Politico: Internal Democrat Polling Shows "Massive Branding Problem"

Ah, of course. Politico reports this in terms of the Democrats' preferred framing, that their problems only have to do with "messaging" and "branding," and not at all with their core pseudo-religious cult doctrines.

You just have to stop saying "LatinX" and then bob's your uncle!

The Democratic Party's brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds.
Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are "more focused on helping other people than people like me," according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they're focused on others.
The polling, shared first with POLITICO, is one of the first comprehensive surveys of voters in swing congressional districts since November 2024. House Democratic members and staff are scheduled to hear from one of the researchers, who will present their findings, at their caucus' Issues Conference on Wednesday in Leesburg, Virginia. The meeting is aimed at guiding members' messaging as they prepare for the 2026 midterms, and the survey suggests the party has an enormous amount of work to do to repair its image.
"The Democratic brand is still not where it needs to be in terms of core trust and understanding people's challenges," said Molly Murphy, one of the pollsters who worked on the research by Navigator, a project within the Hub Project, a Democratic nonprofit group. "Even though voters are critical about Trump and some of the things he's doing, that criticism of Trump doesn't translate into trust in Democrats. The trust has to be earned."
Especially alarming for Democrats were findings around voters' views of Democrats and work. Just 44 percent of those polled said they think Democrats respect work, while even fewer -- 39 percent -- said the party values work. Only 42 percent said Democrats share their values. A majority, meanwhile -- 56 percent -- said Democrats are not looking out for working people.
Only 39 percent believe Democrats have the right priorities.
"We've always had the stigma of being the 'welfare party,' but I do think this is related to a post-Covid feeling that we don't care about people working, and we've had a very long hangover from that, which feels really, really consequential," Murphy said. "How can you care about working people if you don't care about work? It's going to be really hard in the midterms if voters don't think we care about work."
Republicans, too, face their own branding problems, according to the survey, with 54 percent of voters saying they view Republicans in Congress unfavorably. Only about a third of voters said they approve of the GOP's handling of the economy.

David Strom points out that this means 46% of the public approves of congressional Republicans -- which Strom remarks is nearly miraculous. When are congressional approval rates ever above 50%? Or even close to 50%?

But Democrats' difficulties appear to go deeper. For example, the poll found a whopping 69 percent of voters said Democrats were "too focused on being politically correct." Another 51 percent said "elitist" described the Democratic Party well.

Sounds like they don't have a problem with their brand so much as a problem with their core ideology of elevating niche preoccupations over more important concerns that affect everybody.

When a party is disfavored by the public, you always see retirements. It's not just that the losing party fears they may be turned out of office unless they resign. It's also that it's no fun to work in the minority, with little chance of actually doing anything.

Plus the opportunities for grift are so much poorer when you don't have power. No one's giving insider information to a corrupt Democrat who can't even pass a bill to boost their stock price.

Two Democrat Senators have already announced they won't seek reelection. Now a third joins them.

Conventional wisdom around midterms usually has the party in the White House losing steam as voters correct for overreach. So why have three Senate Democrats already announced their intent to retire ahead of the 2026 elections?
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Jeanne Shaheen made the surprising announcement this morning that she would forego a fourth term, following Tina Smith in Minnesota and Gary Peters in Michigan. Shaheen probably would have had a decent incumbent advantage in New Hampshire -- and Chris Sununu had already passed on challenging her.

Obviously it's way too early for tea leaves. BUT, now that you've mentioned it, if we are looking at tea leaves, it sure seems that Democrats don't believe they'll be taking the majority in the Senate any time soon.

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Posted by: GF at March 12, 2025 01:16 PM (mWnfv)

2 Yeah, it's not the pedos or the grooming. It's branding.

FFS.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:16 PM (i24o9)

3 The Democratic Party's brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds.

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Death isn't popular?

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:16 PM (cqQTU)

4 Just how do you "brand" a tub of shit so it sells to anyone who isn't plankton stupid?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:17 PM (pohLc)

5 Its just science... there's that side-by-side plot that shows libs care more about animals and rocks than they do their neighbor or countryman

Posted by: McCool at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM (HiQvG)

6 Isn't Politico funded entirely by USAID?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM (KiBMU)

7 Dems have a branding problem? I'm sure any of our Horde ranchers could fix that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM (hOk1M)

8 You know who else had a branding problem?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM (i24o9)

9 Politico: Internal Democrat Polling Shows "Massive Branding Problem"

Gee, that's a real shame. I'm sure David Hogg will fix this real soon. Bwahahahahahaha

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM (aBgBM)

10 Well, yeah I can see why branding might be an issue. I mean, tats are bad enough, but, actual brands?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

11 I think the branding problem goes beyond messaging.

It's general perception of the party, which does include issues.

But, the biggest thing, culturally, is the fact that they're deeply uncool.

They're corporate. Corporate cannot be cool, definitionally.

Biden had a big part in creating that image after Obama. So did Hillary. So does Elizabeth Warren.

And they can't break out of it until they break out of corporate control. It'd be like trying to make the GOP circa 2015 cool without Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

12 Things libs care about heatmap
https://tinyurl.com/28omyubs

Posted by: McCool at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (HiQvG)

13 Politico: Internal Democrat Polling Shows "Massive Branding Problem"

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Democrat Underground summed it up perfectly. From earlier this morning in JJs morning report:

"Newsom is a moderate Democrat. He opposes trans women who didn't transition until after puberty playing in women's sports."

Do you see it?

Not sexually abusing children is now a middle of the road squishy Democrat platform.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (qSMcm)

14 wen politico bankruptcy filing?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger: Ready to Free Ukrainian Wagshambas From Zelensky Tyranny at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (HYKHz)

15 Schumer should retire now, before even bigger trouble starts. Can you imagine how the leftist rank and file will turn on Demofascist leaders in Congress when party "messaging" results in a midterm shellacking?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (2mTB2)

16 This would be bad news for us if the Republicans could find their ass with either hand, Fat.

Posted by: Joe Biden's Last Brain Cell at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (7iPGh)

17 Let's go Brandon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (vDK5Y)

18 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.

Posted by: Sid at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (4yjdq)

19 At this pace, the Dems are going to get piledriven at the midterms harder than Mrs Lowry when it's Paolo's shift at the mail route

Posted by: gKWVE at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (gKWVE)

20 Democrats have always had the Media carry their water. But trust in the Media is at least as low as trust in Democrats.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (WPL6O)

21
lulz, rosie odonnell was just mentioned at the presser, and PDT laughed but refrained from calling her a "fat pig."

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:21 PM (3S46h)

22 Ok, I would really like to know the derivation of the phrase 'Bob's you're uncle!'

British?

Bob as in Robert, presumably.

Ace must be watching Doctor Who again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 12, 2025 01:21 PM (zZu0s)

23 When your "brand" is determined and sold primarily by lunatic women it won't be a buyers market without rigged voting.

Posted by: Gary R at March 12, 2025 01:21 PM (g3KvP)

24
"Branding."
Is that what you kids are calling it now?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at March 12, 2025 01:21 PM (DobEs)

25 So why have three Senate Democrats already announced their intent to retire ahead of the 2026 elections?

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The grift is drying up
The grift is drying up
l-o-l-g-f
The grift is drying up

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:21 PM (cqQTU)

26 The british call the backyard the garden.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (vDK5Y)

27 I think the branding problem goes beyond messaging.

It's general perception of the party, which does include issues.

But, the biggest thing, culturally, is the fact that they're deeply uncool.

They're corporate. Corporate cannot be cool, definitionally.

Biden had a big part in creating that image after Obama. So did Hillary. So does Elizabeth Warren.

And they can't break out of it until they break out of corporate control. It'd be like trying to make the GOP circa 2015 cool without Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

Don't encourage them (Politico).

They rape and castrate kids.

That is unappealing to almost everyone on the planet except for a small contingent of zealots for which there is no non-terminal solution.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (i24o9)

28 13 "Newsom is a moderate Democrat. He opposes trans women who didn't transition until after puberty playing in women's sports."

Do you see it?

Not sexually abusing children is now a middle of the road squishy Democrat platform.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (qSMcm)

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And no one will believe him.

All that matters regarding the 2028 primary will be Newsom's brand. He cannot walk back the brand of being governor of CA, no matter what he says.

Blacks won't vote for him in the primary, and Midwestern Democrats who have been Democrat since granddaddy personally got a job from FDR during the Depression won't vote for him in the primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

29 At this pace, the Dems are going to get piledriven at the midterms harder than Mrs Lowry when it's Paolo's shift at the mail route
Posted by: gKWVE at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (gKWVE)

Seems like there's an opportunity to make a Ugandan Pall Bearers joke...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (zZu0s)

30 Michigan has showed an annoying tendency to elect woke women, so that seat will stay Democrat.

New Hampshire is a colony of Massholes and the GOP runs very mediocre candidates there. That won't flip.

Minnesota gonna Minnesota.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (DIweC)

31 Enron had a branding problem too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (3NiEn)

32 Pre Election the Left Media was always accusing Trump of being a Populist...

Which THEY define as a Politician who caters to a portion of the Electorate who believes that Elites in Power do not care about their concerns.

Which, they somehow thought was an attack that would stick... making something good... sound evil...

Like Transphobia... listen buttercup, I don't fear Trans, I'm disgusted by it...

Populist... it's a Feature, not a Bug.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (QAkQ3)

33 The Dim party is under the control of extremist imbeciles. They will not tolerate individual thought. Have a thought not approved by leadership, you get canceled. They are a herd of geldings. There ain't gonna be any new blood.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (pohLc)

34 The Donk politicians are more interested in helping themselves than anybody else. If you let them steal enough, they'll let you have some crumbs from their table.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

35 It used to be that after an electoral loss Democrats would complain that the populace was too stupid to understand their pitch. If they're now blaming the pitch itself, maybe that's progress. And as we all know, Democrats are great at introspection.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (bNf8H)

36 >>>Obviously it's way too early for tea leaves. BUT, now that you've mentioned it, if we are looking at tea leaves, it sure seems that Democrats don't believe they'll be taking the majority in the Senate any time soon.

I'm far too cynical to say I think we are in the midst of a gigantic reorganization of US politics and a massive preference cascade away from the status quo.

But it does feel that way.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (uCjyK)

37 You know who else had a branding problem?

Chuck Connors?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (GYt5+)

38 Don't worry. The GOPe is pretty efficient about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I have no doubt they have a plan for losing as much as possible while retaining a very bare majority to provide the illusion they have any real power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (7fElN)

39 Same as always. The stupid rubes don’t understand how awesome we are. We have to lie to them better.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (Qeko5)

40 Look for the union label.

Posted by: Like SEIU at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (DobEs)

41 New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) will not seek reelection in 2026, the senator announced on Wednesday.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (RHGPo)

42 Here's their other issue: they are all so bloody old. Their leadership is older than me and has been in office since I graduated high school. There is no way they represent change.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (7PR43)

43 Political parties are never out in the wilderness for very long. Too much money and power involved.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (PzXaK)

44 Singing, cursing dance videos should fix it.

Posted by: huerfano at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (n2swS)

45 You know who else had a branding problem?

Chuck Connors?
Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (GYt5+)

Pee Wee Herman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (zZu0s)

46 In a way I am jealous. Democrats will absolutely die on the hills of sex changes for children, men in women sports, and protecting criminal migrants from deportation. Republicans won't even fight for solid 80-20 issues like border security and spending reduction.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (DIweC)

47 Democrats have a branding problem because our tax dollars are no longer funding their propaganda.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (tT6L1)

48 The Ford Pinto had a branding problem.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (3NiEn)

49 I think the issue with Democrats is a little bit more than just "branding."

There's a significant list involved.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)

50 Trump just said, "Schumer's a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish but now he's a Palestinian."

Go PDT!!!!

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (aBgBM)

51 Let's not be sucking each others junk just yet.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (g8Ew8)

52 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) recently embarrassed himself on ABC News when he claimed, "Donald Trump and Republicans consistently promised that they were going to lower the high cost of living, and they've done the exact opposite."

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (RHGPo)

53 When a party is disfavored by the public, you always see retirements. It's not just that the losing party fears they may be turned out of office unless they resign. It's also that it's no fun to work in the minority, with little chance of actually doing anything.

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Sounds like the standard modus operandi for Republicans.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (qBdHI)

54 by "branding" we are not talking about NXIVM, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (D7oie)

55 I'm far too cynical to say I think we are in the midst of a gigantic reorganization of US politics and a massive preference cascade away from the status quo.

But it does feel that way.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:23 PM (uCjyK)

Dude, don't jinx it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (i24o9)

56 I do want to remind everyone that in 2016, every Republican on that stage except for Trump either did not talk about immigration at all, or was in favor of some flavor of "comprehensive immigration reform" (ie: amnesty for the millions already here).

Now there are many people openly saying we need to massively limit legal immigration.

Including Steve Bannon. I'll admit I've never really listened to the guy. But he was on Tim Dillon's podcast recently. Which is odd, Tim Dillon is usually fairly non political, he's a comedian.

But Bannon said "the whole H1B thing is a scam" and my ears perked up. Great interview.

I hope he still has the ear of Trump. Because the guy was 100% right on every subject I heard him talking about.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)

57 Whenever Dems lose Chris Matthews says "we didn't get our message out."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (63Dwl)

58 The DemocraticX Party's brand is in rough shape

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (RHGPo)

59 Quasimodo has a branding problem too

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

60 The Democratic Party

Come for easy, free sex with liberal chicks.

Stay because the trannies hold you down and do very bad things to you...

Posted by: Stateless...56% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (jvJvP)

61 Huh. Can't believe someone who decided to take on Trump is having trouble with their "branding".

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (mL1/V)

62 Ok we Democrats are mass murdering communists. But we have puppies!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (2Km7O)

63 Was going to put this in the Morning Rant, but....

What President Trump & Co. are doing with the American economy is like doing field surgery under combat conditions -- they have to cut out the government cancer FAST to keep the patient alive and give her a chance of survival.

Hold fast, y'all.

My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.

Posted by: Beverly at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (Epeb0)

64 It would be nice to not only keep the House, but massively expand the majority for Trump's final two years. I really don't want to live with 2 more years of Orange Man Bad Impeachment Theatre which is surely to come again with a Democratic House.

Posted by: Liberty at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (wmcPi)

65 To be fair the democrats only win with massive mail in voter fraud two weeks after election day.
If mail in voting is such a good thing why haven't we done it all along? Mail system is older than the country.

Posted by: Reforger at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (xcIvR)

66 Honestly, I do not think anyone gives a shit about illegal immigrants, but let's stop offering steaks and blowjobs to illegals. Close the floodgates. People who want to sign the guest book are fine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (zZu0s)

67 The dems definitely have a messaging problem - that's because their message is stupid.

Posted by: LASue at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (lCppi)

68 Spiders have a branding problem.

Donks have a child rape and mutilation problem.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (i24o9)

69 57 Whenever Dems lose Chris Matthews says "we didn't get our message out."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

.. it is always a messaging problem to them

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (RHGPo)

70 Bud Lite had a branding problem too

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

71 also, I think they mean "branding" in corporate-America speak. As in, everyone is a brand, and brand just means "what we are and what we do."

Like ace's "Brand" is being an anonymous blogger with a 1990's-era blog and a raucous comment section.

So they're saying "who we are is the problem" when they use the word "branding" instead of "messaging" (which in Corporate-America speak means advertising)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (uCjyK)

72 The Democrats brand really resonates in Canada. They should go up there and get their trannies to dominate girls hockey.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (wBaIH)

73 Two Democrat Senators have already announced they won't seek reelection. Now a third joins them.

Remember, that's not 3 out of 100. There are only 35 seats up in 2026, and 2 of those are special elections for Vance's and Rubio's seats, now that they're in the Executive.

So it's 3 out of 33 quitters. 9%.

And if we're only talking about Democrats, they only have 13 sitting senators up for reelection in 2026, Republicans have the other 22 (or 24 with the two special elections.)

So it's actually 3 out of 13 quitters. 23%. It's a f**king race for the exits.

Posted by: mikeski at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (DgGvY)

74 Democrats normalize creeps, perverts and assholes.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (rJ48h)

75 When your brand is Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, and that freak from New Jersey, then, yeah, you have a 'branding' problem.

Let 'em think that it's the branding and messaging. Let's see how that plays out in '26.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (Cw7cn)

76 52

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries = Nancy Pelosi House Boy.

Posted by: Auspex at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (j4U/Z)

77 43 Political parties are never out in the wilderness for very long. Too much money and power involved.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:24 PM (PzXaK)

Plus there is a slice of voters, 10% or so, who have no real political leanings. They vote on feelz and what Facebook says. Sometimes that’s Republican sometimes it’s Democrats.

In a 2 party system, no party will win or lose forever. Doing nothing is probably the best thing to do post election losses. Just be there as an alternative to the party in power and that’s like 90-% of the effort.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (Qeko5)

78 Branding problem? They just need a new logo, like maybe a cross turned 45 degrees, or maybe silver lightning bolt lapel pins. Also maybe some snazzy uniforms and boots.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (v0R5T)

79 What's the over-under on retiring Democrats in the House?

Posted by: Uncle Bob at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (th/4a)

80 >>Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.

Posted by: Sid at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM

So, everyone in your family ate lead paint chips, not just you.

Posted by: huerfano at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (n2swS)

81 Trump just said, "Schumer's a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish but now he's a Palestinian."

Go PDT!!!!
Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:25 PM (aBgBM)

That’s fantastic. Schumer is gonna blow a seal. Maybe an otter.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (49Z/w)

82 The truth is patently obvious. There was a time when the Democrat party had a message. You can call that a brand if you want to. It was more of a disingenuous reputation for supporting the common man, the blue collar worker, and those subjugated by "the man."

Then the whole dynamic of the party changed to provide preference to the loudest among them. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. So was born a political party where "one issue" factions became the structure. Essentially, the party became a collection of Lobbyists. They haven't had a "singular" message in over 4 decades. And, it wasn't a gradual change.

As a result, to gain "support" in bulk they Democrat candidates are forced to latch onto all the lobbyist nonsense (even when it is mutually exclusive and contradictive). It doesn't help that the loudest among these factions is certifiably crazy.

Posted by: Orson at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (dIske)

83 All Democrats have to offer is personal assassination, they really do think they can build a political party around Elon Musk hate.

That being said, Republicans need to be able to govern and knock off this True Conservative nonsense that people like Massie are engaging in.

We're like one "accident" away from losing a majority and Trump being a lame duck.

Posted by: Leupold at March 12, 2025 01:28 PM (4pwAx)

84 You just have to stop saying "LatinX" and then bob's your uncle!

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Did you just assume bob's gender?!!

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (B9Prs)

85 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries = Nancy Pelosi House Boy.
Posted by: Auspex
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$10 says that coffee he brings her in the morning is half whiskey.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (v0R5T)

86 As Gil Favor explained some years ago . . .

Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope and throw and brand 'em
Soon we'll be livin' high and wide

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)

87 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.

Posted by: Sid at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM

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Man, I'm not changing this one.

Hilarious.

Canadians are stupid. And Sid believes them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

88 Was going to put this in the Morning Rant, but....

What President Trump & Co. are doing with the American economy is like doing field surgery under combat conditions -- they have to cut out the government cancer FAST to keep the patient alive and give her a chance of survival.

Hold fast, y'all.

My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.
Posted by: Beverly at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (Epeb0)

Agreed! the WSJ and the rest of the MFM will use any dip to try to panic us. We need to ignore them and be patient. Remember Reagan

Posted by: LASue at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (lCppi)

89 66 Honestly, I do not think anyone gives a shit about illegal immigrants, but let's stop offering steaks and blowjobs to illegals. Close the floodgates. People who want to sign the guest book are fine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (zZu0s)

Oh, I give a shit about immigrants. Both legal and illegal. I think it is one of the most important issues in the US, and largely the western world, right. An issue that could very well be seen as the beginning of the end of Pax Americana and the American Hegemony.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (uCjyK)

90 So now I await the inevitable reboot of the Jeremy Kauffman candidacy for US Senator from NH

youtu.be/HL2xw2rNbz8

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (D7oie)

91 The Dim party is under the control of extremist imbeciles. They will not tolerate individual thought. Have a thought not approved by leadership, you get canceled. They are a herd of geldings. There ain't gonna be any new blood.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (pohLc)

This is true. But two years is a long time in the political arena. A lot of time for change....or not.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (g8Ew8)

92 Unlikely, but if the Trump-American Resurrection & Renaissance leads to a trouncing of the Communist Democrats in The House and (can you imagine?) 60 votes in The Senate -- the #WINNING possible in Trump's final two years is incalculable.

A man can dream ... of a generation or three of commies in the wilderness.

I saw Commies In The Wilderness open for Gorillas In The Mist at the Bangor Drive-In around '88.

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (cqQTU)

93 You know who else had a branding problem ??

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)

94 91 The Dim party is under the control of extremist imbeciles. They will not tolerate individual thought. Have a thought not approved by leadership, you get canceled. They are a herd of geldings. There ain't gonna be any new blood.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (pohLc)

======

Posit:

USAID money got these imbeciles in power. However, the lack of USAID won't get them out of power easily.

They're in for the long haul.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

95 Each battle with Trump Democrats were saying "we've got him now!"

Every time.

And they never noticed him lowering the peg before each next "victory". Dumbasses.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (mL1/V)

96 lol

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)

97 Kamala Harris is the perfect face of the Democratic party. Incompetent, stupid, clueless, stupid, inarticulate, stupid, disingenuous, stupid, scatterbrained, stupid, mealymouthed, stupid, unserious, and did I mention stupid?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (pohLc)

98 Yeah, I know they will turn it around but... damn I haven't seen the Democrats in this bad shape since 1994. They are hugely unpopular, their entire brand is awful. And their usual response of DOUBLE DOWN EVEN MOAR!!! Isn't working this time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (2VST1)

99 There ain't gonna be any new blood.

There is new blood. But it’s David Hogg.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (49Z/w)

100 Obviously Democrats didn't push the abortion issue hard enough.

Posted by: Acme Political Consultants, Inc. at March 12, 2025 01:31 PM (qUkBO)

101 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.
Posted by: Sid

This makes me happy. But then, I'm probably a Bad Person.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 12, 2025 01:31 PM (/y8xj)

102 We started branding them already? Are the camps open?

Posted by: Weasel at March 12, 2025 01:31 PM (lG3Q4)

103
"branding" we are not talking about NXIVM, right?
Posted by: Kindltot

Omega Psi Phi

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2025 01:31 PM (63Dwl)

104 Oh, I give a shit about immigrants. Both legal and illegal. I think it is one of the most important issues in the US, and largely the western world, right. An issue that could very well be seen as the beginning of the end of Pax Americana and the American Hegemony.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:29 PM (uCjyK)

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

I think Western Europe is lost.

And we were one more stolen election away from following them ...

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (cqQTU)

105 Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are "more focused on helping other people than people like me,"

And that was true in 2024 as well and yet somehow the Dems came within a hair's breathe of taking the house.

Overturning the fake census results, dealing with gerrymandering, and straight up vote fraud are things Trump is going to have to start working on soon

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (t0Rmr)

106 My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.
Posted by: Beverly

This is the approach I’ve taken for the past 30 years since I started investing. I’ve never sold anything really. Other than short term stuff options and shit.

But portfolio stuff, retirement money? Never sold. Not post 9/11 not 2008 not Covid. Ride that shit out. Those who panic sell never recover. Because by the time they buy back in, prices are higher than when they sold.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (Qeko5)

107 The Democrat Brand has a problem in the same way that Slamming Your Dick in a Car Door has gotten a bum rap.

Posted by: ballistic at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (GCYXl)

108 99 There ain't gonna be any new blood.

There is new blood. But it’s David Hogg.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (49Z/w)

=======

Who sounds like anyone else currently in power but with more cursing.

Trump didn't upturn the GOP because he was new or young. He was old and, well, pretty old.

He upturned the GOP because he had the platform to say unsayable things.

"Deport all illegals and free medical care for all," would win a Democrat primary pretty easily, if people heard it. But the established order refuses to let anyone say the first part.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

109 Is it true that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) can make paint dry even slower ?

Not only that, you wouldn't BELIEVE how much he can slow the growing of grass....

Looks like he smokes a bit too much grass.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

110 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now

THE CANADIANS ONLY WANT PEAS!1!!111

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (D7oie)

111
I think Western Europe is lost.

And we were one more stolen election away from following them ...

Remember the EU is saving OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY (TM) by banning the guy who won the election on Romania from running in the do-ever election

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (t0Rmr)

112 Jeanne Shaheen made the surprising announcement this morning that she would forego a fourth term, following Tina Smith in Minnesota and Gary Peters in Michigan.

====

Such luminaries. How will we go on without them?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (RIvkX)

113 I'm not optimistic about the stock market, it's simply gone retarded for too long.

It likely will be a headwind for Trump and Republicans in the midterms, we're due for a Bear market and Biden has just been flooding the zone with helicopter money. It has to stop.

Posted by: Leupold at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (4pwAx)

114 18 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.
Posted by: Sid at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (4yjdq)

lol, good.

Keep them on edge. Helps our negotiating position.

But they'd have to be real class A retards to truly believe that Trump is going to bomb Canada. But, you gotta deal with the people you gotta deal with. Even if they are real class A retards.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (uCjyK)

115 >>>You just have to stop saying "LatinX" and then bob's your uncle!

Transitionally, Barb's your uncle.

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (CQE5S)

116 I heard a pundit -- a major one, but I cannot remember who -- said recently that they see the Democratic Party going away, dead as a party. Then they see the GOP splitting into two parties: one "moderate" left leaning and the other MAGA. I dunno, but right now that looks more likely than not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (2VST1)

117 You know how it is possible for two Republicans to have different opinions on an issue; e.g. IVF.

It seems that all Demoncraps are in lock-step on every nutcase issue. No individual thought is permitted.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (ZmEVT)

118 97 Kamala Harris is the perfect face of the Democratic party. Incompetent, stupid, clueless, stupid, inarticulate, stupid, disingenuous, stupid, scatterbrained, stupid, mealymouthed, stupid, unserious, and did I mention stupid?
_____

Hey, I'm not unserious!

Posted by: Kamalamadingdong at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (qUkBO)

119 66 Honestly, I do not think anyone gives a shit about illegal immigrants, but let's stop offering steaks and blowjobs to illegals. Close the floodgates. People who want to sign the guest book are fine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (zZu0s)

There are now 1.5 million LEGAL immigrants per year... over a 30 year span, that is 45 Million foreign born now living in the US... almost 12% of the population.

Gov estimates are 13.9% of US population is foreign born... which number I don't believe, as we know the gov low balls the amount of Illegal Aliens by a significant number.

No society can be stable, with that many people coming in... they won't assimilate... which is EXACTLY what I see here in Central Calif.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (QAkQ3)

120 80 >>Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.

Posted by: Sid at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM

There's a lot of us that would welcome the shelling.

Depending on where they are supposed to land....

Posted by: Stateless...56% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (jvJvP)

121 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now

THE CANADIANS ONLY WANT PEAS!1!!111

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (D7oie)

Can it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (i24o9)

122 97 Kamala Harris is the perfect face of the Democratic party. Incompetent, stupid, clueless, stupid, inarticulate, stupid, disingenuous, stupid, scatterbrained, stupid, mealymouthed, stupid, unserious, and did I mention stupid?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (pohLc)

Don't forget "coated with bukkake"

Posted by: gKWVE at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

123 We started branding them already? Are the camps open?
Posted by: Weasel
......

We also should clamp tags in their ears with their number.
Just to be sure.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (v0R5T)

124 Thats right Sid. You and your iceback brood best buy an asshole stretcher, and prep for the coming buttholing, which you got coming.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (pohLc)

125 69 57 Whenever Dems lose Chris Matthews says "we didn't get our message out."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

.. it is always a messaging problem to them

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:27 PM (RHGPo)

If true, this should cause the Democrats to replace all of their consultants and Media lapdogs with better con artists, at least ten times per year. Gee, why hasn't that happended?

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (aBgBM)

126 My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.

As the real economic numbers come out and we struggle to recover from Bidenomics things will indeed be rough.

Trump's goal though has to be economic stabilization by the summer of 2028 to prepare for the election...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (t0Rmr)

127 But they'd have to be real class A retards to truly believe that Trump is going to bomb Canada. But, you gotta deal with the people you gotta deal with. Even if they are real class A retards.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (uCjyK)

Now let's not be too dismissive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (i24o9)

128 117 You know how it is possible for two Republicans to have different opinions on an issue; e.g. IVF.

It seems that all Demoncraps are in lock-step on every nutcase issue. No individual thought is permitted.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (ZmEVT)

=======

Some minor leftist personality had a xeet recently.

Charlie Kirk was happy to just have coffee with her. Some other leftist refused to talk to her because she disagreed about some issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

129 Come home Sid! Momma needs to change your nappies.

Posted by: Sid's Mom at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (i/l90)

130 It's also that it's no fun to work in the minority, with little chance of actually doing anything.

GOPe congresscritters seem to enjoy it.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (NIkq3)

131 "Aziz! Light!"

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (RHGPo)

132 Remember the EU is saving OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY (TM) by banning the guy who won the election on Romania from running in the do-ever election
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (t0Rmr)

And spending lives and treasure supporting a Guy who cancelled Elections, as he fights off a guy who ... oh... shit... had elections.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (QAkQ3)

133 I heard a pundit -- a major one, but I cannot remember who -- said recently that they see the Democratic Party going away, dead as a party. Then they see the GOP splitting into two parties: one "moderate" left leaning and the other MAGA. I dunno, but right now that looks more likely than not.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (2VST1)

I thought that was just me, but I am hardly a pundit. A pun, or a punt, but not a pundit.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (D7oie)

134 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now
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THE CANADIANS ONLY WANT PEAS!1!!111

* golf clap *

Posted by: Oddbob at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (/y8xj)

135 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.
====

A whole country cannot possibly be as dumb as you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (RIvkX)

136 OT Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin has shamrocks in his jacket pocket.

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (CQE5S)

137 But portfolio stuff, retirement money? Never sold. Not post 9/11 not 2008 not Covid. Ride that shit out. Those who panic sell never recover. Because by the time they buy back in, prices are higher than when they sold.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (Qeko5)

Truth.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (g8Ew8)

138 >>>You just have to stop saying "LatinX" and then bob's your uncle!

Transitionally, Barb's your uncle.
Posted by: m
......

or Roberta.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

139 For five years, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has assumed that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. The BND classifies the laboratory theory as “probable” and is “80 to 95 percent” certain. Since then, the German government has kept secret the BND’s findings that the virus originated in the biolab in Wuhan . This is reported by NZZ, Zeit, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

140 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now./i]

Its funny, when the Uke government was doing this to the people in Eastern Ukraine I was told it was no biggie they were just targeting Extremists (TM) and it was no biggie. So as long as Trump calls Canuckistanis the same thing he's good to blow them up right?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

141 Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (v0R5T)
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Agreed, but I thought that was all scheduled in Phase II. Did I miss a memo?

Posted by: Weasel at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (lG3Q4)

142 We started branding them already? Are the camps open?
Posted by: Weasel
......

We also should clamp tags in their ears with their number.
Just to be sure.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (v0R5T)

We can chip them or give them the little tattoo like they do to cats after the neutering, because it is really hard to tell if they're neutered.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (i24o9)

143 Steven Hayward says average egg prices have declined about a third since inauguration day. Obviously, PDJT has nothing to do with it, but DemoSquats keep trying to blame him, so turnabout is fair play and now he gets credit for the higher supply (and subsequent price decline).

I guess Democrat egg messaging is now toast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (jqPhM)

144 Trump admin has got to figure out a way to correct vote fraud in Cali. The GOP lost how many districts to their neverending vote counting?

Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (dCxaZ)

145 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now

There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there. Because... Trump, I guess?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (2VST1)

146 Those who panic sell never recover. Because by the time they buy back in, prices are higher than when they sold.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (Qeko5)

Dude just gave away my investing secrets.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (i24o9)

147 Branding is only a problem when democrats lose house/senate seat front-holes.

Posted by: 13times at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (Xh0EK)

148 Die, DNC, die an awful, slow, painful death!

Couldn't happen to a better satanic religious cult!

Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (dCxaZ)

149
DJIA this morning: -370

DJIA now: +100

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (3S46h)

150 I think Western Europe is lost.

And we were one more stolen election away from following them ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:32 PM (cqQTU)

I largely agree. But I don't know if we can turn the ship in time, either, to be honest.

15% of the people the government acknowledges are in the US right now are foreign born. We know those numbers are bullshit, since the government claims there are only 10 million or so illegals here.

So the true number is probably closer to 25%. And that's not counting the US-born children of those foreign born people, many of whom are at child bearing age.

Mathematically, it would not surprise me if somewhere around half of Gen Alpha born in the US are born to people who were not born in the US.

Demographics shifts happen FAST.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:38 PM (uCjyK)

151 The obvious solution is that AOC needs to be their candidate for President. The people want MOAR GIRRRRRRL POWER!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2025 01:38 PM (RjOoY)

152 heard a pundit -- a major one, but I cannot remember who -- said recently that they see the Democratic Party going away, dead as a party. Then they see the GOP splitting into two parties: one "moderate" left leaning and the other MAGA. I dunno, but right now that looks more likely than not.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (2VST1)

Same shit was said by pundits about the gop post 2008 election. And then in 2010 gop flipped 60 house seats.

These predictions are always made and always wrong.

Let’s get some perspective. Trump won 49.9% and Kumala won 47.5%. But people act as if it was 75-25.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:38 PM (Qeko5)

153 There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there. Because... Trump, I guess?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (2VST1)

It's a propaganda push. It's silly.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:38 PM (uCjyK)

154 My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.
Posted by: Beverly at March 12, 2025 01:26 PM (Epeb0)

I agree. It's going to be 24/7 doom and gloom by the legacy media. Let the tariffs play out and see how many manufacturing jobs are added.

Posted by: ryukyu at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (251iY)

155 144 Trump admin has got to figure out a way to correct vote fraud in Cali. The GOP lost how many districts to their neverending vote counting?
Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (dCxaZ)

=======

Declare that the VRA applies to CA?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

156 Well in this case Demcorats really DO have a branding problem.

They used the Iraq War, rise of Obama, and general perfidy, deception and fecklessness of the GOP to corner the "morality" square, framing every single debate about "good" and "right", while being godless commie goons and assholes.

It was a recipe for a very lengthy stay in power. They were after all on "the right side of history" and what votes they didn't earn they were going to steal.

But then Trump came along and drew back the curtain on the moralizing and shaming, and displayed it's nasty freaky Freddy Krueger face to the world.

And as it happens people like nothing more than witnessing the fall of the self-anointed. But fear not - the GOP is getting ready once again to totally fuck up their nominal second chance.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (mL1/V)

157 People like Sid are why shampoo bottles have instructions

Posted by: Halfhand at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (v6x8d)

158
If eggs go Up: Trump's fault

If eggs go Down: President has no control over the price of eggs

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (3S46h)

159 I thought that was just me, but I am hardly a pundit. A pun, or a punt, but not a pundit.

Could have been? I honestly don't recall, I am sure I saw it on Youtube. My brain doesn't work as well these days.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (2VST1)

160 Remember, Biden ran on

1) No clot shot mandates
2) Keeping the border secure (while not being as mean as Trump)
3) Moderate spending increases but "only where needed"

And then of course he mandated the clot shot, opened the moderate and looted the treasury

So the problem the Dems actually have is that people will only believe their lies for a cycle or two, then the Dems have to go into the wilderness for people to forget how shitty they are

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

161
Give shells a chance.

Posted by: The Peas at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (DobEs)

162 Kamala Harris is the perfect face of the Democratic party. Incompetent, stupid, clueless, stupid, inarticulate, stupid, disingenuous, stupid, scatterbrained, stupid, mealymouthed, stupid, unserious, and did I mention stupid?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:30 PM (pohLc)

Don't forget "coated with bukkake"

Posted by: gKWVE at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

The Japanese dish made by pouring broth over cold noodles, like udon?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (i24o9)

163 127 But they'd have to be real class A retards to truly believe that Trump is going to bomb Canada. But, you gotta deal with the people you gotta deal with. Even if they are real class A retards.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (uCjyK)

Now let's not be too dismissive.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (i24o9)

Why NOT do it?

Real Men Kill.

Posted by: XTC at March 12, 2025 01:40 PM (UnA8+)

164 160 So the problem the Dems actually have is that people will only believe their lies for a cycle or two, then the Dems have to go into the wilderness for people to forget how shitty they are
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

========

The people did not believe Biden.

Unless six states shutting down ballot counting in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get him an Electoral College victory was actually a pretty innocent thing, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

165 "Shred And Burn All Documents": USAID Staff Ordered To Destroy Evidence On Tuesday

"I’ve never seen something like this..."

.. of course not .. when was the last time they shutdown a federal agency ?

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:40 PM (RHGPo)

166 I heard trump has moved 100,000 155 mm Paladins to the Canadian border. What gives?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (pohLc)

167 Oh yes, they've GOT to be neutered. And their wymmns need their tubes tied.
Sheesh, this is getting complicated, but it will create lots of jobs.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (v0R5T)

168 I thought Trump already nuked canada.

Oh wait. That was on that cartoon that predicts the future. Hasn't happened yet.

Posted by: Reforger at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (xcIvR)

169 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now

There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there. Because... Trump, I guess?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (2VST1)

BWAHAHAHA! Trump is gonna getcha!

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (g8Ew8)

170 Well, technically it is a messaging problem.

The message is, the people are getting the truth about Democrats.

But it's also their message. They and their base say stupid shit like "Project 2025 will turn America into a Christian Nationalist country!"
So not just false, maliciously false, but also insulting and excessively antagonistic toward the vast majority of Americans.

Explain how conflating Christianity with Nazism is good messaging?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (2EU+I)

171
They used the Iraq War, rise of Obama, and general perfidy, deception and fecklessness of the GOP to corner the "morality" square, framing every single debate about "good" and "right", while being godless commie goons and assholes./i]

I know some LIVs that still complain about Shrub and "all his wars". Needless to say they didn't like Shrub, but they were terrified of Kamala and her desire to start WWIII.

And it is funny how many new "far right wing" pundits and pols there are that became "far right" because they are continuing to say the things they said 10 years ago - look at RFK, Tulsi, Shanahan, etc....

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (t0Rmr)

172 166 I heard trump has moved 100,000 155 mm Paladins to the Canadian border. What gives?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (pohLc)

He got them back from Ukraine? That was quick work!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (QAkQ3)

173 139 For five years, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has assumed that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. The BND classifies the laboratory theory as “probable” and is “80 to 95 percent” certain. Since then, the German government has kept secret the BND’s findings that the virus originated in the biolab in Wuhan . This is reported by NZZ, Zeit, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

Now why would the BND do such a thing? Germany had no dog in that fight, right? It was the US Deep State and Chinese Communists who created Covid.

Hmmm... it's almost like the world intel agencies work together to propagandize their own populations.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:42 PM (uCjyK)

174 157 People like Sid are why shampoo bottles have instructions

Posted by: Halfhand at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (v6x8d)

Something tells me he got ahold of a plastic dry-cleaning bag when he was a toddler.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 12, 2025 01:42 PM (wtvvX)

175 I have an idea about how Democrats can increase interest. They need to market their own wine brand.

Perhaps they can call it "Ass of the Grape"?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (VNX3d)

176
Egyppius latest on the clown show going in Germany, and the clown that Fred Merz is:

https://tinyurl.com/2d8ezz3z

" The degeneration will continue, with each new government a lower-resolution and more beclowned carbon copy of the last, until the firewall collapses and Germany finds its way to a new kind of politics. In the meantime, things will just get stupider and stupider – stupider than you ever imagined they could get, and stupider than they have ever been before.'

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (w6EFb)

177 I guess Democrat egg messaging is now toast.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
......

It's pretty scrambled.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (v0R5T)

178 a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are "more focused on helping other people than people like me,"

Why phrase a question like that?

The phrasing alone explains why the Democrat party is in the shape it's in.

Why not just ask:
"Which political party most represents your interests and concerns about the direction of the country and government policies?"

No, they ask:
"Do you think the Democrat party is helping you, or those other people you don't like?"

"If we helped you and your people more, instead of those other people (you know the ones), then would you vote for Democrats?"

The (D) stands for Division.

It's not the messaging, it's the religion, stupid.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (6ydKt)

179 Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?

Posted by: TV long ago at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (DobEs)

180 There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (2VST1)

It's another Trumpmas miracle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (i24o9)

181 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 01:38 PM (Qeko5)

He nailed every swing state no thanks to people like you. You were wrong when you said he was going to lose and you were wrong when you trolled us about polls and said we were just cultists.

Don't forget "we" only let you hang around because we are a decent people.

IOW, don't stick your hand in the piranha tank - you won't like what comes back.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (mL1/V)

182 "But it's easy to talk about. It's easy to sum it up when we just talk about branding. We're sitting here ... I'm supposed to be the kids' groomer, and we're in here talking about branding. I mean, listen, we're talking about branding. Not Brandon. Not Brandon. Not Brandon. We're talking about branding. Not Brandon. Not the man that I go out there and blow for and groom every kid like it's my last. Not Brandon. We're talking about branding, man.

I mean how silly is that. And we're talking about branding. I know I'm supposed to be fair. I know I'm supposed to lead by example. I know that and I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important. I do, I honestly do. But we're talking about branding, man. What are we talking about? What are we talking about? Branding? We're talking about branding, man?

We're talking about branding. We're talking about branding. We ain't talking about Brandon. We're talking about branding, man."

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (sWScg)

183

Black women will save them because.

Just put more black women in ads and on tv and stuff.

Posted by: E Buzz at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (HUYTk)

184

6 Isn't Politico funded entirely by USAID?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 12, 2025 01:18 PM

--------

They were.

Posted by: Unemployed Politico Dickhead at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (HLgI3)

185 But it's also their message. They and their base say stupid shit like "Project 2025 will turn America into a Christian Nationalist country!"
So not just false, maliciously false, but also insulting and excessively antagonistic toward the vast majority of Americans.

If you convert lefty speak to normal human speak though they are sort of telling the truth...

Christian Nationalist = Normal America before 2008.
Fascist = Traditional Western culture
Theocracy = Christians are allowed to participate in politics

So, project 2025 is an attempt to return America to how it was before 2008 because traditional western culture is a good thing, built by Christians.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)

186 >It's pretty scrambled.

Who will save their bacon?

Posted by: Uh oh... at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (DobEs)

187 I guess Democrat egg messaging is now toast.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
......

It's pretty scrambled.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:43 PM (v0R5T)

They're cracking up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (i24o9)

188
Friends of Ireland luncheon to commence shortly.

Are they eating horrble mick food?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (3S46h)

189 Now why would the BND do such a thing? Germany had no dog in that fight, right? It was the US Deep State and Chinese Communists who created Covid.

Hmmm... it's almost like the world intel agencies work together to propagandize their own populations.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:42 PM (uCjyK)

I think German intelligence is still heavily controlled by the US.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (okun6)

190 188
Friends of Ireland luncheon to commence shortly.

Are they eating horrble mick food?
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (3S46h)

======

But I really like Chicken Tikka Masala!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

191 There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there.

Detroit is the closest American urban area to Canuckistan right? They should be worried if they go there.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (t0Rmr)

192 Black women will save them because.

Just put more black women in ads and on tv and stuff.

Posted by: E Buzz at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (HUYTk)

And have them yell "FUCK" a lot.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (pohLc)

193 153 There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there. Because... Trump, I guess?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (2VST1)

Considering the Canadian border people are putting 25% tariffs on anything Canadians buy, that's a good reason not tomgo.

But that's not Trump.

Those are our assholes.

They need shells......

Posted by: Stateless...56% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (jvJvP)

194 Don't gloat, win

Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (baPXJ)

195 Every House Dem has a paddle with his/her/its name on one side, and his/her/its street address on the other.

Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (rj6Yv)

196 I guess Democrat egg messaging is now toast.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Well, they go over easy.

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (Oy/m2)

197 Black women will save them because.

Just put more black women in ads and on tv and stuff.

Posted by: E Buzz at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (HUYTk)

Word, homie.

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (i/l90)

198 Friends of Ireland luncheon to commence shortly.

Gotta be the worst luncheon ever.

Wonder if I could score an invite to Friends of Italy or maybe Friends of Thailand?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (Cw7cn)

199 Egyppius latest on the clown show going in Germany, and the clown that Fred Merz is:

If you read his bio Merz should be a better man then he is. I suspect much like the GOPe, the German "right" was co-opted in the 90/00s by the WEF types.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)

200 200

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (CQE5S)

201 Dems should have stayed with the Pussy Hats. Everyone likes Pussy Hats.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (pLaQB)

202 Black women will save them because.

Just put more black women in ads and on tv and stuff.

Posted by: E Buzz
......

But only if they have white husbands with manbuns.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 01:47 PM (v0R5T)

203
This is just really stupid. Fred Merz is so incompetent, so beclowning himself, thata far-left *minority govt* of the SPD, Greens, and the Communists may be the result.

That is, if he and the CDU continue their firewall against the AfD.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 01:47 PM (w6EFb)

204 @97 in re Kamala, you forgot pie eyed drunk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 01:47 PM (2Km7O)

205 I admire the fire and optimism of those who think the Democrap party will die. I think those people are completely delusional, but I admire their fire and hope they are right.

You can't kill the Democrap party any more than you can kill the left. You can shoot them in the head. You can burn them to ash. You can stake them through the heart. You can force them to watch Snow White. They will never die. The slimy oozing motherfuckers will always regenerate.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

206 I think German intelligence is still heavily controlled by the US.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (okun6)

I think they all are.

Or at least, heavily intertwined. Going back to the Cold War days.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:47 PM (uCjyK)

207 Attila the Hun had a branding problem.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 12, 2025 01:47 PM (3NiEn)

208 Everyone likes Pussy Hats.

Pussy Cats aka felines > Josie and the Pussycats > Pussy Hats > Frankenp*ssies

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:48 PM (t0Rmr)

209 Gotta be the worst luncheon ever.

I mean its not too bad, just Guinness and some bags of Tayto.

Posted by: Cu'chullainn at March 12, 2025 01:48 PM (YHxCs)

210 The big downfall for the left was the Tranny bathroom thing. They kept pushing and pushing and people said "this is stupid but whatever." Homosexual marriage, for example. Almost nobody (including homosexuals) wanted this, but people went "fine, its stupid, but whatever."

But telling parents that their daughter has to share changing room, showers, and bathrooms with crazy men... that was where people drew the line. That was the crazy too far.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:48 PM (2VST1)

211 149
DJIA this morning: -370

DJIA now: +100
Posted by: Soothsayer
======
I was assured that a grim milestone of the Trump II administration would be a collapse in the markets. Doom I say, Doom!.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 01:48 PM (ctrM5)

212 188 Friends of Ireland luncheon to commence shortly.
Are they eating horrble mick food?
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (3S46h)

Shouldn't! American-Irish food?

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:48 PM (CQE5S)

213 Like I said in an earlier thread; the Democrats are not in "disarray." The MFM covers for them night and day. It's comical how bad it is, but it's there. The message is that Trump, Musk and the administration are fucking everything up. All the "norms" are being destroyed.

Your typical voter, from either party watching the nightly newz hears this 24X7.

I think it boils down to a less receptive crowd now that the level of corruption in FedGov is an open book. That it's actually both parties involved is the real message. And that the Democrats are trying like hell to stop the exposure is the tell.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 01:48 PM (Q4IgG)

214 Attila the Hun had a branding problem.

No, no, I think his branding is dead on

Posted by: Some Roman mayor literally pissing himself as he surrenders his town without a fight to the Huns at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (t0Rmr)

215
*But only if they have white husbands with manbuns.*

Who can't even open the car door.

Posted by: Doofus white guy at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (DobEs)

216 Blacks won't vote for him in the primary, and Midwestern Democrats who have been Democrat since granddaddy personally got a job from FDR during the Depression won't vote for him in the primary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)
___________

Newsome be WPS, homie!

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

217 This is another area where Trump has pushed the Democrats toward the 20 side of an 80/20 issue.

The death of the post-WWII paradigm that dominated both parties, that the hierarchy of priorities was accepted as 1) the world, 2) the coastal states, then 3) the rest of America, is now down to one priority under Trump:

What's good for America is good for America.

This is what has the Democrats both outraged and confused:
The Orange Man is chasing their caveman thinking around with a flaming stick.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (2EU+I)

218 I just got a preview of "Friends of Ireland" luncheon menu!
First course - Harp. Second course , boiled potatoes in potato sauce. Desert - Guinness !

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (g47mK)

219 Attila the Hun had a branding problem.

Seems like the Huns have always had a branding problem.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (Cw7cn)

220 I bet one of the multiple choices was, "You talk like a fag abd your shit's all retarded." That'll be seven hundred and fifty million dollars.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (QSrLX)

221 Sid tell your relatives that when Greenland comes on board we'll surround Canada on three sides

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (2Km7O)

222 Free Canada! From the river to the Sea !

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:50 PM (g47mK)

223 Pussy Galore > Pussy Cats aka felines > Josie and the Pussycats > Pussy Hats > Frankenp*ssies

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:50 PM (2VST1)

224 But telling parents that their daughter has to share changing room, showers, and bathrooms with crazy men... that was where people drew the line. That was the crazy too far.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
=======
Someone, I think, pithily said, "All the Democrats had to do is leave the kids alone in 2024 and they might have eked out a win." Bit more to it than that but AWFLs, upper class minorities in sinecures, gimmedats, and deviants is not a wide base for a party.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

225 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now

THE CANADIANS ONLY WANT PEAS!1!!111

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (D7oie)

Can it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM

Ho ho ho

Posted by: The Green Giant at March 12, 2025 01:50 PM (7iPGh)

226 Hm.

Apparently I have an EZ Pass toll violation in a state that I don't remember ever visiting.

Very odd that EZ Pass is using a hotmail.com account. Must be because of cost cuts.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:50 PM (PzXaK)

227 219 Attila the Hun had a branding problem.

Seems like the Huns have always had a branding problem.

is the waitress insulting me when she calls me "hun"?

Posted by: anachronda at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (oY6Yp)

228 Everything with Canada right now is because they refused to drop their tariffs when asked nicely.

Every dumbass news story, every hyperventilating twidiot, all of it.

But muh orange man.

How dare there be consequences for fucking America over. It's our patriotic duty to pump dollars into the global economy for the privilege of being hated in return. We're rich. We can afford it. Everyone says so.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (KtIIi)

229
So far, it's the usual. Democrats don't change the policies, but seek a better marketing strategy.

The few Democrats that try to triangulate a little (i.e. lie) are met with howls of outrage by their far left base, while Republicans remember that they were still with the far left program only weeks ago.

Example: Gavin Newsom. What a spectacle.

Posted by: Semi-LiterateThug at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (HLgI3)

230 I told my wife Sodom and Gomorrah had serious branding and messaging problems, but she's strangely silent on the question.

Posted by: Lot at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (13w+k)

231 Yur such a hoser

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (NtVYv)

232 Free Canada! From the river to the Sea !

Wait...which river are we talking about again?

Posted by: Some Western Pali Activist that doesn't know geography at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (t0Rmr)

233 I just got a preview of "Friends of Ireland" luncheon menu!
First course - Harp. Second course , boiled potatoes in potato sauce. Desert - Guinness !
Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (g47mK)

No jokes, please about the Irish Seven-Course Dinner.

Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (rj6Yv)

234 Kwai Chang Caine had a branding problem.

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (Oy/m2)

235 The death of the post-WWII paradigm that dominated both parties, that the hierarchy of priorities was accepted as 1) the world, 2) the coastal states, then 3) the rest of America
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (2EU+I)

I think that's true.

Except I think the real #1 has always been "what's best for me and my cronies" followed by the rest of the list.

And not really "coastal states", although I know what you mean by that. It's the "professional class with the right pedigree" that they're really protecting at the expense of everyone else.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (uCjyK)

236
Irish Luncheon, if you like.

Speaker Johnson is speaking, now:

https://is.gd/JnpDsM

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:52 PM (3S46h)

237 And thats the charitable description. After that you're into solid reasons to oppose vice ant to encourage virtue.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 12, 2025 01:52 PM (QSrLX)

238
VP Vance wore "shamrock" socks, today. PDT got a kick outta 'em.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:52 PM (3S46h)

239 I think it's worse than they think it is, because I firmly believe the Obama/Pelosi/Schumer oldies have lost control of the party altogether.
They have catered to every fringe lunatic and race baiter they could find for years, and doubled down on Antifa as enforcers in the street, and thug union types in business. I guess they thought they could keep them controlled, or perhaps they assumed these people understood it was all just Kabuki theater, like it is for them.
They've nutured violence, thinking they could keep it in check. They take the Arab money and allow these lunatic Islamic whackjobs to have free rein.
We're all going to suffer for it if Felinious D can't wipe it all out.
I think he is more than capable. But will the GOP allow it?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 12, 2025 01:52 PM (Vvh2V)

240 111
I think Western Europe is lost.

And we were one more stolen election away from following them ...

Remember the EU is saving OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY (TM) by banning the guy who won the election on Romania from running in the do-ever election
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (t0Rmr)
______________________________

Well, if history repeats itself, Western Europe still has a sliver of hope. Europe has a reputation for apathy and indifference. THEN, it gets bloody. Very bloody. And, some things change.

Posted by: Orson at March 12, 2025 01:52 PM (dIske)

241 233 I just got a preview of "Friends of Ireland" luncheon menu!
First course - Harp. Second course , boiled potatoes in potato sauce. Desert - Guinness !
Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (g47mK)

No jokes, please about the Irish Seven-Course Dinner.
Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (rj6Yv)

Sixpack and a potato!

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (CQE5S)

242 Great.

Now I have to go read Patriot Games.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (PzXaK)

243 Back when the loathsome John Ketchup Gigolo Kerry was running for president, Evan Thomas (Newsweek, socialist trustafarian) bragged that the media would give him a glow that was worth 12-15 points in the polls.

The Enemedia are working even harder now. If they were truthful, the Jackass Party would be polling at around 20%: the Chardonnay Antifa plus the Government Cheese crowd.

Posted by: Beverly at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (Epeb0)

244 Very odd that EZ Pass is using a hotmail.com account. Must be because of cost cuts.

Please, sir, the bill must be paid. Do the needful and you will not be imprisoned. But do not make me call the federal police on you because they will beat you and arrest you and I do not want to see that sir!

Posted by: "John" from Bangalore customer service at "EZPAZZ" at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (t0Rmr)

245 So Canadians are warning their fellow Quebecois not to rome Maine's beaches with their guts hanging over their banana hammocks?

Trump is destroying Vacationland's economy!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (wBaIH)

246 Gavin Newson is perfect for the Democratic party, with an unbroken record of failure, who better to be the face of the party?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (pohLc)

247 188
Friends of Ireland luncheon to commence shortly.

Are they eating horrble mick food?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:44 PM (3S46h)

I thank the Lord we don't have to again hear the same St. Patrick's Day BS from fake-POTUS Joe O'Biden.

(Who has far more English than Irish blood)

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (aBgBM)

248 221 Sid tell your relatives that when Greenland comes on board we'll surround Canada on three sides
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (2Km7O)

Oh, and we ARE going to revisit the Whisky War situation. And you better believe we're not leaving a bottle of liquor behind. More like a detachment of Greenlandic Marines. (Do they have a military? Probably not.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (uCjyK)

249 236 Irish Luncheon, if you like.

Speaker Johnson is speaking, now:

https://is.gd/JnpDsM
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:52 PM (3S46h)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (CQE5S)

250 170 Explain how conflating Christianity with Nazism is good messaging?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 01:41 PM (2EU+I)

-- --

It worked well enough for them until about 2016.

Every Republican (nominally Christian) president in my lifetime has been called a Nazi by the left.

So they've been working that angle, with the help of the media and entertainment, for several decades now.

And if we thought we had it bad, the Europeans are still seeing Christian Nazis behind every tree 80 years later.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (6ydKt)

251 I think it boils down to a less receptive crowd now that the level of corruption in FedGov is an open book. That it's actually both parties involved is the real message. And that the Democrats are trying like hell to stop the exposure is the tell.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
=======
The MFM is basically broken and only Boomers take it seriously anymore. That is why after 65's were ambivalent about Trump II compared to his massive gains in other demographics and swamping the Dems in Gen X.

Media viewership has been evaluated formally at about a +10 for Dems by a very good political scientist named Groseclose who wrote a very good book about it. But, the dying monolithic liberal media that uses the NYT, WaPO, and AP as lodestars is simply being abandoned by other people as a news source.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)

252 Trump is destroying Vacationland's economy!

I thought modern Maine's economy was cashing Somali welfare checks and summer rub and tugs for Massholes?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

253 Trump admin has got to figure out a way to correct vote fraud in Cali. The GOP lost how many districts to their neverending vote counting?

Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2025 01:37 PM (dCxaZ)

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

The Democrat gerrymandering and ballot harvesting made it much easier to steal elections.

And, as TJM has been advocating for -- the errors in the census must be corrected. And just because the Constitution mandates a census every 10 years, doesn't prohibit President Trump from conducting one now.

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (sWScg)

254 Canadians are protesting tariffs from the safety of their homes in Tampa/St. Pete

Posted by: Florida at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (13w+k)

255 Sixpack and a potato!
Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (CQE5S)

Hegseth and Stelter are starting a podcast together?

News to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (KtIIi)

256 I called the EZ Pass number to pay my toll violation and they also told me my Norton subscription was expiring and there are hackers attacking my computer.

Which is strange because that's what Microsoft told me a couple of days ago and I paid them to fix it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (PzXaK)

257 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now.

The entire population of Canada's belief is based on your family? BTW, what country's population do speak for?

Group think much?

Posted by: old chick at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (F3Dlr)

258
PDT is speaking now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (3S46h)

259 PDT at the podium!

https://is.gd/JnpDsM

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (CQE5S)

260 200 200
Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (CQE5S

Feel harmony with the universe. :-)

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (QSrLX)

261 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now.

Why would we waste good shells on Canadians?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (2ocoG)

262 253 And, as TJM has been advocating for -- the errors in the census must be corrected. And just because the Constitution mandates a census every 10 years, doesn't prohibit President Trump from conducting one now.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (sWScg)

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I don't think he should do another census.

I think he should use the Census Bureau's own corrected numbers, published under Biden, as a basis for a reapportionment. Now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

263 Every Republican (nominally Christian) president in my lifetime has been called a Nazi by the left.

Well, the old song and dance went like this...

Media Figure: People call you a NAZI why?

Republican: [Mealy mouthed non-answer]

Democrat: BECAUSE HE IS A NAZI!!!

And what did the LIVs take from this? Well, maybe that Republican is kinda NAZI because he isn't denying it.

Compare that to how Trump, Vance, or DeSantis handle this kind of bullshit

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (t0Rmr)

264 Someone, I think, pithily said, "All the Democrats had to do is leave the kids alone in 2024 and they might have eked out a win." Bit more to it than that but AWFLs, upper class minorities in sinecures, gimmedats, and deviants is not a wide base for a party.

In a different universe, Trump lost in 2016 and Elon never bought Twitter. In this universe, criticizing "MAPs" gets you banned on social media and the new big civil rights push is "age diverse relationships."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (2VST1)

265 256 I called the EZ Pass number to pay my toll violation and they also told me my Norton subscription was expiring and there are hackers attacking my computer.

Which is strange because that's what Microsoft told me a couple of days ago and I paid them to fix it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
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Use Linux.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

266 They just need to do a better job of shining their turds.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (Cus5s)

267 I truly believe most run of the mill Democrats have only been conditioned to support the radical fringe issues that have consumed the party because they are weak cucks who bend to the "authority" of what the Democrat leaders tell them. Were the wind to blow the other way, they'd support ordinary main Street positions once again.
Therein lies the problem though - the most fringe lunatics possible have taken over D leadership and the party is incapable of ousting them. Imagine a common sense D leading a revolt within the party to take them back to blue collar basics... It won't happen!! Never! I don't believe we'll see the D party return to anything like its former self for at least another 10 to 20 years

Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (K+Z1r)

268 Canadia is America's hat.

Posted by: And we like it that way at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (DobEs)

269 Canadians are universally afraid of being shelled now. My Canadian family members are expecting a special military operation like Trump's handler launched on Ukraine.

Have you suggested to your family that they look into MAID? The Canadian government can ease your troubled mind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 01:57 PM (ExV1e)

270 I called the EZ Pass number to pay my toll violation and they also told me my Norton subscription was expiring and there are hackers attacking my computer.

Tell them "DO NOT REDEEM!"

Posted by: Ian S. at March 12, 2025 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

271 I told my wife Sodom and Gomorrah had serious branding and messaging problems, but she's strangely silent on the question.
Posted by: Lot

That's a salty take!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2025 01:57 PM (cYBz/)

272 I truly believe most run of the mill Democrats have only been conditioned to support the radical fringe issues that have consumed the party because they are weak cucks who bend to the "authority" of what the Democrat leaders tell them.

Most common response I got from lefty LIVs on the clot shot was "what gives you the right to disagree with the experts"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:57 PM (t0Rmr)

273 260 200 200
Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:46 PM (CQE5S

Feel harmony with the universe. :-)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 12, 2025 01:55 PM (QSrLX)

woo woo woo woo woo

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:57 PM (CQE5S)

274 People close to White House believe JoeBiden increased federal spending by as much as $300 billion in his final months of his presidency to juice the economy and markets and help KamalaHarris get elected. That combined that with rolling over short term debt in order not to force rates on the all-important 10 year note (which consumers rates are priced off of) to spike higher, has left a balance sheet mess of epic proportions. They say this spending spree provides an insight into the mountain of debt and deficits that Trump must start to eliminate. Story developing.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)

275 265 256 I called the EZ Pass number to pay my toll violation and they also told me my Norton subscription was expiring and there are hackers attacking my compute

My husband got that same message and he checked his Fastpass account.. Of course it was full.. At least he didn't go to the perps ...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (VE6XX)

276 But, the biggest thing, culturally, is the fact that they're deeply uncool.

They're corporate. Corporate cannot be cool, definitionally.
---
Trump dancing to YMCA at his rallies
vs.
A trannie singing "Does Your God Have a Big Fat Dick?!" at a Sanders rally.

Family Feud: "We surveyed 100 people on "what is cool?"
Democrats (hits the buzzer): "Insulting Christianity, Steve!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (2EU+I)

277 Anyone know where I can get $2,500 worth of gift cards?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (PzXaK)

278 Gavin Newson is perfect for the Democratic party, with an unbroken record of failure, who better to be the face of the party?
Posted by: Xipe Totec

He's going to need a running mate. And I do mean Mate.
*winks*

Posted by: David Hogg at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

279 The pick your fighter video the Dems put out was beyond cringe. It was Event Horizon cringe.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (VofaG)

280 I don't think he should do another census.

I think he should use the Census Bureau's own corrected numbers, published under Biden, as a basis for a reapportionment. Now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Shane S has the better legal argument as Congress clearly has the power to have a census. Trump trying to go it alone would get bogged down in lawfare in this particular case.

The political problem is that a Census might or might not be considered germane for reconciliation and the Dems will damn sure filibuster it in the Senate even if it passes narrowly in the House.

So I am firmly coming down on both sides of the argument and Bravely!

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (ctrM5)

281 I actually had an uncle named Bob.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (wzAuc)

282 > Apparently I have an EZ Pass toll violation in a state that I don't remember ever visiting.
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I've gotten two of those scam text messages. It's been going around for about two months.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (Q4IgG)

283 They would do better with George Clooney running than Gavin Newsome.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (VofaG)

284 Real US Capitol Cafe Friends of Ireland Day lunch menu (carrot mousse - WTF is that????)
Friends of Ireland Menu

Corned Beef & Potato Pave $6.25
Carrot Mousse, Savoy Cabbage, Horseradish Sause

Pan-Seared Atlantic Salmon $20.00
Colcannon Potatoes, Peas & Carrots, Irish Whiskey Butter Sauce

Supreme of Chicken $17.00
Deconstructed Colcannon Potatoes, Hen of Woods Mushrooms, Guinness Stout Pan Jus

Chocolate Irish Stout Cake, Kerrygold Butter Cream $6.00

Pot of Gold, Bailey's Irish Cream Truffles $9.00

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

285 Did the DNC buy the extended warranty?
See...there's the problem.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (0Gnoc)

286 PDT sounds very comfortable "being PDT" in this speech.

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (CQE5S)

287 2026 elections in GA, Ossoff will by handing them out like candy if the Dems can figure out some workaround from ActBlue's Hindenburg Act.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

288
226
Apparently I have an EZ Pass toll violation in a state that I don't remember ever visiting.

Very odd that EZ Pass is using a hotmail.com account. Must be because of cost cuts.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:50 PM (PzXaK)

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Maybe a scam? Usually they attach a photo of the car committing the violation. I got one from San Francisco that showed my license plate number on a different model car from mine. (I hadn't been to SF in years.) I sent them a photo of the front of my car and they dropped it. Fake plate on the car in violation.

Or maybe 100% fake, just a mass mailing.

Posted by: Semi-LiterateThug at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (HLgI3)

289 Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at March 12, 2025 01:56 PM (K+Z1r)

I think most people who vote D are just the stereotypical "low information voter."

I'm not talking about the pink haired barista at Starbucks, but just like, you know, Deb in Accounting.

She's not an idiot, she just doesn't really pay attention to politics and doesn't care THAT much. She votes based on the zeitgeist and based on what people around her say. She is the most susceptible to the endless media propaganda.

I think that also explains why married women are more likely to vote R. Because the "people around them" now include their husband, and men are more likely to vote R.

IF the zeitgeist changes somehow, that could cause a massive swing. To put in corporate talk: these people are not brand loyal or high propensity buyers. They're followers.

tl;dr: I think a huge portion of the voting public is easily persuadable by propaganda.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (uCjyK)

290 I just got a preview of "Friends of Ireland" luncheon menu!
First course - Harp. Second course , boiled potatoes in potato sauce. Desert - Guinness !
Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (g47mK)

No jokes, please about the Irish Seven-Course Dinner.
Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 01:51 PM (rj6Yv)

Sixpack and a potato!
Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 01:53 PM (CQE5S)

LOL !

*and..dessert not desert !

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (g47mK)

291 It’s pretty hard to walk back what they have created 1. Trump awful, 2. Every insane person and idea must be mainstreamed or else.

You have to start admitting you were wrong and deprogram the AOCs of the world and tone down the Jasmine Crocketts.

Posted by: Piper at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (QzINz)

292 >>>My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.
Posted by: Beverly
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Some consider it a buying opportunity. My guy says let it shake out a little more, first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (M78y+)

293 Newsom/ Buttgieg

Beavis/Butt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (2Km7O)

294 287 was answering Witchdokter.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

295 I'm delighted (mostly) with how things are going so far -- and I'm aware that the Rulers of the Darkness of this world, seeing that their myrmidons are struggling, will pivot to other lines of attack.

Strap on your Servo-mitts, it's going to be wild.

Posted by: Beverly at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (Epeb0)

296 When I was in Ireland, a complete lunch consisted of two pints.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2025 02:01 PM (cYBz/)

297 Ah HA! I found it. Douglas Wilson (admittedly a controversial figure):

I think that the Democrats are going to fade away, or sputter out, or something, and that the Republicans are gradually going to divide into a centrist party and a conservative party. Not in the next few weeks though. I think the current coalition of odd fellows is going to have a good run.

The centrists will be the ones who are going to look at the secularist project, and say something like,

“There’s life in the old girl yet.”

But I don’t think that’s true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 02:01 PM (2VST1)

298 Roasted Hen of the Woods mushrooms are teh awesome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2025 02:01 PM (RIvkX)

299 Minx .8 beta ...

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 02:01 PM (g47mK)

300 300

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:01 PM (CQE5S)

301 Yo know who else had a massive branding problem?

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 02:02 PM (0HaGk)

302 OT:
So is Elon going to rescue the smelly chick today?

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 02:02 PM (v0R5T)

303 Some consider it a buying opportunity. My guy says let it shake out a little more, first.
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Don't catch a falling safe until it bounces three times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 02:02 PM (pLaQB)

304 Friends of Ireland Menu

Corned Beef & Potato Pave $6.25
Carrot Mousse, Savoy Cabbage, Horseradish Sause

Pan-Seared Atlantic Salmon $20.00
Colcannon Potatoes, Peas & Carrots, Irish Whiskey Butter Sauce

Supreme of Chicken $17.00
Deconstructed Colcannon Potatoes, Hen of Woods Mushrooms, Guinness Stout Pan Jus

Chocolate Irish Stout Cake, Kerrygold Butter Cream $6.00

Pot of Gold, Bailey's Irish Cream Truffles $9.00

no boxty for the loss but I am intrigued by the Kerrygold butter cream.

Posted by: Cu'chullainn at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (YHxCs)

305
In fact, my toll violation tickets have always arrived in the mail, not electronically. How would the traffic agency even know your e-mail address?

Posted by: Semi-LiterateThug at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (HLgI3)

306 m is on fire today!
Almost as good as Sponge getting a First!

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (v0R5T)

307 I'm shocked that the American electorate doesn't like the cock in their ass like I do! Shocked I tell ya!

Posted by: Big Homo, democrats and Ed Buck at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (EEZHI)

308 I heard a pundit -- a major one, but I cannot remember who -- said recently that they see the Democratic Party going away, dead as a party. Then they see the GOP splitting into two parties: one "moderate" left leaning and the other MAGA. I dunno, but right now that looks more likely than not.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 01:33 PM (2VST1)

The DNC would shatter, the RNC would split and, in the fullness of time, we'd be back to two parties - maybe with different names. The totally moderate but caring party and the totally moderate but caring party with a different icon. Same as we had before Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (ExV1e)

309 The Democrats are mostly organized around the notion of looting the treasury - from the pols/bureaucrats that actually get to do so to the activists that are given drabs

Could Trump break them? Well, maybe if he gets the budget down to around $2T or less. There are just too many federal dollars floating around to kill the idea of getting rich off the government.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (t0Rmr)

310 191 There are literally guys from Canada warning people to not go to America or to be careful when there.

Detroit is the closest American urban area to Canuckistan right? They should be worried if they go there.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:45 PM (t0Rmr)

***checks map***

Uhh ... Buffalo

Posted by: browndog napping at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (TTAGa)

311 Jasmine Crockett is as black as the Ace of Snow.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 02:04 PM (mL1/V)

312 Most common response I got from lefty LIVs on the clot shot was "what gives you the right to disagree with the experts"
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 01:57 PM (t0Rmr)

Right. And ten years prior to that, they were the ones saying "think for yourself!" and "you need to read a book and get educated!"

Then the propaganda switched to "trust the experts." and mocking people who "did their own research."

Because if we truly believe that we should just blindly trust "the experts" on every subject, then why are we even pretending to vote? There's no point. Put the experts in charge and call it a day.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 02:04 PM (uCjyK)

313 Yo know who else had a massive branding problem?
Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 02:02 PM (0HaGk)

A bull named after LBJ, because of the amount of bullcookies he'd create each day?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 02:04 PM (VNX3d)

314 PDT (paraphrased): I look forward to seeing you here three more years. ... At LEAST three more years. (aside) They (waving to the press?) go crazy when I say "at least" three more years.

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:04 PM (CQE5S)

315 280 So I am firmly coming down on both sides of the argument and Bravely!
Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (ctrM5)

======

You're like a living, breathing NR issue!

But seriously, I think Trump just needs to just tear at everything and dare the judiciary to stop him.

"The previous Census Director, who has since 'retired', admitted massive errors. I am correcting them. R+16 in the House. Right now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

316 The Democrats may fade away but they will be replaced by the Democratic Socialists. A lot of stupid young people combined with leftist immigrants brought in by Obama/Biden who think socialism or communism just haven't been tried right yet
My state assemblywoman was born in Katmandu and is a hardcore leftist in DS costume.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 02:04 PM (2Km7O)

317 Because if we truly believe that we should just blindly trust "the experts" on every subject, then why are we even pretending to vote? There's no point. Put the experts in charge and call it a day.

Hey there folks!

Posted by: Europe's political establishment where you can vote for whoever you want, but you are getting the po at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (t0Rmr)

318 287 2026 elections in GA, Ossoff will by handing them out like candy if the Dems can figure out some workaround from ActBlue's Hindenburg Act.
Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

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Don't worry.

Kemp will out steal Ossoff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

319 Don't forget "coated with bukkake"
Posted by: gKWVE at March 12, 2025 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

I'm no expert but I believe bukkake strongly implies "coated with".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (ExV1e)

320 But don't worry, the Democrat base has hit upon a strategy to win back "cool."

Lately, they're attacking Gwen Stephani (who literally wrote a song named "Cool") for daring express her support for Christianity.

You know, GenX, that swung the election for Trump, I'm sure they'll won't mind the woke-bullies going after one of the most popular singers of their formative years ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (2EU+I)

321 Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
Posted by: TV long ago

When I was a kid I thought the lyrics were, "A knight without honor in a savage land" and I didn't understand why he was without honor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (L/fGl)

322 Friends of Ireland Day

...

They already get St Patricks day. We needed another one?

Posted by: TexasDan at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (z/ifB)

323 The pick your fighter video the Dems put out was beyond cringe. It was Event Horizon cringe.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (VofaG)
____

The Asian woman in that video was the only one who looked like she had any skills or even coordination at all. Go figure. She's Asian, she must know martial arts. The video is RACIST!

Event Horizon is way underrated, yo.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

324 284 Real US Capitol Cafe Friends of Ireland Day lunch menu

Friends of Ireland Menu

Corned Beef & Potato Pave $6.25
Carrot Mousse, Savoy Cabbage, Horseradish Sause

Pan-Seared Atlantic Salmon $20.00
Colcannon Potatoes, Peas & Carrots, Irish Whiskey Butter Sauce

Supreme of Chicken $17.00
Deconstructed Colcannon Potatoes, Hen of Woods Mushrooms, Guinness Stout Pan Jus

Chocolate Irish Stout Cake, Kerrygold Butter Cream $6.00

Pot of Gold, Bailey's Irish Cream Truffles $9.00
Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:06 PM (CQE5S)

325 Branding.

Branding?
Braaaaaanding!

Sure, go with that. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 02:06 PM (Cki93)

326 Holy crap, President Trump actually said, "You're better off not knowing."

I thought people were just goofing on Rosie moving to Ireland.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 02:06 PM (tT6L1)

327 Hey welfare queens, grifters, illegal aliens, druggies, NGO, Putin fans, anarchists, ANTIFA, BLM, racists al;l love the Demonrats and add in queers, trannies, and Satanists you got a solid 30% of the population.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at March 12, 2025 02:06 PM (bXvrr)

328
Kemp will out steal Ossoff.

I suspect there are a lot of interesting discussion going on between "moderate" GOPers and the Trump people right now as to whether or not they can keep their grift/get support from Trump in an election in return for various policy initiatives Trump wants.

Posted by: Europe's political establishment where you can vote for whoever you want, but you are getting the po at March 12, 2025 02:06 PM (t0Rmr)

329 Does Ireland produce enough food to feed Rosie? I don't think you can milk her.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 02:07 PM (pLaQB)

330 >>>...I think that also explains why married women are more likely to vote R. Because the "people around them" now include their husband, and men are more likely to vote R.
...
tl;dr: I think a huge portion of the voting public is easily persuadable by propaganda.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Not only a husband but traditionally she becomes the home manager and after a child, genetically, the nesting genes kick in harder and like mama tiger her threat assessment becomes more acute.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2025 02:08 PM (M78y+)

331 Is Politico supposed to be viewed as completely compromised, due to their relationship with USAID, or are they just viewed as a typical shitty leftist webzine?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 12, 2025 02:08 PM (dGCAG)

332 My investment guy says he's personally extremely glad Trump was reelected, but that we need to fasten our seatbelts for a while for a bumpy ride, and he advised me to hold on, not panic.

That is my read as well. Its going to be a bit tough for a few quarters with the trade war and the firings and reshuffling Washington, but the end result will be fine. Reagan's first 2 years or so were pretty rough economically.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 02:08 PM (2VST1)

333 Branding.

Branding?
Braaaaaanding!

Sure, go with that. . .
Posted by: Lizzy
.......

Let's Go Branding

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 02:08 PM (v0R5T)

334 Dismantling take time, but it's worth it

@joshdcaplan
·
19m
CBS NEWS: EPA administrator Lee Zeldin eliminating all DEI and environmental justice offices and positions immediately

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (mlg/3)

335 The Democrats' problem is that the party has gone all in on sexual deviancy. Worse, they don't know this.

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (AOsQT)

336 Gaelic-speaking taoiseach!

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (CQE5S)

337 How would the traffic agency even know your e-mail address?
Posted by: Semi-LiterateThug at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (HLgI3)

I thought everyone had stickers with a QR code to their instagram on the back window.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (z/ifB)

338 "Does Ireland produce enough food to feed Rosie? I don't think you can milk her.
Posted by: Pudinhead "

Can a country that small absorb that much ugly in one blow?

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (0HaGk)

339 the worst gameshow ever was "Family Freud"

-
"Uncle Bob's big macho show of masculinity is just to hide his latent homosexuality!"

"And that's 25 points for the Johnsons!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (L/fGl)

340 Bannon is your uncle and Althouse is your aunt.

They said at Althouse that Bannon was Navy.

Posted by: Van.Helsing at March 12, 2025 02:09 PM (zkiaZ)

341 322 Friends of Ireland Day

...
They already get St Patricks day. We needed another one?

Posted by: TexasDan at March 12, 2025 02:05 PM (z/ifB)

The Irish are way behind blacks. Blacks get -

Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Black History Month
Juneteenth

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 02:10 PM (aBgBM)

342 Does Ireland produce enough food to feed Rosie? I don't think you can milk her.
Posted by: Pudinhead
......

She's already complaining about how cold it is. Maybe she needs to warm her teats.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 02:10 PM (v0R5T)

343 People like Sid are why shampoo bottles have instructions
Posted by: Halfhand at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (v6x8d)

People like Sid are why condoms have instructions. If only his parents had been able to read American.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 02:10 PM (ExV1e)

344 How would the traffic agency even know your e-mail address?
Posted by: Semi-LiterateThug at March 12, 2025 02:03 PM (HLgI3)

--

It really must be serious for them to have tracked me down like this.

Gosh, this is like the time when the "Department of the IRS" called me and I had to pay an outstanding tax bill in GooglePlay gift cards.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 02:10 PM (PzXaK)

345 Sid tell your relatives that when Greenland comes on board we'll surround Canada on three sides
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 01:49 PM (2Km7O)

Oh, and we ARE going to revisit the Whisky War situation. And you better believe we're not leaving a bottle of liquor behind. More like a detachment of Greenlandic Marines. (Do they have a military? Probably not.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 01:54 PM (uCjyK)

Meh. Just arm the locals and let them Make Canada Great ~~Again~~.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 02:10 PM (i24o9)

346 If House Wets become too insistent for their Grift and Graft, then the $5k taxpayer reimbursement comes into play. Better politics, I think. Try running for election against that.

Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (rj6Yv)

347 Not only a husband but traditionally she becomes the home manager and after a child, genetically, the nesting genes kick in harder and like mama tiger her threat assessment becomes more acute.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2025 02:08 PM (M78y+)

I had to sit through a meeting this morning, with a woman who described herself as a non-breeder, and a man whose wife wears the pants in the family.

They both agreed that Barak Obama was a great guy, and a terrific politician, and his wife is nice.

So maybe marriage isn't necessarily the determining factor, but perhaps the cumulative amount of testosterone in the household.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (dGCAG)

348 The Japanese dish made by pouring broth over cold noodles, like udon?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 01:39 PM (i24o9)

If you don't know what it means, I don't recommend learning.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

349 Corned beef ain't Irish. Lower east side of NYC sold to Irish workers because it was cheap. Not a lot of beef cows in Ireland,

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (2Km7O)

350 I'll hasten a nood by putting some willow material.

Imagine if there were even a decent (politically, substantively especially) opposition/alternative party.

The orange man (esp. his common sense economics) may drag them across a few finish lines, but just imagine how much better off the country (and the world) would be if the GOP shared even 50% of Trump's priorities - really shared them, and actually fought to implement sane policies.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 12, 2025 02:12 PM (1m82a)

351
I had to sit through a meeting this morning, with a woman who described herself as a non-breeder, and a man whose wife wears the pants in the family.

They both agreed that Barak Obama was a great guy, and a terrific politician, and his wife is nice.

So maybe marriage isn't necessarily the determining factor, but perhaps the cumulative amount of testosterone in the household.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (dGCAG)

Intact heterosexual marriage with kids gets you the most conservative folks, on average...for both men and women...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM (exHjb)

352 This is not a joke.

My ex wife is a musician. She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM (PzXaK)

353 Not only a husband but traditionally she becomes the home manager and after a child, genetically, the nesting genes kick in harder and like mama tiger her threat assessment becomes more acute.

Yeah, she starts to think about people other than her self and starts getting lessons in the importance of reason and accountability. When you're 20 and single, the world is your oyster as a girl if you are even remotely attractive. Life is whatever you demand it to be and you get rewarded for it. So your understanding of the world is warped.

Its like being a billionaire corner office Chad or being a hot movie star, you lose any sense of reality. You can do anything you want, everyone around you supports anything you say or do. People go out of their way to keep you from feeling any consequences.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 02:14 PM (2VST1)

354
We're the Hammockcrats!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 02:14 PM (xG4kz)

355 This is not a joke.

My ex wife is a musician. She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM (PzXaK)

You might try selling her fresh cattails as vegan corn dogs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 02:14 PM (VNX3d)

356 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Send them to a cattle range if they need branding

Posted by: Skip i at March 12, 2025 02:14 PM (fwDg9)

357 Hello, yup this piece of writing is really good and I
have learned lot of things from it on the topic of blogging.
thanks.

Posted by: ProvaDent at March 12, 2025 02:15 PM (RTarB)

358 352 This is not a joke.

My ex wife is a musician. She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM (PzXaK)

Well, the second fauxtoid could be solved by a dictionary. The first one, I dunno.

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:15 PM (CQE5S)

359 My ex wife is a musician. She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.
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You should have offered her some magic quartz rocks from your garden. Don't tell her where to put them. Let her figure this out on her own.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 02:15 PM (pLaQB)

360 The Irish are way behind blacks. Blacks get -

Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Black History Month
Juneteenth
Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 02:10 PM

Don't forget their very own national anthem.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 12, 2025 02:15 PM (+oiQE)

361
She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

It's made from corn!

It's in the name!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 02:15 PM (xG4kz)

362 My ex wife is a musician. She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM (PzXaK)

My uncle worked in the chem dept at Temple. According to him, there was a female chem prof who spilled some sugar and decided to rinse it clean and couldn't figure out where it went.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (z/ifB)

363 Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Black History Month
Juneteenth

A movie about the Tuskeegee Airmen at least once a decade

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (2VST1)

364 Unless you are a demon or godless communist, who wants to support a party that celebrates death and sexual perversion in all forms?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (ufFY8)

365 I'm glad Rosie is one of the few who followed through on leaving, but, I'm not happy she's threatening to come back.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (tT6L1)

366 Anyone know where I can get $2,500 worth of gift cards?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 01:58 PM (PzXaK)

How convenient it is that they will accept a truckload of gift cards as payment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (i24o9)

367 would be if the GOP shared even 50% of Trump's priorities - really shared them, and actually fought to implement sane policies.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 12, 2025 02:12 PM (1m82a)

Imagine if the GOP shared 90%, and the DNC shared about 75%, because the shit we're all so "divided" over is preposterous manufactured bullshit.

Don't kill Jews. Don't steal money from taxpayers through outright fraud. Don't convict your political opponents of crimes that don't even exist. Have judges wait for a case to actually come to their bench before issuing sweeping edicts that transform the nature of governance. You know. Make sanity normal again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (KtIIi)

368 ..I think that also explains why married women are more likely to vote R. Because the "people around them" now include their husband, and men are more likely to vote R.

-

We've comically chosen to ignore the part where women were traditionally kept in their father's home and cared for by their fathers until they were handed off to their husbands.

No matter how badly we want to ruin their lives, the lives of their daughters, and the lives of the children being raised in fatherless homes to repeat and worsen the cycle, there's a reason traditions exist.

They're Chestertons Fences of sorts. They solve problems that we didn't know existed but are waiting just outside of the vision of society to return, and people will pretend they don't know what's happening or how to fix it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (qSMcm)

369 Posted by: rhomboid at March 12, 2025 02:12 PM (1m82a)

Damn man I've missed your stuff

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (mL1/V)

370 I thought corned beef was cows that were fed nothing but corn.

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (0HaGk)

371 Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Black History Month
Juneteenth
****

Don't forget me!

Posted by: Emancipation Day, April 16 at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (Y1sOo)

372 Remember when liberals were so gung-ho about helping foreigners defeat their invading neighbors that they drafted our kids to go help the foreigners defeat the invading neighbors?

What happened to that elan where we would bear any burden to defeat any foe in the name of Liberty?

Well it didn't work out too well did it so the Founders advice to avoid entangling alliances looks pretty wise.

Sending vast amounts of borrowed money your grandkids will pay back doesn't look like it results in winning either.

So where are the never Trumpers on the slaughter of everyone who's not a Allah akbar in Syria? I expect them to be consistent and insistent we act to do something to stop the slaughter.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 02:17 PM (0Gnoc)

373 She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

-

HARRIS 2024!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 02:17 PM (qSMcm)

374 I thank God that my ancestors left the British Isles and came to America in the 1800’s.. a blessing beyond measure…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 02:17 PM (PCK5/)

375
Give a troll a fish and they'll spend all afternoon fapping in the corner.

Posted by: Auspex at March 12, 2025 02:18 PM (j4U/Z)

376 So maybe marriage isn't necessarily the determining factor, but perhaps the cumulative amount of testosterone in the household.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (dGCAG)

Intact heterosexual marriage with kids gets you the most conservative folks, on average...for both men and women...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM (exHjb)

Sure, on average. But see my comment for an explanation of the exceptions to the rule.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 12, 2025 02:18 PM (dGCAG)

377 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Send them to a cattle range if they need branding
Posted by: Skip
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Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope and throw and brand 'em

Posted by: Rowdy Musk at March 12, 2025 02:19 PM (XeU6L)

378 328
Kemp will out steal Ossoff.
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FWIW, Shanahan said she cut big checks to get Ossoff elected and if he didn't vote for Kennedy Jr. she would cut big checks to primary him.
He didn't vote for RFK Jr..

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2025 02:19 PM (M78y+)

379 If you don't know what it means, I don't recommend learning.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

So don't order that in a shady restaurant?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 02:19 PM (i24o9)

380 Does Ireland produce enough food to feed Rosie?

Trump forces Rosie to Ireland, causes 2nd Potato famine!

Posted by: JAKE TAPPER at March 12, 2025 02:20 PM (W2EWw)

381 Rowdy Musk

Sounds like a Calvin Klein Cologne

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 02:20 PM (2VST1)

382 256 I called the EZ Pass number to pay my toll violation and they also told me my Norton subscription was expiring and there are hackers attacking my computer.

—

Didn hey offer you a car warranty?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 02:21 PM (Qeko5)

383 Nood, it is real, and it is spectacular.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 02:21 PM (i24o9)

384 Trump forces Rosie to Ireland, causes 2nd Potato famine!

Brian Stelter hardest hit

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 02:21 PM (2VST1)

385 Has no one said "No Irish" this entire thread??!!

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:22 PM (CQE5S)

386 I thought corned beef was cows that were fed nothing but corn.
Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 02:16 PM (0HaGk)

I love a good reuben sandwich. Wonder what would happen if you just fed them sauerkraut.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 12, 2025 02:22 PM (dGCAG)

387 Exceptions to the rule are a fact of life. See: 30% forever libertine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2025 02:22 PM (M78y+)

388 I think it boils down to a less receptive crowd now that the level of corruption in FedGov is an open book. That it's actually both parties involved is the real message. And that the Democrats are trying like hell to stop the exposure is the tell.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Half true. Yes, trying to hide corruption.

But the MSM lost re: Covid & laptop among others. Even the diehards aren't watching CNN / MSLSD.

If those folks aren't tuning in to get a sugar high, what does that say about the less receptive crowd?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 12, 2025 02:22 PM (FxH7T)

389 This is not a joke.

My ex wife is a musician. She had a really ditzoid friend who, seriously, was very concerned about mining because the shift in the metals would throw the world off its axis.

She also, again honestly, thought corned beef was vegetarian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 02:13 PM

She's married to Sid, isn't she?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 02:22 PM (hOk1M)

390 There were a lot more than the 2 I know now to promise to leave if Trump won

Posted by: Skip i at March 12, 2025 02:23 PM (fwDg9)

391
Y'all forgot Wakanda Independence Day.

Be better, Senator.

Posted by: Auspex at March 12, 2025 02:23 PM (j4U/Z)

392 383 Nood, it is real, and it is spectacular.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 02:21 PM (i24o9)

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:24 PM (CQE5S)

393 They both agreed that Barak Obama was a great guy, and a terrific politician, and his wife is nice.

So maybe marriage isn't necessarily the determining factor, but perhaps the cumulative amount of testosterone in the household.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Sounds like a submissive cuck and his wife. Bet she ain't faithful from that dynamic.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 02:24 PM (ctrM5)

394 I'm glad Rosie is one of the few who followed through on leaving, but, I'm not happy she's threatening to come back.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Not even the Muslim rape gangs in Ireland will sink that low. She, Ellen and the like will be desperate to come back because this is where they get the attention, money, and overall a better society to live in. They are in a pickle as they want to appear as stalwart protestors against Trump but at heart are narcissitic play actors who can't walk the walk for too long.

Posted by: Cheri at March 12, 2025 02:25 PM (oiNtH)

395 No satan has a plan they are following it perfectly.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 12, 2025 02:25 PM (97pYg)

396 Europe sent its best people to America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Those were people willing to take a chance on a new world. The go getters, adventurers, etc.

The ones who stayed were the opposite. Docile, afraid of change, afraid of risks, happy with the status quo. And we see that today in what America is vs what Europe is.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 02:26 PM (Qeko5)

397 17 Let's go Brandon.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2025 01:20 PM (vDK5Y)

—————

https://tinyurl.com/y3pr4x5m

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at March 12, 2025 02:27 PM (hzTl3)

398
It's also that it's no fun to work in the minority, with little chance of actually doing anything.

GOPe congresscritters seem to enjoy it.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at March 12, 2025 01:35 PM (NIkq3)

Because GOPe isn't interested in power for power's sake, the way that the Donk commie cocksuckers are. GOPe is only interested in power because it's easy to score the choice poontang.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 12, 2025 02:31 PM (y9nCu)

399 Is Politico supposed to be viewed as completely compromised, due to their relationship with USAID, or are they just viewed as a typical shitty leftist webzine?
Posted by: BurtTC

Embrace "and"

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 12, 2025 02:31 PM (FxH7T)

400 400

Posted by: m at March 12, 2025 02:32 PM (CQE5S)

401 As I see it: ...
Political parties a coalitions. The Party of the Permanent Bureaucracy needed allies, so they posed as defenders of the lost: lesbians, Victim Studies MAs, trans women, unemployed stage actors, whatever. Identity politics makes the Party less a big tent than a patchwork quilt of many small patches. There isn't enough thread (attention) to keep it together.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatick at March 12, 2025 03:02 PM (fgkXD)

402 I vote they run a trans P and VP in 2028!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (6PCLE)

403 It's the dog food, stupid. Progressives are simply incapable of learning. This is no surprise. Progressives eschew God and assume the mantle of "all knowing" for themselves. Concomitant to this is the idea of infallibility. Infallibility obviates self refection, without which, course correction is impossible. Leftists may have entered the doom loop stage.

Posted by: Charles Martel at March 12, 2025 05:06 PM (gM+1v)

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