Nancy Pelosi Suffers Serious Injuries -- a Fractured Hip -- After Falling Down a Staircase in Luxembourg

Any hip injury at age 84 is a major cause for concern.

NYT:

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized on Friday after being injured while traveling abroad on a bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg, a spokesman said on Friday.
Ms. Pelosi, 84, "sustained an injury during an official engagement," the spokesman, Ian Krager, said in a brief statement that provided no details on the nature of the injury or how it occurred. He said she was admitted to a hospital for evaluation.
Ms. Pelosi tripped going down marble stairs at the Grand Ducal Palace and took a hard fall, according to a person familiar with the incident who was not authorized to comment and spoke on condition of anonymity.
People close to Ms. Pelosi in California and Washington, D.C., speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for her, said the former speaker fractured her hip when she fell. They said doctors were confident the damage could be repaired with a routine operation, but it was not yet clear whether that would be done in Luxembourg or in the United States.

After Mitch McConnell's recent fall, and Joe Biden's Lived Experience as a Vegetable-American, the demand to implement term limits via a constitutional amendment is going to pick up steam and might actually pass.

You can't pass a law imposing term limits, because the Supreme Court has ruled that the "qualifications" for federal office in the Constitution are complete and can only be modified by amendment. As there are no term limits written into the Constitution, it requires an amendment to impose them.

But the amendment process isn't such an impossible barrier to action when the public wants change. Every month we're seeing problems with the gerontocracy.

I'm not a big proponent of term limits but it just might be we'll finally see them.

Posted by: Ace at 06:28 PM

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1 80 years old fractured hip

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:29 PM (QSrLX)

2 Thats the last injury for many elders

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:29 PM (QSrLX)

3 but she is working?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:29 PM (QSrLX)

4 Term limits via constitutional amendment and repeal of the 17th

Posted by: bobby at December 13, 2024 06:30 PM (d2Zdq)

5 "Joe Biden's Lived Experience as a Vegetable-American"

LOL

Posted by: Tuna at December 13, 2024 06:30 PM (oaGWv)

6 I don't want to see term limits, but I'd like to see a maximum age limit.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:30 PM (B9Dv5)

7 soviet politburu got nothin on our chernenkos, brezhnevs and andropovs.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:30 PM (QSrLX)

8 At her age? Beginning of the end when you break a bone. Hip is especially bad.

Posted by: Ann at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (4neFu)

9 In lieu of term limits, how about an obstacle course to get into the building.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (25QY+)

10 Why can these people not retire? They've got plenty of cash already.

Posted by: Scarymary at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (F2xQR)

11 4 Term limits via constitutional amendment and repeal of the 17th
Posted by: bobby at December 13, 2024 06:30 PM (d2Zdq)

Agreed. The 17th amendment is probably the biggest single cause of the concentration of federal power.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (B9Dv5)

12 release the captain pike memes!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (QSrLX)

13 Her approval ratings have fallen and they can't get up.

Posted by: Wally at December 13, 2024 06:32 PM (vffJs)

14 OT:

Just recommended Daniel Penny for a Carnegie Medal.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:32 PM (u82oZ)

15 term limits: california has STATE elected officials term limits.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:33 PM (QSrLX)

16 Ace's liver

And the 16th. Don't forget that one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:33 PM (u82oZ)

17 Had she landed on her over-sized ancient Fun-bags, she'd have been ok.

Posted by: DBCooper at December 13, 2024 06:33 PM (y1Mvi)

18
Brother in law used to say they didn't fall and fracture their hip, the hip bone fractured and they fell.
84yr with a hip fracture is bad news, she may have made her last insider trades.

Snide note: anyone else actually look at the picture they are using with this news? Every wrinkle airbrushed/smoothed away, she has really great skin for a 84yr old! (yeah, that's it, really well preserved.)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 06:33 PM (ndlh7)

19 Bet that put a damper on the old hag’s visit to Christmas markets in Bavaria at taxpayer expense.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 13, 2024 06:33 PM (ZTJjv)

20 Did she like her doctor? Did she keep her doctor?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:33 PM (QSrLX)

21 If she did this in Canada, she would already be dead.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:34 PM (u82oZ)

22 10 Why can these people not retire? They've got plenty of cash already.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (F2xQR)

My working theory is they are so lavishly appointed with staff that they don't actually have to do anything. What would be the point of retiring? They get all the benefit from their position with very little in the way off effort or risk.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:34 PM (B9Dv5)

23 That'll just make it easier for Karma to catch up to the old gal.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 13, 2024 06:34 PM (fxCK2)

24 Shoot that old nag!

Posted by: Dave's not here, man at December 13, 2024 06:34 PM (Q1p8k)

25 I'd rather Amend the Constitution to institute a 101% Tax on all Investment Income for Representatives, Senators and Federal Appointees for the duration of their Term and for the 10 years following their Term.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:35 PM (j6KoD)

26 Democrats can relate to young people!
-idiot Democrat voting NPC slobbering morons

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 13, 2024 06:35 PM (gUzGB)

27 I'd imagine what were more likely to get is an age limit with current officeholders exempted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2024 06:35 PM (ExV1e)

28 "You can't pass a law imposing term limits, because the Supreme Court has ruled that the "qualifications" for federal office in the Constitution are complete and can only be modified by amendment. As there are no term limits written into the Constitution, it requires an amendment to impose them."

I wondered if Congress could actually set term limits for the SC justices... the above would rule a 'law' setting limits out of bounds.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 06:35 PM (ndlh7)

29 The GOP is the party of old white people!
-stupid Democrat voting drooling idiots

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 13, 2024 06:36 PM (gUzGB)

30 Retire? And fly commercial? Oh heaven forefend!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 13, 2024 06:36 PM (wBaIH)

31 DBCooper

I saw a meme that tickled me.

A young girl was asking her elderly and wrinkled grandmother what she did with GrandPa's prize money.

She smiles as her artificial breasts test the tensile strength of her t-shirt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:37 PM (u82oZ)

32
Term limits : "Stop me before I vote again!"

The problem is not the lack of term limits, it is that these people can accumulate power so that they can not be defeated.

Remove them, and that power will revert to the party--which is worse.

1. Remove all campaign finance from out of district!
2. Reduce gov. power

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 13, 2024 06:37 PM (pSp/J)

33 Remember, Congress critters have the absolute best medical plan you can buy for them. If it's survivable, and it happens to one of them, they'll almost assuredly survive to continue to be a plague on The People.

Only the good die young.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2024 06:37 PM (O7YUW)

34 Pelosi: "GOD DAMN IT, I should have read that bill before we passed it."

Posted by: Dave's not here, man at December 13, 2024 06:37 PM (Q1p8k)

35 10 Why can these people not retire? They've got plenty of cash already.
Posted by: Scarymary

--

Maybe it's like riding a tiger - getting off is risky.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:37 PM (GDrd7)

36 My working theory is they are so lavishly appointed with staff that they don't actually have to do anything. What would be the point of retiring? They get all the benefit from their position with very little in the way off effort or risk.
Posted by: Ace's liver
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Pretty much true.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (ctrM5)

37 Term limits create other problems. The issue is that her generation took power without ever intending to step down. They really intended to live and rule forever.

They spent us into a historic level of debt, and each generation since the Boomers has less wealth. They actually killed the American Dream while no one was looking.

Happily, people figured it out, and change is at hand.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)

38 When a woman can't go down and get right back up, her political days are over.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (vffJs)

39 >>Only the good die young.

Bob Seger, ftw!

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (j6KoD)

40 Every wrinkle airbrushed/smoothed away, she has really great skin for a 84yr old! (yeah, that's it, really well preserved.)

No I only saw a candid pic from the event and she looks far from airbrushed. It looks like all her Botox picked up and left for a little excursion to Sardegna. At least it’s warmer and sunny there.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (PCNh/)

41 "Ms." Pelosi? I thought the old bitch was married.

And what in hell is "lived experience?" What other kind is there? Ignored experience? Subliminal experience? WTH?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (K861k)

42 vmom deport deport deport

She is a power whore.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (u82oZ)

43 Willowed:

Nancy's spine is probably pretty degraded from a lifetime of carrying around those big honkers.

Probably the reason she is sloshed all the time. And mean.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (QB+5g)

44 did she fall and break her hip, or did her hip break, which made her fall?

Often the case in elderly women, when decreased bone density causes some systemic failure.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (enw9G)

45 And this is why I wear Doc Martens. They aren't pretty but have a sole that can handle slick surfaces. And accidents like this can happen easily. Charlotte Fox, know for high altitude climbing and part of the 1996 Everest disaster, slipped on her home staircase and died.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (NQtI0)

46 21 If she did this in Canada, she would already be dead.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:34 PM (u82oZ)
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Nah, she'd be set up for an X-ray appointment 30 weeks down the road.

Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (dIske)

47 They spent us into a historic level of debt, and each generation since the Boomers has less wealth. They actually killed the American Dream while no one was looking.

ok but these people are Silent Gen

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

48 Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (NQtI0)

I have bad feet and knees and my Docs are surprisingly good for walking around.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (gUzGB)

49 "Pelosi was seen tightly gripping the hand of a GOP congressman before she fell. Did that sly dog give her a little shove?"

or it might mean Pelosi's hip broke first, so even the GOP congressman could not hold her up? Hard to say what happened, or how bad the break was. She'll get the best care though, better than most of us would get.

I thought in previous thread someone said they already got her back to USA?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (Cus5s)

50 Hammertime!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (TN0g+)

51 Oh gosh, the poor thing. I wonder if she laughed at the little old elderly lady that her police intentionally and violently pushed down the stairs during her coup on J6?

https://tinyurl.com/2hprwwmf

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (/50FY)

52 Oh it’s a new thread!

Fortuitously, my comment destined for the below thread showed up here!

It’s a Christmas Miracle!!

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (PCNh/)

53 Yeah, the hip fracture tends to kill 'em. I forget the exact statistic, but it's something like hip fracture after 65, 60% dead within two years.

Posted by: Bombadil at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (MX0bI)

54 Charlotte Fox, know for high altitude climbing and part of the 1996 Everest disaster, slipped on her home staircase and died.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Let us all be careful out there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (u82oZ)

55 Nancy's spine is probably pretty degraded from a lifetime of carrying around those big honkers.

Probably the reason she is sloshed all the time. And mean.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic

They're fake. She didn't used to have such a big chest.

Posted by: Tuna at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (oaGWv)

56 I wondered if Congress could actually set term limits for the SC justices... the above would rule a 'law' setting limits out of bounds.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 06:35 PM (ndlh7)

I don't think they can because the judiciary is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (B9Dv5)

57 while traveling abroad on a bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg,...

Yeah right.
WTF is Congress doing in Luxembourg?

More like Bipartisan Congressional Christmas Shopping & Sightseeing Delegation.

They WASTE so much time and money with their endless bullshit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (6ydKt)

58 You can though take away a pension without a constitutional amendment

You forfeit any and all pensions after x years.

Won’t work for everyone, but many will leave

Posted by: Maroon at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (WDK6O)

59 Of course, we ALREADY HAVE term limits. Most of us are just too lazy to exercise them. We need more Mr. Pressler's to engage with the electorate. We as citizens need to inform friends, colleagues, family of candidates plusses/minuses as an ongoing conversation, not just during election years.

Posted by: phydeaux at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (ep56E)

60 Politicians should not be allowed to entrench themselves in power for decade after decade accumulating power with no term limits.

Posted by: Tony Fauci at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (/X7KH)

61 My grandmother deteriorated rapidly after she fell and broke her hip.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (gUzGB)

62 >> Nancy's spine is probably pretty degraded from a lifetime of carrying around those big honkers.

Nancy's spine never recovered from being blown out by the Kennedys.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (j6KoD)

63 Having a happy Hammer Time over here, Boss!

Posted by: Speaker Emerita "Spouse" at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (G5+As)

64 I don't think there is anyone, including Obama, who has done more to tear this country apart and harm American citizens simply because they disagreed with her over the last 4 decades than Nancy Pelosi. She's flat out evil.

I have no "concern" for her at all. She's a piece of garbage.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (LkLld)

65
And what in hell is "lived experience?" What other kind is there? Ignored experience? Subliminal experience? WTH?
Posted by: tcn in AK

Ace mentioned it 'vegetable experience'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (ndlh7)

66 Sometimes people fall and break a hip, sometimes a hip breaks and people fall. Either way it's no good.

Posted by: huerfano at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (DKIGo)

67 39 >>Only the good die young.

Bob Seger, ftw!
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (j6KoD)
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Billy Joel, perhaps?

Posted by: Don in SoCo who has trouble tpying at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (vd6bO)

68 " Yeah, the hip fracture tends to kill 'em. I forget the exact statistic, but it's something like hip fracture after 65, 60% dead within two years.
Posted by: Bombadil "

That could be one of those cause/effect conundrums.

Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (iziT8)

69 28 "You can't pass a law imposing term limits, because the Supreme Court has ruled that the "qualifications" for federal office in the Constitution are complete and can only be modified by amendment. As there are no term limits written into the Constitution, it requires an amendment to impose them."

I wondered if Congress could actually set term limits for the SC justices... the above would rule a 'law' setting limits out of bounds.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Nope, not for Scotus as service for life for justices is actually in Article II of the Constitution (for good behavior means life tenure absent impeachment).

What they could do though is end life tenure for district and appellate court judges proactively (won't apply to existing judges although Stuart v. Laird might suggest that it possibly could be done.)

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (ctrM5)

70 I have bad feet and knees and my Docs are surprisingly good for walking around.
Posted by: Iasonas

I like vionic walking sneakers when I can get them on sale

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (GDrd7)

71 Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg

Posted by: DJ at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (uosPt)

72 Hard to sympathize for evil.

And yeah. Karma. But that probably only applies if you wish bad on humans.

Posted by: Stateless at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (jvJvP)

73 I wouldn't miss the Witch if she was gone

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (fwDg9)

74 "Ms." Pelosi? I thought the old bitch was married.

And what in hell is "lived experience?" What other kind is there? Ignored experience? Subliminal experience? WTH?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (K861k)

In her case, and some others, probably dead experience. Life as a zombie, a vampire, or some other undead creature.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 13, 2024 06:41 PM (VNX3d)

75 Any hip injury at age 84 is a major cause for concern.

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Huh.

I'm not feeling concerned, for some reason.

Weird.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (BI5O2)

76 willowed
185 Pope Francis is not looking good. He skipped the reopening of Notre Dame and I believe bad health is the issue.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (gUEAT)
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I have no idea if he's become another quasi-vegetable a la Biden but I wonder if he knows that the Baby Jesus in the Vatican Nativity is wearing that checkered Arafat tablecloth.

Posted by: Ciampino - parmegiano di Parma at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (i0xsb)

77 We need term limits. I used to oppose them. The voters can impose a term limit anytime by voting out the candidate, I naively thought. Wrong. All it took was seeing vegetables like Diane Feinstein elected to demonstrate that’s not what happens. The system keeps dead husks propped up as candidates to keep their power. Give Senators 2 terms and Congressman 5. That’s plenty enough time and then they can maybe go do something useful with their lives.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (R3+C1)

78 Our system is based on the underlying principle that votes matter. The main check on tyranny and corruption is that these people can be voted out. Most of what they due has "no controlling legal authority" to prevent or punish (to use Al Gore's term.)

We now realize that votes do not matter so much since we can not get the bums voted out. That is a problem. The solution is not to *reduce* the power of the people to vote for who they want, the solution is to restore the power of voting people out of office.

If you get term limits they will just rotate around offices, NGOs, boards, contractors, lobby firms, etc. and all that power will fester without any one person who can get voted out. They will stop even acting like they give a shit about voters since they will not be up for relection anyway!

This will be one more feint to "solve" out problems that really does nothing but make it worse.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (pSp/J)

79 >>Billy Joel, perhaps?

Nah.

He wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:43 PM (j6KoD)

80 Power has a narcotic effect on politicians. Just a little bit to start and then the pol is hooked. The side bennies are nice, but it's nothing compared with subordinates jumping at the move of a finger or a troubling glance.

It's like the whole Star Wars franchise, or Tolkien's stuff.

Or the Bible.

Posted by: mrp at December 13, 2024 06:43 PM (rj6Yv)

81 79 >>Billy Joel, perhaps?

Nah.

He wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:43 PM (j6KoD)

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garrett's always making fun.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 13, 2024 06:43 PM (vd6bO)

82 "sustained an injury during an official engagement.". We're gonna need to see her timesheet and register tapes. This is the kind of talk that erodes trust and charity. Asshole

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 06:43 PM (QSrLX)

83 "Nah.

He wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.
Posted by: garrett"

Skynyrd bro.

Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2024 06:44 PM (iziT8)

84 That Texas GOP Congressman pretended he was helping her and gave her a little nudge, wink wink

Isn’t he the little scamp?!?

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 06:44 PM (3ZmNY)

85 You can't pass a law imposing term limits

Real elections fix everything. Term limits simply keep the current system in place.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2024 06:44 PM (710OU)

86 Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg
Posted by: DJ

Something to do with visiting a WWII battlefield

Posted by: Tuna at December 13, 2024 06:44 PM (oaGWv)

87 37 Term limits create other problems. The issue is that her generation took power without ever intending to step down. They really intended to live and rule forever.

They spent us into a historic level of debt, and each generation since the Boomers has less wealth. They actually killed the American Dream while no one was looking.

Happily, people figured it out, and change is at hand.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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As the US dechristianized itself, people in general have become much more afraid of death.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 06:44 PM (ctrM5)

88 Lucky for her she found a veterinarian that could take her right in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2024 06:44 PM (VwHCD)

89 53 Yeah, the hip fracture tends to kill 'em. I forget the exact statistic, but it's something like hip fracture after 65, 60% dead within two years.
Posted by: Bombadil at December 13, 2024 06:40 PM (MX0bI)

I suspect it's mostly that the hip fracture and the mortality share common causes, whether it's because the hip spontaneously fractures, or the person fainted, or the person has neurological issues affecting balance.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:45 PM (B9Dv5)

90 @46/Orson: "Nah, she'd be set up for an X-ray appointment 30 weeks down the road."

While the idjits left in our medical system try to figure out how to set a bone and put a cast on it. I'm only half kidding... When I was a kid, you broke a bone and they had the x-ray done, the bone set, and had you in a plaster cast within a couple of hours, and they cut it off you six weeks later. Piece of cake, and an utterly routine procedure.

Now? They x-ray a tiny portion of where they think a problem might be, often missing the actual problem, and you can wait a week to two weeks to be put into an actual cast. Meanwhile, the bone has healed wrong in that time.

We're regressing quickly.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2024 06:45 PM (O7YUW)

91 "sustained an injury during an official engagement."

-

She was using her official royal title, so it was clearly work related.

I guess that's how she gets workers comp to cover it, too.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 06:45 PM (/50FY)

92 I mean vampires heal pretty quickly usually right?

so she should be fine, drink a few staffers and all will be well

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 13, 2024 06:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

93 " Yeah, the hip fracture tends to kill 'em. I forget the exact statistic, but it's something like hip fracture after 65, 60% dead within two years.
Posted by: Bombadil "

That could be one of those cause/effect conundrums.

Posted by: eleven

Yeah, the real cause of many of those deaths would be osteoporosis. It contributes to the fracture happening in the first place, and also prevents timely healing. After being bedridden and in pain for a while the person just gives up.

So yeah, osteoporosis

Posted by: Bombadil at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (MX0bI)

94 86 Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg
Posted by: DJ

Something to do with visiting a WWII battlefield
Posted by: Tuna
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Ceremonies coinciding with commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge I think.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (ctrM5)

95 Lower your shields and surrender your hips. We will add your biological and technological mammary distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Posted by: Luxem of Bourg at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (CwhoI)

96 She is pushing 85 years old. People that age do not recover from a serious fall like this. I doubt she will run again in 2026.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (Rcnd3)

97 "sustained an injury during an official engagement,"
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Commemoration of the Battle of the Bulge. List of Congressional attendees:

The Honorable Michael McCaul, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
The Honorable Gary Palmer, Chair, House Republican Policy Committee
The Honorable Mike Bost, Chairman, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita
The Honorable Mark Takano, Ranking Member, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
The Honorable Joe Wilson
The Honorable Salud Carbajal
The Honorable Neal Dunn
The Honorable Lloyd Smucker
The Honorable John Joyce
The Honorable Andrew Clyde
The Honorable Scott Fitzgerald
The Honorable Scott Franklin
The Honorable Mariannette Miller-Meeks
The Honorable Thomas Kean Jr.
The Honorable Nathaniel Moran
The Honorable Keith Self
The Honorable Derrick Van Orden

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (XeU6L)

98 Instead of term limits, how about if you fail to serve for 2 months in a row you are out.

John McCain refusing to step down comes to mind.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (hw34H)

99 >>She is pushing 85 years old. People that age do not recover from a serious fall like this.

Adrenochrome is a helluva drug, tho.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (j6KoD)

100 I have no idea if he's become another quasi-vegetable a la Biden but I wonder if he knows that the Baby Jesus in the Vatican Nativity is wearing that checkered Arafat tablecloth.
Posted by: Ciampino - parmegiano di Parma at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (i0xsb)

2,000 years of beautiful Catholic art and we end up with terrorist Jesus. I'm sure he approved the design himself.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (K861k)

101 71 Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg

They’re commemorating the Battle of the Bulge.
*eye roll*

As if any of the demorats even know that as a historic event

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (3ZmNY)

102 Ceremonies coinciding with commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge I think.
Posted by: whig

Pelosi was already alive back then

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (GDrd7)

103 I have no idea if he's become another quasi-vegetable a la Biden but I wonder if he knows that the Baby Jesus in the Vatican Nativity is wearing that checkered Arafat tablecloth.

Posted by: Ciampino - parmegiano di Parma at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (i0xsb)

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Here is Francis gazing upon the Baby Jesus
https://tinyurl.com/536hhfb2

Posted by: Scarymary at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (F2xQR)

104 People close to Ms. Pelosi in California and Washington, D.C., speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for her, said the former speaker fractured her hip when she fell.

How unfortunate.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (aD39U)

105 Stairs. Sure. That sounds like a cover story.

I bet she was probably testing the fancy European mechanical-bull-mounted dildo she got Paul for Christmas, and it tossed her across the Luxembourgian bugger dungeon that State rents for distinguished American visitors.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (BI5O2)

106 I doubt she will run again in 2026.
Posted by: Mister Scott

--

ISWYDT

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (/50FY)

107 As is always the case when you trip and fall down stairs is your pride hurts almost as much as the injury you suffered.

In my case it was falling up the stairs in college. Luckily all I hurt was my pride.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (tK3Zm)

108 Why can these people not retire? They've got plenty of cash already.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 13, 2024 06:31 PM (F2xQR)

My working theory is they are so lavishly appointed with staff that they don't actually have to do anything. What would be the point of retiring? They get all the benefit from their position with very little in the way off effort or risk.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:34 PM

They're taking care of their families. Nancy's son would be in jail for fraud, bribery, etc. if he were anyone else's spawn.

Chelsea Clinton has been a "journalist" netting six figures for three segments of TV, including a hard-hitting interview with muppet Elmo. Her current claim to fame is the co-author of all the "She Persisted" children's book series which, as far as I can tell, depends entirely on sales to schools, libraries, and Target shoppers who really, really want to read a picture book about Rachel Levine.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (fxCK2)

109 While the idjits left in our medical system try to figure out how to set a bone and put a cast on it. I'm only half kidding... When I was a kid, you broke a bone and they had the x-ray done, the bone set, and had you in a plaster cast within a couple of hours, and they cut it off you six weeks later. Piece of cake, and an utterly routine procedure.

well that is what happened to me but in the end I chose reconstructive surgery in order to get out of the cast and get recovered quicker (plus Im no spring chicken so healing would have been longish)

but yeah I went to the ER and left a few hours later in a cast having been fully x-rayed. they recommended the ortho consult and he gave me options but that was only two days later.

I guess where we are is pretty decent healthcare-wise

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

110 It's the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. The fact that it's Christmas Market Tour Time is totally a coincidence.

Posted by: Our Betters at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (G5+As)

111 Satan was just getting impatient, that's all.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (1bNHn)

112 You would be asking the legislative body you want to term limit to pass term limit legislation

it'll be like asking a pig if it wants to limit its time at the trough
🐷🐖

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Hail, Vega! at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (/7KEl)

113 The Honorable Michael McCaul, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

He’s the one who, umm, ‘persuaded’ her down the stairs

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (3ZmNY)

114 Oversight Project @OversightPR 7h
Why the FBI doesn't fight transgender domestic terrorism
According to FOIA documents, the @FBI has instituted policies to protect transgender domestic terrorists by placing them in a highly protected class.

The legal framework encourages agents to close the complaints.

https://tinyurl.com/mpmz7rpm

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 7h
Wow

Trans terrorism has drastically increased, and the FBI has been actively suppressing law enforcement action against it

This is why they hid the Nashville Trans terrorist manifesto

This is why a trans extremist felt emboldened to assault Rep @NancyMace

Kash Patel needs to address trans extremism for what it truly has turned into

A violent movement

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 06:48 PM (hovnC)

115 I am finding it hard to be sympathetic.

Shame on me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (ufFY8)

116

Tommy Udo and Sean Connery in Woman of Straw!

This way nancy!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (x0n13)

117 Clear out the near-deadwood in Congress.
Both sides of the aisle.

You are not royalty, and the country can keep going without you. Maybe even run better without you.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (Hkcdp)

118 "She is pushing 85 years old. People that age do not recover from a serious fall like this. I doubt she will run again in 2026."

But her ruling class donors have paid for her services through 2030 ... not sure there is a "broken hip exemption" in their agreement. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (Cus5s)

119 Problem - illegals are pushing down wagers

Solution - raise minimum wage.

That is what is going on here. The problem is that politicians are not accountable to the public, voters do not have power, money is coming in from outside district (ie, not voters) and party is controlling the politicians, also bureaucracy.

The solution is to reduce their funding from outside of district. Reduce the NGOs. reduce the bureaucracy.

We have them on the run, otherwise they would not be so intent on state censorship. They know that without censorship they will lose the narrative. Term limits will just distract from real solutions that reduce the power DC has.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (pSp/J)

120 Whig, my dream project, once upon a time, was to get a destroyer carbine and convert it to 7.62 x 25 Tok

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (D7oie)

121 I'm not a big proponent of term limits but it just might be we'll finally see them.

Posted by: Ace at 06:28 PM

Neither am I Ace. If we had a media that would do it's job honestly, we wouldn't need them.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (W/lyH)

122 "Nah.

He wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.

The wikipedia page on the actual wreck is really done well--a ton of detail. I'm sure the song has a wikipedia page as well but I can't vouch for it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (TN0g+)

123 bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg
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Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

124 Ceremonies coinciding with commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge I think.
Posted by: whig

Pelosi was already alive back then
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (GDrd7)

What did Taylor Lorenz think when it started?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (aD39U)

125 >>>The Honorable Salud Carbajal

Representative from the great planet of Geidi Prime.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (CwhoI)

126

Funny that this happens on the same day the battle between her and Titty Caca Ocasio goes public about that committee chairmanship.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (x0n13)

127 Supposedly the congresscritters were celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

No word if Jerry Nadler was there; but in his case he would be on the side of the Germans, who lost the battle....

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (yf7Pm)

128 have no idea if he's become another quasi-vegetable a la Biden but I wonder if he knows that the Baby Jesus in the Vatican Nativity is wearing that checkered Arafat tablecloth.
Posted by: Ciampino - parmegiano di Parma at December 13, 2024 06:42 PM (i0xs

Yes it's widely claimed in the woke world that Jesus was Palestinian as well as an illegal immigrate depending on what argument they are making at the time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (tK3Zm)

129 he knows that the Baby Jesus in the Vatican Nativity is wearing that checkered Arafat tablecloth.
Posted by: Ciampino

The blow-back must have been fierce, they took the table cloth off the creche.

(he knew, there is a picture of him in a wheelchair looking at it.)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 06:51 PM (ndlh7)

130 >> People close to Ms. Pelosi in California and Washington, D.C., speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for her, said the former speaker fractured her hip when she

...decided to show Lily Phillips what 'A Real Woman can do!'.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:51 PM (j6KoD)

131 Garrett,

I got that espresso declumping tool you talked about and it really works well.

I had my doubts but the first time I used it I could tell that it was really working. The grounds literally puffed up in the portafilter.

Lots more long-lasting creama. A much better extraction.

Thanks!

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 13, 2024 06:51 PM (QB+5g)

132 Something to do with visiting a WWII battlefield

Reminiscing about the old days when she was there and the Krauts were shooting at her.

Posted by: Dave's not here, man at December 13, 2024 06:51 PM (Q1p8k)

133 "She is pushing 85 years old. People that age do not recover from a serious fall like this. I doubt she will run again in 2026."

But her ruling class donors have paid for her services through 2030 ... not sure there is a "broken hip exemption" in their agreement. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (Cus5s)

I also have a contract.

Posted by: Beelzebub at December 13, 2024 06:51 PM (aD39U)

134 There's no such title as "Speaker Emerita." Any more than there was any such office as "Office of the President-Elect" (Oblowme).

I hate leftists. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Beverly at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (Epeb0)

135 It was thoughtful of the Fuhrer to start this counterattack during Christmas Market Season.

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (G5+As)

136 Instead of term limits, how about if you fail to serve for 2 months in a row you are out.

John McCain refusing to step down comes to mind.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (hw34H)

Somebody socked John McCain's life support machine while that was going on. I couldn't stop laughing at work.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (dR6yv)

137 aka @akafacehots 5h
I can’t stop laughing! Nobody showed up to Jamaal Bowmans farewell speech. Literally 4 people 🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/mr3fny9f
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (hovnC)

138

Evita Emerita . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (x0n13)

139 122 "Nah.

He wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.

The wikipedia page on the actual wreck is really done well--a ton of detail. I'm sure the song has a wikipedia page as well but I can't vouch for it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (TN0g+)
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Seems there was some discussion on that about "a main hatchway caved-in". Family of the person responsible for seeing to it that those were closed properly worried that it implied fault or something.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (vd6bO)

140 "This is why a trans extremist felt emboldened to assault Rep @NancyMace
Kash Patel needs to address trans extremism for what it truly has turned into -- A violent movement"

1 in 1000 (10,000?) are trannies, but one in ten mass murders and attempted murder of authorities are trannies. (I made up the numbers, but they sound about right).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (Cus5s)

141 Ceremonies coinciding with commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge I think.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 06:46 PM (ctrM5)

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I thought the Battle of the Bulge was in Belgium?

Did Luxembourg have a single battle in WWII?
I'm not even sure if the Germans invaded it.

I maintain these congress critters took all their spouses on this holiday-shopping trip.

Except maybe Nancy, because Paul was at home waiting on some more...

It's Hammertime!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2024 06:52 PM (6ydKt)

142 121 I'm not a big proponent of term limits but it just might be we'll finally see them.

Posted by: Ace at 06:28 PM

Neither am I Ace. If we had a media that would do it's job honestly, we wouldn't need them.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 06:50 PM (W/lyH)
_______
We'd still need an electorate which would do its job intelligently, and no one's figured out how to get one of those. Don't kid yourself. The only good argument for democracy is Churchill's "except for all the others".

Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2024 06:53 PM (1bNHn)

143 "Ceremonies coinciding with commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge I think.
Posted by: whig

Pelosi was already alive back then
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (GDrd7)

What did Taylor Lorenz think when it started?"

She giggled.

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 06:53 PM (TN0g+)

144 17 Had she landed on her over-sized ancient Fun-bags, she'd have been ok.
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That's what she tripped over.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 06:53 PM (hovnC)

145 Oh no.

Anyway.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 13, 2024 06:53 PM (rJ7Hd)

146 Elderly person with brittle bones, feels themself begin to fall, reflexive sudden tensing of muscles, the muscles tensing breaks the hip before impact. Plus extra damage from the impact.

Posted by: davidt at December 13, 2024 06:53 PM (i0F8b)

147 Welp, you all have my opinions above. I think term limits are a big mistake and a distraction that will appease voters without solving anything.

I have to go shopping. Cya

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (pSp/J)

148 The Daily Mail reported Pelosi seemed frail and unsteady on her feet at the event, before she fell.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (PCNh/)

149 >>I got that espresso declumping tool you talked about and it really works well.

>I had my doubts but the first time I used it I could tell that it was really working. The grounds literally puffed up in the portafilter.

Crazy, isn't it!? Night and day difference in shot consistency, though.
Hopefully you got one of those magnetic funnels to keep the grounds in the portafilter while you whip them up with that WDT.

Glad it worked for you!

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (j6KoD)

150 When the Republicans took the House in 2010? she insisted on being called "Leader"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (RIvkX)

151 May Nancy repent and confess to her priest for private sins and confess to the American people for her public sins.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (fs1hN)

152 I am woman hear me roar,
My tits are to big to ignore!
And no one's ever gonna dry hump me again!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (2UnvF)

153 Do young people ever break hips from falling?

Maybe that's the problem. People act as if the broken hip is so bad. No, the fact that her bones are turning to dust is the problem.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 13, 2024 06:55 PM (pSp/J)

154 Will there be a Congressional delegation to Gitchee-Gumee next November for the 50th anniversary of the sinking?

Posted by: Ring the Bell? at December 13, 2024 06:56 PM (G5+As)

155 WTF is Congress doing in Luxembourg?
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Battle of the Bulge commemoration.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 06:56 PM (hovnC)

156 153 Do young people ever break hips from falling?

Maybe that's the problem. People act as if the broken hip is so bad. No, the fact that her bones are turning to dust is the problem.
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 13, 2024 06:55 PM (pSp/J)

Yes, young people can break their hips. It doesn't happen as often for a host of reasons.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 13, 2024 06:56 PM (B9Dv5)

157 Lots more long-lasting creama. A much better extraction.

Thanks!
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 13, 2024 06:51 PM (QB+5g)
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Yes, we Italians know all about longer lasting.

Posted by: Paolo at December 13, 2024 06:56 PM (RIvkX)

158 Why won't our government identify and shoot down all these fucking drones?

You literally have like two jobs, government and this is one of them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 13, 2024 06:57 PM (nyTxL)

159 Wonder if one of those magnetic funnels would declump that stuff in the bottom of my percolator - gettin' intense in there. Suppose I should clean it?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 13, 2024 06:57 PM (vd6bO)

160 Tracey Walter looking kinda bushed lately:
https://tinyurl.com/zsu7hc9d

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf! at December 13, 2024 06:57 PM (7biUw)

161 151 May Nancy repent and confess to her priest for private sins and confess to the American people for her public sins.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (fs1hN)

Amen. I hope she heals and spends the rest of her life seeking the will of God.

I also hope she returns to the US for surgery. Medical care in continental Europe is not superior to ours - their protocols are very different and not necessarily effective. Anecdotal, but every procedure we have had done overseas (neuro surgery, heart procedures, big stuff) had to be repeated in order to fix it properly in the US.

Posted by: Moki at December 13, 2024 06:58 PM (wLjpr)

162 Here Nancy, we found that comically large gavel you once held in the House. We're going to use it to set that hip of yours, now just hold still... "Remember, there might be some momentary discomfort."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2024 06:58 PM (O7YUW)

163 Dopey Joe just pardoned the corrupt judge from the "kids for cash" scandal -- this is the one who took kickbacks from (as Suicidal Tendencies put it, back in the day) "institutional learning facilities", so they could score that sweet, sweet state money for allegedly rehabilitating the misunderstood yoofs.

Basically selling the kids as a commodity for profit. About one step away from slavery.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 06:58 PM (W5ArC)

164 94 86 Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg
Posted by: DJ

Something to do with visiting a WWII battlefield
Posted by: Tuna

So she can mourn Hitler lost?

Posted by: Stateless at December 13, 2024 06:58 PM (jvJvP)

165 >>Here Nancy, we found that comically large gavel you once held in the House.

I was laughing to myself about that ridiculous march to the Capitol she took with that Mallet.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 06:59 PM (j6KoD)

166 Even if she’s already dead she’ll always vote Democrat.

Posted by: Grendel at December 13, 2024 06:59 PM (Mkoos)

167 "She is pushing 85 years old. People that age do not recover from a serious fall like this. I doubt she will run again in 2026."

But her ruling class donors have paid for her services through 2030 ... not sure there is a "broken hip exemption" in their agreement. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM

She and they do not have a choice. Even with Tier I medical care, a complete hip replacement and top notch pain meds an 85 year old woman who falls and breaks a hip is literally doomed to a short future of pain and immobility.

Short of sacrificing a virgin every full moon and drinking their blood, nancy pelosi is pretty much done as a player in DC after this fall, and so is mitch mcconnell.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 06:59 PM (Rcnd3)

168 >>aka @akafacehots 5h
I can’t stop laughing! Nobody showed up to Jamaal Bowmans farewell speech. Literally 4 people 🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/mr3fny9f

The Jews would not let them in the door.

Posted by: huerfano at December 13, 2024 06:59 PM (DKIGo)

169 Pelosi was already alive back then
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (GDrd7)

What did Taylor Lorenz think when it started?"

She giggled.
Posted by: Crusader
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Sounds about right.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 06:59 PM (ctrM5)

170 > You literally have like two jobs, government and this is one of them.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 13, 2024 06:57 PM (nyTxL)

Hell, you Alabama folks could probably take them out wit a 12 gauge.

So could us Alaska folks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:00 PM (W5ArC)

171 "Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg"

That was her first mistake. There's marble steps all over that burg.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf! at December 13, 2024 07:00 PM (7biUw)

172 158 Why won't our government identify and shoot down all these fucking drones?

You literally have like two jobs, government and this is one of them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 13, 2024 06:57 PM (nyTxL)

-- --

I'm starting to think they're our drones.
Being tested around military bases.
Dozens of huge, loud, brightly lit, drones coming waves.

Everybody in every gov agency acts confused or clueless.

And literally nobody will ask the Army, Navy or Air Force if they are their drones.

Suspicious Meter pegged to 11.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (6ydKt)

173 Can't our war dead rest without being haunted by this corrupt old saggy titted fag hag?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (BI5O2)

174 "Government" has said the drones are legally piloted aircraft ... and say their is a mass hysteria over drones.

idk, but I have seen no solid video of the drones, though I guess they are usually at night. No idea what is really going on ... but the UFO and "Aliens Are Here" videos are everywhere. Even Sara Carter is doing it.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (Cus5s)

175 >>So could us Alaska folks.

3 1/2" T Loads. It'd be tough on the shoulder.

But it would be so satisfying to see those things fall out of the sky.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (j6KoD)

176 "Ms" Pelosi? Pretty sure she's a Mrs, no?

Posted by: ScottM at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (8wiYZ)

177 > Ancient Fun-bags

That would be good name for a '50s Girl Group reunion tour.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (W5ArC)

178 Hoping for a speedy recovery to stand trial in Q3 2025.

Posted by: John Smith at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (0QY8a)

179 Men's dress shoes and women's high heels tend to be slick soled. And it was a marble staircase, so that was likely slick too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (NQtI0)

180 151 May Nancy repent and confess to her priest for private sins and confess to the American people for her public sins.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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That is my prayer as well. Praying for someone else's eternal soul redemption is what she gets from me.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (ctrM5)

181 Anti-Moslem backlash has seen the Infant Jesus lose the keffiyeh.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (hovnC)

182 We'd still need an electorate which would do its job intelligently, and no one's figured out how to get one of those.

-

A good start is that only people who own land and have a tax liability can vote, and even if you own land and have a tax liability you're STILL prohibited from voting if you aren't required to sign up for the draft to potentially die in wars.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (/50FY)

183 > Government" has said the drones are legally piloted aircraft ... and say their is a mass hysteria over drones.

"Legally piloted"? Over a Naval Air Station? I don't think so, hoss.

I sure as hell wouldn't try flying a drone over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. I reckon they would unamused.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:03 PM (W5ArC)

184 I can’t stop laughing! Nobody showed up to Jamaal Bowmans farewell speech. Literally

I didn’t know who you were talking about at first, I thought it was some athlete retiring

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:03 PM (PCNh/)

185 There are rare moments I'm glad I'm not drinking coffee.

The moment of reading "Lived experience as a Vegetable-American" is one of those moments.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at December 13, 2024 07:03 PM (NezMn)

186 Turn her into RoboNans, wielding the huge gavel.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 07:03 PM (Dm8we)

187 I was laughing to myself about that ridiculous march to the Capitol she took with that Mallet.
Posted by: garrett
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Not so much what she did in that Speaker's office to the American people.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:03 PM (ctrM5)

188 A good start is that only people who own land and have a tax liability can vote, and even if you own land and have a tax liability you're STILL prohibited from voting if you aren't required to sign up for the draft to potentially die in wars.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (/50FY)
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I, uh...I could go fo rthat.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 13, 2024 07:04 PM (vd6bO)

189 When you get to a certain age, rule one is, "Do Not Fall."

Posted by: davidt at December 13, 2024 07:04 PM (i0F8b)

190 "Why are we paying for house reps to go on a boondoggle in Luxembourg"

This is one of their big perks of office. Remember when Trump cancelled their flight because there was a ongoing budget fight?
She and the pencil neck shitt looked livid getting off the bus with their bags.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 07:04 PM (ndlh7)

191 This way, Nancy!

Posted by: The Light at December 13, 2024 07:04 PM (ufFY8)

192 >>A good start is that only people who own land and have a tax liability can vote, and even if you own land and have a tax liability you're STILL prohibited from voting if you aren't required to sign up for the draft to potentially die in wars.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (/50FY)

No Representation without Taxation!

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (j6KoD)

193 >>I am finding it hard to be sympathetic.

>>Shame on me.

Pelosi was tits deep on the J6 insurrection narrative. She colluded with the FBI and others to set up Trump supporters and cause the violence that resulted in the death of Ashli Babbitt and she protected her murderer.

She also rigged the J6 Committee to further frame Trump supporters, many of who are still rotting in DC gulags.

Fuck her and the broom she rode in on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (LkLld)

194 "Government" has said the drones are legally piloted aircraft ... and say their is a mass hysteria over drones.

idk, but I have seen no solid video of the drones, though I guess they are usually at night. No idea what is really going on ... but the UFO and "Aliens Are Here" videos are everywhere. Even Sara Carter is doing it.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM

I said the same thing, where are the videos of all of these drones? Nothing but garbage on youtube about them and if they were real there would be videos plastered all over the place there. Even at night there are tons of people that have night vision gear to take videos but there aren't any.

One guy in a video claims the drones have stealth technology and that's why we can't film them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (Rcnd3)

195 > Pelosi was already alive back then
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (GDrd7)

I do remember that picture of a teen Pelosi making eyes at JFK.

I'd bet money he banged her in a coat closet or something.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (W5ArC)

196 If the drones are radio-controlled or -telemetered, monitor the signal, find the transmitters. If the drones are autonomous, shoot one down and reverse-engineer it, because that sounds like tech we can use.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf! at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (7biUw)

197 192 >>A good start is that only people who own land and have a tax liability can vote, and even if you own land and have a tax liability you're STILL prohibited from voting if you aren't required to sign up for the draft to potentially die in wars.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:02 PM (/50FY)

No Representation without Taxation!
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (j6KoD)
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See what I mean? He's good!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (vd6bO)

198 181 Anti-Moslem backlash has seen the Infant Jesus lose the keffiyeh.
Posted by: andycanuck (
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Was inappropriate in the first place and a heresy to equate Palestinians with Baby Jesus, a Jew who murdered no one.

Religious leftists need to quit using objects of veneration in an abusive and heretical way to support their policy positions.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (ctrM5)

199 I predict she will get an artificial hip replacement and do a year or 2 of PT.
She's not going anywhere.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 13, 2024 07:06 PM (c6hLR)

200 Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 2h
Unbelievable:

New DOJ IG report reveals FBI paid a Confidential Human Source for travel to DC on January 6th, 2021.

FBI knew the CHS entered the Capitol on 1/6.

They then tasked the CHS to attend the 1/20 inauguration and repaid him.

That’s right: Paid, not prosecuted!

https://tinyurl.com/2crjfjym

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:06 PM (hovnC)

201 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 07:01 PM (BI5O2)

I guess not, smh

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:06 PM (PCNh/)

202 > No Representation without Taxation!
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (j6KoD)

No Reproduction without Copulation!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:07 PM (W5ArC)

203 Look I've never made a secret of not liking the Wicked Witch of the West--Madame Pelosi with her ridiculous self given title of "Speaker Emerita". But just because I don't like doesn't mean I wish injury on her. So she got herself a cushy European Christmas vacation--and fell down and broke her hip.

I'm sorry that happened--a broken hip in your mid 80s is serious stuff. Get well soon Nancy--and also get retired soon!

Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 13, 2024 07:07 PM (cB7nX)

204 Fuck her and the broom she rode in on.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yep.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 13, 2024 07:07 PM (kAzG3)

205 >>> This is one of their big perks of office.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 07:04

Seems like a good place for Elon and Vivek to take a peek

Posted by: DJ at December 13, 2024 07:07 PM (uosPt)

206 No Relaxation Without Fermentation.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf! at December 13, 2024 07:07 PM (7biUw)

207 I would put Nanzi in ghe midst of the Jan6 plot Coup D'etat

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 07:08 PM (fwDg9)

208 Pat Gray of The Blaze used to be a disc jockey in Houston. His rendition of Stairway to Heaven to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald is a classic. The guy is comic genius.

Posted by: DanMan at December 13, 2024 07:08 PM (8uzBS)

209 I didn’t know who you were talking about at first, I thought it was some athlete retiring
Posted by: kallisto
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Jamaal is a nasty former principal in public school that specialized in anti semitism and racist remarks. His farewell address letter was basically WiPiPo, you suck and deserve suffering as oppressors.

A right villain that doesn't see themselves as evil but projects that on their enemies.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:08 PM (ctrM5)

210 I am finding it hard to be sympathetic.

>>Shame on me.

Pelosi was tits deep on the J6 insurrection narrative. She colluded with the FBI and others to set up Trump supporters and cause the violence that resulted in the death of Ashli Babbitt and she protected her murderer.

She also rigged the J6 Committee to further frame Trump supporters, many of who are still rotting in DC gulags.

Fuck her and the broom she rode in on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM

She was the one who had the DC cop who died from a stroke two days after the riot laid in estate as a "hero" in the capitol building for a week. All of that was against the family's wishes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 07:08 PM (Rcnd3)

211 Heavy drinking is a big no-no at that age.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 13, 2024 07:08 PM (4fCWL)

212 > A good start is that only people who own land and have a tax liability can vote, and even if you own land and have a tax liability

Eh... what about business owners who operate out of rented/leased spaces?

They have skin in the game, too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:08 PM (W5ArC)

213 Two words for you, Mrs. Pelosi:

Sensible shoes.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (PCNh/)

214 So could us Alaska folks.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:00 PM (W5ArC)

Ayep. Fly one over my house. You won't get it back.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (K861k)

215 Didn't Kramer wear some kind of safety shoes in the Mel Torme episode?

Posted by: Handi-Capable Fred at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (G5+As)

216
One guy in a video claims the drones have stealth technology and that's why we can't film them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 07:05 PM (Rcnd3)

MIGAWD!! JUST LIKE BIGFOOT!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (D7oie)

217
If a term limit amendment is not feasible, perhaps vicious ridicule could be used to drive geezers from office.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (t1fZA)

218 A good start is that only people who own land and have a tax liability can vote, and even if you own land and have a tax liability

Eh... what about business owners who operate out of rented/leased spaces?

They have skin in the game, too.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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It's the bolded part.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (/50FY)

219
Slushinborg in Luxomborg by OsteoPelosi

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (NMT5x)

220 Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree Dec 12
So the IG report says there were no undercover FBI officers there, but this undercover footage says otherwise.

https://tinyurl.com/bd3wrnuv
7:48 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (hovnC)

221 May Nancy repent and confess to her priest for private sins and confess to the American people for her public sins.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 13, 2024 06:54 PM (fs1hN)
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Amen. People need to remember that whenever a soul is lost to the Enemy, God weeps. A better outcome is for them to repent, turn away from evil, and enjoy God's love once more.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (ZOv7s)

222 Easy way to self-limit - pass a law that no sitting legislator over the age of 75 can site on any committee or have any function other than as a voting member of the legislature.

When a legislator turns 75, they lose all their accumulate power of seniority. There is a lot less incentive to keep running, or for them to keep getting elected to office.

Not sure what to do about the vegetable in chief.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (nLFEI)

223 Oh, sorry Rodrigo. I misunderstood.

I guess they should buy some land.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (/50FY)

224 Wait a minute.

I don't get to vote because I don't own property?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (kAzG3)

225 >>One guy in a video claims the drones have stealth technology and that's why we can't film them.

Last week. The night the moon was closest to Venus on the horizon. I watched a string of 14 aircraft come over the Bitterroots. All evenly spaced about 1/4-1/2 mile apart and none with any navigation / signal lights.

The only way you could see them was by the reflected sunlight coming off the bottom of the aircraft as they came over the peaks.
Tracking them as they flew over the valley, if you blinked they were gone.
It was a weird sighting of something. What of, I am not sure...

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (j6KoD)

226
WTF is Congress doing in Luxembourg?
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Battle of the Bulge commemoration.
Posted by: andycanuck

NUTS!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (63Dwl)

227 @183

>>I sure as hell wouldn't try flying a drone over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. I reckon they would unamused.

Here's the thing, all modern aviation drones and by modern, any produced in the last decade, have built in transponders and GPS locators, they also have to register flight plans.

So the idea that the FAA and FedGov don't know what's going on is laughable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (XV/Pl)

228 Re Nancy Pelosi. let's be honest, a stiff wind would break her hip.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (nLFEI)

229 One observer reported a drone as big as a car, 200 feet AGL. That's an easy target for any ordinary .30 cal rifle and any ordinary shooter.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf! at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (7biUw)

230 If a term limit amendment is not feasible, perhaps vicious ridicule could be used to drive geezers from office.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM (t1fZA)
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The GOPe has to be overthrown. Dismantled. More primary challenges. Cleaner elections.

This is all you need.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

231 Get well soon , America!

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:11 PM (QTCRF)

232 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 1h
BREAKING: Donald Trump and ABC's George Stephanopoulos must sit for 4-hour deposition next week - judge

This is part of Trump's lawsuit against ABC for Stephanopoulos saying Trump r*ped E. Jean Carroll.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:11 PM (hovnC)

233 199 I predict she will get an artificial hip replacement and do a year or 2 of PT.
She's not going anywhere.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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Doesn't matter how good your healthcare is as something as severe as a broken hip aftereffects are worse as you get older. Slower to recover, slower to shakeoff the anesthetic, more inflammation aggravating existing conditions, etc.

Saw my FIL go from a vigorous 80 year old into a shell of himself post hip replacement. Became scared of walking anywhere and a couch potato. Lost him several years later.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:11 PM (ctrM5)

234 223 Oh, sorry Rodrigo. I misunderstood.

I guess they should buy some land.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (/50FY)

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Heh. Reminds me of Bomani Armah's "Read a Book"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (vd6bO)

235 Nancy Mace >>> Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (ufFY8)

236 Any hip injury at age 84 is a major cause for concern.
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Whose concern

Posted by: ... at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (lX8VI)

237
Ayep. Fly one over my house. You won't get it back.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Full moon would have shocked it out of the sky anyway.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (ndlh7)

238 Spoiler alert:

I'll settle for the part where all Americans are equal and no American has extra privileges in the form of the ability to freely vote for wars they don't have to worry about being called to die in.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (/50FY)

239 Hip fracture in the elderly carries a 25% 1 year mortality. The fracture is often the start of a downward spiral with a loss of independence.

Posted by: Aviator at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (HQ9Sl)

240 I still can't get past Schiff being elected a Senator.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (nLFEI)

241 Wait a minute.

I don't get to vote because I don't own property?
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Or the Selective Service prohibition. Your choice.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:13 PM (/50FY)

242 As a Catholic, a real one, not a Pelosi one, I must pray that Nan finds her way into the Confessional and comes clean, does her penance, and makes it to heaven. I also have to have hope that she will do so, because I believe all things are possible to God. Nobody said I had to feel sorry for her or even give one tinker's dam that she's in pain and far from home. Jesus said to pray for your enemies. He didn't specify WHAT to pray for them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:13 PM (K861k)

243 New York Post @nypost 2h
FBI had 26 informants at Jan. 6 Capitol riots — and most were involved | Reporter Replay
trib.al/KwdBZoJ

Catturd ™ @catturd2 1h
Inside job.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (hovnC)

244
An 84 year old with a hip fracture. It will be interesting to see how the case progresses with care that is state-of-the-art, no expense spared, no waiting in line like us peons.

Often it's a death sentence for little people.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (Ijbq0)

245 Nancy belongs in Gitmo for her coup against President Trump. I'd settle for a crummy nursing home with non-English speaking help, who leave her in a wheelchair staring at a shower curtain all day.

Posted by: Terminal Generation at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (G5+As)

246 222 Easy way to self-limit - pass a law that no sitting legislator over the age of 75 can site on any committee or have any function other than as a voting member of the legislature.

When a legislator turns 75, they lose all their accumulate power of seniority. There is a lot less incentive to keep running, or for them to keep getting elected to office.

Not sure what to do about the vegetable in chief.
Posted by: El Mariachi

GOP limits house chair terms to six years maximum. That is why you see more turnover in the House for the GOP since Gingrich implemented that caucus rule and fewer old farts.

Doesn't apply to the Senate.

But I think your approach, as opposed to others, would be held constitutional based on the right of legislators to make their own internal rules.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (ctrM5)

247 I think you've got to have some kind of limits, otherwise there's a high risk of somebody getting shot accidentally - you know, with the bullets whizzing through the woods and over the fields.

Rereads post.

Oh, wait. You're talking about term limits, not berm limits. Never mind.

Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (njExo)

248 "I don't get to vote because I don't own property?"

Does it have to be property in USA? Can it be extraterrestrial?

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf! at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (7biUw)

249 "FBI had 26 informants at Jan. 6 Capitol riots"

That they admit to.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2024 07:14 PM (vFG9F)

250 When I heard she got injured my first thought was it was during one of her husbands Underwear Hammer Parties.

Posted by: Sua Sponte at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (ppKip)

251 Tracking them as they flew over the valley, if you blinked they were gone.
It was a weird sighting of something. What of, I am not sure...
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (j6KoD)

A Starlink launch maybe? Each one on a slightly different trajectory?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (D7oie)

252 232 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 1h
BREAKING: Donald Trump and ABC's George Stephanopoulos must sit for 4-hour deposition next week - judge

This is part of Trump's lawsuit against ABC for Stephanopoulos saying Trump r*ped E. Jean Carroll.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:11 PM (hovnC)

First question should be "Why are you such a pusillanimous pissant?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (K861k)

253 I'm beginning to accept that there were probably more feds and anti-MAGA than there were Trump supporters.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (/50FY)

254 >>"FBI had 26 informants at Jan. 6 Capitol riots"

How many did DHS have?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (j6KoD)

255 Nancy Mace >> Nancy Travis >> Nancy Walker >>>> Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (ufFY8)

256 Hoops © @HoopMixOnly Dec 12
A news reporter asked Michael Jordan if he thought the ’90s Bulls could beat LeBron’s Lakers.

MJ: Yes.
Reporter: By how much?
MJ: Two or three points.
Reporter: Why so close?
MJ: Most of us are almost 60 now.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (hovnC)

257 242 As a Catholic, a real one, not a Pelosi one, I must pray that Nan finds her way into the Confessional and comes clean, does her penance, and makes it to heaven. I also have to have hope that she will do so, because I believe all things are possible to God. Nobody said I had to feel sorry for her or even give one tinker's dam that she's in pain and far from home. Jesus said to pray for your enemies. He didn't specify WHAT to pray for them.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Fair enough. Christ was always more concerned over saving immortal souls rather than the matters of the day.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (ctrM5)

258 When I was stationed in Turkey back in the 80's I had colleagues working in security jobs at the various embassies. They hated visits like this. Their wives too. These people would all bring the spouses. Then it was half a day at whatever ceremony was on the slate, then two or three days shopping. My buddies and their wives had to be the escorts. And they better know where to go to get the "good deals!". Some of the stories was incredible.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH)

259 It would certainly explain why they got the party started before Trump finished speaking, which never made sense.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (/50FY)

260 I just saw the top sidebar item about JD Vance. That’s 180 degree departure from what Mike Ponce would have done.

Hey —- speaking of Ponce…you think he sent his old fist bump buddy flowers to her hospital room yet?

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (PCNh/)

261 I made a mistake of watching "Conclave". It was great, Ralph Fiennes, Tucci, Lithgow...until the last 5 minutes. I felt the same as I did after the "Crying Game". NO SPOILERS!

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (QTCRF)

262 ok but these people are Silent Gen
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 13, 2024 06:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

I was skimming through quickly and read that as “Soylent green” - LOL

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (JRP2U)

263 I hope she doesn't die. I can't even imagine how the coverage of her will be. I'm already puking a bit in my mouth... That and it would be rude to interrupt McCain's passing.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (j/yko)

264 Oh, and Isabella Rossellini.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (QTCRF)

265 A news reporter asked Michael Jordan if he thought the ’90s Bulls could beat LeBron’s Lakers.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (hovnC)
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LeBron's gone into hiding. No doubt still recovering from those Diddy parties.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)

266 "MIGAWD!! JUST LIKE BIGFOOT!!!"

yeah, Sasquatch is a friend of mine, but I respect his desire for privacy.

here is Sara Carter on UAPs (like UFO's). imo, if these things are close to real, they are perhaps holograms, but nothing is going 1000X the speed of sound and making immediate 90 degree turns.

IF that is "real", it is supernatural or other dimension, I still don't think it is "alien", like from a distant star/planet. But then she speaks of other life forms on earth, maybe under the sea (with spongeBob?).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (Cus5s)

267 Full moon would have shocked it out of the sky anyway.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (ndlh7)

Blinded the operator, anyway.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (K861k)

268 "FBI had 26 informants at Jan. 6 Capitol riots"

How many did DHS have?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM

And ATF, CIA, etc.? There were most likely in excess of 100 government agents present on that day rousing the crowd to do violence.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (Rcnd3)

269 I still can't get past Schiff being elected a Senator.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (nLFEI)

California is a political machine state.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (D7oie)

270 What if it wasn't actually term limits we implemented but an age limit, just for congress? Sure you can get elected 6 times to office, but you hit some range between 70-80 in your term and you don't get to run again.

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (aRLgQ)

271 Term limits typically have derived their electoral mojo from the idea that people too long in office become corrupted, at a minimum corrupted in the political sense of being attuned to donors and the capital's culture instead of their voters. Not, I think, because of these sad pathetic creatures who simply can't walk away when it's time.

And I don't term limits at state level anywhere they've been adopted have done a thing to affect the political/literal corruption thing. Therefore I won't mind when a federal amendment effort fizzles.

Federal offices have 2, 4, and 6-year term limits. If voters don't do their part, they get what's coming to them.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (1m82a)

272 MJ is GOAT!

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (QTCRF)

273 They took the Arafat cloth and the baby Jesus out if the nativity scene because Jesus doesn't come until Dec 25. That's when He goes into the manger.

Posted by: Megthered at December 13, 2024 07:18 PM (HZt/w)

274 Jamaal is another Cultural Marxist

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

275 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmMLmjyzGy

the sara carter link

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 07:18 PM (Cus5s)

276 As a Catholic, a real one, not a Pelosi one, I must pray that Nan finds her way into the Confessional and comes clean, does her penance, and makes it to heaven. I also have to have hope that she will do so, because I believe all things are possible to God. Nobody said I had to feel sorry for her or even give one tinker's dam that she's in pain and far from home. Jesus said to pray for your enemies. He didn't specify WHAT to pray for them.
Posted by: tcn in AK

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Well said.

It's my understanding that means praying that they accept Christ into their lives and don't burn eternally in the Devil's Hell.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:18 PM (/50FY)

277 How many did DHS have?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:15 PM (j6KoD)
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We're going to find that lots of agencies were involved.

It's going to get real interesting real soon.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)

278 I felt the same as I did after the "Crying Game". NO SPOILERS!
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (QTCRF)

Oh man, pope dick?

You don't just spring pope dick on an audience.

That's just rude.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (y/ZMQ)

279 Fair enough. Christ was always more concerned over saving immortal souls rather than the matters of the day.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (ctrM5)

Life on this earth is miniscule compared to eternity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (K861k)

280 Pelosi considers herself a devout and respectable, practicing Christian, Catholic even. And she considers all of you infidel insurrectionist demons.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (QTCRF)

281 >>A Starlink launch maybe? Each one on a slightly different trajectory?

They all looked to be following the same path.

But it DID look like a series of missiles at first...only they had no exhaust / vapor trails.

If the sun wasn't already behind the mountains, I don't think you could ever have seen them. Only that reflection showed them up.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (j6KoD)

282 You don't just spring pope dick on an audience.

That's just rude.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (y/ZMQ)

I think the problem is the lack thereof.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (K861k)

283 Oh man, pope dick?

You don't just spring pope dick on an audience.

That's just rude.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (y/ZMQ)

NO. SPOI-LERS!!!

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (QTCRF)

284 Re Nancy Pelosi. let's be honest, a stiff wind would break her hip.

Flatulence could reinjure her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (1ElyO)

285 Last week. The night the moon was closest to Venus on the horizon. I watched a string of 14 aircraft come over the Bitterroots. All evenly spaced about 1/4-1/2 mile apart and none with any navigation / signal lights.

The only way you could see them was by the reflected sunlight coming off the bottom of the aircraft as they came over the peaks.
Tracking them as they flew over the valley, if you blinked they were gone.
It was a weird sighting of something. What of, I am not sure...
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:10 PM (j6KoD)

_________________________________

That's like a text book description of Starlink. Starlink is visible to the naked eye on the horizon and resembles a straight line of tracer rounds.

Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (dIske)

286 "How many did DHS have?"

and many of the cops were in on it.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (Cus5s)

287 I made a mistake of watching "Conclave". It was great, Ralph Fiennes, Tucci, Lithgow...until the last 5 minutes. I felt the same as I did after the "Crying Game". NO SPOILERS!
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (QTCRF)

Yeah, stupid slight twist at the end, but otherwise a good movie.

Enemies of John Adams would be proud.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (ufFY8)

288 280 Pelosi considers herself a devout and respectable, practicing Christian, Catholic even. And she considers all of you infidel insurrectionist demons.
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (QTCRF)

In the end, it really isn't her opinion that will matter.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (K861k)

289 Betcha Schiff was on a secret flight to Luxeshtein or Lichtenberg or fuckin whatever....

*shove!*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (y/ZMQ)

290 Well said.

It's my understanding that means praying that they accept Christ into their lives and don't burn eternally in the Devil's Hell.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:18 PM (/50FY)
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Yes, and I suspect that her time in purgatory is going to be particularly unpleasant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

291 Happily, people figured it out, and change is at hand.

Sure: they're dying off, and Us Good Guys are taking over!
I hereby dub your age cohort "The A.H. Lloyd Generation" and heartily hope you live long enough to be blamed by snot-nosed punks with undescended testicles for their failure to thrive.

Such a coward that you have to wait until they're 80 before you take a swipe at their ass. What a bold trooper you must be. If you knew your father -- and I sincerely doubt it -- he's disowning you now.

Generationalism! For those not intellectually challenged enough by racism! Nobody's that stupid. You have to work at this. Profoundly limp horse patoot, you'll never be in charge of anything.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (zdLoL)

292 257
'MJ: Most of us are almost 60 now.'

I hope this really happened.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (3wi/L)

293 TL

R - I understand that in cases of hip fractures in the elderly, it is not that they fall and "break their hip", but that their "hip fractured, causing the fall".

Either way, I will raise a glass to the news.

Posted by: TxMarko at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (7flhA)

294 "How many did DHS have?"

and many of the cops were in on it.
Posted by: illiniwek

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If you didn't see the new video of the J6 cops pushing the elderly lady down the five or six stairs in #51

https://tinyurl.com/2hprwwmf

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (/50FY)

295 284 Re Nancy Pelosi. let's be honest, a stiff wind would break her hip.

Flatulence could reinjure her.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (1ElyO)

Swallwell and Nadler on either side of her!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (x0n13)

296 Diogenes it was seasonal to some extent but back in the day Portugal was the big stopover favorite for Codels to Europa. Golf for the guys, whatever for the gals.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2024 07:22 PM (1m82a)

297 Once was on a flight with Scottie Pippen. Realized how freakish these athletes are. Giants, man !

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:22 PM (QTCRF)

298
They said doctors were confident the damage could be repaired with a routine operation, but it was not yet clear whether that would be done in Luxembourg or in the United States.

lulz

Oh please do the operation THERE in Europe!
Please. Please. Please.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2024 07:22 PM (QxTQv)

299 I still can't get past Schiff being elected a Senator.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM (nLFEI)

California is a political machine state.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 07:17 PM (D7oie)

They probably haven't seen a "free and fair" election in that state in 30 years. Same with New York, and Illnoise.

One party politics has nothing to do with elections, so if you are gay homosexual who murders black male prostitutes, like Adam Schiff, that's not a disqualifier for moving up the ranks.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2024 07:22 PM (lH8E4)

300
IThe government watchdog admits that the FBI had 26 confidential human sources in and around the Capitol on January 6. I figure it was probably ten times that many, along with lots of actual agents. And all the other agencies involved, must be an enormous total number.

I'm reminded of the FBI infiltrating the Klan back in the mid 60s. At one point half the Klan in Mississippi was paid informants. It was a good source of income in a low income part of the country. And the inflated membership numbers helped get the FBI a bigger budget.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2024 07:22 PM (t1fZA)

301 It's a shame we can't vote California out of the union

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (fwDg9)

302 252 - First question should be "Why are you such a pusillanimous pissant?" - ten in AK

Stephanopolous will probably respond with one of those multiple mutually exclusive legal answers:

1) I am not a pusillanimous piss-ant.

2) I am pusillanimous, but I am not a piss-ant.

3) I am not pusillanimous, but I am a pissant.

Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (njExo)

303 I don't understand why people can't think in terms of removing impositions rather than putting more in place.

Don't want people obligated to be drafted for war?
Get rid of Selective Service, don't say "Oh women have to register too".

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (hB7mE)

304 Space X launching a Falcon 9 in about 40 minutes. Here's the stream:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7ed8s5

Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (dIske)

305
I hope her surgeon is a filthy immigrant in Luxembourg.
Or, even better, a filthy native of Luxembourg.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (QxTQv)

306 Thanks for mentioning Conclave. I'd forgotten about it. I saw it advertised at an Imax and thought it would be fantastic to see at that venue but it never worked out.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (/50FY)

307 In the end, it really isn't her opinion that will matter.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 07:20 PM (K861k)

here and now , my friend. here and now.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (QTCRF)

308 Why are drone films and Bigfoot films such poor quality?

Posted by: Eyes of Nostrildamus at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (G5+As)

309
This'll teach her!

She just HAD to have that One Last taxpayer vacation.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (QxTQv)

310 I’m not wasting one moment of my time praying for Nancy Pelosi’s body, soul, or anything else attached to her. My work puts me in contact with Americans whose daily lives are a struggle, in large part due to the demonic agenda she put in place.

Her own Archbishop told the priests of her diocese she was to be denied communion…did she repent?
Nope. She went to Rome and went over Cordileone’s head.
Let her cursed demon spawn offer up a Hail Mary or two for her.
And fvck her running

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (PCNh/)

311 >>That's like a text book description of Starlink. Starlink is visible to the naked eye on the horizon and resembles a straight line of tracer rounds.

Cool. It was a crazy looking sight.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (j6KoD)

312 Either way, I will raise a glass to the news.
Posted by: TxMarko at December 13, 2024 07:21 PM (7flhA)

I just assumed raising a glass is what caused the fall.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (lH8E4)

313 we need term limits. The factions which are created by the many individuals who have power in the Senate and House cannot be unwound...not all of the individuals who make them can be voted out at the same time. Factions is another word for the elected deep state we have.

Pelosi will get surgery where she is. Fractured hip patients die without immediate surgery.

And here I thought she fell off her broom.

Posted by: Dantes at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (hdPZg)

314 Now if Schumer would just choke on a bag of dicks, my Christmas will be complete.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2024 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

315 Ach, Pelosi landed on her butt, not her head. Oh well, I suppose Jesus wants to give her another chance to reconsider her life & how to change it, before he drops the house. Gonna be difficult for her to boss around the House Dems from a hospital bed, though. She's not going anywhere or doing anything (unmedicated) until that hip gets fixed. Even then it will be hell. My niece has just recovered from three years of hip joint troubles. The docs deliberately fractured one pelvis to fix it. Ground the femur ball for a smoother fit, too. Sometimes there's just not enough pain medicine.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 13, 2024 07:25 PM (XjTSo)

316 301 It's a shame we can't vote California out of the union
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 07:23 PM (fwDg9)

SF, LA, Sacramento and SD. Let's keep the farm and oil lands.

Hello Victor Davis Hanson!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 07:25 PM (x0n13)

317 I just assumed raising a glass is what caused the fall.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (lH8E4)
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Probably more than one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:25 PM (ZOv7s)

318 >>We're going to find that lots of agencies were involved.

Maybe find out about a couple. But mostly get proof over what some of us having been saying for 4 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (LkLld)

319 I’m not wasting one moment of my time praying for Nancy Pelosi’s body, soul, or anything else attached to her. My work puts me in contact with Americans whose daily lives are a struggle, in large part due to the demonic agenda she put in place.

Her own Archbishop told the priests of her diocese she was to be denied communion…did she repent?
Nope. She went to Rome and went over Cordileone’s head.
Let her cursed demon spawn offer up a Hail Mary or two for her.
And fvck her running
Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:24 PM (PCNh/)

If one believes in hell, then presumably there are people who belong there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (lH8E4)

320 you are gay homosexual who murders black male prostitutes, like Adam Schiff,

Whoa, MisHum banhammered me for naming a butcher vetinarian in a pet thread! Jeepers!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (etVYn)

321 Tcn,
Tis true. Been watching short YouTube videos about the ancient church fathers. Most of them martyred. Faithful unto death. Makes you think a bit.

Posted by: whig's phone at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (ctrM5)

322 Oh yeah, I forgot…I choose to send prayers up for the average people that old crum bum had harmed. If that makes me a Bad Catholic…oh well.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (PCNh/)

323
Have you seen cuck schumer walk?

He walks like IGOR from Young Frankenstein.

He looks like the Hunchback of Notre Dame when he walks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (QxTQv)

324 We can keep Sandy Eggo.

They're goofy, but chill.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (y/ZMQ)

325 I watched Conclave last night because I had read the book years ago and remembered that it was so interesting. Then the last 15 minutes happened and I remembered what happened. Great acting in the movie.

Posted by: Megthered at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (HZt/w)

326
cuck schumer ain't spry, is my point

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (QxTQv)

327 314 Now if Schumer would just choke on a bag of dicks, my Christmas will be complete.
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2024 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

I was once within fist distance of both Schumer and Sharpton.

So so so tempted.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (x0n13)

328 Hip replacement surgery is so standard now (in the US) that it is almost outpatient level. They quite perfected the process.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (QTCRF)

329 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 07:27 PM (fwDg9)

330 If one believes in hell, then presumably there are people who belong there.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (lH8E4)
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Yes, and as much as a deathbed conversion is a nice story, I don't think she will have one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)

331 >>Hip replacement surgery is so standard now (in the US) that it is almost outpatient level. They quite perfected the process.

Not on 85 year olds.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2024 07:28 PM (LkLld)

332 324 We can keep Sandy Eggo.

They're goofy, but chill.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (y/ZMQ)

One of the few cities west of the East Coast with an actual legit Little Italy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2024 07:28 PM (x0n13)

333 Diogenes it was seasonal to some extent but back in the day Portugal was the big stopover favorite for Codels to Europa. Golf for the guys, whatever for the gals.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2024 07:22 PM (1m82a)

Right.
We didn't get many visitors to Sinop and were happy for it. Good point on the golf. Several friends got their jobs in part because they had single digit handicaps.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

334 "I still can't get past Schiff being elected a Senator."

Its almost as if California stopped trying.

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 07:28 PM (TN0g+)

335 HELL AWAITS

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=XP3pSLi2z14

Posted by: SLAYER at December 13, 2024 07:28 PM (j6KoD)

336 > I watched a string of 14 aircraft come over the Bitterroots.

Sure it wasn't some of Musk's StarLink satellites? He's putting them up in large batches these days, and they form a line as they're being shoved out the door of the rocket (they maneuver to their final positions later).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:29 PM (W5ArC)

337 And what in hell is "lived experience?" What other kind is there? Ignored experience? Subliminal experience? WTH?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2024 06:38 PM (K861k)

Thank You! This is the stupidest term they've ever come up with. You made me LOL.

Posted by: sal at December 13, 2024 07:29 PM (f+FmA)

338 The photo in the UK Daily Mail showed the old crone wearing 4-inch stiletto heels today.

Stiletto. Heels. At 84.

Talk about "mutton dressed as lamb"!

Posted by: Beverly at December 13, 2024 07:29 PM (Epeb0)

339 Not on 85 year olds.

==

Her overall health is good and it's a 1 hour procedure. maybe 2.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:29 PM (QTCRF)

340 308 Why are drone films and Bigfoot films such poor quality?
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Dunno about drones, but for the Hairy Guy...
1. Person filming is often excited. Camera device tends to bob around in & out of focus some.
2. Most people don't use actual film cameras or even VHS tape recorders anymore. they use phone cameras, which tend to have crappy range for good shots.
3. If close enough for GOOD camera pics, human is more interested about putting space between them and the Bigfoot.
4. natural conditions often aren't good for lighting and shadows, which doesn't help either. Patty strolling in the open is a big exception to the rule.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 13, 2024 07:29 PM (XjTSo)

341 169 Pelosi was already alive back then
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2024 06:47 PM (GDrd7)

What did Taylor Lorenz think when it started?"

She giggled.
Posted by: Crusader
======
Sounds about right.

===================

Don't be mean.
Taylor was very concerned for her younger brother who came out of retirement to serve in WWII and was at that battle

Posted by: bensdad00 at December 13, 2024 07:30 PM (fyU6i)

342 Some surgeons can do it in 45 minutes, with local anesthesia. The longest part is ..anesthesia.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:30 PM (QTCRF)

343 NOOD

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 07:31 PM (ZOv7s)

344 I still can't get past Schiff being elected a Senator.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 07:12 PM

He is going to run for president in 2028, along with a host of other pols from california.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2024 07:31 PM (Rcnd3)

345 Off sock

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 13, 2024 07:31 PM (JfxgE)

346 Don't want people obligated to be drafted for war?
Get rid of Selective Service, don't say "Oh women have to register too".
Posted by: FeatherBlade

-

(refrains from pointing out that wars would still need to be fought and would need men to do it while also trying hard to refrain from any jokes regarding other similar voting tendencies by the demographic in context of this thread)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 07:32 PM (/50FY)

347 If one believes in hell, then presumably there are people who belong there.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2024 07:26 PM (lH8E4)

I have this nebulous "belief" that heaven and hell are the same place. We all go there whether we like it or not.

Which one it is depends on you.

If you're a ... let's just say a Nancy Pelosi... are you going to be cool with spending eternity under the withering brutality of the Lord knowing He knows every corner of your soul and everything you ever did... and that He Disapproves?

Will you kneel and repent, or scream "You're no real god, a real god would praise me for all I've done! How dare you judge me? I will not serve!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:32 PM (y/ZMQ)

348 >>Didn't Kramer wear some kind of safety shoes in the Mel Torme episode?
Posted by: Handi-Capable Fred at December 13, 2024 07:09 PM

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

He wore plyometric shoes

Posted by: Bigsmith at December 13, 2024 07:33 PM (1Au9i)

349 > Here's the thing, all modern aviation drones and by modern, any produced in the last decade, have built in transponders and GPS locators, they also have to register flight plans.

I suppose they could be getting launched from a ChiCom submarine or something?

Remember that Chinese balloon from a couple of years ago?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2024 07:33 PM (W5ArC)

350 301
'It's a shame we can't vote California out of the union'

Maybe they'll be so butthurt about the Trump presidency, they'll secede.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2024 07:34 PM (3wi/L)

351 I felt the same as I did after the "Crying Game". NO SPOILERS!
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (QTCRF)

Oh man, pope dick?

You don't just spring pope dick on an audience.

That's just rude.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 07:19 PM (y/ZMQ)

Also a contractee.

Posted by: Beelzebub at December 13, 2024 07:34 PM (aD39U)

352 outpatient level. They quite perfected the process.

Propaganda from Big Penguin who wants you to waddle.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 07:35 PM (etVYn)

353 She hurt herself diving off a diving board into a giant vault filled with gold coins

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at December 13, 2024 07:36 PM (YZhRl)

354 > The longest part is ..anesthesia.
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 07:30 PM (QTCRF)

We're working on that. Check out our new "Let 'Em Scream" policy, which covers complimentary noise-canceling headphones for your anesthesiologist.

Posted by: Blue Cross/Blue Shield at December 13, 2024 07:37 PM (W5ArC)

355 301 It's a shame we can't vote California out of the union
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Be patient, there was a 7.0 earthquake this year. We ought to get a Richter 8.0 quake soon, which might solve any number of problems for us.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 13, 2024 07:37 PM (XjTSo)

356 He knows every corner of your soul and everything you ever did... and that He Disapproves?

But I didn't spill it on the ground!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 07:38 PM (etVYn)

357 258 When I was stationed in Turkey back in the 80's I had colleagues working in security jobs at the various embassies. They hated visits like this. Their wives too. These people would all bring the spouses. Then it was half a day at whatever ceremony was on the slate, then two or three days shopping. My buddies and their wives had to be the escorts. And they better know where to go to get the "good deals!". Some of the stories was incredible.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH)

I worked as the exec officer for the Ambassador in a couple of embassies. I had to deal with these visits at least twice a month, if not more. I would buy your buddies and their wives a beer and swap horror tales!

Posted by: Moki at December 13, 2024 07:39 PM (wLjpr)

358 Two clips of McConnell the other day; one, him being wheeled in a chair and him at a dais totally zoned out - he was standing there looking straight ahead, introduced by a lady with no acknowledgement, then she asked a question and well, he wasn't there. His body was but he wasn't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 13, 2024 07:40 PM (ZAwHo)

359 327
'I was once within fist distance of both Schumer and Sharpton.'

I've never been tempted to fist them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2024 07:41 PM (3wi/L)

360 emerita looks wrong

I don't believe emeritus has a gender. Looking at the example, professor does not have a gender. Also she hasn't retired so there.

emeritus
n adjective having retired but allowed to retain a title as an honour: the emeritus professor of microbiology.

ORIGIN
C18: from Latin, past participle of emereri 'earn one's discharge by service'.

Posted by: Ciampino - stracchino is to die for at December 13, 2024 07:43 PM (i0xsb)

361 I wouldn’t get too excited about Pelosi. My mother had osteoporosis, had the same type of fall and fractured her femur at 82, had pins and plates put in. Six weeks of rehab and came home better than before. Proceeded to live for 12 more years, with eight of those very much mobile.
She died at 94.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 13, 2024 07:46 PM (HF17c)

362 I hope she has a full but slow recovery that keeps her from showing up to work the next 2 years. It's almost like picking up a seat.

Posted by: Mountain Walker at December 13, 2024 07:54 PM (I6kGV)

363 The Honorable Michael McCaul, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
+++
Honorable???
No one who manages to be elected to congress is honorable.
That word does not mean what they think it means.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 13, 2024 07:55 PM (Lo97M)

364 I heard about an old study that found that tenure in office was more predictive of how people in congress would vote than party. That's probably not true anymore, but people do seem to lose touch with voters over time, so I favor term limits.

Posted by: Kamala at December 13, 2024 08:14 PM (nLwaa)

365
Frankly, the problem is not term limits, or an age limit for serving on Capitol Hill, the problem is that people vote for candidates who are obviously past their expiration date. Yeah, I don’t care what your ideology is, someone in their mid 80s is not capable of handling the shit storm that is Congress.

Posted by: EddieS at December 13, 2024 08:29 PM (Zz/IG)

366
I used to see a lot of spent R-7 Soviet boosters in the dark skies of northern Michigan years ago, along with other satellites.

On cloudy nights listened to the soothing sounds of the shortwave broadcasting Radio Havana.

In a lot of ways history turned out better than feared.

Posted by: Auspex at December 13, 2024 08:29 PM (j4U/Z)

367 If not term limits, at least a maximum age, past which you're ineligible to run for election or reelection.

Reagan was 73 in '84. Trump 74 in '20, Biden 77 --and we see how well that went. Trump is now 78. Hopefully he fares better.

Seems to me anything past 72 or 73, maybe 74, is too old to be running for public office.

Posted by: Steven Fletcher at December 13, 2024 09:35 PM (HY6NV)

368 It is far more likely that her hip broke and then she fell. That's what normally happens.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 14, 2024 12:32 AM (YcfMX)

369 Our leadership makes the Soviet politburo look like a bunch of frisky teenagers.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 14, 2024 01:09 AM (bXvrr)

370 Term limits have good and bad; Obama was quite the centrist - Illegally 'deemed' Obamacare aside - in his first term. He came out absolutely nasty in his second, term-limited, term.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 14, 2024 06:29 AM (+oeOB)

371 Broken hip? Why am I not concerned???

Posted by: Indy Bill at December 14, 2024 10:01 AM (+WI3k)

372 Hmmm ... was not aware Pelosi had information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary. ...

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