actually did something. I never heard from him again.

Posted by: Megthered at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (AN/yl)

248 "Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in."
________________

May I suggest seppuku?

I mean, we're not crazy about having you in this world either.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (YqDXo)

249 244 It was Bill Clinton.

I trusted Bill Clinton in a deal to give up my nukes and all I got was a lousy million corpses and 20% of my country laid waste.
Posted by: Ukraine at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (x5nKy)

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"I got more than that, personally."
-President Zelesnky, the Z-Man

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

250 Head of Ukraine is threatening to go nuclear if he get no more US baksheesh.
Give him two in the hat Vlad, he's begging for it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (wBaIH)

251 Murdoch is hiding also

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (YCxFk)

252 Yep. Detonators for implosion devices need high-frequency capacitors (krytons) with wires of precisely the same length because electricity moves at 30 cm/nanosecond, and any mismatch will cause the implosion to fail.

So some serious engineering is involved.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (YqDXo)



Pfft.

Posted by: A Gun-Type Fission Weapon at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (+myjY)

253 Fat Man was the implosion device. It was not simple. That's why they needed to test it at Alamogordo.

Little Boy was the "gun" device. They knew it would work without having a test.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (z0QHk)
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I believe wiring the explosives for the implosion was exceptionally tricky due to the need for the signal to hit all of the explosives at the same time.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (tT6L1)

254 Thunder = Thune
Not really just autocorrect

Posted by: Megthered at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (AN/yl)

255 Someone explain why Scott is better than Thune. I'm not saying he isn't, but I have never heard anyone articulate the case. Concrete reasons, not just some non-falsifiable assertion that Thune is "establishment" and Scott isn't.

Posted by: deepelemblues at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (hfKSC)

256 I'm sure that in 1985 you can buy plutonium at every corner drugstore. In 1955 it's a little hard to come by!

Nuclear weapon =/= atomic bomb. The materials require extreme refinement and a lot of raw materials. Remember the centrifuges in Iran that Israel destroyed? You can't just go to the Edmonds scientific catalog and buy this stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (Hh1ER)

257 As the guy says to his #metoo date.

Might as well do what you’re going to accuse me of anyway.

The vote is done. Let’s see what he does before we hang him.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (D6PGr)

258 The DOGE should follow the old Navy Beneficial Suggestion Program (Benny Sugs). Turn in something that saves big money, get a little monetary reward.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (gm9Sb)

259 Ukraine wants that 10% skim like Paulie Walnuts

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (YCxFk)

260 >>> I mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (oZhjI)

I almost downloaded a task app to help remind me to do basic chores like folding laundry and cleaning my room. So I am not the one to push back against things like this, ha.
(I know that sounds childish, but some days my ADHD is a beast on my executive functioning skills. Checking off a premade list I don't have to think about is soothing.)

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (wcIbG)

261 Head of Ukraine is threatening to go nuclear if he get no more US baksheesh.
Give him two in the hat Vlad, he's begging for it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov


US should cap him.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (kPAiX)

262 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.

Failure to give Ukraine another $200 billion means nuclear war.

Posted by: Just sayin at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (8VHs6)
_________________

The world's most obvious attempt to exert pressure.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (YqDXo)

263 >>It was Bill Clinton.

A Rittle Herp From My Flends

Posted by: China at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (z/jjr)

264 255. Thune is McConnel's butt boy

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (YCxFk)

265 Thunder = Thune
Not really just autocorrect
Posted by: Megthered at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (AN/yl)

Thunderfart?

I haven't paid attention to him, so I'm not sure if it fits. I've been stuck with a rubber stamp senator for so long, that I've given up on paying a lot of attention to the Senate.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (VNX3d)

266 US should cap him.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (kPAiX)
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As a gesture of good will to Putin or the American taxpayer?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (tT6L1)

267 Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX 47m
X usage is at an all-time high and continues to surge.

To all of our users -- of every interest, political party, and point of view -- You will always have a place to engage and join the global conversation freely and safely.

Legacy gatekeepers are yesterday’s “news.” 🚀

Catturd ™ @catturd2 41m
Remember when the Left said Elon Musk would bankrupt Twitter when he bought it? LOL.
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Nice touch with the rocket emoji.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (hovnC)

268 Yep. Detonators for implosion devices need high-frequency capacitors (krytons) with wires of precisely the same length because electricity moves at 30 cm/nanosecond, and any mismatch will cause the implosion to fail.

So some serious engineering is involved.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (YqDXo)

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Google AI Robot Engineers FTW!

What could go wrong?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (ijga9)

269 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna)


So, lemme see if I have this straight, the Ukrainian government is okay with a grinding conventional conflict which will kill, essentially, all the men in their country provided that the US continues shoving money at them but, if that stops, they want to be obliterated by nuclear fire and NOT take the rest of us with them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

270 Disney delayed putting out Snow White over a year, hoping the furor over her idiotic remarks would die down and people would forget. They even trotted her out on a podcast to talk about how much she loved the old animated movie and all. But she cannot keep her idiot hole shut.

And the woman has very little on her resume. Her big hit was the Hunger Games prequel, and it didn't make a lot (she wasn't even in it that much). Her big claim to fame is the dreadful box office bomb remake of West Side Story. Basically she's acting like she has Meryl Streep clout but is barely an actress.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (Hh1ER)
________

Zegler seems to somehow have the backing of some major players including Spielberg, who inexplicably cast her in the WSS remake. There's nothing about her looks, talent, or charisma -- or even an ability to not be a toxic twat cuntflap -- that suggests her career is based on anything other than sucking the right dicks.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

271 I am willing to give Thune a chance. But he is on a very short leash.

Start by allowing Trump to have recess appointments.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (nLFEI)

272 Every problem has a solution.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:56 PM (QoyXi)

Unfortunately for the Left not every solution has a problem.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (ksjMr)

273 255 Someone explain why Scott is better than Thune. I'm not saying he isn't, but I have never heard anyone articulate the case. Concrete reasons, not just some non-falsifiable assertion that Thune is "establishment" and Scott isn't.
Posted by: deepelemblues at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (hfKSC)

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Not being hand-picked by Mitch as his successor was a plus. Backed by Trump was a plus. A slightly better voting record was a plus. Slightly better rhetoric was a plus.

Support of red flag laws was a minus. Being a politician (therefore, gutter trash) was a minus.

Really, Scott was the best of a bad bunch, and the measuring stick was really his opposition to Mitch (as evidenced by his previous run against Mitch in 2022) and Trump's implicit support. It's weak tea and nothing to light hair on fire over, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

274 230 Speaking of Corporate whores, is Paul Ryan hiding out?

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 01:55 PM (YCxFk)

Yes, giving blowjobs behind the 7-11.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (wtvvX)

275 I would make that announcement TODAY if I were Thune.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (nLFEI)

276 You can't just go to the Edmonds scientific catalog and buy this stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (Hh1ER)
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Oh, so you checked too?

When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (YqDXo)

277 It's gotten to the point where leftist mothers will encourage their teen daughters to have unprotected sex for the very purpose of getting pregnant so that they can then wail, 'See? Thanks to Trump, she can't have an abortion!!!", using their own children as propaganda props.

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (pMi6S)

278 His wife, Barbara Olson died on Flight 77 on 9/11

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (RHGPo)

She had information that may have lead to the indictment of Hildabeast. AND wasn't supposed to be on the plane.

Posted by: Reforger at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (xcIvR)

279 Per Jesse Kelly, conservatoves need to get as active and fire up in primary elections as we do in Presidential elections. No excuse for a Lankford, Cornyn, Thune in those states.

Posted by: Candidus at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (grzzz)

280 270 Zegler seems to somehow have the backing of some major players including Spielberg, who inexplicably cast her in the WSS remake. There's nothing about her looks, talent, or charisma -- or even an ability to not be a toxic twat cuntflap -- that suggests her career is based on anything other than sucking the right dicks.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

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Her casting in WWS was an effort to try and translate social media fans into ticket buyers (Zegler has a big YouTube presence that got her to fame).

It didn't work, and WWS bombed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

281 Put Nevada and Vermont back into territory status.
Posted by: Reforger

Vermont was never a territory. It was disputed ground between NY, MA, and NH(?). It was de facto independent during the Revolution, but joined the American side.

After the War, the territorial squabbles among the states were resolved, and Vermont joined the Union as the 14th state.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (v6JzV)

282 Legacy gatekeepers are yesterday’s “news.” 🚀

Catturd ™ @catturd2 41m
Remember when the Left said Elon Musk would bankrupt Twitter when he bought it? LOL.
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Nice touch with the rocket emoji.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (hovnC)

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Musk should offer them free one-way trips to Mars.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (ijga9)

283 You can't just go to the Edmonds scientific catalog and buy this stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (Hh1ER)
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Oh, so you checked too?

When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (YqDXo)

https://www.edmundoptics.com/

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (VNX3d)

284 Tesla stock is soaring

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (YCxFk)

285 261 Head of Ukraine is threatening to go nuclear if he get no more US baksheesh.
Give him two in the hat Vlad, he's begging for it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov


US should cap him.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 01:59 PM (kPAiX)

"It ain't personal; it's business..."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2024 02:03 PM (wtvvX)

286 Well. Piper is an 'ette.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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She knows the rule.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:50 PM (ksjMr)


She was at the TXMoMe. No photos but I can confirm that she is an 'ette.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:03 PM (ExV1e)

287 When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.

I could never afford anything in it but I used to love looking through it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (Hh1ER)

288 Google AI Robot Engineers FTW!

What could go wrong?
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If the launch code includes the "n" word, Google AI won't let it detonate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (fs1hN)

289 Catturd ™ @catturd2 41m
Remember when the Left said Elon Musk would bankrupt Twitter when he bought it? LOL.
________________

Leftists are now claiming that Trump will crash the economy.

As if.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (YqDXo)

290 Why would Ukraine have to 'produce' a nuclear bomb? I think slick Willie made a deal for them to turn over all the USSR nukes they had, but we are to believe that they didn't hold one back and just turn over a dud with some uranium or whatever to satisfy the geiger counters?

Plus which, I think bombs are relatively easy, missiles or bomber jets to get them where you want them is the big hurdle. Its why it would be nice to have a secure border so Iran doesn't get some nut to smuggle in a bomb in a backpack across the mexican border.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (zYCTH)

291 Why oh why did John Lasseter have to hire Zegler for his new movie Spellbound? (which comes out this month on streaming I think.) I want him to do well to stick it to Disney. And he hired Alan Mencken to help with the music. But Zegler is toxic, and I don't want to touch any project she's in with a ten foot pole.

Do I let my love for Lasseter overcome my hatred of Zegler...

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (wcIbG)

292 Scott does not have to rely on outside money, so he is less likely to be totally corrupted. Does not mean he is better, but he does not have to have his hand out all the time.

The dude cut his campaigns 40mill checks often.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (7PziG)

293 Zegler seems to somehow have the backing of some major players including Spielberg, who inexplicably cast her in the WSS remake. There's nothing about her looks, talent, or charisma -- or even an ability to not be a toxic twat cuntflap -- that suggests her career is based on anything other than sucking the right dicks.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

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Her casting in WWS was an effort to try and translate social media fans into ticket buyers (Zegler has a big YouTube presence that got her to fame).

It didn't work, and WWS bombed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)
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Social media fans based on what??? I'm sticking to the dick theory. Even if she somehow bamboozled Spielberg, that wouldn't explain how she keeps getting big roles despite being box office poison.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

294 “Ukraine could build a rudimentary nuke.”
That’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. Ignoring the engineering difficulties, suppose they did produce one and use it. What will they have accomplished? By using it first, they will have completely justified Russia in striking back a few minutes later with about 50 nukes of their own. Yeah, that’s a brilliant plan.

They’d be better off building a rudimentary lathe.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (pnaBz)

295 When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.

I could never afford anything in it but I used to love looking through it
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (Hh1ER)


Just the idea of owning your own laser was awesome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (+myjY)

296 Tesla stock is soaring
Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 02:02 PM (YCxFk)

So is DOGECoin

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 02:05 PM (CIS44)

297 She was at the TXMoMe. No photos but I can confirm that she is an 'ette.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:03 PM (ExV1e)

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A wee little 'ette, but most definitely an 'ette.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:05 PM (tT6L1)

298 senate gop proving once again that they're the shittiest part of the republican party.

Posted by: Humble Doom Merchant at November 13, 2024 02:05 PM (cMODS)

299 her career is based on anything other than sucking the right dicks.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


As Monica Lewisnky described in her deposition, Clinton had a "right dick," in that it bent sideways to the right. (Plus had vitiligo-esque white splotches, which is gross..)

So, sucking the right dick is always a good career choice.

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 02:05 PM (pMi6S)

300 187
Right?? He's the real sexiest man of the year. People got it wrong.

I said this yesterday...if he ever runs for president, liberal women won't know what to do with themselves.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (wcIbG)

--- ---

Vance-Hesgeth 2028
"Ladies, just look at those eyes."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 02:05 PM (6ydKt)

301 You overturned a legitimate election with a coup after rejecting an offer for an international monitored early election , immediately banned the Russian language, threatened to cross Putin’s line and join NATO, continued to bomb Donbas and laundered all the Left’s crooked money.

Now you’ve taken 200 billion of our tax dollars to ‘protect’ your border when we lose trillions with ours wide open .

Impossible for me to have any empathy for Ukraine.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (D6PGr)

302
Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna

Wait... who exactly is Ukraine at war with?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (ksjMr)

303 An early indicator of how the Senate under Thune will go will be the Pete Hegseth confirmations hearings. The nexus of Congress, the Pentagon, and military contractors is ripe with characters out to protect their own personal, institutional, and corporate interests at any cost. I will be shocked if Hegseth isn't beset by withering interrogations from all sides in the confirmation hearings. His confirmation is anything but a sure thing it seems at this time.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (vO42M)

304 Why would Ukraine have to 'produce' a nuclear bomb? I think slick Willie made a deal for them to turn over all the USSR nukes they had, but we are to believe that they didn't hold one back and just turn over a dud with some uranium or whatever to satisfy the geiger counters?
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I'm not sure that a 35+ year old nuclear device is still usable. I know that we rotate out old stuff and replace it with new.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (z0QHk)

305 Pfft.
Posted by: A Gun-Type Fission Weapon at November 13, 2024 01:58 PM (+myjY)

But for the standard old uranium gun weapon, you DO need Uranium separation. Think Ukraine could put together an Oak Ridge, Tenn in a couple months?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (QoyXi)

306 They got rid of McCarthy...

Posted by: Enough BS at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (2NXcZ)

307 293 Social media fans based on what??? I'm sticking to the dick theory. Even if she somehow bamboozled Spielberg, that wouldn't explain how she keeps getting big roles despite being box office poison.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

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Hollywood wants the star to be the reason movies succeed and fail. It makes explaining why some succeed and others fail easy.

So, they try to create stars.

Not saying Zegler hasn't been used like probably any actress of any prominence over the past century, just that, like the League of Shadows trying new methods to destroy civilization when it becomes too corrupt, this time Hollywood tried: pre-existing social media fanbase.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

308 That Ted Cruz voted for Thune?

Cruz knows that Rat Fucker Cornyn to well to vote for him. The only person in the senate worse than Thune would have been Cornyn. At least there is some minor chance we can get reciprocity with Thune. There is zero chance had it been Cornshit.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (Da7Vv)

309 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna

Wait... who exactly is Ukraine at war with?
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (ksjMr)

Exactly. Sounds an awful lot like extortion, doesn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (QoyXi)

310 When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.

I could never afford anything in it but I used to love looking through it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (Hh1ER)
__________________

I had a whole functioning lab when I was 12. I blew my entire allowance on glassware and reagents at a nearby chemical stores company. (Clarkson Chemical, in Chula Vista; my father used to actually buy the stuff, because there was no way they'd sell most of the reagents to a 12 year-old!)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (YqDXo)

311 I say call their bluff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (QoyXi)

312 That, plus their description of what is "kinky" seems like normal sex or at least nothing risque.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (iFTx/)


Wow. I've never considered having sex on a Tuesday.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (ExV1e)

313 Cruz is only good at bloviating and naming post offices.

Posted by: Enough BS at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (2NXcZ)

314 So we get rid of McConnell for someone worse. The GOP is so terrible.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (d2bW3)

315 FWIW

@redsteeze retweeted
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
1h
John Thune was the best option for Senate Majority Leader. The job requires a particular set of skills, and they aren't the ones that have been loudly discussed over the last week. I'm glad he was chosen. He'll be good in the role.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (VnUSN)

316 314 So we get rid of McConnell for someone worse. The GOP is so terrible.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (d2bW3)

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I doubt Thune is worse.

It could be like the move from Reid to Schumer. Schumer is not as smart as Reid was or as cunning, but he was still bad. Just not as bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

317 136 From last thread by Mr Ghost:

New York Post
@nypost

Couples are turning to kinky sex to save their relationships: survey https://trib.al/inoW05G


If I'm reading the article correctly it appears that millennial women need an app or an actual therapist to tell them to go have kinky sex with their husbands/boyfriends even though they claim to be bored with their regular sex.

I mean...do millennials need an app to tell them to eat food and brush their teeth as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (oZhjI)


If these kids knew what their parents did/do behind closed doors, they would run screaming into the night, crying for ALL of the brain bleach.

Every generation thinks that they invented sex 🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (SRRAx)

318 Zombie, a mom on TikTok banned family from seeing her for the holidays because she's going to be too busy, in Trump's America, getting an IUD for her 17 year old daughter.

If your daughter is having unprotected sex, yes, birth control! I'm glad you are finally stepping up to the plate! Stop being a drama queen.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (wcIbG)

319 277 It's gotten to the point where leftist mothers will encourage their teen daughters to have unprotected sex for the very purpose of getting pregnant so that they can then wail, 'See? Thanks to Trump, she can't have an abortion!!!", using their own children as propaganda props.
Posted by: zombie
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*cuck husband appears behind her on her tiktok video*
"Actually our state law does allow...."
*leftist mom of the year waves him off*
"I don't need your mansplaining!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (fs1hN)

320
Exactly. Sounds an awful lot like extortion, doesn't it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (QoyXi

Also doesn't it indicate they DON'T need aid?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (ksjMr)

321 219 Patrick Webb @RealPatrickWebb 24m
BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)
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Musk's not fooling around.

Posted by: WisRich at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (Qgr0I)

322 They have a reactor they keep shelling...profit

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 13, 2024 02:09 PM (pGTZo)

323 LOL. Oak Ridge during the war had ladies staffing a lot of the machinery for the gaseous uranium separation because minute changes needed to be made immediately. I just had a mental image of a bunch of Instagram thots (who seem to be Ukraine's primary export) sitting on a stool in front of a control panel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:09 PM (QoyXi)

324 Leftists are now claiming that Trump will crash the economy.

As if.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (YqDXo)

As with every other Republican President they will attempt to do everything they can to make sure it happens.

Homelessness of course will now increase by 200% and every other terrible stat that they have suppressed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 02:09 PM (D6PGr)

325 FWIW

@redsteeze retweeted
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
1h
John Thune was the best option for Senate Majority Leader. The job requires a particular set of skills, and they aren't the ones that have been loudly discussed over the last week. I'm glad he was chosen. He'll be good in the role.
Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (VnUSN)
_________________________

#DeportWorthlessToryLimeys

Posted by: Humble Doom Merchant at November 13, 2024 02:09 PM (cMODS)

326 Catturd ™ @catturd2 Nov 11
This is John Thune - no different than Liz Cheney.
Senator John Thune @SenJohnThune 6 Jan 2022
My statement on the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot⬇️

Jack Poso @JackPosobiec Nov 11
FLASHBACK: Here are Thune *and* Cornyn going on broadcast TV and TRASHING President Trump after the E Jean Carroll case just last year - 2023

Nick Sortor @nicksortor 1h
🚨 #BREAKING: John Thune WINS the vote for Senate Majority Leader over John Cornyn
29-24
The Senate has BETRAYED Americans.

Catturd ™ @catturd2 1h
Trump won a historic landslide and a national mandate so naturally our Republican Senate elects one of the biggest Trump haters on planet earth as Majority leader @johnthune

These skunks hate you.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:09 PM (hovnC)

327 Maybe if they hadn't trusted Obama and the European community, and instead kept the nukes on their land, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (JCZqz)


OTOH, if NATO hadn't expanded eastward after promising to not do so, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place.

Or, if the CIA hadn't run a color revolution in Ukraine, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (ExV1e)

328 Rachael Zegler - there are actors and actresses that Hollywood LIKES for some reason, and they will shove into anything and everything they can. Agents matter. Politics matter. So does dick sucking. It's hard to say.

Jai Courtney
Taylor Kitsch
Armie Hammer
Sam Worthington
Ruby Rose

All pushed relentlessly in the press, all duds. Most are fine as character actors. But leads they ain't.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (nLFEI)

329 This is how we lose the midterms lol.

Thanks Washington Generals.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (eZwyX)

330 Wow. I've never considered having sex on a Tuesday.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (ExV1e)

'How about a kiss boy?! You don't need to go barging at the clitoris right off!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (QoyXi)

331 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna

Wait... who exactly is Ukraine at war with?
Posted by: ...


If Trump cuts their aid, they won't have two months.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (kPAiX)

332 There are easier ways to make more money in the private sector, I would imagine.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (pMi6S)

Easier than coming up with new bullshit every day to make yourself rich, and having people beating down your door to enrich you? How much easier do you want?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (ksjMr)

333 321 Musk's not fooling around.

Posted by: WisRich at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (Qgr0I)

-- --

Something tells me that Musk won't get away with it as easily as Soros&Son have.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (6ydKt)

334 Why do reliably red states keep sending us RINO rat fucking fucks who fucks a ratters fuck?

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (M7vhK)

335 Can we deport Cooke, please?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (QoyXi)

336 Jai Courtney
Taylor Kitsch
Armie Hammer
Sam Worthington
Ruby Rose

All pushed relentlessly in the press, all duds. Most are fine as character actors. But leads they ain't.
Posted by: El Mariachi at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (nLFEI)

Armie Hammer has PNG for quite awhile now, after the whole cannibal stuff

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (CIS44)

337 Ignorant redneck kids are the youngest to ever build a nuclear reactor.

I think the one from Arkansas overtook the one from TN as the youngest.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (D6PGr)

338 334 Why do reliably red states keep sending us RINO rat fucking fucks who fucks a ratters fuck?
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (M7vhK)

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Why are reliably red states run by machine politics that are probably more corrupt than DC on a per capita basis?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

339 297 She was at the TXMoMe. No photos but I can confirm that she is an 'ette.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:03 PM (ExV1e)

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A wee little 'ette, but most definitely an 'ette.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:05 PM (tT6L1)


Piper is a dear! So sweet - glad I got to make her acquaintance 😊♥️🦎

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (SRRAx)

340 Sadly not surprised

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

341 214 I don't think the 17th was properly ratified.
Why would state legislatures vote to loose their own reps in the fed gov?
I think we need a forensic audit of all the Amendments starting at the end of the civil war.
Put Nevada and Vermont back into territory status.
Them being states and proper constitutional passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments are a bit at odds with each other.
Posted by: Reforger
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Non-starter on revoking the 17th. But too many people never look at the history of the Senate under the old rules and there is a reason that by the time the amendment passed, most states filled those seats via popular referenda instead of the state leg selecting the senator.

Senate, then as now, was filled with corrupt senators and party bosses with even less consideration for their constituents than there is now.

Basically all the Founders recognized that all of the Constitution and its provisions does not work if the people of the US themselves are corrupt because politics is always downstream from society. A corrupt and venal society breeds corrupt and venal officeholders.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (ctrM5)

342 The Senate is more sensitive to their donor base. Turtle played that vulnerability like a maestro, so I expect that the donors will use their influence in the Senate to "temper" Trump's reforms.

That, plus the razor-thin majority in the House, means that the President needs the best and brightest in his Office of Legislative Affairs, particularly his choice for Director.

Posted by: mrp at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (rj6Yv)

343 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (SRRAx)

Teresa I missed any update and have been thinking/worrying. How are you?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (ksjMr)

344 Tim Scott will be senate election chair

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (YCxFk)

345 Maybe they voted Thune so they could continue to get stock tips in the SCIF?

Posted by: torabora at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (XBYfz)

346 This is how we lose the midterms lol.

Thanks Washington Generals.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (eZwyX)

I was going to go with Washington Privates, but they're much more useful than Congress. Perhaps the Washington Ball Washers? Washington Shysters? Washington Scum?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (VNX3d)

347 I remember when kinky sex meant doing it in a different room

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (/7KEl)

348 When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.-

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Carolina Biological. I wanted a real human skull for a candy dish. Then I got married. Nope.

Posted by: Freds Revenge 'I was killed too you know' at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (dXALN)

349 They keep trying to make jai courtney happen

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (pGTZo)

350 Why are reliably red states run by machine politics that are probably more corrupt than DC on a per capita basis?

***********************

I have no idea what you mean.

Posted by: Tennessee Politics at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (M7vhK)

351 Thune and Barasso , top 2 in Senate Majority, come from states that total 6 electoral votes

Posted by: Jonah at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (YCxFk)

352 Exactly. Sounds an awful lot like extortion, doesn't it?

It is, its basically "you have to keep giving us billions or we'll start a nuclear war" which isn't gonna happen. Look I have sympathy for Ukraine, they were invaded by a mobster state to just take land because they didn't like how Ukraine was doing things. Fine, I didn't like how they were doing things, either. But that doesn't justify invasion, that was the entire point of the Treaty of Westphalia.

But Ukraine is insanely corrupt, they are selling the weapons we send them in bazaars around the world, and the money isn't going primarily to the war effort but to pockets of Ukranians in power (and being laundered to US corruptocrats).

So I get them being desperate: they want that money to keep pouring in, and are up against the wall against a much bigger, much more powerful opponent that is winning. But they're going about it all wrong and cannot be trusted, either. I am sick of the USA becoming entangled with scumbag conflicts where there are no good guys.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (Hh1ER)

353 These couples have been going to New Jersey.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (ksjMr)

354 Piper is a dear! So sweet - glad I got to make her acquaintance 😊♥️🦎
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (SRRAx)
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Yes, Piper is a treasure, as are you. Glad to have seen you the last two TX gatherings.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (tT6L1)

355 Moar Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
2h
Not the role of the United States House of Representatives.

Rachel Schilke
@rachel_schilke
3h
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls tells reporters the conference should be in lock-step with Trump:

“If Donald Trump says, ‘jump three feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads. That’s it.”

Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (VnUSN)

356 Trump should meet with Thune today before he leaves DC and lay down the law with him.

Posted by: WisRich at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (Qgr0I)

357 Patrick Webb @RealPatrickWebb 24m
BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)
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Wonderful. God love Elon Musk.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (YqDXo)

358 Cruz is only good at bloviating and naming post offices.
Posted by: Enough BS at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (2NXcZ)

What hasn’t he done that you think he can do?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (D6PGr)

359 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 3h
Trump just joked he isn't running again in 2028 unless House Republicans "figure something else out" LMAO.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (hovnC)

360 277 It's gotten to the point where leftist mothers will encourage their teen daughters to have unprotected sex for the very purpose of getting pregnant so that they can then wail, 'See? Thanks to Trump, she can't have an abortion!!!", using their own children as propaganda props.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (pMi6S)

Right there in line with their embracing of transgender agendas and sterilizing them at the age of 6.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (pZEOD)

361 BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)
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Good for Elon.. Putting his money where his mouth is...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (IyPmt)

362 Why are reliably red states run by machine politics that are probably more corrupt than DC on a per capita basis?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Because of how campaigns are financed and reliance on using TV ads, etc. skews power toward those with the biggest checkbooks aka Chamber of Commerce effect.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (ctrM5)

363 BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)

Soon: Left introduces bill to ban money from politics.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (ksjMr)

364 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 3h
Trump just joked he isn't running again in 2028 unless House Republicans "figure something else out" LMAO.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (hovnC)

DICTATOR REEEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 02:15 PM (CIS44)

365 3 days down, 3 to go this week

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (AYz4A)

366 When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.

I could never afford anything in it but I used to love looking through it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:04 PM (Hh1ER)
__________________

I had a whole functioning lab when I was 12. I blew my entire allowance on glassware and reagents at a nearby chemical stores company. (Clarkson Chemical, in Chula Vista; my father used to actually buy the stuff, because there was no way they'd sell most of the reagents to a 12 year-old!)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (YqDXo
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My high school had a very serious lab used by real researchers. My bio teacher (foolishly) allowed me unrestricted and unsupervised access. I squandered this trust by fucking around and finding out. 13-year-old me wanted to create a "hyper acid" from the existing super acids. I ended up creating an acid bomb that literally blew up in my face. I was incredibly lucky that the exploding acid missed by eyes (by millimeters) and I had the presence of mind to go right for the safety-wash station. I still have very faint scars on my hands from acid burn. The lab was almost destroyed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

367 >>OTOH, if NATO hadn't expanded eastward after promising to not do so, they wouldn't have been invaded by Russia in the first place.

So I should just grab my ankles?

Posted by: Finland at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (x5nKy)

368 190 LOL They act like its that easy to make a nuke.

They're trying to send a message.

OTOH, for low-grade WMDs, Ukraine definitely has enough high-level nuclear waste that it could disperse as a weapon.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:51 PM (uxCna)

Maybe they didn't give up ALL their nukes after the Soviet Union fell.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (QGaXH)

369
334 Why do reliably red states keep sending us RINO rat fucking fucks who fucks a ratters fuck?
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 13, 2024 02:11 PM (M7vhK)

Because the instant a state becomes “reliable” elections become predictable and machine politics take over. Sadly Texas is there right now - the final outcome is known in advance, so the real contest is who the Party allows on its primary ballot, and who it doesn’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (pnaBz)

370 Carolina Biological. I wanted a real human skull for a candy dish. Then I got married. Nope.

Posted by: Freds Revenge 'I was killed too you know' at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (dXALN)
________________

I used to get cultures of protozoans that I couldn't find to culture myself. Particularly Stentor (looks like a tornado), which apparently in the presence of lithium salts undergoes incomplete mitosis, producing Siamese twin Stentors.

I thought that would be cool to see.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (YqDXo)

371 355 Moar Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
2h
Not the role of the United States House of Representatives.

Rachel Schilke
@rachel_schilke
3h
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls tells reporters the conference should be in lock-step with Trump:

“If Donald Trump says, ‘jump three feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads. That’s it.”
Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (VnUSN)

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Cooke wants a return to an idealized view of American governance where the three branches were jealous of their own powers and were in conflict based on those oppositional powers.

Until Congress actually acts like it, though, it will always be subject to party whims.

The House could pass individual budget bills with clearly outlined priorities and clear language about what the executive can and can't do. Instead, they sign CRs. So, Congress is just an enabling chamber for the executive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

372 Oh my gosh, I leave for 15 minutes to clean a bathroom and return to find these nice comments! Thank y’all so much, I am blushing!

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (pZEOD)

373 Elon and Vivek as the Bobs. Should be fun.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (tT6L1)

374 318 Zombie, a mom on TikTok banned family from seeing her for the holidays because she's going to be too busy, in Trump's America, getting an IUD for her 17 year old daughter.

If your daughter is having unprotected sex, yes, birth control! I'm glad you are finally stepping up to the plate! Stop being a drama queen.
Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (wcIbG)


See? There ARE alternatives to abortion!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (SRRAx)

375 What hasn’t he done that you think he can do?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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He could have moved to recess during Trump's first term. Deny unanimous consent to move massive spending bills to the floor, etc.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (ctrM5)

376 369 Because the instant a state becomes “reliable” elections become predictable and machine politics take over. Sadly Texas is there right now - the final outcome is known in advance, so the real contest is who the Party allows on its primary ballot, and who it doesn’t.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (pnaBz)

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And then the machine exerts its influence upwards with federal seats that "the people" choose.

People want SD to stop supporting Thune?

Attack him at the local level by attacking the machine in the state that backs him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

377 All pushed relentlessly in the press, all duds. Most are fine as character actors. But leads they ain't.

Zendaya
Timothée Chalamet
Pedro Pascal

Hollywood used to be better at creating stars, but they keep pushing actors and actresses that they want to be big but actual ticket buyers don't care much about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:17 PM (Hh1ER)

378 Call me naive but at this moment I don’t think Thune matters all that much. He’ll be Trump road kill if he tries to get in the way…. This is not 2016 Trump. 2024 Trump is in beast mode

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2024 02:17 PM (ANuwa)

379 Hesgeth is more than a pretty face.

Interesting discussion about U.S. vs. China:

https://youtu.be/4WRj8JFNkiM

(w/ Shawn Ryan - 8mins47s)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 02:17 PM (6ydKt)

380 309 Ukraine could produce a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if 🇺🇸Trump cuts off military aid, – The Times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 13, 2024 01:48 PM (uxCna

Wait... who exactly is Ukraine at war with?
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (ksjMr)

Exactly. Sounds an awful lot like extortion, doesn't it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (QoyXi)
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Vlad has an opportunity here. Get some troops over the border into Ukraine, plant a few Soviet-era nukes or at least essential parts of nukes that Ukraine "didn't relinquish," then "recover" them and show the world that Ukraine is a rogue state looking to nuke their neighbors. Use the report from The Times as justification for the raid, and even thank them for tipping him off. He's probably smarter than the Bush/Cheney people, so he might be able to pull it off.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at November 13, 2024 02:17 PM (QdGJh)

381 An early indicator of how the Senate under Thune will go will be the Pete Hegseth confirmations hearings. The nexus of Congress, the Pentagon, and military contractors is ripe with characters out to protect their own personal, institutional, and corporate interests at any cost. I will be shocked if Hegseth isn't beset by withering interrogations from all sides in the confirmation hearings. His confirmation is anything but a sure thing it seems at this time.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 13, 2024 02:06 PM (vO42M)

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Gloria Allred already has dozens of women lined up who will "testify" to Hegseth high school rape parties from decades ago where he grabbed them all by the mish simultaneously!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (lP9TH)

382 107 Thune isn't up for election until 2028, so a primary opponent isn't going to scare him a bit.

PDT urged Noem to run against Thune in 2022, but she declined. Giving her a high-profile job in DC might make Thune a bit anxious about 2028.

Posted by: EveR at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (MUpk6)

383 Ukraine may have one or two nukes they secretly kept . Russia has hundreds.

Is Ukraine run by the Mullahs now?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (D6PGr)

384 Vance-Hesgeth 2028
"Ladies, just look at those eyes."
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Seems like the ladies get a lot of eye candy with this administration.

But we guys get Melania back, so it's a fair trade.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (v6JzV)

385 351 Thune and Barasso , top 2 in Senate Majority, come from states that total 6 electoral votes
_____

Thune and Barasso represent 1 state each, equal to every other senator.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (fs1hN)

386 For my science fair project I cultured Euglena (a photosynthetic protozoan), and fed them brewer's yeast dyed with a pH indicator, so when they engulfed the yeast I could estimate the pH in their digestive vacuoles.

That's how I spent my boyhood. That, and playing baseball!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

387 Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
2h
Not the role of the United States House of Representatives.

Rachel Schilke
@rachel_schilke
3h
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls tells reporters the conference should be in lock-step with Trump:

“If Donald Trump says, ‘jump three feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads. That’s it.”
Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (VnUSN)

Actually, that is the role of the House. They reflect the will of the people, and the people spoke on Guy Fawkes Night. The Senate was meant to be the "cooling saucer".

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (2m0Vp)

388 Oh. "Blushing" not "flushing".

Whew, that was a close one!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (hovnC)

389 I used to get cultures of protozoans that I couldn't find to culture myself. Particularly Stentor (looks like a tornado), which apparently in the presence of lithium salts undergoes incomplete mitosis, producing Siamese twin Stentors.

I thought that would be cool to see.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (YqDXo)

It would. Definitely. Now I feel foolish wanting a candy dish. Shoulda thought bigger.

Posted by: Freds Revenge 'I was killed too you know' at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (dXALN)

390 287 When I was a boy I almost had the Edmonds scientific catalog memorized.

I could never afford anything in it but I used to love looking through it
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When my son was little his head would explode when the new Thomas the Tank Engine catalogue would arrive. I would read it it to him nightly. It still amazes me how much and how fast little kids learn things.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (AdHga)

391 385 351 Thune and Barasso , top 2 in Senate Majority, come from states that total 6 electoral votes
_____

Thune and Barasso represent 1 state each, equal to every other senator.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (fs1hN)

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I remember when it was the worst that McCarthy was from California.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

392 207
I'm sure that in 1985 you can buy plutonium at every corner drugstore. In 1955 it's a little hard to come by!
Posted by: Doc Brown at November 13, 2024 01:53 PM (+myjY)

EXCELLENT!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (QGaXH)

393 I still have very faint scars on my hands from acid burn. The lab was almost destroyed.

You didn't gain superpowers and become Acid Man?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (Hh1ER)

394 Patrick Webb @RealPatrickWebb 24m
BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)



PRO TIP: Don't blow up the budget by hiring Beyonce and Oprah.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (+myjY)

395 Elon and Vivek as the Bobs. Should be fun.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)

Some of these should be PPV - especially at the highest levels. It would be illuminating, if not hilarious.

I might even get cable again if that's the only way to watch.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (VNX3d)

396 Hesgeth is more than a pretty face.

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But does he have nice legs?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (lP9TH)

397 It's gotten to the point where leftist mothers will encourage their teen daughters to have unprotected sex for the very purpose of getting pregnant so that they can then wail, 'See? Thanks to Trump, she can't have an abortion!!!", using their own children as propaganda props.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (pMi6S)


Despite the fact that the loudest of them all live in states where elective abortion up to the 53rd trimester is permitted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (ExV1e)

398 Oh my gosh, I leave for 15 minutes to clean a bathroom and return to find these nice comments! Thank y’all so much, I am blushing!
Posted by: Piper

Did you get the three-days-dead guy out of the tanning booth?

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (v6JzV)

399 Vance-Hesgeth 2028
"Ladies, just look at those eyes."
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Seems like the ladies get a lot of eye candy with this administration.

But we guys get Melania back, so it's a fair trade.
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:18 PM (v6JzV)
________

"Hey, what about me??"

-- "Admiral" Rachel Levine

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

400 I'll get Hegseth's name right eventually....

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (6ydKt)

401 Ukraine is the mouse to Russia's cat. They always have been messing with their neighbors.
The big reason is Crimea.

Posted by: torabora at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (XBYfz)

402 I'm not sure that a 35+ year old nuclear device is still usable.

If Little Boy was still around, I can guarantee that barring excessive rust or corrosion, it would still go off. The half life of U235 is millions of years. The only thing that fails in a nuke is the initial neutron generator and all that does is speed up the process by a few fission generations. Since a fission generation is about 10 nanoseconds the bomb wouldn't have much extra chance to disassemble itself. The fusing radar might require replacing some components, but the bomb itself would still go.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (Da7Vv)

403 354 Piper is a dear! So sweet - glad I got to make her acquaintance 😊♥️🦎
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (SRRAx)
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Yes, Piper is a treasure, as are you. Glad to have seen you the last two TX gatherings.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:14 PM (tT6L1)


Aww, you're so sweet! I am glad we got to meet, too. I plan on being at the 10th MoMe 😊♥️🦎

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:20 PM (SRRAx)

404 My high school had a very serious lab used by real researchers. My bio teacher (foolishly) allowed me unrestricted and unsupervised access. I squandered this trust by fucking around and finding out. 13-year-old me wanted to create a "hyper acid" from the existing super acids. I ended up creating an acid bomb that literally blew up in my face. I was incredibly lucky that the exploding acid missed by eyes (by millimeters) and I had the presence of mind to go right for the safety-wash station. I still have very faint scars on my hands from acid burn. The lab was almost destroyed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Wow. You WERE lucky. VERY lucky.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (YqDXo)

405 Oh, no!!! First the Guardian and now this!

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 4h
#NEW: Don Lemon is leaving X.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (hovnC)

406 But does he have nice legs?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (lP9TH)

-- --

I dunno about those but by the looks of his arms he's going to be the most tatted up SecDef in history.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

407 When my son was little his head would explode when the new Thomas the Tank Engine catalogue would arrive. I would read it it to him nightly. It still amazes me how much and how fast little kids learn things.
Posted by: Pudinhead


A don't remember a catalog, but my son also loved the Thomas stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (v6JzV)

408 I'm willing to give Thune a chance.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (ljnbz)

409 It is also possible that the "Ukraine might make nukes" didn't come from Ukraine at all, but is a leak by the Defense Industry hoping to scare people into keeping the grift going.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (Hh1ER)

410 >>>Elon and Vivek as the Bobs. Should be fun.

@Oilfield_Rando on X has been posting some of the extreme stuff we're all paying for. For example:

Agency for International Development grant (2023)
Amount: $1,499,999

Recipient: Grupa Izadji

Purpose: This activity aims to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people in Serbia. It will foster an environment that increases employment potential for LGBTQI+ persons, expands opportunities for LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs, and reduces workplace discrimination.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (CwhoI)

411 >>>Trump gives stronk (for real) statement on the transgender pipeline - Sidebar

Damn! That's quite the marker he's laying down.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (i24o9)

412 Patrick Webb @RealPatrickWebb 24m
BREAKING: Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn’t fall in line with Trump’s agenda, according to senator source on the Hill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:54 PM (hovnC)

PRO TIP: Don't blow up the budget by hiring Beyonce and Oprah.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (+myjY)

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

Ronna Romney McDaniel recommends flowers -- LOTS OF FLOWERS!

Is FTD still around?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (lP9TH)

413 You didn't gain superpowers and become Acid Man?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (Hh1ER)

that was basically Zeitgeist's power (of X-Force)

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (CIS44)

414 I still have very faint scars on my hands from acid burn. The lab was almost destroyed.

You didn't gain superpowers and become Acid Man?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (Hh1ER)

Did the research scientists want to know what you did, and how you made it? Or did they already know?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (VNX3d)

415 243 do Elon and Vivek know they will face a constant blizzard of lawsuits, starting the day Trump takes office?

you think they'll wait that long? i find your unwarranted optimism disturbing.

Posted by: anachronda at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (v3pYe)

416 Also, Piper, aren't you the owner? Can't you hire someone to clean the bathrooms?

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (v6JzV)

417 It's gotten to the point where leftist mothers will encourage their teen daughters to have unprotected sex for the very purpose of getting pregnant so that they can then wail, 'See? Thanks to Trump, she can't have an abortion!!!", using their own children as propaganda props.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 02:01 PM (pMi6S)
________________

What about their transgender daughters? How can they get abortions? What if they have beards at the time?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:23 PM (YqDXo)

418 John Thune...He's small potatoes.

Posted by: Hyman Roth at November 13, 2024 02:23 PM (5MA0f)

419 Hollywood used to be better at creating stars, but they keep pushing actors and actresses that they want to be big but actual ticket buyers don't care much about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:17 PM (Hh1ER)
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I believe the destruction of scripts destroyed star power. Stars seem to have gotten to the point they don't care if their name is attached to a terrible movie, as long as the check clears.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:23 PM (tT6L1)

420 I still have very faint scars on my hands from acid burn. The lab was almost destroyed.

You didn't gain superpowers and become Acid Man?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (Hh1ER)
_______

Sadly not. But I was very lucky that day. Could have ended much much worse. I have no idea what the fuck I was thinking playing around with deadly acids like that. But I was young and dumb and feared nothing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

421 353 These couples have been going to New Jersey.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:13 PM (ksjMr)


Now, that IS kinky!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:23 PM (SRRAx)

422 I'm willing to give Thune a chance.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (ljnbz)

It's probably too soon to decide whether to throw Thune into a remote area of Nebraska's Sand Dunes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (VNX3d)

423 “ALL we are sayng
is give Thuuunnne a chance…”

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

424 Did the research scientists want to know what you did, and how you made it? Or did they already know?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (VNX3d)
________________

Oh, they knew. Trust me. These include people who made chlorine trifluoride. /shudder

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (YqDXo)

425 “ALL we are sayng
is give Thuuunnne a chance…”
Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

=====

LOL. Glad I'm the not the only one who thought that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (DRSnL)

426 The House could pass individual budget bills with clearly outlined priorities and clear language about what the executive can and can't do. Instead, they sign CRs. So, Congress is just an enabling chamber for the executive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Cooke is still mired in his Englishness. He should remember Bagehot and his work on the unwritten British Constitution. Basically his thesis which is quite true for the US as well is that one could not understand how Britain worked by its supposed unwritten Constitution. Instead, in his time, he argued that ordinary MP's had no effect, neither did the Queen, but what mattered was the Cabinet.

In our country, we have ceded power of individual senators in favor of the party leadership in the Senate. In the House, the leadership runs the show.

Seniority used to alleviate some of the coordination problems and information problems in both legislative branches via strong chairs. But now, leadership has been centralized into something like the British government--the PM and Chancellor basically run the domestic politics with the PM and the Foreign Secretary running foreign policy.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (ctrM5)

427 PRO TIP: Don't blow up the budget by hiring Beyonce and Oprah.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (+myjY)
------------

Heh, Elon is so rich, a couple of million is change from the couch cushions.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (tT6L1)

428 416 Also, Piper, aren't you the owner? Can't you hire someone to clean the bathrooms?
Posted by: Bulg at November

This was in my house, and I am bad about it because the cleaning person was here yesterday and completely skipped the 1/2 bath. So I did it.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (QzINz)

429 Teresa I missed any update and have been thinking/worrying. How are you?
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:12 PM (ksjMr)


Went in for a biopsy and a Mediport installation yesterday - will know more next week.

All I can say is that Fentanyl is a helluva drug 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (SRRAx)

430 Heh, Elon is so rich, a couple of million is change from the couch cushions.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (tT6L1)

That bastard is going to buy all the Batmobiles isn't he?

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (CIS44)

431 13-year-old me wanted to create a "hyper acid" from the existing super acids. I ended up creating an acid bomb that literally blew up in my face.
______________

Why did this explode? Did you perchance include hydrogen peroxide in this witches' brew? Please tell me you didn't.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (YqDXo)

432
So I should just grab my ankles?
Posted by: Finland at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (x5nKy)


You mean the country that was "moderate" between the CCCP and NATO for 45 years and decided to not get involved while dealing freely with both sides is now having the vapors because Putin is the most evil man alive and eats roasted kittens while they are buying fuel and selling goods to both sides?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (D7oie)

433 428 not bad, mad. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (QzINz)

434 'How about a kiss boy?! You don't need to go barging at the clitoris right off!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 02:10 PM (QoyXi)


Clitoris, snort, you probably believe in Rhode Island.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (ExV1e)

435 Also, Piper, aren't you the owner? Can't you hire someone to clean the bathrooms?
Posted by: Bulg at November

This was in my house, and I am bad about it because the cleaning person was here yesterday and completely skipped the 1/2 bath. So I did it.
Posted by: Piper

Ah, I see. Good help is so hard to find these days.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (v6JzV)

436 Thune "seems" to be a younger clone of McConnell... We shall see.. He also has a punchable face

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (IyPmt)

437 FischerKing @FischerKing64 2h
Paul Ryan is discussing the future of the GOP with Jonah Goldberg. It's hard to let go.

Sean Davis @seanmdav 2h
The political equivalent of a dinosaur and a dodo bird discussing the future of animal life on earth.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (hovnC)

438 Damn! That's quite the marker he's laying down.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (i24o9)

How is our most Christian promoting president a serial philanderer who appeared at one time to have the appromixate personal values of a sewer rat? Only God can tell you.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (ksjMr)

439 That bastard is going to buy all the Batmobiles isn't he?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (CIS44)
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Gosh, why ever would Bruce Wayne care about Batmobiles?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:27 PM (tT6L1)

440 Agency for International Development grant (2023)
Amount: $1,499,999

Recipient: Grupa Izadji

Purpose: This activity aims to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people in Serbia. It will foster an environment that increases employment potential for LGBTQI+ persons, expands opportunities for LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs, and reduces workplace discrimination.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (CwhoI)

***

one would guesss that "donations" to foreign countries above $1.5 have more restrictions or something. This is going to be fun.

Posted by: LASue at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (VPuca)

441 Seniority used to alleviate some of the coordination problems and information problems in both legislative branches via strong chairs. But now, leadership has been centralized into something like the British government--the PM and Chancellor basically run the domestic politics with the PM and the Foreign Secretary running foreign policy.
Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:24 PM (ctrM5)


Which means there is no real domestic policy, everything is focused to service the foreign policy. Which is a problem the US faces as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (D7oie)

442 How is our most Christian promoting president a serial philanderer who appeared at one time to have the appromixate personal values of a sewer rat? Only God can tell you.
Posted by: ...

I know, right?
-- Zombie King David

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (v6JzV)

443 I still have very faint scars on my hands from acid burn. The lab was almost destroyed.

You didn't gain superpowers and become Acid Man?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 02:19 PM (Hh1ER)

Did the research scientists want to know what you did, and how you made it? Or did they already know?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (VNX3d)
_______

The incident was mostly swept under the rug and I got a talking-to, but that was it. It later became a joke and there's an entry in my HS yearbook to that effect.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

444 What does Senator McCain have to say about this?

Sorry -- too Thune??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (hovnC)

445 Went in for a biopsy and a Mediport installation yesterday - will know more next week.

All I can say is that Fentanyl is a helluva drug 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (SRRAx)

LOL glad you're hanging in, sending prayers daily and crossing various appendages.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (ksjMr)

446 Purpose: This activity aims to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people in Serbia. It will foster an environment that increases employment potential for LGBTQI+ persons, expands opportunities for LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs, and reduces workplace discrimination.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 02:21 PM (CwhoI)
__________________

Money well-spent. I was worried about Serbian perverts before, but not now.

cc: Donald Trump

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:29 PM (YqDXo)

447 If these kids knew what their parents did/do behind closed doors, they would run screaming into the night, crying for ALL of the brain bleach.

Every generation thinks that they invented sex 🙄🙄🙄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief


My kids would faint from shock. "Mom and Dad are pretty ....... Um... Well they are kinda boring. They like hanging out at home. Pretty sure the words too tired for that are used very often"
After they find the videos when we die....
"THEY DID WHAT?!?!?! BURN THESE VIDEOS RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!!!!!"

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 13, 2024 02:29 PM (4XwPj)

448 Clitoris, snort, you probably believe in Rhode Island.
----------------
Rhode Island is the G spot no one can find.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 02:30 PM (AdHga)

449 A dude that looks like Mlcomb Flex backs a guy that looks like Rick Scott?

These are interesting times.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 02:30 PM (/lPRQ)

450 3 days down, 3 to go this week
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2024 02:16 PM (AYz4A)


Tomorrow is my Friday this week, which is good cuz I'm kinda pissed at my employer right now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 02:30 PM (ExV1e)

451 I’m sure Elon picked “Doge” for the new office, Italian/Venetian equivalent of Duke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2024 02:30 PM (wyMQY)

452 While we were driving to the hospital yesterday, "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions" was the first song that came on the radio. I took that as a sign, and I am officially adopting that as my fight song/anthem/walk-up song.

I also told my FB friends that I wanted a photocopy of my face on the Trump "Fight!" meme - one of my dear friends accepted the challenge.

If I can figure out how to turn it into a file, I will post it 😊♥️🦎

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:30 PM (SRRAx)

453 444 What does Senator McCain have to say about this?

Sorry -- too Thune??
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (hovnC)

hahacanuck!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (VnUSN)

454 How is our most Christian promoting president a serial philanderer who appeared at one time to have the appromixate personal values of a sewer rat? Only God can tell you.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (ksjMr)

Don't care. I am just glad he is on our side, because what the leftists do to children that survive the womb and their murder attempts should land them in a shallow mass grave.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (i24o9)

455 Anyone here really expect Scott to have a chance ?.

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (PCK5/)

456 A dude that looks like Mlcomb Flex backs a guy that looks like Rick Scott?

These are interesting times.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
=====
Excuse me,
"Malcomb FleX'

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (/lPRQ)

457 John Thune? John Thune??

Oh good, I was afraid we would stop funding Ukraine and reduce the possibility of nukular war.

Now I can relax.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (wroqk)

458 Former Democrat Rep from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard being considered as the next Director of National Intelligence, a top role that requires Senate approval.
A pick like Gabbard would terrify the career bureaucrats.

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

459 429 All I can say is that Fentanyl is a helluva drug 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (SRRAx)

!!!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (VnUSN)

460 Thune "seems" to be a younger clone of McConnell... We shall see.. He also has a punchable face
Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (IyPmt)

Hmm. I think he looks pretty nice. I didn't know he was such a bad guy until yesterday, in fact I thought he had done some strong work on questioning someone or another in senate hearings, but that's about it.

Posted by: LASue at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (VPuca)

461 More, because gay Alzheimer's is worse than straight Alzheimer's, or something.

National Institutes of Health grant (2023)
Amount: $1,432,248

Recipient: Nevada System Of Higher Education

Purpose: Enhancing measurement and characterization of roles and experiences of sexual and gender minority caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (CwhoI)

462 The danger with Thune is two-fold:

Will he get things passed, robust, MAGA policies that need to be passed ASAP before the mid-terms when the Dems will have a very good chance at reclaiming the house.

That's the second danger...

If the Dems take the house in 2026, they will start passing laws and Thune will be pressured to "work with Dems" to get a "bi-partisan compromise" on the President's desk, etc.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (pZ0Mr)

463 >>>Trump gives stronk (for real) statement on the transgender pipeline - Sidebar

Damn! That's quite the marker he's laying down.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:22 PM (i24o9)

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

[My comment this morning after viewing that:]

[Closing sentence:] "Under my leadership, this madness will end."

It's like Morning In America Again!

Damn, it's like having one of The Horde going to The White House ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (8kfkB)

464
Wyoming has a population of 576 k. South Dakota has 886 k.

Thune can't be as stupid as Liz Cheney with the home folks.

Posted by: Auspex at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (J7rFa)

465 13-year-old me wanted to create a "hyper acid" from the existing super acids. I ended up creating an acid bomb that literally blew up in my face.
______________

Why did this explode? Did you perchance include hydrogen peroxide in this witches' brew? Please tell me you didn't.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:26 PM (YqDXo)
________

Not sure but I was pretty much just randomly mixing shit together. I was also "testing" the results by adding organic matter -- bugs and shit -- to see how much quicker the new acid would dissolve it. It's possible that gasses given off from the dissolving matter created a compressed "bomb" in the sealed glass container I used that eventually exploded.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

466 458 Former Democrat Rep from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard being considered as the next Director of National Intelligence, a top role that requires Senate approval.
A pick like Gabbard would terrify the career bureaucrats.
Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

LOL.. And she's on some secret list at the TSA when she travels....What sweet revenge that would be

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (IyPmt)

467 Taylor Budowich, James Blair, Stephen Miller, and Dan Scavino named/confirmed as PDT's White House senior advisors.

https://tinyurl.com/ywtbmydk
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (hovnC)

468 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (i24o9)

I care because I've read the stories my whole life and now we are seeing it play out before our eyes.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (ksjMr)

469 Anyone here really expect Scott to have a chance ?.
Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (PCK5/)


I would put my money on Admunson since he only uses dogs, and not horses.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (D7oie)

470 They would never approve Gabbard for DNI.. never.

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (PCK5/)

471 Former UN Teacher Orchestrates Violent Anti-Semitic Attack in Amsterdam, Investigation Reveals

According to a detailed investigation by The Jerusalem Post, a disturbing connection has emerged between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and last Thursday’s orchestrated assault on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam. At the center of the controversy stands Ayman Nejmeh, a former UNRWA educator who now heads PGNL (Palestinian community in the Netherlands), the organization implicated in coordinating the violent confrontation.

In a development that has sent shockwaves through European diplomatic circles, Nejmeh—who suspiciously scrubbed his UNRWA employment history from social media platforms following the incident—had previously posted content supporting militant activities. The timing of his social media alterations has raised significant red flags among security analysts.

The investigation reveals a sophisticated network of coordination behind what initially appeared to be spontaneous violence. Despite local authorities’ preemptive cancellation of a planned protest before the Maccabi Ajax football match, organizers utilized encrypted messaging platforms to orchestrat

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (RHGPo)

472 That's awesome Teresa. 😎😘

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (ksjMr)

473 469 Anyone here really expect Scott to have a chance ?.
Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (PCK5/)

I would put my money on Admunson since he only uses dogs, and not horses.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (D7oie)

Hah! Well played..

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (PCK5/)

474 #476 addendum: Their X addresses:

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom 3h
🚨 President Donald J. Trump announces White House Senior Staff: @DanScavino, @StephenM, @JamesBlairUSA, @TayFromCA.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:35 PM (hovnC)

475 How is our most Christian promoting president a serial philanderer who appeared at one time to have the appromixate personal values of a sewer rat? Only God can tell you.
Posted by: ...

I know, right?
-- Zombie King David
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:28 PM (v6JzV)


Crazy times.
-- St. Paul, St. Augustus, St. Pelagia, & St. Mary of Egypt.

Posted by: LASue at November 13, 2024 02:35 PM (VPuca)

476 470 They would never approve Gabbard for DNI.. never.
Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (PCK5/)

Agreed.. And I don't think Hegseth will be confirmed either

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 02:35 PM (IyPmt)

477 Anyone here really expect Scott to have a chance ?.
Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (PCK5/)

I would put my money on Admunson since he only uses dogs, and not horses.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (D7oie)
_________

For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

478 Anyone here really expect Scott to have a chance ?.
Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2024 02:31 PM (PCK5/)

I would put my money on Admunson since he only uses dogs, and not horses.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (D7oie)
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Heh, And I don't remember who won that race. I should look it up. Nah.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 02:35 PM (tT6L1)

479 It's like Morning In America Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (8kfkB)

Yep.

Every time I see or hear some kid going on about how he or she is a LGBTQ, non-binary, plural, furry cup of noodles, I want to strangle the nearest leftist. Pure evil.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (i24o9)

480 Charles C. W. Cooke retweeted
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
Nov 12
We’ll see who Trump picks for DNI and DCIA, but so far this national security team of Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Waltz is the most unequivocally, unapologetically pro-Israel team in a while.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (VnUSN)

481 I think I will just wait to see what Thune does before I make any comment about him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (VQe0Y)

482 >He has a coward's heart.

He has a crook's heart.

Posted by: davidt at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (i0F8b)

483 Which means there is no real domestic policy, everything is focused to service the foreign policy. Which is a problem the US faces as well.
Posted by: Kindltot
=====
In the administrative state, the primary job that the legislative branch does is allocate money here and there and figure out some way via taxes, borrowing, etc. to write the checks. So domestic politics is by and large now budgetary politics (true for the US as well).

Until Trump, most of foreign policy in the US was rancid remnants of the stale Marshall Plan, Petro and Euro dollar and oil markets, and a decaying Cold War alliance and intel gathering system.

The US was expected to be there to actually fight and the client states were allowed to let their own contributions wither into almost nothing. US policymakers got high on their own bullshit as hegemon during the Clinton years and started doubling down on Color Revolutions, etc. along with Invade the World, Invite the World bullshit to try to magnify the US into a lasting imperial trading superpower.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (ctrM5)

484 Purpose: Enhancing measurement and characterization of roles and experiences of sexual and gender minority caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
Posted by: Citizen Cake

Easier to molest than little kids?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (/lPRQ)

485 Former Democrat Rep from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard being considered as the next Director of National Intelligence, a top role that requires Senate approval.
A pick like Gabbard would terrify the career bureaucrats.
Posted by: SMOD


If the senate refuses to confirm, have the US Marshals physically disband the organization.

Only offices that are legal are those specified in the Constitution or enacted by the legislature.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 02:36 PM (kPAiX)

486 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (hovnC)

487 462 The danger with Thune is two-fold:

Will he get things passed, robust, MAGA policies that need to be passed ASAP before the mid-terms when the Dems will have a very good chance at reclaiming the house.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (pZ0Mr)

Inflation is being driven by overspending by various levels of Government. Local, State, and Fed, spending is 44.9% of GDP... and they can't tax their way out of debt.

Thune will go along with the now normal stupid Continuing resolution crap.. which means inflation stays... which will destroy the economy, and Trump with it.

THAT is the existential threat to the US... our own Politicians and Big Gov.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (QAkQ3)

488 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

489 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

490 Yeah no one has mixed organic matter with acids for good reason

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (pGTZo)

491 Nature is Amazing ☘️

@AMAZlNGNATURE
Here's a Beaver carrying a carrot and a head of lettuce back to his home.

https://tinyurl.com/y539mmc5

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (TGPs7)

492 I care because I've read the stories my whole life and now we are seeing it play out before our eyes.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (ksjMr)

That's fair. I am not bothered by the how or why here. I am just thankful.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 02:37 PM (i24o9)

493 Not sure but I was pretty much just randomly mixing shit together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Sounds like one of my late-night culinary experiments.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 02:38 PM (v6JzV)

494 Not sure but I was pretty much just randomly mixing shit together. I was also "testing" the results by adding organic matter -- bugs and shit -- to see how much quicker the new acid would dissolve it. It's possible that gasses given off from the dissolving matter created a compressed "bomb" in the sealed glass container I used that eventually exploded.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

DINGDINGDINGDING

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2024 02:38 PM (wtvvX)

495 I had a whole functioning lab when I was 12. I blew my entire allowance on glassware and reagents at a nearby chemical stores company. (Clarkson Chemical, in Chula Vista; my father used to actually buy the stuff, because there was no way they'd sell most of the reagents to a 12 year-old!)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 02:07 PM (YqDXo)

I was younger than 12 when my parents gave me kids-level chemistry set. I told my Dad that I wanted some more chemicals. I didn't have a plan, or an idea. I was just a seven year old who had dream of doing something ... interesting. So Dad had a pal who was a chemist at Dow and he gave my Dad some stuff, and I started mixing.

Nothing "interesting", thank God. The house didn't lift from the foundations, and being seven years old, I got bored with chemistry until high school.

Posted by: mrp at November 13, 2024 02:38 PM (rj6Yv)

496 481 I think I will just wait to see what Thune does before I make any comment about him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Eh. Dunno. Most presidents come a cropper when messing with internal leadership fights in their own party. Even FDR in his second term fresh from a massive blowout re-election. Had his butt kicked in the 1938 elections from Senators from his own party that he tried to remove via primarying them.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 02:39 PM (ctrM5)

497 All I can say is that Fentanyl is a helluva drug 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 13, 2024 02:25 PM (SRRAx)

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

OMG! Do you know how many young children read this blog?

j/k

/I've never had a narcotic or hallucinogen -- and keep telling my wife (much to her chagrin) that I want to at least try them once before I die ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 02:39 PM (8kfkB)

498
Peter Schiff
@PeterSchiff

I hate to rain on this parade, but the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is not a real department. It exists outside of government and has no authority to do anything. Like any one of a number of independent think tanks that already exist, it's free to make any recommendations it wants, and the government is free to ignore them all. Even if the Trump administration actually proposes some of the DOGE recommendations, they mean nothing unless Congress votes to pass them, which it won’t.

Since no Democrats will vote in favor of eliminating any government department or agency—except perhaps the Space Force—the House will need over 98% of Republican votes. This is nearly impossible to achieve with so many RINOs still in the House and so many representing swing districts. In the Senate, even if all Republicans vote in favor of the cuts, they still don’t have 60 votes.

Also, regarding firing government workers, the civil service unions make that nearly impossible. The best Trump can do is allow the workforce to shrink naturally through attrition. That will help, but the savings over the course of his term will be minimal...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 02:40 PM (TGPs7)

499 Former Democrat Rep from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard being considered as the next Director of National Intelligence, a top role that requires Senate approval.
A pick like Gabbard would terrify the career bureaucrats.
Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

LOL.. And she's on some secret list at the TSA when she travels....What sweet revenge that would be
Posted by: It's me donna
====
Point her to the highest SES slot that doesn't require confirmation, strip clearance and then fire everyone between her and POTUS - Instant acting DNI.

Bonus Tip - Invite the 'in between individually to meeting with POTUS, above TS meeting - "You do what she directs you to do, if you don't you will stripped of clearance and terminated. If you mention this meeting you will be put in solitary for National Security reasons... And will likely be shot avoiding arrest."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 02:42 PM (/lPRQ)

500 Stephen King
@StephenKing

Did you hear about the dolphin restaurant?
Not many customers, true, but it still serves a porpoise.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 02:47 PM (TGPs7)

501 Jonah Goldberg must be spinning in his fat.

Posted by: Tom Perry at November 13, 2024 02:48 PM (MX0bI)

502 Senators are very powerful because they have no oversight.

The 17th amendment was the worst decision we ever made because Senators effectively are beholden only to the people that pay them and not to the states they were designed to represent.

The Senate is and has been siloed without any accountability. They control who runs the Blob that is attacking its own People.

Thune is bad. Very bad.

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 13, 2024 02:51 PM (klw0w)

503 I've never had a narcotic or hallucinogen -- and keep telling my wife (much to her chagrin) that I want to at least try them once before I die ...
Posted by: ShainS


Keep your Tramadol & T #2 & T #3
Tylenol #4 - goes down like Pez Candy
Morphine - doesn't even blunt the pain
Dilaudid - finally.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 02:51 PM (kPAiX)

504 Peter Schiff
@PeterSchiff

I hate to rain on this parade, but the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is not a real department. It exists outside of government and has no authority to do anything.


EO bitchez! EO.

Executive Orders suck, don't they?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 02:52 PM (kPAiX)

505 Bonus Tip - Invite the 'in between individually to meeting with POTUS, above TS meeting - "You do what she directs you to do, if you don't you will stripped of clearance and terminated. If you mention this meeting you will be put in solitary for National Security reasons... And will likely be shot avoiding arrest."
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 02:42 PM (/lPRQ)

The first "shot" should be tasking Director Gabbard to personally pull the security clearances of each of the "51 former intelligence officials" responsible for the Hunter Biden letter that still have active clearances.

Posted by: mrp at November 13, 2024 02:56 PM (rj6Yv)

506 Can the Senate at least force Thune to take Scott as Majority Whip? [and then get Scott to run his own agenda, despite any whining from Thune?]

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 13, 2024 03:02 PM (bufu1)

507 Gabbard as DNI

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 03:02 PM (eZwyX)

508 Disney had a basic casting problem in Snow White: in what world would the evil queen's mirror think Rachel Zeglar was better looking than Gal Gadot?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 13, 2024 03:03 PM (Da7Vv)

509 I've never had a narcotic or hallucinogen -- and keep telling my wife (much to her chagrin) that I want to at least try them once before I die ...
Posted by: ShainS

Don't try any narcotics, opioids, cocaine, meth, ecstasy, etc. They're all crap.

Psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin are the best. It's possible to have a bad trip, but there are well-known precautions which will reliably avoid that. The positive effects of the experience are long-lasting, and it's impossible to become addicted.

My last acid trip was more than five years ago. I love that stuff.

Posted by: Tom Perry at November 13, 2024 03:23 PM (MX0bI)

510 There is some evidence that Thune is down with Trump's agenda, including public statements by Thune.

I'd like to believe that. I don't believe that. But I'll let it slide for now to see how this actually plays out before I set Thune on fire. What else can we do? I was assured by many that Mike Johnson was a great pick for Speaker. He turned out to be meh.

My point is we never know what we're going to get until we get it. Plus, I'm still in orgasmic mode after Trump's landslide cock-crushing and aren't ready to think bad thoughts yet.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

Even if he wants to be his own power independent of Trump, he has an interest in being the Majority Leader and not Minority as he builds his power. As such he has reasons to not fight while he is weak and Trump is on the ascendant. A key would be getting the funding for senate races out of his claws.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:31 PM (n7h9X)

511 506 Can the Senate at least force Thune to take Scott as Majority Whip? [and then get Scott to run his own agenda, despite any whining from Thune?]


Too thune to tell

Posted by: Magic 8 ball at November 13, 2024 03:32 PM (HcoTw)

512 Peter Schiff
@PeterSchiff

I hate to rain on this parade, but the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is not a real department. It exists outside of government and has no authority to do anything.


EO bitchez! EO.

Executive Orders suck, don't they?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 13, 2024 02:52 PM (kPAiX)

This assumes the new heads of department that Trump appointed want to keep the rank and file that DOGE wants to fire that hate him poisonously and will fight him every step of the way. In fact they are on the same side.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:34 PM (n7h9X)

513 Since no Democrats will vote in favor of eliminating any government department or agency—except perhaps the Space Force—the House will need over 98% of Republican votes. This is nearly impossible to achieve with so many RINOs still in the House and so many representing swing districts. In the Senate, even if all Republicans vote in favor of the cuts, they still don’t have 60 votes.

Also, regarding firing government workers, the civil service unions make that nearly impossible. The best Trump can do is allow the workforce to shrink naturally through attrition. That will help, but the savings over the course of his term will be minimal...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 02:40 PM (TGPs7)

You have no idea how creative you can get to achieve this. Transfers every 6 months? Assignments out of state? I'm sure there are army bases around that you wouldn't even need to spring for hotel expenses.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:37 PM (n7h9X)

514 The investigation reveals a sophisticated network of coordination behind what initially appeared to be spontaneous violence. Despite local authorities’ preemptive cancellation of a planned protest before the Maccabi Ajax football match, organizers utilized encrypted messaging platforms to orchestrat
Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 02:34 PM (RHGPo)

Oh I am so shocked. No way GAZA got arms and weapons without the cooperation of the UN and other Aid organizations for decades.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:40 PM (n7h9X)

515 do Elon and Vivek know they will face a constant blizzard of lawsuits, starting the day Trump takes office?

they will need an entire division of lawyers
Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2024 01:57 PM (/7KEl)

Well they won't, they are just making recommendations.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:41 PM (n7h9X)

516 Speaking of chemistry sets...a bit different boom...

I had an interesting date once in college, trying to pretend to cook, and blew up an old gas oven due to not lighting a pilot light. Shook the earth boom.

Asbestos rained down on the food in the skillet, I was deaf for awhile and in shock, and had a huge bruise on my leg from the oven door impact. Part of my long hair singed up to my shoulder on one side.

He yelled, wth? from the LR and I said, "What?"

Needless to say, we did not eat asbestos chicken dinner.

Drank a beer in silence after he led me away to the couch with wooden spoon aloft. He turned off all the burners.

Then he left and I never saw him again, and I never questioned why.

It was awesome!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2024 05:51 PM (gi+MR)

517 Fuck McConnell Jr.

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