Mitch McConnell Makes the Stunning and Brave Decision to Not Seek Reelection At Age 85

Mitch McConnell announces his retirement with his One Yellow Light

How did Pike communicate with just one light? This continues to distress me.

McConnell is 83 now, but would be 85 when he's up again in 2026.

I thought we knew he wasn't running again, but we didn't. I assumed he would just finish out his term and retire when he was defenestrated from a leadership position. But apparently, until today, he was still debating whether America could survive without him.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will not run for re-election in 2026 and will instead retire, the longtime senator announced Thursday.
McConnell has served in the Senate for decades, including as Senate majority leader under President Donald Trump's first administration. McConnell is the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, and he announced his retirement on his 83rd birthday.
"Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate," McConnell said in prepared remarks to the Senate floor. "Every day in between, I've been humbled by the trust they've placed in me to do their business here. Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last."
McConnell was first elected in 1984, and he plans to serve out the rest of his term ending in January 2027.

The announcement comes after a series of health scares for McConnell, who has frozen up during statements to the public on multiple occasions.
His office never provided an explanation for the episodes.

These power-loving narcissists just refuse to leave the stage, ever. They are so filled with ego they imagine they are indispensable.

As a sage said, the graveyards are filled with self-styled "indispensable men."

Posted by: Ace at 01:16 PM

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1 He must have had good makeup people for the picture.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (xCA6C)

2 I thought we knew he wasn't running again, but we didn't. I assumed he would just finish out his term and retire when he was defenestrated from a leadership position. But apparently, until today, he was still debating whether America could survive without him.

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Yeah, that announcement that he was stepping down from leadership did seem to sow confusion about his future.

I'm glad he's done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

3 How did Pike communicate with just three lights? This continues to distress me.

1) Yes
2) No
3) Beer me up

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

4 He looks much better there than in real life.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (xCA6C)

5 Ding!

Posted by: Tio Salamanca at February 20, 2025 01:17 PM (i0F8b)

6 3 How did Pike communicate with just three lights? This continues to distress me.

1) Yes
2) No
3) Beer me up
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

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Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

7 His hair follicles did very well despite the massive radiation dose.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (DsA2n)

8 These power-loving narcissists just refuse to leave the stage, ever. They are so filled with ego they imagine they are indispensable.

As a sage said, the graveyards are filled with self-styled "indispensable men."

I once had a colleague who studied the extremely complex chemistry of how barnacles stick to things, because that's still a yuge problem in the Navy. I'll bet her work could be of use here.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (xCA6C)

9 Our long national nightmare is over!

Posted by: Allen at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (d2p0K)

10 >>>I thought we knew he wasn't running again, but we didn't. I assumed he would just finish out his term and retire when he was defenestrated from a leadership position. But apparently, until today, he was still debating whether America could survive without him.

I was worried he would abruptly resign from office and let that cretin Beshear try to appoint a Democrat replacement. It would be just like him to screw us over on the way out.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (lHPJf)

11 >>How did Pike communicate with just three lights? This continues to distress me.

Yes, No, Bathroom.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (XV/Pl)

12 "Seven times, my fellow democrat racketeers have sent me to the Senate," McConnell said

fixed it for you retard.
KY voter

Posted by: Esperman at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (UZ7aH)

Posted by: Glitch McConnell at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (/6GbT)

14 Love the Pike comparison Ace! Perfect.

Posted by: Ziz Lasota &the Disgraceful8 at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (CTUih)

15 >>> I thought we knew he wasn't running again

I thought so too

Posted by: DJ at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (uosPt)

16 Long overdue, but I wonder how KY kept voting the POS in for so many decades!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (hOUT3)

17 Meanwhile, Bernie has apparently filed paperwork to run when his term is up (I think 2030).

Posted by: 496 at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (agRbN)

18 10 I was worried he would abruptly resign from office and let that cretin Beshear try to appoint a Democrat replacement. It would be just like him to screw us over on the way out.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (lHPJf)

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How would we tell the difference between Mitch and a Democrat backbencher?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

19 Wow, I'm amazed. I thought he'd die in office like Feinstein.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

20 >> The announcement comes after a series of health scares for McConnell, who has frozen up during statements to the public on multiple occasions, and had diarrhea dribble down his leg.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (7TdnZ)

21 "Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate," McConnell said in prepared remarks to the Senate floor. "Every day in between, I've been humbled by the trust they've placed in me to do their business here. Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last."

I'd like to see Bitch McConnell try to express what his voters want in Price is Right style.

Ok Senator the next item up is "How much to do your constituents want to pay in aid to Ukraine?"

/Crowd unversally chants ONE DOLLAR ONE DOLLAR!

Sen McConnell: I'm gonna go low on this one and go with $500B. I mean, its gotta be at least that much right?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (t0Rmr)

22
McConnell is 83 now, but would be 85 when he's up again in 2026.
......

Time to go home and spend more time with his wheelchair.

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (HgMAr)

23 You would think Bones could give Pike some space ointment for that.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (0HaGk)

24 "I thought we knew he wasn't running again, but we didn't. I assumed he would just finish out his term and retire when he was defenestrated from a leadership position. But apparently, until today, he was still debating whether America could survive without him."

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Seems to me we were all discussing a year or so ago, if he would retire BEFORE the 2024 election deadline, thus allowing the seat to stay empty until the next special election could be held... or in other words, wait until '26.

There was also question as to whether the shithead governor could appoint someone, and whether that would have to be an R or not.

But oh well, they rolled Fiendsteen out until she was almost literally a corpse. Why not Cocaine Mitch.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (dGCAG)

25 Wow, I'm amazed. I thought he'd die in office like Feinstein.

I still think he will.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (xCA6C)

26 >>>McConnell is 83 now, but would be 85 when he's up again in 2026.

True fact: Turtles can live to be nearly 200 years old.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (i24o9)

27 I'm glad he's done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

He's not though.
He'll be done when he's gone, which can't happen soon enough.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (FCbAQ)

28 Bleep!
Bloop Bloop!

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (+oR7L)

29 He's going to try to torpedo any R's chance - especially if they're MAGA - to win heavily red KY in 26. Watch and see.

Posted by: Sloucho at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (jErBv)

30 I've been humbled by the trust they've placed in me to do their business here

Trust, once lost, is never regained fully.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (CEAEi)

31 It's space theme week in ace pictures.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (cduTK)

32 17 Meanwhile, Bernie has apparently filed paperwork to run when his term is up (I think 2030).
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Odds Bernie makes it to 2030?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (pLaQB)

33 That's a great scar BTW.

Make-up department killed it with that one.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (0HaGk)

34 The three lights are play, rewind, skip.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (z/ifB)

35
Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?

Too busy trying to get into Nurse Chapel's space uniform at the time.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)

36 I believe the Kentucky R majorities changed the state's replacement rules to remove the dem governor's ability to pick his replacement and require an immediate election in anticipation of the Turtle's demise.

Posted by: mc at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (TaHV5)

37 24 Seems to me we were all discussing a year or so ago, if he would retire BEFORE the 2024 election deadline, thus allowing the seat to stay empty until the next special election could be held... or in other words, wait until '26.

There was also question as to whether the shithead governor could appoint someone, and whether that would have to be an R or not.

But oh well, they rolled Fiendsteen out until she was almost literally a corpse. Why not Cocaine Mitch.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM (dGCAG)

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The law is being changed to a special election, but Beshear is still saying that it's in violation of the state constitution.

I think Beshear will win any court fight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

38 So when are the congressional wheelchair races?

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (HgMAr)

39
I don't think mcbitch will make it to 2026.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (pM4iv)

40 @87

>>Meanwhile, Bernie has apparently filed paperwork to run when his term is up (I think 2030).

That dude will be 87 years old in 2030, these people are ticks and leeches, his wife will only be a spry 79, I bet she runs in his place and the retards of Vermont will more than likely vote her into office.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (XV/Pl)

41 Meanwhile, Bernie has apparently filed paperwork to run when his term is up (I think 2030).
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Odds Bernie makes it to 2030?

I doubt it. He already said he probably wouldn't run. OTOH, it's Bernie, so who knows?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (xCA6C)

42 How did Pike communicate with just three lights? This continues to distress me.
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Ding! Ding! Ding!

Posted by: Hector Salamanca at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (wzjSy)

43 35 Too busy trying to get into Nurse Chapel's space uniform at the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)

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Uhura had already put out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

44 and had diarrhea dribble down his leg.

The Nadler gambit.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (Cg/Hw)

45 Watching Trump work is like the Godfather movie. He's settling all the family business.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (pLaQB)

46 Huh. Just a couple of days ago, I remarked that he wouldn't leave government uncontained by a pine box. But now, there is a (slim) chance that'll happen.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (NuKV1)

47 He's been a senator for four decades, yet he's a multimillionaire. How'd you swing that on a government salary, Mitch?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (2UnvF)

48 Maybe congressional bingo night?

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (HgMAr)

49 I always thought Mitch would croak by tripping in the cloak room and smothering.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (7TdnZ)

50
In fact, I predict at least 3 major deaths in 2025 in Congress. Grassley, mcbitch, and Another (probably from the House).

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (pM4iv)

51 @37

>>I think Beshear will win any court fight.

Yes, because, it's actually in the state constitution.

Again, maybe the state GOP can figure out how old Beshear keeps getting elected Governor when every other statwide office is held by a Republican.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

52 Can you image the funeral proceedings for Cocaine Mitch? Is McCain's over yet?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (hibNl)

53 i understand that before leaving the senate he will freeze his eggs in case he wants children in the future senate

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (CWTWj)

54 Watching Trump work is like the Godfather movie. He's settling all the family business.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (pLaQB)

Set to punt 6,000 IRS FJB-hirees today.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (i24o9)

55 The announcement comes after a series of health scares for McConnell, who has frozen up during statements to the public on multiple occasions.

His office never provided an explanation for the episodes.

Petit Mal seizures?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (zc1Re)

56 Ding!
Posted by: Tio Salamanca at February 20, 2025 01:17 PM (i0F8b)

I put you in that chair you twisted fuck.

Posted by: Nacho Varga at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (yzp7T)

57 51 Yes, because, it's actually in the state constitution.

Again, maybe the state GOP can figure out how old Beshear keeps getting elected Governor when every other statwide office is held by a Republican.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

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By the state GOP sucking hard?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

58 I really, REALLY want a full blown investigation into how all these politicians got so rich in office.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (xCA6C)

59 I always thought Mitch would croak by tripping in the cloak room and smothering.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (7TdnZ)

Don't give up hope yet!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (FCbAQ)

60 Back-to-back posts with Star Trek pics. Nice.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (CwhoI)

61 You should see the babe we have lined up for Mitch!

Posted by: The Keepers of Talos IV at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (DsA2n)

62 Set to punt 6,000 IRS FJB-hirees today.
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Its a start.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (pLaQB)

63 18 10 I was worried he would abruptly resign from office and let that cretin Beshear try to appoint a Democrat replacement. It would be just like him to screw us over on the way out.
Posted by: Dr. T

KY legislature changed the law to require a public special election (no appointment power). The previous law tried to leave the governor with appointment power but only from a list of GOP provided names. KY Constitution technically is silent on US senate seat vacancies but has general language that gives the governor the right to appoint people to fill vacant offices.

Beshears didn't like the GOP's newest law but has to keep his mouth shut about it because a special election is far more popular in KY among voters to fill the vacancy than any placeholder until Mitch's term is up. My guess is Beshears would appoint a Dem if Mitch steps down or dies and the whole mess will go to court (unless the US Senate intervenes. Senate is judge of their members in Article I and can resolve disputes about who holds the seat. Was fairly common back when state legislatures picked the Senators.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (ctrM5)

64 Roddenbury technically committed bigamy when he married Nurse Chapel (Majel Barrett) because his divorce wasn't quite finalized yet.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (t0Rmr)

65 Next up, Susan Collins who won’t vote to confirm Kash Patel. She shakes so much when she speaks, she could be rented out as a blender.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (7TdnZ)

66 re 47: at least he can say he married into money, like horseface kerry did.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (CWTWj)

67 I swear if a single Democrat says nice things about McConnell
now, I will throw things. NOT A SINGLE POSITIVE WORD. He’s in the top echelon of the sonsabitches that got us here. This self-congratulatory speech is disgusting. He’s disgusting. His disgusting face is disgusting. NOT ONE WORD.

His refusal to allow President Obama to seat a Supreme Court Justice went a long way towards getting us where we are today. I hate him with the heat of a thousand suns. That stunt should never have been allowed. It’s a crime

When it comes to Mitch the high road washed out a long time ago. And 🤮 that pious POS Pence getting praise too.

But he looks so cute! https://tinyurl.com/3xdc2r55

Your legacy will be one of disgrace, for you betrayed the very oath of office as a senator-that is, to defend our country from enemies within and outside. Any accolades afforded you will be cheers of relief because your consumption of oxygen will end and be given to the likes of valuable human beings.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

68 What happened to Captain Pike's face?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (kTd/k)

69 Mitch McConnell announces his retirement with his One Yellow Light

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Elaine Chao?

/I'd denounce myself ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (5eIfF)

70 The F'er is looking to go out on a solid high note, under the current Administration

Roll Call, Opinion
The 2026 midterm elections are just around the corner
Narrowly divided House, historical trends make for fascinating contest, Posted January 7, 2025

Don't sit back and do nothing but watch.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (NFX2v)

71 How are we ever going to make it without this fistula on the body politic?

Posted by: Minuteman at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (ovYwY)

72
Turtle, we hardly knew ye!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (iJfKG)

73 I really, REALLY want a full blown investigation into how all these politicians got so rich in office.
Posted by: Archimedes
......

I recall The King of Mars mentioning that in an interview.

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (HgMAr)

74 67 I swear if a single Democrat says nice things about McConnell
now, I will throw things. NOT A SINGLE POSITIVE WORD. He’s in the top echelon of the sonsabitches that got us here. This self-congratulatory speech is disgusting. He’s disgusting. His disgusting face is disgusting. NOT ONE WORD.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

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I dislike this person, but I cannot argue with this person.

I have no retort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

75 Next up, Susan Collins who won’t vote to confirm Kash Patel. She shakes so much when she speaks, she could be rented out as a blender.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (7TdnZ)

I am literally shaking right now.

Posted by: Michael J. Fox at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (i24o9)

76 Again, maybe the state GOP can figure out how old Beshear keeps getting elected Governor when every other statwide office is held by a Republican.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

He was soooo good during the floods.
-KY voter

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (MGB5H)

77 67 His refusal to allow President Obama to seat a Supreme Court Justice went a long way towards getting us where we are today. I hate him with the heat of a thousand suns. That stunt should never have been allowed. It’s a crime

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

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They should hear my theory that Mitch did that to hurt Trump. It just didn't work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

78 >>>Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?

The Federation's budget for wheelchairs was siphoned off for the Klingon Transgender Studies NGO.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (CwhoI)

79 I'm sure Kentucky will have no trouble finding another Chinese puppet to fill the role.

Posted by: huerfano at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (n2swS)

80 Your legacy will be one of disgrace, for you betrayed the very oath of office as a senator-that is, to defend our country from enemies within and outside. Any accolades afforded you will be cheers of relief because your consumption of oxygen will end and be given to the likes of valuable human beings.

I mean, when they're right, they're right.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:25 PM (xCA6C)

81 No way Mitch makes it until the end of his term. I give him thx for keeping Garland off the SC. Nothing more nothing less

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (3qNrw)

82 What happened to Captain Pike's face?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (kTd/k)

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A Menagerie of impacts.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (5eIfF)

83 I’m sure Turtle spends 95% of his time in DC, how is he a Kentuckian?

New rule, Congressmen and Senators need to spend 80% of the time living in the districts they represent. Place one of ankle monitors on their leg and send out a weekly report to all constituents.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (H9ZTk)

84 McConnell ran the Senate when the GOP was the majority like it was the 1800's. He oughta' know.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)

85 @57

>>By the state GOP sucking hard?

Nah, it's something more than that, the dude who ran against Beshear had been elected to statewide office by a number greater than Beshear got for Governor, Cameron lost around 400k votes from when he ran as AG.

What I think is that the GOPe like having a Donk in the Governors mansion, it gives them lots of leeway and plausible deniability to do GOPe things.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (XV/Pl)

86 By the state GOP sucking hard?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think Cameron had two problems. He was black which did not play well in E. Kentucky possibly (haven't looked at vote splits in detail but there was some indication he did more poorly there) and Mitch hated him because of his being identified as pro Trump, pro MAGA. McConnell apparently has a cheat machine in some of the rural counties that probably relies on payola for votes. Been that way for over a century in those parts.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (ctrM5)

87 He and Paul Ryan are two of the biggest reasons I absolutely detest the Republican Party. Almost more than the Democrats.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (KH0i+)

88 Yes, No, Bathroom.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (XV/Pl)

Yes
No
Battery Low

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (D7oie)

89 I swear if a single Democrat says nice things about McConnell
now, I will throw things. NOT A SINGLE POSITIVE WORD. He’s in the top echelon of the sonsabitches that got us here. This self-congratulatory speech is disgusting. He’s disgusting. His disgusting face is disgusting. NOT ONE WORD.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

And they say we don't have bipartisan agreement anymore!

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 01:26 PM (lHPJf)

90 What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker
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That green chick sat on it?

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (HgMAr)

91 With three lights, he can answer multiple choice questions with as many as 8 options.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (u+80A)

92 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

I gotta stop drinking. Or start.
Because I find myself agreeing with these guys just this once

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (FCbAQ)

93 Kentucky and NC suck ass. How do you elect Democrat governors in this environment? You also have the Florida legislature, of all places selling out along with the Texas GOP.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (7TdnZ)

94 "What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker"

He beheld the Gorgon.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (0HaGk)

95 Posted by: Hector Salamanca at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (wzjSy)

And every day you sit in your shitty nursing home, sucking down your Jello night after night, for the rest of your life, you think of ME.

Posted by: Nacho Varga at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (yzp7T)

96 The money train is coming to an end. It's time for me to get off.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (cHOHf)

97 Wow, I'm amazed. I thought he'd die in office like Feinstein.

You're not wrong yet.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (/y8xj)

98 @68 hicky from a space chick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (3qNrw)

99 Speaking of Star Trek FX I like how in TOS they looked like greasy humans, but when they finally got some budget in TNG they looked like...Worf.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (t0Rmr)

100 >>What happened to Captain Pike's face?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM

Failure to moisturize.

Posted by: huerfano at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (n2swS)

101 George
@BehizyTweets

This woman is divorcing her husband because he booed Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl.

"I still don't think he believes me. But he might want to start because I just filed my paperwork at the courthouse... I have loved Taylor Alison Swift since I was 12 years old."

"When they put Taylor up on the Jumbotron, all of his buddies started booing, and my husband joined in. And that just tells me everything I need to know about that man because he didn't care that that would hurt my feelings. He just wanted to fit in with his boys. He didn't even care."

"Thankfully, I have a prenup. I'll be retaining all of my assets as well as the assets that I inherited with peace and love. He probably will not be returning to the Super Bowl anytime soon, so that's one less booer for you, Taylor, I love you."

For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist.

https://tinyurl.com/3xayhkzs

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (TGPs7)

102 Watching Trump work is like the Godfather movie. He's settling all the family business.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (pLaQB)

Every morning I look through Whitehouse.gov at the Presidential Actions section.

It is like a touch of cacao and nutmeg sprinkles on my Macciato of a morning.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (D7oie)

103 Has he done to Kentucky what McCain did to Arizona? I assume so. How will Kentuckians find a legitimate replacement while fighting his machine?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (lFFaq)

104
That green chick sat on it?

Space Herpes is no joke

Posted by: Some Ice Pirate at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (t0Rmr)

105 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

I appreciate the fellow bringing these comments over, but I just skip over them now. I tired of DU
And I could probably guess at most of the inane things they say. Who's funding them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (yRxuK)

106 I look forward to seeing who he endorses in the primary, so I can vote against them. I'd vote against MYSELF if Mitch thought I was the best man for the job.

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (rM26B)

107 For once, I am speechless.

Apparently not.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (xCA6C)

108 93 Kentucky and NC suck ass. How do you elect Democrat governors in this environment? You also have the Florida legislature, of all places selling out along with the Texas GOP.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (7TdnZ)

=======

Mark Robinson in NC...was an awful candidate.

I make fun of the whole "quality candidate" line, but Robinson was awful.

He took down the entire GOP at the state level with him. Not one Republican won a statewide seat last year.

And it's not like it was almost all Democrat before. It was almost all Republican before except the governor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

109 Maybe DOGE should audit the NSRC.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (7TdnZ)

110 Trumps wants to abolish the IRS

As we know, this is a much cherished institution beloved by all Americans, and the existential threat Trump poses to this most honorable of government agencies will absolutely lead to a crash in his approval ratings and the downfall of his legacy

Posted by: Said No One, Ever, in Any Multiverse or Reality at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (HYKHz)

111 Does Mitch's wife run for his seat?

Posted by: mr tmz at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (rJ48h)

112 Again, maybe the state GOP can figure out how old Beshear keeps getting elected Governor when every other statwide office is held by a Republican.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

He was soooo good during the floods.
-KY voter
Posted by: BruceWayne
__________

Name recognition. A bunch of people probably thought they were voting for his daddy again.

Posted by: Hector Salamanca at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (wzjSy)

113 Capt Pike shouldn't have tried to kiss my new magloop antenna. He FAFOed.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (5xgzq)

114 110 Trumps wants to abolish the IRS

As we know, this is a much cherished institution beloved by all Americans, and the existential threat Trump poses to this most honorable of government agencies will absolutely lead to a crash in his approval ratings and the downfall of his legacy
Posted by: Said No One, Ever, in Any Multiverse or Reality at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (HYKHz)

======

Schumer actually warned America that Trump might get rid of the IRS like it was a bad thing.

In public.

In a speech.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

115 >>>How did Pike communicate with just three lights? This continues to distress me.

1) Yes
2) No
3) Beer me up
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

0 - no
1 - yes
2 - beer me up
3 - change my space diapers
4 - bring me a cute green alien chick
5 - slap wesley
6 - throw wesley out airlock
7 - just drop me off on Talis IV already!

Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (cduTK)

116 That’s a shame. A real shame.

That he’ll stay till 2027, I mean.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (azYEh)

117 Whoops, that was too fakey to be true, but you never know these days...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (TGPs7)

118 Thankfully, I have a prenup

-

Hahaha

She has never not been spending a man's money.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (/9z5W)

119 How did Pike communicate with just one light? This continues to distress me.

You know what should really distress you? The Federation had FTL travel, transporter technology, the ability to conjure just about anything out of thin air... the ability to cure almost anything, the ability to hook Pike up to the light - but only to that one light. What were they afraid he'd reveal?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (ExV1e)

120 From wiki:

At some point prior to the two-part episode "The Menagerie", set in the year 2267, Pike is promoted to fleet captain. He is severely injured while rescuing several cadets from a baffle plate rupture on board a J-class training vessel, the delta ray radiation leaving him paralyzed, unable to speak, badly scarred, and using a brainwave-operated wheelchair for mobility. His only means of communicating is through a light on the chair: one flash meaning "yes" and two flashes indicating "no".

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (t0Rmr)

121 @86

>>I think Cameron had two problems. He was black which did not play well in E.

No, I reject this, Cameron got over 900k votes as AG, he got 630k votes for Governor.

As I've noted, the max cieling for a Donk in Ky is around 800k or so votes, the max GOP is 1.3M votes, so why would GOP voters be on fire to elect Cameron as AG, but not Governor?

It doesn't make sense, I truly believe GOPe malfeasance was at play here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (XV/Pl)

122 Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (TGPs7)

She was clearly "out there" before he started booing Taylor Swift. He's better off without her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (yRxuK)

123 Too busy trying to get into Nurse Chapel's space uniform at the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)

Apparently he did her in the "wrong order" when he did finally get into her space suit. Gave her nasty infections as a result.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (ufFY8)

124 "indispensable men."

Indeed, until they are not.
Fauxahontas is indispensable due to her tribal knowledge...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

125 Again, maybe the state GOP can figure out how old Beshear keeps getting elected Governor when every other statwide office is held by a Republican.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

By the state GOP sucking hard?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

Missouri would do the same thing. The state Gopes would nominate some idiot, and the Dems would nominate someone who looks normal.

That's how you got Jay Nixon during the Mike Brown riots, and before that, Mel Carnahan (and then The Widow Carnahan, when Mel was running for the Senate right before his plane did a Kobe).

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (dGCAG)

126 I really, REALLY want a full blown investigation into how all these politicians got so rich in office.
Posted by: Archimedes

Exactly! TPTB will endlessly investigate a self-made billionnaire who earned everything in the private sector, e.g., President Trump, but totally ignore senators and congressmen making millions on a less than $200k/yr salary.

Take it all down with a wrecking ball.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (KH0i+)

127 Your legacy will be one of disgrace, for you betrayed the very oath of office as a senator-that is, to defend our country from enemies within and outside. Any accolades afforded you will be cheers of relief because your consumption of oxygen will end and be given to the likes of valuable human beings.

-

That guy is approaching Ace levels of cruelty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (CEAEi)

128 The law is being changed to a special election, but Beshear is still saying that it's in violation of the state constitution.

I think Beshear will win any court fight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Not necessarily. KY Sup. Ct. is elected and they could split the baby (not wanting to piss off voters as Beshear is done as gov (term limits). You might get a split the baby decision where a vacancy exists when Mitch steps down so Beshears get an appt until the special election result is announced. That technically meets with approval of the KY Constitution without overriding the state legislature or its voters.

Courts like to do that shit.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (ctrM5)

129 I finally got my official a&p card. I passed on Jan 3. Faa slow rolling everything these days.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (MGB5H)

130 McConnell, like Biden, probably has no idea what's going on anymore. His seat is controlled by a regent or regents, but we don't know who that is.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (xCA6C)

131 So when are the congressional wheelchair races?
Posted by: wth

Every evening, when the call to Happy Hour goes out.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (wVNP5)

132 90 What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker
.......
That green chick sat on it?
Posted by: wth

Pike! Was it....worth it!?!?

Pike- Beep.

Posted by: Captain Kirk at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz)

133 Axshully, any glowing commentary re McConnell from the GOPe peanut gallery will be affixing targets on their melons. Let em talk IMO.

Posted by: Cracked Corn? Eh, who cares..... - Jimmy at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (Fgjlh)

134 my theory is that mcconnell blocked garland before the election in 2016 as a fund raising trick to be followed by pres elect hillary calling for the senate to vote and mcconnell would have let garland go through. i mean, watching hillary lose was a happy day for most (probably all) of us but did we think think trump was gonna win?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (CWTWj)

135 121 No, I reject this, Cameron got over 900k votes as AG, he got 630k votes for Governor.

As I've noted, the max cieling for a Donk in Ky is around 800k or so votes, the max GOP is 1.3M votes, so why would GOP voters be on fire to elect Cameron as AG, but not Governor?

It doesn't make sense, I truly believe GOPe malfeasance was at play here.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (XV/Pl)

======

I'm sure that the machine did things.

But I don't think the Lt. Gov to Gov comparison is ever very good.

Lt. Gov is like voting for Vice President, even if the vote is separate. It's largely a blind, purely partisan choice and has little to nothing to do with individual candidates. Governor is not that, it's the centerpiece of the campaign and more reliant on things like personality of the candidates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

136 How did Pike communicate with just one light? This continues to distress me.

1 blink yes
2 blinks no
3 blinks go f### yourself you Klingon whore.

Posted by: Clay at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (aARAx)

137 126 Hear, hear!

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (5xgzq)

138 125 Again, maybe the state GOP can figure out how old Beshear keeps getting elected Governor when every other statwide office is held by a Republican.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

By the state GOP sucking hard?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

Missouri would do the same thing. The state Gopes would nominate some idiot, and the Dems would nominate someone who looks normal.

That's how you got Jay Nixon during the Mike Brown riots, and before that, Mel Carnahan (and then The Widow Carnahan, when Mel was running for the Senate right before his plane did a Kobe).

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (dGCAG)

I live in a state where the GOP is all but non-existent...Dems have a supermajority in the state legislature, have all the top elective executive spots...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

139 Mark Robinson in NC...was an awful candidate.

-

I halfway think he was controlled opposition or part of the op. Maybe USAID related at some point.

He conceded seconds after the polls closed (maybe even before) with something like 17% of the votes in.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (/9z5W)

140 In public. In a speech.

************************

The left has top men resisting Trump.

Top. Men.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (HYKHz)

141 It's like I've always said, power is like heroin to these people.

Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (mADJX)

142 He announced this previously. I suspect the goal here is to have the "corruption search" concentrate on those remaining to do damage. He thinks he can live out his sundown years without concern if he removes himself from the game as he won't be a priority.

Make no mistake, Uncle Turtle has been in thick with the Chinese (and likely other parties). His extended family has benefited greatly from his influence. I suspect that he is hoping Trump won't focus on him if he's gone. I think he's mistaken. I think Trump wants to make an example of Mitch.

Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (dIske)

143 Does Mitch's wife run for his seat?
Posted by: mr tmz at February 20, 2025 01:29 PM (rJ48h)

I think she spends all her days lately over in Peking, sucking on Winnie Xi Pooh's dick.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (dGCAG)

144 The announcement comes after a series of health scares for McConnell, who has frozen up during statements to the public on multiple occasions.

His office never provided an explanation for the episodes.

I think the most obvious conclusion is that Hunter Biden was giving him drugs and secretly master-minding the entire United States government.

Whatever it is, we certainly know isn't a group of powerful, unelected individuals that have been running our government from the shadows.

My money is on the crack-addled retardate Hunter Biden as the super-secret mastermind.

Posted by: The Lies Never Stop at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (YIND9)

145 His refusal to allow President Obama to seat a Supreme Court Justice went a long way towards getting us where we are today.

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

"lol gf"

-- Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (5eIfF)

146 >>>>>>so that's one less booer for you, Taylor, I love you."

For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist
***********
That dude is going to be way better off soon..

Posted by: Cosda at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (RlASQ)

147 139 I halfway think he was controlled opposition or part of the op. Maybe USAID related at some point.

He conceded seconds after the polls closed (maybe even before) with something like 17% of the votes in.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (/9z5W)

======

He lost by 14 points. It wasn't close.

He was an abortion abolitionist absolutist, and the ads were all over the radio for months, mostly just using his own words.

And then there was the online comments stuff on top of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

148 I have no idea what that picture is from. I guess I’m just not as big a nerd as you guys.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (azYEh)

149 According to South Park, Pike's light had two signals:
1 beep - yes
2 beeps - yes yes

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (CwhoI)

150 What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker

Darth Vader hit it with a lightsaber. Pike's lucky he survived.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

151 Campaigning against the IRS/income tax should be a no brainer

The people that have to deal with income taxes HATE the IRS. The people that don't deal with the IRS - the FSA/elites don't care

So there is almost no downside to it...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)

152 "I think Cameron had two problems. He was black which did not play well in E. Kentucky possibly"

Good, ol' eastern Kentucky....

Posted by: SFGoth at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (KAi1n)

153 Robinson was a terrible candidate and the NC GOP are a bunch of idiot sellouts.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (7TdnZ)

154 I live in a state where the GOP is all but non-existent...Dems have a supermajority in the state legislature, have all the top elective executive spots...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

You live in Wyoming?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (dGCAG)

155 Oh, won't you give me three beeps, gimme three beeps, mister
Gimme three beeps towards Talos IV?
Gimme three beeps, gimme three beeps, mister
And you'll never see me no more
For sho!

Posted by: Captain Lynyrd Pike at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (Aqu9a)

156 Captain Pike, do you like big butts?

*beeeeep*

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (0HaGk)

157 He thinks he can live out his sundown years without concern if he removes himself from the game as he won't be a priority.

If that were true, he would have voted for all of Trump's noms. He didn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (xCA6C)

158 150 What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker

Darth Vader hit it with a lightsaber. Pike's lucky he survived.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

Happened in the forests of Gondor

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

159 According to South Park, Pike's light had two signals:
1 beep - yes
2 beeps - yes yes
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (CwhoI)
---
I thought that was in Futurama...

"Two beeps? Double 'Yes'!" -- Captain Zapp Brannigan

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (7fElN)

160 How would we tell the difference between Mitch and a Democrat backbencher?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Walking without falling down, a coherent sentence once in a while. That kind of thing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (tT6L1)

161 How did Pike communicate with just one light? This continues to distress me.

sounds perfectly cromulent to me

Posted by: samuel morse at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (oY6Yp)

162 How did Pike communicate with just one light? This continues to distress me.
.....

Beep. > yes
Beep beep. > no
Beep beep beep. > I just pooped

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (HgMAr)

163 #6 Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?
------------------------

Mainly because the plot required Capt. Pike to be unable to communicate. If he'd been able to simply *tell* everyone what was going on and what Spock was up to, the "wrapper" storyline they used to recycle the original pilot episode wouldn't work.

Realistically, yes -- even if 23rd-century medical science wasn't yet able to actually tap into Pike's brain and give him an artificial voice, there's no reason he shouldn't have been able to at *least* blink the light in Morse Code to communicate something more than just "yes" and "no".

Posted by: The Nth Doctor at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (vWw36)

164 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

How are you, Man?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

165 What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker

Darth Vader hit it with a lightsaber. Pike's lucky he survived.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)
---
When "slapping a hot iron on it" goes horribly wrong...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (7fElN)

166 He lost by 14 points. It wasn't close

-

Yep. You'd almost have to try to do that during MAGA year.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (/9z5W)

167 Darth Vader hit it with a lightsaber. Pike's lucky he survived.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

Nah. These days Vader can run you through with a light saber twice and you're fine.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (MGB5H)

168 Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

That would have removed any reason to go AWOL and return Pike to the planet where they could give him illusionary health and hot chicks.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (n7h9X)

169 I doubt it. He already said he probably wouldn't run. OTOH, it's Bernie, so who knows?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:21 PM (xCA6C)

He'll start thinking about onesies and teacher salaries and the like and realize that he's indispensable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (ExV1e)

170 South Park had a funny take on the Pike thing when their severely burned teacher was asked a question and she beeped twice, which they interpreted as "Yes. Yes."

Posted by: Wally at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (NXYp1)

171 the whole "humbled and honored to serve" schtick is so cringy, as if it isn't one of the most cushy jobs around

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (V6W16)

172 No better time than now to push through age and term limits!

Posted by: Joe at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (rzwGB)

173 156 Captain Pike, do you like big butts?

*beeeeep*

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (0HaGk)

If they could modulate the length of the beeps, he could do Morse code...

D.R.I.N.K..M.O.R.E...O.V.A.L.T.I.N.E...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (ynpvh)

174 Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

How did your interviews go, or the second one hasn’t happened yet?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (GjtnD)

175
Pike had one light, but spoke binary.

"Graveyards" remark I believe, was Napoleons'.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (j4U/Z)

176 The accusation against Robinson was that he posted on pron sites right?

What an odd accusation. Theoretically the pron sites have the IP the post came from and you can probably tie that down to where the comment actually came from.

I noticed none of the local FNM actually did that so I assume it was all made up.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)

177 He's been a senator for four decades, yet he's a multimillionaire. How'd you swing that on a government salary, Mitch?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2025 01:22 PM (2UnvF)

Probably doesn't hurt that his wife's family is really rich.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (ExV1e)

178 164 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

How are you, Man?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

I am alive, and I wear a shit bag to prove it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh)

179 It's like I've always said, power is like heroin to these people.
Posted by: Paco

More like coke. If it were heroin, they'd mostly be harmless. Heroin addicts are really only harmful when they need their fix. When they're drooling on themselves in ecstasy, they're mostly harmless.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (KAi1n)

180 171 the whole "humbled and honored to serve" schtick is so cringy, as if it isn't one of the most cushy jobs around

That's what he said, but the thought bubble above his head said "I loathe all of you, you little toads".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (xCA6C)

181 "It's like I've always said, power is like heroin to these people.
Posted by: Paco"

Like fame. Senators hang on to power like has been actors doing Celebrity Fat Camp.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (0HaGk)

182 I can't ever recall McConnell being even fake "humble".

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (2NXcZ)

183 How did your interviews go, or the second one hasn’t happened yet?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I thought they both went well. Cautiously optimistic.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

184 I have no idea how Cameron lost. He seemed like a very good candidate and did some great things as AG.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (7TdnZ)

185 176 The accusation against Robinson was that he posted on pron sites right?

What an odd accusation. Theoretically the pron sites have the IP the post came from and you can probably tie that down to where the comment actually came from.

I noticed none of the local FNM actually did that so I assume it was all made up.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)

========

That, plus the supposed content like he was calling himself a black Nazi.

The dude was toast before it, to be honest. The Democrats already had him beat, and they probably just went with both barrels in the end because they had gone through the effort of putting it together.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

186 Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?

-

I never could figure out why they didn't just run him through the transporter where a clean copy of his system was in the records.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (/9z5W)

187 164 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

How are you, Man?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

I am alive, and I wear a shit bag to prove it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh)

That's the spirit!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (Aqu9a)

188 Well.
Bye.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (Hkcdp)

189 120 He is severely injured while rescuing several cadets from a baffle plate rupture on board a J-class training vessel, the delta ray radiation leaving him paralyzed, unable to speak, badly scarred, and using a brainwave-operated wheelchair for mobility

could've been worse

Posted by: arnold j. rimmer, bsc ssc at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (oY6Yp)

190 I am alive, and I wear a shit bag to prove it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Man, I'm sorry. Hope it's only temporary?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

191 One beep , Vasily, one beep only

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (3qNrw)

192 For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist.

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Next you'll be telling me that she's still wearing a mask ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (YOjqC)

193 "humbled and honored to serve"
.....

Go get me another beer, Mitch.

Beep.

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (HgMAr)

194 We did give you Thom Tillis. You're welcome.

Posted by: NC GOP at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (cHOHf)

195 Paraphrasing:

Indispensable is like trying not to go broke.

All of a sudden, you're not.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (JkCto)

196 Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

.Prayers will continue

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (GjtnD)

197 I SEE FOUR BLINKS !

Posted by: Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (7Q0e+)

198 Real federal time is on the horizon, fish.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (QSrLX)

199 Way and Means Committee, House dot gov

IRS Unlawfully Delays & Rewrites Democrats’ 1099-K Policy Again, November 26, 2024
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No idea what's going on there but PDT's Administration needs to make sure it's not a trap where it's setup to be dragged into a gig worker taxpayer war right off the start.

Clear definitions are needed.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (NFX2v)

200 Power has to be the ultimate drug

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (fwDg9)

201 190 I am alive, and I wear a shit bag to prove it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Man, I'm sorry. Hope it's only temporary?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

Supposedly. We'll see in June if that's so.
If not, it'll still be temporary, just much longer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

202 I SEE FOUR BLINKS !

Wtf, Vasily?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (xCA6C)

203 -.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .

Posted by: Capt. Ralphie Pike at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (DsA2n)

204 Ace- I know how much you love Tom Friedman. He just did an interview (?) with the New York Times to discuss Trump's foreign policy activities, as Friedman is an "expert" in the field. https://tinyurl.com/2sz2r5dn

Two points of note:

5:48- Friedman calls the EU mankind's greatest creation, and explains why

9:43- when trying to figure out why Trump is "folding" to Putin, when Putin is losing and Trump has a winning hand, Friedman says Putin, in the US, would be a natural Proud Boy Trump supporter, so maybe Trump senses that and is helping him as a kindred spirit?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

205 Next up, Susan Collins who won’t vote to confirm Kash Patel. She shakes so much when she speaks, she could be rented out as a blender.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (7TdnZ)

That's righteous indignation. -- Suzie Collins

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

206 McConnell, like Biden, probably has no idea what's going on anymore. His seat is controlled by a regent or regents, but we don't know who that is.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:31 PM (xCA6C)

Well his staffers for a start. See who they have worked with before.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (n7h9X)

207
Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

And even in NTG Geordie can't use his eyes, and Picard is bald. Surely Roddenberry thought about that. Whales from the past riding on the Enterprise, yeah, a cure for pattern baldness, no way?

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (2NXcZ)

208 That's the spirit!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2025 01:39 PM (Aqu9a)

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You're killin' me today, Count.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (YOjqC)

209 How did Pike communicate with just three lights?
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0 - no
1 - yes
2 - beer me up
3 - change my space diapers
4 - bring me a cute green alien chick
5 - slap wesley
6 - throw wesley out airlock
7 - just drop me off on Talis IV already!

"There are 10 kinds of people..."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (/y8xj)

210 147 139 I halfway think he was controlled opposition or part of the op. Maybe USAID related at some point.

He conceded seconds after the polls closed (maybe even before) with something like 17% of the votes in.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (/9z5W)

======

He lost by 14 points. It wasn't close.

He was an abortion abolitionist absolutist, and the ads were all over the radio for months, mostly just using his own words.

And then there was the online comments stuff on top of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Dems ran the table on NC statewide races except for President and possibly the partisan NC Scotus seat (same late fraudulent votes possibly to put the Dem on top).

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)

211 Yeah, having a wife who is a Chinese shipping heiress helps.
No doubt probably passing legislation that makes that family business flourish would help even more.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (Hkcdp)

212
I never could figure out why they didn't just run him through the transporter where a clean copy of his system was in the records.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (/9z5W)

I've always thought the transporter could be used to maintain perfect health.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (kTd/k)

213 So what is everyone's take on the reason these monsters are pushing us all to "electric". Is it simply a direct pocket liner? Influence peddling? Is it control via eventual rationing? Degradation of the country to help our enemies?

I know the answer is all of the above but if you had to take only one what do you think is the main motivator? Is it something I missed?

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (lX8VI)

214 Thomas Massie would make a fine replacement for Mitch.

Posted by: The Lies Never Stop at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (YIND9)

215 If that were true, he would have voted for all of Trump's noms. He didn't.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 01:34 PM (xCA6C)
______________________________

I think that was to give Thune cover. Trying to impress upon Trump that Thune was in his corner, when, in fact, he is not...which will rear it's ugly head at the most inopportune moment. Thune is McConnell's apprentice.

Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (dIske)

216 OMG Jim. Best wishes.

Posted by: wth at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (HgMAr)

217 Prayers will continue
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks, Fen.

I have another virtual interview next Wednesday (different company from today's interviews).

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:42 PM (77rzZ)

218 What happened to Captain Pike's face?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (kTd/k)

Masturbation, kids. Not even once.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:42 PM (ExV1e)

219 210 Dems ran the table on NC statewide races except for President and possibly the partisan NC Scotus seat (same late fraudulent votes possibly to put the Dem on top).
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)

=======

And the GOP lost its supermajority in the legislator. It's now only nearly a supermajority.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

220 203 -.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .

Posted by: Capt. Ralphie Pike at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (DsA2n)

-... . . .--. / -... . . .--.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:42 PM (ynpvh)

221
"Thankfully, I have a prenup. I'll be retaining all of my assets as well as the assets that I inherited with peace and love. He probably will not be returning to the Super Bowl anytime soon, so that's one less booer for you, Taylor, I love you."

For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist.

https://tinyurl.com/3xayhkzs

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (TGPs7)

++++

And the gods rained down fortunes upon you, Mr. Fiance.
Hope you know how lucky you are.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 20, 2025 01:42 PM (C53IZ)

222 I am alive, and I wear a shit bag to prove it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh)

You should run it for KY Senator.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 01:42 PM (i24o9)

223
17 yr old Serial Swatter was sentenced to prison!

For, wait for it...

4 whole years!

California "justice."

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 01:43 PM (pM4iv)

224 171 the whole "humbled and honored to serve" schtick is so cringy, as if it isn't one of the most cushy jobs around

Akshully, what he means is that We should be humbled and honored that he served.

Worthless POS.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 20, 2025 01:43 PM (KH0i+)

225 Cameron is already throwing his hat in the ring to replace Mitch. Congressman Andy Barr as well.

Patel vote supposed to be at 1:45.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 01:43 PM (3qNrw)

226 The first rule of Fight Club should have been "You are replaceable".

Posted by: puhleaze at February 20, 2025 01:43 PM (bbuBP)

227 Next up, Susan Collins who won’t vote to confirm Kash Patel. She shakes so much when she speaks, she could be rented out as a blender.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:24 PM (7TdnZ)

That's righteous indignation. -- Suzie Collins
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

The secret there is to get control of the selection of candidates from GOPe and start running candidates people can connect with. Then fund a serious campaign, both of which McConnell never did. If we get another clump of Senators from MAGA in Collins becomes a nonentity. Then reduce her budget for influence to near 0.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (n7h9X)

228
They say he is responsible for over 300 "swats," including FBI and Supreme Court.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (pM4iv)

229 Yeah, you might think that NC would have better processes to prevent electoral fraud. Meanwhile they don’t even comply in many counties with voter roll maintenance. I have no doubt that Robinson lost, but there were a lot of statewide shenanigans that put Dems over the line in more than one race. They’ve become California with worse weather.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (7TdnZ)

230 That, plus the supposed content like he was calling himself a black Nazi.

The dude was toast before it, to be honest. The Democrats already had him beat, and they probably just went with both barrels in the end because they had gone through the effort of putting it together.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think Robinson, to some degree was setup by the GOPe faction in NC politics with the pron allegations. Instantly a lot of Robinson staffers publicly left the campaign and called him to pull out.

Tillis and the last minute allegations against Hegseth comes to mind.

I think he had an uphill battle to win before then but GOPe got the bat signal to abandon him (and the rest of the GOP statewide ticket for races like AG, etc.).

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

231 Supposedly. We'll see in June if that's so.
If not, it'll still be temporary, just much longer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Prayer up, Jim.

Germaphobe that I am, I can't imagine what it's like to have a colostomy bag. Awful.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

232 209 How did Pike communicate with just three lights?
-----
0 - no
1 - yes
2 - beer me up
3 - change my space diapers
4 - bring me a cute green alien chick
5 - slap wesley
6 - throw wesley out airlock
7 - just drop me off on Talis IV already!

"There are 10 kinds of people..."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (/y8xj)

so 5 & 6...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

233 I know the answer is all of the above but if you had to take only one what do you think is the main motivator? Is it something I missed?

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (lX8VI)

It's always about control and money. They want them and want you to have none. That's 95+ % of it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (i24o9)

234 209 How did Pike communicate with just three lights?
-----
0 - no
1 - yes
2 - beer me up
3 - change my space diapers
4 - bring me a cute green alien chick
5 - slap wesley
6 - throw wesley out airlock
7 - just drop me off on Talis IV already!

"There are 10 kinds of people..."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (/y8xj)

It stinks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

235 NBA can't catch a break. Wemby shut down for rest of season with deep vein thrombosis.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (rJ48h)

236 Being transported mid coitus would be interesting.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (kTd/k)

237 230 I think Robinson, to some degree was setup by the GOPe faction in NC politics with the pron allegations. Instantly a lot of Robinson staffers publicly left the campaign and called him to pull out.

Tillis and the last minute allegations against Hegseth comes to mind.

I think he had an uphill battle to win before then but GOPe got the bat signal to abandon him (and the rest of the GOP statewide ticket for races like AG, etc.).
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

======

Maybe.

But I think the abortion stuff probably affected things more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

238
correction: he's 18 yrs old, now

4 years

Four Fucking Years.

The "judge" in this case should get 400 years.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (pM4iv)

239 Whenever the twisted old demon dies, I recommend an abbreviated State funeral. Trump can have his driver take the Beast through the Cumberlands, and then chuck his carcass off a steep embankment from the moving car. Kentucky gets its garbage back. Done and done.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (BI5O2)

240 And even in NTG Geordie can't use his eyes, and Picard is bald. Surely Roddenberry thought about that. Whales from the past riding on the Enterprise, yeah, a cure for pattern baldness, no way?
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted

I knew a woman who thought Picard was the sexiest thing ever. Bald guys get the chicks.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

241 AoS Jims are good peoples.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (Aqu9a)

242 213
The Control of electricity means you also control almost all of modern life with the click of a switch. However, I am sure none of our masters ever considered that feature!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (hOUT3)

243 231 Supposedly. We'll see in June if that's so.
If not, it'll still be temporary, just much longer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Prayer up, Jim.

Germaphobe that I am, I can't imagine what it's like to have a colostomy bag. Awful.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

Copy/Paste error. i'll try again.

It stinks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (uVuHg)

244 How old is Susan Collins now?
And why won’t she vote for Kash???

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (Hkcdp)

245 NBA can't catch a break. Wemby shut down for rest of season with deep vein thrombosis.
Posted by: mr tmz at February 20, 2025 01:45 PM (rJ48h)

Oh no

Anyway

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (MGB5H)

246 Well, at least Mitt Romney is gone.

I haven't heard a peep from him in months.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (6ydKt)

247 >> Cameron is already throwing his hat in the ring to replace Mitch. Congressman Andy Barr as well.

He couldn’t even in statewide office. But he’s gonna run for senator. Sounds like a hard no. It’s a Kari Lake situation.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (7TdnZ)

248 225 I've got Patel Pudding ready to serve!

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (5xgzq)

249
You know who else should get prison time?

All the SWAT Teams who keep falling for these "pranks."

Fucking Idiots.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (pM4iv)

250 As a North Carolinian, I am also baffled by the ability of Democrats to keep winning the gubernatorial race, although, this last time around, I have to agree that Mark Robinson turned out to be a bad choice. But some of our GOP senators have been no bargain, either (Thom Tillis, still in office - btw, who the hell spells "Tom" that way? - and the execrable Richard Burr - former lawn mower salesman and Democrat Senator Mark Warner's cat's paw - who retired last year).

With respect to my former home, Fairfax, VA, I'm hoping that a lot of the donks in Northern Virginia get sucked down the pipes in the general swamp draining. I believe this could have very positive effects in making Virginia red again.

Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (mADJX)

251 And even in NTG Geordie can't use his eyes, and Picard is bald. Surely Roddenberry thought about that. Whales from the past riding on the Enterprise, yeah, a cure for pattern baldness, no way?

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (2NXcZ)

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Even Data had hair and was "fully functional."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (YOjqC)

252 I think that was to give Thune cover. Trying to impress upon Trump that Thune was in his corner, when, in fact, he is not...which will rear it's ugly head at the most inopportune moment. Thune is McConnell's apprentice.
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (dIske)

Not anymore. Not sure if he's Trumps guy, but the process of getting Trump's people in went smoothly enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (n7h9X)

253 For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist.
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They don't. It's performance art.

Readers added context: The woman in the video is Louisa Melcher, a social media storyteller best known for her elaborate (and fabricated) stories.
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The prenup for inherited stuff was kind of a giveaway!

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (lX8VI)

254 Dennis Miller's line applies to Collins: her head shakes like Katherine Hepburn's in a helicopter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (3qNrw)

255 I've always thought the transporter could be used to maintain perfect health.

It doesn't work like you think it does unfortunately

Posted by: Robert "The Great Danton" Angier at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (t0Rmr)

256 240 I knew a woman who thought Picard was the sexiest thing ever. Bald guys get the chicks.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

======

I saw a tweet from a woman.

It was in response to Pete Davidson's new look. He stopped drinking and drugs (at least as much). He spent $200K on tattoo removal. He's got muscles.

The woman said, "When he looked like he was on the tail end of a 5 day bender and scrawny, I was a thirst trap for him. But now?"

Women are weird, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

257 248 225 I've got Patel Pudding ready to serve!

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (5xgzq)

Sounds spicy. Curry-flavored?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (uVuHg)

258 He couldn’t even in statewide office. But he’s gonna run for senator. Sounds like a hard no. It’s a Kari Lake situation.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (7TdnZ

He won AG handily.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (MGB5H)

259 52 Can you image the funeral proceedings for Cocaine Mitch? Is McCain's over yet?
Posted by: Darth Randall

Sadly, we don't have an over-the-top GOPer to turn it into a Paul Welstone-like fiasco. Like Lindsay Graham or Paul Ryan could pull off some theatrical, emotional meltdown. Boehner could meltdown and cry, but only if he were drunk first.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

260 You know who else is from Kentucky? Puffy Scamper. I hope she runs, just for the comedic value.

Posted by: Wally at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (NXYp1)

261 I think that was to give Thune cover. Trying to impress upon Trump that Thune was in his corner, when, in fact, he is not...which will rear it's ugly head at the most inopportune moment. Thune is McConnell's apprentice.
Posted by: Orson
========
Never count on loyalty in politics even in the same party. None of them in the Senate are really friends if it is time to cut someone loose on the ice floes.

Thune might well enough think ole Mitch deserves the glue factory. Also some scuttle butt about Thune wanting to return to South Dakota to run for governor in about two years as his wife has apparently had enough of DC.

So, basically it is like the Vatican politics--opaque to all but the insiders.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (ctrM5)

262 255 I've always thought the transporter could be used to maintain perfect health.

It doesn't work like you think it does unfortunately

Posted by: Robert "The Great Danton" Angier at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (t0Rmr)

Transporters are murder machines.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (uVuHg)

263 Not necessarily. KY Sup. Ct. is elected and they could split the baby (not wanting to piss off voters as Beshear is done as gov (term limits). You might get a split the baby decision where a vacancy exists when Mitch steps down so Beshears get an appt until the special election result is announced. That technically meets with approval of the KY Constitution without overriding the state legislature or its voters.

Courts like to do that shit.
Posted by: whig
__________

Long shot. The KY supreme court, no matter who has been on it, has a long history of expansive interpretation of the state constitution against the general assembly. They are especially broad with the separation of powers provisions.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (wzjSy)

264 257 Tastes like chai.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (5xgzq)

265 The woman said, "When he looked like he was on the tail end of a 5 day bender and scrawny, I was a thirst trap for him. But now?"

Women are weird, man.

Bad boys are "hot", normal stable guys are not, to a certain class of women

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (t0Rmr)

266 As a sage said, the graveyards are filled with self-styled "indispensable men."
_______________

Charles deGaulle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (YqDXo)

267 I've always thought the transporter could be used to maintain perfect health.

Help....
Help me....

Posted by: The Fly at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (DsA2n)

268 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (i24o9)

Control and money. Why did it have to be control and money.

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (lX8VI)

269 >> He won AG handily.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (MGB5H)

Yeah but he got clobbered for governor. AG isnt all that hard to win with a decent campaign and coattails.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (7TdnZ)

270 If it hasn't already been said, the Democrat governor will appoint a D Senator if Mitch steps down.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (4dRXe)

271 But some of our GOP senators have been no bargain, either (Thom Tillis, still in office - btw, who the hell spells "Tom" that way?

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

I always think of "Thom Thumb" when I see it.

And who names their son "Strom?"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (YOjqC)

272 So what is everyone's take on the reason these monsters are pushing us all to "electric". Is it simply a direct pocket liner? Influence peddling? Is it control via eventual rationing? Degradation of the country to help our enemies?

I know the answer is all of the above but if you had to take only one what do you think is the main motivator? Is it something I missed?
Posted by: ...

The planet can support less than half of its current population without oil and gas. They did the math, and see something they like.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 01:50 PM (CEAEi)

273 McConnell's former CoS now works for Brownstein in DC

Former chief of staff to former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Deep knowledge of the Department of the Treasury’s regulatory process. Bridges the private sector and the Republican conference through smart, measured political communication.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 01:50 PM (2NXcZ)

274
For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist.

https://tinyurl.com/3xayhkzs
Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 20, 2025 01:28 PM (TGPs7)

It's a bit. Not real.chick does bits none of it is true.

Posted by: Dandolo at February 20, 2025 01:50 PM (3QsZU)

275 Karoline Leavitt is such a babe.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 01:50 PM (ufFY8)

276 Control is the main motivation for the push for electric. Heating oil is filled at home, gas is filled into your car, but electric is from a central source.

Even with solar charging for cars, you can only get so far and then hours of downtime to charge .

It controls movement, it controls how big your home is, it controls your ability to do things like cook a meal. All WEF style control.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (Hkcdp)

277 The planet can support less than half of its current population without oil and gas. They did the math, and see something they like.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 01:50 PM (CEAEi)

Yeah I feel like that's it too. But the direct pocket lining and influence peddling keeps it going.

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (lX8VI)

278 Bad boys are "hot", normal stable guys are not, to a certain class of women
Posted by: 18-1

The excellent YouTube channel hoe_math does an excellent job in breaking this down in a simple, amusing and effective way.
https://tinyurl.com/4fjwsm93

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (JCZqz)

279 And who names their son "Strom?"

The Boli family?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (KH0i+)

280 Mitch McConnell and the other octogenerians in congress make me want the Logan's Run solution to getting rid of these pants pooping, drooling, sleeping hangers-on to power assholes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (+oR7L)

281 271 But some of our GOP senators have been no bargain, either (Thom Tillis, still in office - btw, who the hell spells "Tom" that way?

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

I always think of "Thom Thumb" when I see it.

And who names their son "Strom?"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM (YOjqC)

It's German...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (uVuHg)

282 I halfway think he was controlled opposition or part of the op. Maybe USAID related at some point.

He conceded seconds after the polls closed (maybe even before) with something like 17% of the votes in.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:32 PM (/9z5W)

——-

He was elected in the primary fair and square. He won the Lt Gov position with the most votes in all the state in 2020. He was the favorite pick of the MAGA base. He threw out red meat 100% of the time. And he was a shitty pick and, best I can tell, didn’t even campaign in 2024.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (H9ZTk)

283 As a North Carolinian, I am also baffled by the ability of Democrats to keep winning the gubernatorial race, although, this last time around, I have to agree that Mark Robinson turned out to be a bad choice. But some of our GOP senators have been no bargain, either (Thom Tillis, still in office - btw, who the hell spells "Tom" that way? - and the execrable Richard Burr - former lawn mower salesman and Democrat Senator Mark Warner's cat's paw - who retired last year).

With respect to my former home, Fairfax, VA, I'm hoping that a lot of the donks in Northern Virginia get sucked down the pipes in the general swamp draining. I believe this could have very positive effects in making Virginia red again.
Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (mADJX)

You can usually count on Bribery and Corruption. McCainiacs are screwing up GOP wins in parts of AZ last 2 cycles. Atlanta overthrew Trump in 2000 due to collaboration with and suddently we find out 2 billion dollars is forked over to the area. Wanna bet there are some interesting USAID moneys going to the NC area the last few years?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (n7h9X)

284 Footage of the Senate asking for Mitch's vote
youtu.be/G-5UdjmRCwY

Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (gKWVE)

285 How did Pike communicate with just one light? This continues to distress me.

-- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . --..-- / -- .-. .-.-.- / --- .----. ... .--. .- -.. . ...

Posted by: Cap'n Pike at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (a3Q+t)

286 One stick cinnamon, tablespoon of cardamom, coupla cloves, black tea, and a gallon of Righteous Justice.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (5xgzq)

287 Bad boys are "hot", normal stable guys are not, to a certain class of women
Posted by: 18-1

I could get that with the jacked up biker but the scrawny druggie I don't get.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (MGB5H)

288 Karoline Leavitt is such a babe.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

You know your function here. What's she wearing?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

289 Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (Hkcdp)

Definitely. Is all of that secondary to full scale population reduction?

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (lX8VI)

290 There are all kinds of people who suck ass. But there are certain ones who I just have an instinctive urge to hurl into that eternally fiery chasm in Turkmenistan. Greta Thunberg is one. Mitch McConnell is another.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (BI5O2)

291 280 Mitch McConnell and the other octogenerians in congress make me want the Logan's Run solution to getting rid of these pants pooping, drooling, sleeping hangers-on to power assholes.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (+oR7L)

His former CoS came from Brownstein and returned better connected.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (2NXcZ)

292 Richard Burr

Dick burrs sound painful

Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2025 01:53 PM (gKWVE)

293 I think she spends all her days lately over in Peking, sucking on Winnie Xi Pooh's dick.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 01:33 PM (dGCAG)

She's from Taiwan so that seems unlikely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 01:53 PM (ExV1e)

294 Karoline Leavitt

Moo.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 20, 2025 01:53 PM (Cg/Hw)

295 "There are all kinds of people who suck ass. But there are certain ones who I just have an instinctive urge to hurl into that eternally fiery chasm in Turkmenistan. Greta Thunberg is one. Mitch McConnell is another.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice"

Mark Ruffalo.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (0HaGk)

296
For once, I am speechless. I can't believe people like this exist.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

You haven't been paying attention.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (63Dwl)

297 292 The internal cases are a bastard!

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (5xgzq)

298 230 - I think Robinson, to some degree was setup by the GOPe faction in NC politics with the pron allegations. Instantly a lot of Robinson staffers publicly left the campaign and called him to pull out.

Tillis and the last minute allegations against Hegseth comes to mind.

I think he had an uphill battle to win before then but GOPe got the bat signal to abandon him (and the rest of the GOP statewide ticket for races like AG, etc.). - whig

I wouldn't be surprised. It doesn't seem as if there was much vetting. I also seem to recollect that within a mere matter of a few days after the allegations were made, the press stopped pushing the stories about Robinson allegedly leaving comments on a pron site. The damage had been done, I suppose.

I think James Madison is right, too. Robinson's very conservative position probably alienated some of the so-called "moderate" Republicans, and, personally, I was floored when Robinson came out with an ad admitting that his own wife had had one.

Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (mADJX)

299 You would think Bones could give Pike some space ointment for that.
Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM

The formulary for Elizabeth Arden Hand & Todger Creme has been lost to history, I'm afraid. Sad!

Posted by: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

300 What I’m really worried about are some of the state level sellouts. In Florida the new GOP leader from Miami is going full amnesty and GOPe. I’m still worrying about Texas as well. Phelan and his clowns are still around. As business grows in the state, so does the Chamber of Commerce infection.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (7TdnZ)

301 I could get that with the jacked up biker but the scrawny druggie I don't get.

For Pete Davidson its pre-selection. Women see him with other beautiful women and assume he's bringing something to the table.

He mentioned at some point he was molested by his uncle, so I imagine he's got all sorts of mental issues he's been working through.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

302 292 Richard Burr

Dick burrs sound painful
Posted by: gKWVE

The Left gives Trump a lot of shit for "dodging" Vietnam because of bone spurs, but i think we would all support a waiver for someone with dick spurs.

He's suffered enough.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 01:55 PM (JCZqz)

303 Confirmation vote starting now

Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2025 01:55 PM (3ImbR)

304 299 You would think Bones could give Pike some space ointment for that.
Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 01:19 PM

The formulary for Elizabeth Arden Hand & Todger Creme has been lost to history, I'm afraid. Sad!

Posted by: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

Maybe it was a tattoo...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:55 PM (uVuHg)

305 >>> 260 You know who else is from Kentucky? Puffy Scamper. I hope she runs, just for the comedic value.
Posted by: Wally at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (NXYp1)

I thought she had already tried that, several years ago, and dropped out after people did mean things like question her sanity by quoting her. The 82 therapy dogs didn't help.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 20, 2025 01:55 PM (Vqx30)

306 "You would think Bones could give Pike some space ointment for that."

He should try the Gold Bond.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:55 PM (5xgzq)

307 Karoline Leavitt is such a babe.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

You know your function here. What's she wearing?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

A white top, sadly modest.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (ufFY8)

308 There ought to be a cognitive test for Congress. Obviously as with President Biden and now with Mcconell someone else is running the show as with the woman from California who died. It's a disgrace!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (42Vb+)

309 For Pete Davidson its pre-selection. Women see him with other beautiful women and assume he's bringing something to the table.

He mentioned at some point he was molested by his uncle, so I imagine he's got all sorts of mental issues he's been working through.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

Oh Pete I get. He's rich and funny (to some)and one of his exes called him a tripod. I meant in the more general sense.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (MGB5H)

310 308 There ought to be a cognitive test for Congress. Obviously as with President Biden and now with Mcconell someone else is running the show as with the woman from California who died. It's a disgrace!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (42Vb+)

Maxine Waters would fail too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (uVuHg)

311 283 You can usually count on Bribery and Corruption. McCainiacs are screwing up GOP wins in parts of AZ last 2 cycles. Atlanta overthrew Trump in 2000 due to collaboration with and suddently we find out 2 billion dollars is forked over to the area. Wanna bet there are some interesting USAID moneys going to the NC area the last few years? - oldcat

Say, you might be on to something, there. I hadn't even considered the big slush money accounts that DOGE has recently uncovered.

Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (mADJX)

312 Why was Roddenberry unable to come up with something like a speaker instead of a one light system?

Some combination of:
1. They was a time crunch. They were out of scripts and had to use the framing story and footage from the unaired pilot to cover two episodes.
2. They were short on money and maybe an actor with no lines is cheaper/doesn't get royalties (possibly a voice actor does).
3. There was a scene where "he keeps beeping 'no'"; if he could talk with a speaker you can't have that scene.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (D0HYP)

313 The formulary for Elizabeth Arden Hand & Todger Creme has been lost to history, I'm afraid. Sad!
Posted by: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Noooo! How will I treat my frostbitten penis while thinking of mum!?!?!

Posted by: Prince Harry in Afghanistan at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (JCZqz)

314 I could go for a cognitive test for voting.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (KH0i+)

315 "Maybe it was a tattoo..."

It's actually pretty good for a delta-ray tattoo. Usually they have much deeper relief.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (5xgzq)

316 Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (ufFY

Lol. Youlll just have to imagine her with her breasts hanging out while she stands up at the podium as AG.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (42Vb+)

317 Help me....
Posted by: The Fly at February 20, 2025 01:49 PM

Nah.

Posted by: Rhonda at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (a3Q+t)

318 He was elected in the primary fair and square. He won the Lt Gov position with the most votes in all the state in 2020. He was the favorite pick of the MAGA base. He threw out red meat 100% of the time. And he was a shitty pick and, best I can tell, didn’t even campaign in 2024.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

-

Yep. I agree 100%, which is why I wonder if laundered money reached him.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (/9z5W)

319 He couldn’t even in statewide office. But he’s gonna run for senator. Sounds like a hard no. It’s a Kari Lake situation.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 01:46 PM (7TdnZ

He won AG handily.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 01:47 PM (MGB5H)

I love how when you see conniving in the state parties, Democrats, factions of state GOP undercutting and USAID money flooding an area suddenly for no reason everyone is a 'bad candidate' but Trump cruises on in the same area.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (n7h9X)

320 Definitely. Is all of that secondary to full scale population reduction?
Posted by: ...

Modern leftism is atheistic. They want their heaven on earth, which means fealty to gaia, and a lot less competition for resources.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 01:58 PM (CEAEi)

321 So what is everyone's take on the reason these monsters are pushing us all to "electric". Is it simply a direct pocket liner? Influence peddling? Is it control via eventual rationing? Degradation of the country to help our enemies?

I know the answer is all of the above but if you had to take only one what do you think is the main motivator? Is it something I missed?

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2025 01:41 PM (lX8VI)

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

Mass graves ...
With the rest living in caves?

[h/t Ayn Rand's 1971 "The Return of The Primitive (The New Left): The Anti-Industrial Revolution"]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 01:58 PM (bHRDR)

322 Mitch McConnell Makes the Stunning and Brave Decision to Not Seek Reelection At Age 85

That's 350 in Turtle Years.

Posted by: Brad at February 20, 2025 01:58 PM (Tjd07)

323 The vote begins.

Watching the press briefing on CNN (yeah I know), they cut away just as one of the guys said Biden was mentally incompetent. The muzzie looking anchor made a comment about the guy "lambasting" Biden.

Fuck you, CNN.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 01:58 PM (ufFY8)

324 You have to have a medical to renew your driver's license at a certain time. Why not for Senators?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 01:58 PM (kTd/k)

325 With respect to my former home, Fairfax, VA, I'm hoping that a lot of the donks in Northern Virginia get sucked down the pipes in the general swamp draining. I believe this could have very positive effects in making Virginia red again.
-----------------
We need to push them north of the Potomac. Carpetbaggers are really hard to get rid of. Where is General Jubal Early when you need him?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (pLaQB)

326 290 There are all kinds of people who suck ass. But there are certain ones who I just have an instinctive urge to hurl into that eternally fiery chasm in Turkmenistan. Greta Thunberg is one. Mitch McConnell is another.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

As the opening scene for the Paramount movie pitch, I think you have a winner here.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (j4U/Z)

327 His hair follicles did very well despite the massive radiation dose.

Toupee technology became very advanced in the 23rd century.

Posted by: William Shatner at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (D0HYP)

328 316 Standard operating procedure around here.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (5xgzq)

329 I bet the vote will be 50/50

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (VE6XX)

330 A white top, sadly modest.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM

Dude. Have you forgotten the 'ette half of your audience? What exact *shade* of white????

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (a3Q+t)

331 OT-Amazon keeps sending me helpful, "Hey, you might like this" suggestions.

I think they've noticed I'm not purchasing nearly the crap from them I once was.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (tT6L1)

332 hanging out while she stands up at the podium as AG.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (42Vb+)

I would accept minimal decolletage.

And some leg.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (ufFY8)

333 They were short on money and maybe an actor with no lines is cheaper/doesn't get royalties (possibly a voice actor does).
3. There was a scene where "he keeps beeping 'no'"; if he could talk with a speaker you can't have that scene.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 20, 2025 01:57 PM (D0HYP)

Was that even the same actor in the char beeping - the one in the first pilot, Jeffery Hunter who quit/was unavailable/replaced

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (n7h9X)

334 Our very own Feinstein, how nice.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (n4GiU)

335 310 308 There ought to be a cognitive test for Congress. Obviously as with President Biden and now with Mcconell someone else is running the show as with the woman from California who died. It's a disgrace!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (42Vb+)

Maxine Waters would fail too...
Posted by: jim

Pelosi might pass, if her ethanol levels are managed properly, but there's always the risk of an unexpected reboot: https://tinyurl.com/cstnh2yy

"Good morning, George. Sunday morning"

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (JCZqz)

336 Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (ufFY

Lol. Youlll just have to imagine her with her breasts hanging out while she stands up at the podium as AG.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You're thinking of Pam Bondi, Fen, not Press Secretary Katherine Leavitt.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

337 330 Dude. Have you forgotten the 'ette half of your audience? What exact *shade* of white????
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (a3Q+t)

=======

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

338 Maryland is already worried that an exodus of fedgov workers will change their electorate to more Republican. That’s also growing in NOVA. We can only hope.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (7TdnZ)

339 "I still don't think he believes me. But he might want to start because I just filed my paperwork at the courthouse... I have loved Taylor Alison Swift since I was 12 years old."
__________________

"Which I still am, emotionally and intellectually."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (YqDXo)

340 Senate voting now on Kash.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM (NpAcC)

341 The money train is coming to an end. It's time for me to get off.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 20, 2025 01:27 PM (cHOHf)

This more than anything is why he's leaving.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (g8Ew8)

342 I hope he's in severe pain for the rest of his miserable life.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (/U5Yz)

343 RE: Kash's vote -
Looks like they're voting electronically so no one hears them vote yes or no.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (3Ope8)

344 NY prison guards on strike. Clown governor calling up national guard.

Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (zO5SI)

345
Bad boys are "hot", normal stable guys are not, to a certain class of women
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2025 01:48 PM (t0Rmr)

The women who settle for normal stable guys will sooner or later hold them in contempt and freeze them out sexually because they aren't exciting enough.

Posted by: Normal and stable dries em up faster than ShamWow at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (yzp7T)

346 Did Mitch really say this or did one of his aides say he said this in a press release?

Posted by: Blanco at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (MHpW9)

347 Looks like they're voting electronically so no one hears them vote yes or no.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (3Ope

Don't like that

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (VE6XX)

348
LEAVE MITCH ALONE!!!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (dxSpM)

349 Not to be shallow, but Pam Bondi has magnificent cans.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (7TdnZ)

350 343 RE: Kash's vote -
Looks like they're voting electronically so no one hears them vote yes or no.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Cowards, the lot of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (/U5Yz)

351 Dude. Have you forgotten the 'ette half of your audience? What exact *shade* of white????
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Antique egg-shell cream

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (JCZqz)

352 Live vote: https://tinyurl.com/4kbnz92e

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (3Ope8)

353 OT question

Does anybody know why my cell phone would keep cutting off while I'm talking to people? Need new phone or new battery?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (42Vb+)

354 >I think Cameron had two problems. He was black which did not play well in E.

No, I reject this, Cameron got over 900k votes as AG, he got 630k votes for Governor.

As I've noted, the max cieling for a Donk in Ky is around 800k or so votes, the max GOP is 1.3M votes, so why would GOP voters be on fire to elect Cameron as AG, but not Governor?

It doesn't make sense, I truly believe GOPe malfeasance was at play here.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 01:30 PM (XV/Pl)
******
Beshear is popular and well liked.
I am worried he will run for Mitch's senate seat.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (NpAcC)

355 I never dreamed a modern man could rule so effectively.

Ace are you amazed and feel a French mental sensation for qualities not put into English yet?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (fVruI)

356 What exact *shade* of white????
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (a3Q+t)

Slightly off white.
Not as white as Tulsi's outfit the other day.
And made of thick material, like wool.

She looked good in it, with her blonde hair.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (ufFY8)

357
NY prison guards on strike. Clown governor calling up national guard.
Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2025 02:01 PM (zO5SI)

__________

So she's bringing in scabs. Union busting bitch. The Harry Bennett of the Empire State.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (dxSpM)

358 Grassley is 91 and he may try to run again. Jeez

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (3qNrw)

359 Mitch McConnell just voted. But he fell on the button and hit it with his head. So nobody is sure if it was yes or no yet.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (7TdnZ)

360 "Not to be shallow, but Pam Bondi has magnificent cans."

Oh, it's shallow. But we don't judge.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (0HaGk)

361 Who gets to do the MCVain thumb up or down?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (/6GbT)

362 349 Not to be shallow, but Pam Bondi has magnificent cans.
Posted by: Vengeance

and shapely gams. I only wish we could see more of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (/U5Yz)

363 Marjorie Taylor Greenland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (bF7Q5)

364 There are all kinds of people who suck ass. But there are certain ones who I just have an instinctive urge to hurl into that eternally fiery chasm in Turkmenistan. Greta Thunberg is one. Mitch McConnell is another.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

As the opening scene for the Paramount movie pitch, I think you have a winner here.
Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (j4U/Z)

Greta Thundberg isn't a person, she's a character in a particularly boring rewriting of Joan of Arc to rally for the environment. She has no charisma. The scene of her taking a modern luxury boat across the ocean to 'save the planet' was especially cringe. It is like if Joan of Arc had gone partying in London during the 100 years war.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (n7h9X)

365 P.S These people actually like me and don't think I'm a scammer.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (42Vb+)

366 It's a whiter shade of pale.

Posted by: Procol Harum at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)

367 Reading out the ayes and nays...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (ufFY8)

368 You're thinking of Pam Bondi, Fen, not Press Secretary Katherine Leavitt.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:00 PM

Psst...Karoline

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (kgE5c)

369 Murk voted no on Kash.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (ExV1e)

370 Was that even the same actor in the char beeping - the one in the first pilot, Jeffery Hunter who quit/was unavailable/replaced

Sean Kenney

Posted by: William Shatner at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (D0HYP)

371 Not to be shallow, but Pam Bondi has magnificent cans.
Posted by: Vengeance

You can counteract your shallowness by contemplating her with deep decolletage.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

372 Greta Thundberg isn't a person, she's a character in a particularly boring rewriting of Joan of Arc to rally for the environment. She has no charisma. The scene of her taking a modern luxury boat across the ocean to 'save the planet' was especially cringe. It is like if Joan of Arc had gone partying in London during the 100 years war.

We did give Ms Joan a heck of a bonfire you know.

Posted by: The English at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

373 Bone? Eggshell? Ivory? I need to know!

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (MGB5H)

374 369 Murk voted no on Kash.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (ExV1e)

Bitch

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (VE6XX)

375 Oh, it's shallow. But we don't judge.
Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 02:03 PM

The commenter or the cans?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (a3Q+t)

376 21-13 so far...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (ufFY8)

377 Socks! How do they work?

Posted by: William Shatner at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (D0HYP)

378 Does anybody know why my cell phone would keep cutting off while I'm talking to people? Need new phone or new battery?

Not enough info.

Phone type?

Operating system?

"Cutting off" means phone crashes completely or just drops call?

Posted by: The Lies Never Stop at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (YIND9)

379 Psst...Karoline
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Yes. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (77rzZ)

380 Beshear is popular and well liked.
I am worried he will run for Mitch's senate seat.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (NpAcC)

Yep. Several rural counties in KY voted for Trump bigly and also voted for Beshear. I don’t and never will understand this mindset. But it happens. Reagan won 59% in 1984 yet Donks won the House of Representatives that same election.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (B6cJm)

381 377 Socks!...How...dotheywork?
Posted by: William Shatner at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (D0HYP)

=======

FIFY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

382 Collins is reportedly a no.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (bF7Q5)

383 Greta Thundberg isn't a person, she's a character in a particularly boring rewriting of Joan of Arc to rally for the environment. She has no charisma. The scene of her taking a modern luxury boat across the ocean to 'save the planet' was especially cringe. It is like if Joan of Arc had gone partying in London during the 100 years war.

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Hillary! at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (JCZqz)

384 Ivory, you bastards.

LOL

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (ufFY8)

385 If Republicans vote down Patel, just leave the position vacant until recess, and appoint Sentinel Island's strongest cannibal instead.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (BI5O2)

386 OT question

Does anybody know why my cell phone would keep cutting off while I'm talking to people? Need new phone or new battery?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (42Vb+)

Calls would be a time for large power draws. Does it hiccup playing a movie or videos?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (n7h9X)

387 Where is General Jubal Early when you need him?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (pLaQB)

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He's late.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (2UnvF)

388 385 If Republicans vote down Patel, just leave the position vacant until recess, and appoint Sentinel Island's strongest cannibal instead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (BI5O2)

=======

When was the last recess?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

389 Socks! How do they work?
Posted by: William Shatner at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (D0HYP)
--------------

Are you asking or believe you've got it figured out?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (tT6L1)

390 Also, I don't think recess appointments are allowed for appointments the Senate rejected.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

391 Yep. Several rural counties in KY voted for Trump bigly and also voted for Beshear. I don’t and never will understand this mindset. But it happens. Reagan won 59% in 1984 yet Donks won the House of Representatives that same election.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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KY races are off year. That does not carry forward necessarily to regular federal elections.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (ctrM5)

392 Jasmine Crock-o-shit speaks!

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."
They're falling right into the trap. Ree markable.

-
If she needs an extra $5K, she'll just steal it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

393 Honestly, it is things like this that mostly make me not believe the adenochrome theories.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (Uj7jl)

394 384 Ivory, you bastards.

LOL

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (ufFY

Only 99 44/100%.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (uVuHg)

395 Theater continues...
34-18

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (ufFY8)

396 390 Also, I don't think recess appointments are allowed for appointments the Senate rejected.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

That's the thing.. Thune must know he has the votes

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (VE6XX)

397 Greta Thundberg isn't a person, she's a character in a particularly boring rewriting of Joan of Arc to rally for the environment. She has no charisma. The scene of her taking a modern luxury boat across the ocean to 'save the planet' was especially cringe. It is like if Joan of Arc had gone partying in London during the 100 years war.

I'd hit it.
Posted by: Hillary! at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM

Fight me!

Posted by: David Hogg at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (kgE5c)

398 Posted by: The Lies Never Stop at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (YIND9)

Older Apple phone. It disconnects the call. It doesn't die completely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (42Vb+)

399 Murk Collins no 34-18

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (MGB5H)

400 Ivory, you bastards.

LOL
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (ufFY

I bet if you showed 100 people who pretend to know colors items and told them to write down what it is, they would get most of them wrong.

Sure it isn't "Bone"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (n7h9X)

401 Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."
They're falling right into the trap. Ree markable.

-
If she needs an extra $5K, she'll just steal it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)
---------------

And no one on her side dares tell her to shut up. Amazing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (tT6L1)

402 It's a whiter shade of pale.
Posted by: Procol Harum

Like an Irishman in February.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (zc1Re)

403 Turtle - Aye.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (/U5Yz)

404 unofficial roll call for Patel now

They need to first have a vote before the vote, then a debate before the final vote, then a vote on the vote before they vote, and then a vote to debate to vote, and then a vote to final vote before the final vote and then a final vote before the final vote

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (HYKHz)

405 392 Jasmine Crock-o-shit speaks!

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."
They're falling right into the trap. Ree markable.

-
If she needs an extra $5K, she'll just steal it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

Now let's talk about reparations.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (8wt6Y)

406 More like the Joan of Arkansas..

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (fVruI)

407 403 Turtle - Aye.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:08 PM (/U5Yz)

I'm shocked

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (VE6XX)

408 392 Jasmine Crock-o-shit speaks!

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."
They're falling right into the trap. Ree markable.

-
If she needs an extra $5K, she'll just steal it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

=======

Average post tax salary per annum in America is $58,000.

A $5,000 check from the government because it saved money is 8.6% of the average American's entire yearly take home.

An 8.6% bonus.

Better than I'm going to get from my actual company...percentage wise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

409 KY races are off year. That does not carry forward necessarily to regular federal elections.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (ctrM5)

It’s still the same people voting though. They’ll vote for a Republican one year then a Democrat the next, Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (B6cJm)

410 Lump vote yet?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (/6GbT)

411 Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM (n7h9X

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (42Vb+)

412 holy shit mconnell voted aye apparently?

is there another mcconnell in the senate whos's not an asshole?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (HYKHz)

413 @404

>>unofficial roll call for Patel now

Next up for DOGE, Senate Rulez.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (HKmKB)

414
black democrats: we demand reparations!
also black democrats: how dare you give handouts to taxpayers!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM (pM4iv)

415 Bitch McConnell puts the 'turd' in turtle

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (UOTmo)

416
A Pam Bondi wardrobe malfunction?

You know where I am...

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (j4U/Z)

417 Turtle voted yes for Kash so he should be In despite the efforts of the RINO sisters.

Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (Qgr0I)

418 Murkowski is a no

Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (NpAcC)

419 That's the thing.. Thune must know he has the votes
Posted by: It's me donna

Yep. Otherwise the Majority Leader does not schedule a vote-it is a major blow to a Majority Leader losing a vote as it is never supposed to come to that. Means you are incompetent at your job because you inform the WH of the whip count and they then make the call to continue, withdraw, or delay. Optics also looks bad trying to delay appointment of a lawman with a bunch of shady expenditures unearthed already.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (ctrM5)

420 OT question

Does anybody know why my cell phone would keep cutting off while I'm talking to people? Need new phone or new battery?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:02 PM (42Vb+)

Any number of reasons, but most likely interference with the signal to the towers due to wind, precipitation, distance, ground interference. At the low end of the scale, your phone negotiates a connection with the tower(s), which may be minimally enough to support speech communication (which is quite technologically demanding compared to data), and you would get intermittent dropped data (voice data) when conditions varied as above.

Could be your end; could be their end.

I simply hang up and try again in attempt to negotiate a better connection, which seems to solve the problem.

If you're in an area with spotty connection at home (for instance), consider getting a cellular extender device if your provider enables such, which allows your phone to send cellular calls over your home WiFi. It makes the difference for us between spotty 1 bar calls and 4 bar crystal clear voice calls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (i24o9)

421 If there can't be a recess appointment, just leave it vacant, and order DoJ to ignore any requests made by the FBI. Prosecutorial discretion.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (BI5O2)

422 >>>Murk Collins no 34-18
~~~~~

And Murk voted Aye for cloture. Witch

Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (3ImbR)

423 418 Murkowski is a no
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (NpAcC)

We're never gonna get rid of her are we....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (VE6XX)

424 Murk voted no on Kash.
------------
Yet everyone of those squish GOPes voted for the "fundamentally non-serious" DEI Supreme nominee who admitted under oath that she didn't know what a woman is.

Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (TN0g+)

425 Control is the main motivation for the push for electric. Heating oil is filled at home, gas is filled into your car, but electric is from a central source.

Even with solar charging for cars, you can only get so far and then hours of downtime to charge .

It controls movement, it controls how big your home is, it controls your ability to do things like cook a meal. All WEF style control.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 01:51 PM (Hkcdp)
________________

Same thing with HIGH. SPEED. RAIL. The idea is to get people out of their cars, where they can travel wherever, whenever they want, and to get them on trains. One commissar on the train platform saying, "Papers, please. Was this travel approved by the Politburo?" can control a whole bunch of people's movements.

Which is essential to a command economy. The Party sets wages in each district and assigns workers to locations (through the Labor Exchange). Can't have people moving around willy-nilly. Messes up the whole system.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (YqDXo)

426 Older Apple phone. It disconnects the call. It doesn't die completely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (42Vb+)

I assume it doesn't cut off because you are traveling and perhaps move in and out of a service area.

In which case it's likely is crashing the actual phone app.

Have you updated the operating system lately?

Posted by: The Lies Never Stop at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (YIND9)

427 Dems: An increase in tomatoes by 3 cents once illegals go home will destroy the middle class

Also Dems: who needs $5k? Nobody.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (B6cJm)

428
I can haz $5,000 check?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (Cg/Hw)

429 41-33

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (MGB5H)

430 412 holy shit mconnell voted aye apparently?

is there another mcconnell in the senate whos's not an asshole?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack

I guess he figures he's done enough damage to our country over the past 40 years.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (/U5Yz)

431 Older Apple phone. It disconnects the call. It doesn't die completely.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 02:07 PM (42Vb+)

The antenna and chip communicating the cell call will drop out and disconnect if enough errors or low signal happen.

Apple is notorious for having the OS software slow down and break the device when you haven't spent money on them recently. Seriously.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (n7h9X)

432 NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."

Pay off a bill. Tires for the truck. Cow for freezer camp.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (zc1Re)

433 424 Murk voted no on Kash.
------------
Yet everyone of those squish GOPes voted for the "fundamentally non-serious" DEI Supreme nominee who admitted under oath that she didn't know what a woman is.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (TN0g+)

======

She voted for Eric Holder, the guy who called himself Obama's wingman.

She thought Obama's wingman was more "non-partisan" than Patel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

434 Fetterman voted no. Shocked, shocked I say

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (3qNrw)

435 Only someone stupid and entitled can be that dismissive of $5K going to the average American.

However, I also expect someone to ask Jasmine if she thinks $5K is not enough. Then, from there, tell her they expect her to back tax cuts.

With any luck, Jasmine will stroke out and the House will be rid of her.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (tT6L1)

436 Moth votes yes against his paymasters wishes and simultaneously announces he isn't running again.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (CEAEi)

437 I'd hit it.
Posted by: Hillary! at February 20, 2025 02:06 PM

Fight me!
Posted by: David Hogg

(Lol...I have people do that for me)

Uh, sure, Mr. Hogg. Fort Marcy Park, at sunset. Let's keep quiet about it to keep the media and Republicans away...

Posted by: Hillary! at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (JCZqz)

438 Fetterlump - NO.

F*ck this fake.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (/U5Yz)

439 Patel 8 votes away, unofficial tally

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (HYKHz)

440 42-41

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (ufFY8)

441 And Murk voted Aye for cloture. Witch
Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (3ImbR)

A lot do that. Turtle did that earlier. They have a right to have a vote blah blah blah

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (MGB5H)

442 Yet everyone of those squish GOPes voted for the "fundamentally non-serious" DEI Supreme nominee who admitted under oath that she didn't know what a woman is.

Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (TN0g+)
______________

Yep. That's outrageous. If anyone, ever, called for a "no" vote, it was Jumanji. The distaff answer to Hank Johnson.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (YqDXo)

443 434 Fetterman voted no. Shocked, shocked I say
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (3qNrw)

=======

Gonna be honest, he's really bad at playing the Maverick.

He'll still probably win re-election because PA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

444 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.

Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (Qgr0I)

445 369 Murk voted no on Kash.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 02:04 PM (ExV1e)

Bitch

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:05 PM (VE6XX)

Primary her ass! And Collins!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (KH0i+)

446 Where is General Jubal Early when you need him?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 01:59 PM (pLaQB)

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

Apparently, Nathan Fillion is a descendant of his -- which is why they introduced a character with that name (a great black villain portrayed by Richard Brooks) in one of the "Firefly" episodes.

Apparently, McConnell voted to confirm Kash.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (INY48)

447 428 I can haz $5,000 check?

how about a $5,000 czech?

Posted by: mail-order brides from eastern europe at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (oY6Yp)

448 438 Fetterlump - NO.

F*ck this fake.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (/U5Yz)

======

I never thought he was anything other than a Schumer puppet.

Why did others think otherwise?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

449 Apple is notorious for having the OS software slow down and break the device when you haven't spent money on them recently. Seriously.
Posted by: Oldcat

I ran a 6 until the 13 came out. Then it started getting squirrely.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (zc1Re)

450 They didn’t do this in the show, but if Pike could blink the light, he could have used Morse code to communicate. And yes, Morse code was still known and taught in the 23rd Century.

Posted by: dittybopper at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (GKGjP)

451 42-43

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (ufFY8)

452 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.
Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2025 02:12 PM (Qgr0I)

He's never been anything more than a more lockstep manchin.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (MGB5H)

453 It’s still the same people voting though. They’ll vote for a Republican one year then a Democrat the next, Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
======
No it isn't. Midterms are bad enough in not resembling presidential year voting in turnout but off years are even worse. Turnout in 2023 was about 37.9 percent. Turnout in 2024 was 58.5. About 1.3 million voters in 2023, 2 million in 2024.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

454
If $5000 is no big deal, what's $700 from FEMA?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (dxSpM)

455
historic first??

First Black FBI Director during black history month!

Trump, you genius!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (pM4iv)

456 Transgender migrant featured in NYC Pride Parade charged with raping 14-year-old boy in public restroom

-
Just a handful of 14-year-old boys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (L/fGl)

457 Same thing with HIGH. SPEED. RAIL. The idea is to get people out of their cars, where they can travel wherever, whenever they want, and to get them on trains. One commissar on the train platform saying, "Papers, please. Was this travel approved by the Politburo?" can control a whole bunch of people's movements.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (YqDXo)

There's a bit of that but these days its just a grift. Because they never actually build the rail. Look at CA, where the rail can't physically reach any city on the coast.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (n7h9X)

458 Moth?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (B6cJm)

459 455
historic first??

First Black FBI Director during black history month!

Trump, you genius!!
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (pM4iv)

Dot Indian

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (VE6XX)

460 An 8.6% bonus.

Better than I'm going to get from my actual company...percentage wise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:09 PM

Hadn't thought about it, so I calculated my bonus this year as a percentage of my base pay. .51%. Not 5.1%, point five one percent, lol.

Posted by: Bert G at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (VARTN)

461 42-44

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (ufFY8)

462 Gonna be honest, he's really bad at playing the Maverick.

He'll still probably win re-election because PA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
---------
Fetterman's biggest threat will be in his own party primary.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)

463 I've read that one of the reasons Lew Wallace wrote Ben Hur was to partially atone for his losing to Jubal Early at Monocacy, which a lot of Northerners were still pissed at him for.

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

464 We're never gonna get rid of her are we....
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:10 PM (VE6XX)
*******
No.
Maybe Scott Presler can help. It's going to be awhile though.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (NpAcC)

465 444 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.
Posted by: WisRich

He's doing a pretty good job walking the "moderate" line. DU hates him, think he's a sellout, and have been cheering recent reports of several staff resignations.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (JCZqz)

466 However, I also expect someone to ask Jasmine if she thinks $5K is not enough. Then, from there, tell her they expect her to back tax cuts.

With any luck, Jasmine will stroke out and the House will be rid of her.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (tT6L1)
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I predict that she'll get dinged in an ethics violation. She's probably raking in lots of cash unethically - just like Tiffany Henyard, mayor of Doulton, and the mayor of Baltimore forcing city vendors to buy her poxy children's book.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (YqDXo)

467 Apple is notorious for having the OS software slow down and break the device when you haven't spent money on them recently. Seriously.

They aren't. The same media that tells you Obama is the best President we've ever had made that up, but Gell-Mann amnesia is real.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (2ocoG)

468 Moth?
Posted by: Its Go Time

Mitch. Stupid autocorrect

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (CEAEi)

469 Crockett appears to be taking over for Maxine in the loud mouthed wacked out black lady of the House position

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (3qNrw)

470 He's doing a pretty good job walking the "moderate" line. DU hates him, think he's a sellout, and have been cheering recent reports of several staff resignations.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (JCZqz)

So they don't look at how he votes is what you're saying.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (MGB5H)

471 I never thought he was anything other than a Schumer puppet.

Why did others think otherwise?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)
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I'll wear the "I thought he might be different" crown. But, after his first "no" vote, I realized Fetterman was exactly who you said he was.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

472 What could you expect from Fetterman? If you were hemmed together from parts of surreptitiously exhumed corpses in several different states, you wouldn't want to run afoul of federal law enforcement either.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (BI5O2)

473 If $5000 is no big deal, what's $700 from FEMA?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

An insult.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (zc1Re)

474 470 He's doing a pretty good job walking the "moderate" line. DU hates him, think he's a sellout, and have been cheering recent reports of several staff resignations.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 20, 2025 02:14 PM (JCZqz)

So they don't look at how he votes is what you're saying.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (MGB5H)

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Let's be fair here:

DU is populated by idiots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

475 "Murkowski is a no.

We're never getting rid of her, are we?"

Would you people be patient? I said I got this!

Posted by: Cocaine at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (NXYp1)

476 I'll gladly take $5000 from the people that claim that amount is too measly to reckon with.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (C53IZ)

477
he's black enough!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (pM4iv)

478 Expect to see McTurtle with facial injuries due to an unfortunate exercise strap failure.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (/U5Yz)

479 44-45

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (ufFY8)

480 Crockett appears to be taking over for Maxine in the loud mouthed wacked out black lady of the House position
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (3qNrw)

She's taking the Cori bush role.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (MGB5H)

481 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.

Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)

482 Fetterman's brain reboot needs another kick in the head

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (HYKHz)

483 >>>Dot Indian

If Harris gets to be black, well , then…

Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (Y1sOo)

484
She's taking the Cori bush role.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (MGB5H)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (VE6XX)

485 Let's be fair here:

DU is populated by idiots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

"Fair?" - Idiots

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (8wt6Y)

486 So Musk's team has exposed USAID and cabinet level corrupt spending. Let the perp walks and snitch races to the US Attorneys commence. How about the sam scrutiny for Federal outlays beginning with the states of New York, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts, California, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut for starters.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (QSrLX)

487 Mitch. Stupid autocorrect
Posted by: Thoma

Haha. k I was like who the fuck is that guy?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (B6cJm)

488 471 I'll wear the "I thought he might be different" crown. But, after his first "no" vote, I realized Fetterman was exactly who you said he was.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

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I would have been happy to have been wrong.

But when we never, ever wondered if Sinema or Manchin would vote against KJB or against conviction in either of Trump's impeachment trials while all of our time was concerned about what Mitch would do...

I realized that the "moderate" Democrat in the Senate is a myth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

489 Who is left?

44-46

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

490
remember sheila jacksom lee?

and frederica shithead cowboy hat?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (pM4iv)

491 Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S.

Bondi, maybe?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

492 Can Patel still make it through?

Posted by: grammie's iPad at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (SfhV1)

493 Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."
They're falling right into the trap. Ree markable.

-

While every lawyer ad shown during Family Feud and Judge Judy is very, very clear that the only goal is "In a wreck? Need a check? We get you money!"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (UIagl)

494 481 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.

Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)

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Bondi is the only one where he went against the majority of the party (he was the only Dem to vote for her). And he's probably voted for some of the less controversial ones like Rubio.

But...his vote never...matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

495 481 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.

Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)

+++

It's like he's two people in one body.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (C53IZ)

496 How much of McConnel actions have been his own in his present term? How much has been the actions & decisions of his staff and advisors? We justifiably ripped the Biden junta for controlling him, but the same must be said for the octogenarian House and Senate members who don't retire. The Turtle isn't really representing Kentucky any more.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (XjTSo)

497 It would have been great if Fetterman said "my lump and I are splitting our vote"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (3qNrw)

498 46-47

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

499 The media industry watchers in here will love this.

Ne Zha 2 just came out in China.
It's a Pixar-style animated film based on some Chinese myth.

With a production budget of US$80 million, the film grossed US$1.7 billion, breaking multiple box-office records. It surpassed Inside Out 2 (2024) to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, marking the first time a non-American, non-English-language animated film achieved this milestone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_2

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$80 million budget, $1.7 billion gross, so far.
It hasn't even released in North America yet.

Inside Out 2 was made for $200 million and grossed $1.69 billion.

Hollywood better wake up before woke kills them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (6ydKt)

500 Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)
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One, I believe, but, it was for someone who didn't really need his vote.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)

501 Patel is a bitter pill to swallow for the Party & State. This is the vote I've been most interested.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (BI5O2)

502 Who is left?

44-46
Posted by: Deplorable

No one that would be a no

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (MGB5H)

503 Heh.
The Fox picture of Patel isn't exactly flattering.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (W/lyH)

504 47-47

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (ufFY8)

505 I'll wear the "I thought he might be different" crown. But, after his first "no" vote, I realized Fetterman was exactly who you said he was.

Fetterman, as I recall, said Trump's nominees deserved a fair vote. He didn't say he himself was voting yes on any of them. So things are proceeding as you'd expect from a Democrat.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (2ocoG)

506 503 Heh.
The Fox picture of Patel isn't exactly flattering.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (W/lyH)

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Boss-eyed, as the British would say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

507 It was supposed to be 7500 from FEMA, but they messed up the 10% for the big guy part..Whoops!

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (/6GbT)

508 Fetterman voted no. Shocked, shocked I say
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:11 PM (3qNrw)

I don't mind how he votes. Anytime he flips its a bonus.

Anytime he speaks sense publicly he chips away at the legitimacy of the Dems to their wavering followers, which increases the chance they defect next time.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (n7h9X)

509 Fetterman is a no. I guess that renegade talk was all BS.

Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)
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I think two.

Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (Qgr0I)

510 500 Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)
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One, I believe, but, it was for someone who didn't really need his vote.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)

Rubio ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (VE6XX)

511

Fetterman voted yes on gabbard and hegseth, no?

Posted by: imp at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (g6TN6)

512 Patel is a bitter pill to swallow for the Party & State. This is the vote I've been most interested.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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Yeah, he's probably 2nd only to Trump in "he has to be stopped" ranking.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (UIagl)

513 Rubio ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:18 PM (VE6XX)

Rubio was 99-0

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)

514 47-47
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Is JD around to break a tie?

Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

515 If Turtle voted yes isn’t that 50?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (B6cJm)

516 Fetterman voted yes on gabbard and hegseth, no?
Posted by: imp at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (g6TN6

No

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)

517 Fetterman voted yes on gabbard and hegseth, no?
Posted by: imp

No

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (CEAEi)

518 If any other Republican votes no I'm demanding they get an anal cavity search all the way to their tooth fillings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (3qNrw)

519 Why are so many Senators frightened by Patel?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (kTd/k)

520 Crockett appears to be taking over for Maxine in the ~~loud mouthed wacked out~~ black lady of the House position
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:15 PM (3qNrw)
_________________

No need to specify "loud-mouthed wacked-out." That's understood.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

521 Is JD around to break a tie?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

Won't need it. 51. Turtle was a yes

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)

522 Five idiots remain

48-47

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (ufFY8)

523 515 If Turtle voted yes isn’t that 50?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (B6cJm)

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51, assuming Collins and Murk are the only no's in the GOP caucus, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

524 One, I believe, but, it was for someone who didn't really need his vote.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)

He voted for cloture on a close one early on, that won with a vote from the Veep.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (n7h9X)

525 Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)
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Rubio

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (2NXcZ)

526
Fetterman voted yes on gabbard and hegseth, no?
Posted by: imp

Nyet.
VP had to tie-break Pete

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (pM4iv)

527 Yeah, he's probably 2nd only to Trump in "he has to be stopped" ranking.

***************

And he's in for 10 years

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (HYKHz)

528 Cap’n Pike in the Star Trek reboot looks like Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: Jerry Nadlers Sloppy Tits at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (rSBfY)

529 Mark Robinson won his primary race because 1) pro Second Amendment and 2) Unashamedly pro life.

He was also unafraid when speaking on those subjects. What cost him the election was black and white female aversion to Robinson because of his pro-life stance and his brusque working class campaign style. NC voters like their leaders wearing suits and ties and talking about their college days. Working class politicians representing a major party is a jarring sight to the political salons in Charlotte and Raleigh, and the the local chapters of the MSM played it up to the hilt. Add to that, the GOP stalwarts in the General Assembly and the state Senate are entrenched and prefer to run to the show themselves. They wanted no part of a political firedbrand like Robinson in the Governor's Mansion.

Posted by: Marianas Trench HOA at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (rj6Yv)

530 Teddy Cruz one of the last ones to vote. So dramatic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (/U5Yz)

531 Once Collins retires, she'll be replaced by a Dem.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (wBaIH)

532 I attended a work conference a number of years ago. One of the speakers was in his late 70's. A retired military officer now working for the VA. Up on stage he couldn't remember to speak in to the microphone and couldn't be heard. People kept yelling for him to speak in to the mic. He kept forgetting and also looked like he was going to fall over at any moment. It didn't take long for everyone to give up and let him ramble on while everyone kept busy on their phones and laptops. So collecting his retirement pay and SES pay while being a useless employee who should have been home on his porch with his grandchildren but he couldn't let go and was greedy. And he was allowed.

Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (oiNtH)

533 527 Yeah, he's probably 2nd only to Trump in "he has to be stopped" ranking.

***************

And he's in for 10 years
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (HYKHz)

=====

Well, a max of ten years.

Presidents have the authority to fire cabinet level officials, including FBI director.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

534 476 I'll gladly take $5000 from the people that claim that amount is too measly to reckon with.
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I'd take it too. I could really use it, I could. But, I'd still like to see savings applied to the deficit, or replaced in Social Security so it will be around when I'm finally unable to meaningfully work.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (XjTSo)

535 Has Lump voted yes on *any* of Trump's nominees?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:16 PM (2ocoG)
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Rubio
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (2NXcZ)

And bondi when it was meaningless

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (MGB5H)

536 I do not understand the turtles nonsensical voting

Patel gets a yes but Gabbard/RFK gets the finger?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (HYKHz)

537
I'm not sure, but I think ALL the "deputy" positions need Senate Shits confirmation, as well. I know some do.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (pM4iv)

538 519 Why are so many Senators frightened by Patel?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (kTd/k)

Because he's going to do his job.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (UseAb)

539 I think Fetterman voted for Duffy when it didn't matter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (3qNrw)

540 531 Once Collins retires, she'll be replaced by a Dem.
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But would we know the difference?

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (XjTSo)

541 Why are so many Senators frightened by Patel?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 02:19 PM (kTd/k)

Why do you think? FBI has been the DeepState's SS for a long time. They don't want that exposed.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (n7h9X)

542 Patel gets a yes but Gabbard/RFK gets the finger?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (HYKHz)

Unpredictable former Dems.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (2NXcZ)

543 49-47

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (ufFY8)

544 Boom

59

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (ufFY8)

545 522 Five idiots remain

48-47
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (ufFY

Ahem. That’s Senator Idiot to you, peasant.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (B6cJm)

546 Presidents have the authority to fire cabinet level officials, including FBI director.

***********************

Im fine with Patel

Posted by: President Vance at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (HYKHz)

547 519 Why are so many Senators frightened by Patel?
Posted by: Shy lurker
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Because Senators are the keystone in Washington corruption establishment--honest graft as well as kickback, insider trading, grafting relatives, etc.

McConnell and Schumer like Biden as prezzie because he was literally a made member of the Senate Corruption Mafia.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (ctrM5)

548 Patel at 50. Confirmed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (3qNrw)

549 50

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (ufFY8)

550 think Fetterman voted for Duffy when it didn't matter
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:21 PM (3qNrw)

I like to call him Sec Real World. He's also the cousin of a guy that worked for my dad for over 20 years.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (MGB5H)

551 Why are so many Senators frightened by Patel?

He hasn't cashed any of their checks.

Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (OkFiN)

552 Bazinga! The whole team.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (LkLld)

553 JD is in DC he delivered a speech at CPAC earlier

Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (NpAcC)

554 50-47

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (lHPJf)

555 549 50
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (ufFY

With Vance yes

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (VE6XX)

556 548 Patel at 50. Confirmed
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Vance in the chair?

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (ctrM5)

557 Hollywood better wake up before woke kills them.

The upcoming big budget video game "Assassins Creed Shadows" where you play as a black samurai in feudal Japan and kill all the Japanese people while rap songs play (I swear I am not making this up) has a parody coming out the same day where you do the same thing, but played for intentional laughs, with machine guns and a low-rider car to run people over. I'd love to see people do that with woke movies and TV shows.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (2ocoG)

558 Didnt Patel say he would release the Epstein list?

that would wrinkle a few deep state noses

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (HYKHz)

559 518 If any other Republican votes no I'm demanding they get an anal cavity search all the way to their tooth fillings
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I'LL handle this...

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (JCZqz)

560 228
They say he is responsible for over 300 "swats," including FBI and Supreme Court.

Posted by: Soothsayer

You'd think that 300 counts of attempted murder would get anyone a longer sentence

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (hB7mE)

561 I attended a work conference a number of years ago. One of the speakers was in his late 70's . . . . And he was allowed.

Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (oiNtH)

I had a prof who was more cogent than FJB, but not by much. He would print rando papers to hand out and lecture on, and he would ramble.

We mass revolted, and he was removed from lecturing.

Sad, but his time had come, and nobody in the admin had the guts to have that delicate conversation.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (i24o9)

562 I do not understand the turtles nonsensical voting

Patel gets a yes but Gabbard/RFK gets the finger?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (HYKHz)

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[Channeling Sundance at CTH:]

"Proof & signaling that Patel is a Deep Stater."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (INY48)

563 Pudding!

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (5xgzq)

564 " Patel at 50. Confirmed
Posted by: Smell the Glove "

I sense a new thread soon.

Posted by: eleven at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (0HaGk)

565 I do not understand the turtles nonsensical voting

Patel gets a yes but Gabbard/RFK gets the finger?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:20 PM (HYKHz)

These are the ones most likely to get Dems to defect to MAGA. And both are sitting on a mountain of corrupted organizations directing bribes all over the world.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (n7h9X)

566 50-47

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (lHPJf)

LFG!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (i24o9)

567 50-47. He's in.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

568 Within 24 hours.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (bF7Q5)

569 This was the UNOFFICIAL TALLY

JESUS CHRIST GET ON WITH IT

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (HYKHz)

570 557 Hollywood better wake up before woke kills them.

The upcoming big budget video game "Assassins Creed Shadows" where you play as a black samurai in feudal Japan and kill all the Japanese people while rap songs play (I swear I am not making this up) has a parody coming out the same day where you do the same thing, but played for intentional laughs, with machine guns and a low-rider car to run people over. I'd love to see people do that with woke movies and TV shows.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:22 PM (2ocoG)

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One of my Youtube channels is a British comedy/video game thing called OutsideXBox (I find them amusing).

Definitely lean left, but the jokes are about video games. It's all good.

Anyway, they got the game to review and they're take?

"It's...fine."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

571 Patel is in. Americaaaaaa, fuck yeah!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (8wt6Y)

572 Why are so many Senators frightened by Patel?

FBI was the locus of the anti-Trump operation being run by the "intelligence community" and the DNC.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (2ocoG)

573 51

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (3qNrw)

574 567 50-47. He's in.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

3 didn't vote ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (VE6XX)

575 51 . It's doneo

Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (Qgr0I)

576 Win one for America, Kash!

Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (rj6Yv)

577 51, JD can continue servicing his wife.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (ufFY8)

578 First 3 eps of Season 3 of Reacher have just dropped on Amazon Prime.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (BRvvM)

579
At this time in 2017, we had rod cocksucker rosenstein as AG and jim comey leading the corrupt FBI.

Think about that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (pM4iv)

580 573 51
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (3qNrw)
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As the odor of burning files wafts over from the FBI building.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (6K6Eu)

581 Present.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (bF7Q5)

582 When will all those disgruntled agents hit the road?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (kTd/k)

583 Countdown to Hawaiian judge ruling Patel can't make personnel changes.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (7uxlX)

584 - Kash is in. Sitting on 50 yea right now.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (ItCQP)

585 Didnt Patel say he would release the Epstein list?

that would wrinkle a few deep state noses

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (HYKHz)

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On Day One.

The question is have all the copies been destroyed?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (UlDWm)

586 State Trek. The Cage
Susan Oliver
Yum.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (W/lyH)

587 Ok, Whorehouse was the last vote.
51-49

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (ufFY8)

588 Why does Patel's confirmation feel like a much bigger deal than even Hesgeth? I'm so happy right now!!!

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (4qrFL)

589 They say he is responsible for over 300 "swats," including FBI and Supreme Court.

Posted by: Soothsayer

You'd think that 300 counts of attempted murder would get anyone a longer sentence
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 20, 2025 02:23 PM (hB7mE)

you'd think a reasonable police force that hasn't had any big incidents in 50 years might just call the house first to see if anythings up, particularly with it happening all over. It's corruption fueled by kickbacks.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (n7h9X)

590 532 So collecting his retirement pay and SES pay while being a useless employee who should have been home on his porch with his grandchildren but he couldn't let go and was greedy. And he was allowed.
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Lots of that going around these days. Political loyalty is rewarded with pay & perks to the end. I've been reading Part 1 of Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Government office tenure wasn't guaranteed or lasting then! A man could do an excellent job, then be turned out because the other party now had the White House, and he was replaced. Men usually retired to enjoy their pensions and some quiet time in their golden years.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (XjTSo)

591 It was in response to Pete Davidson's new look. He stopped drinking and drugs (at least as much). He spent $200K on tattoo removal. He's got muscles.

The woman said, "When he looked like he was on the tail end of a 5 day bender and scrawny, I was a thirst trap for him. But now?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

First of all, I'm really sure that's not how the phrase "thirst trap" should be used.

Second, you can't "fix" a man and "make him better" if he's already doing the work to better himself.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (hB7mE)

592 587 Ok, Whorehouse was the last vote.
51-49
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Uh..you may need to be more specific...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (JCZqz)

593 Why does Patel's confirmation feel like a much bigger deal than even Hesgeth? I'm so happy right now!!!

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at February 20, 2025 02:26 PM (4qrFL)

FBI was the locus of the anti-Trump operation being run by the "intelligence community" and the DNC.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:24 PM (2ocoG)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (i24o9)

594
Swearing-In Ceremony right after, I presume.

And I strongly suspect to hear news in the next 24 hours of A LOT of Firings at the FBI.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (pM4iv)

595 Pudding!
Posted by: Peel gp
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Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (wzjSy)

596 >>>First 3 eps of Season 3 of Reacher

Fuck that guy.

(The actor, not the character)

Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (Y1sOo)

597 I don't care about the Epstein list as much as purging the anti-American scum from the FBI.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (UseAb)

598 579
At this time in 2017, we had rod cocksucker rosenstein as AG and jim comey leading the corrupt FBI.

Think about that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at F
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It's a different age, to be sure!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (XjTSo)

599 All dems plus the druggie from Alaska and the lesbian from Maine. 51-49 confirmed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (CEAEi)

600 Ok, get Patel's ass sworn in, fire some fuckers, and release the Epstein list.

By close of play today (been watching Sandbaggers).

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (ufFY8)

601 Miss Lindsey speaking. Shut up you putz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 02:28 PM (3qNrw)

602 I am convinced the Senators who are not voting for Trump picks want to preserve the Deep State status quo as long as possible

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 02:28 PM (fwDg9)

603 Definitely lean left, but the jokes are about video games. It's all good.

Anyway, they got the game to review and they're take?

"It's...fine."

Japanese people are very angry about the game, not surprisingly. It's based on a story of a real black guy in Japan in the 1500s, but he was the butler for a samurai and didn't kill people. The wokes decided that was close enough, and I believe also threw in hints that he's gay.

You can also play as a white girlboss, because of course you can, but that just gets yawns now.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:28 PM (2ocoG)

604 Countdown to Hawaiian judge ruling Patel can't make personnel changes.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (7uxlX)

Reassign them to an airbase in North Dakota. They can stew there until they quit or get fired. Or to ICE.

But the TROs are getting played out.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:28 PM (n7h9X)

605 hahaha, Lindsey Graham on the floor now crying about people trashing his budget

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 02:29 PM (V6W16)

606 604 But the TROs are getting played out.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:28 PM (n7h9X)

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Notice how few injunctions have actually come from this tactic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

607 You know Hillary is on her 3rd bottle of chardonnay and chucking the empties across the room.

Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (oiNtH)

608 Patel is in. Let's see how he does.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (g8Ew8)

609 605 hahaha, Lindsey Graham on the floor now crying about people trashing his budget
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 02:29 PM (V6W16)

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Dude is short.

I should have shoved him in my pocket that one time I met him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

610 And I strongly suspect to hear news in the next 24 hours of A LOT of Firings at the FBI.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (pM4iv)

I heard 6000 are already gone.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (n7h9X)

611 Are the nominations made by Dem presidents ever this close?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (kTd/k)

612 nood

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (5xgzq)

613 Kash confirmed

Posted by: RUReadingthis at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (aQ25I)

614
How much fake "foreign aid" is in graham's stupid budget??

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (pM4iv)

615 608 Patel is in. Let's see how he does.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (g8Ew

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Well, he hasn't done anything yet.

So, he's a cuck sellout who's going to stab Trump in the back!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

616 583 Countdown to Hawaiian judge ruling Patel can't make personnel changes.
Posted by: Halfhand
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Difference is that he can now start investigations of those judges like McConnell who was ruling in a case where he benefitted from AID spending.

Most of the DC judges are dirty through spouses, former employment, FISA abuse rulings, etc. You just have to find their malfeasance and misfeasance.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (ctrM5)

617 My God Ill never watch a senate live again

Ive never seen so many worthless fleshbags just idling around the floor with their limpy dick in their hands, and that includes the women scrunts

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (HYKHz)

618 607 You know Hillary is on her 3rd bottle of chardonnay and chucking the empties across the room.
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (oiNtH)

don't forget me ...

Posted by: The Lamp at February 20, 2025 02:31 PM (TTAGa)

619 I don't think any Senator is afraid of Patel. I think they're afraid of the people who are afraid of Patel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:31 PM (BI5O2)

620 Nood - Patel's confirmation w/flaming skull.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 20, 2025 02:32 PM (9Ovst)

621 Dude is short.

I should have shoved him in my pocket that one time I met him.

Vindman was on X the other night posting that he stands with Ukraine. Someone replied and said that didn't mean much because Col. Bearclaw is short.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 02:32 PM (2ocoG)

622 At this time in 2017, we had rod cocksucker rosenstein as AG and jim comey leading the corrupt FBI.

Think about that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 02:25 PM (pM4iv)

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I hope at this time in 2026, they're among a large group of traitors on death row in some federal PMITA prison -- or preferably Club Gitmo being waterboarded first.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 02:33 PM (/Ahyr)

623 597 I don't care about the Epstein list as much as purging the anti-American scum from the FBI.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (UseAb)

I wonder if there is any overlap.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 20, 2025 02:33 PM (Sf2cq)

624 Well, he hasn't done anything yet.

So, he's a cuck sellout who's going to stab Trump in the back!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February

I know you're kidding... But the fact that he got confirmation has me worried, if I'm being honest, same as anyone else. If they made it through the Senate, they're probably bent.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

625 Notice how few injunctions have actually come from this tactic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

Trump is playing it well, even the lefty judges are starting to reject them outright with hemming and hawing. The directive from on top is no, you can't block the President's picks and hiring and firing power.

That's why I am less bothered about confirmation votes for Dems. Barring a foreign threat of treason, if the Dem wants a farcical director you might as well let him have it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:34 PM (n7h9X)

626 624 I know you're kidding... But the fact that he got confirmation has me worried, if I'm being honest, same as anyone else. If they made it through the Senate, they're probably bent.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

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You'll never be happy!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

627 605 hahaha, Lindsey Graham on the floor now crying about people trashing his budget
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything
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He tried to stiff Trump via the two bill strategy in the Senate. Trump now has positioned behind the House single reconciliation bill strategy.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:35 PM (ctrM5)

628 I know you're kidding... But the fact that he got confirmation has me worried, if I'm being honest, same as anyone else. If they made it through the Senate, they're probably bent.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

I have no doubt that if Patel acts against Trumps interest he will be gone, and DOGE will know who did it 10 minutes later.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:36 PM (n7h9X)

629 So, Chuck, how many ways from Sunday can the IC get you?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2025 02:36 PM (PiwSw)

630 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2025 02:37 PM (PiwSw)

631 I know you're kidding... But the fact that he got confirmation has me worried, if I'm being honest, same as anyone else. If they made it through the Senate, they're probably bent.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The key bit occurred in the shadows several weeks ago, both Kash and Tulsi had to agree to support the current lawless and awful 702 FISA provisions.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

632 597 I don't care about the Epstein list as much as purging the anti-American scum from the FBI.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (UseAb)

I wonder if there is any overlap.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 20, 2025 02:33 PM (Sf2cq)

probably not, even the Comey level FBI head isn't enough of a high flyer to interest Epstein.

I'm 100 pct sure there are other honey traps for lower echelon players they get ensnared in instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:38 PM (n7h9X)

633 So, Chuck, how many ways from Sunday can the IC get you?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Perfect!!

Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2025 02:39 PM (oiNtH)

634 My God Ill never watch a senate live again

Ive never seen so many worthless fleshbags just idling around the floor with their limpy dick in their hands, and that includes the women scrunts
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 20, 2025 02:30 PM (HYKHz)

England and Canada are dumpster fires but at least their PM's questions have a bit of theatre to them. We should incorporate something on those lines for fun.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2025 02:41 PM (n7h9X)

635 Who replaces Misbegotten Mitch ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at February 20, 2025 02:42 PM (ayRl+)

636 The key bit occurred in the shadows several weeks ago, both Kash and Tulsi had to agree to support the current lawless and awful 702 FISA provisions.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

I'm actually in favor of that restriction, since that should be congress' job so it would be harder to put them back.

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637 Connecticut has a long tradition of producing Senators who are complete a$$holes.

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638 Does he have an accent? I've never heard him speak.
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