Washington Post: Biden and Democrats Blame Election Loss on Merrick Garland, Believing He Wasn't Partisan <i>Enough</i> In His Lawfare Against Trump

Washington Post: Biden and Democrats Blame Election Loss on Merrick Garland, Believing He Wasn't Partisan Enough In His Lawfare Against Trump

Mollie Hemingway had a reason for championing Trump over any of his primary rivals: We had to show that the left's lawfare and politics of personal destruction would not be allowed to work. The left had to be repudiated in the worst way possible, and for the left, that meant the re-election of Trump.

The left, meanwhile, grumbles that what they really needed was MOAR LAWFARE.

David Strom:

It may seem odd to normal people that anybody could think that Garland was anything but a political hack over the past four years, but seen through the eyes of Democratic Party operatives, you can see how such an absurd idea seems normal.

[Washington Post:]
Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election. (Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases; the Justice Department declined to comment.)
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What sticks out about this tidbit, though, is not Biden's regret but the reason for it: his strategy for defeating Donald Trump depended upon using the Justice Department to prosecute Trump to tie him up during the campaign and use allegations to undermine Trump.
On the one hand, you could say, "That's obviously true," but on the other, this amounts to an admission that Biden's election strategy was to weaponize the Justice Department.

So another Conspiracy Theory turns out to have been 100% accurate.

Interesting take from Jester Politics, via Hot Air: While Democrats moan that Biden dropped out of the race too late, the truth is the opposite.

One of the most amazing excuses floated so far is that Biden pulled out of the race too late leaving Harris to little time to run an effective campaign. Nonsense. That's like saying the reason the plane crashed was because the ground was too close.
With the concerted help of the old press Harris was initially able to hide from the voters. For a significant part of her campaign she gave no interviews, held no press conferences, and had no unscripted interaction with voters. When she was eventually forced to do interviews she limited them to friendly venues -- like the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 minutes. Even though every one of her interviews were at friendly venues, every one of them were still a disaster. As it turned out, the more people saw of Harris, the less they liked her. If she had a month less to campaign, she would've been better off...in other words, Biden didn't drop out too late, he dropped out too soon!

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1 >>Biden didn't drop out too late, he dropped out too soon!

Eh, go with that!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2024 02:13 PM (VnUSN)

2 Sloppy seconds?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 30, 2024 02:15 PM (obk/l)

3 I've seen videos of Kamala Harris speaking about "child issues" as California AG.
She was everything you would want in a Presidential candidate. Smart sounding, crisp, clear and clever.
Unfortunately, she only really cares about a thin slice of the issues of the day. Beyond those specific issues, she was a vacuous buffoon. During her Senate days, her staff would prepare material for her to ingest but .. she just didn't like it, so nothing stuck.

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

4 "When she was eventually forced to do interviews she limited them to friendly venues -- like the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 minutes."

Call Her Daddy is a "venue"? Ehh. I guess it's no less whorish or slimy with ejaculate as The View or 60 Minutes . . . .

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

5 I just dropped something

Posted by: Joey Bitem at December 30, 2024 02:16 PM (xesY+)

6 Do Dems even understand how our Constitution and rule of law works? If they do, do they care? Obviously not. Power and the agenda are all that matters. And they will do whatever it takes by whatever means necessary.

Posted by: Angel at December 30, 2024 02:18 PM (oiJGz)

7 Has anyone ever seen Zombie SS-Gruppenfuhrer Otto Ohlendorf and SS-Reich Minister Of Justice Merrick Garland in the same room at the same time?

Twins.

Posted by: Look A Likes at December 30, 2024 02:18 PM (lX1hk)

8 Yeah, if Harris had truly been worth a shit, she would have hit the ground running (as no one with a functioning brain was not considering Biden dropping out of the race.) Instead, she foundered.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2024 02:18 PM (bss/y)

9 Biden dropped out too late ... by a year.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 30, 2024 02:19 PM (Cus5s)

10 I just dropped something
Posted by: Joey Bitem

Sinker or floater?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 30, 2024 02:19 PM (obk/l)

11 Keep going dems.
It's clear you haven't learned a thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 30, 2024 02:19 PM (W/lyH)

12 Oh, Garland could have definitely been worse.

It's nice to know that his reputation is crashing even among the establishment left, though.

In the end, no one will like him.

It's something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

13 I love the handwaving of how SCOTUS has benchslapped the cases into the Sun.

Look, the Left has it as an article of faith that Trump is a criminal and that he is going to be jailed and that he is an insurrectionist. These are religious beliefs and any response counter to that is blasphemy.

I'm enjoying the new theory that the electors will not be certified on 1/6/2025 because there will be no Speaker of the House.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 30, 2024 02:21 PM (Qzzd5)

14 Interesting take from Jester Politics, via Hot Air: While Democrats moan that Biden dropped out of the race too late, the truth is the opposite.

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It's probably true.

But the kicker was that they replaced Biden after the primary and in a way that allowed Kamala to just swoop in and take it from anyone else.

Seriously, invalidating a presidential primary had no negative side effects? Why is this an underlying assumption of almost every bit of analysis of the 2024 election?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

15 Two comments:

1. Biden's handlers don't actually believe this. This is dripping with midnight-at-the-prom-punchbowl desperation to find a scapegoat for their November catastrophe.

2. The Dums also need to reassure their dick-brained imbecile constituency that the cases against Trump had real solid merit and would have gotten rid of BOM, if only the timing was better. The Dums screamed for years that these cases had Trump dead to rights, and the NPCs believed them. They can't now admit to their NPCs that they were wrong the entire time.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

16 13 Look, the Left has it as an article of faith that Trump is a criminal and that he is going to be jailed and that he is an insurrectionist. These are religious beliefs and any response counter to that is blasphemy.

I'm enjoying the new theory that the electors will not be certified on 1/6/2025 because there will be no Speaker of the House.
Posted by: alexthechick at December 30, 2024 02:21 PM (Qzzd5)

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JD Vance has turned state's evidence!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

17
As it turned out, the more people saw of Harris, the less they liked her.

She should have used the Biden Basement strategy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2024 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

18 wa-po, LOL, comedy gold!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2024 02:23 PM (cY18j)

19 17
As it turned out, the more people saw of Harris, the less they liked her.

She should have used the Biden Basement strategy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2024 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

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It's why, in the 2020 election season, she went from presumptive front runner in January of 2019 to dropping out before Iowa's caucus.

She sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

20 The debate about Democrats has largely been focused on policy. That is, inflation, the border and the regulatory assault. But in the end what matters to most people is the willingness to use the auspices of government against the people. Burned in peoples minds, importantly in many younger Americans, was the Democrats outright and unabashed assault on civil liberties starting with COVID and extending into lawfare against anyone who didn’t agree with them politically. That isn’t a matter of policy, it’s a matter of innate political orthodoxy. That isn’t likely to change no matter what candidate Democrats put up and it’s something we haven’t done enough to remind people of. Notice that Democrats are leaning towards putting up what they call more “moderate” candidates. But that’s a smokescreen for the subversive, undemocratic and anti-liberty impulses that every modern Democrat possesses. They should NEVER be trusted again, nor should we continue to allow them to run from that record.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2024 02:24 PM (h3ZJi)

21 " They can't now admit to their NPCs that they were ~~wrong~~ lying like rugs the entire time."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2024 02:25 PM (cY18j)

22 This is a bluff, and the most basic of sales/manipulation techniques.

They simply assert the exact opposite and it instills doubt in the public that Garland was as bad as all that.

The only proper response to this is to point and laugh.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 02:25 PM (eMPHe)

23 They're not done yet. That Hill article wasn't some throw away. Expect shenanigans on Jan 6.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 30, 2024 02:25 PM (aCsV6)

24 Trump should issue a statement:

Because of all the pardons that Biden issued, he has proven himself competent to stand trial.

On January 20, 2025, I will direct the DOJ to appoint a real Special Prosecutor, issue an indictment, and fully prosecute Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents.

Unless Joe wasn't competent to issue those pardons ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:26 PM (0awbi)

25 The left, meanwhile, grumbles that what they really needed was MOAR LAWFARE.
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The left is still in denial. Need to break their mental habit loop. Rudely and preferably with consequences.

Posted by: scampydog at December 30, 2024 02:26 PM (2bFN5)

26 24 Trump should issue a statement:

Because of all the pardons that Biden issued, he has proven himself competent to stand trial.

On January 20, 2025, I will direct the DOJ to appoint a real Special Prosecutor, issue an indictment, and fully prosecute Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents.

Unless Joe wasn't competent to issue those pardons ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:26 PM (0awbi)

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Who thinks Biden is actually putting pen to paper?

I don't. I assume it's mostly the autopen.

Demand proof that he's actually signing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

27 Actually, if you look,at past performance, the Democrat who had a history of lawfare, digging up dirt on opponents so tbey'd bow out, is not Biden, but his puppeteer, Obama.

Posted by: Augusto Perez at December 30, 2024 02:27 PM (d/pQ0)

28 It's an op. Garland is as radical a partisan as they come. They're trying to rehabilitate Garland for the future and maybe get him on the Supremes some day by setting up the phony narrative that he refused to be as political as Biden demanded.

A similar thing happened with Comey. Hillary publicly blamed Comey for her election loss for reopening the investigation into her email server after the Weiner laptop matter. In fact, he was protecting her from the NYPD by reasserting control over the investigation and the evidence, as she well knew. But the spin was that Comey was acting against the Democrats politically to make him seem anti-Democrat.

Posted by: Buzzkill Guy at December 30, 2024 02:27 PM (Owqig)

29 The Guardian: Biden regrets ending re-election campaign , and picking Merrick Garland for attorney general, as he was slow to prosecute Trump for January 6

Garland was a huge disappointment. Maybe Obama thought he would seem like a really middle of the road and uncontroversial pick. Obama was always so careful to not be seen as extreme.

Garland was a HUGE mistake as trump may possibly began a dictatorship that will end our democracy. His foot dragging on going after trump for J6 has drastically changed the nation as trump should've been tried, convicted and jailed long before the corrupt SCOTUS 6 got involved with their corrupt immunity ruling.

Obama had to pick a justice the Republican Senate would confirm. Biden didn't have the same pressure.

He was recommended as an easy shoe in by Orin Hatch-R and stonewalled by McCONnell.

This is a misleading account. Hatch suggested Garland for an earlier vacancy. That was actually filled by Sotomayor or Kagan. The purpose of nominating Garland was to demonstrate Republican hypocrisy, there was never a real expectation he would be confirmed.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 30, 2024 02:28 PM (JCZqz)

30 So they're saying that Garland, a Chicago Dem thug, didn't act enough in the "Chicago way (cue Sean Connery)"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 30, 2024 02:28 PM (MLa3L)

31 Biden didn't drop out too late, he dropped out too soon!

Harris was incapable of speaking extemporaneously, having a press conference, or having a sit-down interview that didn't consist entirely of softball questions. (Even with a softball sit-down interview, her people preferred that it be prerecorded, so they could edit it before it was broadcast.)

Yeah, she should have been parachuted in a week before the election.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 30, 2024 02:28 PM (uxCna)

32 The Left is so energized by the 30 days of half-mast flags for Jimmy Carter will include the Trump inauguration.

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:29 PM (RHGPo)

33 They can't now admit to their NPCs that they were wrong the entire time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I suppose some NPC's can learn to override their programming. Are Dems smart enough to figure out how to keep that to a minimum while at the same time maximizing on ways to destroy the country and enrich themselves?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 30, 2024 02:29 PM (fs1hN)

34 The Dems were all for pure democracy, the tyranny of the majority, until they found out they weren't the majority.

Posted by: Angel at December 30, 2024 02:29 PM (oiJGz)

35 This is dripping with midnight-at-the-prom-punchbowl

Acme Punchbowl Turd Company, a division of Baby Ruth.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 30, 2024 02:29 PM (obk/l)

36 I think if they waited any longer to stage the coup, it would have been too close to the election, and any voters even remotely persuadable would have smelled an even bigger smellier rat than they did.

I think earlier would have indeed been better. Kumswala is terrible, but her terribleness peaked around election day. These things always have an up and down to them. I don't think her approval would have continued to decline.

Voters got a shock-treatment view of her and were still stunned on election day. I think a percentage of these voters would have eventually come to terms with her, given more time, and held their nose and voted for her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

37 Tangential.

Dolley and I started watching The Big Fat Quiz of 2024, a British panel show that aired a few days ago.

The comedy is typical British, meaning it actually does attack almost everyone but definitely has a leftist bent.

Anyway, their dealing of Biden was...not kind. The assumptions that Trump was dumb came and went, but there was a concentrated moment, a question about when Biden introduced Zelensky as Putin, and they were just mean to him. It was...interesting to see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

38
As it turned out, the more people saw of Harris, the less they liked her.
She should have used the Biden Basement strategy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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This.
Her best strategy was to keep refusing interviews and press conferences.
Even her interviews with the friendliest of media were a disaster.
She should never have been anywhere near the presidency.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 30, 2024 02:30 PM (I04eG)

39 I guess Kamala Harris' hysterical clucking had no effect of her loser reputation.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2024 02:30 PM (rl6EB)

40 Harris was incapable of speaking extemporaneously, having a press conference, or having a sit-down interview that didn't consist entirely of softball questions.
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But she was really good at inspirational rhetoric, like for example, being unburdened by the passage of time, or something.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 30, 2024 02:30 PM (fs1hN)

41 29 Garland was a huge disappointment. Maybe Obama thought he would seem like a really middle of the road and uncontroversial pick. Obama was always so careful to not be seen as extreme.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 30, 2024 02:28 PM (JCZqz)

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This is always a hilarious assertion.

WaPo itself ran an infographic during that hot moment in 2016 that showed where Garland would sit on an ideological line of the then SCOTUS.

There was one more to the left than him, and it wasn't by much: Sotomayor.

Only leftist true believers think he was moderate in any way, shape or form.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

42 Maybe Garland wanted to keep Trump under investigation, dripping out harmful "facts" for a few years.

Perhaps Garand figured a (bogus) trial would either exonerate Trump or have SCOTUS exonerate Trump ... undoing The Narrative?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 30, 2024 02:31 PM (Cus5s)

43 Garland was always, always a reminder that the Senate didn't allow him to be on the SCOTUS to protect that loser of legal vapidness, Roe V Wade.

They got their symbolic choice .. so live with it.

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:31 PM (RHGPo)

44 High Noon, January 20, 2025.

who's hosting an Inauguration Party??

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2024 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)

45 Biden, but his puppeteer, Obama.

It's puppets all the way down.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 30, 2024 02:32 PM (obk/l)

46 As some point Biden's inner circle had a discussion as to whether they should tell Garland to prosecute Trump or...use their assassins.

They determined as assassination was a better political play then a federal prosecution.

And I can see why - remember this is before Trump choose Vance. If we assume the first assassin succeeds then the Republicans are in chaos and their hope would be to negotiate with the GOPe to get a Romney or a Bush on the ticket or hell just cancel the elections until one can be held "safely".

Remember the FNM was arguing the first assassin was a right wing guy until the Gab folks found and released his messages...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 30, 2024 02:32 PM (oZhjI)

47 29 This is a misleading account. Hatch suggested Garland for an earlier vacancy. That was actually filled by Sotomayor or Kagan. The purpose of nominating Garland was to demonstrate Republican hypocrisy, there was never a real expectation he would be confirmed.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 30, 2024 02:28 PM (JCZqz)

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You know how we react to people pointing out Democrat hypocrisy? About how it doesn't matter and that no one actually cares?

The left isn't even at that stage yet. They're so far from understanding their own place against the uniparty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

48 I've been wanting to point out that the kook that penned the stupidity recently about how Congress should refuse to certify Trump since he's guilty of insurrection?

One of those guys was the president of the NY Bar.

So, if you were holding out any hope of any possible sanity ever happening in the NY legal profession ....

But then, I'd note a recent prez of the TX Bar repeated the retarded, ignorant DEI analogy that it's merely like a track race where some of the runners start ahead of others.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:33 PM (0awbi)

49 The Peeple of Brattleboro wants to thanx Presdent Jammie carter foor everything he be done to helps childrin of coler around the world...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at December 30, 2024 02:33 PM (FDlb9)

50 This is always a hilarious assertion.

WaPo itself ran an infographic during that hot moment in 2016 that showed where Garland would sit on an ideological line of the then SCOTUS.

There was one more to the left than him, and it wasn't by much: Sotomayor.

Only leftist true believers think he was moderate in any way, shape or form.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

And that's based on his performance as an intermediate appellate court judge, which was necessarily constrained to a degree.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2024 02:33 PM (laHVL)

51 Dolley and I started watching The Big Fat Quiz of 2024, a British panel show that aired a few days ago.

RIP Sean Lock

Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 02:34 PM (70sKL)

52 Think of it this way.

Guy beats his wife, gets caught.

His response is "I didn't hit her *enough*"

He is
a/ trying to minimize consequences for what he actually did
b/ trying to leave open a future where he can do worse
c/ justifying himself in his own mind. Creating a wall of defense for his thuggery.

I bet the Bidens beat their wives.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 02:34 PM (eMPHe)

53 50 And that's based on his performance as an intermediate appellate court judge, which was necessarily constrained to a degree.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2024 02:33 PM (laHVL)

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Very true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

54 when Biden introduced Zelensky as Putin

HE'S NOT?!
- Joey Sniffer

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 30, 2024 02:34 PM (obk/l)

55 I'm waiting for the book that describes exactly who came up with the idea to raid Mar a largo.
Somehow, they managed to do a raid without parachutes and ballistic missiles.

It was probably one of the most "bone head" ideas in US political history.

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:35 PM (RHGPo)

56 51 Dolley and I started watching The Big Fat Quiz of 2024, a British panel show that aired a few days ago.

RIP Sean Lock
Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 02:34 PM (70sKL)

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We were watching a bunch of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown, and I told her that Locke had died a few months ago.

She was surprisingly sad. Mostly, she wanted to see him on Taskmaster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

57 From the hard D perspective, Garland did lose his nerve and underperformed. But that gives more evidence of an undeniable Trump-era truth: D ops have been terrible. Perhaps the ops were planned well enough, but they were executed abysmally. In the end, they're just not very good at it.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 30, 2024 02:35 PM (aCsV6)

58 >>It's an op. Garland is as radical a partisan as they come. They're trying to rehabilitate Garland for the future and maybe get him on the Supremes some day by setting up the phony narrative that he refused to be as political as Biden demanded.

Garland is 72. Even if Democrats won the White House in 2028 Garland would be at least 76 before he would be eligible for the SC. He's done.

The only person they are trying to rehabilitate is Biden by blaming others for not setting him up for success. We all know it's dumber than dogshit but the insane far left base still believes Trump is an agent of Russia. They are immune to facts and actually believe they are justified abusing the Constitution to go after their political opponents.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:35 PM (LkLld)

59 The radical left is faced with a few choices now, as always when they lose:

1) Admit that maybe they were wrong or went too far
2) Admit that they aren't the supermajority they believed that they were -- that America is not on their side nor are they "the future"
3) Double down

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 02:36 PM (RsS92)

60 Carter was a horrible POTUS, but what he did after leaving office is commendable.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 30, 2024 02:36 PM (h/LZl)

61 Once again the white man failed to position Kamala for success.

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:37 PM (KQk9m)

62 Every Demoncrat not named "Obama" will eventually be thrown under the bus.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 02:37 PM (UnA8+)

63 We were watching a bunch of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown, and I told her that Locke had died a few months ago.

She was surprisingly sad. Mostly, she wanted to see him on Taskmaster.

yea, I was going to mention that you'd probably migrate to that soon, seems you already have. Yes, him on Task Master would have been epic.

Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 02:37 PM (70sKL)

64
lol I remember when Garland's appt as Attorney General was a "sick burn."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (Xwngz)

65 60 Carter was a horrible POTUS, but what he did after leaving office is commendable.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 30, 2024 02:36 PM (h/LZl)

Yeah, traveling the world to apologize for and tell communist and socialist dictators to undermine us is super commendable.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (UnA8+)

66 63 yea, I was going to mention that you'd probably migrate to that soon, seems you already have. Yes, him on Task Master would have been epic.
Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 02:37 PM (70sKL)

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Almost idealized Taskmaster.

I'm still hoping that David Mitchell changes his mind and does it, but with the success of his police procedural, he probably feels no need. Victoria made enough of an ass of herself for the both of them, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

67 Today's conspiracy theory is tomorrow's headline.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (p4SQR)

68 I hope the democratic regret about not abusing the constitution enough beats some damn sense into Trump and his AG’s heads that they need to prosecute these people.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (jbnUc)

69 61 Once again the white man failed to position Kamala for success.
Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:37 PM (KQk9m)

I WOULD BE WILLING AND ABLE TO POSITION KAMALA PROPERLY.........

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (FDlb9)

70 Jimmy Carter was a much better ex-President than Obama

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

71 Again, I assert

Carter was one of the lease destructive Democrat presidents since the Civil War.

In modern times, only Truman and Clinton were less destructive.
FDR, Johnson, Oshitstain, Biden ... were all a lot more destructive to the country.
Obama and Biden are even worse as human beings.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (eMPHe)

72 Gee must be climate change. Last week it was 4° with below zero wind chill. Today 53° . December in the Mid Hudson.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (MLa3L)

73 59 The radical left is faced with a few choices now, as always when they lose:

1) Admit that maybe they were wrong or went too far
2) Admit that they aren't the supermajority they believed that they were -- that America is not on their side nor are they "the future"
3) Double down
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 02:36 PM (RsS92)

"We didn't go far enough" is the only way they can keep pulling in young recruits.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

74 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

75 65 60 Carter was a horrible POTUS, but what he did after leaving office is commendable.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 30, 2024 02:36 PM (h/LZl)

Yeah, traveling the world to apologize for and tell communist and socialist dictators to undermine us is super commendable.
Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM

Wasn't he going around to other countries during their elections and pronouncing them on the up and up when they were obviously fraud? Like in Venezuela?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (p4SQR)

76 Well, if Biden had "dropped out" earlier, they might have nominated someone else. It probably wouldn't have mattered in the end, but the timing is of course why Harris was definitely going to be the nominee.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (lg881)

77 I bet the Bidens beat their wives.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 02:34 PM (eMPH)

================

Jill beats Joe, but he likes it.

Posted by: Angel at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (oiJGz)

78 No noodin' bastages.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

79 Willowed:

On January 20th, we are playing Hokey Pokey.

Putting the Right ones in and taking the Left ones out.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM (/CGkw)

80 Garland's DOJ failed to execute the lawfare they claimed they were not doing, dealing a major setback for the failed party’s hopes to make gains.

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:40 PM (RHGPo)

81 The Democrats really, truly have absolutely no viable leaders at this point.

A truly ruthless Republican Party would take this opportunity to ram through their entire conservative agenda.

God, I crack myself up sometimes!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 30, 2024 02:40 PM (wtvvX)

82 66... yes, he would be interesting for sure. Playing the "how many beans" prank would have been very interesting to see. I think her whole thing is 'ditzy' because as Jimmy pointed out many times, why else would she be with him.

Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 02:41 PM (70sKL)

83 Carter was also interfering constantly against US and Israeli interests.

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:41 PM (KQk9m)

84 >>I'm waiting for the book that describes exactly who came up with the idea to raid Mar a largo.
Somehow, they managed to do a raid without parachutes and ballistic missiles.

>>It was probably one of the most "bone head" ideas in US political history.

Kash has pretty much already confirmed what they were looking for, the Russia collusion documents. Imagine if those had come out in the midst of the insurrection bullshit? A lot of people from a lot of agencies played a roll in that scam and the corruption in Ukraine that set it in motion. The didn't try to kill Trump twice for nothing.

Desperate people do desperate things.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:42 PM (LkLld)

85 ***The left, meanwhile, grumbles that what they really needed was MOAR LAWFARE.***
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Let's give them some, shall we?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2024 02:42 PM (Dng1D)

86 Carter was also interfering constantly against US and Israeli interests.
Posted by: steevy

20% interest rates. Giving the Panama Canal back.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 30, 2024 02:42 PM (/CGkw)

87 Wrap your noodle around this; Jimmy Carter is what John Kerry and Hillary Clinton aspired to be.

Both ended up being losers with Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (rl6EB)

88 To Mary Clogginstein...

Obama was the first Gay President of Color, but did not do much to help Gay Children of Color and Transgenders........

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (1MSOJ)

89 https://youtu.be/djO667ti6Xs?si=OtUyUScEXad5tC11

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (obk/l)

90 81 The Democrats really, truly have absolutely no viable leaders at this point.

A truly ruthless Republican Party would take this opportunity to ram through their entire conservative agenda.

God, I crack myself up sometimes!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 30, 2024 02:40 PM (wtvvX)

They need a conservative agenda first.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (lg881)

91 84 Kash has pretty much already confirmed what they were looking for, the Russia collusion documents. Imagine if those had come out in the midst of the insurrection bullshit? A lot of people from a lot of agencies played a roll in that scam and the corruption in Ukraine that set it in motion. The didn't try to kill Trump twice for nothing.

Desperate people do desperate things.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:42 PM (LkLld)

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If Trump doesn't order those documents declassified again, posting every page to his Truth account unredacted, then he's learned nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

92 "We didn't go far enough" is the only way they can keep pulling in young recruits.

Basically, that and donations. And it feeds their ego, without requiring any self examination or rethinking. You cannot go calling Trump Hitler incarnate for years then say 'well maybe he wasn't all wrong.' You have to scream even harder. And no matter how often they are proven false by reality and events in the world, they have to keep that narrative for their worldview and to keep getting new people and donations.

Nobody is gonna donate, let alone join a group that says "well we went too far, sorry."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (RsS92)

93 Kumswala Harris was one of the worst candidates in human history.

And I'm including the 'Rent is Too Damn High' guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

94 Garland's DOJ failed to execute the lawfare they claimed they were not doing

.. exit left pausibility

Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (RHGPo)

95 Some Democrats blame me for not showing up.

Just like you-know-who.

Posted by: zombie Felix Steiner at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (a3Q+t)

96 Kamala's eventual book should be titled "The Dogs Didn't Like It"

Posted by: azjaeger at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (7fvzb)

97 The radical left is faced with a few choices now, as always when they lose:

1) Admit that maybe they were wrong or went too far
2) Admit that they aren't the supermajority they believed that they were -- that America is not on their side nor are they "the future"
3) Double down
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Yeah, there is no possibility of a moderation path.

My current favorite example is: Tim Walz
Former VP candidate, touted as a midwestern moderate with broad appeal (despite being a radical leftist) who will help win all the Blue Wall states.
And he isn't in any conversation for 2028.
If there was any constituency in the Dems for a moderate, he'd be the leader.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:43 PM (0awbi)

98
This word "overturn" has introduced by the left. Trump was contesting the election, like so many before him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 30, 2024 02:44 PM (dtlw7)

99 Carter was also interfering constantly against US and Israeli interests.
Posted by: steevy

20% interest rates. Giving the Panama Canal back.

Posted by: rickb223

He also interfered with US policy on N Korea, if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 30, 2024 02:44 PM (lTGtQ)

100 Carter was also interfering constantly against US and Israeli interests.
Posted by: steevy

20% interest rates. Giving the Panama Canal back.

this whole climate garbage got a strong foothold under him as well. Remembering my sister coming home from school almost crying as her teachers informed her of the then issue of 'global cooling' and food shortage.

Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 02:44 PM (70sKL)

101 So why didn't Garland go all in, like Old Joe wanted? Garland's a known asshole, he would have made a great Stalinist back in the day...

please don' suggest Garland had moral misgivings...!

Posted by: Don Black at December 30, 2024 02:45 PM (/7KEl)

102 For people afraid that POTUS Trump would become vengeful, this is not how you do it.

The standard of going after your predecessor has now been set by JoePedo Biden.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (17s+e)

103 Watching the circular firing squad is delicious.

Posted by: scottst at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (ojBxe)

104 No noodin' bastages.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:39 PM

Can the Commenter who's *always* First really complain about no nooding? Would that come across as a bit whingey?

Asking for the Commentariat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (a3Q+t)

105 I remember DoE "comic books" we got in school showing how all the world supply of coal, oil and gas were almost depleted

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (KQk9m)

106 Garland is probably putting this lie out there himself. He was a lawless bastard from day one and Biden was a doddering diapered fool. If anything, Garland worked hard to keep Biden's senility a secret so he could hide behind him, now that the shit is hitting the fan, here's poor old Garland pretending he was brave and didn't let the sock puppet push him around. On Blinken were helplessly acting under orders from old Joe, let alone standing up to bravely defy him!

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (2NXcZ)

107 The Appeals court upheld the psycho hitch’s defamation verdict. Makes me Hulk angry.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (D6PGr)

108 Carter could have fucked up a wet dream.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (mS4AV)

109 My FIL just told us recently that when he was working in an embassy they weren't allowed to wear their military uniforms. Not sure if it was the Ambassador or Carter's direction but he was happy when Reagan came on board and they could wear their uniforms again.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (p4SQR)

110
The Democrats wanted to do to President Trump what the leftist cocksucker "court" did to Bolsinaro in Brazil -- BAN him from politics for 5 years.

That Brazillian fake "court" "ruled" that Bolsinaro "broke laws" by questioning the stolen 2021 election, and punished him by barring him from campaigning for 5 years.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:47 PM (bxByO)

111 Garland et al. didn't end the prosecution of Trump because of the Supreme Court ruling.

All that decision said was, "show your homework, that what Trump did wasn't an official act. If it wasn't, lock his ass up."

They absolutely refuse to take that step.

Odd, that they chickened out over such an easy task.

For such a heinous crime, the greatest threat to the United States since the Civil War and all that ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:47 PM (0awbi)

112 Ofc that was in vogue from the late 60's on " our resources are running out, the world population is exploding!"

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:47 PM (KQk9m)

113
Also, mike pence is the Republican version of carter.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:47 PM (bxByO)

114 @101...Why didnt Garland go all in? Moral misgivings? No. Simpler. He's a coward. Thank goodness.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 30, 2024 02:48 PM (aCsV6)

115
Asking for the Commentariat.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 30, 2024 02:46 PM (a3Q+t)

I may be first, but I always nood.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

116
I bet the Bidens beat their wives.
____

Not enough.

Posted by: D. Emhoff at December 30, 2024 02:48 PM (fs1hN)

117 Keep beating that same dead horse you fools. You can't even call this introspection because the dems keep looking for excuses not answers.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2024 02:49 PM (XTmTf)

118 Well Joe drove one wife to likely suicide/murder....

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:49 PM (KQk9m)

119 please don' suggest Garland had moral misgivings...!
Posted by: Don Black at December 30, 2024 02:45 PM (/7KEl)

The very thought is hilarious and anyone who believes Garland has an honest cell in his body is stupid. I bet he made bank on this too.

Speaking of making money the easy way, Kamala is getting $20M in a "book deal". Somebody needs to find out who puts up the money for this bullshit.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 30, 2024 02:50 PM (2NXcZ)

120 "Mollie Hemingway had a reason for championing Trump over any of his primary rivals: We had to show that the left's lawfare and politics of personal destruction would not be allowed to work. The left had to be repudiated in the worst way possible, and for the left, that meant the re-election of Trump."

This, in a nutshell, is why I believed there should have never been a Republican primary in 2024. If Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square, I would have been all for Trump exiting the scene. With a stolen election, the GOP had to put Trump up without a primary challenger, to prove Mollie's point.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 30, 2024 02:50 PM (DPDtI)

121
Also...

I FULLY support a DOJ investigation AND Indictment on that cocksucker fake "judge" in NYC merchan.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:50 PM (bxByO)

122 Re the sidebar:

Why did those two fuckstick idiots go looking for Sasquatch deep in the freezing woods of Washington State? They could have seen Sasquatch much easier just by watching The View.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

123 My current favorite example is: Tim Walz
Former VP candidate, touted as a midwestern moderate with broad appeal (despite being a radical leftist) who will help win all the Blue Wall states.
And he isn't in any conversation for 2028.
If there was any constituency in the Dems for a moderate, he'd be the leader.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
____

He's a real man's man. And I should know.

Posted by: Barry Obama at December 30, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

124 Every time Harris talked; people bolted for the door. It was true in 2020 and 2024. People genuinely dislike the way she talks. The giggling, the awkward pauses, the convoluted syntax, all of it. Really terrible.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 30, 2024 02:51 PM (ARlwA)

125 124 Not to mention the obvious stupidity...

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2024 02:51 PM (KQk9m)

126 Wrap your noodle around this; Jimmy Carter is what John Kerry and Hillary Clinton aspired to be.

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

"What the hell am I, chopped poutine?"

-- Brave Sir Justine Castreau

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (GYEfl)

127 >>>Also, mike pence is the Republican version of carter.

Posted by: Soothsayer

>Mike Pence is Paul Pelosi without any tools in his toolbox.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (rl6EB)

128 And Walz was exactly zero help.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (ARlwA)

129
One more thing...

You People forget that the cocksucking Democrats in Wisconsin are STILL persuing their fake bullshit "case" against the President for 2020.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (bxByO)

130 I mean, they endlessly called it an "armed insurrection."

That's pretty damned serious talk.

And you cowards all run away just 'cause you don't want to have to prove Trump wasn't legally authorized to do exactly what he did?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (0awbi)

131 123 My current favorite example is: Tim Walz
Former VP candidate, touted as a midwestern moderate with broad appeal (despite being a radical leftist) who will help win all the Blue Wall states.
And he isn't in any conversation for 2028.
If there was any constituency in the Dems for a moderate, he'd be the leader.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

======

I'm really curious at how the 2028 Democrat primary is going to play out.

The establishment is going to have their controllable puppet, hopefully without much history. The radical left is going to support AOC. The moderates are going to be desperate for a taste of the old Party that hasn't existed since...2004?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

132 If the brain trust thought Biden was electable might explain why they thought Kamala was electable. They missed the 20M fraudulent ballots that 'elected' Biden. Jeebus, our overlords are fucking stupid.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (jFCkp)

133 The NASCAR observations upon failure:
a) he ran out of talent
b) he didn't hold his mouth right

Progressives may have a differing point of view about selection "b."

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 30, 2024 02:53 PM (QSrLX)

134 >>If Trump doesn't order those documents declassified again, posting every page to his Truth account unredacted, then he's learned nothing.

I think that making public the FBI's and other agencies corruption is a big reason we are getting people like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. I don't think it's a question of learning things. I think the task is a lot bigger than we would like to believe.

The deep state ran multiple coup attempts against Trump to cover up their corruption. They even tried to assassinate him. Twice. And they had the full backing of the media and the justice system. Pretty big monster they are attempting to slay.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:54 PM (LkLld)

135 70 Jimmy Carter was a much better ex-President than Obama
Posted by: SMOD at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

Simply by having Carter validate Hugo Chavez' election, he caused a lot of damage on his own. They're closer as ex-Presidents than that. Obama is still definitely worse, however.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 30, 2024 02:54 PM (DPDtI)

136 Sounds like the J6 prosecutor just resigned. At least that's what the Twitter people say.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2024 02:54 PM (BI5O2)

137 I WOULD BE WILLING AND ABLE TO POSITION KAMALA PROPERLY.........
Posted by: Bill Clinton

Bill had fairly low standards, but even he knows he can do much better than Kamala, with minimum effort.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 30, 2024 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

138 121
‘ I FULLY support a DOJ investigation AND Indictment on that cocksucker fake "judge" in NYC merchan.’

There’s a judge Kaplan who needs the same treatment.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 30, 2024 02:55 PM (jbnUc)

139 making people

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:55 PM (LkLld)

140 And Walz was exactly zero help.

I loved Walz as the VP candidate. He was so awful and incompetent. And the way they tried to preempt the "weird" charges by claiming JD Vance was weird.

The problem is that they really thought he was weird, out of touch. They really believe that anything anyone says that was assumed 20 years ago is crazy and out of touch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 02:55 PM (RsS92)

141 134 I think that making public the FBI's and other agencies corruption is a big reason we are getting people like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. I don't think it's a question of learning things. I think the task is a lot bigger than we would like to believe.

The deep state ran multiple coup attempts against Trump to cover up their corruption. They even tried to assassinate him. Twice. And they had the full backing of the media and the justice system. Pretty big monster they are attempting to slay.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:54 PM (LkLld)

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I'm just saying that there's no reason for any respect of DOJ protocol since classification power is invested in his office directly.

Post them to Truth with the message, "By my authority as president, I declassify this document."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

142 My current favorite example is: Tim Walz
Former VP candidate, touted as a midwestern moderate with broad appeal (despite being a radical leftist) who will help win all the Blue Wall states.
And he isn't in any conversation for 2028.
If there was any constituency in the Dems for a moderate, he'd be the leader.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

======

I'm really curious at how the 2028 Democrat primary is going to play out.

The establishment is going to have their controllable puppet, hopefully without much history. The radical left is going to support AOC. The moderates are going to be desperate for a taste of the old Party that hasn't existed since...2004?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
_________

The 2028 primary will be a scene from Bukkake 3: Sticky Spray. I think The Party will muscle through its candidate no matter what anyone else does. I'm just not sure who that candidate will be.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

143 I wonder if anyone at 60 Minutes/CBS cares that their news dept is at the same -- or somewhat lower -- level as Call Her Daddy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 30, 2024 02:56 PM (wBaIH)

144 The establishment is going to have their controllable puppet, hopefully without much history. The radical left is going to support AOC. The moderates are going to be desperate for a taste of the old Party that hasn't existed since...2004?

There's no clear one obvious choice this time around for the party machinists to rig the primary for. Newsome, maybe?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 02:57 PM (RsS92)

145 134 >>If Trump doesn't order those documents declassified again, posting every page to his Truth account unredacted, then he's learned nothing.

I think that making public the FBI's and other agencies corruption is a big reason we are getting people like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. I don't think it's a question of learning things. I think the task is a lot bigger than we would like to believe.

The deep state ran multiple coup attempts against Trump to cover up their corruption. They even tried to assassinate him. Twice. And they had the full backing of the media and the justice system. Pretty big monster they are attempting to slay.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 02:54 PM (LkLld)

If Trump succeeds in doing this - and he will - he'll make the Democrat name radioactive for the 2026 election cycle, at minimum.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 30, 2024 02:57 PM (DPDtI)

146
If President Trump wants to keep the House in 2026 and give Vance a chance in 2028, he MUST investigate election fraud, especially in California.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:57 PM (bxByO)

147 142 The 2028 primary will be a scene from Bukkake 3: Sticky Spray. I think The Party will muscle through its candidate no matter what anyone else does. I'm just not sure who that candidate will be.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

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They couldn't in 2020. Kamala had to muscle her way to the VP choice.

I have no idea, but their history of success within their own primary is...not great recently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

148 I wonder if anyone at 60 Minutes/CBS cares that their news dept is at the same -- or somewhat lower -- level as Call Her Daddy.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 30, 2024 02:56 PM (wBaIH)

No one in the media will give a shit about anything until the checks stop cashing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

149 I like how, despite 24/7 media coverage that Trump absolutely committed all of these crimes ....
An endless parade of "legal experts" who one and all said he was completely guilty ....
Where no American could have possibly not heard about it in the last 4 years ....

Somehow, the missing puzzle piece, the one capstone that would have kept Trump out of office--and convincing the American people to vote against him--was the minor detail of getting an actual conviction in the courts.

Instead of, you know, the majority of America seeing it as pure bullshit and voting because of the charges.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (0awbi)

150 The more a hear about Democrats, the less I like them.

Cripes you people are on fire.

Hit that tip jar.

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (iziT8)

151 This, in a nutshell, is why I believed there should have never been a Republican primary in 2024. If Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square, I would have been all for Trump exiting the scene. With a stolen election, the GOP had to put Trump up without a primary challenger, to prove Mollie's point.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 30, 2024 02:50 PM (DPDtI)

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Absolutely, The Party should have unanimously rallied around him with no challengers -- and DeSantis lost a lot of credibility not having done so.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (/9xEp)

152 Jeebus, our overlords are fucking stupid.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (jFCkp)

Yup. But don't forget that the current crop of retards among the Dems are pretty much the same people who kicked the sh*t out of the Republicans in 2020 and 2022.

Our side is at least as dumb...maybe even dumber.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (d9fT1)

153 "I should have used the Guillotine first"
~Louis teh XVI

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (dzZCL)

154 I go take a piss and this thread is 150.

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (iziT8)

155 I go take a piss and this thread is 150.

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM

You'da been better off leaving it, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

156
I go take a piss and this thread is 150.
Posted by: eleven

Check your prostrate.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (bxByO)

157 152 Yup. But don't forget that the current crop of retards among the Dems are pretty much the same people who kicked the sh*t out of the Republicans in 2020 and 2022.

Our side is at least as dumb...maybe even dumber.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (d9fT1)

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Ours are worse.

Ours lost to a billionaire real estate developer from New York who could appeal to middle class voters across the nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

158
2028??

Forget 2028.

Our focus should be 2026.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (bxByO)

159 The 2028 primary will be a scene from Bukkake 3: Sticky Spray. I think The Party will muscle through its candidate no matter what anyone else does. I'm just not sure who that candidate will be.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

=======

They couldn't in 2020. Kamala had to muscle her way to the VP choice.

I have no idea, but their history of success within their own primary is...not great recently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
______

That assumes Kumswala was their choice. I don't think she was.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

160 >There's no clear one obvious choice this time around for the party machinists to rig the primary for. Newsome, maybe?

---

whose 'turn' is it
that will decide

Posted by: Don Black at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (/7KEl)

161 They were from Portland. And those folks never understand how rugged the Gifford Pinchot forest is.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (NQtI0)

162
You'da been better off leaving it, then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Past 140 it's sentient

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (dzZCL)

163 I wonder if anyone at 60 Minutes/CBS cares that their news dept is at the same -- or somewhat lower -- level as Call Her Daddy.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 30, 2024 02:56 PM (wBaIH)

It's funny.

Legacy media always said podcasts were lowbrow and not real news, while guys like Rogan and Dillon, et. al. built large followings by talking about current events.

And when their candidate, who is known primarily for chugging cock, finally condescended to do a podcast, of all the podcasts on the internet, she chose the one that built a large following by talking about chugging cock.

It's breathtakingly funny when you think about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (BI5O2)

164 149 Somehow, the missing puzzle piece, the one capstone that would have kept Trump out of office--and convincing the American people to vote against him--was the minor detail of getting an actual conviction in the courts.

Instead of, you know, the majority of America seeing it as pure bullshit and voting because of the charges.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (0awbi)

They GOT their railroaded conviction, and Commie-La _still_ didn't win.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (UnA8+)

165 @134 Trump should have listened to , of all people , Chuck Schumer. He said on a Sunday morning show that the intelligence agencies had "six ways to Sunday" to get back at Trump. After getting Undercovers and informants to safety, dump the FBI/DOJ database onto the web. Let the citizens see what is being done in their name

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (MLa3L)

166 The meaning of PROSTRATE is stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission;

The human male has a prostate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

167 The Party should have unanimously rallied around him with no challengers -- and DeSantis lost a lot of credibility not having done so.

Posted by: ShainS at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (/9xEp)

I disagree.

We need a vibrant and involved electorate, and that means a contested primary every time.

Look what happened to the Dems this year. They annointed Biden, dumped him, then annointed Chlamydia Harris.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (d9fT1)

168 "Check your prostrate.
Posted by: Soothsayer "

I check my prostate a little too much IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (iziT8)

169 Somehow, the missing puzzle piece, the one capstone that would have kept Trump out of office--and convincing the American people to vote against him--was the minor detail of getting an actual conviction in the courts.

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

The other missing puzzle piece: failing to assassinate him.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (/9xEp)

170 159 That assumes Kumswala was their choice. I don't think she was.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

=====

January 2019 NYT profile.

She was.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

171 And yet, Kumswala STILL came dangerously close to Trump in vote count. 70 million + vote (legit or not) tells me that this nation is precipitously close to going over the ledge.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at December 30, 2024 03:02 PM (1FWWQ)

172
Check your prostrates.

Posted by: Prostrate Awareness Month at December 30, 2024 03:02 PM (bxByO)

173 The human male has a prostate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

You're no fun.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 03:02 PM (d9fT1)

174 >>Post them to Truth with the message, "By my authority as president, I declassify this document."

He did that at the end of his first term. He and others have said this consistently for the last 4 years. He appointed Kash and John Solomon to work with the various agencies and the National Archives, an incredibly corrupt agency, and they stonewalled him right up until he left for Mar A Lago.

That's why he took what he could and said to anyone who would listen "I declassified these documents as is my right as POTUS". Didn't matter, the media didn't report it or if they did they lied about his authority to take them and then the DOJ/FBI raided Mar A Lago.

I don't know why he didn't release them post presidency. Maybe he thought they would prosecute him, maybe he thought it was the wrong way to do it and it would hurt the country, who knows. But I think he wants to do it once he is back in the WH.

Some pretty high stakes poker with the fate of the country on the line not to mention little things like his life.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (LkLld)

175 You want proof that the judiciary is corrupt and troubled? Despite the hilariously outrageous legal violations and host of questionable decisions in the trial, he upheld the 5 million dollar verdict against Trump.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (RsS92)

176 how rugged the Gifford Pinchot forest is.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Balki was pretty badass...

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (NMT5x)

177 And yet, Kumswala STILL came dangerously close to Trump in vote count. 70 million + vote (legit or not) tells me that this nation is precipitously close to going over the ledge.
Posted by: Life of Wryly at December 30, 2024 03:02 PM (1FWWQ)

Kumswala got at least 10 million ballots dumped in her favor. 99.99999% of the late entries went her way.

Biden got 68 million in 2020 and Kumswala got less.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

178 166 The meaning of PROSTRATE is stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission;

The human male has a prostate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

One must prostrate themselves in front of Big Black Bubba in Cell Block C so he may hammer their prostate.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (UnA8+)

179 And Walz was exactly zero help.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 30, 2024 02:52 PM (ARlwA)

Ok, ok the guy was a real zero. That's true. But just think back to when you guys were freshman, huh? Boon! You had a face like a pepperoni pizza right?! And Stork here, everybody thought The Stork was brain damaged! I ,myself, was so obnoxious, the seniors used to beat me up once a week!

Posted by: Otter at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (lX1hk)

180 The moment Walz was announced, I went from 85% confident of Trump winning to 100%.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 30, 2024 03:04 PM (lTGtQ)

181
One must prostrate themselves in front of Big Black Bubba in Cell Block C so he may hammer their prostate.
Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 03:03 PM (UnA8+)

That's hot!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 30, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

182 Prostate comments are the new longbow threads

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at December 30, 2024 03:04 PM (dzZCL)

183 Next the brown shirts excuse. They just weren't violent enough. It's coming they've got nothing else.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at December 30, 2024 03:04 PM (0HDh8)

184 I can't recall, but I think even Sarah Palin was in the conversation for 2012.

BTW, know how I know the "MAGA civil war" is pure media bullshit?
Sarah Palin, who hasn't won an election in almost 20 years, chiming in and getting media coverage.
.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (0awbi)

185 182 Prostate comments are the new longbow threads
-------------
My arrows fly manfully.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (jFCkp)

186 170 January 2019 NYT profile.

She was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

She was the whole reason the Jussie Smollett hoax happened.

It was supposed to help push through some Racial Profiling bill that Commie-La had sponsored.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (UnA8+)

187
Ok, ok the guy was a real zero. That's true. But just think back to when you guys were freshman, huh? Boon! You had a face like a pepperoni pizza right?! And Stork here, everybody thought The Stork was brain damaged! I ,myself, was so obnoxious, the seniors used to beat me up once a week!

but not a one let AOC run a mean pick - 6 against them...pikers

Posted by: Cu'Chullainn at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (70sKL)

188 Biden and Democrats Blame Election Loss on Merrick Garland, Believing He Wasn't Partisan Enough In His Lawfare Against Trump

Yeah! Why throw away half the Constitution when you can chuck the entire thing?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

189 Perhaps allow that the poster used 'prostrate' on purpose as a comic element

Posted by: Don Black at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (/7KEl)

190 Sarah Palin, who hasn't won an election in almost 20 years, chiming in and getting media coverage.
.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (0awbi)

She's not bad to look at, is intelligent and has seemingly nice tits.

She's welcome on TV any time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

191 That assumes Kumswala was their choice. I don't think she was.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

=====

January 2019 NYT profile.

She was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)
_______

Nah. By January 2019 she had already flamed out at the Kav hearings. She was already toxic. Sure, she was the perfect DEI candidate at a time when the media was desperate to pimp DEI "success stories." But The Party wasn't in 2019 interested in positioning her for success.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (iFTx/)

192 Moar lawfare: one more reason that a Harris administration (Biden 2.0 on steroids), should scare the hell out of anyone who even *likes*America.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (d8kiQ)

193 I disagree.

We need a vibrant and involved electorate, and that means a contested primary every time.

Look what happened to the Dems this year. They annointed Biden, dumped him, then annointed Chlamydia Harris.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (d9fT1)

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

I didn't fully contextualize the comment to which I was responding; the premise being that the election was clearly & obviously stolen from Trump -- so he deserved to be given the nomination and challenged as another way to stick it to and humiliate the Dems.

But in general of course I agree with you ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (p+lBr)

194 167 The Party should have unanimously rallied around him with no challengers -- and DeSantis lost a lot of credibility not having done so.

Posted by: ShainS at December 30, 2024 02:58 PM (/9xEp)

I disagree.

We need a vibrant and involved electorate, and that means a contested primary every time.

Look what happened to the Dems this year. They annointed Biden, dumped him, then annointed Chlamydia Harris.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (d9fT1)

In most - no, all - other cases I would agree with you, CBD. Here, it was clear that the 2020 election was hinky, if not outright stolen. Also, with the lawfare that was taking place even after Trump was out of office, it was clear that the Uniparty was going to make an example out of him. Third, Trump is a once in a century political figure - that was clear to me even a couple of years ago. There is not one politician in America that has even a fraction of the talent that Trump has. He's sui generis, and as such I'd give Trump that pass.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (DPDtI)

195 Kumala was always Barky's choice to succeed him. When she flamed out they made her the VP pick thinking she would be a shoo in for the 2024 race. Hahahahah, They were wrong.

Her political career is deader than a doornail.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2024 03:07 PM (XTmTf)

196 *given the nomination UNCHALLENGED ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 03:07 PM (p+lBr)

197
What's the status of the various lawfare cases against Trump? Sounds like:

- J6: Dead
- GA election fraud: Dead
- Documents: Dead
- New York tax case: About to be Dead
- Stormy Daniels payment case: About to be Dead
- E. Jean Carroll defamation: Likely to be overturned on appeal

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2024 03:07 PM (dxSpM)

198 They don't know the language.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 30, 2024 03:08 PM (Q7M7L)

199 The other missing puzzle piece: failing to assassinate him.
Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 03:01 PM (/9xEp)

Mayorkas tried his best. Come on, man,

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 30, 2024 03:08 PM (2NXcZ)

200 195 Kumala was always Barky's choice to succeed him. When she flamed out they made her the VP pick thinking she would be a shoo in for the 2024 race. Hahahahah, They were wrong.

Her political career is deader than a doornail.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2024 03:07 PM (XTmTf)

Everybody knew she sucked, and she really blew the election.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:08 PM (ynpvh)

201 That Trump won an actual primary versus a whore that was appointed was an additional factor in favor of Trump.

I don't know how many votes that gained, but it added legitimacy for sure.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (lTGtQ)

202 'seemingly nice tits'

there's no way to know for sure..

Posted by: Don Black at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (/7KEl)

203 Nah. They're playing.

He's probably telling them take their pretend best shot so he & his family aren't chased around the country when he's departed from the Biden Administration.

He'd like to quietly back out like Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

His daughter was to clerk for Justice Sotomayor but couldn't while he was AG. So, some arrangements must be in the works, particularly as the progressives want Sotomayor out. It's all certainly worth watching.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster another at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (NFX2v)

204 197
What's the status of the various lawfare cases against Trump? Sounds like:

- J6: Dead
- GA election fraud: Dead
- Documents: Dead
- New York tax case: About to be Dead
- Stormy Daniels payment case: About to be Dead
- E. Jean Carroll defamation: Likely to be overturned on appeal

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2024 03:07 PM (dxSpM)

I didn't know that denying raping someone (who's obviously lying about the entire episode) could be defamation...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

205
They don't know the language.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 30, 2024 03:08 PM (Q7M7L)

________

"But ya gotta know the territory!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (dxSpM)

206 You would have warmed up to the retard we used to replace the other retard if only she had more time to show you just how retarded she is. She barely got the message out that she was a "middle-class family" retard. Imagine if she had the time to show you her accomplishments. All she needed was five more minutes of campaigning to do so.

Posted by: Orson at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (dIske)

207 the premise being that the election was clearly & obviously stolen from Trump -- so he deserved to be given the nomination and challenged as another way to stick it to and humiliate the Dems.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (p+lBr)

I agree with you about the steal, but even that shouldn't guarantee a nomination.

We have moved so far away from the concept that the voters decide, that any hint of a deal or a hierarchy or somebody being owed something makes me uncomfortable.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (d9fT1)

208 The donks aren't really going to be happy until the DNC cuts the constitution into little strips of rolling papers and they can send it up in a cloud of weed.

Posted by: Paco at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (mADJX)

209 202 'seemingly nice tits'

there's no way to know for sure..

Posted by: Don Black at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (/7KEl)

::: types, deletes :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

210 I loved Walz as the VP candidate. He was so awful and incompetent. And the way they tried to preempt the "weird" charges by claiming JD Vance was weird.

Feelings in mainstream Dem circles about him seem like the muted, tepid support all Dems have to give and receive about one another. Most hardcore Lefty YouTubers and such seem to genuinely love him, feel he has a relatable Midwestern approach, a positive masculinity, and tried and true Progressive policy agenda. They also love his "weird" campaign against conservatives.

The only problem the hard Left had was the Harris people reigned Walz in, and instead of doubling down on the "progressive successes and rhetoric", and keeping the "successful" weird attack going, they sold out and went the safe, corporatist, centrist route.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (JCZqz)

211 E. Jean Carroll defamation: Likely to be overturned on appeal

Should have been, but was not, sadly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (RsS92)

212 204 I didn't know that denying raping someone (who's obviously lying about the entire episode) could be defamation...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

The verdict was literally "You aren't allowed to say that you didn't rape her".

Which is pretty f***ed up.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (UnA8+)

213 201 That Trump won an actual primary versus a whore that was appointed was an additional factor in favor of Trump.

I don't know how many votes that gained, but it added legitimacy for sure.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (lTGtQ)

It did...it's very good he had to beat real candidates to win, and the R establishment didn't heavily weigh in on the choice, but straight let voters pick.

This way almost always wins...an anointment tends to lose (see Hillary, and now Kamala)...

Remember, in 2020, Biden had to win against multiple other candidates without a fix...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 30, 2024 03:11 PM (exHjb)

214 191 Nah. By January 2019 she had already flamed out at the Kav hearings. She was already toxic. Sure, she was the perfect DEI candidate at a time when the media was desperate to pimp DEI "success stories." But The Party wasn't in 2019 interested in positioning her for success.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (iFTx/)

======

The NYT article announcing her candidacy doesn't make mention of her performance on the Kavanaugh hearings at all:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/
us/politics/kamala-harris-2020-president.html

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

215 208 The donks aren't really going to be happy until the DNC cuts the constitution into little strips of rolling papers and they can send it up in a cloud of weed.

Posted by: Paco at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (mADJX)

If this admin is an example, they like ruling by fiat.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:11 PM (ynpvh)

216 The MSM is filled to the gills with Ivy League retards. After 4 years of DNC repetitive cheerleading, a Republican nominee won the popular vote for the first time since 2004.

All the lies - for naught
All the deceptions - for naught
All the scare-mongering - for naught
All the hopingwishingsighing gaslighting - for naught
All false heroics - for naught

Stupid buttsniffing panelists selling their souls for seal-clapping collegial backslappery.

Feel better, buffoons?

Posted by: mrp at December 30, 2024 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

217
Both J'Blowme and Red Kammie needed to be dropped, all right ...

... on their respective heads, and repeatedly.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 30, 2024 03:11 PM (xG4kz)

218 200 195 Kumala was always Barky's choice to succeed him. When she flamed out they made her the VP pick thinking she would be a shoo in for the 2024 race. Hahahahah, They were wrong.

Her political career is deader than a doornail.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2024 03:07 PM (XTmTf)

Everybody knew she sucked, and she really blew the election.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:08 PM (ynpvh)

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (p4SQR)

219 >>> Re the sidebar:

Why did those two fuckstick idiots go looking for Sasquatch deep in the freezing woods of Washington State? They could have seen Sasquatch much easier just by watching The View.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 30, 2024 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

Goonie-Goo-Goo

Posted by: Aunt Bunny at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (Y6IkP)

220 Everybody knew she sucked, and she really blew the election.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:08 PM (ynpvh)
---
The one skill in which she excelled for advancing her political career proved useless in the end...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (BpYfr)

221 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia Dec 29
Team Biden admits to The Washington Post they waged lawfare and election interference against Trump.

Now the Trump 47 Justice Department must investigate this.

Conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) is a very serious federal felony.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (hovnC)

222 216 All the lies - for naught
All the deceptions - for naught
All the scare-mongering - for naught
All the hopingwishingsighing gaslighting - for naught
All false heroics - for naught

Stupid buttsniffing panelists selling their souls for seal-clapping collegial backslappery.

Feel better, buffoons?
Posted by: mrp at December 30, 2024 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

=======

Solution:

Scream louder and cut off more kids dicks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

223 Mayorkas tried his best. Come on, man,
Posted by: long night ending, dawn

My orca >>>>> Mallorca >>>>> Mayorka

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (NMT5x)

224 Leftists never take the blame on themselves

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2024 03:13 PM (fwDg9)

225 212 204 I didn't know that denying raping someone (who's obviously lying about the entire episode) could be defamation...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

The verdict was literally "You aren't allowed to say that you didn't rape her".

Which is pretty f***ed up.

Posted by: XTC at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (UnA8+)

Yup, kinda my point, although he was never found liable for rape, funny enough. Almost like the system is broken...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:13 PM (ynpvh)

226 Absolutely, The Party should have unanimously rallied around him with no challengers -- and DeSantis lost a lot of credibility not having done so.
Posted by: ShainS -

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Yeah, but we live in the real world, not the imaginary ideal world where we can ignore stuff. Without a primary, many Right-side voters would have thought Trump not legitimate. The primary did it's job of laying out the case for Trump as the best candidate.

Even Ace was slightly neo never-Trumper before he won the primary.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 03:13 PM (eMPHe)

227 So, if I have an enlarged "prostrate", it just means I'm hogging the bed, right?

Posted by: Paco at December 30, 2024 03:13 PM (mADJX)

228 "Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases;"

Court decisions helpful to the former president were just a result of siding with the Constitution and the law.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 30, 2024 03:14 PM (R256O)

229 Ds purposely moved up the first debate to June because they were pretty sure Biden would flop, even with a week of preparation.

If they tied to change to Harris in September, that's after all the state deadlines for changing the ballot.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 30, 2024 03:14 PM (dp8jd)

230 221 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia Dec 29
Team Biden admits to The Washington Post they waged lawfare and election interference against Trump.

Now the Trump 47 Justice Department must investigate this.

Conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) is a very serious federal felony.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 30, 2024 03:12 PM (hovnC)

Team Biden is admitting it now so that a blanket pardon would cover anyone involved in violation of a specific, identifiable Federal Code.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 30, 2024 03:14 PM (DPDtI)

231 I WOULD BE WILLING AND ABLE TO POSITION KAMALA PROPERLY.........
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 30, 2024 02:38 PM (FDlb9)
......

You're dreaming pal. We know your shplib is dead.

Posted by: wth at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (v0R5T)

232 207 the premise being that the election was clearly & obviously stolen from Trump -- so he deserved to be given the nomination and challenged as another way to stick it to and humiliate the Dems.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 30, 2024 03:06 PM (p+lBr)

I agree with you about the steal, but even that shouldn't guarantee a nomination.

We have moved so far away from the concept that the voters decide, that any hint of a deal or a hierarchy or somebody being owed something makes me uncomfortable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2024 03:10 PM (d9fT1)

I'm with you on this, and I also don't buy the party line that a contested primary can take away from the election. That seems like something a loser would say.

Posted by: Eric Cantor at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (53oGX)

233 215 If this admin is an example, they like ruling by fiat. - Jim in Kalifornia

Yeah, well, I don't care what kind of car they drive, I don't like the way they do things.

Posted by: Paco at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (mADJX)

234 Off loser sock

Posted by: Ino at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (53oGX)

235 227 So, if I have an enlarged "prostrate", it just means I'm hogging the bed, right?

Posted by: Paco at December 30, 2024 03:13 PM (mADJX)

You take too much room on the floor bowing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

236 Most hardcore Lefty YouTubers and such seem to genuinely love him, feel he has a relatable Midwestern approach, a positive masculinity, and tried and true Progressive policy agenda. They also love his "weird" campaign against conservatives.

That is partly what hurt the Kamala campaign: she had at least some advisors who watched youtube lefties and thought that was Vox Populi. They thought that was helping them feel the pulse of America LOL.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (RsS92)

237 But don't forget that the current crop of retards among the Dems are pretty much the same people who kicked the sh*t out of the Republicans in 2020 and 2022.
---
My "stink of loser" theory of politics; and it applies to all parties. Where if you have the stink of loser, it's almost impossible to win ever.

If you can't win an election after 2 tries--stink of loser.
Lost your most recent re-election (or don't run cause you can't win)--stink of loser.

Of all the potential 2028, I think only Newscum could win re-election. Harris could win in CA for gov.
But, I think PA and MI have shifted enough that neither Whitmer or Shapiro would win again.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 03:16 PM (0awbi)

238 There was talk in the last thread about direct to satellite phone system being more robust. The problem with that is that there is that a single point of failure exists and that is the command and control center.

The existing cell phone system is highly distributed and most failures can be rerouted though a number of network operation centers. Regions may be affected but the whole thing isn't going down unless multiple failures occur.

The GPS system is extremely complicated to manage and it's ground operations used to be very vulnerable. I'm sure this has changed because it should have.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 30, 2024 03:16 PM (QB+5g)

239 One of my big policies in management is to always get "buy-in" from those whose support you might need in future.

Other managers, employees, etc. Give them a voice before hand and they take responsibility for the decision and then support it in the crunch afterward.

Without buy-in, they become critics when you need them the most.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 03:16 PM (eMPHe)

240 Didn't Archie Bunker tell Lionel to check his prostrate? Or was it Meathead?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2024 03:18 PM (rl6EB)

241 Off loser sock

Posted by: Ino at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (53oGX)

I tried, but this is the one everyone knows me by, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 30, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

242 233 215 If this admin is an example, they like ruling by fiat. - Jim in Kalifornia

Yeah, well, I don't care what kind of car they drive, I don't like the way they do things.

Posted by: Paco at December 30, 2024 03:15 PM (mADJX)

Well, they like Italian Fascism, so that fits.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 30, 2024 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

243 That is partly what hurt the Kamala campaign: she had at least some advisors who watched youtube lefties and thought that was Vox Populi. They thought that was helping them feel the pulse of America LOL.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

As far as VPs go, I think her bigger problem was the national head-winds were already against the Dems, a last minute swap of candidates doesn't help, and Harris has a record of mediocrity and failure in contested elections, so no Dem with any actual appeal or ambition would WANT to be her VP, lose, and hurt any chances of running in 2028 for the actual Presidency.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 30, 2024 03:18 PM (JCZqz)

244 Pennsylvania and Michigan both have two-term limits for their governors.

Posted by: mrp at December 30, 2024 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)

245 I'm issuing a pardon for everything for whatever Joe Biden may or may not have done between the dates of November 20, 1942 through November 21, 2042.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Humanitarian at December 30, 2024 03:20 PM (fs1hN)

246 240 Didn't Archie Bunker tell Lionel to check his prostrate? Or was it Meathead?
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Yeah. Check the probate. Why, my Uncle Thumper had a problem with HIS probate, and he had to take these big pills, and drink lots of water.

Posted by: Roger Rabbit at December 30, 2024 03:20 PM (JCZqz)

247 H-1B NOOD

Posted by: Inogame at December 30, 2024 03:21 PM (53oGX)

248 no Dem with any actual appeal or ambition would WANT to be her VP, lose, and hurt any chances of running in 2028 for the actual Presidency.

Yeah if he thought Kamala was a sure bet, I could easily see Newsome stepping into VP.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2024 03:21 PM (RsS92)

249 The problem with that is that there is that a single point of failure exists and that is the command and control center.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic

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What makes you think there is a single command and control center? The satellites talk to each other, and they all can downlink. So it becomes a robust network. I imagine they downlink as quickly as possible to get the data onto land and free up bandwidth.

Navigation and space-junk avoidance is probably centralized, but that can be easily made redundant and control centers even placed in multiple countries.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 30, 2024 03:22 PM (eMPHe)

250 My "stink of loser" theory of politics; and it applies to all parties. Where if you have the stink of loser, it's almost impossible to win ever.
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Most certainly.

Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 30, 2024 03:22 PM (fs1hN)

251 Yeah, even if they could run, I don't think Whitmer or Shipiro would win.

Both of them got in under massive Covid vote fraud.

Neither of them expanded their base as proven in that Trump won both states.

The stink of loser is chasing them both ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 30, 2024 03:22 PM (0awbi)

252 A perfect illustration of the physics of totalitarianism. When faced with any setback, never acknowledge moral failing or even practical misstep which would reflect on the purity and superiority of the dogma, consider only how to ratchet up the totalitarian force and coercion.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2024 03:23 PM (h/ffs)

253 Willowed from the morning thread:

338 What kind of mean shit can the executive branch do to these judges personally? Because I want to see it.

Taking bribes.

You can certainly hang Merchan for that.

Fun fact: under Federal bribery law, having family members (like Merchan's daughter) take bribes is the same thing as taking a bribe yourself.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 30, 2024 12:58 PM (uxCna)

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Reid Hoffman paid for the lawyers. How much you want to bet he had donated millions through cutouts at ActBlue?

Go after him.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 30, 2024 03:31 PM (I72M3)

254 221. Now the Trump 47 Justice Department must investigate this.

Conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) is a very serious federal felony.
Posted by: andycanuck

Interesting.

In part, On August 1, 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith announced that former President Trump had been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia. The four-count indictment alleges that the former President participated in several criminal conspiracies:
• “A conspiracy to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to Impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results
of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal Government, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371”;
• “A conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified ... in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k)”; and
• “A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241.”

So the same conspiracy charge would appear again. To go bye bye again. 🤔

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster another at December 30, 2024 03:33 PM (NFX2v)

255 Sooooo...yet another another big, often-repeated, Biden lie. That he wanted a totes independent Attorney General and Department of Justice. The icing on the cake: By saying that, he boxed himself in on Garland. What public reason could FJB give for firing Garland, who he said was totes independent from the Prez and White House? FJB's hoped-for wonderful legacy would take a hit below the waterline if he fired his totes independent AG! The best laid plans of mice and scumbag politicians...

Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2024 03:33 PM (aBgBM)

256 Best thing about this:
There's a fair chance Biden's so pissed at Garland he won't pardon him and Trump can indict him.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at December 30, 2024 03:33 PM (43XUo)

257 Again I call it a three way tie for worst Presidents.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 30, 2024 03:34 PM (D6PGr)

258 Comments above about Kamala's performance at the Kav hearings are right on. "Have you ever talked to anyone at law firm XYZ?" she asked. "Maybe. I'm a lawyer and judge. Lawf firms can be big places, lots of people. Could you be more specific?" Kav answered. "Yes or no?" the genius prosecutor said. "I cant really answer that. I need more information, please." "YES OR NO! Why are you avoiding the question?" "I'm not, Senator. I'd just like more specific..." "Its a shame the American people can't get a strqight answer to a simple question." "Uh, sorry?" "I yield".

She's a moron.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 30, 2024 03:36 PM (aCsV6)

259 That Judge Engoron the moron needs justice as well

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2024 03:37 PM (NtVYv)

260 252 A perfect illustration of the physics of totalitarianism. When faced with any setback, never acknowledge moral failing or even practical misstep which would reflect on the purity and superiority of the dogma, consider only how to ratchet up the totalitarian force and coercion.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2024 03:23 PM (h/ffs)

This guy gets it.

Posted by: Zombie V. I. Lenin at December 30, 2024 03:37 PM (aBgBM)

261 Again I call it a three way tie for worst Presidents.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Only toe is obola or Biden for second place.
You don't give up real estate. Carter gave back the Panama Canal.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 30, 2024 03:42 PM (/CGkw)

262 Speaking of making money the easy way, Kamala is getting $20M in a "book deal". Somebody needs to find out who puts up the money for this bullshit.
Posted by: long night ending
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It's Dem SOP. Money laundering. Easier than 'paintings'.

Jim Wright comes to mind. Just a reminder:

"WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury here is investigating a book deal by former House Speaker Jim Wright and has subpoenaed at least two groups that bought his book, “Reflections of a Public Man.”

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 30, 2024 03:46 PM (XeU6L)

263 Joe and Congress - Jimmy to lay in state there, January 9th 2025 will be a federal holiday, and Joe does give the eulogy.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster another at December 30, 2024 03:48 PM (NFX2v)

264 Hopefully Joe will be laying next to him on Jan21

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2024 03:50 PM (fwDg9)

265 Ship Merrick Garland to a J6 shell!

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 30, 2024 03:57 PM (gJNdL)

266 #123 "He's a man's, man, and I should know!" Gay Boys in Bondage, by Barack Obama, Number 126 on the NYT Bestseller List...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 30, 2024 04:20 PM (gJNdL)

267 Biden and his fellow Demo-Rats were unable to steal this election despite help from China and Russia Get over it Demo-Rats you Lost and WE WON BUBBLEGUM THEY LOST APPLE SUACE. Can anyone remember this when going to Grade School?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 30, 2024 04:21 PM (wGqjj)

268 One more thing...

You People forget that the cocksucking Democrats in Wisconsin are STILL persuing their fake bullshit "case" against the President for 2020.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 30, 2024 02:52

Closing in, man! CLOSING! IN!

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 30, 2024 04:23 PM (gJNdL)

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Posted by: escorte belfast at December 30, 2024 11:06 PM (flW2+)

270 May all those who engaged in lawfare reap what they sowed and enjoy a long stay in a federal institution.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 30, 2024 11:10 PM (bXvrr)

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