Trump Nominates Former Prosecutor and Judge Jeanine Pirro as Interim US Attorney for DC

She hasn't served as a judge or prosecutor for a long time, but she has performed those jobs for long periods. And she's loyal to Trump. She'll do.

President Trump announced Thursday that Fox News host Jeanine Pirro will serve as the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., for the time being.
Pirro replaces interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin, whose nomination was pulled earlier Thursday by Mr. Trump after losing support in the Senate.
"I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia," Trump wrote. "Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself."
Pirro, a former judge and district attorney for Westchester County in New York, takes the helm of one of the largest federal prosecutor's offices in the country. It's been two decades she has held a position in law enforcement.
She ran for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat in New York in 2006, but ended her bid to run for attorney general in the state instead, which she ended up losing to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
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Pirro's friendship with Mr. Trump stretches back decades, and she has been a staunch defender of the president amid the numerous investigations that have plagued his political career.
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Mr. Trump said later Thursday that Martin would take on a new role at the Justice Department, focusing on the alleged "weaponization" of the government during the Biden administration and pardons.

I like that too. Seems like a job he could do a lot of damage in.

Now, about Tom Tillis...

Posted by: Ace at 12:09 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: bearski at May 09, 2025 12:09 PM (Bhsk7)

2 Yesterday I proposed Jonathan Turley as the nom, due to his lack of threat to the weenie turncoats

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:10 PM (dCxaZ)

3 Tillis... Bye bye...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2025 12:10 PM (VE6XX)

4 FML

I have failed at achieving the FRIST!

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:10 PM (dCxaZ)

5 Judge Jeanine is in her 70's. She seems to have a pretty well based grasp of the current judiciary situation.

So maybe a good, if interim, selection.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 12:11 PM (Q4IgG)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 09, 2025 12:11 PM (GYt5+)

7 Now, about Tom Tillis...

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He immediately came out in support of her.

I suspect he wants this thing behind him. He got his scalp, and he hopes everyone forgets it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

8 At least she doesn't have to run the RINO gauntlet to get confirmed...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

9 I heard this rumor yesterday - so glad it's real!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 09, 2025 12:11 PM (w6EFb)

10 I know nothing about her other than that the few times I've seen her on TV, she was annoying.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (s8j++)

11 She hasn't served as a judge or prosecutor for a long time, but she has performed those jobs for long periods. And she's loyal to Trump. She'll do.

Dammit! AtC didn't make the cut!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (y6oPX)

12 I like her. Tough. Not afraid to speak the truth.

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (dAVQk)

13 Now, about Tom Tillis...

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He immediately came out in support of her.

I suspect he wants this thing behind him. He got his scalp, and he hopes everyone forgets it.

Protip: they won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (s8j++)

14 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (g0YnD)

15 this is a win-win for Judge Jeannine and Trump

She gets to wield some judicial juice and Trump gets to reward a loyal friend

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)

16 She might do as an interim but we need a shark, someone angry with a grudge like Kash Patel. We need someone who stays up at night filled with righteous fury over what the Obama and Clinton and Biden administrations did. Someone who cannot wait to tear into the injustice and abuse of power.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:13 PM (2VST1)

17 Thom, you out.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at May 09, 2025 12:13 PM (gxokI)

18 He immediately came out in support of her.

I suspect he wants this thing behind him.

Possibly, but his real problem with the previous nominee is that he defended January 6th prisoners and that is the mark of Cain to the Deep State.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (2VST1)

19 More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (QSrLX)

20 13 I suspect he wants this thing behind him. He got his scalp, and he hopes everyone forgets it.

Protip: they won't.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (s8j++)

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(A fight over a DC USA is probably not going to make much time on the airways in NC, to be fair.)

But it's also just...weird.

He went to the mat to get something, and then he immediately just acts like a lapdog. "Please forget that I shit in the kitchen."

Senators are weird, man. Not normal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

21 Mr. Trump said later Thursday that Martin would take on a new role at the Justice Department, focusing on the alleged "weaponization" of the government during the Biden administration and pardons.
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I hope he gets around to looking at Thumb Tillis at some point. Not that I am vengeful.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (wXWRH)

22
I wish Trump had said that Martin's new role at DOJ would be investigating wealth accumulation among legislators. Especially those from North Carolina.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (QnmlO)

23 Thom, you out.

It's my guess he knows that already. The torpedoing of Martin was just monumentally stupid, and is the kind of thing one does because YOLO.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (s8j++)

24 he might do as an interim but we need a shark, someone angry with a grudge like Kash Patel. We need someone who stays up at night filled with righteous fury over what the Obama and Clinton and Biden administrations did. Someone who cannot wait to tear into the injustice and abuse of power.

Kash has been a total disappointment

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (nGraA)

25 It’d be great is the NC Republican Party issue another condemnation of Tillis.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (LHqaF)

26 2 Yesterday I proposed Jonathan Turley as the nom, due to his lack of threat to the weenie turncoats
Posted by: kallisto

Temperamentally unsuited. Turley is a good guy but has been a law prof for almost all of his life. Not running a DC prosecuting attorney's office.

Martin as a defense attorney knew the system but was not able to get enough support on Capitol Hill.

So we get Pirro, Pirro knows the media game, will be tougher for the Thom Tillis types to attack without losing some blood, and is as loyal to Trump as Martin was.

Martin being moved to a DoJ office not requiring confirmation may yet be a major PITA to those GOPe assholes still trying to hold up the Jan 6 narrative as true.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)

27 18 Possibly, but his real problem with the previous nominee is that he defended January 6th prisoners and that is the mark of Cain to the Deep State.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (2VST1)

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$5 says Pirro has said that the government went too far regarding 1/6 prosecutions.

That she's exactly the same kind of "problem" that Tillis wanted addressed, but no one will ever confront him on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

28 Commenting present.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at May 09, 2025 12:16 PM (yuVjX)

29 What I like about it is, she's probably more popular and has greater name recognition with the people of NC than Thom.

And Thom, having proven himself a bootlicking coward beholden to the left, will suddenly find himself being viciously attacked by them.
And forced to vote for her.
And all the promised jobs, kickbacks, and charities boards he expected from his Martin ploy will evaporate.

It was a massive "FU" to Thom.
With a double knife twist of Trump pretending not to even know Thom was opposed to Martin.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 12:16 PM (sMW+k)

30 Be interesting to see how things work when she shows up in Boasberg's court.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 09, 2025 12:16 PM (luW68)

31 23 Thom, you out.

It's my guess he knows that already. The torpedoing of Martin was just monumentally stupid, and is the kind of thing one does because YOLO.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (s8j++)

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Before the new Congress was even seated, there were polls (spit) floating around the Tillis was trailing massively behind Lara Trump in the NC primary.

And he's spent the first few months of Trump's second term...trying to torpedo Trump's nominees (remember the Hegseth sexual assault accusation came from him).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

32 As an NC voter, I've felt "forced" to Vote for Tillis every time he's been on the ballot. Will not again. Hoping here that Lara Trump primaries him. If not, will leave Senate oval unfilled on my ballot.

Posted by: Deadly Sin at May 09, 2025 12:17 PM (G5+As)

33 Good I don't think she can be bought or sold. Although she does or did work for Fox....

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:17 PM (gt60b)

34 29 And all the promised jobs, kickbacks, and charities boards he expected from his Martin ploy will evaporate.

It was a massive "FU" to Thom.
With a double knife twist of Trump pretending not to even know Thom was opposed to Martin.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 12:16 PM (sMW+k)

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Nah.

He's still gonna get a $600,000 per year do nothing job once he's out of Congress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

35 Martin being moved to a DoJ office not requiring confirmation may yet be a major PITA to those GOPe assholes still trying to hold up the Jan 6 narrative as true.

I think that's the answer. OK He's not in charge, I'll put an ally in charge and give him a job where he can do the work without needing to be confirmed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:19 PM (2VST1)

36 He went to the mat to get something, and then he immediately just acts like a lapdog. "Please forget that I shit in the kitchen."

Senators are weird, man. Not normal.

Because he's going to turn up in any actual investigation of J6, and he thinks that getting rid of Martin will stop that.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 12:19 PM (2ocoG)

37 She gets to wield some judicial juice and Trump gets to reward a loyal friend

And he forced the Deep State to sacrifice another Congress-pawn.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 12:19 PM (kkfAA)

38 Tillis is only in office as least of the evils. The alternative was liberal Kay Hagan.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 12:20 PM (XeU6L)

39 Because he's going to turn up in any actual investigation of J6, and he thinks that getting rid of Martin will stop that.

That, and this deep terror of J6 being repeated, but this time they bring the rails and tar and feathers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:20 PM (2VST1)

40 Dammit! AtC didn't make the cut!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 12:12 PM (y6oPX)

It was a very low bar too, just shows you how short she really is.

Be back later, gotta put my steel toe boots on before she climbs up the ladder to kick me in my toes.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at May 09, 2025 12:20 PM (k1E2D)

41 24 he might do as an interim but we need a shark, someone angry with a grudge like Kash Patel. We need someone who stays up at night filled with righteous fury over what the Obama and Clinton and Biden administrations did. Someone who cannot wait to tear into the injustice and abuse of power.

Kash has been a total disappointment
Posted by: Gonzotx
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It usually takes at least 30-60 days for grand jury to be presented with evidence and witnesses assuming that the FBI investigations are enough to generate probable cause. It can and often does take months of investigations by FBI agents to get the evidence to present to prosecutors.

For better or worse, even Biden and Garland with a complicit Wray spent months to build cases of teh Jan 6ers and these poor folks were friendless and did not have the money to get deep pocket defense attorneys.

In the cases of embezzlers, corrupt conspiracies, and bribery, it takes quite a while to build cases. Criminal conspiracy and RICO applications are as complex as Mob cases were back in the 80's which took a long time.

So, the easiest route is to get to the lower traffickers to get to the bigger ones and using DOGE to build cases.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:20 PM (ctrM5)

42 We need someone who stays up at night filled with righteous fury over what the Obama and Clinton and Biden administrations did. Someone who cannot wait to tear into the injustice and abuse of power.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:13 PM (2VST1)

Elric is perfect for this job. 😀

Posted by: Piper at May 09, 2025 12:20 PM (QzINz)

43 Interesting... she's been out 20 years. "But but, how will she know about all that's new in jurisprudence?"

... Exactly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 12:21 PM (yvnLa)

44 It's my guess he knows that already. The torpedoing of Martin was just monumentally stupid, and is the kind of thing one does because YOLO.
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Like all Trump Torpedos, it circled back and hit the one who launched it.

The left is going to go crazy trying to oppose her.

And this move, by forcing Thom to support her, sinks what he thought was his lifeboat, his escape plan--the left ain't going to feather his nest, they ain't going to forget.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 12:21 PM (sMW+k)

45 As I keep saying "J6" was just a fake moral high ground excuse for Thomasina.

The action is all that matters. His "reason" is bs.

Like Roberts and all his "integrity of the court" and "legacy". As is being borne out time and again, he never gave a fuck about either.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:21 PM (gt60b)

46 Prediction: nothing will happen to Tillis. He’ll keep grifting off of taxpayers and going to drug-fueled orgies with underage sex slaves and die an old man with a smile on his face.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:21 PM (l3YAf)

47 As an NC voter, I've felt "forced" to Vote for Tillis every time he's been on the ballot. Will not again. Hoping here that Lara Trump primaries him. If not, will leave Senate oval unfilled on my ballot.
Posted by: Deadly Sin
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Yeah, see my 38

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 12:21 PM (XeU6L)

48 And he forced the Deep State to sacrifice another Congress-pawn.

Yup. Also he's Cloward-Pivening the left again with this pick, because their entire story on Hegseth prior to the Signal thing was that the only job he'd ever had was at Fox News. And they're going to scream that twice as loud about Pirro even though it didn't work the first time. They can't help themselves.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 12:21 PM (2ocoG)

49 That she's exactly the same kind of "problem" that Tillis wanted addressed, but no one will ever confront him on it.

Probably, but she never defended a J6 participant. The government is big on punishing people to prevent others from even thinking about doing that again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (2VST1)

50 I want a Trump advocacy group to publicize the commie Biden nominees that these Republican Martin opponents voted for.

And I want them kicked out of the Republican Party.

Its like Catholics that want the Church to approve abortion and homo marriage. You are free to have that opinion but you shouldn't be allowed to call yourself Catholic.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (VofaG)

51 24 he might do as an interim but we need a shark, someone angry with a grudge like Kash Patel. We need someone who stays up at night filled with righteous fury over what the Obama and Clinton and Biden administrations did. Someone who cannot wait to tear into the injustice and abuse of power.

Kash has been a total disappointment
Posted by: Gonzotx at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (nGraA)
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He's only been in office for 60 days.

What did you expect to have done by now.

Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (G0vdT)

52 Going back to the last thread I am amused that in 2025 America a man in a relationship with a much younger woman is something people disparage but I'm supposed to believe that two gay men in an open relationship is a beautiful thing because "love is love"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (t0Rmr)

53 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (LHqaF)

54 Tillis is a waste of fucking skin.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (/pcqJ)

55 53 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (LHqaF)

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Go Team Red.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

56 Not to be shallow, but I’m waiting for the Bay Watch video of Trump’s nominees. Bondi, Noem, Pirro, Leavitt…

Posted by: Vengeance at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (hUAHw)

57 "I've felt "forced" to Vote for Tillis every time he's been on the ballot."

The story (a large part of it) of America's precipitous decline.

Trapped in a two-party system where on many key issues there is little (effective) difference between the two. Dem voters (and fraudsters, and illegals, and the deceased) get to vote for what they want, and get it*. GOP voters? For various reasons - crucially including indolence and refusal to vote with purpose in primaries - often little choice in the end.

* I can't think of a Dem voter I know, and that's a zillion, who have the slightest idea what they are actually voting for, in most cases. One result of there being no press, and a collapsed civic culture.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (1m82a)

58 He's only been in office for 60 days.

What did you expect to have done by now.
Posted by: WisRich

One arrest. Of anyone. For anything. Just one.
Lord knows there's thousands.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (y6oPX)

59 Senators are weird, man. Not normal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Nope. His chain has been jerked. I often think Trump is at his most dangerous when he issues mild public comments. Netanyahu is finding that out as well.

Putting Martin in charge of DoJ investigations into the weaponization of politics and the pardons means he can go into the persecution of the J6ers which involves Tillis and the Deep State trolls he is shielding.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5)

60
If not, will leave Senate oval unfilled on my ballot.
Posted by: Deadly Sin at May 09, 2025 12:17 PM (G5+As)

Don't leave it blank. The Donk commie cocksucker hippies who work the vote count rooms will helpfully fill in the D candidate. Third party or write-in Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

61 As I keep saying "J6" was just a fake moral high ground excuse for Thomasina.

DataRepublican did a deep dive the other night on X into the USAID network's papers and essays about J6.

The upshot is that they don't give a shit about loitering in the capitol, but they feel it in their bones if people don't believe their rigged elections are fair. They explicitly define "democracy" as "believing what the government tells you about election results", which really puts "our democracy" into perspective.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (2ocoG)

62 Tillis is done. This was the last straw. There is a lot of money lining up to primary his ass back to whatever goober town he came from.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (hUAHw)

63 30 60 90 120 150 180..........

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (gt60b)

64 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position. /i]

On this very blog I was telling people in 2012 to not vote for Mittens Romneycare in 2012...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

65 I like that too. Seems like a job he could do a lot of damage in.

“I think we better split up.”

“Good idea.”

“Yeah, we can do more damage that way.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (EXyHK)

66 He's only been in office for 60 days.

What did you expect to have done by now.

Yeah I am not gonna say we can trust a politician or everything will work out, but... its not been very long and this stuff takes a while. Building a good case is not something that takes days or weeks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (2VST1)

67 58 One arrest. Of anyone. For anything. Just one.
Lord knows there's thousands.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (y6oPX)

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There have been.

Like the judges? Remember that news story? Trump arrested sitting judges.

Or the the leakers of the ICE raids?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

68 Commenting present.
Posted by: Barack H. Obama at May 09, 2025 12:16 PM (yuVjX)

Hi, Skip!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (/HDaX)

69 Well, since the Judge had to leave the Five to take this slot, who's gonna trash that stupid Tarlov bint?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (luW68)

70 Hey. Wait. Can someone with AI skills make that Bay Watch video happen?

Posted by: Vengeance at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (hUAHw)

71 210, 240, 270

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (/pcqJ)

72 59 Putting Martin in charge of DoJ investigations into the weaponization of politics and the pardons means he can go into the persecution of the J6ers which involves Tillis and the Deep State trolls he is shielding.
Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5)

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I want to see some pardons invalidated.

Just for the lulz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

73 I suspect he wants this thing behind him. He got his scalp, and he hopes everyone forgets it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

And she is just interim.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 09, 2025 12:26 PM (WOqxE)

74 Afternoon ace. Pirro was a solid DA in Westchester county before she was a judge. That means she knows how to run an office . Good second choice. Now make Martin a roaming nightmare to DC lifers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 12:26 PM (vmkyp)

75 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (LHqaF)

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Go Team Red.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, that’s the problem. I’ve been hearing “We’re gonna primary these RINOs!” for twenty years, along with threats to not vote GOPe or even strategically vote for the Democrat.

Then November rolls around and we’ve gotta support “our guy”.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (l3YAf)

76 The upshot is that they don't give a shit about loitering in the capitol, but they feel it in their bones if people don't believe their rigged elections are fair

It wasn't what happened on J6 that frightened and upset them. It was what it represented. Again, these people know that what they are doing is wrong and would enrage people, if they knew what was going on and understood it. They know that if the public really was aware of the crap they are pulling daily they'd be tarred and feathered, at best.

They live worrying that someone will find out and they will get busted and that people WILL storm the capitol and burn the place to the ground.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (2VST1)

77 Dem voters (and fraudsters, and illegals, and the deceased) get to vote for what they want, and get it.

With a fair number of exceptions. The Dems really, really did not want Roe v Wade decided by Congress because that would end their ability to fundraise off of it. So their base called for them to do it, and they'd make some performative noises, and then say the mean Republicans stopped it.

Failure theater isn't only for Republicans.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

78 On this very blog I was telling people in 2012 to not vote for Mittens Romneycare in 2012...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

I'll admit I wanted Obama to lose very very badly. I was blind to anything else because I felt like it didn't matter. I knew Romney was a POS but I thought he at least wasn't as bad as McCain. God I'm an idiot.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (gt60b)

79 52 Going back to the last thread I am amused that in 2025 America a man in a relationship with a much younger woman is something people disparage but I'm supposed to believe that two gay men in an open relationship is a beautiful thing because "love is love"
Posted by: 18-1 at May

Oh my gosh, you know I think highly of you, but that was not even close to my point. I am not hitting Belichick for this at all, he is being an old fool like many old fools before him. My hit was actually on little Miss Jordan, she is running a little bit amuck and needs her reins drawn a hair. As smart as she may be, she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know and it shows.

Posted by: Piper at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (QzINz)

80 Go Team Red.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Team RamRod! Right, Ramathorn!?!

Posted by: Easy, Rod! at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (/HDaX)

81 3.14

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (Vnr18)

82 71 210, 240, 270
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (/pcqJ)

Whatever it takes.

Wait, what are we doing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (WOqxE)

83 He's only been in office for 60 days.

What did you expect to have done by now.

In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'destruction of a tenth'[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort. The discipline was used by senior commanders in the Roman army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences, such as cowardice, mutiny, desertion, and insubordination, and for pacification of rebellious legions.

Posted by: throwing out ideas at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (jGJov)

84 210, 240, 270
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (/pcqJ)

271, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (l3YAf)

85 Mr. Trump said later Thursday that Martin would take on a new role at the Justice Department, focusing on the alleged "weaponization" of the government during the Biden administration and pardons.
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hahahah!!!

The job Tillis desperately wanted to prevent him from doing by opposing the nomination.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

86 I posted this earlier on the Morning Report.

Thom Tillis is getting ratioed for this tweet. I pray he gets primaried with a winning candidate.

Senator Thom Tillis
@SenThomTillis
Jeanine Pirro has had a long and storied career as a prosecutor and she is a great choice by
@POTUS
to serve as U.S. Attorney for DC!

MrDirt
@MrDirt66
Shit backfired on you dude. Now we got Ed investigating jan6 and judge Jeannie in DC arresting swamp critters. FAFO

Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

87 One arrest. Of anyone. For anything. Just one.
Lord knows there's thousands.
Posted by: rickb223
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They have started arresting people for vote fraud, human trafficking, etc. Plus the FBI has been forced to involve themselves in deportations by Trump's order.

As someone who has taught criminal procedure for decades, you have a warped idea of how fast the justice system works and why it is slow.

It is never good practice to arrest someone and then build a case because you have to have probable cause BEFORE you arrest them. Otherwise a well connected guy's lawyers will eat the prosecutor for lunch in a court hearing and the prosecutors will promptly do a fire and brimstone dance on the investigating leos.

The DC guys you want are essentially mobbed up members of Big Dem and Big GOPe gangs and to win against them, it takes something like the mob RICO investigations in the 70's and 80's.

Just do something doesn't work as you get a few underlings and the higher ups skate.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

88 Building a good case is not something that takes days or weeks.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:25 PM (2VST1)

Like it or not that is echoes of Bigmouth Billy Barr.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:29 PM (gt60b)

89 I'm largely indifferent.

She's in her 70s. Would maybe be nice to have someone younger. But maybe part of the appeal is that she's old enough to have no fucks to give.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 09, 2025 12:29 PM (UGyV5)

90 People do forget the RINOs that were primaried or forced to "decide not to run'.

It can't happen all at once. We are in a better spot than we were 6 years ago.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 12:29 PM (VofaG)

91 So now he will unearth the crap, give it to AG, and then AG will bring it before Pirro, and voila! Attaboy Tillis.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 12:30 PM (g47mK)

92 87 Just do something doesn't work as you get a few underlings and the higher ups skate.
Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

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I simply cannot believe that people have already forgotten that the FBI under Patel has arrested sitting judges for criminal activity regarding illegal immigration.

It was a huge story for, like, five minutes, until the media realized that these two were completely shitty, including potential sex trafficking from one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

93 Oh my gosh, you know I think highly of you, but that was not even close to my point. I am not hitting Belichick for this at all, he is being an old fool like many old fools before him

Ah, I didn't actually mean this one in response to you, just in general.

I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 12:30 PM (t0Rmr)

94 There's been commentary on the socials that Martin would probably be able to do "more damage" as a DoJ "fixer" behind the scenes anyway. If true, 👍

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 12:30 PM (Q4IgG)

95 Yeah, that’s the problem. I’ve been hearing “We’re gonna primary these RINOs!” for twenty years, along with threats to not vote GOPe or even strategically vote for the Democrat.

Then November rolls around and we’ve gotta support “our guy”.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (l3YAf)

The problem is, we got the order backwards. Instead of a MAGA president trying to drag everyone along, we need a MAGA Congress trying to drag everyone along.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

96 What got me was Billy Bass was showing his ass making Federalist speeches about stopping the commies. That's how I knew he was all talk.

No fucking speeches. No fox news. Just make the arrests and let some underling talk talk talk you turd.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (gt60b)

97 Where will they find another Trump?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (Vnr18)

98 Like it or not that is echoes of Bigmouth Billy Barr.

I know, and that's why I won't say "trust" but... its also a fact. And as Whig notes, people ARE being arrested just not the big names we want. Well, they didn't get the mob bosses at first, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

99 Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5

May God protect Mr. Martin.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (42Vb+)

100 I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Yeah Althouse is deeply confused and morally conflicted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

101 Just do something doesn't work as you get a few underlings and the higher ups skate.

We have well passed the point where Too Big to Jail, aka Mobbed Up Party Apparatchiks, are not too big to swing from lamp posts by piano wire.

This Double Standard and elite lawlessness isn't sustainable.

Posted by: BillClinton at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (a4flb)

102 90 People do forget the RINOs that were primaried or forced to "decide not to run'.

It can't happen all at once. We are in a better spot than we were 6 years ago.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 12:29 PM (VofaG)

=======

9 GOP Senators voted for Sotomayor in 2009. 2 are still in the Senate. The other 7 are gone.

3 voted for KJB, as a contrast, in 2022.

We're still not where we want to be, but we're further along than we were.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

103 100 I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Yeah Althouse is deeply confused and morally conflicted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

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She's also kind of stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

104 Pervert Former President sock Off

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (a4flb)

105
I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 12:30 PM (t0Rmr)

Oh, that. There's nothing more fiercely protective than an AWFL with a gay son.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (QnmlO)

106 Then November rolls around and we’ve gotta support “our guy”.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (l3YAf)

Funny how the Big Tent conservative side hasn't felt the need to support *our* guy, no?

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:33 PM (gt60b)

107 We're still not where we want to be, but we're further along than we were.

Yeah I am not sure we have time for it to work out, but we are moving in the right direction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:33 PM (2VST1)

108 osted by: Piper at May 09, 2025 12:27 PM (QzINz)

Don't be so paranoid. I believe that was pointed at the Lefty critics. I don't know any one here that is a proponent of Love is Love as the Left defines it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 12:33 PM (VofaG)

109 There have been.

Like the judges? Remember that news story? Trump arrested sitting judges.

Or the the leakers of the ICE raids?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I stand corrected. There's been one.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 12:33 PM (y6oPX)

110 All right, friends,I am going to go walk my very own Doge before it rains again. Have I told y’all how cute he is today?

Posted by: Piper at May 09, 2025 12:33 PM (QzINz)

111 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position.
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Contrast Trump driving the Democrats further and further left to Rove's "lesser of two evils."

That was engineered to ensure perpetual party power parity, which increases bureaucratic rule.
And, as we are discovering, the GOPe has engaged in just as much vote fraud as the Dems, just at the primary level to ensure conservatives don't win.

Trump's plan is killing their carefully plotted course.
Yes he has had some big misses in his primary picks.
But they sacrificed 50 of their best in 2018 and have been losing soldiers every cycle since.

To put another way, would you prefer today's majority in Congress or the "majority" of 2017?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 12:33 PM (sMW+k)

112 "Now, about Tom Tillis.."

You want him? Take the freakin' RINO.

Posted by: Joe at May 09, 2025 12:34 PM (Uy/WF)

113 Bill Belichick, whoever the hell he is, has evidently not yet run out of fucks to give.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:34 PM (WUoYt)

114 We're still not where we want to be, but we're further along than we were.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

Who's on first?

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:34 PM (gt60b)

115 Tillis didn't want Martin due to J6.

Pretty sure Pirro is even further to the right on J6.

What a hilarious own-goal that he's now trying to own.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (KbCG3)

116
You want him? Take the freakin' RINO.
Posted by: Joe at May 09, 2025 12:34 PM (Uy/WF)

BOGO sale! John Cornyn, too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (QnmlO)

117 114 We're still not where we want to be, but we're further along than we were.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

Who's on first?
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:34 PM (gt60b)

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Oh, I don't give a damn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

118 The French really have crappy names for their war planes. Rafale? He's a bartender at a gay bar. Mirage? Drag queen grinding and reading to youths. By the way, Mirage? That's a bad name for a weapon in general...oh sure it looks good from a distance, but you get up close and realize that shimmer is coming from the fuel leaking all around it.

Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (KC3xg)

119
It was a huge story for, like, five minutes, until the media realized that these two were completely shitty, including potential sex trafficking from one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The half-life of news concerning corrupt/criminal Democrats is about half a day...maybe less.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

120 >> Bill Belichick, whoever the hell he is

I think he’s the guy who invented Chick-Fil-A. But don’t quote me on that.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (l3YAf)

121 100 I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Yeah Althouse is deeply confused and morally conflicted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

And what's with this sudden idea that young women 18-23 are suddenly "underage" and a 30-40 y/o man dating one is grooming or pedi feel ya? I mean you can not like it from a personal standpoint but huh?

Posted by: it's an odd almost subcultural thing that's emerged at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (TbWk/)

122 Yeah, that’s the problem. I’ve been hearing “We’re gonna primary these RINOs!” for twenty years, along with threats to not vote GOPe or even strategically vote for the Democrat.

Then November rolls around and we’ve gotta support “our guy”.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

It must be nice to go through life as pure as you.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:36 PM (s8j++)

123 100 I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Yeah Althouse is deeply confused and morally conflicted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

She's not. Her morals are clear: whatever straight white men do is bad. That's it. And that's the zeitgeist. Anything women or minorities do is by definition wonderful. There's been an organized campaign to demonize white men for a very long time. And elements of the right with church lady sensibilities have been only too happy to be conscripted.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 09, 2025 12:36 PM (UGyV5)

124
These November-May marriages are just silly. The basic gap of experiences and culture mean you have almost nothing in common.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:37 PM (QnmlO)

125 The French really have crappy names for their war planes. Rafale? He's a bartender at a gay bar. Mirage? Drag queen grinding and reading to youths. By the way, Mirage? That's a bad name for a weapon in general...oh sure it looks good from a distance, but you get up close and realize that shimmer is coming from the fuel leaking all around it.
Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (KC3xg)

*adjust beret*

*lights Gauloises*

*peevishly orders all paratroopers on top of a tiny mountain because you don’t realize the Viet Cong have artillery*

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:37 PM (l3YAf)

126 The Roy Moore reaction is alive and well….

Posted by: tubal at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (PCK5/)

127 I like that we are doing exactly what the leftists do (I'm not being sarcastic). We are hiring conservative media personalities to work in the administration. No more "muh principles."

Posted by: Max Power at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (q177U)

128
Althouse: Margaret Dumont
Althouse commenters: The Marx Brothers

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (QnmlO)

129 "Third party or write-in Bugs Bunny."

No, not Bugs Bunny.

While I align with most of Bugs' positions (and think very highly of his administrative skills) he has too much baggage from "Ali Baba Bunny" to get elected.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VXSVh)

130 I mean you can not like it from a personal standpoint but huh?

Yeah its not a good look for the guy but that doesn't make it immoral. I agree that an 18 year old girl is not mature and odd to date in your 30s but its not illegal or morally questionable. Leo doesn't date girls because he's looking for love or a future with them, he dates girls because he wants something young and hot to stick it into. OK that attitude is wrong but... there's nothing sinful about him dating 22 year old girls.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (2VST1)

131 The DC federal circuit is filled with Swamp monsters. Pirro has her work cut out for her to deal with them. Emmit G. Sullivan, for one.

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (rj6Yv)

132 100 I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Yeah Althouse is deeply confused and morally conflicted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Her son is gay. That is why she rationalizes about the issue. Her schtick has been lame and boring since the Scott Walker era.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (ctrM5)

133 And elements of the right with church lady sensibilities have been only too happy to be conscripted.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 09, 2025 12:36 PM (UGyV5)

I don't consider them part of the Right except as interlopers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)

134 It's preferable to see the RINO's go the same way as the Dodo's, extinction is a good thing.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (tykPk)

135 Who's this we person?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 12:39 PM (Vnr18)

136 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:37 PM (QnmlO)

They are not married . Just geezer....uh guy ....and girlfriend.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 12:39 PM (kHB9B)

137 The Roy Moore reaction is alive and well

Yeah I cannot believe that worked. I cannot believe they managed to topple him IN THE SOUTH by complaining he did something completely normal and typical when he was young. Something objectively not wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:39 PM (2VST1)

138 > Tillis didn't want Martin due to J6.

Pretty sure Pirro is even further to the right on J6.

What a hilarious own-goal that he's now trying to own.
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Martin was pretty vocal about crushing the corruption inside Congress and the bureaucratic state which probably was more worrisome to the GOP than anything else. Tillis was especially 'concerned.' So he's obviously very, very dirty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

139 Looks like President Trump took Tom Tillis' treachery, twisted it up, and shoved it up this GOP Judas' backside. I like that. I like this move even more than I like the prospect of Trump's tariffs causing Mitch McConnell to lose millions of dollars through Bitch's family dealings with China.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (X+xvk)

140 Leo doesn't date girls because he's looking for love or a future with them, he dates girls because he wants something young and hot to stick it into. OK that attitude is wrong but... there's nothing sinful about him dating 22 year old girls.

But therein lies the problem. It's a very clear way of saying "I'm over 50 and still haven't grown up". When you're 20, "sticking it in" can be all consuming. When you're 50, you should be getting your kids ready for college.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (s8j++)

141 These November-May marriages are just silly. The basic gap of experiences and culture mean you have almost nothing in common.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:37 PM (QnmlO)

I don’t he’s interested in her TikToks and big thoughts on Proust, and I don’t think she’s interested in his stories of when a nickel could buy you an entire dinner of liver and onions with enough change left over to take in a minstrel show.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (l3YAf)

142
They are not married . Just geezer....uh guy ....and girlfriend.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 12:39 PM (kHB9B)

Thanks for the clarification. Like I watch the news.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (QnmlO)

143 Making the best of a bad situation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

144 Possibly, but his real problem with the previous nominee is that he defended January 6th prisoners and that is the mark of Cain to the Deep State.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:14 PM (2VST1)

I guess we're just going to gloss over John Adams defending British soldiers after the Boston Massacre...

Here in the States, EVERY defendant is entitled to a vigorous defense.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 09, 2025 12:41 PM (oSeBJ)

145 no one believes in true love anymore !

---geezer's GF eyeing 100M in net worth

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (g47mK)

146 No, not Bugs Bunny.

While I align with most of Bugs' positions (and think very highly of his administrative skills) he has too much baggage from "Ali Baba Bunny" to get elected.

--

But he can make a fat opera singer bust his buttons holding onto a note just by a hanging his hand glove in the air. That's pretty powerful! He has my vote.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (qBdHI)

147 There's no need to marry him after she already has his house.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (Vnr18)

148 Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VXSVh)

Ali Baba Bunny is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (kHB9B)

149 140 Leo doesn't date girls because he's looking for love or a future with them, he dates girls because he wants something young and hot to stick it into. OK that attitude is wrong but... there's nothing sinful about him dating 22 year old girls.

But therein lies the problem. It's a very clear way of saying "I'm over 50 and still haven't grown up". When you're 20, "sticking it in" can be all consuming. When you're 50, you should be getting your kids ready for college.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (s8j++)

Well, he's an actor. Most of them never grow up and never want to.
He's chosen his path and he seems ok with it.
Beats what I've settled for.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (xcxpd)

150 138 > Tillis didn't want Martin due to J6.

Pretty sure Pirro is even further to the right on J6.

What a hilarious own-goal that he's now trying to own.
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Martin was pretty vocal about crushing the corruption inside Congress and the bureaucratic state which probably was more worrisome to the GOP than anything else. Tillis was especially 'concerned.' So he's obviously very, very dirty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

And stupid. You can't come out in full support of someone who is likely more vigilant about the thing you just opposed.

We are governed by complete and total ruh-tards.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (KbCG3)

151 Looks like President Trump took Tom Tillis' treachery, twisted it up, and shoved it up this GOP Judas' backside. I like that.

he may have even, get this...anticipated resistance from the
RINO coven and had Pirro waiting on deck.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (dCxaZ)

152 Certain feminists online have been trying to co-opt the term grooming to mean any man dating someone younger than him. Apparently women have no agency or free will in who they date if the man is older.

Posted by: brak at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (jGJov)

153 Her son is gay. That is why she rationalizes about the issue. Her schtick has been lame and boring since the Scott Walker era.

I knjow its not the same, but I have a cousin's daughter who decided that she is an... I'm not sure, an it? Half and half?

That doesn't make me support or sympathetic to the tranny cause. Its stupid and wrong and crazy. Its hurt the entire family, has clearly not made her any more happy, and is doing no one any good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (2VST1)

154 no one believes in true love anymore !

---geezer's GF eyeing 100M in net worth

It's inexplicable how rarely paupers are the object of such true love.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (s8j++)

155 103 100 I go to Althouse for example and see her complain about Leo D and his rotating cycle of girlfriends and then complain about opponents of gay marriage.

Yeah Althouse is deeply confused and morally conflicted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

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She's also kind of stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

This

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

156 I joined the R party in 2009 because I figured I should get involved earlier in the process to try to avoid the vote for the 'least bad option' in November. I switched to Independent in 2021. Not only because of my disgust with the beltway GOP back stabbing of the Trump and the base, but also because I would go to the local R caucus looking to get some information on who should I support at the local levels in the primary and there was usually no information to be had. Unaffiliated like myself can pick a party and vote in the primary anyway on Colorado. Thats a stupid law, but since its there I'll take advantage.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (bP/i4)

157 But therein lies the problem. It's a very clear way of saying "I'm over 50 and still haven't grown up". When you're 20, "sticking it in" can be all consuming. When you're 50, you should be getting your kids ready for college.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (s8j++)

Look, buddy, I’m rich and banging models half my age. I will never die. I have no need for posterity.

Also, I was a pretty young boy actor in the 90s. I’ve seen more couches than a La-Z-Boy salesman. I got trauma.

Posted by: Leo DiCaprio at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (l3YAf)

158
Here in the States, EVERY defendant is entitled to a vigorous defense.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 09, 2025 12:41 PM (oSeBJ)

*guffaws*

Like all those former Trump officials? All the law firms that got told how bad it would be for if they defended them?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (QnmlO)

159 Another look at sacred kings?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (Vnr18)

160 Im assuming Musk will continue to date smart 30 somethings as he ages.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (VofaG)

161 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:40 PM (QnmlO

I don't watch the news either. It's just been one of the stories in the "NY Post."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (kHB9B)

162 On this very blog I was telling people in 2012 to not vote for Mittens Romneycare in 2012...
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I'll admit I wanted Obama to lose very very badly. I was blind to anything else because I felt like it didn't matter. I knew Romney was a POS but I thought he at least wasn't as bad as McCain. God I'm an idiot.
Posted by: ...

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I doubt it mattered much.

Knowing what we know now, Obama didn't win 2012. I seriously doubt he won 2008. If he did it was barely.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (yZCmg)

163 OMG another thing to have an opinion on. There's something that everybody needs.

Belichik could be dating a rock from Zimbabwe, it doesn't and will never ever matter to me.

Is he telling my kids who they should fuck?

Is he spreading and celebrating disease?

Is he forcing me to use special language to talk about him and making me declare my special language?

Is he lecturing the earth that his brand of sexual attraction is morally and spiritually uplifting?

Right, and that's why I don't give a shit.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (gt60b)

164 I guess we're just going to gloss over John Adams defending British soldiers after the Boston Massacre

The principle that everyone deserves a legal defense, no matter what a monster they might be, is one of the most sacred, beloved, and honored legal concepts in the USA. Except, apparently, for this one instance.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (2VST1)

165 145 no one believes in true love anymore !

---geezer's GF eyeing 100M in net worth
Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (g47mK)

"True love" is rubbish invented by poets and the greeting card-confection-restaurant industrial complex.

Posted by: A creation of faggoty French troubadours and Madison Avenue at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

166 No fucking speeches. No fox news. Just make the arrests and let some underling talk talk talk you turd.
Posted by: ...
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You have to do both as a prosecutor. If you do not , then the defense counsel tries the case in public and you lose at the jury box and politically.

What Barr did was bloviate with no intention of arresting any of his 'friends' in the Deep State. He was brought in to do one thing which he did--end the Mueller investigation. And that is essentially all he did.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (ctrM5)

167 “I get older. They stay the same age.”

Posted by: Alright alright alright at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (EXyHK)

168 Is it normal for a company to do annual background checks?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (W2Pud)

169
I seriously doubt he won 2008. If he did it was barely.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (yZCmg)

He "defeated" McCain like Billie Jean King "defeated" Bobby Riggs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (QnmlO)

170 The French really have crappy names for their war planes. Rafale? He's a bartender at a gay bar. Mirage? Drag queen grinding and reading to youths. By the way, Mirage? That's a bad name for a weapon in general...oh sure it looks good from a distance, but you get up close and realize that shimmer is coming from the fuel leaking all around it.
Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 12:35 PM (KC3xg)
________________

I've heard Brit newsreaders talk about Apache helicopters, pronounced "Apa-SHAY." Now how gay is that?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (YqDXo)

171 My cousin was close to 50 when he married a 30 year old.

He doesn't look anywhere near his age and she actually looks a little older, so when they're together there's no shock or horror among the onlookers. They have two adorable little boys.

There's just a big gap between his kids and their cousins who are at least 20 years older.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (dCxaZ)

172 NOOD Souter dead

Posted by: ShainS at May 09, 2025 12:46 PM (gdH0L)

173 The DC federal circuit is filled with Swamp monsters. Pirro has her work cut out for her to deal with them. Emmit G. Sullivan, for one.
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That she worked for Fox News (gasp!) is like displaying a Holy Cross to a vampire.

Just her presence is going to drive several out.
See also all the scum-sucking shitbags at civil rights that have quit.

Her biggest job is a deep-dive into the background of those that stay.
The "should you keep your job" interview must include proof of donations to a conservative candidates, pictures of conservative candidate signs in your yard, etc.
Everyone else should be assumed to be a leftie.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 12:46 PM (sMW+k)

174 The knives are already out for her - she prosecuted and won a case (1999?) where a "don't park here" confrontation escalated to an off-duty (white) cop pumping three bullets into a black citizen, killing him. Critics are describing it as railroading a cop just defending his dad.

The victim was picking up a pizza he'd ordered across the street from an Italian deli that had the only parking spot he could find. The cop was helping out his dad and brother at the busy deli his dad owned - when the black dude didn't unpark the three of them attacked him and knocked him to the ground - when he retreated to his car the two sons returned to the deli but the dad followed him where upon the guy pulled a baseball bat from his car and hit the dad twice - the cop son then ran back out and shot him.

The cop was sentenced to 20 to life - a decade later the sentence was reversed and he was released - but then another court reversed the reversal and he had to go back in.

The TDS crew are reviving this (often confusing) case to portray Pirro as another Janet Reno who sent an innocent man to prison.

Posted by: BobM at May 09, 2025 12:46 PM (Ndtjr)

175 168 Is it normal for a company to do annual background checks?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (W2Pud)

No?

It's normal to have one during the hiring process but yearly....that's new.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 12:46 PM (xcxpd)

176 Is he lecturing the earth that his brand of sexual attraction is morally and spiritually uplifting?

Right, and that's why I don't give a shit.
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (gt60b)

Bingo!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:47 PM (WUoYt)

177 Certain feminists online have been trying to co-opt the term grooming to mean any man dating someone younger than him. Apparently women have no agency or free will in who they date if the man is older.
Posted by: brak at May 09, 2025 12:42 PM (jGJov)

While somehow simultaneously being stronk independent boss babe bitches.

Posted by: Makes as much as sense as feminism usually does at May 09, 2025 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

178 I doubt it mattered much.

Knowing what we know now, Obama didn't win 2012. I seriously doubt he won 2008. If he did it was barely.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (yZCmg)

I appreciate you. It's more a beat myself up thing.

I think I knew what he was, but I didn't realize how low that really meant. Owned is owned. It's worse than even *I* knew.

He also would have destroyed the R party for quite some time by doing a bunch of Bush shit and making us defend it, and ushered in 8 years of Hillary and then Lord knows what. Not good.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:47 PM (gt60b)

179 It's inexplicable how rarely paupers are the object of such true love.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (s8j++)

When you’re young you don’t need money to get ladies, but eventually a girl’s gotta stop riding the c*ck carousel and start thinking about her future. A future that involves a lot of wrinkly old skin and doing things you’d never thought you’d do and praying he dies before you’re 50 so you can at least enjoy the money.

Posted by: Leo DiCaprio at May 09, 2025 12:47 PM (l3YAf)

180 I would prefer Martin to be made Pam Bondi's chief of staff and have it explained to Bondi that Martin is running the show.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at May 09, 2025 12:47 PM (5IFb9)

181 171 My cousin was close to 50 when he married a 30 year old.

He doesn't look anywhere near his age and she actually looks a little older, so when they're together there's no shock or horror among the onlookers. They have two adorable little boys.

There's just a big gap between his kids and their cousins who are at least 20 years older.
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (dCxaZ)

What a degenerate monster!!!

Posted by: tubal at May 09, 2025 12:48 PM (PCK5/)

182 Knowing what we know now, Obama didn't win 2012. I seriously doubt he won 2008. If he did it was barely.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

I think he did win 2008 squarely because Bush was so bad--endless wars of occupation, collapse in the economy and asset prices affecting the normies like real estate, the massive bank bailout where Bush's own Treasury secretary lied about how it would be used, and so on.

Then you have the worst GOP candidate for president since Bob Dole in 1996 that did not want to win nor did his team. In a just world, Palin would have been the candidate and McCain the has been VP.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

183 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

How do you know we didn't (or did, too many negatives to untangle)? We've had "scrutators" for as long as we've had a Deep State.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 12:49 PM (n9MHj)

184 He "defeated" McCain like Billie Jean King "defeated" Bobby Riggs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (QnmlO)

Yep. That campaign suspension.... the Palin sabotage.... yikes

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 12:49 PM (gt60b)

185 Not sure if Judge Jeanine will want the job permanently.
She has a big home in New York and 4 large dogs that she adores.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 12:49 PM (NpAcC)

186 Esmond Sr.: Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money?
Lorelei Lee: It's true.
Esmond Sr.: Then what do you want to marry him for?
Lorelei Lee: I want to marry him for YOUR money.
Esmond Sr.: We're getting down to brass tacks. You admit you're after money.
Lorelei Lee: No, I don't. Aren't you funny? Don't you know that a rich man is like a pretty girl? Would you want your daughter to marry a poor man? You'd want her to have the most wonderful things in the world. Why is it wrong for me to want those things?
Esmond Sr.: Well, I concede that...
Lorelei Lee: You don't marry her just because she's pretty. But, my goodness, doesn't it help?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:49 PM (2VST1)

187 Wait, innocent--white-- cop??!! Unpossible

Posted by: Polka will never die at May 09, 2025 12:50 PM (tXldV)

188 New Souter thread up

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 12:50 PM (dCxaZ)

189 92
I simply cannot believe that people have already forgotten that the FBI under Patel has arrested sitting judges for criminal activity regarding illegal immigration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
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Those arrests are for 'crimes' recently committed but we are referring to pre-Trump47 election 'crimes'.
How about Letitia James arrested late on a Friday night and has to sit in jail til Monday?

Posted by: Ciampino - great shoes too at May 09, 2025 12:50 PM (sPQoU)

190 When you’re young you don’t need money to get ladies, but eventually a girl’s gotta stop riding the c*ck carousel and start thinking about her future. A future that involves a lot of wrinkly old skin and doing things you’d never thought you’d do and praying he dies before you’re 50 so you can at least enjoy the money.
Posted by: Leo DiCaprio at May 09, 2025 12:47 PM (l3YAf)

Is that from Growing Pains or What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 12:51 PM (KC3xg)

191 I've heard Brit newsreaders talk about Apache helicopters, pronounced "Apa-SHAY." Now how gay is that?

Evergreen: https://youtu.be/nWMp_z7Jnxw

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 12:52 PM (2VST1)

192 180 I would prefer Martin to be made Pam Bondi's chief of staff and have it explained to Bondi that Martin is running the show.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge
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Actually, Bondi is only the PR figurehead of DoJ.
Todd Blanche and Emil Bove are running the place but there are still a lot of DA positions in the process of being filled along with new judges.

Takes usually about six months to fill in all the undersecretaries, etc. because the Dems are purposefully slow walking the Trump appointees via Senate procedural rules.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 12:52 PM (ctrM5)

193 151 Looks like President Trump took Tom Tillis' treachery, twisted it up, and shoved it up this GOP Judas' backside. I like that.

he may have even, get this...anticipated resistance from the RINO coven and had Pirro waiting on deck.

Posted by: kallisto

Good point.

Reading the AOS comments, I have long known that I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Now I fully believe that, not only am I not a knife, but I haven't the slightest idea where that drawer is.

I think I'm most likely a spork, stuck in a cardboard box in a forgotten corner in the back of the pantry.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 09, 2025 12:53 PM (X+xvk)

194
But he can make a fat opera singer bust his buttons holding onto a note just by a hanging his hand glove in the air. That's pretty powerful! He has my vote.
Posted by: Lady in Black

LEOPOLD!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 09, 2025 12:57 PM (63Dwl)

195 OMG another thing to have an opinion on. There's something that everybody needs.

Belichik could be dating a rock from Zimbabwe, it doesn't and will never ever matter to me.

Is he telling my kids who they should fuck?

Is he spreading and celebrating disease?

Is he forcing me to use special language to talk about him and making me declare my special language?

Is he lecturing the earth that his brand of sexual attraction is morally and spiritually uplifting?

Right, and that's why I don't give a shit.
Posted by: ...
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Besides, she probably benefits way more than he does from this "relationship". In fact, she probably initiated it... just saying.

Posted by: lin-duh at May 09, 2025 12:57 PM (llS7k)

196 You forgot the gay ass H in Thom.

Posted by: Francis at May 09, 2025 12:59 PM (bbuBP)

197 Is the H silent?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 09, 2025 01:00 PM (63Dwl)

198 You know if conservatives bit the bullet decades ago and never voted for RINOs, we’d be in a far better position.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 09, 2025 12:22 PM (LHqaF)

Migawd, what is this continual drum beat about, "why don't conservative vote" about anyways?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 01:02 PM (D7oie)

199 197 Is the H silent?

The D is.

Posted by: Django at May 09, 2025 01:06 PM (bbuBP)

200 Funny take I saw from Fox's Jimmy Falla. The age difference between Bill Belicheck and his girlfriend would be like me dating a sonogram.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 09, 2025 01:07 PM (2UnvF)

201 Third party or write-in Bugs Bunny."

No, not Bugs Bunny.

While I align with most of Bugs' positions (and think very highly of his administrative skills) he has too much baggage from "Ali Baba Bunny" to get elected.
Posted by: CTHillary,
+++
I wouldn't trust Bugs Bunny. You know he's gonna turn left if he ever gets to Albuquerque.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 09, 2025 01:11 PM (Lo97M)

202 169
I seriously doubt he won 2008. If he did it was barely.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (yZCmg)

He "defeated" McCain like Billie Jean King "defeated" Bobby Riggs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (QnmlO)

There was always the question of whether he really won the Dem nomination over Hillary. IIRC, she won the primaries, he won the caucuses, and she had almost all the "Superdelegates", with some saying enough to get the nomination. But, because he had the lead with the committed delegates, there was no way that the Dems could have Hillary win at the DNC with the superdelegates.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at May 09, 2025 01:11 PM (k1E2D)

203 Good point.

Reading the AOS comments, I have long known that I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Now I fully believe that, not only am I not a knife, but I haven't the slightest idea where that drawer is.

I think I'm most likely a spork, stuck in a cardboard box in a forgotten corner in the back of the pantry.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 09, 2025 12:53 PM (X+xvk)

I'm still looking for the kitchen.

Posted by: javems at May 09, 2025 01:12 PM (8I4hW)

204 Ian S. you are correct there is failure theater with the Dems as well (however bizarre it might seem politically, such as my friend Chris's crusade to get "Maryland Man" back in MD). But with the GOP it's sort of been a core component of almost everything they do. As their voters have no learning curve, it works - plus, the alternative. As I have long said, the worse the Dems become, the worse the GOP can become - because what's your alternative?

Trump of course is an exception to all this. Not sure the systemic failure will change after him, though.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 01:13 PM (1m82a)

205 Here in the States, EVERY defendant is entitled to a vigorous defense.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 09, 2025 12:41 PM (oSeBJ)

*guffaws*

Like all those former Trump officials? All the law firms that got told how bad it would be for if they defended them?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:43 PM (QnmlO)

I was mocking Tillis's position that defending J6-ers is a reason to oppose his nomination.

But yes. You point out that it's so much worse than just theJ6ers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 09, 2025 01:19 PM (oSeBJ)

206 I'm still looking for the kitchen.

Posted by: javems

Ha!

I doubt that.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 09, 2025 01:31 PM (X+xvk)

207 Jeanine is a cool chick. She has a bit of a mean streak which, Bondi does not have.

Posted by: DBCooper at May 09, 2025 01:34 PM (3oMnW)

208 02 169
I seriously doubt he won 2008. If he did it was barely.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 12:44 PM (yZCmg)

He "defeated" McCain like Billie Jean King "defeated" Bobby Riggs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 12:45 PM (QnmlO)

There was always the question of whether he really won the Dem nomination over Hillary. IIRC, she won the primaries, he won the caucuses, and she had almost all the "Superdelegates", with some saying enough to get the nomination. But, because he had the lead with the committed delegates, there was no way that the Dems could have Hillary win at the DNC with the superdelegates.

Actually

Not the whole story 5/8/2008 the democrat election committee gifted Obama 1/2 delegates from Michigan, a state he didn’t even win one vote, he pulled out

That gave him one more delegate, superdelegates ran over to him leaving Hillary to lose

The rest is history

Black was more important a woman….

As we see, Dems actually hate women

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 09, 2025 01:34 PM (nGraA)

209 The thing I remember about Pirro was her take on George Floyd, which is what I based my own opinion on the matter from. It was very odd.

She was on FoxNews (her own show) and she proclaimed that it should be Murder One, and proceeded to go through all the evidence of exactly what happened. Those facts made it crystal clear to me that it wasn't murder at all, not even manslaughter. She didn't really seem to explain how it was murder, IIRC.

So either she's an idiot, or she was forced to come to that conclusion by her bosses, and this was her way of getting the truth out.

That, in turn, reminds me of a Tucker Carlson show, near the end, I think. It was 100% fluff, about loving life or something. I always assumed he was saying, "If you (Fox execs) won't let me say what I want to say, I just won't say anything."

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (hOOi9)

210 >>>a former judge and district attorney for Westchester County in New York

Sounds like some training by fire!

Posted by: m at May 09, 2025 02:28 PM (CQE5S)

211 Someone that rules against the Open Borders Demo-Rats

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 09, 2025 05:36 PM (wGqjj)

212 Trump can do these "interim" appointments all day long. More importantly, for the next 3 years. His stable of potential appointees is deep.

Posted by: Gosport at May 09, 2025 07:19 PM (7PUnr)

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