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Trump Addresses The Evil Anti-Human Globalist Oligarchs of Davos (By Video)

I'm so proud of my president for taking a strong stand against needless carbon dioxide emissions. All of the Davoisie, who claim to be so concerned about global warming, unleash a thousand Climate Hiroshimas into the air to jet to Switzerland so they can be away from their spouses and have sex with prostitutes and gay waiters/actors.

Niall Ferguson reports from the Orgy of the Oligarchs, and says that privately, the Davoisie crowd is bullish on Trump and America.

But, he warns: Davos Man is always wrong.



This year, everyone here is bullish on MAGA. That's your cue to take the other side of the trade.

By Niall Ferguson


DAVOS, Switzerland -- Eight years ago, Davos Man mocked Donald Trump. Five years ago, he despised Trump. But in 2025, the mood at the World Economic Forum has completely changed.

The great American vibe shift has made it to Davos, and the European business elite badly wants a piece of it. Two days of trudging up and down the Promenade--the main drag of the Swiss ski resort town where the WEF is held each year--were enough to convince me of that.

True, the WEF propaganda remains fixated on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and, of course, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--the familiar, woke-globalist acronyms ESG and DEI, now supplemented with AI. The corporate billboards still burble their word salads about resilience and sustainability. But talk to the chief executives and a very different picture emerges.

True, the WEF propaganda remains fixated on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and, of course, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--the familiar, woke-globalist acronyms ESG and DEI, now supplemented with AI. The corporate billboards still burble their word salads about resilience and sustainability. But talk to the chief executives and a very different picture emerges.

Almost everyone at Davos is long U.S., short EU. The trouble is that the Davos consensus is nearly always wrong. I still remember the way it was five years ago. It was clear to me--and I told everyone who would listen--that a global pandemic was underway. But what was the dominant topic on the agenda of the World Economic Forum? That's right: climate change and how morally superior Greta Thunberg was to wicked Donald Trump. So, if Davos Man is, despite his qualms, long America and short Europe, that might be your cue to take the other side of the trade.

Well Davos Man can't always be wrong. Can he?

Trump told the head of Bank America, and Jaime Dimon, head of [JP Morgan], to stop debanking conservatives to their (virtual) faces:

Posted by: Ace at 02:31 PM




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1 bbbgfb

Posted by: browndog howling at January 23, 2025 02:31 PM (TTAGa)

2 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at January 23, 2025 02:32 PM (aD39U)

3 You want: A MOAB on Davos

You'll get: A haranguing on Davos

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2025 02:32 PM (t0Rmr)

4 Jamie Dimon is head of JP Morgan Chase; Brian Moynihan is head of Bank of America.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (gRVse)

5
Cloture Vote Now for Pete!

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (FLFnM)

6 True, the WEF propaganda remains fixated on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and, of course, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--the familiar, woke-globalist acronyms ESG and DEI, now supplemented with AI. The corporate billboards still burble their word salads about resilience and sustainability. But talk to the chief executives and a very different picture emerges.

True, the WEF propaganda remains fixated on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and, of course, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--the familiar, woke-globalist acronyms ESG and DEI, now supplemented with AI. The corporate billboards still burble their word salads about resilience and sustainability. But talk to the chief executives and a very different picture emerges.


Nice enough to say it twice.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (aD39U)

7 Trump is pardoning the pro-life protesters Biden threw in jail!

Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (Jfw7U)

8
What does CNBC Jim Cramer think? Because then its the complete opposite.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (+oR7L)

9 7 Trump is pardoning the pro-life protesters Biden threw in jail!
Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (Jfw7U)

=======

Exactly what BaseballCuck said he wouldn't do because Trump isn't actually pro-life, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

10 I am on the Priapism Bus and DGAF how long the ride lasts.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (+RE5s)

11
cuck schumer just issued a grave warning to Republicans on the Senate floor to reject Pete

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (FLFnM)

12 He should investigate BoA for handing over all of the banking transactions of everyone anywhere near the capitol on January 6th without a warrant.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (uCjyK)

13 "All of the Davoisie, who claim to be so concerned about global warming, unleash a thousand Climate Hiroshimas into the air to jet to Switzerland so they can be away from their spouses and have sex with prostitutes and gay waiters/actors."

Ace, this is false and defamatory. These sleazy shitballs have sex with prostitutes and gay waiters when they're at home, too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

14 Some DC cops who beat a potential saint to death were pardoned.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (bz2GH)

15 Good, good, good. I'm not tired of winning yet.

I need to look up Milei's speech at Davos. Does anyone know if it was a barn-burner like last year's was?

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (79pEw)

16 Trump now more popular in Deep Blew Soviet Re-pee-blick of New Jersey than Bucktooth Bolshevik Phil Murphy.
HAHHAHAHAHAHA
That's how bad Il Douche is, but somehow he was elected 2x

Can't wait to move to a Free State

Posted by: Iasonas will be on the beach at the Gulf of America at January 23, 2025 02:36 PM (gUzGB)

17 He should investigate BoA for handing over all of the banking transactions of everyone anywhere near the capitol on January 6th without a warrant.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
==

It was worse than that, they were just submitting all the people that bought ammo with credit cards all over the country in that time period .

My understanding was it was nationwide.

Needless to say, I pay ammo with cash after this nonsense

Posted by: Leupold at January 23, 2025 02:36 PM (4pwAx)

18 Screw the world oligarchs

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 02:37 PM (fwDg9)

19 Jamie Dimon is an old friend of my wife's stepsister. She's a hippie, a pretty conservative hippie, and says he's a pretty good guy.

He was also the heartthrob of the apartment complex they grew up in.

Posted by: spongeworthy at January 23, 2025 02:37 PM (CDWlY)

20 I am so happy these dear people will be free!

Nice punch-back to the Senate ghouls (all democrats) who won't allow born alive (after attempted abortion) babies to get medical care.

Hey, ghouls: It's no longer her body/her choice when a baby is born alive and not part of her body.

Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:37 PM (Jfw7U)

21 7 Trump is pardoning the pro-life protesters Biden threw in jail!
Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (Jfw7U)

Wish it was Day 1, but I understand waiting so he could hype the Pro-Life rally tonight and the Pro-Life march tomorrow.

It's no coincidence the weather is finally starting to warm up as everyone descends on DC tomorrow.

I feel like death warmed over (thanks kids for getting me sick today), so I won't be there, but I do encourage everyone here to attend...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:37 PM (exHjb)

22 Also, does Trump really not know about Operation Choke Point, Eric Holder's foray in to debanking?

https://tinyurl.com/4dtbsz98

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 23, 2025 02:37 PM (uCjyK)

23 I'm sure these guys, and even out little domestic Pol Pot's think they can wait out these next four years and scheme for when it ends.

This makes JD Vance a liability to the Left, and I fully expect every slimy effort to do character assassination on him. Let's see how the Marine handles it.

Posted by: Orson at January 23, 2025 02:37 PM (dIske)

24 ...privately, the Davoisie crowd is bullish on Trump and America.

What this means is that, while they oppose everything Trump stands for, they believe he'll be more successful than not at least in the short term but they'll continue trying to undermine the US.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:38 PM (ExV1e)

25 Notice what Dickhead Brian didn't say after being harangued by Trump over debanking conservatives...

Posted by: jsg at January 23, 2025 02:38 PM (Fg0Nr)

26 @9

>>Exactly what BaseballCuck said he wouldn't do because Trump isn't actually pro-life, or something.

And some people were whining he didn't do it quickly enough.

The man has been in office for 2-1/2 days, he's pretty much accomplished more in those two days than most Presidents accomplish in four.

This is going to be a wild four year ride.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2025 02:38 PM (XV/Pl)

27 Did Trump start his Davos address with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I despise each and every one of you."?

Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 02:38 PM (Aqu9a)

28 He should investigate BoA for handing over all of the banking transactions of everyone anywhere near the capitol on January 6th without a warrant.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
==

It was worse than that, they were just submitting all the people that bought ammo with credit cards all over the country in that time period .

My understanding was it was nationwide.
Posted by: Leupold


My wife took us out of BoA and transferred everything to Navy Federal because of shenanigans like this.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

29 >>>Can't wait to move to a Free State

Just move south of 195. It's like a different world here.

Posted by: spongeworthy at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (CDWlY)

30 >>> Cloture Vote Now for Pete!
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (FLFnM)

If they don't make the vote I hope Trump shoves Grennell's Richard so far up the positions oinkhole that they all beg for Hegseth back.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (Y6IkP)

31 9 7 Trump is pardoning the pro-life protesters Biden threw in jail!
Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:33 PM (Jfw7U)

=======

Exactly what BaseballCuck said he wouldn't do because Trump isn't actually pro-life, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

PDT did (and continues to do) more for pro-lifers and Christian religious freedom than any Republican President before him, Reagan included. He delivers. Period.

Posted by: BaseballCuck can suck it at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (ybSPO)

32 Nove...hope you feel better soon. We had a flu bug here over the holidays that was dreadful. Just now really feeling back to normal.

Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:40 PM (Jfw7U)

33 31 PDT did (and continues to do) more for pro-lifers and Christian religious freedom than any Republican President before him, Reagan included. He delivers. Period.
Posted by: BaseballCuck can suck it at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (ybSPO)

=======

But state-level Republican organizations are intentionally tanking ballot initiatives with badly written proposals that are confusing at best and vast overreach on the other hand, which is the fault of Trump for overturning Roe v Wade which BaseballCuck's ilk insisted for decades was the centerpiece of conservatism in America (besides the endless foreign wars and corporate tax cuts, of course).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

34 Trump: Dear BofA... suck on BofA these...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (QAkQ3)

35
Collins, Fetterman vote NAY to Cloture

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (FLFnM)

36 "All of the Davoisie, who claim to be so concerned about global warming, unleash a thousand Climate Hiroshimas into the air to jet to Switzerland so they can be away from their spouses and have sex with prostitutes and gay waiters/actors."

Ace, this is false and defamatory. These sleazy shitballs have sex with prostitutes and gay waiters when they're at home, too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (iFTx/)


Otherwise, what's the point of being rich and powerful enough to attend? -- Justine Castreau in his gay waiter costume

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (ExV1e)

37 PDT did (and continues to do) more for pro-lifers and Christian religious freedom than any Republican President before him, Reagan included. He delivers. Period.
Posted by: BaseballCuck can suck it at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (ybSPO)

Melania is a total blessing. She is the rock he looks to on all the pro-life issues and like pro-life women, she has been 110% solid, always. She doesn't give a sh&t about the politics, she just gives a sh&t about the rightness.

Although I would love a link for the news so I could give the site clicks (unless it's a liberal one)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:42 PM (exHjb)

38 Javier Milei also took a wrecking ball to the WEF to their faces against woke/socialist/communist ideologies, trannies/pedophilia, etc. He lauded his great relationships with Trump, Meloni, Bukele, and Orban and how Argentina has turned around their country into a bastion of economic and personal freedoms.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 02:42 PM (oiNtH)

39
Murk is No to Cloture

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:42 PM (FLFnM)

40 Back into the kitchen for me. I was just so delighted to hear the news about these political prisoners.

Have a wonderful afternoon, all!

Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:42 PM (Jfw7U)

41 35
Collins, Fetterman vote NAY to Cloture
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (FLFnM)

That's not good

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 02:42 PM (VE6XX)

42 Van Helsing Invited to Speak at Vampire Convention

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 23, 2025 02:43 PM (Q2+8u)

43
Yeah, good ol' Frauderman votes No to Cloture.

He's a fucking woke Democrat, through & through.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:43 PM (FLFnM)

44 Collins, Fetterman vote NAY to Cloture
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (FLFnM)
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So Fetterman can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:43 PM (G0vdT)

45 Who is BaseballCuck? Mike Piazza?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

46 So Fetterman can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:43 PM (G0vdT)

The lump is in control

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

47 Back into the kitchen for me.
Posted by: lizabth


Did your husband give you permission to leave the kitchen?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

48 43
Yeah, good ol' Frauderman votes No to Cloture.

He's a fucking woke Democrat, through & through.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:43 PM (FLFnM)

=======

He is Schumer's puppet and nothing more.

Just like Manchin and Sinema were.

Independent minded Democrats in Congress are not real until I see evidence of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

49
Need 60 for Cloture, right?
Pete ain't gonna get that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (FLFnM)

50 A federal judge has already blocked the birthright citizen EO.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Y6IkP)

51 Trump: Dear BofA... suck on BofA these...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (QAkQ3)
_____________

[Golf clap]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

52 I don't want that Fetterman freak in my sight, let alone my party.

Caveman can't change his furs.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (iHsjs)

53 32 Nove...hope you feel better soon. We had a flu bug here over the holidays that was dreadful. Just now really feeling back to normal.
Posted by: lizabth at January 23, 2025 02:40 PM (Jfw7U)

Thankfully, not flu (no fever)...just the exhaustion, lack of appetite, congestion, and dry cough (and elevated heart rate - since I take my BP and heart rate almost daily b/c of my meds, I was shocked to see 3 digits this morning and not dropping even now, when I'm normally high 60s/low 70s...it explains why I'm exhausted sitting up - I took a 2 hour nap, and then had to see what was going on today)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (exHjb)

54 49
Need 60 for Cloture, right?
Pete ain't gonna get that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (FLFnM)

Why would Thune allow the vote ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (VE6XX)

55 @44

>>So Fetterman can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.

Just means more debate.

At some point, debate will end and there will be a vote and that's where you will see who is onboard and who is full of sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (XV/Pl)

56 I cant imagine the Hegseth vote would be happening if Thune didn't have the votes.

But when Republican do this, it just gives Dems the go ahead to slime GOP nominees.

It basically "worked" to trot out every embarassing detail of Hegseth's life because it almost sunk him.

Posted by: Leupold at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (4pwAx)

57


They asked Trump a question, he mostly ignored it and went on a riff sesh.

Pretty funny.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (et1vG)

58 I told you Fetterman is useless.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (g47mK)

59 Today I signed pardons for all evil anti-human globalist oligarchs of Davos, including George and Alex Soros, Klaus Schwab, Doctor Doom and Thanos.

I am pardoning them not because any of them did anything wrong, but because Trumpf trunatplskaniplatz...

*falls asleep*

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (zQkIU)

60 50 A federal judge has already blocked the birthright citizen EO.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Y6IkP)

And the Judge is 84 years old... what the hell is he still doing on the bench?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (QAkQ3)

61 Recess.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (bz2GH)

62 Need 60 for Cloture, right?
Pete ain't gonna get that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (FLFnM)
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That doesn't sound right. It's gotta be 50, right?

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (G0vdT)

63 Need 60 for Cloture, right?
Pete ain't gonna get that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (FLFnM)


I don't believe you can filibuster cabinet appointments. It's just a way to try and kill the nomination before you kill the nomination.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (ExV1e)

64 willowed from the previous thread.


Taiwan and Ukraine are very different in their strategic value to the United States. Taiwan means South Korea and Japan, the Phillippines, and, eventually, Indonesia. Essentially, the entire Eastern Asia sector of the globe.

So, no. China does not get Taiwan unless the Taiwanese, the South Koreans, and the Japanese concur with the US.

Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

65 And Mitch voted yes.

Mitch is more in line with Trump's cabinet picks than Fetterman.

That should tell you how "conservative" or "independent" Fetterman is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

66 As you know, President Trump kept one of his biggest promises: he pardoned all the January 6th political prisoners on day one. That’s the good news. The bad news is that reports suggest that some of these prisoners still haven’t been released, despite the fact that a presidential pardon is absolute and immediate.

Breaking: reports of PANIC in the D.C. Metropolitan Jail

Prison guards are panicking about the brutal treatment they meted out to #J6 prisoners

They fear they will be held accountable on civil or criminal charges- or even street justice.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

67 Fetterman is just like Manchin. He sounds nice, but he will always vote with Dems. Murk and Collins are a waste of skin.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (6v8aM)

68 Pete Hegseth will get confirmed. This is failure theater by the Dums.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

69 62 Need 60 for Cloture, right?
Pete ain't gonna get that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (FLFnM)
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That doesn't sound right. It's gotta be 50, right?
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (G0vdT)

======

Cloture is 60. Appointment is 50.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

70 Filibuster?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (bz2GH)

71 Jamie Dimon is the capitalist who would sell the rope that would hang him.

And the Jew who would hand out towels to family and friends at Auswitch.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (wBaIH)

72 Exactly what BaseballCuck said he wouldn't do because Trump isn't actually pro-life, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)


I've come to the considered opinion that BaseballCuck's a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (/HDaX)

73 Supreme court was always going to be packed this term. I just hope the flood of cases really stresses out the pink-haired witchdoctors there.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (iHsjs)

74 My wife took us out of BoA and transferred everything to Navy Federal because of shenanigans like this.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)


Good choice. Navy Federal does not accept bank account garnishments.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (D7oie)

75 A federal judge has already blocked the birthright citizen EO.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Y6IkP)

And the Judge is 84 years old... what the hell is he still doing on the bench?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (QAkQ3)


Blocking Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (ExV1e)

76 I love that Bank of America is trending on X.
They need to call a news conference with a formal apology.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (NpAcC)

77 >>>prostitutes and gay waiters/actors

It's like a Turducken of homo redundancy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (i24o9)

78 72 Exactly what BaseballCuck said he wouldn't do because Trump isn't actually pro-life, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

I've come to the considered opinion that BaseballCuck's a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (/HDaX)

======

What gave you that idea?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

79
Where's whig when you need him??

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (FLFnM)

80 A federal Hawaiian judge has already blocked the birthright citizen EO. Posted by: banana

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (Q8Bj8)

81 Count de Monet I would also accept
Ladies and gentlemen go fk yourselfs

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (fwDg9)

82 I don't believe you can filibuster cabinet appointments. It's just a way to try and kill the nomination before you kill the nomination.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (ExV1e)

Or for the administration to pay the price for a Hegseth vote.

Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

83 And the Judge is 84 years old... what the hell is he still doing on the bench?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2025 02:45 PM (QAkQ3)

Some of these judges are like the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K. Dead desiccated husks kept barely alive by artificial and terrible means.

Posted by: Except for smarts courage and psychic power at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (ybSPO)

84 If it wasn't the 84 year old judge, it would have been a 29 year old judge Biden appointed last week.

Whatever. This is just the legal process.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)

85 "We're MAGA Now" = "Please Daddy Don't Hurt Us"

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (mg05v)

86 Trump: Dear BofA... suck on BofA these...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (QAkQ3)

lol, thats some funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (VwHCD)

87 At not the bee:

Federal judge blocks Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

https://tinyurl.com/45cut8da

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (Y6IkP)

88 lol, Mitch votes to end debate, and then votes against the candidate. Still a cuck.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (g47mK)

89 Thankfully, not flu (no fever)...just the exhaustion, lack of appetite, congestion, and dry cough (and elevated heart rate - since I take my BP and heart rate almost daily b/c of my meds, I was shocked to see 3 digits this morning and not dropping even now, when I'm normally high 60s/low 70s...it explains why I'm exhausted sitting up - I took a 2 hour nap, and then had to see what was going on today)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (exHjb)

Cinnamon hard candy is my medicine for dry cough. I have jars of it about that i never take for candy. Lasts for years.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (n7h9X)

90 Collins, Fetterman vote NAY to Cloture
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:41 PM (FLFnM)
-

I said ages ago: it's their voting record that counts.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (oClyJ)

91 I need to look up Milei's speech at Davos. Does anyone know if it was a barn-burner like last year's was?
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (79pEw)


Let me find a chunk, the part I heard was asking about pedophilia and LBGWTF: Who exactly is in favor of this crap?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (D7oie)

92
Wait.

Maybe Cloture already passed and this is the Vote...

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (FLFnM)

93 I am glad that Trump gave an address over the internet and not in person. He has enough to do without flying off to Switzerland.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (MQJVv)

94 87 At not the bee:

Federal judge blocks Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

https://tinyurl.com/45cut8da
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (Y6IkP)

It will help it get to appeals and the Supreme Court fast enough that it goes into effect in Trump's term...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (exHjb)

95 72 Exactly what BaseballCuck said he wouldn't do because Trump isn't actually pro-life, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

I've come to the considered opinion that BaseballCuck's a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (/HDaX)

He has Patterico-level TDS.

Posted by: Which is saying something at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (ybSPO)

96 Unleashed Trump is my favorite Trump.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (PMtkd)

97 92
Wait.

Maybe Cloture already passed and this is the Vote...
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (FLFnM)

=====

It's definitely the cloture vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

98 Maybe Cloture already passed and this is the Vote...
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (FLFnM)

WHICH IS IT ?!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (g47mK)

99 I liked how Trump talked about having coal power plants next to the new factories for backup power to the oil / gas ones, powered by wonderful clean American coal. Stick that knife in there and twist it.

Posted by: Roy at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (z+ik4)

100
This dumb bitch didn't announce a finality to Cloture, so this might be the actual vote taking place now...

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (FLFnM)

101 I love that Bank of America is trending on X.
They need to call a news conference with a formal apology.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 02:47 PM (NpAcC)

Trump is renaming it Bank of Mexico

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (n7h9X)

102
It's definitely the cloture vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


okay

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (FLFnM)

103 Cloture is 60. Appointment is 50.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)


If you could filibuster cabinet appointments, why would any (Republican) nominee ever get fewer than 60 yes votes for confirmation? In fact, how would any (Republican) nominee ever get confirmed?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (ExV1e)

104 "Well Davos Man can't always be wrong. Can he?"

Even Jim Kramer bats better than 0.000 - some things are so obvious even the idiots can't miss it.

Posted by: can of spam at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (7oNMO)

105 If Hegseth doesn't make it I hope Trump picks someone even Worse meaning better

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

106 Would Thune allow a confirmation vote without having counted noses first? I doubt it.

Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (rj6Yv)

107 ...privately, the Davoisie crowd is bullish on Trump and America.

They kind of have to. 20 years ago, the average GDP in the EU was roughly the same as in the US. Now, the US is 50% higher, and the EU is completely stagnant. The Euros better wake up soon, or they'll be completely irrelevant to the world economy.

https://is.gd/rkDOnA

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (xCA6C)

108 103 Cloture is 60. Appointment is 50.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

If you could filibuster cabinet appointments, why would any (Republican) nominee ever get fewer than 60 yes votes for confirmation? In fact, how would any (Republican) nominee ever get confirmed?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (ExV1e)

======

I think I was wrong. Looking it up, a resource I found says that cloture is only 50 votes now.

I think that makes more sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

109 106 Would Thune allow a confirmation vote without having counted noses first? I doubt it.
Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (rj6Yv)

I doubt it too....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (VE6XX)

110 94 87 At not the bee:

Federal judge blocks Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

https://tinyurl.com/45cut8da
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (Y6IkP)

It will help it get to appeals and the Supreme Court fast enough that it goes into effect in Trump's term...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (exHjb)

WLNSSEODJY, sport!

Posted by: John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (sKaYF)

111 At not the bee:

Federal judge blocks Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

https://tinyurl.com/45cut8da
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:48 PM (Y6IkP)

It will help it get to appeals and the Supreme Court fast enough that it goes into effect in Trump's term...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (exHjb)
______

At this rate, it should come to a head around the midterms. Which is good for us. Let the leftwing shitmongers all line up screaming to allow filthy illegals to drop anchor babies. It's a very unpopular issue for them, and IIRC the USA is alone among developed nations that allows it. I doubt the courts will have the stomach to rule the way they should rule -- no birthright citizenship -- but at least the political fight will benefit us.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

112 I need to look up Milei's speech at Davos. Does anyone know if it was a barn-burner like last year's was?
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2025 02:35 PM (79pEw)

Let me find a chunk, the part I heard was asking about pedophilia and LBGWTF: Who exactly is in favor of this crap?
Posted by: Kindltot

Even better than last year's. He was on fire!

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 02:52 PM (oiNtH)

113
Oh lookee here at one the LAFD DEI Lesbo assistant fire chief:

https://tinyurl.com/2xnpbuv4

Assaulted her lesbo lover with a knife. Crowley and co covered it up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 02:52 PM (w6EFb)

114 No nominee would ever be able to pass if they needed 60 votes.

Posted by: Leupold at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (4pwAx)

115 He has Patterico-level TDS.
Posted by: Which is saying something at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM


Patterico is someone that LE needs to look closely at. He is on record as saying that framing 'the bad guys' is just part of a prosecutor's job.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (aD39U)

116 67 Fetterman is just like Manchin. He sounds nice, but he will always vote with Dems. Murk and Collins are a waste of skin.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 02:46 PM (6v8aM)

*fist bump*

Posted by: Daniel Patrick Moynihan at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (sKaYF)

117 He has Patterico-level TDS.
Posted by: Which is saying something at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (ybSPO)

In theory you should be able to hate Trump but still make accurate predictions about what he will do. For example, the right to life stuff above where he predicts betrayal any day now....what's the point of that? Trump supports right to life, so why predict he will stop for no reason?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (n7h9X)

118 I've come to the considered opinion that BaseballCuck's a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

He has Patterico-level TDS.
Posted by: Which is saying something


Eh, Reeko is a spittle-flecked, spastic. Cuck is a reflexive one that occasionally makes sense.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (mlg/3)

119 how morally superior Greta Thunberg was to wicked Donald Trump.
______________

I, for one, always look to cross-eyed Swedish retards for guidance.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (YqDXo)

120 If you could filibuster cabinet appointments, why would any (Republican) nominee ever get fewer than 60 yes votes for confirmation? In fact, how would any (Republican) nominee ever get confirmed?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:50 PM (ExV1e)

Partly kayfabe.

Partly fear of the filibuster being nuked.

Of course, fat Lloyd Austin got 93 votes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (FC8SQ)

121 Would Thune allow a confirmation vote without having counted noses first? I doubt it.
Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (rj6Yv)

I doubt it too....
Posted by: It's me donna


Not knowingly

It would have to be a last minute act of treachery.

Posted by: Leupold at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (4pwAx)

122 Need 2 for coitus.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (Y6IkP)

123
What Trump should've said is, "I'm feeling charitable today after my YUGE, Greatest-ever victory, so I'm giving you MotherWEFers 30 minutes to scram before the bombs start dropping."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 02:54 PM (w6EFb)

124 Javier Milei at Davos

https://tinyurl.com/cbf8kcmr

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 02:54 PM (oiNtH)

125 This is a machine translation of Milei's speech at Davos

https://tinyurl.com/j3j54buu

"Good morning everyone. And how much has changed in such a short time. A year ago, I stood here before you, alone, and spoke some truths about the state of the Western world that were met with some surprise and astonishment by much of the political, economic and media establishment of the West.

"And I must admit that, in a way, I understand it. A president from a country that, as a result of systematic economic failure for more than 100 years, as a result of having the country taken weak stances in major global conflicts, and as a result of us having closed ourselves off to trade, we had lost practically all international significance over the years."

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2025 02:54 PM (D7oie)

126 Cloture is 50 votes for ALL nominees - same as the confirmation...

Not sure if it was that way before Harry Reid FAFO, but it is now...

https://campaignlegal.org/ update/confirmation-hearings-explained

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:54 PM (exHjb)

127 50+VP, I guess I should say (aka majority)

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (exHjb)

128 Why don't they want cloture? Do they think, given time, they can bribe a few more no votes?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (PMtkd)

129 Who was the bald kraut guy who likes dressing up in weird outfits. That's what a Euro means to me.

Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (R/m4+)

130 I think the hint about what was going to happen with Hegseth is when Roger Wicker said that JD should stay in DC. So it looks like 50/50 with JD casting the tie breaking vote

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (6v8aM)

131 Could you imagine an armada of 100 747 air tankers attacking a fire?

California spends $30 billion on illegals. They pretend to fight fires.

Posted by: torabora at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (0Gnoc)

132 Thank you both, Cheri and Kindltot! Off to see the whole thing now.

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (79pEw)

133
Rand Paul was just on FOX talking about Fauci GOF, and said that Pete Hegseth has the votes. Only question is if it's 51 or 50 requiring JD to break a tie.

Susan Collins and MooCow are definite nays, but senile Bitch McConnel is up in the air.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (w6EFb)

134 And current roll call is Cloture for Hegsgeth...

https://www.senate.gov/legislative /floor_activity_pail.htm

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (exHjb)

135 I think I was wrong. Looking it up, a resource I found says that cloture is only 50 votes now.

I think that makes more sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Harry Reid changed the old cloture rules on nominees for executive and judicial nominations through the nuclear option (aka appeal to the chair's ruling that cloture had not been reached (was over three DC Circuit Court of Appeals nominations I think). Majority supported Reid as the Senate had not yet gone Republican in 2014 and thus the new rule was born regarding nominees. Does not apply to most regular legislation and reconciliation of the budget bills (2 per Congress) also have the majority cloture vote rule. But the provisions in that budget bill must be germane to have an effect on the budget.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ctrM5)

136 Assaulted her lesbo lover with a knife.

sounds like a pretty normal lesbian relationship actually, we wouldn't want to be too judgy

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (jGJov)

137 Patterico is someone that LE needs to look closely at. He is on record as saying that framing 'the bad guys' is just part of a prosecutor's job.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (aD39U)

Yeah, I was always very distrustful of him, even pre-TDS. He always seemed to be shilling for the deep state and our “selfless public servants.”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (FC8SQ)

138 Have they wheeled in Mitch yet.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (G0vdT)

139 Can Trump and the Pro-America faction of this Cold Civil War cancel Bitch McConnell and make his existence irrelevant?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (V2O3J)

140 For example, the right to life stuff above where he predicts betrayal any day now...
---
Remember, there are some "pro-lifers" who try to claim that Trump refusing to call for a federal ban on all abortions is a betrayal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (2k0oQ)

141 135 Harry Reid changed the old cloture rules on nominees for executive and judicial nominations through the nuclear option (aka appeal to the chair's ruling that cloture had not been reached (was over three DC Circuit Court of Appeals nominations I think). Majority supported Reid as the Senate had not yet gone Republican in 2014 and thus the new rule was born regarding nominees. Does not apply to most regular legislation and reconciliation of the budget bills (2 per Congress) also have the majority cloture vote rule. But the provisions in that budget bill must be germane to have an effect on the budget.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ctrM5)

=======

My memory on that change told me it was limited to just judicial appointments, which doesn't make sense in retrospect.

Of course it was all appointments shy of SCOTUS (which later got removed).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

142 I, for one, always look to cross-eyed Swedish retards for guidance.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (YqDXo)

-------

hahahhhhahahaha

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (PMtkd)

143 I'm waiting for the bald-headed Davos guys with cats on their laps...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ynpvh)

144 Need 2 for coitus.

==

I thought it was 60?! oh, coitus..Never mind!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (g47mK)

145 They kind of have to. 20 years ago, the average GDP in the EU was roughly the same as in the US. Now, the US is 50% higher, and the EU is completely stagnant. The Euros better wake up soon, or they'll be completely irrelevant to the world economy.

https://is.gd/rkDOnA
Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 02:51 PM (xCA6C)

EU's worse than stagnant, all their analysis is fraudulent. Some say German automakers are bolting to the US now. The inability to get energy is crippling what industry they have.

And the current fad of blocking and cancelling election means political instability is coming fast.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (n7h9X)

146 We have 50 votes! Hegseth passes cloture.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (G0vdT)

147 Why don't they want cloture? Do they think, given time, they can bribe a few more no votes?
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (PMtkd)


Killing cloture would be, effectively, killing the nomination. None of the Democrats, including the ones that call themselves Republicans, are going to change their votes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (ExV1e)

148 Fuck you Niall, Davos man or not I go long on the US over Europe

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (KQk9m)

149 Now 51.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (G0vdT)

150 140 For example, the right to life stuff above where he predicts betrayal any day now...
---
Remember, there are some "pro-lifers" who try to claim that Trump refusing to call for a federal ban on all abortions is a betrayal.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2025 02:56 PM (2k0oQ)

=======

Who also call Trump's delay of the TikTok ban unconstitutional and tyrannical.

I mean...I'm not in favor of the TikTok delay, but if we're talking tyrannical moves, it seems small.

Congress and the courts should probably yank on his chain there, but it's up to them to do that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

151 Who was the bald kraut guy who likes dressing up in weird outfits. That's what a Euro means to me.
Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO


Klaus Schwab

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

152
51/49 Cloture

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (FLFnM)

153 Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO at January 23, 2025 02:55 PM (R/m4+)

The German bald guy in weird outfits is Klaus Schwab,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (MQJVv)

154
I suspect the Confirming Vote will end up the same: 51/49, without VP vote necessary.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (FLFnM)

155 Cloture succeeds - 51-49 Hegsgeth

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (exHjb)

156 148 Fuck you Niall, Davos man or not I go long on the US over Europe
Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (KQk9m)

The US is an older nation than most of the ones in Europe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (VoAdT)

157 And the current fad of blocking and cancelling election means political instability is coming fast.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (n7h9X)

Good. We all know what happens next. Jackboots and uniforms come back in fashion for the Dirty Euro Look.

Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (R/m4+)

158 Surrender NATO to the French.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (bz2GH)

159 Now debate.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (G0vdT)

160 After an affirmative cloture vote, the Senate usually goes straight to the confirmation vote.

Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (rj6Yv)

161 151 Who was the bald kraut guy who likes dressing up in weird outfits. That's what a Euro means to me.
Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO


Klaus Schwab

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

162 Daddy said NO MORE NONESENCE!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (4Ntlw)

163 And I'm sick, so yes, I can't apparently spell his name today...maybe I'll call his warrior Pete...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (exHjb)

164 @116 Moynihan was my senator. Always admired his thinking that the welfare state would destroy black families.
When he was asked why he didn't vote to repeal the laws he said "my big Irish heart won't let me". Eff you Danny boy I'm Irish and if laws are harming people and the country get rid of them you asshole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (6v8aM)

165 Florida Man >> Davos Man

Florida Man High on Meth >> Davos Man

Florida Man High on Meth Sticking His Dick In A Gator's Mouth >> Davos Man

Any Fucking Man At All >> Davos Man

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

166 The German bald guy in weird outfits is Klaus Schwab,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (MQJVv)

Thank you!

Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (R/m4+)

167 100 Senators now?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (bz2GH)

168 I'm guessing that cloture passed and they're on to the one hour of inconsequential speechifying by each side in preparation for the actual vote tomorrow where he will be confirmed - potentially via Vance tie-break.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (ExV1e)

169 Real AP Headline:

Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant.

These f**king lunatics really need to be chucked feet first into an industrial wood chipper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (XV/Pl)

170
Yes, 100 Senators are all there

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (FLFnM)

171 144 Need 2 for coitus.

==

I thought it was 60?! oh, coitus..Never mind!
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (g47mK)

==

I see your 60 and raise you 1,000.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (zQkIU)

172 I have some links to Milei's speech in full, but they aren't subtitled yet

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (D7oie)

173 I thought a cloture vote was supposed to cutoff the debate.

Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (rj6Yv)

174 Could they just vote or it requires some vocal grandstanding?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (MQJVv)

175 We have 50 votes! Hegseth passes cloture.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 02:57 PM (G0vdT)


REEEEEEE...gasp....REEEEEEEE!!!!

The Pentagon right now

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (4tmpE)

176 WEF propaganda remains fixated on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and, of course, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--the familiar, woke-globalist acronyms ESG and DEI, now supplemented with AI.

Oh, good. This means I can still continue with my investment strategy of swapping out high-scoring ESG mutual funds for low-scoring ones.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (hB7mE)

177 The Hegseth nomination advances.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (Q8Bj8)

178 167 100 Senators now?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (bz2GH)

I saw 100 Senators front for All the Dead Presidents at Kennedy Center in 2001

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (ynpvh)

179
Note To Self: Must Bend Elbow At All Times When Extended Arm In Public

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (FLFnM)

180 feel like death warmed over (thanks kids for getting me sick today), so I won't be there, but I do encourage everyone here to attend...
Posted by: Nova Local
===
There's bound to be counter protesters, consider going and hanging out with them. Join in lots of shouting.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (4780s)

181 "The two Senators from Greenland just voted to confirm. See 'em over there in the fur coats? Yeah. Oh, sorry. Forgot to mention. Greenland's a state now. Go fuck yourselves."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (VoAdT)

182 America uber alles.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (bz2GH)

183 168 I'm guessing that cloture passed and they're on to the one hour of inconsequential speechifying by each side in preparation for the actual vote tomorrow where he will be confirmed - potentially via Vance tie-break.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (ExV1e)

I'd say tomorrow.. I have to give Thune props for saying he's gonna keep them 24/ 7 and on the weekend if they don't vote for the candidates

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (VE6XX)

184 Jackboots and uniforms come back in fashion for the Dirty Euro Look.

given the birthrates more likely to be keffiyahs and thawbs

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (jGJov)

185
When I saw Little Marco's vote was 99-0, I figured it was he who didn't vote. Nope, he voted for his own confirmation -- it was the replacement for JD hadn't yet been sworn in.

Marco resigned his senate seat only after his confirmation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (w6EFb)

186 It's high time a President publicly defied the federal courts. Start with a big, flashy one.

Just Say No.

It always brings them to heel.

Posted by: Jackson and Roosevelt at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (BI5O2)

187 I suspect the Confirming Vote will end up the same: 51/49, without VP vote necessary.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (FLFnM)


McConnell, I believe, voted for cloture but has said that he's a no for confirmation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (ExV1e)

188 37 PDT did (and continues to do) more for pro-lifers and Christian religious freedom than any Republican President before him, Reagan included. He delivers. Period.
Posted by: BaseballCuck can suck it at January 23, 2025 02:39 PM (ybSPO)

Melania is a total blessing. She is the rock he looks to on all the pro-life issues and like pro-life women, she has been 110% solid, always. She doesn't give a sh&t about the politics, she just gives a sh&t about the rightness.

Although I would love a link for the news so I could give the site clicks (unless it's a liberal one)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:42 PM (exHjb)

In Melania's recently published autobiography, she said that she disagrees with Trump's pro-life stance but supports him anyway.

Posted by: Daniel Patrick Moynihan at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (sKaYF)

189 So every Democrat voted nay?

The Republicans need to remember that a President is not entitled to his cabinet the next time a Democrat is elected.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (aD39U)

190 184 Jackboots and uniforms come back in fashion for the Dirty Euro Look.

given the birthrates more likely to be keffiyahs and thawbs

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (jGJov)

I thought a thawb was a car Mike Tyson doesn't drive.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (ynpvh)

191 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

192 Assaulted her lesbo lover with a knife.

sounds like a pretty normal lesbian relationship actually, we wouldn't want to be too judgy
Posted by: brak

The times that I had to live in barracks, the lesbians there had some commonalities - a lot of alcohol abuse, a lot of promiscuity even if in a relationship, and a lot of domestic violence. It's not like in the movies guys.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (oiNtH)

193 Real AP Headline:

Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant.

These f**king lunatics really need to be chucked feet first into an industrial wood chipper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (XV/Pl)

*render's Musk salute*

*clicks heels for good measure*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (i24o9)

194 167 100 Senators now?
Posted by: Boss Moss
-----
Apparently. Don't think US Senate allows proxy voting but not up on Senate rules.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (ctrM5)

195 "I, for one, always look to cross-eyed Swedish retards for guidance."


I am... Norwegian

Posted by: Thor at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (0dmP2)

196 No nominee would ever be able to pass if they needed 60 votes.

Posted by: Leupold at January 23, 2025 02:53 PM (4pwAx)

Fighting to death over every nominee didn't use to be standard practice.

They should require 24-7 continuous sessions and no staffers present to wake anyone up. If you sleep through a vote, well too bad for you.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (n7h9X)

197 191 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

Sorry to hear that.. Prayers for the Family

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (VE6XX)

198 Surrender NATO to the French.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (bz2GH)


First European military that can find a working rifle gets to be the big dog in NATO. Peace, out!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (ExV1e)

199 191 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

condolences, Skip.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (ynpvh)

200 166 The German bald guy in weird outfits is Klaus Schwab,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (MQJVv)

Thank you!

Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (R/m4+)

++++


Looks like he got his get-ups from the costumes of the 50's budget sci-fi movies. And he's serious about it all and people around him are serious. I think that's when I lost all hope for humanity.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (C53IZ)

201 A Danish populist politician was rebuked by the speakerfor using foul language in the chamber after telling Donald Trump to “f*ck off” over his intiative to buy Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark.

.. I'd be willing to trade California for Greenland

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (RHGPo)

202 In Melania's recently published autobiography, she said that she disagrees with Trump's pro-life stance but supports him anyway.
Posted by: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Really? I thought she was supposed to be such a devout Catholic?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)

203 Apparently 30 hours rule between cloture vote and final vote on nominee has been triggered by Hegseth opponents.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (ctrM5)

204 what are we doing

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (AOsQT)

205 It's not like in the movies guys.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (oiNtH)

You take that back right now!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (i24o9)

206
I still don't see mcconnell voting No. He's a Shit, but it's not his style when it comes to big votes like this.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (FLFnM)

207 Marco resigned his senate seat only after his confirmation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (w6EFb)

He should have voted 'nay' just to be a dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (VoAdT)

208 First European military that can find a working rifle gets to be the big dog in NATO. Peace, out!

.. that would be the Swiss

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (RHGPo)

209 Sarah Sanders is in Davos.

Maria Bartiromo
@MariaBartiromo

We knew Trump was going to do big, transformative things: Sarah Huckabee Sanders | https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6367559947112
@MorningsMaria

@FoxBusiness

https://tinyurl.com/3m3mfym2

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (NpAcC)

210 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip

So sorry Skip - he sounds like my BIL.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (oiNtH)

211 The times that I had to live in barracks, the lesbians there had some commonalities - a lot of alcohol abuse, a lot of promiscuity even if in a relationship, and a lot of domestic violence. It's not like in the movies guys.

What do lesbians bring on a second date? A U-haul

What do lesbians bring to a break-up? A restraining order

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (jGJov)

212 Sen. Tuberville (AL) notes the expected final Hegseth vote to occur around 9 PM tomorrow. Have CSPAN on in the background.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (ctrM5)

213 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)


Prayers for you and your family, Skip. 🙏🙏🙏

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (4tmpE)

214 Condolences, Skip. Sorry to hear that.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (C53IZ)

215 Confirmation on Friday evening or it's a slumber party.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (bz2GH)

216 212 Have CSPAN on in the background.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (ctrM5)

=======

This feels like an order.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

217 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

Sorry to hear that Skip. Best wishes for you and the family.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (n7h9X)

218 I love President Trump for many reasons. But I love him daily for simply mowing people down (and talking over Hannity, who I can't stand). I think they are stunned at his audacity, truth, and non-political hyperbole. President Donald J. Trump is fearless.

Plus! He has the Dims scrambling in every direction, like a fire ant bed that is disturbed. He's been planning all of this for years. They were not prepared because they never thought he'd win again and tried everything possible to stop him.

He is a Sherman Tank that is run on diesel and the butt hurt of his enemies. Good.

I am loving every minute of this week. Hallelujah!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (gi+MR)

219 207 Marco resigned his senate seat only after his confirmation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (w6EFb)

He should have voted 'nay' just to be a dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (VoAdT)

When John Kerry was a Senator he voted Neigh quite a few times.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)

220 Sorry for your loss, Skip.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

221
In Melania's recently published autobiography, she said that she disagrees with Trump's pro-life stance but supports him anyway.
Posted by: Daniel Patrick Moynihan at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (sKaYF)

Missed that - wow...although part of me wonders if she put that out b/c she was trying not to win in 2024. She does hate the job...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (exHjb)

222 Oh dear, condolences, Skip.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Hkcdp)

223 151 Who was the bald kraut guy who likes dressing up in weird outfits. That's what a Euro means to me.
Posted by: Fuck Europe and NATO


Klaus Schwab

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)


Erich Von Stroheim?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Aqu9a)

224 Apparently 30 hours rule between cloture vote and final vote on nominee has been triggered by Hegseth opponents. Posted by: whig

Yes. Friday evening for the final vote at the earliest it seems. The vote counting I am watching is Hegseth gets 51 votes.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Q8Bj8)

225 I thought a cloture vote was supposed to cutoff the debate.
Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (rj6Yv)


It does. Sort of. Once cloture passes each side gets one hour. It's a stupid thing where they pretend that they're deliberating.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (ExV1e)

226
I'm so proud of Little Marco. He grew up to be Secretary of State.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)

227 Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

I am sorry Skip. May God comfort and strengthen all who knew and loved him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (MQJVv)

228 Eh, Davis Man can go &$!?@.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (Hkcdp)

229 221
In Melania's recently published autobiography, she said that she disagrees with Trump's pro-life stance but supports him anyway.
Posted by: Daniel Patrick Moynihan at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (sKaYF)

Missed that - wow...although part of me wonders if she put that out b/c she was trying not to win in 2024. She does hate the job...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 03:06 PM (exHjb)

And see, I learned something new today...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (exHjb)

230 Note To Self: Must Bend Elbow At All Times When Extended Arm In Public

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (FLFnM)


-------

I think he should continue to do it and say exactly what he said, "My heart goes out to you."

And I think he does too, just a bit ago he tweeted a wordplay on the Nazi generals.

lol. I like the guy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (PMtkd)

231 A Danish populist politician was rebuked by the speakerfor using foul language in the chamber after telling Donald Trump to “f*ck off” over his intiative to buy Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark.

.. I'd be willing to trade California for Greenland

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (RHGPo)

Just take it, and take their filthy, hot icebacked women, too. What are they going to do, hurl bearclaws at us?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (i24o9)

232 This feels like an order.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
For insomniacs.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (ctrM5)

233
Thune MUST keep the Senate in session continuously, then, so these Democrats don't do this again.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (FLFnM)

234 The vote for Hegseth will be Friday.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (NpAcC)

235 First European military that can find a working rifle gets to be the big dog in NATO. Peace, out!

.. that would be the Swiss
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (RHGPo)

They aren't in NATO.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (n7h9X)

236 228 Eh, Davis Man can go &$!?@.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (Hkcdp)

Hey now.

Posted by: Zombie Sammy Davis Jr. at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (ynpvh)

237 It's a stupid thing where they pretend that they're deliberating.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (ExV1e)

Con the rubes into thinking things are decided on the Seante floor and not with backroom bribes and graft.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (b4o9z)

238 "The Davos man is always wrong" bet opposite - meh. CEOS are always looking for ways to reorganize the deck chairs to make their mark. Central control, decentralized control, Quality, Six Sigma, DIE...Re implementing merit for profitability is about as low hanging fruit as you will ever find. Imagine making your "mark" with that.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (jPdyB)

239 Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:01 PM (FLFnM)

Trump just makes a fist with it so the worst they can accuse him of is Black Power.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (mg05v)

240 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)


So sorry Skip. Prayers up for your family.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (gEQYA)

241 Off, 'poor Irish heart' softie-sock!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (sKaYF)

242 Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

RIP, sir.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (i24o9)

243 Apparently 30 hours rule between cloture vote and final vote on nominee has been triggered by Hegseth opponents.

... when the delayed Bondi's committee vote, they started reassigning folks at DOJ.

Apparently, there is a 120 day moratorium on staffing changes after a high level management change. So, they decided to start before Bondi was confirmed, before the moratorium starts.

They could do the same for DoD

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (RHGPo)

244 In Melania's recently published autobiography, she said that she disagrees with Trump's pro-life stance but supports him anyway.
Posted by: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Really? I thought she was supposed to be such a devout Catholic?
Posted by: Bulg


I mean.. you can disagree with someone by thinking they aren't going far enough...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (hB7mE)

245 Thanks everyone, he has been at a Veterans hospital last couple years, free care from his service.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (fwDg9)

246 Don't think US Senate allows proxy voting but not up on Senate rules.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:04 PM (ctrM5)


Absolutely no proxy voting whatsoever unless we really need the vote. -- Senate leadership

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (ExV1e)

247 off sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

248 234 The vote for Hegseth will be Friday.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (NpAcC)

Your bet, RRH??

Posted by: tubal at January 23, 2025 03:09 PM (PCK5/)

249
DM feature on the Marine gal who danced with JD:

https://tinyurl.com/23f2nbkz

JD (and Trump and everybody) met them all backstage while they were practicing. JD told her, "Now, don't step on my feet!"

She said JD, a Marine, treated her as a fellow Marine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (w6EFb)

250 Yes. Friday evening for the final vote at the earliest it seems. The vote counting I am watching is Hegseth gets 51 votes.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
======
McConnell voted yes on advancing the nomination to a floor vote, Murkowski and Collins voted not. Fetterman, contrary to some hopes here, voted against bringing the Hegseth nomination to the floor.

I think the Ukraine grifting caucus in the Senate is preparing for defeat on the nomination.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (ctrM5)

251

Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.
Cont-
https://tinyurl.com/5yvfk3dr

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (NpAcC)

252 Open the Senate doors and turn off the heat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (bz2GH)

253 The times that I had to live in barracks, the lesbians there had some commonalities - a lot of alcohol abuse, a lot of promiscuity even if in a relationship, and a lot of domestic violence. It's not like in the movies guys.

What do lesbians bring on a second date? A U-haul

What do lesbians bring to a break-up? A restraining order

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (jGJov)

What is lesbian's favorite food?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (i24o9)

254 I am glad that Trump gave an address over the internet and not in person. He has enough to do without flying off to Switzerland.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 02:49 PM (MQJVv)
______________

Also sends a message: "You're not important enough to take up that much of my time."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (YqDXo)

255 191 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)


So sorry, Skip. May he be remembered lovingly.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (Aqu9a)

256 It's not like in the movies guys.
Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (oiNtH)

What's funny is lesbians aren't like the movies, but gays are. Or so I've heard.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (mg05v)

257 251
Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.
Cont-
https://tinyurl.com/5yvfk3dr
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (NpAcC)

========

"In order to lead the DOD, one must have led an organization as large as the DOD before."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

258 I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

LOL what a joke

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (jGJov)

259 I’m thinking the Davis consensus is based on how aggressively awful Biden’s team got in the last few years.

There’s an interview of Marc Andreessen by Ross Douthat (I know, he came off as a tool) that explains how Tech leaders went from California Lefties to OMG these young employees and WH staffers want to destroy us!!

Maybe Davis man knows that short term, they need to shake off the self-destructive progressives and then try again after Trump cleans up their mess?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (Hkcdp)

260 I still think it is better to nuke Davos from orbit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (XxG/N)

261 This is all...rather shocking. These people...are so disconnected from reality. Fun to have someone come in and tell them to get stuffed.

The change at Davos is easy to explain - war, disease, economic decline. They are having the same change of heart as the people of Pacific Palisades. Basically - WTF have we been paying for, and WTF are we getting? They can no longer live the lie. They can no longer afford the lie.

If I were Trump, I'd issue this challenge - America will cut emissions MORE than the EU, and we'll do it WHILE we grow our economy. And we'll do it mostly by just getting the government out of the way.

You should have heard Melei speak.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (nLFEI)

262 I still think it is better to nuke Davos from orbit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM



It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (aD39U)

263 Dang autocorrect
DAVOS man…

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (Hkcdp)

264 The current one went AWOL.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (bz2GH)

265 God knows I've been wrong before on candidates, but I'd vote for Sarah Huckabee for President if she ever runs.

And not just for supporting Trump, she's done good things in Arkansas. She's an excellent leader.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (PMtkd)

266 Kindltot, the WEF channel on YouTube now has
Milei's speech with simultaneous translation. I'm about to listen now, after my appetite was whetted by those snippets I heard.

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (79pEw)

267 First European military that can find a working rifle gets to be the big dog in NATO. Peace, out!

.. that would be the Swiss
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:05 PM (RHGPo)

They aren't in NATO.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:08 PM (n7h9X)
***

I scoff at NATO.
Project power assholes. Just how far can you get across any border with a large force...before it all breaks down?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (W/lyH)

268 51-49?

Posted by: tubal at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (PCK5/)

269 Skip, I am sorry about your uncle, may God grant him peace.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Sgq8y)

270 Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.
Cont-
https://tinyurl.com/5yvfk3dr
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (NpAcC)

========

"In order to lead the DOD, one must have led an organization as large as the DOD before."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

US Navy to undergo nearshore sub hunting exercises off the coast of Maine until further notice.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (n7h9X)

271 Speaking of me being wrong, has anyone else enjoyed not hearing the name Paul Ryan for a long time?

Awwwww, feels good.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (PMtkd)

272 Absolutely no proxy voting whatsoever unless we really need the vote. -- Senate leadership
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The constitutional precedent is that you need a majority of votes to change Senate rules (whatever the actual Senate rules say) but that is what you need for a nomination. I just checked though for fun, Senate still does not allow proxy voting--you have to wheel out the invalids and mentally non-compos like Feinstein to vote in person.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (ctrM5)

273 Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (NpAcC)
______________

So NOW she's concerned about "succeeding in the job." Did she vote to confirm Lloyd Austin, who was a complete @#$%^& disaster in the job.

DC.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (YqDXo)

274 God knows I've been wrong before on candidates, but I'd vote for Sarah Huckabee for President if she ever runs.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM


America's Mom.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (aD39U)

275 271 Speaking of me being wrong, has anyone else enjoyed not hearing the name Paul Ryan for a long time?

Awwwww, feels good.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (PMtkd)

========

YOU RUINED IT!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

276 >Melania is a total blessing. She is the rock he looks to on all the pro-life issues and like pro-life women, she has been 110% solid, always. She doesn't give a sh&t about the politics, she just gives a sh&t about the rightness.

Uhh, pretty sure she recently came out as pro-abort

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (4Kdwd)

277 183 168 I'm guessing that cloture passed and they're on to the one hour of inconsequential speechifying by each side in preparation for the actual vote tomorrow where he will be confirmed - potentially via Vance tie-break.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:00 PM (ExV1e)

I'd say tomorrow.. I have to give Thune props for saying he's gonna keep them 24/ 7 and on the weekend if they don't vote for the candidates
Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 03:02 PM (VE6XX)

Or he could just ajourn the Senate... and they all start work the next day.

Posted by: Inogame at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (53oGX)

278 The Republicans need to remember that a President is not entitled to his cabinet the next time a Democrat is elected.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (aD39U)

If a democrat is ever elected again we're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (VwHCD)

279 "In order to lead the DOD, one must have led an organization as large as the DOD before."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

"In order to lead the United States as President, one must have led a country as large as the United States prior."

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 03:13 PM (g47mK)

280 251

We need to get DEI out of the Senate.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (+5dbN)

281 How many thermonuclear warheads does Davos have?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (bz2GH)

282 Thune MUST keep the Senate in session continuously, then, so these Democrats don't do this again.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Get creative Thune - Keep all chamber doors sealed shut and serve brownies laced with ex-lax. You'll get your vote.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (oiNtH)

283 DM feature on the Marine gal who danced with JD:

https://tinyurl.com/23f2nbkz
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (w6EFb)


That sailor dancing with Usha looks like he's trying to figure out what line will get him lucky.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)

284
whig,

What's the deal with transferring Cabinet Members from on dept to another? Do they need Senate confirmation, again? They do, but the Senate usually just sails them through with a voice vote??

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (FLFnM)

285 Oh, gfy Susan Collin’s.

I assume she voted FOR Lloyd Austin.
What a bang-up job he did when he wasn’t secretly in the hospital.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)

286 268 51-49?
Posted by: tubal

Yes to advance to a Friday evening (about 9 pm or so according to Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). McConnell voted for cloture, the Collins-Murcow axis of perfidy voted no. All Dems voted no.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ctrM5)

287 "In order to lead the DOD, one must have led an organization as large as the DOD before."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
________________

And how exactly would you get THAT job?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

288 I still think it is better to nuke Davos from orbit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (XxG/N)

A Davos Man once bit my sister.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (i24o9)

289 249
DM feature on the Marine gal who danced with JD:

https://tinyurl.com/23f2nbkz

JD (and Trump and everybody) met them all backstage while they were practicing. JD told her, "Now, don't step on my feet!"

She said JD, a Marine, treated her as a fellow Marine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (w6EFb)

Did Barry find a hunky gay marine to dance with him back in 2009 and 2013?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

290 What is going unreported is with Trump speaking to Davos via video call, he has proven to be more environmentally conscious than every one of the hypocrites who flew there on their private jets.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (N39Ws)

291 Personally I think this Senate confirmation process is crap. The Democrats use it to screw the Republican out of appointees while the Republicans sit around and hem and haw over "qualifications" and "concerns" over bullshit mud-slinging.

The GOP really needs to die... the consequences may be dire but geeze... they suck at politics.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (Q4IgG)

292 Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.


After careful consideration I decided you're a fucking nutbar and waste of skin.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (VwHCD)

293 Dang autocorrect
DAVOS man…
Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (Hkcdp)

We know what you meant.

Posted by: Betty and Geena at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (mg05v)

294 281

I vote we deliver at least 1 more.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (+5dbN)

295 287 "In order to lead the DOD, one must have led an organization as large as the DOD before."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
________________

And how exactly would you get THAT job?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

========

Well, the DOD has 2.85 million employees.

So any other organizations with roughly that number.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

296 Or he could just ajourn the Senate... and they all start work the next day.


look I think if needs must Thune will do this, but it is in fact better if he can get them confirmed the normal way. he's walking a line here - lets see if he can get some done before we end up having to do the recess trick.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (Pv3Rg)

297 After careful consideration and a tidy payout........

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (mg05v)

298 @303 Skip, condolences to you and your family

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (6v8aM)

299 Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided...

Code for: The bidding is now closed and my vote is no longer up for sale.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (W/lyH)

300 How many thermonuclear warheads does Davos have?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (bz2GH)
_________________

We should donate one to them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

301 286 268 51-49?
Posted by: tubal

Yes to advance to a Friday evening (about 9 pm or so according to Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). McConnell voted for cloture, the Collins-Murcow axis of perfidy voted no. All Dems voted no.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ctrM5)

Probably the final vote.. McConnell will be yes, after “ considerations”, IMO..

Posted by: tubal at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (PCK5/)

302 I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

Susan you are wholly unqualified to be a Senator but yet here you still are

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (VE6XX)

303 Peperidge Farms remembers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (bz2GH)

304 Betty????

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (mg05v)

305 So any other organizations with roughly that number.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)


Zorg Enterprises.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (aD39U)

306 Is the Davos man like the Florida man?

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (DJ7uY)

307 I scoff at NATO.
Project power assholes. Just how far can you get across any border with a large force...before it all breaks down?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:12 PM (W/lyH)

Look at the 2023 grand offensive in Ukraine, all done planned by NATO with equipment to match. Announced 6 months early so Russia had time to entrench the entire front and mine the area. The roadbound columns were halted before the defense line was even reached, and many tanks and APCs were lost to anti-tank teams and air launched missiles.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (n7h9X)

308
Susan Collin's voice makes me want to puke. She's got this manner of a elementary school teacher lecturing little children.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (w6EFb)

309 btw the Free Press has been more useless than normal lately. I think they must have a not-insignificant slice of subscribers who are very anti-Trump; their articles have all been very anti.

this is just another one - it's to pacify the part of their audience (and writers) who are lefty

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (Pv3Rg)

310 ...

The Horde mind is a formidable thing!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (W/lyH)

311 After careful consideration I decided you're a fucking nutbar and waste of skin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (VwHCD)

I just skip over what must of the uniparty -technically Republicans- have to say. I also skip over people like
(D) Pochahantas as well. It saves me much aggravation

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (MQJVv)

312 296 Or he could just ajourn the Senate... and they all start work the next day.


look I think if needs must Thune will do this, but it is in fact better if he can get them confirmed the normal way. he's walking a line here - lets see if he can get some done before we end up having to do the recess trick.
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (Pv3Rg)

=======

There's no indication yet than any of these nominees are going down in flames.

Hegseth has gotten the largest brunt of the effort, including an attempt to Kavanaugh him (which didn't even work on Kavanaugh, remember), and he's going to get through.

Any effort at resistance after this should see less and less support. Hegseth was the front loaded target.

The only one after this that should see some similar level of resistance is RFK, but I doubt he fails either.

Get the cabinet in and then recess. Let Trump recess appoint political appointees below the cabinet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

313
On the bright side....

We got a new Chief Spook!

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (FLFnM)

314 291 Personally I think this Senate confirmation process is crap. The Democrats use it to screw the Republican out of appointees while the Republicans sit around and hem and haw over "qualifications" and "concerns" over bullshit mud-slinging.

The GOP really needs to die... the consequences may be dire but geeze... they suck at politics.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (Q4IgG)

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100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (PMtkd)

315 And how exactly would you get THAT job?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

========

Well, the DOD has 2.85 million employees.

So any other organizations with roughly that number.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
_______________

Not my point. How would someone qualify to run an organization that size? There has to be a starting point.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

316 Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

Posted by: redridinghood

Oh FFS. This is your normal MO Collins. You enjoy being a thorn in Conservative R's sides for years and that is why you do this. You have zero concerns about his job experience because you yourself have no F'ing clue.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (oiNtH)

317 whig,

What's the deal with transferring Cabinet Members from on dept to another? Do they need Senate confirmation, again? They do, but the Senate usually just sails them through with a voice vote??
Posted by: Soothsayer
------
There is some weird contingency in government laws that permit a president to move a nominated and confirmed appointee from one position to another or even hold two positions at a time on an acting basis. Grenell was one such in Trump's first administration. If you care to look through the executive orders on day 1, Trump has a list of permanent employees of an agency to run it that he picked to carry on day to day operations until nominees are confirmed. That is also part of the contingency in government actions.

The old way was simply to recess and allow a recess appointment but the Senate under McConnell simply refused to recess starting in 2014 and continued that throughout Trump's presidency to prevent recess appointments.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (ctrM5)

318 Senate still does not allow proxy voting--you have to wheel out the invalids and mentally non-compos like Feinstein to vote in person.
Posted by: whig

I remember when they rolled a hospitalized Pete Wilson in on a gurney to cast a crucial vote.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

319 They let Lloyd Astin run Cultural Marxism all over the military

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (fwDg9)

320 I assume she voted FOR Lloyd Austin.
What a bang-up job he did when he wasn’t secretly in the hospital.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)
*****
Your assumption is correct.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (NpAcC)

321 Look at the 2023 grand offensive in Ukraine, all done planned by NATO with equipment to match. Announced 6 months early so Russia had time to entrench the entire front and mine the area.
___________________

Great opsec.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (YqDXo)

322 Trump is making huge moves.

He asserting the USA is going have sole control over the Western Hemisphere and kicking China out of Panama, ripping away Greenland away from Denmark, and reducing Canada to being a colony goes far in ensuring the USA will have sufficient natural resources for decades to come, manufacturing to sustain the economy, and is in control of critical land/infrastructure. South America nations should be thinking hard who they are going to align with.

Trump's Davos speech threw down that the post world war II order is defunct and that he is moving to put the EU in an extractive economic position going forward. All this will keep the Chicoms up at night for the few years.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (Q8Bj8)

323

Get the cabinet in and then recess. Let Trump recess appoint political appointees below the cabinet.


agree totally, TJM

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

324
What do you reckon Ratcliffe is doing right now?

a) cleaning up the CIA
b) being confronted with blackmail by the CIA
c) carrying on with business as usual

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (FLFnM)

325 @SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided...

Code for: The bidding is now closed and my vote is no longer up for sale.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:16 PM (W/lyH)
---------

The real problem? That's 100% true. Or something incredibly similar.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (PMtkd)

326 320 I assume she voted FOR Lloyd Austin.
What a bang-up job he did when he wasn’t secretly in the hospital.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)
*****
Your assumption is correct.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (NpAcC)

=======

2 Republicans voted against Austin.

Hawley and Lee.

Not even Cotton, Cruz, or Paul voted against him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

327 According to Open Secrets Susan Collins' top contributor is defense contractor General Dynamics. I'm sure that had nothing to do with her vote.

Posted by: brak at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (jGJov)

328 Byrd and his drool cup were wheeled out for votes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (CZTj0)

329 And while Collins is flapping her gums...Hey Merkowski.
Someone should tell you that when you fly from DC back to Alaska, you really shouldn't have your Senate position papers sitting out for your seatmates to read.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (W/lyH)

330 I would love to meet and greet a Susan Collins voter.

I am sure a lesbo feral cat rescuer who washes plastic bags for reuse, has armpit hair and shuns deoderant, while dying her/it's hair purple with pink stripes when not whining about abortion rights. When no one with sperm, we are assuming a male, would touch her much less reproduce with her.

Serious voters for Collins. I'd like to slap them for voting this creaking voiced helmet hair into the Senate. Whose only job appears to be being a soft spoken bitch.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (gi+MR)

331 The Horde mind is a formidable thing!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (W/lyH)

Indeed

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (mg05v)

332 313

He'll clean up Rock Ridge!

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (+RE5s)

333 a) cleaning up the CIA
b) being confronted with blackmail by the CIA
c) carrying on with business as usual
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (FLFnM)

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b)

I know this because...history.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (PMtkd)

334
Thanks, Whig.

I suspect PDT will be doing lots of maneuvering in his Cabinet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (FLFnM)

335
Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knifes.

That's the problem, selling knives, you see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)

336 Hawley is very close to being the most populist Senator…

Posted by: tubal at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (PCK5/)

337 @SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided that a sweet-ass reserved parking space right by the front door, and a standing lunch reservation at Old Ebbitt's Grill is just too good to pass up, so I vote NO

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (AOsQT)

338 @SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.
________________

After careful consideration, I have decided to ban women from voting or holding office. While blah blah blah, I am concerned that they're pretty uniformly catastrophically bad.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (YqDXo)

339 I am sure a lesbo feral cat rescuer who washes plastic bags for reuse, has armpit hair and shuns deoderant, while dying her/it's hair purple with pink stripes when not whining about abortion rights. When no one with sperm, we are assuming a male, would touch her much less reproduce with her.

Serious voters for Collins. I'd like to slap them for voting this creaking voiced helmet hair into the Senate. Whose only job appears to be being a soft spoken bitch.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (gi+MR)

LMAO. I can actually picture it..

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (DJ7uY)

340 335
Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knifes.

That's the problem, selling knives, you see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)

======

Labour will be in complete and total control for four more years.

There's a lot of blame to pass around for that, but mostly it's on the Conservative Party for sucking and then tanking the last general election in a way that was designed to lead to a major Labour win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

341 321

Can't have a protracted war if one side wins decisively.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (+RE5s)

342 336 Hawley is very close to being the most populist Senator…
Posted by: tubal at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (PCK5/)

He's one of My favorites

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (VE6XX)

343 I remember when they rolled a hospitalized Pete Wilson in on a gurney to cast a crucial vote.
Posted by: Bulg
====
Strom had a suite at Walter Reed where he lived until he was needed for floor votes. Wheeled into the Senate chamber and then wheeled out if needed by the majority.

Dianne Feinstein was in dementia for the last couple years in the Senate and who knows what she thought she was voting on.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (ctrM5)

344 After careful consideration, I have decided to ban women from voting or holding office. While blah blah blah, I am concerned that they're pretty uniformly catastrophically bad.


hear hear!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

345 Collins and Murk need to pay for their constant bullshit of stabbing R's in the back by claiming that they are "concerned". Whatever committees they are on - take them off. Any other benefits or luxuries that you can strip them of, take them. Move their offices into previous janitorial closets with no windows and the retching smell of ammonia. Keep going until they cry uncle.

Posted by: Cheri at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (oiNtH)

346 I begrudge Brian Monyihan the very air that he breathes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (XeU6L)

347 Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knives.

That's the problem, selling knives, you see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)
_______________

Muslim control >> knife control

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (YqDXo)

348 335 The rag Guardian? I think had a headline "The Amazon Killer" . It was Amazon's fault you see they sold him a knife...

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)

349 Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:10 PM (NpAcC)
______________

I see she is up for election in 2026

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (RHGPo)

350 look I think if needs must Thune will do this, but it is in fact better if he can get them confirmed the normal way. he's walking a line here - lets see if he can get some done before we end up having to do the recess trick.
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (Pv3Rg)

=======

There's no indication yet than any of these nominees are going down in flames.

Hegseth has gotten the largest brunt of the effort, including an attempt to Kavanaugh him (which didn't even work on Kavanaugh, remember), and he's going to get through.

Any effort at resistance after this should see less and less support. Hegseth was the front loaded target.

The only one after this that should see some similar level of resistance is RFK, but I doubt he fails either.

Get the cabinet in and then recess. Let Trump recess appoint political appointees below the cabinet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
_______

This. I've been saying this. They will all get confirmed. This is failure theater by the Dums. Why do you think they're playing all these procedural and delay games? They know the candidates have the votes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

351 Murkowski should just take the D after her name....

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)

352 >Byrd and his drool cup were wheeled out for votes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

---

Diane Feinstein's putrefying corpse was wheeled into the Chamber to simulate casting a vote

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)

353 I begrudge Brian Monyihan the very air that he breathes.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (XeU6L)


And his cousin, Haven?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 03:24 PM (Aqu9a)

354 2 Republicans voted against Austin.

Hawley and Lee.

Not even Cotton, Cruz, or Paul voted against him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

Cuck party.

Rand Paul endorsed California Proposition 47, the one that legalized shoplifting.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:24 PM (FC8SQ)

355 Hey, Jackstraw.

What's going on in your backyard?

>>>FBI agents raided the law offices of Joseph Molina Flynn at The 127 Dorrance St. building in Providence.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:24 PM (i24o9)

356 Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027

https://is.gd/ktPisQ

Even assuming he's wrong, and that it happens a lot later, he makes very important points:

"[If] we make good enough AI systems, they'll enable us to make better robots. And so when that happens, we will need to have a conversation... at places like this event, about how do we organize our economy, right? How do humans find meaning?"

"We've recognized that we've reached the point as a technological civilization where the idea, there's huge abundance and huge economic value, but the idea that the way to distribute that value is for humans to produce economic labor, and this is where they feel their sense of self worth," he added. "Once that idea gets invalidated, we're all going to have to sit down and figure it out."


As someone points out in the comments, perhaps that conversation should occur BEFORE we reach AI surpasses humans.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 03:24 PM (xCA6C)

357 think of what a great address biden would have given if he were still president and conscious

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 23, 2025 03:25 PM (CWTWj)

358 My mom just sent me message my uncle passed away
He has 3 sisters and daughter. He was a Vietnam vet
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

Condolences Skip. All the vietnam vets in my family are gone. Hard to believe that they are in their 70's and 80's now.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:25 PM (VwHCD)

359 >> Murkowski should just take the D

Phrasing!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:25 PM (FC8SQ)

360 334
Thanks, Whig.

I suspect PDT will be doing lots of maneuvering in his Cabinet.
Posted by: Soothsayer
-----
No doubt but it should not have to be this way. All the senators in the uniparty are afraid their little grifts and chances for generational level wealth will disappear under a reforming regime.

The nutjobs fixated on fighting everywhere and trampling on citizen's rights will also be upset if their little applecarts like government censorship operations and crappy little war making in the cover of darkness don't come about either.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)

361 Trump is pardoning the pro-life protesters Biden threw in jail!

Yeah, the US Attorney for DC that Trump appointed has been pretty vocal about this on X.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2025 03:25 PM (2ocoG)

362 Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027

https://is.gd/ktPisQ

Even assuming he's wrong, and that it happens a lot later, he makes very important points:


Siri can't even do simple voice to text without fucking it up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (i6Awv)

363 Apparently I'm in bird flu central. GA has now halted all poultry sales.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (Y6IkP)

364 I begrudge Brian Monyihan the very air that he breathes.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (XeU6L)


And his cousin, Haven?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 03:24 PM (Aqu9a)

My he carry his burden on his back like a soiled mattress for all eternity.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (i24o9)

365 Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knives.

That's the problem, selling knives, you see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)
_______________

Muslim control >> knife control
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:22 PM (YqDXo)
***
Now what are the rape.gangs gonna do?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (W/lyH)

366 359

Be the first D she has taken in a while.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (+RE5s)

367 Phrasing was intentional, at least I hit you with it between lunch and dinner time....

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (KQk9m)

368 Collins is probably the best the Republicans can hope for out of Maine. She'll vote with Trump 90% of the time, but the other10% will piss all other Republicans off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (6v8aM)

369 This. I've been saying this. They will all get confirmed. This is failure theater by the Dums. Why do you think they're playing all these procedural and delay games? They know the candidates have the votes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

To give time to their bureaucrats in office to 'resist'. There is a reason a lot of Trump's EOs apply to the bureaucracy this time and he is firing wholesale Biden's sloppy seconds from Obama's screwing of teh American people.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (ctrM5)

370 Trump's Davos speech threw down that the post world war II order is defunct and that he is moving to put the EU in an extractive economic position going forward. All this will keep the Chicoms up at night for the few years.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 03:19 PM (Q8Bj
__________________

Time to put Europe in its place. They're strutting around like Mussolini because they USED to matter. But they don't any more. They're done. Europe is basically a theme park.

The future is in Asia, not Europe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (YqDXo)

371 After careful consideration, I have decided to ban women from voting or holding office. While blah blah blah, I am concerned that they're pretty uniformly catastrophically bad.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (YqDXo)

My, you sure have a low opinion of women.

Posted by: Ravelry at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (Sf2cq)

372 296 Or he could just ajourn the Senate... and they all start work the next day.


look I think if needs must Thune will do this, but it is in fact better if he can get them confirmed the normal way. he's walking a line here - lets see if he can get some done before we end up having to do the recess trick.
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 23, 2025 03:15 PM (Pv3Rg)

I respect that, but the Dems don't respect anything.
All the worse that Mitch didn't allow recess appts for trump's first term, then the GOP fell over themselves to vote for Biden's commie picks.

Posted by: Inogame at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (53oGX)

373 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
5m
Trump declassifies JFK, RFK, MLK files, source says

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (G0vdT)

374 Murkowski should just take the D after her name....

I fully expect that to happen before the midterms.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (xCA6C)

Posted by: Ravelry at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (Sf2cq)

376 Murkowski should just take the D after her name....
Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)

Take The "D" Train

Posted by: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Aqu9a)

377 Diane Feinstein's putrefying corpse was wheeled into the Chamber to simulate casting a vote

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)

Did she use her new Captain Christopher Pike chair?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (VwHCD)

378 >>> This. I've been saying this. They will all get confirmed. This is failure theater by the Dums. Why do you think they're playing all these procedural and delay games? They know the candidates have the votes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)


Tulsi will probably end up being the most difficult.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Y6IkP)

379 @joshdcaplan
·
9m
TRUMP SIGNING ORDER RELATED TO DECLASSIFICATION OF FILES RELATED TO JFK ASSASSINATION AND ROBERT KENNEDY AND MLK

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (LkLld)

380 Now what are the rape.gangs gonna do?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (W/lyH)
________________

Hang.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (YqDXo)

381 Trump declassifies JFK, RFK, MLK files, source says

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (G0vdT)

GTFO

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (i24o9)

382 Not my point. How would someone qualify to run an organization that size? There has to be a starting point.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

that was the point

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (g47mK)

383 373 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
5m
Trump declassifies JFK, RFK, MLK files, source says
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (G0vdT)

=======

Fire any bureaucrat who isn't publishing them by the end of business today.

90 minutes.

Go.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

384 "All of the Davoisie, who claim to be so concerned about global warming, unleash a thousand Climate Hiroshimas into the air to jet to Switzerland"

And yet it was climate denier Trump who teleconferenced, which every one of the climate alamrists could do if so inclined.

Posted by: Ripley at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (GUOwU)

385 363 Apparently I'm in bird flu central. GA has now halted all poultry sales.
Posted by: banana Dream
------------
Some speculation that the virus leaked from UGA's USDA poultry virus research facility (Athens GA, I think). Apparently the cases are clustered about 30 miles from it. And yes, that facility was reportedly engaging in gain of function viral research for poultry vaccination development.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

386 Trump knows how to flood the zone , the left doesn't know whether to shit or go blind( one of my dad's phrases, wonder where that originated..)

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (KQk9m)

387 Where was Murkowskyssky 11/22/1963 ?

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (g47mK)

388 Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
---------

There's a part of me that thinks, 'Pretty low bar'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

389 My, you sure have a low opinion of women.

Posted by: Ravelry at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (Sf2cq)
_________________

Yep. Pattern recognition.

In their place, they're great, and I love 'em.

But this is not their place.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

390 My square says:
Johnson killed JFK
Jesse Jackson killed MLK
KGB killed RFK

Area 51 tours set to commence when?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (+RE5s)

391 I need the left to call Trump declassifying the JFK files tyrannical.

I need that in my life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

392 382 Not my point. How would someone qualify to run an organization that size? There has to be a starting point.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

that was the point
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (g47mK
WW II Hungary was the place soros got his start.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (jgmnb)

393 Labour will be in complete and total control for four more years.

There's a lot of blame to pass around for that, but mostly it's on the Conservative Party for sucking and then tanking the last general election in a way that was designed to lead to a major Labour win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

Labor got 20 percent of the vote last election and is terrified of any revote because Starmer is less popular by far now. Putin could probably win a MP special election. He's cancelling local elections set for May because he knows he will lose. He's getting hit hard for the cover up of rape gangs, which he was involved in.

Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador. The UK can't afford a severing of the 'special relationship' becuase without the US they are about as influential as Albania.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (n7h9X)

394 381 Trump declassifies JFK, RFK, MLK files, source says

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 03:27 PM (G0vdT)

GTFO
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (i24o9
---------

Bets on how much redaction there will be.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (G0vdT)

395 Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
---------

There's a part of me that thinks, 'Pretty low bar'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

Train the AI on Jerry Springer shows, and it could go one of two ways. Self-termination or jihad against the human race.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (i24o9)

396 386

I love that one. Dad used it a lot.

Respect

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (+RE5s)

397 Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knives.

That's the problem, selling knives, you see.
-----
In a way, it is the problem--the problem of not having guns to turn over the abomination of a government the Brits suffer under. But then again, they voted for it....its a pity we'll someday have to go there to secure the nukes from the invaders they let in.

Posted by: Crusader at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (azSra)

398 391 I need the left to call Trump declassifying the JFK files tyrannical.

I need that in my life.


I think they will go with "irresponsible "

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (KQk9m)

399
the only thing missing from the World Economic Forum is a fitting Bond-type of acronym.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (FLFnM)

400 Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knives.

--

Just wait for the Knife Database that's coming. And licensing requirements.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (qBdHI)

401 Europe is basically a theme park.

The future is in Asia, not Europe.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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It is not even a FUN theme park anymore.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)

402 My square says:
Johnson killed JFK
Jesse Jackson killed MLK
KGB killed RFK

Area 51 tours set to commence when?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (+RE5s)

Mine must be stuck.

CIA.
CIA.
CIA.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (i24o9)

403 This. I've been saying this. They will all get confirmed. This is failure theater by the Dums. Why do you think they're playing all these procedural and delay games? They know the candidates have the votes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)


Tulsi will probably end up being the most difficult.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Y6IkP)
__________

Maybe, but (1) she's one of them or once was and (2) I think by the time her vote is set, the Dums will be tired and demoralized after not stopping any of nominees. I think once Hegseth gets confirmed, their enthusiasm for RESISTENCE! will drop off. I mean, if they can't stop this unqualified white alpha rapist sex predator, then who can they stop?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

404 re 343: did they look like jimmy carter looked the day his family brought him out for early voting? he looked like he died and then drank a glass of bourbon

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (CWTWj)

405 Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
---------

There's a part of me that thinks, 'Pretty low bar'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

Can they piss against a wall?

assertion refuted.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (n7h9X)

406 I love that one. Dad used it a lot.

Respect

Always makes me laugh when I think about it

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (KQk9m)

407 393 Labor got 20 percent of the vote last election and is terrified of any revote because Starmer is less popular by far now. Putin could probably win a MP special election. He's cancelling local elections set for May because he knows he will lose. He's getting hit hard for the cover up of rape gangs, which he was involved in.

Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador. The UK can't afford a severing of the 'special relationship' becuase without the US they are about as influential as Albania.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (n7h9X)

========

Technically, the King could call for another general election. He never will. The monarchy exists now only because it is perceived as being above politics. The crown will never risk its existence by doing something like that.

In reality, the only person with the power to call for another general election is Starmer.

And Starmer has no incentive of calling another election. He's got full majority control, and it's not even close. It's not like he's running a coalition. His party is 100% in control.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

408 Train the AI on Jerry Springer shows, and it could go one of two ways. Self-termination or jihad against the human race.

Would folding chairs be involved?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (xCA6C)

409
I just call the WEF T.H.R.U.S.H:

Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (w6EFb)

410 368 Collins is probably the best the Republicans can hope for out of Maine. She'll vote with Trump 90% of the time, but the other10% will piss all other Republicans off
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (6v8aM)
******
True. I remember Republican senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe. She was worse.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (NpAcC)

411 Some speculation that the virus leaked from UGA's USDA poultry virus research facility (Athens GA, I think). Apparently the cases are clustered about 30 miles from it. And yes, that facility was reportedly engaging in gain of function viral research for poultry vaccination development.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

What. A. Coincidence.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (FC8SQ)

412 385 363 Apparently I'm in bird flu central. GA has now halted all poultry sales.
Posted by: banana Dream
------------
Some speculation that the virus leaked from UGA's USDA poultry virus research facility (Athens GA, I think). Apparently the cases are clustered about 30 miles from it. And yes, that facility was reportedly engaging in gain of function viral research for poultry vaccination development.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5
Expect USC Gamecock involvement. They’re like that.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (jgmnb)

413 When you give up all factory and energy production you become irrelevant, who knew...

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (KQk9m)

414 406

The best inheritance Dad left me was hearing his voice come out of my mouth sometimes.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (+RE5s)

415
WEF=

Perverts
United
to
Ratify
International
Dystopia?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (FLFnM)

416 Diane Feinstein's putrefying corpse was wheeled into the Chamber to simulate casting a vote

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)

Did she use her new Captain Christopher Pike chair?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (VwHCD
_________

Davros' chair

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

417
Train the AI on Jerry Springer shows, and it could go one of two ways. Self-termination or jihad against the human race.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
---------

The most succinct comment I have seen regarding the Large Language Models is, 'They make stuff up...they are fabulists'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (XeU6L)

418 So what was it all about then? Could have just stayed home and hoped for the best. Maybe a dentist or two.

Posted by: England And WWI and WW2 at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (R/m4+)

419 Labor got 20 percent of the vote last election and is terrified of any revote because Starmer is less popular by far now. Putin could probably win a MP special election. He's cancelling local elections set for May because he knows he will lose. He's getting hit hard for the cover up of rape gangs, which he was involved in.

Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador. The UK can't afford a severing of the 'special relationship' becuase without the US they are about as influential as Albania.
Posted by: Oldcat

It is getting worse by the moment on the fiscal state of the UK. Budget, even after a massive tax increase, is still about 30 billion pounds short. Financing costs are going through the roof for the British debt as well.

I halfway think Sunak (a former chancellor) knew that there was a fiscal crash coming and purposefully threw the election. Probably did not expect that the Conservative party would come close to being second to Reform on the Right.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (ctrM5)

420 AI will never "surpass" humans except on limited tasks. Like computers. They have "surpassed" humans for 80 years.

AI will never exist independent of us which means it will always contain our flaws.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (mg05v)

421 >Where was Murkowskyssky 11/22/1963 ?
----

having concerns

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (AOsQT)

422 Egg prices will still be exorbitant.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (bz2GH)

423 403 This. I've been saying this. They will all get confirmed. This is failure theater by the Dums. Why do you think they're playing all these procedural and delay games? They know the candidates have the votes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)


Tulsi will probably end up being the most difficult.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Y6IkP)
__________

Maybe, but (1) she's one of them or once was and (2) I think by the time her vote is set, the Dums will be tired and demoralized after not stopping any of nominees. I think once Hegseth gets confirmed, their enthusiasm for RESISTENCE! will drop off. I mean, if they can't stop this unqualified white alpha rapist sex predator, then who can they stop?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

They are all getting through. No exceptions. Trump laid down the law to the Rs. He got them to this pinnacle of power, it's up to them to approve his picks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (sKaYF)

424 Bets on how much redaction there will be.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (G0vdT)

Except fo:r

JFK was shot

MLK was shot

RFK was shot.

and the names of the ostensible shooters who have already been named, it wlil probably all be redacted.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 03:34 PM (MQJVv)

425 Has it dawned on the Brits yet that a knife can be made from almost any hard material?

Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (C53IZ)

426 Expect USC Gamecock involvement. They’re like that.
Posted by: Eromero
===
Heh.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (ctrM5)

427 335
Britain has jumped the shark shore 'nuff. Two-Tier Kier is announcing plans to require online retailer to required two forms of ID and other proof of age to sell kitchen knifes.

That's the problem, selling knives, you see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)

On of my various weird hobbies is to read comments on the wonky UK DM. Brits are wailing that they want someone like Trump, too. So are other nations. We are so blessed and we fought hard to get here. They need to as well...but it's pretty dang hard if you get arrested for saying truth on social media in the UK.

Basically President Trump is not only leading our country but, by some sort of magic light shining on freedom, also the world. I have prayed for this to happen in all honesty. Not that my prayer is doing this, God is.

People all across the globe are SICK of woke crap. This is the tip of the iceberg the Titanic is fixing to hit. Maybe this time Jack can get on the floating door with whats her name.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (gi+MR)

428 Some speculation that the virus leaked from UGA's USDA poultry virus research facility (Athens GA, I think). Apparently the cases are clustered about 30 miles from it. And yes, that facility was reportedly engaging in gain of function viral research for poultry vaccination development.

this is misinformation and also racist somehow

Posted by: CNN at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (jGJov)

429 Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador. The UK can't afford a severing of the 'special relationship' because without the US they are about as influential as Albania.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (n7h9X)
___________________

Bolivia, Britain, Botswanaland, Belgium, and Burma are in a dead heat for having the least influence in world affairs.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

430 And Starmer has no incentive of calling another election. He's got full majority control, and it's not even close. It's not like he's running a coalition. His party is 100% in control.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

He can be removed by his own party, like Boris Johnson/Liz Truss were.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (n7h9X)

431 410 368 Collins is probably the best the Republicans can hope for out of Maine. She'll vote with Trump 90% of the time, but the other10% will piss all other Republicans off
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 03:26 PM (6v8aM)
******
True. I remember Republican senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe. She was worse.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 03:32 PM (NpAcC)

This. I'd much rather have that seat in ME as an R than a D. I give Collins a pass. Murkowski and McConnell, however...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (sKaYF)

432 re 402: comedian richard belzer on the stern radio used to say that lbj was involved iin the jfk assassination. after, who was the big winner from that?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (CWTWj)

433 How many more senators can be lost before Hegseth is ousted? Collins and Murk make me sick. How I would love to see them both primaried and lose in an embarrassing shellacking.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (qBdHI)

434 LBJ was certainly a corrupt and vile individual

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (KQk9m)

435 Once again, there's not going to be any big revelations. Either because there's no 'there' there, or it's only what was allowed to be shown. I'm going with 'nothing.'

@nicksortor 2m
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump has signed an order declassifying the JFK, RFK, and MLK files

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (mlg/3)

436 430 He can be removed by his own party, like Boris Johnson/Liz Truss were.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (n7h9X)

=======

Sure.

Remove one figurehead for another.

That doesn't change Labour's 281 seat majority, it's ability to pass whatever insanity the fuck it wants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

437 Dimon is a fucking snake. I watched that place turn into DEI central. Turns out that DEI was used to fire Whites so they could then hire h1bs. Funny that.

Posted by: Resist_we_much at January 23, 2025 03:37 PM (YAMwy)

438 Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador. The UK can't afford a severing of the 'special relationship' because without the US they are about as influential as Albania.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (n7h9X)
___________________

Bolivia, Britain, Botswanaland, Belgium, and Burma are in a dead heat for having the least influence in world affairs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)
_________

[Smiles]

-- Djibouti

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

439 But then again, they voted for it....its a pity we'll someday have to go there to secure the nukes from the invaders they let in.
Posted by: Crusader at January 23, 2025 03:30 PM (azSra)

Given their recent track record of Trident missile failures, I’m pretty sure their nukes are non-functional.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:37 PM (FC8SQ)

440 Niall Ferguson was very anti-Trump and AFAIK still is, though he is likely moderating his public rhetoric now. I wouldn't put much stock in his viewpoint on anything Trump-related.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 23, 2025 03:37 PM (1Au9i)

441
If Pete was smart, he'd go on Twitter right now and say he's willing to meet with Collins & Murk to "discuss differences" and "have a productive conversation."

THAT'S how you fuck with them. That's how you put them in a pickle. Make them say no thanks. Or, if they accept, it makes Pete look good. Makes him look good, no matter what.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:38 PM (FLFnM)

442 Two Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, broke ranks with Trump and his allies who have mounted an extensive public campaign to push Hegseth toward confirmation. The former combat veteran and Fox News host faces allegations of excessive drinking and aggressive actions toward women, which he has denied. The vote was 51-49, with a final vote on confirmation expected Friday.

.. Susan Collins has 28 years in the Senate .. 30 is more than enough .. so she should retire in 2026

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:38 PM (RHGPo)

443 Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador

==

Where did you see that ?

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 03:38 PM (g47mK)

444 They refused to release the JFK/MLK etc files for 70 fucking years

if theres nothing there, they sure went through a lot of effort to keep them classified, al lthe way up to fuckface Pompeo

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (HYKHz)

445 > 🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump has signed an order declassifying the JFK, RFK, and MLK files
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I guess this depends on; 1. which entity has "the files" and, 2. which entity was responsible for the assassinations... as whether or not they'll buck the order.

CIA, DoD, FBI?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Q4IgG)

446 Has it dawned on the Brits yet that a knife can be made from almost any hard material?
Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (C53IZ)
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The ones who are arrested will get a crash course on shiv-making in prison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (7fElN)

447 441
If Pete was smart, he'd go on Twitter right now and say he's willing to meet with Collins & Murk to "discuss differences" and "have a productive conversation."

THAT'S how you fuck with them. That's how you put them in a pickle. Make them say no thanks. Or, if they accept, it makes Pete look good. Makes him look good, no matter what.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:38 PM (FLFnM)

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Nah.

He'll get confirmed.

Stay quiet until the vote is done, then declare action on the last 7 DOD audits that the DOD failed, including prosecutorial recommendations to the DOJ for anyone illegally syphoning off funds from the Pentagon going back decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

448 Jackstraw @ 379-

I hope the Epstein and Diddy lists are next.

Posted by: Dad of Six at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (j3buj)

449 [Smiles]

-- Djibouti
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Actually, Djibouti is pretty strategically important due to its location near the mouth of the Red Sea. That's why we, China, and Japan all have bases there.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

450 He can be removed by his own party, like Boris Johnson/Liz Truss were.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (n7h9X)

That's probably what will happen. He can't really refuse if they have a vote of no confidence. The UK is fracturing, and people will blame Starmer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (d9fT1)

451 Whoa!
Reuters is (according to Fox) reporting that Putin is ready to meet with Trump RE: Ukraine. Z-man is said to be ready to chat as well.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (W/lyH)

452 425 Has it dawned on the Brits yet that a knife can be made from almost any hard material?
Posted by: washrivergal

Most of our laws (and that of the West in general) are performative art for the elites that make us less safe, more broke, and less healthy. Virtually none of them have the slightest correlation to fixing the identified problems.

Like the Theodoric of Yoric medieval barber skit on SNL many moons ago, legislature's solution to all problems is to pass a law on it (similar to bleeding to fix the bad humors in the body) and preferably that law involves spending a lot of money and giving the legislators grifting opportunities.

Almost no laws are actually directed at fixing problems because then the legislators would lack a reason to fund raise, divide the people for electoral purposes, and get money and jobs for their 'friends aka donors".

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (ctrM5)

453 Fox News: Trump wants to immediately meet with Putin. Meanwhile Zelensky is squeaking that he wants to make a deal to end the war; odds on Mini Z knows the grift gravy train is over and he is trying to hang on to want he can.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Q8Bj8)

454 Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, giving Trump his second Cabinet member
The vote was 74-25.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (RHGPo)

455 That doesn't change Labour's 281 seat majority, it's ability to pass whatever insanity the fuck it wants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

They will have to start worrying about their own asses which is the only thing that will precipitate a removal.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (mg05v)

456 Europe is basically a theme park.

The future is in Asia, not Europe.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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It is not even a FUN theme park anymore.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)
_______________

"Wog Land."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

457 Hadley's book way way back in the 1980s called "The Straw Giant" spends a lot of time describing how Sec Defs can get "captured by the system."

In hindsight from today, he was talking about the Deep State.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 23, 2025 03:40 PM (vBmjk)

458 Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy pulled out of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) due to differences with the Tesla CEO over H-1B visas, a report has suggested. Hours after Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th US President, Ramaswamy announced that he would not co-head DOGE. The Tesla CEO who wanted Ramaswamy 'out' of the team over the 39-year-old entrepreneur's remarks on X regarding H-1B visas made in December last year. Ramaswamy's comments on X during a discussion of H-1B visas were the one 'main reason' for some Republicans getting frustrated with him.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:41 PM (RHGPo)

459 455 That doesn't change Labour's 281 seat majority, it's ability to pass whatever insanity the fuck it wants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

They will have to start worrying about their own asses which is the only thing that will precipitate a removal.
Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (mg05v)

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They will start worrying with 6 months left before the general election.

Until then, polls don't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

460 >> Trump just rejected his choice for US Ambassador


Yep, that guy was a particular anti-Trump prick. I forget, but he went with the usual Hitler, fascist talk.

He's the John Bolton of ambassadors as far as the Don is concerned. Fuck him in particular.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

461 Europe is basically a theme park.

The future is in Asia, not Europe.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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It is not even a FUN theme park anymore.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)
_______________

"Wog Land."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)
__________

Bog of Eternal Stench

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

462 Has it dawned on the Brits yet that a knife can be made from almost any hard material?
Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (C53IZ)
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The ones who are arrested will get a crash course on shiv-making in prison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 23, 2025 03:39 PM (7fElN)
***

Bluebell to open a second production line.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 03:41 PM (W/lyH)

463 re 430: like the dems could have used the 25th amendment to retire biden. ha ha hardy ha ha

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 23, 2025 03:41 PM (CWTWj)

464 Has it dawned on the Brits yet that a knife can be made from almost any hard material?
Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (C53IZ)

The goal isn’t to actually stop crime. It’s all a demoralization op against law-abiding white Britons who want to cut vegetables.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (FC8SQ)

465 If Pete was smart, he'd go on Twitter right now and say he's willing to meet with Collins & Murk to "discuss differences" and "have a productive conversation."
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Nah.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (mg05v)

466 In their place, they're great, and I love 'em.

But this is not their place.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:29 PM (YqDXo)


What place is there for human beings who are "uniformly and catastrophically bad"?

Posted by: Ravelry at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (Sf2cq)

467 416 Diane Feinstein's putrefying corpse was wheeled into the Chamber to simulate casting a vote

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)

Did she use her new Captain Christopher Pike chair?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 03:28 PM (VwHCD
_________

Davros' chair

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 23, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

That's an insult to all Dalek-Americans!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (wtvvX)

468 https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/
1882528846442119341

Oh, look.

Video of a president signing something.

Can I have video of Biden signing something like a pardon from the last week of his presidency, please?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

469 Mohammad Mohammad has two pieces of I.D. and he is 18.
Does he get to buy a knife?

Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (C53IZ)

470 Has it dawned on the Brits yet that a knife can be made from almost any hard material?
Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:35 PM (C53IZ)

Here's whats up. The UK deep state knew this dude was a bad actor for years and did nothing. Starmer's father was involved in keeping him in country. The media tried to dampen it down and Musk ripped off the bandage.

Starmer is looking for a scapegoat and its Amazon since they guy bought it there. So they are elected, thus putting another zillion dollar man in opposition.

I'm wondering if the UK deep state is building nutcase people they can use for ops themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (n7h9X)

471 Wasn't the rejected Brit ambassador somehow involved with the grooming gangs? I heard that that's why Trump rejected him.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

472 467 That's an insult to all Dalek-Americans!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (wtvvX)

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"WE REJECT ALL DALEK-AMERICANS! THEY ARE NOT PURE DAAAAAAALEK! EXTERMINATE!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

473 What place is there for human beings who are "uniformly and catastrophically bad"?

Posted by: Ravelry at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (Sf2cq)

The kitchen?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (i24o9)

474 Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (FC8SQ)

You will never go wrong betting on demoralization as the reason for something in the last dozen or so years.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (mg05v)

475 Bush made 171 recess appointments. Obama far fewer. Clinton 139.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (g47mK)

476 The goal isn’t to actually stop crime. It’s all a demoralization op against law-abiding white Britons who want to cut vegetables.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (FC8SQ)

We bloody well just has to use our tooth!

Posted by: Brits With Bad Tooth at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (R/m4+)

477 nood ratcliffe compirmed

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (CWTWj)

478 Senator Chris "The Douche Bag" Murphy (D-CT) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that President Donald Trump had “legitimized” political violence against Democrats. When asked about the J6 pardons, Murphy said, “I mean, let’s let’s really talk about who he let out of prison this week, who walked out of prison. The guy walked out of prison this week that pepper sprayed multiple officers to the point where one had a heart attack, he let out of jail this week.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

479 Wog was used as a generic name by Western POWs to describe any local tobacco while they were prisoners of the Japanese.

Another of the myriad other nicknames for wog was 'beard of the Prophet.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 23, 2025 03:44 PM (vBmjk)

480 Mohammad Mohammad has two pieces of I.D. and he is 18.
Does he get to buy a knife?
Posted by: washrivergal at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (C53IZ)

Yeah, if this had been in place before Southport, they would have ignored it like they covered up everything else.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:44 PM (n7h9X)

481 re 402: comedian richard belzer on the stern radio used to say that lbj was involved iin the jfk assassination. after, who was the big winner from that?
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In his book Roger Stone asserts that LBJ was in on it, and that film footage is available that shows LBJ slightly flinching *before* the shots were fired.

Stone also asserts that LBJ used murder-for-hire on 7 or 8 of his political enemies in Texas--essentially that LBJ was a serial killer. LBJ was tied to an assasin that liked to make deaths look like suicide by running a hose from the exhaust to the cab of a car, and several of LBJs enemies died under such circumstances over a 10-year period. There was no real "CSI" back in the day, nor an internet to allow small towns spread out across a state as big as Texas to *recognize* a crime spree, much less solve one.

Posted by: Crusader at January 23, 2025 03:44 PM (azSra)

482 458 SMOD.. meh, more anonymous sources - if there was a rift then we wouldn't be seeing them hanging out together at different events.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at January 23, 2025 03:45 PM (/F6d6)

483
Shake shake shake
shake shake shake
shake Djibouti
shake DjiBOUti

Posted by: Don Black. Message: hit it at January 23, 2025 03:45 PM (AOsQT)

484 427. I enjoy that wonky DM comment reading, too.

Posted by: CapeFear at January 23, 2025 03:45 PM (v2d6v)

485


nooooffdddd

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 23, 2025 03:45 PM (FLFnM)

486 What place is there for human beings who are "uniformly and catastrophically bad"?

Posted by: Ravelry at January 23, 2025 03:42 PM (Sf2cq)
__________________

AT RUNNING THINGS.

Reading comprehension FTW.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

487 Murphy said, “I mean, let’s let’s really talk about who he let out of prison this week, who walked out of prison. The guy walked out of prison this week that pepper sprayed multiple officers to the point where one had a heart attack, he let out of jail this week.
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

Sounds like a good opportunity for another 100 million defamation suit.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2025 03:45 PM (n7h9X)

488 Friends like Collins who needs enemies?

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:49 PM (fwDg9)

489 I still think these votes are against Trump

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 03:49 PM (fwDg9)

490 As someone points out in the comments, perhaps that conversation should occur BEFORE we reach AI surpasses humans.
Posted by: Archimedes


He's jumping the gun more than a bit.

They first have to find a way to make an AI that's capable of reasoning.

Or distinguishing true information from false information.
Or distinguishing relevant information from irrelevant information.
Or capable of anything, really, more than assembling words according to a specified formula.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2025 03:50 PM (hB7mE)

491 420 AI will never "surpass" humans except on limited tasks. Like computers. They have "surpassed" humans for 80 years.

AI will never exist independent of us which means it will always contain our flaws.
Posted by: ...

AI is a fluff pr name for expert systems. Such systems can work pretty well in tandem with humans but eventually are prone to hallucinations as they get away from their training data so one could never be sure that what the AI output says is true unless you check it manually.

General AI is one of those things dependent on sentient development which so far AI has not done AFAIK.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ctrM5)

492 I'm so proud of Little Marco. He grew up to be Secretary of State.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 23, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)


He is going to go to Cuba, look Diaz-Canel in the eye, and tell the Cuban citizens what they have lost in the last 50 years in the name of revolutionary international socialism

I will praise his name to the sky with delighted baritone shrieks if he quotes Bolivar: El que sirve una revolución ara en el mar (who would serve revolution just tills the sea) and if he continues to quote Bolivar's letter to general Juan Jose Flores, I will absolutely squee.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2025 03:55 PM (D7oie)

493 471 Wasn't the rejected Brit ambassador somehow involved with the grooming gangs? I heard that that's why Trump rejected him.
Posted by: Bulg
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Big Friend of Epstein and Prince Andrew.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

494 given the birthrates more likely to be keffiyahs and thawbs
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What's a thawb?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 04:01 PM (Wg6v7)

495 Thankfully, not flu (no fever)...just the exhaustion, lack of appetite, congestion, and dry cough (and elevated heart rate - since I take my BP and heart rate almost daily b/c of my meds, I was shocked to see 3 digits this morning and not dropping even now, when I'm normally high 60s/low 70s...it explains why I'm exhausted sitting up - I took a 2 hour nap, and then had to see what was going on today)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2025 02:44 PM (exHjb)

Sorry to hear. If you heart rate stays up in the thee figures you might consult a cardiologist. Atrial flutter is a thing.

Posted by: javems at January 23, 2025 04:44 PM (8I4hW)

496 If you ever exposed the UN/CFR/Globalists to the Truth they would turn to dust like a Vampire exposed to the Sunlight

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 23, 2025 04:53 PM (wGqjj)

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