Jake Tapper's Publisher Puts Together a Compliation Purporting to Show that Tapper Reported on Biden's Dementia. <br>Mark Halperin Looks at the Clips <i>In Context</i> and Finds It's a Lie.

Jake Tapper's Publisher Puts Together a Compliation Purporting to Show that Tapper Reported on Biden's Dementia.
Mark Halperin Looks at the Clips In Context and Finds It's a Lie.

Jake Tapper's defense against bias is always the same: "I asked a question."

But not all questions are the same, of course.

On the one hand, there is a Tim Russert-style interrogation where he rejects your first rehearsed answer and presents evidence to you that prove that answer is false.

And then there is the "friendly inoculation" style of asking a question. When Jake Tapper "interviews" one of his Democrat allies, he's very friendly and very helpful towards them. And this includes in asking questions posed by Republicans.

He doesn't present the evidence that the Republicans have accumulated and demand that his Democrat Pal answer each and every point of evidence. No, he says something like, "Republicans are making an issue of this stupid nonsense, how do you respond?"

This is an inoculation, not an interrogation -- he's not challenging the Democrat, he is providing the Democrat a service by offering him the opportunity to present his rehearsed, canned spin answer to the public on a highly-rated television show.

Did I just say "highly rated"? Pardon me, I just did crack for the first time.

Then the Democrat can go around the country saying "These questions have all been asked and answered."

The Inoculatory Question is like a vaccine dose -- it's a tiny, harmless bit of a question designed not to infect you, but to make it harder to infect you with the allegation.

Jake Tapper is getting a lot of well-deserved criticism for serving as Field Marshal of the Democrat-Media Party's Dementia Cover-Up Parade, and he asked his publisher to defend him.

I don't know for a fact that he asked his publisher to play PR agent for him, but I do know it. Jake Tapper absolutely cannot abide any kind of criticism, especially when it's about this Handgun Control, Inc. spokesman's, and former Democrat congressional staffer's, obvious political activism.

I've mentioned this before, but in one of my many DM interactions with Jake Tapper, he attempted to rebut something I'd written about him having obvious Democrat sympathies.

He said, and I quote:

"You have no idea of what my politics are."

Sure, Jan. Sure.

Mark Halperin has been as annoyed with Jake Tapper playing reporter on the Biden Dementia Conspiracy. Of all liberal reporters, Jake Tapper is the second-least credible on the issue, after only Joe Scarborough.

His co-author, Alex Thompson, no one really questions because Thompson did show an "interest" in the story and did do some mealy-mouthed reporting on it, back before the election, even before the debate. His "reportage" was weak but at least it was something.

And who knows -- his editors probably toned down his stories because they're all co-conspirators in the greatest political fraud in American history, too.

But Jake Tapper? The guy who insists, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that all of Biden's slurring and Lost Time Events are due to his "childhood stutter"? A stutter that was only made known in 2019, when Biden's handlers needed to conjure excuses for why Biden so frequently forgot words and mistook dead foreign leaders for living ones and attempted to summon the ghost of a congresswoman he was delivering a eulogy for.

If you don't know how that worked: The lying media, including Jake Tapper, pushed the hoax on the country that when Biden lost his train of thought it was only because he was straining to keep his stutter under control. He wasn't having mental lapses, you see, he was just fighting heroically to keep a stutter under control, which sometimes caused him to invent words like "TRUMPALAZIZURE."

The "childhood stutter" that did not evidence itself for fifty years of this asshole's corrupt political career.

Jake Tapper pushed that lie -- without ever once asking where the evidence for this was, and without ever once notifying his (very small) audience that there was no evidence for it apart from the say-so of Biden's campaign staff.

Below, Mark Halperin looks at the full clips that Tapper's publisher presented in his defense, and finds that these are deceptive edits. Tapper never really asked about Biden's dementia or presented him with the evidence for it, like his attempting to summon the ghost of a dead congresswoman.

Instead, he merely asked about a poll showing that the public doubted Biden's fitness, and let Biden answer with the canned answer he always responds with, and offered no follow-up questions to this at all.

He let Biden inoculate himself from the charge, and then MovedOn.org like a good trained attack dog.

If you're interested in this story and the media's conspiracy to deceive the public, try to make time to watch Halperin's entire opening statement here. He flat-out says that Jake Tapper was part of the media conspiracy and is now creating "alternate realities" in which the press was trying desperately to get to the truth but was "stymied" by politicians lying.

He points out what we keep saying: You didn't need the White House staffers to admit Biden's cognitive decline to report it. You could just go to Twitter and see Biden saying "Where's Jackie?" while he was eulogizing Jackie's death.

Halperin unloaded again on Tapper this morning. He reveals that there is "no news" in the book -- an assessment shared by the NY Times in reviewing it. Apparently the book promises to expose the "cover-up," but never names anyone involved in the cover-up. It's observations about Biden being out-of-it, and complaints that unnamed, vague White House staffers bullied the Brave Firefighters of the media, but the bullies are never named. It's just anonymous sources making anonymous complaints about unnamed people.

Halperin also notes this factoid: How many paragraphs, he asks at about this point in the show, do you think the book mentions the infamous video of Biden appearing at a memorial for Congresswoman Jackie Walorski and asking "Where's Jackie?"

Zero. Zero paragraphs. In fact, Halperin says he ran a search on the document (he has a copy of the book) and found zero mentions of the "Where's Jackie?" incident.

So it's a book with no news in it written by a member of the conspiracy to deceive the American public that refuses to expose the conspiracy it promises to expose.

I think it's going to be another failed book by Tapper.

Tapper's entire premise is deceptive: You don't need "sources" to tell you that Biden has dementia when you can see it on TV every single week.

For example: Biden freezes on camera when asked a puff-piece question by a leftist reporter. Jake Tapper is claiming that he couldn't report this until "sources" confirmed that his eyes saw what his eyes saw.

You don't need to be a doctor to see that is a case of an elderly man forgetting important information that any non-impaired individual would know.

But Jake Tapper attacked Lara Trump for bringing up Biden's obvious cognitive decline, accusing her of making fun of children with stutters and insisting that only someone board-certified in neurology can see when an old person is mentally slipping.

The media is so determined to absolve themselves of complicity in the Biden Dementia Conspiracy that they're even willing to throw Democrat officials under the bus, if that's what it takes.

Chuck Todd, who never once suggested that Biden was mentally unfit and attacked Republicans for suggesting it, now says that Chuck Schumer was "part of the problem."

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
A balding Chuck Todd rips Senator Chuck Schumer for "covering up" President Biden's mental decline.
"Go home. You’re part of the problem. Now you tell us?"
Lmao what a fraud. This guy and his friends in the media covered up Biden's obvious mental decline for four years and then have the audacity to blame it on someone else.
The media spin is in full effect.
They want you to forget that **they** were the ones who defended Biden when he was deteriorating in front of you.

A balding Chuck Todd rips Senator Chuck Schumer for "covering up" President Biden's mental decline.

"Go home. You’re part of the problem. Now you tell us?"

Lmao what a fraud. This guy and his friends in the media covered up Biden's obvious mental decline for four years and then… pic.twitter.com/0U1TD1jLhe
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 13, 2025

Chuck Todd is also saying that reporters aren't to blame, because their Democrat "sources" -- their friends and bed-mates and political allies -- lied to them.

He's claiming that reporters have no role in reporting except to dutifully re-transmit the lies that their friends tell them.

As I keep saying, weird how Republicans never get the benefit of this "you must believe politicians" rule. Only the media's beloved Democrats.

🚨NEW: Chuck Todd blames "sources" for reporters' failure to cover Biden's decline🚨

"The real culprits are the people who are supposed to be our sources on all these things, who were constantly reassuring us behind the scenes, 'No, no, no, no, it's better than you think.'"… pic.twitter.com/arnRaEwDOQ
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) May 11, 2025

That said -- Charles Schumer definitely was part of the problem.

Biden would call up Schumer and then immediately forget why he was calling.

Schumer also noted that Biden spoke slowly and very softly -- sounding very much like the voice of a family member who had Alzheimer's.

And he just insisted and insisted that Biden was sharp as a tack.

And now?

Reporter: "You said in June of last year that Biden was in command and impressive. Were you being straight with the American public?"

Schumer: "We're just looking forward."

🤡 pic.twitter.com/6j29pBXxfs
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 13, 2025

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Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

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1 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:12 PM (ypFCm)

2 Of course it's a lie, Jake is a Propaganda Minister

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (ypFCm)

3 Close the utterly useless "J" schools.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (rJ48h)

4 That they even think it necessary to gaslight so brazenly tells you how extreme a partisan Fake Jake is, even before watching his video clips. This effort is disgusting. Go away Tapper.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (6tXgo)

5 If you always push against one side's narrative and never push against the other side's narrative...you're on a side...

NRO.

Wait...this is about Jake Tapper?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

6 I fetched them too

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:14 PM (ypFCm)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:14 PM (+sD5M)

8 First! My word as a Biden!

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 14, 2025 12:14 PM (VXSVh)

9 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:14 PM (+sD5M)

10 Tapper is like a defense attorney asking his client questions on the stand.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)

11 Ace, how dare you attack a veteran, or a friend of veterans, or something!

Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2025 12:15 PM (KKJEY)

12 Jake Tapper is an unmitigated piece of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:15 PM (+sD5M)

13 It's interesting that Todd chooses Schumer as his whipping boy. I was pretty sure the DNC wanted to get rid of Schumer, but now I'm completely sure. He's old, white, male, Joo, and damaged goods.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 12:16 PM (s8j++)

14 Who decided what pardons the auto-pen would sign? Who sent troops into harms way. Who told Mopsie what to say every day when she marched out before the WH press corps and lied her ass off?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 14, 2025 12:16 PM (6tXgo)

15 Did I just say "highly rated"? Pardon me, I just did crack for the first time.

Be warned: Crack Kills.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:16 PM (+sD5M)

16 Tapper's credibility is in the crapper.

Posted by: huerfano at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (n2swS)

17 Everyone that saw Biden in person knew his brain was mush.

And no one in the FNM reported on it because they wanted to force the narrative on people, not news.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (t0Rmr)

18 16 Tapper's credibility is in the crapper.
Posted by: huerfano at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (n2swS)

======

"I'd still blow him."
-Hugh Hewitt

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

19 Ace has a cruel fever, and the only cure is MOAR Fapper!

/NTTAWWT

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (oeKeQ)

20 He said, and I quote:

"You have no idea of what my politics are."

And monkeys fly out of Corey Booker's ass.

It's amazing they think no one notices what they do.

They lie and gaslight 24/7. It's amazing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:18 PM (+sD5M)

21 I regret that the Biden drama didn't go on longer last summer. We could have seen all these Democratic factions turning on each other in real time.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2025 12:18 PM (KKJEY)

22 I was getting ready to put this up, but the new post occurred before I could. I think it's relevant. If the press is as pure as they say they are, they'll be grilling Newsom on both high-speed rail, and health care for illegals.

Hahahahaha. Of course they won't.

Wow. He's running.

LA Times: Governor Newsom calls for walking back free healthcare for illegal aliens in California as costs for coverage have exceeded billions more than what was initially projected & the state faces likely challenging economic times ahead.

https://is.gd/ZifvNM

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 12:18 PM (s8j++)

23 There are a lot of posts on this guy whoever he is.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:18 PM (8uoau)

24 At this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (n2swS)

25 Afternoon, Ace.

Tim Russert was probably the last respectable journalist.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (iXQKd)

26 Notice how "real journalism" has become "I repeat without critical inquiry what my favored party sources tell me."

This says a lot about the IQ of people like Todd and Tapper.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (9mw3J)

27 Forget it Jake, it's ~~Chinatown~~ Washington.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (6tXgo)

28 So this is how it’s going to be, huh?

Let me tell you about Chuckie Schumer.. he likes to play the ponies. Oh, I don’t mean he gambles.. the faggot is a brony.

He likes to dress up like Applejack and yiff the crinklies. I mean.. Applejack? Pleb tier cosplay, bro.

Posted by: Dank Brandon Unplugged at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (l3YAf)

29 And the market for Tappedout's book is?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (NVNRw)

30 If you need to find a Leftist Hack book, go to a used book store, thete are lots of them there.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (ypFCm)

31 >>>And monkeys fly out of Corey Booker's ass.

Beats what flies in.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (KKJEY)

32 but was "stymied"

I wish cotton was a monkey!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (axOIw)

33 And yes, it is some big MYSTERY what the politics are of the former spokesman for Handgun Control Inc.

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (9mw3J)

34 Seems as though the powers that be decided that Joey Shitbrains must be blamed for Kamala's Amber Heard-ing in November.

But they are trying to thread a needle that can't be threaded. They can't blame just Biden and a few of his inner circle for concealing his dementia. Literally everyone knew about it and covered it up. They are all complicit. Even Kamala herself.

This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

35 yes of course

PR flacks are the true villains, vaunted media truth-seekers!

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

36 You can't hate the media, and Jake Tapper, enough.
But I'm trying, man, I'm trying...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

37 The next thing I will read about Bribe'em is his obit

Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2025 12:21 PM (NVNRw)

38 Senate Majority Leader John Thune says it would be "fairly controversial" to codify President Trump's executive order to lower drug prices to match those in other developed countries into law. He suggests it would face opposition

Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:21 PM (8hq5W)

39 Just think that for the better part of four years we could have been involved in nooklear combat toe to toe with just about anybody, with a group of twenty somethings, hand picked by Jughead and the Persian Ferret running the show.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (gm9Sb)

40 This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit.

What kind of explosives are you using?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (s8j++)

41 I think it's going to be another failed book by Tapper.

Define 'failed.' What was his advance for the book? He get a cool million or two to write that bullshit?

He won. Money laundered to him to continue to spew his biased bullshit and lies more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (+sD5M)

42 Afternoon ace. Halperin and his 2Way are becoming a very good watch.
Oh , and Schumer better look behind him and to both sides as well as the hard left here in NY are coming for him. Satchel Paige said "don't look back something might be gaining on you". They're on your ass Chuckles

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (2ZThz)

43 We all know Tapper's book is money laundering.

Why even waste pixels talking about this guy?

He'll be sharing a basement studio with Keith Olbermann soon enough...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (7fElN)

44 34 Seems as though the powers that be decided that Joey Shitbrains must be blamed for Kamala's Amber Heard-ing in November.

But they are trying to thread a needle that can't be threaded. They can't blame just Biden and a few of his inner circle for concealing his dementia. Literally everyone knew about it and covered it up. They are all complicit. Even Kamala herself.

This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

They can't - Biden won't disappear for them.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

45 Libraries and warehouses in the hinterlands, where they'll never see the light of day until the time has come to haul them to the dump.

Posted by: huerfano at May 14, 2025 12:23 PM (n2swS)

46 15 Did I just say "highly rated"? Pardon me, I just did crack for the first time.

this one got me! lol ace

anyway the market for this book are libraries and other taxpayer-funded book-purchasing types

it's just a payoff. Jakey did sooooo gud!

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:23 PM (Pv3Rg)

47 They can't - Biden won't disappear for them.

*cough*

Posted by: Hillary at May 14, 2025 12:23 PM (s8j++)

48 huerfano I owe you a coke

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:23 PM (Pv3Rg)

49 You know why I spoke slowly, Chuck? Because I was fuckin’ baked, dude. Every time my aides said they had you on the line I’d do a huge bong rip first, just so I could make it through your smug, tendentious bullshit, you tedious little turd.

Posted by: Dank Brandon Unplugged at May 14, 2025 12:23 PM (l3YAf)

50 And the market for Tappedout's book is?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (NVNRw)

1. People who want to impress others by having a Jake Tapper book on the coffee table, unread.

2. People who need doorstops.

3. People who don't have toilet paper.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 12:24 PM (VNX3d)

51 Did I just say "highly rated"? Pardon me, I just did crack for the first time.

—

Sarcastic Ace is best Ace.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:24 PM (GYlcL)

52 Oh , and Schumer better look behind him and to both sides as well as the hard left here in NY are coming for him. Satchel Paige said "don't look back something might be gaining on you". They're on your ass Chuckles

I know and I'm loving this

oops you aren't on the team anymore Chuckie

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

53 Reporter-"Were you being straight with the American public?"

Schumer: "We are just looking forward."

Ask a stupid question.....,.

Posted by: Case at May 14, 2025 12:24 PM (Qdqx6)

54 He'll be sharing a basement studio with Keith Olbermann soon enough...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (7fElN)

They’ll be sharing a bathtub soon, playing hide the Vienna sausage. Buncha ‘mos.

Posted by: Dank Brandon Unplugged at May 14, 2025 12:25 PM (l3YAf)

55 "Ace, how dare you attack a veteran, or a friend of veterans, or something!"

No, the question is "So close to Pride Month? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!?"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 14, 2025 12:25 PM (VXSVh)

56 Then the Democrat can go around the country saying "These questions have all been asked and answered."

The same goes for congressional commissions and public hearings.

Posted by: biteme at May 14, 2025 12:25 PM (xWS9V)

57 bidens are like really pernicious shit - once you go near them, that shit sticks to you and it won't come off, not ever

got me, Barry? it's not coming off, the Biden you got on you

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

58 I was told by the MSM that Biden was sharp as a tack. It was just a stutter and that Republicans were mean to make fun of it.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 14, 2025 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

59 Mark Halperin Looks at the Clips In Context and Finds It's a Lie.
—Ace

So, Tapper's lying about lying about lying? He's just getting warmed up. I think he can dig much, much deeper.
As a wise man once said, "I don't think the heavy stuff's going to come down for quite a while."

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 12:26 PM (pIfcn)

60 And the market for Tappedout's book is?
Posted by: Ben Had

Same people who bought Mooch’s book and Hillary’s book. Of course they never read the book. But when their friends come over they can proudly display it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:26 PM (GYlcL)

61 You don't hate the media enough

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 14, 2025 12:26 PM (nZ2Ie)

62 Did Joe open the fridge door and forget if was taking the ice cream out or putting it back in?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 14, 2025 12:26 PM (SXxzC)

63 They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

They can't - Biden won't disappear for them.
Posted by: Nova Local

Yes and it is glorious!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 14, 2025 12:26 PM (4v+Ob)

64 Oh , and Schumer better look behind him and to both sides as well as the hard left here in NY are coming for him.

The younger Dems want their billions and they don't want to wait 30 years to do it in a halfway plausible manner. All the old guard Dems are endangered, even with Hogg replaced Netflix-style by a black lesbian.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)

65 A balding Chuck Todd...
______

Heh

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2025 12:27 PM (UBKzV)

66 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-67
Launch Date: May 14, 2025
Launch Time: 12:38 p.m. EDT, 1638 UTC, 18:38 CEST
Launch Window: Open until 2:47 p.m. EDT
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA

https://www.youtube.com/live/d9NDnJee0MI

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 12:27 PM (VNX3d)

67 This is exactly what I was saying yesterday. By attempting to absolve themselves of any blame for lying and covering for Biden's obvious mental decline for years the garbage media is doing just the opposite and making themselves the target of abuse and ridicule.

If they were smart, which they aren't, they would have just dropped the whole issue and moved on. If possible, they are now making their reputations worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:27 PM (viF8m)

68 Did you ever take a moment to consider that Jake Tapper is a Furry with a shame Kink, Ace.

It would explain his affection for you.

Posted by: garrett at May 14, 2025 12:27 PM (BUf8Q)

69 38 Senate Majority Leader John Thune says it would be "fairly controversial" to codify President Trump's executive order to lower drug prices to match those in other developed countries into law. He suggests it would face opposition
Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best
=======
"More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows" Not substantially changed since then. Big Pharma bought Congress lock, stock, and barrel--even ole Bernie Sanders, the socialist fraud.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

70 Can we use Netflix as a verb? As in David Hogg was Netflixed by the DNC. Or, South Africa is Netflixing its farms.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (GYlcL)

71 Define 'failed.' What was his advance for the book? He get a cool million or two to write that bullshit?
_____

Need to edit NGO web of payments to see if we, the taxpayers, funded this advance

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (DfaLe)

72
Biden in a wheelchair? Yes, you bigots. He had polio as a child, didn't you know? He bravely fought back and threw off his braces as a young man, right before his successful college football career.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (ZUzej)

73 "You have no idea of what my politics are."
-----------

Yes. One of life's big mysteries, like where the toy surprise in the cereal box comes from or how a pencil works.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (FEPkz)

74 Megyn Kelly mentioned on her show yesterday that Tapper and Thompson will be guests on her show next Tuesday.

I guess that's supposed to project their promotional tour is not going to be made up of softball interviews. We'll see how that turns out.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (Vyll1)

75 This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Yeah, the order clearly went out to try and rehabilitate Kamala after polling showed she's the only 2028 Dem contender the Dem base can reliably pick out of a lineup.

And the media decided to add rehabilitating themselves into the mix and that's where it all exploded. Now neither of those two goals are going to happen.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (QZThv)

76 I'd like to ask Tapper how often the media has repeated republican talking points and defended republicans in the same angry, defensive tones and show your work.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (MFuOv)

77 Coming soon (and he ain't going away) "Lunch bucket Joe, the Musical". Debuts in the Scranton Eagle's Hall late summer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)

78 If you vote for a Dem, or don’t vote at all, or show the media the slightest support, you are NOT a victim - you are a accomplice (h/t, Eric Arthur Blair).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (WqK+k)

79 The younger Dems want their billions and they don't want to wait 30 years to do it in a halfway plausible manner. All the old guard Dems are endangered, even with Hogg replaced Netflix-style by a black lesbian.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Wanting billions is not what I fear from the newest Dems nowadays--what I fear is Kill the Boer coming to America. The Dems have become the anti white party ironically with AWFLs in the vanguard.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (ctrM5)

80 Somehow it is darker now than at sunrise.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (8uoau)

81 If you vote for a Dem, or don’t vote at all, or show the media the slightest support, you are NOT a victim - you are a accomplice (h/t, Eric Arthur Blair).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (WqK+k)

What if you vote for Republicans and still get the same government?

Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (8hq5W)

82 72
Biden in a wheelchair? Yes, you bigots. He had polio as a child, didn't you know? He bravely fought back and threw off his braces as a young man, right before his successful college football career.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (ZUzej)

His average golf score is 18.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (WqK+k)

83 Megyn is one of the biggest grifters out there. She went from perky Fox Blonde who hates Trump to fierce MAGA loyalist. Yeah I’m sure it’s genuine.

And ffs girl eat a hamburger or two. The skin and bones look is so mid 90s.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (GYlcL)

84 If Tapper and Todd want us to believe they were stonewalled by the administration and lied to by sources , then name names. I still won't believe them but it's their only hope to have a few brain damaged people believe them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 12:31 PM (2ZThz)

85 Biden in a wheelchair? Yes, you bigots. He had polio as a child, didn't you know? He bravely fought back and threw off his braces as a young man, right before his successful college football career.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (ZUzej)

His average golf score is 18.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (WqK+k)

18 hours or 18 days?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 12:31 PM (VNX3d)

86 oops you aren't on the team anymore Chuckie
Posted by: Black Orchid
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He has become the weakest link. Goodbye Chuck.

I would suggest he should apply at McDonalds but his burger skills are woefully subpar.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:31 PM (ctrM5)

87 Now Chuck Todd, let’s talk about this guy. Looks like a living, breathing police sketch of a guy wanted for having sex with a watermelon in the middle of an Aldi.

He’s got more hair on the head of his **** than the top of his head.

He looks like a guy who isn’t allowed within 500 feet of an elementary school.

Posted by: Dank Brandon Unplugged at May 14, 2025 12:31 PM (l3YAf)

88
His average golf score is 18.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (WqK+k)

Per hole.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (GYlcL)

89 Remember when Owebama used taxpayer money to buy several copies of his shit books so he could puff up the sales number and gave them out as gifts to other world leaders?

Good times........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (+sD5M)

90 >>Biden in a wheelchair? Yes, you bigots. He had polio as a child, didn't you know? He bravely fought back and threw off his braces as a young man, right before his successful college football career.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM

My mama always told me that miracles happen every day. Some people don’t think so, but they do.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (n2swS)

91 Just for giggles, Trump should nominate Jake to be the US ambassador to South Africa.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (c1sJh)

92 T - 6 mins

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-67
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 14, 2025
Launch Time: 11:43 a.m. EDT, 1543 UTC, 17:43 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/d9NDnJee0MI

Posted by: Ciampino - too many accountants at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (sPQoU)

93 Yeah, the order clearly went out to try and rehabilitate Kamala after polling showed she's the only 2028 Dem contender the Dem base can reliably pick out of a lineup.

And the media decided to add rehabilitating themselves into the mix and that's where it all exploded. Now neither of those two goals are going to happen.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Interesting take. Have to mull that one over. Thanks.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)

94 What if you vote for Republicans and still get the same government?
Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (8hq5W)

Primaries.

I’m not voting for my idiot State Rep again. Anyone runs against him in the primaries, I’ll support.

And we ALL have to stay on their asses. We CANNOT vote for people and just walk away and assume everything will be all right. That includes me. It’s why I am spending time hitting the TX HR and Senate websites after work these days.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:33 PM (WqK+k)

95 The real culprits are the people who are supposed to be our sources on all these things, who were constantly reassuring us behind the scenes, 'No, no, no, no, it's better than you think
----------

There is a funnier lie inside this thing right above.

The implication is that these heroes of justice keep their private thoughts to themselves and never let those affect their "reporting". That level of hubris it is positively intergalactic.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:33 PM (FEPkz)

96 It was one thing for all of them to pretend Biden was not obviously brain damaged. It was another for them to so aggressively attack and attempt to silence people who pointed it out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 12:34 PM (2VST1)

97 88
His average golf score is 18.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (WqK+k)

Per hole.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (GYlcL)

What disgusting insolence.

Posted by: MSM at May 14, 2025 12:34 PM (WqK+k)

98 If the MSM was lied to by the WH then it shows they really fucking suck at their jobs. This is basically their defence.

Oddly though they knew Trump ordered two scoops of ice cream. But they could t solve the puzzle of the fake stutter.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:34 PM (GYlcL)

99 Chuck Schumer has been an impacted bolus in the body politic for decades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:34 PM (c1sJh)

100 If you vote for a Dem, or don’t vote at all, or show the media the slightest support, you are NOT a victim - you are a accomplice (h/t, Eric Arthur Blair).
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:29 PM (WqK+k)

I’m done voting for the GOP. I’ll vote for Vance in 2028, but I’m sick of supporting traitors and Democrat Lite.

[X] And this time I’m serious

Posted by: Dank Brandon Unplugged at May 14, 2025 12:34 PM (l3YAf)

101 93 Yeah, the order clearly went out to try and rehabilitate Kamala after polling showed she's the only 2028 Dem contender the Dem base can reliably pick out of a lineup.

And the media decided to add rehabilitating themselves into the mix and that's where it all exploded. Now neither of those two goals are going to happen.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Interesting take. Have to mull that one over. Thanks.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)

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Name recognition is one of the most powerful forces in politics.

"I know who that is," does just so much.

It's why Joe Biden could go from laugh riot who failed several presidential campaigns to most prominent and consistent not-Bernie in 2020: people knew who he was.

So, no, Kamala's 2020 primary performance doesn't mean anything. It means as much as Biden's 1988 primary performance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

102 74 Megyn Kelly mentioned on her show yesterday that Tapper and Thompson will be guests on her show next Tuesday.

I guess that's supposed to project their promotional tour is not going to be made up of softball interviews. We'll see how that turns out.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle
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Kayfabe. Media is all about pissing out of the tent on the general public and targets but not so keen on pissing on each other inside the tent.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:35 PM (ctrM5)

103 dopey bernie sanders is older than biden, no? what he says is garbage but he can still speak intelligible gibberish.

Posted by: gnatslocal675 at May 14, 2025 12:35 PM (CWTWj)

104 I have this video in my head where Tapper reads this and starts throwing things around his office and yelling uncontrollably.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:35 PM (+sD5M)

105 BTW these people don't actually care whether you or anyone actually buys their lies.

What is of primary importance to them is that you can't do anything to curb, curtail or otherwise influence the lying.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:35 PM (FEPkz)

106 94
Primaries.

I’m not voting for my idiot State Rep again. Anyone runs against him in the primaries, I’ll support.

And we ALL have to stay on their asses. We CANNOT vote for people and just walk away and assume everything will be all right. That includes me. It’s why I am spending time hitting the TX HR and Senate websites after work these days.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:33 PM (WqK+k)

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And when they win the primary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

107 His average golf score is 18.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (WqK+k)

18 hours or 18 days?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 12:31 PM (VNX3d)
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That's just his stock answer to any question. Ask him what he ate for lunch, or what day it is..."18". And then Jill chimes in and says "good boy, you answered ALL the questions"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 14, 2025 12:36 PM (ZZDcC)

108 >>I’m not voting for my idiot State Rep again. Anyone runs against him in the primaries, I’ll support.

And we ALL have to stay on their asses. We CANNOT vote for people and just walk away and assume everything will be all right. That includes me. It’s why I am spending time hitting the TX HR and Senate websites after work these days.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 12:33 PM

My idiot state rep voted for Dade Phelan's bill to criminalize memes. She should be toast next time.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 14, 2025 12:36 PM (n2swS)

109 One of the core responsibilities of a journalist is to vet their sources and independently confirm what they say.

If you're not doing that, you are, by definition, not a journalist. You're a gossip columnist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (yvnLa)

110 T-2 min for launch.

https://tinyurl.com/22mw8s5d

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (tykPk)

111 Jake Tapper, making Sam Donaldson look like a real reporter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (c1sJh)

112 Biden when visiting the Vatican walked in with pants that matched his suit and walked out with a totally different pair of pants and different color, because Joe shit his pants and you had the Press, Snoops etc saying nope didn't happen it a trick of the light and he didn't change his pants.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (FCrpy)

113 Primaries.

I’m not voting for my idiot State Rep again. Anyone runs against him in the primaries, I’ll support.

I think you misunderstood my question.

If voting for a Democrat or abstaining from voting makes you an accomplice, what does voting for a Republican and getting the same government make you?

Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (8hq5W)

114 You could literally see the guy was a f**king turnip, it did not take some great detective work or analysis to know that The Meat Puppet was non compos mentis.

As the saying goes, you can't hate the media enough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (XV/Pl)

115
"Where's Jackie?"

In the big wooden box

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (y9nCu)

116 My idiot state rep voted for Dade Phelan's bill to criminalize memes. She should be toast next time.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 14, 2025 12:36 PM

Clearly, not Joe Biden

Posted by: huerfano at May 14, 2025 12:38 PM (n2swS)

117 More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows" Not substantially changed since then. Big Pharma bought Congress lock, stock, and barrel--even ole Bernie Sanders, the socialist fraud.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

Going to be interesting to see how they do away with the impact of that EO after the public's had 2+ years of the benefit of it. Whatever. I'm all for chaos in the system. More please.

Posted by: Johnny Hildo at May 14, 2025 12:38 PM (zhAIW)

118 I like that inoculation analogy, Ace. Well put.

Oh, and Chuck Todd, lose the comb down. So your hair is receding, so what? Just go with it baby.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 14, 2025 12:38 PM (144I4)

119 Jake Tapper's defense against bias is always the same: "I asked a question."

You know what would be Earth-shattering news? Fapper or any TV journalist asking a Democrat a follow-up question.

Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2025 12:38 PM (aBgBM)

120 If you're not doing that, you are, by definition, not a journalist. You're a gossip columnist.

no, they're DNC / leftist PR flacks

that was my little joke above

the one group of PR flacks are blaming ANOTHER group of PR flacks for "misleading" which is basically what PR flacks do

this idea of journalism/reporting is mostly just gone. we make PR here and it becomes news. the reporters love it. no work for their pay! just reprint what PR firms give them.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

121 Megyn is one of the biggest grifters out there. She went from perky Fox Blonde who hates Trump to fierce MAGA loyalist. Yeah I’m sure it’s genuine.

And ffs girl eat a hamburger or two. The skin and bones look is so mid 90s.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:30 PM (GYlcL)
******
I think she's genuine. I saw her evolve. It started with the insanity that the kids were being taught in school. She didn't want her kids to be subjected to this madness.

I know quite a few parents that evolved and are now MAGA.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 14, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

122 Seems as though the powers that be decided that Joey Shitbrains must be blamed for Kamala's Amber Heard-ing in November.

But they are trying to thread a needle that can't be threaded. They can't blame just Biden and a few of his inner circle for concealing his dementia. Literally everyone knew about it and covered it up. They are all complicit. Even Kamala herself.

This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

They can't - Biden won't disappear for them.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)
____________

I know that, but it's a vicious circle: Biden won't go away in part because he (correctly) recognizes the knives are out for him. So he goes on TV interviews to try to blunt the knives and rehab his image. That only brings more knives out.

The more anyone talks about Biden, the more it calls attention to the total cesspool of shit that was 2024, and all the lies and gaslighting trying to cover up for his obvious mental collapse.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

123 I feel bad for these reporters. It must suck to have to regurgitate what you're told by lying liars.

That said, I'm very encouraged by this new journalistic paradigm where they now question everything they hear from all politicians.

I mean, surely they've learned their lesson, right?

Right?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 14, 2025 12:40 PM (KbCG3)

124 So, no, Kamala's 2020 primary performance doesn't mean anything. It means as much as Biden's 1988 primary performance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Dunno, Kamala is spectacularly ill equipped at politics other than her race and color. Given her personality type, I don't think she takes to coaching well either from stupidity or arrogance.

Absent a plague like Covid, I can't see the Biden under the wraps campaign working either so it would have to be the Big Cheat which is risky when the executive and the people in general are aware of the mechanics of it.

But I am not sure that the Dems can agree on an alternative to Kamala as their hierarchy seems to be breaking down and aging out. Kamala would be the first loser at the presidential race to be renominated since Adlai Stevenson for the Dems (and a bit more recent as Nixon did it for the GOP).

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:40 PM (ctrM5)

125 The media began rehabilitating themselves on this issue the literal day after the debate.

After claiming Biden had a "cold" and an "off night", when it was obvious the world wasn't going to accept thatxbs enough to actually reelect him beyond the margin of cheat, the media went into "shocked" "oh my stars, how did we miss this" "ok, we admit it, we were fooled" mode. Remember?

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:40 PM (FEPkz)

126 this idea of journalism/reporting is mostly just gone. we make PR here and it becomes news. the reporters love it. no work for their pay! just reprint what PR firms give them.

Posted by: Black Orchid
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THIS!!!

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

127 Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:40 PM (ctrM5

Booty is next up. Put it in your pipe and smoke it.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (FEPkz)

128 We need a catchy title for this. Dementiagate is too long, Synapsegate? Memorycaregate? Can't think of a good one.

Posted by: My Mind's Not What it Once Was at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

129 What I like most about this whole situation is watching an industry full of dullards like Tapper, not quite comprehend that they aren't 'the smart ones' in the room. 'Why isn't this working?' It's like watching a toddler hide by covering their eyes. Kind of adorable really.

Posted by: Johnny Hildo at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (zhAIW)

130 Ace: The "childhood stutter" that did not evidence itself for fifty years of this asshole's corrupt political career.

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

There's a code for that.

[n] ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F80.81

Childhood onset fluency disorder

Includes: Childhood onset stuttering; Childhood onset stuttering and stammering; Fluency disorder, childhood onset; late-onset childhood stuttering; really late-onset childhood stuttering disorder; so-help-me-God I'm nearly 85 years old childhood-onset stuttering disorder (initial encounter); childhood stuttering disorder not otherwise specified

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (HOX+I)

131 124 But I am not sure that the Dems can agree on an alternative to Kamala as their hierarchy seems to be breaking down and aging out. Kamala would be the first loser at the presidential race to be renominated since Adlai Stevenson for the Dems (and a bit more recent as Nixon did it for the GOP).
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:40 PM (ctrM5)

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She is going to go into the SC primary, first on the schedule, with highest name recognition and being a black woman. It will do wonders for the predominently black and female electorate in that primary.

She will walk away with it. Easily.

And then people are going to try and act like the Iowa caucuses mean something afterwards in the face of withering criticism that denying the black, female choice is racism.

Yeah, she's terrible, but so was Joe Biden. And Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

132 If you're not doing that, you are, by definition, not a journalist. You're a gossip columnist.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:37 PM (yvnLa)

Nah. Stenographer.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:42 PM (FEPkz)

133 ******
I think she's genuine. I saw her evolve. It started with the insanity that the kids were being taught in school. She didn't want her kids to be subjected to this madness.

I know quite a few parents that evolved and are now MAGA.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 14, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

She was interviewed by Stephen A. Smith and he asked her about her transition to a Trump supporter. She explained that while she still has issues with him as a person, he's the best man for the job and will do what he can to make America tops again. She can look past the rest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (+sD5M)

134 They'll pretend it's Newsom for as long as they can until they pivot hard to some unnamed Obama 2.0 that no one has ever heard of yet.

They will shove "name recognition" right out the window and hope it works.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (yvnLa)

135 LA Times: Governor Newsom calls for walking back free healthcare for illegal aliens in California as costs for coverage have exceeded billions more than what was initially projected & the state faces likely challenging economic times ahead.

Posted by: Archimedes

Sacramento has effectively recovery-proofed California. While those in other states are watching prices (namely groceries and gas) come down, ours stay put or even increase.

A dozen Grade AA large eggs is still $8.99. I got regular unleaded this morning for $4.28/gallon, up from $4.17/gallon at the same station a week and a half ago.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (7zna0)

136 dopey bernie sanders is older than biden, no?

I think he detonated his career with that "you expect me to mix with normal people when I fly to do another speech about how everyone else should be poor?" response.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (2VST1)

137 We need a catchy title for this. Dementiagate is too long, Synapsegate? Memorycaregate? Can't think of a good one.

Posted by: My Mind's Not What it Once Was at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

Retargate

Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (8hq5W)

138 >>NEW: Chuck Todd blames "sources" for reporters' failure to cover Biden's decline🚨

"The real culprits are the people who are supposed to be our sources on all these things, who were constantly reassuring us behind the scenes, 'No, no, no, no, it's better than you think.'"

Proving Ace's take yesterday that modern journalists are simply dim-witted scribes for their sources.

Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2025 12:44 PM (aBgBM)

139 Can't think of a good one.
Posted by: My Mind's Not What it Once Was at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

Crackpot Dome?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:44 PM (yvnLa)

140 Does Tapper have a faux furrowed brow?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 14, 2025 12:44 PM (SXxzC)

141 Leftists my guess mske plenty of money off of books, it's a scam.
See Barky or Mooch writing books for millions no one buys

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:45 PM (ypFCm)

142 Just remember, MSM could have honestly reported Joe as a senile old wreck and he still would have received ~40 million votes. Yeah, it still would have been an electoral blowout but a significant portion of American voters prefer someone like Joe over President Trump.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 14, 2025 12:45 PM (tT6L1)

143 Towards the end of "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," the great Boston crime movie, Eddie Coyle, an informant, goes into a mob connected bar and makes a big show of concern about the arrest of some bank robbers he set up. His ploy is easily seen thru, and they whack him.

Tapper (and Fauci did this too) are part of both the crime and cover up, but they think they can get out in front of it by acting concerned and taking on the issue as if they are the saviors.

Posted by: Lex at May 14, 2025 12:46 PM (l5xX+)

144 Does Tapper have a faux furrowed brow?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 14, 2025 12:44 PM (SXxzC)
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Reverse Botox. For the serious person look.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 14, 2025 12:46 PM (tT6L1)

145 Jake Tapper was a spokescritter for Handgun Control, Inc. if I recall.

Posted by: mrp at May 14, 2025 12:46 PM (rj6Yv)

146 Geezergate

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:46 PM (c1sJh)

147 Anybody think Pritzker has a shot at the nomination? I think he can self-finance a lot of his campaign.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 14, 2025 12:46 PM (rJ48h)

148 I finally watched Predator prequel "Prey." Meh. Some nice scenery, but the rest of the movie was crap. Never did I think the story took place in the wilderness in 1719. The natives were so modern in terms of dialogue, appearance, and culture they looked like 21st century pop stars LARPing as native Indians. Who was styling all their hair and makeup?

The lead girlboss heroine was whiny and annoying and ended up getting a lot of her tribe killed because of her stupidity. She is shown several times failing at hunts, and nearly killed by a lion and a bear. But at some point, she turns into Rambo and kills a Predator nearly single-handedly. Lots of stunt doubles. When it's clearly her on screen, she moves awkwardly and can barely run convincingly. She's also chubby compared to the much leaner other natives.

The script was boring. Not a single surprise moment or any plot twists at all. They were just checking off boxes for a "Predator 101" script.

And what's up with this Predator? If the Predator species is gonna represent, why did they send the dumbest one of them to Earth? This Predator has no stalking or hunting skills at all, and barely understands his own tech.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

149 134 They'll pretend it's Newsom for as long as they can until they pivot hard to some unnamed Obama 2.0 that no one has ever heard of yet.

They will shove "name recognition" right out the window and hope it works.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (yvnLa)

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It should be remembered that Obama didn't really come out of nowhere. He was a prominent name from the very beginning of the season, polling second consistently in 2006.

https://is.gd/AaSZyk

He was making it obvious that he was running for president from the moment he was in the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

150 this idea of journalism/reporting is mostly just gone. we make PR here and it becomes news. the reporters love it. no work for their pay! just reprint what PR firms give them.

Yeah they have wholly abandoned the entire idea of objective sticking to the facts, the old "five W's" thing and reporting things as they happen. That's male, pale, and stale. Now its about shaping the narrative and building a leftist future utopia by manipulating the public perception.

Take two thoughts and combine them:

1) The left became fixated on the idea of misinformation and disinformation in 2020
2) The left always accuses their enemies of what they are currently doing or would do in their enemy's place.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (2VST1)

151 He said, and I quote:

"You have no idea of what my politics are."

And monkeys fly out of Corey Booker's ass.

It's amazing they think no one notices what they do.

They lie and gaslight 24/7. It's amazing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2025 12:18 PM (+sD5M)

You might want to rethink your comment. I'm pretty sure I've seen monkeys flying out of Corey Booker's ass.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (g8Ew8)

152 I remember it as "trunaliminiprazure."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (BI5O2)

153 @143 so when do Fauci, Tapper and Todd get whacked?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (2ZThz)

154 Mean Gyrl Megyn got rejected wholesale by the liberal establishment when she didn't get viewers on NBC. So she came running back to where the viewers and money are.

She's entertaining. She makes funny faces. She's still cute. It's fine. But have no illusions, if the Left hadn't rejected her, she'd be another Alison Camerota telling you freedom lovin hillbillies to go fuck yourself.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (FEPkz)

155 Pardon me, I just did crack for the first time.

Since you're new, I'll offer some advice. Avoid the yellow.

Posted by: Hunter Brandon at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (0sNs1)

156
He said, and I quote:

"You have no idea of what my politics are."

Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2025 12:48 PM (63Dwl)

157 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/a_

very_limited_limited_hangout.html

I wrote this, and I think it sums the case against the media.

Posted by: Charles Martel at May 14, 2025 12:48 PM (gM+1v)

158 When did the media ever objectively stick to the facts?

Posted by: Dank Brandon Unplugged at May 14, 2025 12:48 PM (l3YAf)

159 I love 2Way just as much (ok, probably more) than the next guy, and I'm impressed that Halperin is calling Tapper out on this.

However, Halperin said that he noticed Biden's decline as early as a 2017 book signing that he saw. I don't recall him saying *anything* about that at the time. I think it was during that period when he was still on Morning Schmoe.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 12:48 PM (oh5Rr)

160 Journalist is NOT a synonym for a reporter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:48 PM (c1sJh)

161 Crackpot Dome?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

*********

Ooooh! I like it!

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2025 12:49 PM (HOX+I)

162 And what does all of this have to do with Sally Quinn!!!!???

Posted by: mrp at May 14, 2025 12:49 PM (rj6Yv)

163 Jake Tapper's relations with the truth are like a pod of male dolphins on the prowl: Very rapey.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 14, 2025 12:49 PM (VB+S+)

164 You might want to rethink your comment. I'm pretty sure I've seen monkeys flying out of Corey Booker's ass.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM (g8Ew8

If any politician has definitely had a monkey up his ass at some point, it's Andrew Gillum.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2025 12:49 PM (BI5O2)

165 oops you aren't on the team anymore Chuckie
Posted by: Black Orchid
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He has become the weakest link. Goodbye Chuck.

I would suggest he should apply at McDonalds but his burger skills are woefully subpar.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:31 PM (ctrM5)

He could not make and serve up crispy golden fries like I did. The best fries! Beautiful co-workers and customers all raved about my fries.

Posted by: Orange Man Bad at May 14, 2025 12:49 PM (q2NNn)

166 I see Ace is feeling frisky after his hiatus and is back, tuning himself up in the gym, punching the old speed bag.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2025 12:50 PM (zKVqU)

167 We need a catchy title for this. Dementiagate is too long, Synapsegate? Memorycaregate? Can't think of a good one.

Posted by: My Mind's Not What it Once Was at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

Retargate
Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best
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'Cognigate'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2025 12:50 PM (XeU6L)

168 Dementiaquiddick.

I finally watched Predator prequel "Prey." Meh. Some nice scenery, but the rest of the movie was crap. Never did I think the story took place in the wilderness in 1719. The natives were so modern in terms of dialogue, appearance, and culture they looked like 21st century pop stars LARPing as native Indians. Who was styling all their hair and makeup?

Yeah its a questionable plot line to begin with: focusing on the Predator, starting on their planet? No, they are dehuman and alien monsters that are frightening in their mystery. You don't even see the Predator much of the movie, if its done well. Babyface predator grows up and talks to other monsters is a bad approach. Different than before, but not good.

And yeah, just about every movie now has writers who cannot write any culture or people than their own, other than broad stereotypes. They don't know anything because they are so great they don't NEED to learn anything, they are just great out of the box and the only thing that has to happen is everyone else needs to let them be as great as they know they are.

So everyone everywhere in every story behaves and looks and talks like downtown LA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 12:50 PM (2VST1)

169 You might want to rethink your comment. I'm pretty sure I've seen monkeys flying out of Corey Booker's ass.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM

But they weren't monkey-monkeys.

Posted by: Whoopi at May 14, 2025 12:51 PM (0sNs1)

170 For all of Megyn Kelly's fire and brimstone lately not expecting Jakd to have yo sit through one of them.
Certainly will see

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:51 PM (ypFCm)

171 Dear Jake,

Journalist, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

GFY,

Everyone.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 14, 2025 12:51 PM (PMtkd)

172 Remember during the Democrat primary debate back in '20 when the motherfucker's eye exploded on live TV?

That shoulda been a tell.

His voters share a lot of blame with guys like Tapper.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2025 12:51 PM (BI5O2)

173 Imma still watch Prey eventually just for Sanger

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 14, 2025 12:51 PM (Pv3Rg)

174 I understand the Dem's attitude of "no enemy to the left" as a political maxim. My concern is that the GOPe are thinking of accepting it as a starting point, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 12:52 PM (D7oie)

175 "Most likely to have had sexual relations with a simian" in the Congressional Yearbook.

Quite the honor.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:52 PM (yvnLa)

176 You can accurately translate every sentence out of Tapper's mouth to: "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!"

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:52 PM (FEPkz)

177 "This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

They can't - Biden won't disappear for them.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 14, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL) "

Dontch'a think? Amazing quick, sometimes, those prostate nodules ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 14, 2025 12:52 PM (/Ghsb)

178 Journalism in service to the truth.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Self service more accurately. And by that I mean self pleasuring

It's not a profession. It's passing on gossip, in service to the cool kids in hopes you will be invited to the cool parties. What a bunch of nerdy closet cases. Just look at Tapper or F. Chuck. Weak pseudo men, who's self regard is not at all founded in reality. What are the suited for if not to be the toadies for the "cool kids" and so, garner social credit by proximity to them. Like anti matter is to matter, they are anti integrity.

Posted by: Disgusting display at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (jYnwx)

179 Yeah, she's terrible, but so was Joe Biden. And Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think the normal politics stopped by 2012. Trump is essentially an independent who won the GOP nomination in 2016 because his competitors were credentialed and loyal to GOPe 'principles'. Cruz in 2016 was the closest to being the outsider other than Trump but still mouthed a lot of GOP platitudes.

But, the country and the GOP primary electorate had changed--they were tired of Invade the World, Invite the World, no longer entranced by tax cuts as a palliative nor the mantra of respectability, dependability, etc.

Now, I think the Dem electorate is in similar shape, they know what they do not want (Pelosi, Schumer, etc.) but are unsure what they do want.

Kamala could nail it in 2028 (like Nixon did in 196

but I think to win she will have to reject the nostrums of the remaining Obamaites and Bidenites.

Last time the Dems were in this problem, I think, was with Williams Jennings Bryan who they nominated several times due to the failed second term of Grover Cleveland. Progressives versus old school Dems in those contests.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

180 Small nodule energy that Biden guy is.

Posted by: President Richard Punch at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (Aly+v)

181 Joey Bidet's has had aneurysms in the past, so might still blow a gasket.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (c1sJh)

182 "Most likely to have had sexual relations with a simian" in the Congressional Yearbook.

Quite the honor.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:52 PM (yvnLa)

Y'all are so damn ugly.

Posted by: Dr. Zira at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (q2NNn)

183 To quote PJ O'Rourke: There are three branches of government: Money, Television, and Bullshit.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (wBaIH)

184 138 >>NEW: Chuck Todd blames "sources" for reporters' failure to cover Biden's decline🚨

"The real culprits are the people who are supposed to be our sources on all these things, who were constantly reassuring us behind the scenes, 'No, no, no, no, it's better than you think.'"

Proving Ace's take yesterday that modern journalists are simply dim-witted scribes for their sources.
Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2025 12:44 PM (aBgBM)

It's worse than that, I think. I'm now of a mind that the MFM is so fixated on Biden's decline now (oh, and who knew about it and when) not just because asking the question takes the heat off them. It also takes the heat off asking the obvious question of which country - and how many of them - were paying off Biden. We know that he was on the CCP payroll simply for letting that spy balloon cross the country without incident. We know that Moscow paid him off as well. All this talk of his cognitive state conveniently prevents retrospective investigation of all that corruption.

Now that they found a 'nodule' on him, I think that's the Bat Signal to one and all to put all Dem corruption on him before he dies, so that the secrets get buried with him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (oh5Rr)

185 Reporter: "You said in June of last year that Biden was in command and impressive. Were you being straight with the American public?"

Schumer: "We're just looking forward."

🤡

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Classic case of cowardice wrapped in an evasion inside a consciousness of guilt.

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (p2Rds)

186 He compared Kamala to Nixon.

GET A ROPE

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 12:57 PM (FtvNE)

187 167 We need a catchy title for this. Dementiagate is too long, Synapsegate? Memorycaregate? Can't think of a good one.

Posted by: My Mind's Not What it Once Was at May 14, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

Retargate
Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best
-------

'Cognigate'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2025 12:50 PM (XeU6L)

The great trumpnamulation event.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 14, 2025 12:57 PM (Aly+v)

188 Dear Jake,

Journalist, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

GFY,

Everyone.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 14, 2025 12:51 PM (PMtkd)

Journalist - a 13 year old girl writing in her diary.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 12:57 PM (VNX3d)

189 Depends gate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:58 PM (8uoau)

190 Classic case of cowardice wrapped in an evasion inside a consciousness of guilt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (p2Rds)

Do NOT underestimate the power surge people like Upchuck get in their birth canal from demonstrating that they don't have to answer questions from the peasants.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:58 PM (FEPkz)

191 Kamala could nail it in 2028 (like Nixon did in 1968 ) but I think to win she will have to reject the nostrums of the remaining Obamaites and Bidenites.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM

"What can be, unburdened by what has been, is what we must see as what can be for what will be."

-- Kamala! Harris

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2025 12:58 PM (0sNs1)

192 Now that they found a 'nodule' on him, I think that's the Bat Signal to one and all to put all Dem corruption on him before he dies, so that the secrets get buried with him.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (oh5Rr)

The Dem village's sacrificial lamb, as it were. Heap all sins on it and send it out into the wilderness to be consumed.

Posted by: Old Timer at May 14, 2025 12:58 PM (q2NNn)

193 Now that they found a 'nodule' on him, I think that's the Bat Signal to one and all to put all Dem corruption on him before he dies, so that the secrets get buried with him.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (oh5Rr)

"What about this scandal? Can we pin it on them?"

"Hey, that one actually was the Bidens."

"This one?"

"Bidens."

"Holy shit. Are we actually a decent party without those bastards around?"

"HAAAAhahahahhaha, good Gaia, no, dude, wow. Keep digging."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (yvnLa)

194 185 Reporter: "You said in June of last year that Biden was in command and impressive. Were you being straight with the American public?"

Schumer: "We're just looking forward."

🤡

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Classic case of cowardice wrapped in an evasion inside a consciousness of guilt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (p2Rds)

FU question not asked. We're you looking forward when yu lied about Bidens growing dementia?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (Aly+v)

195 Kamala could nail it in 2028 (like Nixon did in 196 but I think to win she will have to reject the nostrums of the remaining Obamaites and Bidenites.

Last time the Dems were in this problem, I think, was with Williams Jennings Bryan who they nominated several times due to the failed second term of Grover Cleveland. Progressives versus old school Dems in those contests.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

======

I think an outsider could upend the Democrat primary in 28, but it'd be a...challenge. Much harder than Trump in 2016.

Trump was helped by the media hoping he would destroy the GOP's chances.

The media, especially the MSM's power on the left side of the media ecosystem, is still very strong (it's borderling non-existence after a certain point rightward). If they want to smother someone so they get no media play in SC or IA or NH, they can probably do it. It'll leave the establishment and other well-heeled candidates free reign to define any upstart who can't match them out of the gate money-wise.

Impossible to counter? No. But...difficult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

196 174 I understand the Dem's attitude of "no enemy to the left" as a political maxim. My concern is that the GOPe are thinking of accepting it as a starting point, too.
Posted by: Kindltot
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I think GOPe is paralyzed because their middle way is doomed--government finances going forward are limiting their corporate grifting/payoffs to Dems: and societal idiocies promoted by Dems like transgendering kids and men competing in women's sports are simply not suitable for kindler gentler middle way bullshit.

That sort of GOPe type is doomed and each two years winnows more of them from office. By Trump's skip term, he has become the major transformative change agent in the GOP party and should he succeed in his endeavors, that leaves GOPe in the cold. Either DeSantis or Vance appear even less favorable to the Invade the World and Invite the World and kissing corporate ass. But as always, we shall see.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (ctrM5)

197 So Jake Tapper is still using Live Journal?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (c1sJh)

198 The media isn't going to carry Kamala's water for 2028. I'm telling you.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (FEPkz)

199 ...This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

How can you tell someone's a Democrat? They're all covered in shit.

...some old Monty Python reference.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (y0ylk)

200 All those videos of Tapper sucking up to Team Biden, being a dementia denier and attacking those that dared to speak the truth.

Cheap fakes. All of them.

Posted by: Ripley at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (GUOwU)

201 Classic case of cowardice wrapped in an evasion inside a consciousness of guilt.
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Senator Lankford.

Posted by: Crusader at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (TN0g+)

202 Trump was helped by the media hoping he would destroy the GOP's chances.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

You think they were all that worried about Jeb?

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (FEPkz)

203 What was, is. What is, will be. What will be *was*, and shall be again.

- Kamala Horshack

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (yvnLa)

204 All lies, all the fucking time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (LNlIz)

205 Joey Bidet's has had aneurysms in the past, so might still blow a gasket.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (c1sJh)

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The only thing preventing that thus far is he's still eating a quart of paste a day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 01:01 PM (p2Rds)

206
Remember during the Democrat primary debate back in '20 when the motherfucker's eye exploded on live TV?

That was just an eyeball stutter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2025 01:01 PM (63Dwl)

207 Democrats are lying sons of bitches; Everyone knows that.
The 30% that will always support Democrats have two digit IQs, are communists, beneficent of the graft or on the dole.
They have no other constituency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:01 PM (FtvNE)

208 25 Afternoon, Ace.

Tim Russert was probably the last respectable journalist.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (iXQKd)

I somewhat disagree…but Russert always gave Limbaugh a fair shake. I’d always tune in when Russert interviewed Limbaugh.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:02 PM (WqK+k)

209 All lies, all the fucking time.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM

Are you old enough for this level of cynicism?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1)

210 What was, is. What is, will be. What will be *was*, and shall be again.

- Kamala Horshack
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (yvnLa)

*ahem*

Posted by: Vigo the Carpathian, Scourge of Moldova at May 14, 2025 01:02 PM (q2NNn)

211 What can be, unburdened by what has been, is what we must see as what can be for what will be."

-- Kamala! Harris
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2025 12:58 PM (0sNs1)

Never underestimate stupidity.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 01:02 PM (g8Ew8)

212 You know how stupid people believe that others will believe their lies because stupid people don't know that they are stupid?

That's a Tapper.

He's the idiot calling in sick to work, faking a cough, when you can clearly hear the sounds of the waves on the beach and children playing in the background.

And then wonders why he gets fired--for no reason!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 14, 2025 01:02 PM (VB+S+)

213 200 All those videos of Tapper sucking up to Team Biden, being a dementia denier and attacking those that dared to speak the truth.

Cheap fakes. All of them.
Posted by: Ripley at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (GUOwU)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE ITS THE SAME PEOPLE WHO COVERED UP THE COVID LAB LEAK THEORY UNTIL IT WAS PROVEN TRUE BEYOND A DOUBT. BUT THE LOVE THE CHICKEN LONG LONG TIME.

Posted by: Be at May 14, 2025 01:03 PM (Aly+v)

214 Senator Lankford.
Posted by: Crusader at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (TN0g+)

“But OK is the reddest state in the Union!!!”

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:03 PM (WqK+k)

215 The media, especially the MSM's power on the left side of the media ecosystem, is still very strong (it's borderling non-existence after a certain point rightward). If they want to smother someone so they get no media play in SC or IA or NH, they can probably do it. It'll leave the establishment and other well-heeled candidates free reign to define any upstart who can't match them out of the gate money-wise.

Impossible to counter? No. But...difficult.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I dunno, the DNC openly rigs their primary rules, etc. while the GOP relies upon their traditional running a bunch of candidates including beautiful loser 'principled' conservative types to divide and conquer.

But, given the party's abysmal ratings--half of which want to go full Socialist/Commie and the other half wanting to frantically grab every nickel they can, that means the Dems sticking with a status quo type like Kamala is problematic. I think she has to pick a side to win and bring back disaffected Dems first before pivoting to the general election.

I am assuming that Trump has a successful term this go around with no massive crashes or wars to drag down his popularity.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

216 What was, is. What is, will be. What will be *was*, and shall be again.

- Kamala Horshack

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:00 PM (yvnLa)

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Damn, she even had the hysterical female version of Horshack's honking laugh ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (p2Rds)

217 This is going to backfire and smear them all in shit. They would have been better off just letting the whole thing just die, and pretend it never happened.

Yeah, that was baffling. If they just shut up about it and pretend it never happened, people would have moved on with a shrug, same as it ever was, we all know they lied. Why do this? Why now?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (2VST1)

218 “But OK is the reddest state in the Union!!!”
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:03 PM (WqK+k)

One good surge of population in Lincoln and that state goes blue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (yvnLa)

219 For all of Megyn Kelly's fire and brimstone lately not expecting Jakd to have yo sit through one of them.
Certainly will see
Posted by: Skip

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I wouldn't at all be surprised that Tapper's appearance is postponed and, eventually and quietly, cancelled.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (Vyll1)

220 Kamala could nail it in 2028 (like Nixon did in 196 but I think to win she will have to reject the nostrums of the remaining Obamaites and Bidenites.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)
________

I agree in theory, but don't see how she can reject what is so fundamentally core to her entire political being and career. She will forever be associated with that insane leftwing brand of politics. She can try to throw Joey Shithead under the bus, but that will be threading a needle even for a competent politician. For her? Nah.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

221 Not Lincoln, that's Nebraska. The other one out there.

Feh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (yvnLa)

222 The thing about all this is that it's beautiful on a wide scale across the media. Because even the most casual observer of news, and the media's coverage of Biden made it glaringly obvious they were lying about Grandpa Pedo's cheese sliding off the creepy cracker. It further eroded their trust. And the less the average goober trusts the talking heads on the MFM, the better.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 14, 2025 01:05 PM (ewjUl)

223 The media revealed who they were with 9/11.

Posted by: Crusader at May 14, 2025 01:05 PM (TN0g+)

224 The media didn't actively help Trump much in 2016. Trump helped himself by targeting an unheard section of the voting public but also speaking sensibly and *never* backing down. He also "triangulated" against both sitting parties. He did that, not the media. They hated him and said he could never win from jump.

What's more there was a ton of skepticism on the *right* against him, which was very much in line with what the media was reporting and saying. It wasn't the media who convinced skeptical righties it was Trump.

Fox didn't like him either. Megyns performance was in a very early debate. They wanted Trump gone. This idea that the media got Trump the nomination is a wee bit of revisionism. Trump may have used the media but that's not the same. He was KKK Hitler and a Joke from the start.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 01:05 PM (FEPkz)

225 You think they were all that worried about Jeb?
Posted by: ...

Jeb is of the body.

Trump is not of the body.

Posted by: Landru at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (Dv3i1)

226 215 But, given the party's abysmal ratings--half of which want to go full Socialist/Commie and the other half wanting to frantically grab every nickel they can, that means the Dems sticking with a status quo type like Kamala is problematic. I think she has to pick a side to win and bring back disaffected Dems first before pivoting to the general election.

I am assuming that Trump has a successful term this go around with no massive crashes or wars to drag down his popularity.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

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I think Kamala represents change to Democrats, not status-quo.

She never got a chance. Plus, she's the latest in a series of high-profile black women who have had their races stolen (Stacey Abrams).

Plus, change vs. status quo? After 4 years of Trump? More than enough Democrat voters will see any Democrat as the change candidate.

She doesn't need to win a clear majority of voters in Jan 2028. She needs to win SC. And then NH. SC should be easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

227 201 Classic case of cowardice wrapped in an evasion inside a consciousness of guilt.
----------
Senator Lankford.
Posted by: Crusader
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Lankford is pedo adjacent. He used to run a Baptist summer camp in Oklahoma and there were several sex abuse of minor problems resulting in a massive lawsuit. Read Lankford's deposition and he comes across as a real shitweasel.

That is why McConnell could jerk his gimp collar and have Lankford sing on command.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

228 The media revealed who they were with 9/11.
Posted by: Crusader at May 14, 2025 01:05 PM (TN0g+)

I'd say Chappaquiddick.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (FEPkz)

229 What my job is and what YOU think my job is are two totally different things.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (EnnqV)

230 the GOP relies upon their traditional running a bunch of candidates
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I would be in favor of a primary process that includes The Running of the Candidates, pursued by bulls, or, failing that, angry wolverines.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (6YdsJ)

231 Biden could have gone to the podium with a large bottle of Aylmers Glue. The media would not have noticed.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (SXxzC)

232 Russert is responsible for Republican states being called "red" and Democratic ones "blue" . He thought calling the Dems "red" implied communist. No shit Sherlock

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (2ZThz)

233 Tim Russert was probably the last respectable journalist.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (iXQKd)

I somewhat disagree…but Russert always gave Limbaugh a fair shake. I’d always tune in when Russert interviewed Limbaugh.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

That's primarily what I was thinking of, his fair treatment of Rush.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

234 221 I agree in theory, but don't see how she can reject what is so fundamentally core to her entire political being and career. She will forever be associated with that insane leftwing brand of politics. She can try to throw Joey Shithead under the bus, but that will be threading a needle even for a competent politician. For her? Nah.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

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Who else is going to vote in Democrat primaries at significant numbers?

The anti-Kamala vote is going to be split 10 ways from Sunday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

235 Now that they found a 'nodule' on him, I think that's the Bat Signal to one and all to put all Dem corruption on him before he dies, so that the secrets get buried with him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 12:55 PM (oh5Rr)

The Democrats want Biden to vanish, one way or another, to help avoid a reveal of The Big Secret: That Biden was hopped-up on drugs for every public appearance and God-only-knows how many private meetings, with everyone from US union bosses to the leaders of about every nation you can think of. Did the Handlers give Joe other drugs, to make him compliant or put him lights-out while the Cabal issued EOs and pardons via auto-pen? Was Joe ever lucid and able to make any significant decisions on his own, un-drugged?

Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (aBgBM)

236 Tapper is claiming there was no proof of a fire, despite all the smoke, flames and fire trucks spraying water because......the fire department didn't tell him there was a fire.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)

237 I think he detonated his career with that "you expect me to mix with normal people when I fly to do another speech about how everyone else should be poor?" response.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (2VST1)

And…he’s lazy. Bernie does not fight for anything, ever. You saw it in his primary runs. Others see this too.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (WqK+k)

238 Megyn Kelly I take her with a grain of salt, she used Roger Ailes to further her career so she could get a better job at NBC and she thought they would LOVE her, nope they hated her because FOX NEWS, she got what she deserved when NBC put her thru the ringer.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 14, 2025 01:08 PM (FCrpy)

239 I'd say Chappaquiddick.

I was going to say Vietnam, but you have outbid me.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 01:08 PM (IxaHo)

240 I think she has to pick a side to win and bring back disaffected Dems first before pivoting to the general election.

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Win back disaffected voters? Dem voters haven't selected the nominee since 2008. Whoever the Dem nominee in 2028 is will be selected and installed by the DNC.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 14, 2025 01:08 PM (2UnvF)

241 221 Not Lincoln, that's Nebraska. The other one out there.

Feh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Are you familiar with the algorithms programmed into our voting machines?

Posted by: Dominion at May 14, 2025 01:09 PM (Dv3i1)

242 sure I've seen monkeys flying out of Corey Booker's ass.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 12:47 PM

But they weren't monkey-monkeys.

I wish cotton was a monkey!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 14, 2025 01:09 PM (Z7chj)

243 229 What my job is and what YOU think my job is are two totally different things.
Posted by: Jake Tapper at May 14, 2025 01:06 PM (EnnqV)

Shut that mouth up and get it to work. There's a line forming out to the pumps and we don't want the cops getting suspicious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:09 PM (yvnLa)

244 Not to detract from our pedophile Democrat Party but there are interesting occurrences happening our great friends of the CIA, Pakistan.

*Baloch leaders have declared "Independence from Pakistan"
The “Republic of Balochistan” is officially on the map and Islamabad is in full panic mode.

They're turning up the heat by asking India to host a Baloch embassy in New Delhi and urging the UN to send peacekeeping forces into the region ASAP.

*1948 British map shows Balochistan as a large and independent entity in that region.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (FtvNE)

245 I agree in theory, but don't see how she can reject what is so fundamentally core to her entire political being and career. She will forever be associated with that insane leftwing brand of politics. She can try to throw Joey Shithead under the bus, but that will be threading a needle even for a competent politician. For her? Nah.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

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Who else is going to vote in Democrat primaries at significant numbers?

The anti-Kamala vote is going to be split 10 ways from Sunday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes, we know you are going to ride this horse into hell. LOL.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

246 Pope Leo is now on X
@Pontifex

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (rT96s)

247 Debbie Dingell (as well as Schakowsky) fell asleep in a hearing today. One of the most amazing facts in politics is that the Dingells , father , son , son's second wife, have held that Congressional seat since 1941. To quote the Critical Drinker "go away now"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (2ZThz)

248 I think Kamala represents change to Democrats, not status-quo.

She never got a chance. Plus, she's the latest in a series of high-profile black women who have had their races stolen (Stacey Abrams).

Plus, change vs. status quo? After 4 years of Trump? More than enough Democrat voters will see any Democrat as the change candidate.

She doesn't need to win a clear majority of voters in Jan 2028. She needs to win SC. And then NH. SC should be easy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think AOC represents change to Dems more than Kamala. Kamala might be able to run as an anti Trump if something like 2008 reoccurs but the old Obama formula of race, gender, and hate is not something that is a winnable formula going forward. I think the Dems have to go back to economic class at least as a supplement if not dominant to identity politics. Because losing the working class while gaining the much smaller AWFL and upper class is not a formula for success at the general election.

GOP proved that fighting FDR for two elections and then reverting to me tooism until Reagan.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (ctrM5)

249 *1948 British map shows Balochistan as a large and independent entity in that region.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (FtvNE)

Nevermind the Balochs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (yvnLa)

250 Not Lincoln, that's Nebraska. The other one out there.

Feh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (yvnLa)

Langford will be gone with his next primary. Even red states can make mistakes. He's a big one.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (g8Ew8)

251 245 Yes, we know you are going to ride this horse into hell. LOL.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

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Until something changes, this is Kamala's race to lose.

She's led every poll since the election for the Democrat primary despite everyone telling me that she'd be tossed the second it was over.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

252 238 Megyn Kelly I take her with a grain of salt, she used Roger Ailes to further her career so she could get a better job at NBC and she thought they would LOVE her, nope they hated her because FOX NEWS, she got what she deserved when NBC put her thru the ringer.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
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She's click bait.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:12 PM (FtvNE)

253 All the MSM lies about their lying about Dems lying isn't helping their credibility. Do they have any idea how bad their situation is? I don't what could turn it around but it isn't more lies.

Posted by: Ripley at May 14, 2025 01:12 PM (GUOwU)

254 Note how Kamala doesn't seem to be involved in any way in this "cover up". That's convenient.

I think they still want her to be gov of Cali. But when they want her under the bus they will put her there.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 01:12 PM (FEPkz)

255 Jake Tapper has been caught lying. This is my shocked face: 😐.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 01:13 PM (0M7jv)

256 How come the media isn't mad at Kamala for lying to them? How come no one has asked her what she knew? After all the media doesn't want to ever be fooled again....

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 01:13 PM (FEPkz)

257 I think AOC will already be old news by 2027. Her fifteen minutes are up. She hasn't done shit with the platform she was given for anyone. Her constituents are starting to actively hate her (not enough pork on her fork, I guess). She's probably on her way out sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:13 PM (yvnLa)

258 253 All the MSM lies about their lying about Dems lying isn't helping their credibility. Do they have any idea how bad their situation is? I don't what could turn it around but it isn't more lies.

Posted by: Ripley at May 14, 2025 01:12 PM (GUOwU)

Yeah, and they still don't want to talk about the Truth on the Covid crap...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 14, 2025 01:14 PM (mP0Kj)

259 From @VigilantFox on X

Senator John Kennedy just OBLITERATED critics of Trump’s China trade deal, dropping one of the most savage lines of the year.

To the critics, he said, “I’m not saying you’re the dumbest person in the world—but you better hope the dumbest person in the world doesn’t die.”

“The Chinese Communist Party are thieves. They steal with both hands. They’ll steal your socks without taking off your shoes,” Kennedy said.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 14, 2025 01:14 PM (Dv3i1)

260 Not to detract from our pedophile Democrat Party but there are interesting occurrences happening our great friends of the CIA, Pakistan.
*Baloch leaders have declared "Independence from Pakistan"
The “Republic of Balochistan” is officially on the map and Islamabad is in full panic mode.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (FtvNE)

My prediction in this new exciting world: Modi tells Pakistan, "go, deal with your Balochi bandits, we will wait for when you are able to fight us in without distractions"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 01:14 PM (D7oie)

261 I think he detonated his career with that "you expect me to mix with normal people when I fly to do another speech about how everyone else should be poor?" response.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2025 12:43 PM (2VST1)

From what I am seeing basic constituent services are out the window in her district. Ripe to be primaried.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:15 PM (WqK+k)

262 The Balochis fighting for independence could drive the Pakis and the Iranians nuts. They straddle the border and are going the second largest ethnic group in the world without their own nation. Free Baluchistan!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 01:15 PM (2ZThz)

263 How come the media isn't mad at Kamala for lying to them?

$1.2 billion distributed in a four-month campaign can do wonders.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 01:16 PM (g8z90)

264 My prediction in this new exciting world: Modi tells Pakistan, "go, deal with your Balochi bandits, we will wait for when you are able to fight us in without distractions"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 01:14 PM (D7oie)

I saw somewhere that Trump threated to cut off trade to both of them if they didn't simmer down, and lo and behold, simmer down they did.

"I'll turn this global economy around RIGHT NOW if you kids don't stop bickering!"

"Uggghhhhh, FINE Dad."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:16 PM (yvnLa)

265 256 How come the media isn't mad at Kamala for lying to them? How come no one has asked her what she knew? After all the media doesn't want to ever be fooled again....

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2025 01:13 PM (FEPkz)

Because their Democrat-insider sources haven't told the journalists to be mad at Kamala for lying about Joe to their faces.

Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM (aBgBM)

266 You know how stupid people believe that others will believe their lies because stupid people don't know that they are stupid?

That's a Tapper.

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When the stars make you drool
Just like a pasta fazool
That's a Tapper

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM (p2Rds)

267 His average golf score is 18.

Let's not start that again...

Posted by: Oddbob at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM (/y8xj)

268 To the critics, he said, “I’m not saying you’re the dumbest person in the world—but you better hope the dumbest person in the world doesn’t die.”

Wow, that is quality! He's always fun to listen to.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM (g8z90)

269 Never mind the Balochs.

Well played Warai-otoko, well played.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM (0M7jv)

270 The Baluchis have a lot of therium mines.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

271 Jake Tapper's Brand: i will lie and then lie to you about lying to you, and claim it was someone else lying to me and I was tricked.

Trust me. Fake Tapper.

I can't believe he gets paid for this crap. It's immoral.

Posted by: Disgusting display at May 14, 2025 01:18 PM (jYnwx)

272 She's click bait.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:12 PM (FtvNE)

She's got some good points here and there. I am not going to dismiss someone whom I agree with 80% of the time. She reaches a large number of people. She's smart and definitely not hard to look at. Although she could use a sammich or two IMHO.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 14, 2025 01:18 PM (ewjUl)

273 223 The media revealed who they were with 9/11.
Posted by: Crusader at May 14, 2025 01:05 PM (TN0g+)
True, and left wingers and rinos in general.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2025 01:18 PM (LHPAg)

274 Consider that, had Musk not bought Twitter, any discussion or posts on Biden's dementia would have been banned or deleted as violations of community guidelines.

Consider further that, had Harris won, those bans would have returned.
While all the media continued to insist that Biden's mental acuity was sharper than a 20 year-olds.

But this is all so very weird:
How is "we was lied to!" a good defense for people "claim" they are committed to the finding the truth?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 14, 2025 01:18 PM (VB+S+)

275 The Baluchis have a lot of therium mines.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 01:17 PM

That's what killed Jim. He was great in the Blues Brothers.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 14, 2025 01:19 PM (ewjUl)

276
Baloch leaders have declared "Independence from Pakistan"

The official drink of Baloch is Tranya.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2025 01:20 PM (63Dwl)

277 $1.2 billion distributed in a four-month campaign can do wonders.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 01:16 PM (g8z90)

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That's A Lot of $20 handjobs in the big cities ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 01:20 PM (p2Rds)

278 246 Pope Leo is now on X
@Pontifex
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (rT96s)

He also has an account that's in Latin, so I wonder if that's a good sign.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 14, 2025 01:20 PM (FCrpy)

279 I can't believe he gets paid for this crap. It's immoral.
Posted by: Disgusting display at May 14, 2025 01:18 PM (jYnwx)

He's an ingrown televangelist.

He preaches the word of himself and promises salvation if you only tune in every time he's on, without fail. And also buy his book or else he's not making any promises about the fate of your immortal soul, wink wink.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 01:20 PM (yvnLa)

280 Nood

Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2025 01:20 PM (KKJEY)

281 When the stars make you drool
Just like a pasta fazool
That's a Tapper

When your ears hear a lie
and you don't even try
That's a Tapper

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 14, 2025 01:20 PM (VXSVh)

282 Yes, we know you are going to ride this horse into hell. LOL.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

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Until something changes, this is Kamala's race to lose.

She's led every poll since the election for the Democrat primary despite everyone telling me that she'd be tossed the second it was over.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
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There is no need to toss anyone at this point. I do think she won't be able to wash off the stink from 2024 (or her catastrophic 2020) and the Dums will ultimately rally around someone else. But there is no need to do that now.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

283 Today's propaganda is so lame and ghey that Joe Goebbels is spinning in his grave.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 01:21 PM (wBaIH)

284 Laughing man, indeed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 01:21 PM (0M7jv)

285 But this is all so very weird:
How is "we was lied to!" a good defense for people "claim" they are committed to the finding the truth?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 14, 2025 01:18 PM

Either way the MFM fucked themselves good and hard. They are the fat kid with chocolate all over their face that swore they didn't eat the candy bar, and even if they "did" eat the candy bar, it's only because his brother made him eat it!

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 14, 2025 01:21 PM (ewjUl)

286 She's got some good points here and there.

Way up firm and high.

Posted by: Bob Seger at May 14, 2025 01:21 PM (yLThl)

287 Langford will be gone with his next primary. Even red states can make mistakes. He's a big one.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 01:11 PM (g8Ew

From your lips to God’s ears.

As for me, we in TX need to send Cornyn packing. He started out fine, but over the years he has forgotten about us to the point where I am sure he thinks he needs a passport to cross the Sabine heading west.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:21 PM (WqK+k)

288 Win back disaffected voters? Dem voters haven't selected the nominee since 2008. Whoever the Dem nominee in 2028 is will be selected and installed by the DNC.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Even the DNC recognizes election problems which is why they ended up deserting Hillary in 2008 for the hot new Obama, almost midstream so to speak.

If the DNC thinks that 2028 is a losing year, they have no problem repeating a losing unity candidate like Kamala while they try to consolidate internally (this party division existed in the early 1900's btw between the urban progressives and the rural Southern and Western Dems which is why they kept nominating a loser William Jennings Bryan until that was resolved).

Throughout the West, the old party formulas are breaking down. That means the mainstream parties are either going to have to adapt or die to the new electoral circumstances or resort to outright fascism to try to save themselves for a bit longer.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:22 PM (ctrM5)

289 Nood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 14, 2025 01:22 PM (i24o9)

290 Therium mines -> thorium mines?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 01:23 PM (0M7jv)

291 Wish people would drop the "party" tags and get more independent people on the ballot. People with common sense. I know the media would ignore them and money would be a problem. But if they made good arguments for everyday Americans and came off as more honest than what we have now maybe they could upset some of the status quo we are stuck with.

Posted by: Case at May 14, 2025 01:23 PM (Qdqx6)

292 Texas mom enables would be school shooter to get ammo. And when I say "Texas mom" . . .

https://shorturl.at/boyFp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

293 the new electoral circumstances or resort to outright fascism to try to save themselves for a bit longer.
==
You had me at fascism . . .

Posted by: AOC at May 14, 2025 01:23 PM (sh1GZ)

294
Nevermind the Balochs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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That area is part of the Chinese Belt & Road program. They built a railroad, the Gold & Copper R.R, into the region as part of it. The Balochs blew up a major bridge for the train and attacked the train. Search engine will reveal that they consistently attack and kill Paki military and Chinese. They are serious.

Concurrently there are tribes in the north, not Kashmir, seeking autonomy. Pakistan sued for peace because the country was coming apart, uncontrollable, split into three.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:24 PM (FtvNE)

295 Little Orphan Karine no home yet.

Posted by: toby928 at May 14, 2025 01:25 PM (jc0TO)

296 292 Texas mom enables would be school shooter to get ammo. And when I say "Texas mom" . . .

https://shorturl.at/boyFp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

A 33 year old mom of a middle schooler, at that.

Ah, San Antonio does me proud yet again…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 01:26 PM (WqK+k)

297 The Baluchis have a lot of therium mines.
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You're speaking of Janus VI. Good luck--its very dangerous doing mining of any kind there.

Posted by: Crusader at May 14, 2025 01:27 PM (TN0g+)

298 Tapper is claiming there was no proof of a fire, despite all the smoke, flames and fire trucks spraying water because......the fire department didn't tell him there was a fire.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 14, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)

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"It was a 'mostly fleeceful' fire, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 01:27 PM (p2Rds)

299 Throughout the West, the old party formulas are breaking down. That means the mainstream parties are either going to have to adapt or die to the new electoral circumstances or resort to outright fascism to try to save themselves for a bit longer.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:22 PM (ctrM5)

Das ist mich???

Posted by: Bundeskanzler Merz at May 14, 2025 01:28 PM (WqK+k)

300 257 I think AOC will already be old news by 2027. Her fifteen minutes are up. She hasn't done shit with the platform she was given for anyone. Her constituents are starting to actively hate her (not enough pork on her fork, I guess). She's probably on her way out sooner rather than later.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Not sure. After all, she might run against Schumer and be a senator by 2026. I do think that the Dems are due to put a Hispanic woman on the ticket as Hispanics are the fastest growing voter segment in the US. Percentage of the US electorate has probably exceeded blacks by this point.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:28 PM (ctrM5)

301 Das ist mich???
Posted by: Bundeskanzler Merz
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Grifting fascism fails quicker than the real thing. But I think Western Euroland is tilting into fascism because the existing political establishment cannot accept failure and loss of power/money.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 01:30 PM (ctrM5)

302 Jake doesn't interview Democrats he performs fellatio on them and always cradles the balls.

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at May 14, 2025 01:30 PM (8jjEX)

303 292 Texas mom enables would be school shooter to get ammo. And when I say "Texas mom" . . .

https://shorturl.at/boyFp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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San Antonio Rose

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:31 PM (FtvNE)

304 Captain Obvious says that if the media just repeats what the Left says then they aren’t needed at all. Just let the politicians speak.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 14, 2025 01:36 PM (yT7Wa)

305 =======
Grifting fascism fails quicker than the real thing. But I think Western Euroland is tilting into fascism because the existing political establishment cannot accept failure and loss of power/money.
Posted by: whig
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Starmer's speech, yesterday, may be called the great retraction.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:36 PM (FtvNE)

306 Chuck's totally objective, they lied to him, how's he going to prove them wrong?
He's got Bush-Cheney & Dole stickers to prove it!

He's got a point, though unintended.

Journalists, rarely, if ever, do actual investigations anymore.

When you've been taught to have an agenda and be an activist in college, and toss objectivity to the wind, you are incapable of being skeptical or investigating anything any longer.

Because your entire job now is to write a sustainable, beneficial, narrative and produce propaganda for the ideology guiding you.

What is there to investigate when you're writing a screenplay and not a news story?

The only thing you need to research is technical details to make the story plausible.

Then all you need to do is find the right people to portray the right characters for your production.

They can't investigate anything because their job isn't holding the criminal and powerful to account through seeking the truth.

Their job is the constant manipulation of our common reality.
And now the internet has exposed them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 14, 2025 01:37 PM (6ydKt)

307 Senate Majority Leader John Thune says it would be "fairly controversial" to codify President Trump's executive order to lower drug prices to match those in other developed countries into law. He suggests it would face opposition
Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:21 PM (8hq5W)

Jeez dude, no reason to back a policy 99 percent of the American population would support. Why not make foreigners licensing the drug pay the cost of development?

What a transparently idiotic thing to say. Tell your pharma bribe team you need a raise..

Posted by: Oldcat at May 14, 2025 01:44 PM (8avO+)

308 Grifting fascism fails quicker than the real thing. But I think Western Euroland is tilting into fascism because the existing political establishment cannot accept failure and loss of power/money.
Posted by: whig
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Starmer's speech, yesterday, may be called the great retraction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:36 PM (FtvNE)

These nations started out tilting to fascism. A democratic system is built on trusting the electorate. These nations having systems with 2 phase elections, short runups to elections, multi parties that are not encouraged to merge are all based on not trusting the electorate. The only alternative trusting the government over the people, authoratarianism.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 14, 2025 01:47 PM (8avO+)

309 =======
Grifting fascism fails quicker than the real thing. But I think Western Euroland is tilting into fascism because the existing political establishment cannot accept failure and loss of power/money.
Posted by: whig
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Starmer's speech, yesterday, may be called the great retraction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 01:36 PM (FtvNE)

"We have always been at war with EastAsia"

Posted by: Oldcat at May 14, 2025 01:48 PM (8avO+)

310 Had Tapper mentioned the cognitive decline BEFORE... when it was obvious to anyone who does not eat boogers... welp, that would have been a story.

Greying Tapper writing a tell all book AFTER it is "safe" is simply CYA for a coward petunia.

Does he think the rest of us are blind, deaf and stupid? Rhetorical rhesus monkey answer.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 14, 2025 01:52 PM (6PCLE)

311 Our local library will likely order three copies of Tapper's book for the three people with holds on the book - all of those holds placed by librarians.

Posted by: 13times at May 14, 2025 02:48 PM (djCLr)

312 FDR has been calling asking for his compliant media back

Posted by: SMOD at May 14, 2025 03:23 PM (RHGPo)

313 When I think about Dementia Joe's decline, I first remember Joe back in the Fall of 2019. At that time, he was I'd call it at about 96% of full Joe being there, but by the Spring of 2020, Joe was at 80%, as the quick witted politician seemed to have taken it's leave.

Posted by: SMOD at May 14, 2025 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

314 MSNBC’s Yamiche Abdul-Jabbar Whines

Posted by: SMOD at May 14, 2025 03:28 PM (RHGPo)

315 how do you respond?

Notice that question isn't really a question.

Posted by: El Mariachi at May 14, 2025 03:33 PM (gDhA9)

316 I already said I thought I had the story wrong, so I went to read up on the history to get the story straight. This page (link below) says Sarnoff got the FCC to reassign the FM frequencies during WWII, when FDR was still president!! Are you certain FDR didn’t put his thumb on the scale there? I am back to holding that this was part of shutting down a new medium that didn’t agree with the New Deal. Fascism indeed!

http://userpages.bright.net/~geary/fm/fm.html

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 04:14 PM (ZVgZ4)

317 If AOC runs for POTUS in 2028, who will the Dems primary/replace Schumer with?

Posted by: al-Kahoul's Martyrs Brigade at May 14, 2025 05:06 PM (peWmJ)

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Jake Tapper's Publisher Puts Together a Compliation Purporting to Show that Tapper Reported on Biden's Dementia. Mark Halperin Looks at the Clips In Context and Finds It's a Lie.

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Jake Tapper's Publisher Puts Together a Compliation Purporting to Show that Tapper Reported on Biden's Dementia.
Mark Halperin Looks at the Clips In Context and Finds It's a Lie.