O Frabjous Day! John Cornyn Down Twenty-Two Points to GOP Challenger Ken Paxton in Poll

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
BREAKING: Ken Paxton is beating John Cornyn by 22 points in the Texas Republican Primary Election for Senate.
John Cornyn: 28%
Ken Paxton: 50%
John Cornyn is the incumbent.
Poll conducted May 27-28.

BREAKING: Ken Paxton is beating John Cornyn by 22 points in the Texas Republican Primary Election for Senate.

John Cornyn: 28%
Ken Paxton: 50%

John Cornyn is the incumbent.

Poll conducted May 27-28. pic.twitter.com/riB94f9TsT
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) June 3, 2025

This is the worst showing for Cornyn in a poll, but other polls also have him losing.

While the gaps have been nowhere as large as 22 points, the two polls aggregated at RCP give Paxton a +7.5 lead against Cornyn, with a third candidate named Wesley Hunt getting around 15% amongst Republican primary voters. One of these polls claims to have used a sample of likely voters, but this far out from the election, that doesn't seem terribly reliable. But even if these are just RV polls, Paxton has leads in all three outside the margin of error, even if 22 points sounds somewhat fanciful.

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Posted by: GF at June 04, 2025 03:24 PM (iVUs+)

2 MOAR

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 04, 2025 03:25 PM (aPBRN)

3 He needs to lose to frighten all the rest of the GOP into line.

I prefer if they ALL lose, but that's not likely

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 04, 2025 03:25 PM (aPBRN)

4 I think the importance of these sorts of switches happens at the committee level.

The votes that no one pays attention to and never get counted in scorecards. The staff who write bills.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:26 PM (cD1dp)

5 134 Jim Jones was SF royalty at one time, feted by all and sundry, including Dianne Feinstein as well as Harvey Milk, and IIRC Willie Brown too.

He was a big hero in SF, his church was all about helping the poor and indigent people, Mrs Jimmy Carter was a huge fan. His story is actually really interesting but I doubt anyone will ever do the real thing in a movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:54 PM (2VST1)
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"Guyana Tragedy;" Saw it as a kid back in the early 1980s. Powers Booth in the lead as Jones, ensemble cast as well (Ned Beatty and others).

Posted by: GF at June 04, 2025 03:26 PM (iVUs+)

6 Less Rino

Posted by: jsg at June 04, 2025 03:27 PM (0dJ/L)

7 Good. Buh bye, John.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 04, 2025 03:27 PM (2UnvF)

8 Word is Judge Boasberg just overturned this poll and ordered another.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 04, 2025 03:27 PM (jGGMD)

9 Texans are tired of a do nothing Cornyn.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (eiDaa)

10 Get the RINO's out of Washington

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (+qU29)

11 I'm happy for John that he'll have more time to spend with his family...even if they aren't.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (2UnvF)

12 "Polls are for inserting into my ass!"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

13 I nooded, you non nooders

Posted by: Gref at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (aBgBM)

14 There are Cornyn ads showing him voting "with Trump" 90+% of the time. So what, asshole?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 04, 2025 03:29 PM (XMwZJ)

15 I thought polls were for my future ex-wives.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 04, 2025 03:29 PM (dGCAG)

16 The Texas Bush GOPe needs to die. Good.

Posted by: brak at June 04, 2025 03:29 PM (jGJov)

17 Right now the Texas GOPe is looking for 4 or 5 candidates to run so as to dilute the Paxton vote.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 04, 2025 03:30 PM (2UnvF)

18 I always get confused between Ken Paxton and Bill Pullman.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 04, 2025 03:30 PM (w9Wax)

19 Death to GOPe, especially in Texas.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 04, 2025 03:30 PM (vbXSk)

20 >>> 9 Texans are tired of a do nothing Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (eiDaa)

That little shit does things, just not what *we* want.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 04, 2025 03:31 PM (QRFVs)

21 This is good news.

Hopefully it'll scare the crap out of some of these GOPe types up for election next year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 04, 2025 03:31 PM (6ydKt)

22 Cornyn Butt-Boy Hugh Hewitt hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 03:31 PM (Ae4dV)

23 Was just thinking about this. Right now, it looks like Beto is going to run for Senator from Texas again in '26, although it might be Colin Allred, who just lost a race against Ted Cruz last year.

notable thing about Allred - all the pollsters said he was neck and neck with Cruz, within a couple of points, all year long, and then he lost by a 53-44 margin, just like everyone who looked at voting history and ignored stupid polls said it was going to be.

Will the Bush/GOP-e wing swing over to vote for Beto because they hate Paxton so much? I think they have a lot more support in the Texas Legislature right now than they actually have in the voting public. That's why Cornyn is polling so badly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:31 PM (uWKK8)

24 Didn't John Cornyn help president Autopen pass a gun control bill?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 04, 2025 03:31 PM (662lG)

25 How was the poll conducted?

Posted by: No one answers phones anymore at June 04, 2025 03:32 PM (n9Gmp)

26 DEI RINO, DEI!!

Posted by: kallisto at June 04, 2025 03:32 PM (dCxaZ)

27 when was the last time an incumbent senator lost a primary? Dick Lugar in 2012?

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at June 04, 2025 03:32 PM (V6W16)

28 >>> 24 Didn't John Cornyn help president Autopen pass a gun control bill?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 04, 2025 03:31 PM (662lG)

LOL

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 04, 2025 03:32 PM (QRFVs)

29 John Cornyn is the incumbent.
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But not a very good one.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 03:33 PM (krQz2)

30 Still wondering if the husk that is Mitch will try to run Kornyn as an independent if he loses the primary, like he did with Murk. It would be a very Tex GOPe thing to do

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 03:33 PM (6L8Ax)

31 So he can do one of two things. Try to swing hard MAGA to try and close the gap or realize that he's cooked, say "F it" and spend the next year and a half spitting in our faces every chance he gets. I'm betting on the latter.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (/y8xj)

32 >>> 30 Still wondering if the husk that is Mitch will try to run Kornyn as an independent if he loses the primary, like he did with Murk. It would be a very Tex GOPe thing to do
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 03:33 PM (6L8Ax)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (QRFVs)

33 30 Still wondering if the husk that is Mitch will try to run Kornyn as an independent if he loses the primary, like he did with Murk. It would be a very Tex GOPe thing to do
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 03:33 PM (6L8Ax)

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Well, Thune is in charge of the RSCC now, and he seems much less willing to get on the base's bad side so obviously than Mitch did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (cD1dp)

34 We need to get Brandon Herrera to try his primary challenge again. I want to watch the heads explode in the House. And I want to see an AK-50 on his office wall.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (dPfyF)

35 This has Arlen Specter 2.0 written all over it - vengeful asshole switches teams after losing the primary because their philosophy knows not shame or disgrace, embracing only lust, for both power and the pleasures of the flesh.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (F/35S)

36 Cornyn is rubbing his hand with glee at the thought of screwing conservatives over during his remaining time in office, while bust out looting the Treasury.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (wBaIH)

37 ... with a third candidate named Wesley Hunt getting around 15% amongst Republican primary voters.

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Dude's got to be referred to as Wesley "Snipes" Hunt in the AoSHQ Style Guide going forward ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (Ae4dV)

38 Now, if we can get someone to replace my Senator (Ernst) with someone more conservative...

She stepped in it recently with her "everybody dies" comment. I'm not sure how big an ACTUAL issue it is, or will be in 17 months, but the Left is certainly trying to turn it into something.

Also. Our governor has been polling poorly and declined to run for re-election...maybe Joni will, too?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

39 While the gaps have been nowhere as large as 22 points, the two polls aggregated at RCP give Paxton a +7.5 lead against Cornyn, with a third candidate named Wesley Hunt getting around 15% amongst Republican primary voters. One of these polls claims to have used a sample of likely voters, but this far out from the election, that doesn't seem terribly reliable. But even if these are just RV polls, Paxton has leads in all three outside the margin of error, even if 22 points sounds somewhat fanciful.

Using LIKELY voters is LESS reliable? What idiocy is this?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)

40 Lindsey Graham also has a challenger, which I just learned about the other day. I can only pray he sees such a point loss in polling soon. I remember the shock waves when House Leader Eric Cantor lost his election. I want that kind of thunderbolt to hit Cornyn...and Graham.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (qBdHI)

41 Can't Texas Democrats cross over and vote for Cornyn?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (dQfJF)

42 35 This has Arlen Specter 2.0 written all over it - vengeful asshole switches teams after losing the primary because their philosophy knows not shame or disgrace, embracing only lust, for both power and the pleasures of the flesh.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (F/35S)

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It looks like Texas has a sore loser law, so he wouldn't be able to appear on the ballot as an independent if he lost the primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (cD1dp)

43 Cornyn may be released from the dreaded 'job-lock'!

Posted by: 496 at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (cnokD)

44 Once more into the breech
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (+qU29)

45 Texans are tired of a do nothing Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (eiDaa)

Letting a guy name Westley onto the ballot at all is even more shocking.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

46 20 >>> 9 Texans are tired of a do nothing Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 04, 2025 03:28 PM (eiDaa)

That's it exactly. People outside the state won't understand that it's not about anything Cornyn has done, it's about what he HASN'T done. He went to D.C. and quit paying attention to Texas completely, hardly ever even visits. He treats his office like a Grant of Nobility that is supposed to be his for life, and curse any peon back home who thinks differently.

Ted Cruz has a nasty disposition, but at least he still pays some attention to the people back home, and especially lets conservative voters know that he's on their side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (uWKK8)

47 40 Lindsey Graham also has a challenger, which I just learned about the other day. I can only pray he sees such a point loss in polling soon. I remember the shock waves when House Leader Eric Cantor lost his election. I want that kind of thunderbolt to hit Cornyn...and Graham.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (qBdHI)

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Graham is a much better politician than Cornyn. He's probably safe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (cD1dp)

48 As one of the unfortunates allegedly "represented" by John Cornyn, I approve this message.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (X+xvk)

49 We need to get Brandon Herrera to try his primary challenge again. I want to watch the heads explode in the House. And I want to see an AK-50 on his office wall.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (dPfyF)

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I wanted Trump to make Brandon Herrera the Director of ATF.

I am disappoint ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (Ae4dV)

50 Can't Texas Democrats cross over and vote for Cornyn?

Yes. TX has open primaries.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (/y8xj)

51 God help us if Beto wins.
That guy will be squatting on a desk in the senate when he gives some silly speech.

Everywhere he goes he thinks he's squatting on the front porch giving a stem-winder to the crowd of hicks like it's 1872.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

52 >>> 40 Lindsey Graham also has a challenger, which I just learned about the other day. I can only pray he sees such a point loss in polling soon. I remember the shock waves when House Leader Eric Cantor lost his election. I want that kind of thunderbolt to hit Cornyn...and Graham.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (qBdHI)

It would be terrible if pictures of the Ukrainian rent boys who Miss Lindsey may have spent some of that $400k of taxpayer money on were to become public.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 04, 2025 03:38 PM (QRFVs)

53 Right now the Texas GOPe is looking for 4 or 5 candidates to run so as to dilute the Paxton vote.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 04, 2025 03:30 PM

The Lindsey Graham playbook.

Posted by: toby928 at June 04, 2025 03:38 PM (jc0TO)

54 There is Cornyn my stools.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

55 The GOPe will react to Paxton the same way they reacted to Ted Cruz. Like vampires confronting sunlight.

Every member of the Bush family must be weeping.

What a wonderful way to start my day.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (X+xvk)

56 50 Can't Texas Democrats cross over and vote for Cornyn?

Yes. TX has open primaries.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (/y8xj)

OK then do these polls sample Texas Dems? If not what's the point?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (dQfJF)

57 41 Can't Texas Democrats cross over and vote for Cornyn?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (dQfJF)

In the primary, yes. But if they have a splashy name like Beto running in the Dem primary, it's going to be hard to keep any of the faithful from voting in their own primary for him.

as far as Beto's chances - eh. He's lost 3 statewide races in a row, and in spite of the negatives on Paxton, he's a good campaigner and he's won 2 statewide races already.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (uWKK8)

58 >>> 55 The GOPe will react to Paxton the same way they reacted to Ted Cruz. Like vampires confronting sunlight.

Every member of the Bush family must be weeping.

What a wonderful way to start my day.
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (X+xvk)

Please clap.

Posted by: Jeb! at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (QRFVs)

59 Once more into the breech
Have a great afternoon everyone
Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (+qU29)
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Yup. Like I used to say "Once more, into my breeches!"

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (krQz2)

60 Still wondering if the husk that is Mitch will try to run Kornyn as an independent if he loses the primary, like he did with Murk. It would be a very Tex GOPe thing to do
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 03:33 PM (6L8Ax)

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Well, Thune is in charge of the RSCC now, and he seems much less willing to get on the base's bad side so obviously than Mitch did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (cD1dp)

Trump's people not only *expected* the fix in PA, but *responded* and turned it back before it could get enshrined as normal.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (8avO+)

61 Graham is a much better politician than Cornyn. He's probably safe.

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My guess too. It seems we can't get rid of him with a crowbar, a shoehorn or any other such device. Oh, and I'm seeing commercials for him here in SC where he's showing his conservative (every 6 years) bonafides by proclaiming his support for only legal immigration.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (qBdHI)

62 Graham is a much better politician than Cornyn. He's probably safe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (cD1dp)

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I'm old enough to remember you making similar observations a decade ago on HotGas -- and unfortunately you weren't wrong.

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 03:40 PM (Ae4dV)

63 Lindsey Graham also has a challenger, which I just learned about the other day. I can only pray he sees such a point loss in polling soon. I remember the shock waves when House Leader Eric Cantor lost his election. I want that kind of thunderbolt to hit Cornyn...and Graham.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (qBdHI)

It would be terrible if pictures of the Ukrainian rent boys who Miss Lindsey may have spent some of that $400k of taxpayer money on were to become public.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 04, 2025 03:38 PM (QRFVs)
_________

[Perks up]

-- Keir Starmer

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

64 He needs to lose to frighten all the rest of the GOP into line.
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Eric Cantor's loss didn't phase them.
The Tea Party didn't bother them.
Trump winning twice was just a passing fad.

The only time they were ever truly frightened was when a bunch of grandparents and rowdy kids took an unscheduled self-guided tour of the Capitol.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 04, 2025 03:40 PM (1eVlL)

65 Missed the KJP thread but I read most of the comments, which were typically stellar.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

66 Why is Hunt running? Reading about him he looks much more like a Paxton Republican then a Coryn one.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)

67
Ted Cruz has a nasty disposition

__________

Ted Cruz doesn't suffer fools gladly, but he's a nice enough fellow with actual constituents.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (QnmlO)

68 >>> 61 Graham is a much better politician than Cornyn. He's probably safe.

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My guess too. It seems we can't get rid of him with a crowbar, a shoehorn or any other such device. Oh, and I'm seeing commercials for him here in SC where he's showing his conservative (every 6 years) bonafides by proclaiming his support for only legal immigration.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (qBdHI)

If he's still in KEEEV, somebody tell Hilzebub that he has evidence that would lead to her arrest and conviction.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (QRFVs)

69 OK then do these polls sample Texas Dems? If not what's the point?

Pollsters gotta justify their existence in a non-election year?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (/y8xj)

70 Graham is a much better politician than Cornyn. He's probably safe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (cD1dp)

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I still see the occasional Graham ad on YT from a PAC.
He's starting early.

It'll be interesting to see what Lynch's poll numbers look like later on in the year and early next.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (6ydKt)

71 Please clap.

Posted by: Jeb!

Ha!

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (X+xvk)

72 They are trying a whisper campaign against Paxton that goes like this: “man, Ken Paxton can beat Cornyn in the primaries, but I don’t think he can beat the Dem candidate.”

I’m still in Paxton’s corner.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 04, 2025 03:42 PM (2Rbgs)

73 62 Graham is a much better politician than Cornyn. He's probably safe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:37 PM (cD1dp)

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I'm old enough to remember you making similar observations a decade ago on HotGas -- and unfortunately you weren't wrong.
Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 03:40 PM (Ae4dV)

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People outside of SC refuse to believe it, but he's...kind of popular in SC.

SC is very establishment friendly. Graham inherited Strom Thurmond's office and learned very quickly the value of a good constituent outreach office ("My momma had problems with her Medicare, and Graham's office fixed it. He's a good man." Something Jeff Flake in AZ never learned.). He's actually quite active in the state, visiting VA hospitals. He's technically a veteran and keeps ties to the military community in the state alive.

He's...a good politician. He sucks, but he's good at winning votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM (cD1dp)

74 Still wondering if the husk that is Mitch will try to run Kornyn as an independent if he loses the primary, like he did with Murk. It would be a very Tex GOPe thing to do
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 03:33 PM (6L8Ax)

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Well, Thune is in charge of the RSCC now, and he seems much less willing to get on the base's bad side so obviously than Mitch did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:34 PM (cD1dp)

The smart thing would be to just take what he's swiped and go away. Get that sinecure job with defense or whoever has bribed him the most.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)

75 If we can knock Cornyn out in the primary, the TX "Sore loser" law will prohibit him running in the general election. So we can't get Murkowsked by the GopE in the general.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM (Da7Vv)

76 "Guyana Tragedy;" Saw it as a kid back in the early 1980s. Powers Booth in the lead as Jones, ensemble cast as well (Ned Beatty and others).
Posted by: GF at June 04, 2025 03:26 PM (iVUs+)

I remember that. I saw it on TV in the late 1980s.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (2Rbgs)

77
The only good thing the Bushes did for Texas was end the career of that alcoholic poseur Ann Richards.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (QnmlO)

78 Bobby O'Rourke couldn't win an ass scratching contest. Cornyn's vanity isn't going to let him take a 15% drubbing so he is going to feel the need to spend more time with his family The Dems will probably give Allred another try.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (DLqye)

79 I always got Ken Paxton and Ken Pullman mixed up.

Posted by: eleven at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (0HaGk)

80 "School Choice" doesn't get a lot of press these days, but it is actually (in my estimation) in the Top Three Most Important Issues facing America today. Far-left activists posing as teachers have succeeded in seizing control of "public education," where the "educators" unabashedly follow Vladimir Lenin's famous dictum,

"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."

These Leninists brainwashing America's children fully follow his command, and every day every child in America get relentlessly brainwashed with communist lies under most cave in and accept the Leftist worldview without their parent or even themselves knowing it.

This is the greatest threat to our future, and must be stopped.

THAT is why Cornyn is losing

Posted by: zombie at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (pMi6S)

81 Stay out da Bushes

Posted by: The only good advice Jesse Jackson ever gave at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)

82 70 I still see the occasional Graham ad on YT from a PAC.
He's starting early.

It'll be interesting to see what Lynch's poll numbers look like later on in the year and early next.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 04, 2025 03:41 PM (6ydKt)

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I think he's got a massive warchest left over from his last race when Democrats threw $100 million at him to beat him (he won by 9).

And, he has the Eric Cantor experience in the rearview mirror, knowing to never take his re-election for granted. He is the machine in SC, and the machine is going to help protect him.

I've been saying it for a while, but the only way to get Graham out of the Senate seat is to give him the governorship, and I don't think he wants to live in Columbia without the benefits of being on the Foreign Services Committee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (cD1dp)

83 >>> 40 Lindsey Graham also has a challenger, which I just learned about the other day.

During Pride Month?????!!!!

Posted by: brak at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (jGJov)

84 under = until

Posted by: zombie at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (pMi6S)

85 75 If we can knock Cornyn out in the primary, the TX "Sore loser" law will prohibit him running in the general election. So we can't get Murkowsked by the GopE in the general.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM (Da7Vv)

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AK also has a sore loser law, which is why she had to run as a write-in.

Which she won.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (cD1dp)

86 He's...a good politician. He sucks, but he's good at winning votes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM

Kennedy was like that up here. Scumbag, but he did constituent outreach well, and I was always hearing how he did so-and-so a favor with social security, etc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (dPfyF)

87 The GOP needs to get rid of 8 or 10 more Rinos.

Posted by: Case at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (a1g6Z)

88 Miss Lindsey has a lock in with military and constituent services voters in SC. Our VA jumps, and only asks "how high?" when airborne.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (wBaIH)

89 Guyana Tragedy;" Saw it as a kid back in the early 1980s. Powers Booth in the lead as Jones, ensemble cast as well (Ned Beatty and others).
Posted by: GF at June 04, 2025 03:26 PM (iVUs+)

I remember that. I saw it on TV in the late 1980s.
Posted by: Cow Demon

OH, YEAH!!!!

Posted by: The Kool-Aid Man at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (w9Wax)

90 “Lindsey has been in Washington, D.C. for thirty years, and he’s been working for the enemy the whole time. He is not one of us, the people have raised their voices to bring me into this race, and I’m answering their call. It’s time to send Lindsey Graham home.”
Mark Lynch

Posted by: He's not wrong at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)

91 86 He's...a good politician. He sucks, but he's good at winning votes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM

Kennedy was like that up here. Scumbag, but he did constituent outreach well, and I was always hearing how he did so-and-so a favor with social security, etc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (dPfyF)

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The public will forgive you a lot if you got Bubba's momma's Medicare problems sorted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (cD1dp)

92 Texans are tired of a do nothing Cornyn.

What we are tired of is his back stabbing the second amendment.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (Da7Vv)

93 He was born with a silver foot in his mouth haha!

Also, I AM IN AGONY IN THIS FIRE.

Posted by: Ann Richards at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

94 Lindsey Graham also has a challenger, which I just learned about the other day. I can only pray he sees such a point loss in polling soon. I remember the shock waves when House Leader Eric Cantor lost his election. I want that kind of thunderbolt to hit Cornyn...and Graham.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 03:35 PM (qBdHI)

Corndog, Miss Lindsay, and one other a-hole were the first three GOPe really pushing for Trump to give up in 2020 after Senile Joe "won".

First thing out of the gate. If they weren't in on the steal, I'd be very surprised.

So, losses all around, please.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 04, 2025 03:47 PM (iJfKG)

95 90 “Lindsey has been in Washington, D.C. for thirty years, and he’s been working for the enemy the whole time. He is not one of us, the people have raised their voices to bring me into this race, and I’m answering their call. It’s time to send Lindsey Graham home.”
Mark Lynch
Posted by: He's not wrong at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)

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He's not wrong, and if I still lived in SC, I'd most likely vote for him. But then I'd still end up voting third party in the general election because Graham's going to win the primary by at least 30 points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:47 PM (cD1dp)

96 I may have to start paying attention to this Texas stuff. Looks like both daughters if Diogenes are going to long term settle there.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 04, 2025 03:47 PM (W/lyH)

97 Cornyn WAS conservative but lost his way and his touch with TX a long time ago. Time for him to go.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 04, 2025 03:47 PM (2Rbgs)

98 53 Right now the Texas GOPe is looking for 4 or 5 candidates to run so as to dilute the Paxton vote.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 04, 2025 03:30 PM

The Lindsey Graham playbook.
Posted by: toby928 at June 04, 2025 03:38 PM (jc0TO)

They already did that last AG election. 4 candidates in the primary, but top 2 go to the runoff. Primary runoff was Paxton 67%, George P Bush 32.5%. (and that's what the Bush family has never forgiven Paxton for)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (uWKK8)

99
"My momma had problems with her Medicare, and Graham's office fixed it. He's a good man." Something Jeff Flake in AZ never learned.

_________

The old saying is that if you want to be re-elected, make sure you answer your mail.

Sam Rayburn said he paid particular attention to letters written in pencil on ruled paper because whoever sent it found the 3 cents postage a burden.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (QnmlO)

100 People outside of SC refuse to believe it, but he's...kind of popular in SC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:43 PM (cD1dp)

Nobody refuses to believe it. Voters are stupid.

This is self-evident. By the very fact that Graham is "good" at being a politician.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (dGCAG)

101 It was FLAVOR- Aide!!!

Posted by: Kool-Aids at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (0HaGk)

102 57 41 Can't Texas Democrats cross over and vote for Cornyn?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 04, 2025 03:36 PM (dQfJF)

In the primary, yes. But if they have a splashy name like Beto running in the Dem primary, it's going to be hard to keep any of the faithful from voting in their own primary for him.

as far as Beto's chances - eh. He's lost 3 statewide races in a row, and in spite of the negatives on Paxton, he's a good campaigner and he's won 2 statewide races already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:39 PM (uWKK

I'm hearing Colin Allred.

If the Dems manage to run an uncontested primary (or a prominent figure vs a sacrificial lamb) then look for the Dems to help Cornyn win it.

I might have to run for Senate as a Democrat just to futz wid 'em.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (dQfJF)

103 85
AK also has a sore loser law, which is why she had to run as a write-in.

Which she won.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June

It’s why she is so supportive of ranked choice voting. Without it, she would have been gone pecan.

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 03:49 PM (pZEOD)

104 “Lindsey has been in Washington, D.C. for thirty years, and he’s been working for the enemy the whole time. He is not one of us, the people have raised their voices to bring me into this race, and I’m answering their call. It’s time to send Lindsey Graham home.”
Mark Lynch
Posted by: He's not wrong at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)

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He's not wrong, and if I still lived in SC, I'd most likely vote for him. But then I'd still end up voting third party in the general election because Graham's going to win the primary by at least 30 points.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:47 PM (cD1dp)
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Only way to get Miss Lindsey out of office is in a bodybag

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

105 Cornyn’s done enough damage.

Posted by: Eromero at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (jgmnb)

106 104 Only way to get Miss Lindsey out of office is in a bodybag
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

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He loves being on the foreign services committee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (cD1dp)

107
The Dems will probably give Allred another try.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 04, 2025 03:44 PM (DLqye)

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Great. Six months of commercials with women blubbering about abortion.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (QnmlO)

108 Every member of the Bush family must be weeping.

They have about as much influence on the Party these days as The Bulwark. Which is where a lot of their former staffers seem to work (that, and the Lincoln Man-Boy Love Project).

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (JCZqz)

109 89 Guyana Tragedy;" Saw it as a kid back in the early 1980s. Powers Booth in the lead as Jones, ensemble cast as well (Ned Beatty and others).
Posted by: GF at June 04, 2025 03:26 PM (iVUs+)

I remember that. I saw it on TV in the late 1980s.
Posted by: Cow Demon

OH, YEAH!!!!
Posted by: The Kool-Aid Man

Poor Kool-Aid undeservedly became a negative meme forever (e.g. "Drink the Kool-AId") when in reality it had nothing t do with Jonestown, where the poison they drank was actually mixed with grape Fla-Vor-Aid (a totally different unrelated brand).

Posted by: zombie at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (pMi6S)

110 Piper, thank you so much for the reply to my e-mail. You're the best!

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

111 I hope it happens but the Texas GOP is retarded.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (93z8K)

112 I've been saying it for a while, but the only way to get Graham out of the Senate seat is to give him the governorship, and I don't think he wants to live in Columbia without the benefits of being on the Foreign Services Committee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (cD1dp)

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Yeah, he'd see the governor's mansion as a step down, I believe.

He'd like ride this thing to the end like Strom did.

Only scandal could take him out because most people are LIVs and don't really pay attention to what's he's doing in DC.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

113 This poll explains why Paxton has laid so low during the Doge and Big Beautiful Bill controversies in the Senate.

You just know Cornyn would love to extract some grift from these things, like all the other GOPe scum is doing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 03:51 PM (BwtUZ)

114 Long Knives are out for Karinge.
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As Biden's press secretary, Jean-Pierre's halting, ineffectual briefings exasperated reporters and routinely offered material for the Republican Party's main account on X. She frustrated colleagues throughout the West Wing for focusing on raising her own profile while leaving the hands-on management of media relaxations and the White House press shop to other aides.

While it is unclear how she will portray Biden or her time in the White House in the book, titled "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside Party Lines," several former colleagues expressed confusion at how Jean-Pierre seemingly intends to paint Biden as a victim while pinning her own decision to leave the party on his "broken" White House.
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1. If WH reporters were exasperated, did they ever show it? Or tell us?

2. How could she NOT provide embarrassing clips for Republican posts if the WH was as BAD as you're NOW almost admitting it is?!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 04, 2025 03:51 PM (krQz2)

115 Corndog, Miss Lindsay, and one other a-hole were the first three GOPe really pushing for Trump to give up in 2020 after Senile Joe "won".

First thing out of the gate. If they weren't in on the steal, I'd be very surprised.

So, losses all around, please.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 04, 2025 03:47 PM (iJfKG)

Graham is deep with the Neocons and EU types wanting to keep the UKR war going. Graham has only so far to go in opposition there, he will probably cut bait before long.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

116 Poor Kool-Aid undeservedly became a negative meme forever (e.g. "Drink the Kool-AId") when in reality it had nothing t do with Jonestown, where the poison they drank was actually mixed with grape Fla-Vor-Aid (a totally different unrelated brand).
Posted by: zombie

Did the company that owns the brand ever take any legal action in regard to that, like suing someone who publicly claimed it was Kool-Aid?

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

117 I hope it happens but the Texas GOP is retarded.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM

At least TX has a GOP. Ours could meet in a phone booth, if those were still a thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:52 PM (dPfyF)

118
I hope it happens but the Texas GOP is retarded.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (93z8K)

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Maybe, but if they're imbeciles, Texas Democrats are microcephalic idiots.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:52 PM (QnmlO)

119 Hold your breath and reach for your pocket books.

_Bush hit: jobs have not started. They are going to
remind you what a horrible man he is and all the things
he did to have himself called up for impeachment.

_Bush money: What a tough dude John Wayne Cornyn is
What a good family man he is

People, all people who aren't political nerds are influenced by TV ads and Bush money will buy primo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 03:53 PM (yQMZb)

120 I will be voting for paxton in the primary. cornyn has been a squishy rino for way too long and until now there was no candidate who could beat him in the primary.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 04, 2025 03:53 PM (e5NfL)

121 Kennedy was like that up here. Scumbag, but he did constituent outreach well, and I was always hearing how he did so-and-so a favor with social security, etc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:45 PM (dPfyF)

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The public will forgive you a lot if you got Bubba's momma's Medicare problems sorted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 03:46 PM (cD1dp)

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The McCain Machine was like that in AZ.

Veterans loved him because everybody knew that all it took was one call to his office complaining about VA Treatment & Care to get fast-tracked and taken care of ASAP.

NTTAWWT ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 03:53 PM (rgZ6D)

122 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)

123 The old saying is that if you want to be re-elected, make sure you answer your mail.

Sam Rayburn said he paid particular attention to letters written in pencil on ruled paper because whoever sent it found the 3 cents postage a burden.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (QnmlO)

Most of the new breed are socialists who believe in vast impersonal forces rather than people who need help.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+)

124 Kool Aid, Kool Aid, tastes great. Kool Aid, Kool Aid, can't wait.

How would you like a good Hawaiian Punch?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 03:55 PM (yQMZb)

125 At least TX has a GOP. Ours could meet in a phone booth, if those were still a thing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Who was the last Republican Senator or Rep from Massachusetts? Ed Brooke?

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

126 Most of the new breed are socialists who believe in vast impersonal forces rather than people who need help.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:55 PM

And who only see groups, not individuals.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:56 PM (dPfyF)

127 Not enough. He needs the Liz Chaney treatment.

Drive Cornyn down to single digits, a country beat-down.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 04, 2025 03:56 PM (47/pr)

128 People, all people who aren't political nerds are influenced by TV ads and Bush money will buy primo.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 03:53 PM (yQMZb)

psst...more people watch the news from the nerds than television ads. Trump proved that in 24

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

129 At least TX has a GOP. Ours could meet in a phone booth, if those were still a thing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
.....

Ours meets in a public restroom in Echo Park.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

130 House Leader Eric Cantor lost his election. I want that kind of thunderbolt to hit Cornyn...and Graham.

Posted by: Lady in Black

What happened after this in Va, though, is not a happy tale. Abigail Spanberger ended up defeating Brat, in 2018 ( by hook or crook) and now it’s Eugene Vindman. Even worse, and despite her being an absolute garbage human being, she is a very strong contender for governor against the current Lt. Gov, who is a much better candidate, as we all know.

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (pZEOD)

131 111 I hope it happens but the Texas GOP is retarded.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (93z8K)

The Texas GOP is in the middle of an un-civil war with itself. There is the Bush Family/GOP-e and Chamber of Commerce types that run the Texas House; this session they allied with the Democrats to keep the MAGA wing from doing anything. On the other side is the Ken Paxton/ Dan Patrick (LG) wing, and they control the Texas Senate. They're at war with each other, and Paxton's impeachment a couple years ago was part of that.
Gov. Abbott is supposed to lean towards the MAGA wing, and he's been good dealing with immigration, but on all other matters he pretty much tries to keep both sides happy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK8)

132 Another race to watch here in SC is that Nancy Mace is definitely running for governor here next year.

I'm not convinced that's going to work out like she thinks it is, but I've been surprised before.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (6ydKt)

133 116 Poor Kool-Aid undeservedly became a negative meme forever (e.g. "Drink the Kool-AId") when in reality it had nothing t do with Jonestown, where the poison they drank was actually mixed with grape Fla-Vor-Aid (a totally different unrelated brand).
Posted by: zombie

Did the company that owns the brand ever take any legal action in regard to that, like suing someone who publicly claimed it was Kool-Aid?
Posted by: Bulg

"Criminal investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding packets of "Kool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the incident are also recorded as speaking of "kool aid" or "Cool Aid.""

They were simply mistaken-- hard to sue them.

Proof that it was Fla-Vor-Aid: actual photo of the actual empty boxes at Jonestown:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ commons/3/37/Jonestown_beverages.jpg

Even Fla-Vor-Aid itself is almost always misspelled as either Flavoraid or Flav-R-Aid. The correct spelling is Fla-Vor-Aid.

Posted by: zombie at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (pMi6S)

134 >>>Sam Rayburn said he paid particular attention to letters written in pencil on ruled paper because whoever sent it found the 3 cents postage a burden.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 03:48 PM (QnmlO)

Most of the new breed are socialists who believe in vast impersonal forces rather than people who need help.
Posted by: Oldcat
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And if you put a $20 check in with that letter they paid close attention.
Now days, they get their money from sponsors.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (yQMZb)

135 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)
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Look buddy, the Constitution clearly intends District Judges to be individual Presidents-For-Life (some might even call us Kings but we are a modest group) and Trump needs to understand who is in charge!

Posted by: President Boasberg at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (BwtUZ)

136 When is the Primary election? 2026? That is a long way off.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 04, 2025 03:58 PM (ZmEVT)

137
Did the company that owns the brand ever take any legal action in regard to that, like suing someone who publicly claimed it was Kool-Aid?
Posted by: Bulg

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I believe that at this point Kool-Aid has incepted itself into the language as a generic sugar drink to the extent that copyright is effectively nonexistent. Cf. kleenex, jeep, xerox.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 03:58 PM (8q3QY)

138 Did the company that owns the brand ever take any legal action in regard to that, like suing someone who publicly claimed it was Kool-Aid?
Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

Nobody claimed it, it just entered the language as "drink the Kool-Aid" and that was that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

139 Look buddy, the Constitution clearly intends District Judges to be individual Presidents-For-Life (some might even call us Kings but we are a modest group) and Trump needs to understand who is in charge!
Posted by: President Boasberg at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (BwtUZ)

its right there in the prenumbras.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)

140 Perhaps the Dems will run Jasmine Crockett against Paxton. It would be nice to get rid of both her and Cornyn.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 03:59 PM (Da7Vv)

141 Paxton should have been Trump's pick for AG while he had more political capital to spend. With Paxton we would have seen immediate results. With DOJ Barbie we're lucky to see her at all.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 03:59 PM (/U5Yz)

142 132 Another race to watch here in SC is that Nancy Mace is definitely running for governor here next year.

I'm not convinced that's going to work out like she thinks it is, but I've been surprised before.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at

She may wish to tone down the crazy notch or 15.

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (pZEOD)

143 I'd like to see these numbers for Lindsey Graham, that cocksucker.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (w6EFb)

144 Those that you see who actually go their own way are independent of sponsor money. That's how people like MTG and (not far from the tree) Paul make it. They put a ton of their money plus what they get from you and I.
Sponsors for them are few and far between.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (yQMZb)

145 Who was the last Republican Senator or Rep from Massachusetts? Ed Brooke?
Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 03:56 PM

There was Scott Brown's special election to fill the seat Kennedy vacated when he became a Good Democrat, but before that, yeah...Brooke.

*looks out window*

Nice courthouse they named for him, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (dPfyF)

146
At least TX has a GOP. Ours could meet in a phone booth, if those were still a thing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
.....

Ours meets in a public restroom in Echo Park.
Posted by: wth

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Ours is a self-generated AI account on social media.

No, seriously, there are a few valiant Republicans in the California assembly. Who knows, Carl DeMaio might reform California someday.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (8q3QY)

147 I’m a political fan of Ken Paxton but he’s not a guy I’m happy about having to defend. I know impeachment failed but the undeniable facts that came out are troubling.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:01 PM (VofaG)

148 I sent you an email, Bulg!

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:01 PM (pZEOD)

149 he Texas GOP is in the middle of an un-civil war with itself. There is the Bush Family/GOP-e and Chamber of Commerce types that run the Texas House; this session they allied with the Democrats to keep the MAGA wing from doing anything. On the other side is the Ken Paxton/ Dan Patrick (LG) wing, and they control the Texas Senate. They're at war with each other, and Paxton's impeachment a couple years ago was part of that.
Gov. Abbott is supposed to lean towards the MAGA wing, and he's been good dealing with immigration, but on all other matters he pretty much tries to keep both sides happy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK

Sounds like the Tx GOPe is gonna be fighting for their own skins rather than worrying about an old Senator. Joining the Dems is a high risk no reward kind of deal.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

150 148 I sent you an email, Bulg!
Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:01 PM (pZEOD)

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You two need to get a room.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 04:01 PM (cD1dp)

151
Perhaps the Dems will run Jasmine Crockett against Paxton. It would be nice to get rid of both her and Cornyn.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 03:59 PM (Da7Vv)

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It'll be a Hispanic woman. Or Lizzy Fletcher.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 04:02 PM (QnmlO)

152 Another race to watch here in SC is that Nancy Mace is definitely running for governor here next year.

I'm not convinced that's going to work out like she thinks it is, but I've been surprised before.

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Hoo boy. I don't want Mace to be my governor. She is a loose cannon. One I agree with on some things, but she's kinda unhinged. She's got a bunny burner psycho personality once she gets revved up. Way too emotional.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 04:02 PM (qBdHI)

153 Ours is a self-generated AI account on social media.

No, seriously, there are a few valiant Republicans in the California assembly. Who knows, Carl DeMaio might reform California someday.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (8q3QY)

CA GOP died a while ago. I don't even know whose on the ballot anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)

154 I hope it happens but the Texas GOP is retarded.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM

At least TX has a GOP. Ours could meet in a phone booth, if those were still a thing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 04, 2025 03:52 PM (dPfyF)

Try being Arizona, where Gope is led by a dead guy. Whose funeral is still going on.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 04, 2025 04:03 PM (dGCAG)

155 Another race to watch here in SC is that Nancy Mace is definitely running for governor here next year.

Will she be racing in the buff?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:03 PM (/U5Yz)

156 140 Perhaps the Dems will run Jasmine Crockett against Paxton. It would be nice to get rid of both her and Cornyn.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 03:59 PM (Da7Vv)

Jasmine Crockett, like the Castro brothers from San Antonio that Hillary tried to promote, is an absolute nothing inside Texas. She's taken over a ghetto district and gets only black ghetto support - even the Hispanic's despise her. It's kind of amusing that she grew up quite well off and went to a high end prep school, so this ghetto girl persona is all an act that her financial backers have gotten her to play.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:03 PM (uWKK8)

157 Hoo boy. I don't want Mace to be my governor. She is a loose cannon. One I agree with on some things, but she's kinda unhinged. She's got a bunny burner psycho personality once she gets revved up. Way too emotional.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 04:02 PM (qBdHI)

They like loose cannons in Charleston Harbor.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:03 PM (8avO+)

158 I sent you an email, Bulg!
Posted by: Piper

I saw the one with your answer to my question. Did you send me another one?

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

159 135 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)

Seriously ?

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

160 How would you like a good Hawaiian Punch?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 03:55 PM (yQMZb)
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I'd take a Hawaiian punch over a Hawaiian judge.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:05 PM (krQz2)

161 156 Jasmine Crockett, like the Castro brothers from San Antonio that Hillary tried to promote, is an absolute nothing inside Texas. She's taken over a ghetto district and gets only black ghetto support - even the Hispanic's despise her. It's kind of amusing that she grew up quite well off and went to a high end prep school, so this ghetto girl persona is all an act that her financial backers have gotten her to play.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:03 PM (uWKK

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Black women, man...the backbone of the Democrat electorate. White women who vote Democrat will bend over backwards to make the black women like them (which will never work).

The future of the party is minority women. I've poo-pooed this idea for a while (just look at how the party had to bend over backwards to beat Bernie, an old, white Jew), but AOC taking on the Bernie mantle just kind of seals it now.

The populist wing is brown lady. The establishment wing is brown lady.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 04:05 PM (cD1dp)

162 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)
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Did this judge stamp his little foot and threaten to hold his breath if President Trump didn't comply?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 04, 2025 04:05 PM (7fElN)

163 The problem for Paxton will be Dems crossing over and voting for Cornyn.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (93z8K)

164 There was Scott Brown's special election to fill the seat Kennedy vacated when he became a Good Democrat, but before that, yeah...Brooke.

*looks out window*

Nice courthouse they named for him, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Oh, I'd forgotten all about Scott Brown. That guy sure disappeared quickly.

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (77rzZ)

165
psst...more people watch the news from the nerds than television ads. Trump proved that in 24
Posted by: Oldcat
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Trump held rallies in states he needed every week for four years.
That's a lot of blood, sweat, tears, Big Bucks and TV.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (yQMZb)

166 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)

Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:04 PM (VE6XX)
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Obviously a judge that's never heard of executive privilege.

LOL.

What officer is he going to send to retrieve it?

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (krQz2)

167 Hoo boy. I don't want Mace to be my governor. She is a loose cannon. One I agree with on some things, but she's kinda unhinged. She's got a bunny burner psycho personality once she gets revved up. Way too emotional.
Posted by: Lady in Black at

I don’t see how she plays well with southern women, especially old south money of which SC, like AL has pockets of, but isn’t really spoken about because that would gauche. Do you agree?

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (pZEOD)

168 US Army Hits Annual Recruitment Goals 4 Months Early

Army leadership framed the achievement as a “turning point” in overcoming recent recruitment struggles, attributing the surge to a “renewed sense of patriotism and purpose among America’s youth.”

Posted by: SMOD at June 04, 2025 04:07 PM (RHGPo)

169 Jasmine Crockett, like the Castro brothers from San Antonio that Hillary tried to promote, is an absolute nothing inside Texas. She's taken over a ghetto district and gets only black ghetto support - even the Hispanic's despise her. It's kind of amusing that she grew up quite well off and went to a high end prep school, so this ghetto girl persona is all an act that her financial backers have gotten her to play.
Posted by: Tom Servo at

The Castro bros The epitome of stupid, corrupt people who do anything for power

Posted by: LASue at June 04, 2025 04:07 PM (tt8HG)

170 US Embassy Officials Warn Americans Not To Use Dating Apps To Meet People In Mexico

The U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara says American citizens have been kidnapped in the Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Nayarit areas...

Posted by: SMOD at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (RHGPo)

171 See, Texas doesn't have closed primaries and the Bush gang and their comrades want it that way so squishes get in.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (93z8K)

172 167 I don’t see how she plays well with southern women, especially old south money of which SC, like AL has pockets of, but isn’t really spoken about because that would gauche. Do you agree?
Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (pZEOD)

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Name recognition is fairly high in the state. She already represents one of the two major population centers in government.

If she runs...she's going to be a force. Enough to overcome whatever the Columbia faction that McMaster has molded into his image and for his succession? I'd lean towards no. I'd bet on the establishment in SC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (cD1dp)

173 170 US Embassy Officials Warn Americans Not To Use Dating Apps To Meet People In Mexico.

They have to be told that ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

174 psst...more people watch the news from the nerds than television ads. Trump proved that in 24
Posted by: Oldcat
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Trump held rallies in states he needed every week for four years.
That's a lot of blood, sweat, tears, Big Bucks and TV.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (yQMZb)

The TV didn't cover them until they were told he'd be killed.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (8avO+)

175 Nancy may be crazy, but that's her superpower and she'd look good in tights and a cape.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

176 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)

Isn't this a good point at which to use the word no?

Seems up to now they've merely complied with the orders, while contesting them.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (dGCAG)

177 > Jasmine Crockett, like the Castro brothers from San Antonio that Hillary tried to promote, is an absolute nothing inside Texas.

Heh... I got banned from the old, pre-Musk Twitter for calling Joaquin Castro Ho-Queen Castrato.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (qpyNK)

178 176 Isn't this a good point at which to use the word no?

Seems up to now they've merely complied with the orders, while contesting them.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (dGCAG)

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How has the Trump administration complied with the orders to get Garcia back?

They haven't. They've filed motions in court saying, "nope."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (cD1dp)

179 142 132 Another race to watch here in SC is that Nancy Mace is definitely running for governor here next year.

I'm not convinced that's going to work out like she thinks it is, but I've been surprised before.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at

She may wish to tone down the crazy notch or 15.
Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:00 PM (pZEOD)

Oh, great. The heiress to Nikki Haley. We remember how that SC drama went when she was in the mansion.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (EgCB/)

180 The problem for Paxton will be Dems crossing over and voting for Cornyn.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (93z8K)

I dont see many doing that Cornyn has beat the dem challenger repeatedly , so they probably think they have a better chance of beating Paxton

Posted by: LASue at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (tt8HG)

181 Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Senate Will Make ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Better than the House Version

By better she means, she will add more lube to it right?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (/U5Yz)

182 Yo

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (eZwyX)

183 > 175 Nancy may be crazy, but that's her superpower and she'd look good in tights and a cape.
Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

Oh, Nancy Mace. Sorry, I came in late.

The other Nancy hasn't looked good in tights since the JFK administration.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (qpyNK)

184 US Embassy Officials Warn Americans Not To Use Dating Apps To Meet People In Mexico

The U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara says American citizens have been kidnapped in the Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Nayarit areas...
Posted by: SMOD
.......

They're kidnapping the gays!

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

185 181 Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Senate Will Make ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Better than the House Version

By better she means, she will add more lube to it right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (/U5Yz)

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All of the talk from Republicans about changing it I've heard was about adding more cuts.

So...maybe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (cD1dp)

186 Yes. And those people were fired, and they almost lost custody of their children and possession of their homes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 01:38 PM (oSeBJ)

WN, if you are one of these honorable men, or know anyone who suffered this fate, I hope you can apply for some kind of restitution from the Trump admin or maybe even get your job back.

Posted by: kallisto at June 04, 2025 02:42 PM (dCxaZ)

That's precisely what happened to me.

I was a supervisory agent (not in the FBI, but a similar federal agency), and ordered to target Catholics. I refused. As a compromise, I was ordered to instruct my subordinate agents to target Catholics. I refused.

They fired me, and I'm sure the people I was trying to protect from having to make such a choice ended up staying. They had houses and kids too.

Because of my particular circumstances (I won full custody and the house in my divorce), my ex found out I'd been fired and sued for full custody.

The Horde saved my house, and I was able to find other work. For now, I'm stable and doing okay, and my kids barely noticed.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (oSeBJ)

187 162 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13
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Something today, Trump said he was publishing No information about flights/moving illegals. Citing a different law that allows him to keep it completely secret. -my words/my memory-
IOW, f_ the judges.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (yQMZb)

188 The problem for Paxton will be Dems crossing over and voting for Cornyn.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (93z8K)
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Like they did for Liz Cheney?

Face it. Republicans are impure.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (krQz2)

189 US Embassy Officials Warn Americans Not To Use Dating Apps To Meet People In Mexico

The U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara says American citizens have been kidnapped in the Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Nayarit areas...
Posted by: SMOD
.......

They're kidnapping the gays!
Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

They are just looking for pool boys.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (VofaG)

190 167. As I think about it, I am pretty confident SC has more old south money than AL. GA is in this game, too, but they have had so many locusts it has changed the bigger areas. Alpharetta is Atlanta Lite without the drugs and trash. Buckhead tries to break free every now and again, but they are like Martha’s Vineyard. Just hotter. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (pZEOD)

191 Former Seattle City Council member Kashama Sawant is running for Congress. She will probably win.

She makes Pramila Jayapal look like a moderate.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (5QYr4)

192 35 Wow, Judge just ORDERED the Trump admin to give all the communications with a foreign government about an illegal that got booted.

Talk about getting out of your lane?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)

Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:04 PM (VE6XX)

They should send her a few terabytes in encrypted file and not the password. Let them work on busywork for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (8avO+)

193 > 173 170 US Embassy Officials Warn Americans Not To Use Dating Apps To Meet People In Mexico.

They have to be told that ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

I wish there'd been something like that about hot Chinese chicks.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (qpyNK)

194 147 I’m a political fan of Ken Paxton but he’s not a guy I’m happy about having to defend. I know impeachment failed but the undeniable facts that came out are troubling.
Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:01 PM (VofaG)

I actually became much less concerned about that after the Impeachment trial in the Texas House. There were always (planted) rumors of Paxton doing all kinds of nefarious things, and when Dade Phelan announced the impeachment he said that he was going to bring hard evidence of all of it out in public, so everyone could see it.
I watched the proceedings for that reason, and was amazed (Ok, Not) when for every charge, the evidence was "My cousin's girlfriend saw this happen, and she told me, but she's not available to say anything herself." Over and over and over again.
Really? Really? All that effort and THAT was the best you could come up with???
Similarly, he was hounded for 10 years by felony charges that could never be brought to trial. And in the end, these "serious charges" that were supposed to put him in jail for 20 years were plea bargained down to... 100 hours community service? Are you f'n kidding me???? You spent a decade for that???

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK8)

195 "Hoo boy. I don't want Mace to be my governor."

You have a choice between Mace and a donkyrat. By all means, either vote or the prog or don't vote at all.

Posted by: Ham n egger #1138 at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (89Sog)

196
The Horde saved my house, and I was able to find other work. For now, I'm stable and doing okay, and my kids barely noticed.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (oSeBJ)

That sounds like a nightmare.. Glad things are better...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (VE6XX)

197 Something today, Trump said he was publishing No information about flights/moving illegals. Citing a different law that allows him to keep it completely secret. -my words/my memory-
IOW, f_ the judges.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (yQMZb)
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Here's the thing: "All the information" is likely to be information that is within the President's council.

No other branch has a right to that information.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (krQz2)

198 The problem for Paxton will be Dems crossing over and voting for Cornyn.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:06 PM (93z8K)
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Like they did for Liz Cheney?

Face it. Republicans are impure.
Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (krQz2)

I'm sure if the Bushes ask nicely they will do it

LOL

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

199 All of the talk from Republicans about changing it I've heard was about adding more cuts.

So...maybe?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

You're a very trusting man.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (/U5Yz)

200 /off Fibbie sock

Posted by: KwaK! at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (89Sog)

201 Washington Nearsider, still gloating, good show and God bless.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (yQMZb)

202 Guyana Tragedy;" Saw it as a kid back in the early 1980s. Powers Booth in the lead as Jones, ensemble cast as well (Ned Beatty and others).
Posted by: GF at June 04, 2025 03:26 PM (iVUs+)

I remember that. I saw it on TV in the late 1980s.
Posted by: Cow Demon

OH, YEAH!!!!
Posted by: The Kool-Aid Man

Poor Kool-Aid undeservedly became a negative meme forever (e.g. "Drink the Kool-AId") when in reality it had nothing t do with Jonestown, where the poison they drank was actually mixed with grape Fla-Vor-Aid (a totally different unrelated brand).
Posted by: zombie at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (pMi6S)
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The documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is good. Hard to believe that actually happened.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

203 I like long walks on the playa, avocados, big brim hats and afternoon naps.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:14 PM (v0R5T)

204 AK also has a sore loser law, which is why she had to run as a write-in.

Which she won.

However TX does not have ranked choice voting - which is how she weaseled her way back into office.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 04, 2025 04:14 PM (Da7Vv)

205 If libs ever stop making the perfect the enemy of the good, then traditionals probably should worry more.

Until that day comes, however, you can trust them to sabotage themselves with their instinctual purism.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:14 PM (krQz2)

206 They like loose cannons in Charleston Harbor.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Smart military blog OT - a loose cannon has nothing to do with it firing wildly, but rather refers to it breaking loose from its tackle and rolling about the ship. But it was evidently first used by Victor Hugo long after that would have been an issue.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 04, 2025 04:14 PM (UBKzV)

207 > 191 Former Seattle City Council member Kashama Sawant is running for Congress. She will probably win.

She makes Pramila Jayapal look like a moderate.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (5QYr4)

They should both win an all-expense paid trip back to India, courtesy of ICE, after being declared domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States.

You really gotta wonder why these people are even here.

I mean, given that they hate everything about America.

If I found myself in a country that I detested on the most fundamental philosophical level, I'd move.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at June 04, 2025 04:15 PM (qpyNK)

208 198 The problem for Paxton will be Dems crossing over and voting for Cornyn.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04,
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The Limbaugh effect. DUMB Texas is open primary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:15 PM (yQMZb)

209 I hope it happens but the Texas GOP is retarded.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 03:50 PM (93z8K)

In 2024, three members of the Court of Criminal Appeals (that's the state supreme court for criminal stuff for all you non-Texans) were on the ballot. Paxton wanted them gone because they'd sided with the pro-impeachment forces. All three lost their primary and then their replacements won the general.

We may be retarded but we're not brain-dead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 04, 2025 04:16 PM (ExV1e)

210 That sounds like a nightmare.. Glad things are better...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (VE6XX)

Washington Nearsider, still gloating, good show and God bless.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (yQMZb)

It wasn't really a good showing. I honestly didn't expect to be fired. I expected it would blow over and be forgotten about. I wasn't trying to make a particular stand or statement. Just... it was wrong, and I wasn't going to do it.

But. When you make choices, sometimes there are consequences. The biggest was the loss of health insurance for my minions. I'll miss the pension when retirement time comes, too.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 04:16 PM (oSeBJ)

211 203 I like long walks on the playa, avocados, big brim hats and afternoon naps.
Posted by: wth at June

Well if you don’t like getting caught in the lluvia, I am out.

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:16 PM (pZEOD)

212 The documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is good. Hard to believe that actually happened.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

Not that hard. People act like people act.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:16 PM (8avO+)

213 The U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara says American citizens have been kidnapped in the Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Nayarit areas...

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Puerto Vallarta is where The Love Boat goes! Captain Steubing isn't going to be happy about this. Nosiree.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 04:17 PM (qBdHI)

214 I'm for a third party, but I have a suggestion for MAGA Republicans... The tide has turned against the GOPe, and it's repulsive leadership is aging out.

Once y'all have the majority of incumbents, shift the rules to a "loser is fed to zoo animals" primary system.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 04, 2025 04:17 PM (BI5O2)

215 >> DUMB Texas is open primary.

It Isn't Texas it's a sizable chunk of the Republican members in the Texas House, asshole.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:17 PM (93z8K)

216 Kshama says she will only accept a salary equal to that of the median income of a WA state resident.

Her husband is a techie multi millionaire.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 04, 2025 04:18 PM (f9bGF)

217 They are going to remind you what a horrible man he is and all the things he did to have himself called up for impeachment.

That's pretty much the dumbest thing they could do. There aren't enough primary goers convinced against him to beat him and they won't go blue in the general. It'll just remind everyone of all the shit Trump went through and tie Cornyn to that effort.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 04, 2025 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

218 I like long walks on the playa

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:14 PM (v0R5T)
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I've been told that nobody should hate the playa.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

219 > It’s why she is so supportive of ranked choice voting. Without it, she would have been gone pecan.
Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 03:49 PM (pZEOD)

Ranked choice voting wasn't effective in Alaska until well after Murky won as a write-in.

What actually happened there is that her frenz from the DC Deep State flew in planeloads of money. The actual Republican nominee got essentially no support from the RNC.

That, plus every Democrat voting for her rather than her own waterhead candidate, plus the terminally clueless who just voted for the name they recognized, was enough to push her over the top in a small-population state like Alaska.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at June 04, 2025 04:19 PM (qpyNK)

220 It wasn't really a good showing. I honestly didn't expect to be fired. I expected it would blow over and be forgotten about. I wasn't trying to make a particular stand or statement. Just... it was wrong, and I wasn't going to do it.

But. When you make choices, sometimes there are consequences. The biggest was the loss of health insurance for my minions. I'll miss the pension when retirement time comes, too.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 04:16 PM (oSeBJ)

I can't imagine that the new regime at the gov't would stand to keep you out of HQ once they were apprised of your story.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 04, 2025 04:19 PM (EgCB/)

221 I like long walks on the playa, avocados, big brim hats and afternoon naps.
Posted by: wth at June

Well if you don’t like getting caught in the lluvia, I am out.
Posted by: Piper
......

I can give your family many burros.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

222 The Bush McCain contingents need to be crushed and buried in shallow graves. Preferably in Crawford.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (/U5Yz)

223 Socialism pays very well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (f9bGF)

224 Kshama says she will only accept a salary equal to that of the median income of a WA state resident.

Her husband is a techie multi millionaire.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Doesn't Congress set the pay of its members so that they all make the same?

If she's feels guilty about that, she can always do like Trump and donate all or part of her salary.

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

225 Kshama says she will only accept a salary equal to that of the median income of a WA state resident.

Her husband is a techie multi millionaire.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 04, 2025 04:18 PM (f9bGF)

What a dumb statement. You only get a boost if you say zero.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)

226 If I found myself in a country that I detested on the most fundamental philosophical level, I'd move.

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That's because you're normal. Radicals adhere to their true religion, which seems to be their politics. That involves upending everything. They live for it. They live to destroy. They live to tear down.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (qBdHI)

227 The documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is good. Hard to believe that actually happened.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 04, 2025 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

Jim Jones actually sold monkeys door to door before embarking on his career as a snake oil selling, water walking, preacher man.

Weird but true.

Posted by: Zombie Harambe at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (wh+qF)

228 Yes, and we all know that their official salary is the only way Congresscritters make money, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (qpyNK)

229 Heh... I got banned from the old, pre-Musk Twitter for calling Joaquin Castro Ho-Queen Castrato.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (qpyNK)

I got banned from the post-Musk Twitter for saying that Biden deserved a traitor's punishment like hanging.

It's temporary though (10 months). I suspect that they'll be begging me to come back any day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (i24o9)

230 Doesn't Congress set the pay of its members so that they all make the same?

If she's feels guilty about that, she can always do like Trump and donate all or part of her salary.
Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

You can not cash your paycheck or have them donate it like Trump does.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

231 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK

I don’t want to list the things that he actually did since that’s doing the Left’s job for them.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (VofaG)

232 It's kind of amusing that she grew up quite well off and went to a high end prep school, so this ghetto girl persona is all an act that her financial backers have gotten her to play.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The act is for the purpose of keeping it real, ironically.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (Dv3i1)

233 I can't imagine that the new regime at the gov't would stand to keep you out of HQ once they were apprised of your story.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 04, 2025 04:19 PM (EgCB/)

I've got some feelers out and am interested to see what happens.

But for now, I've got a job, it pays me enough, and I'm content enough.

And - the most important part - the Horde saved my house.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (oSeBJ)

234 That, plus every Democrat voting for her rather than her own waterhead candidate, plus the terminally clueless who just voted for the name they recognized, was enough to push her over the top in a small-population state like Alaska.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell

Awww yes, the cobwebs are coming off the memory. This was another gift from that conservative stalwart, Mitch McConnell. Speaking of, should we start writing a book about his lack of mental acuity and how this helped him bond even more tightly with Biden?

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (pZEOD)

235 Any American going to Mexico now is crazy. The cartelsl are losing a lot of money from very reduced human trafficking. So kid gringos for ransom is a perfect fill in .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (6L8Ax)

236 233 And - the most important part - the Horde saved my house.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June

The Lord does amazing things,

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (pZEOD)

237 How awesome would it be if Nancy Mace found someone named Windu to marry, and then hyphenated her last name?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)

238 With Paxton we would have seen immediate results.

No, we wouldn't. It'd be pretty much exactly the same as it is now except you'd be botching about him instead of Bondi. The AG doesn't actually personally do much. They have to identify and get rid of all the corruption on the department and then get, hopefully, new, non-corrupt people in place. That isn't happening in a few months no matter who you are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (ExV1e)

239 We still have not seen the Mace rack.

Posted by: torabora at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (Pomxp)

240 >>>It Isn't Texas it's a sizable chunk of the Republican members in the Texas House, asshole.
Posted by: Dr Spank
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Your sphincter is showing

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (yQMZb)

241
You really gotta wonder why these people are even here.

I mean, given that they hate everything about America.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell

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Think of them as Harvard students who got here too long ago to have been thrown out for anti-American loudmouthing.

But really, it seems that coming to America for the express purpose of undermining it is a thing among many foreigners.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 04:23 PM (8q3QY)

242
The Lord does amazing things,

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:22 PM (pZEOD)

Right?!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at June 04, 2025 04:23 PM (oSeBJ)

243 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK

The fact Paxton keeps on keeping on leads me to believe the accusations were wildly over exaggerated or total bullshit.

Blackmail is how they keep congress and our “betters” in check.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 04, 2025 04:23 PM (eZwyX)

244 Jim Jones? I liked his shades.

Posted by: Fat Elvis at June 04, 2025 04:24 PM (v0R5T)

245 Jim Jones actually sold monkeys door to door before embarking on his career as a snake oil selling, water walking, preacher man.

Weird but true.
Posted by: Zombie Harambe at June 04, 2025 04:20 PM (wh+qF)

I can't imagine wanting a pet monkey but not being motivated to go to a store and pick it up.

Though as a kid we got the best cat ever by someone going around with a box of kittens.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:24 PM (8avO+)

246 Cornyn will probably announce he's resigning/not seeking re-election.

These sort of losers never give people the joy of beating them like a drum in an election. They only ever lose when it's a shocker.

Posted by: Shenanigans at June 04, 2025 04:24 PM (pZ0Mr)

247 I got banned from the post-Musk Twitter for saying that Biden deserved a traitor's punishment like hanging.

It's temporary though (10 months). I suspect that they'll be begging me to come back any day.

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I got temporarily banned from post Musk X for commenting that BroFo Omar needed to go back to Somalia by way of trebuchet, if possible. I decided I wasn't going to be treated like a child put in time-out, so I closed my account. They never begged me to come back.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 04:24 PM (qBdHI)

248 >>>The AG doesn't actually personally do much. ...That isn't happening in a few months no matter who you are.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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RE: Eric Holder?, Merrick Garland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:25 PM (yQMZb)

249 See, Texas doesn't have closed primaries and the Bush gang and their comrades want it that way so squishes get in.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 04, 2025 04:08 PM (93z8K)

Even in a state with closed primaries you can always change what party you're in. It just means you have to switch a bit earlier.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 04, 2025 04:25 PM (ExV1e)

250 #32 that large gray are is a McConnell glitch isn't it.

Posted by: torabora at June 04, 2025 04:25 PM (Pomxp)

251 Corn row reminds one of the thievin bank president in Stagecoach. Same guy. And corny was Mitch's butt boy in
Alaska senate race to screw Joe Miller.

Posted by: cowtown at June 04, 2025 04:26 PM (ehY6c)

252 Nobody needs to get thrown out of the Senate as badly as John Cornyn (and yes, they're all awful). But this isn't quite the W everyone's acting like. Cornyn has served his purpose to the Uniparty and the Bush cartel. He's 73. Who gives a shit about an old man? They'll throw him overboard and get rid of Paxton from the TX AG's office at the same time, so that's a win for everyone.

But watching Cornyn lose and get tossed out on his ass will still be satisfying. Just trying to temper it. Throw out Rand Paul or either of the jokes in Oklahoma (Amnesty Lankford & MarkWayne Mullins) and NOW we're talking.

Posted by: Mister Fabulist at June 04, 2025 04:26 PM (kcBZn)

253 I decided I wasn't going to be treated like a child put in time-out, so I closed my account. They never begged me to come back.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 04, 2025 04:24 PM (qBdHI)

I keep it open so that when they send the automated "we're reviewing your appeal" emails I can righteously berate the server on the other end.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:26 PM (i24o9)

254
Paxton: Game over, man!

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:26 PM (krQz2)

255 Any American going to Mexico now is crazy. The cartelsl are losing a lot of money from very reduced human trafficking. So kid gringos for ransom is a perfect fill in .
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Finally! Something Trump can be blamed for!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 04, 2025 04:26 PM (L/fGl)

256 New Twitter isn't functionally any different than old Twitter for user input. They suck. They should all be sent to Mars.

Posted by: torabora at June 04, 2025 04:27 PM (Pomxp)

257 We are going to get a new Gov in Alabama. The MeMaw era is coming to an end.

Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:27 PM (pZEOD)

258 Never get photographed wearing wingtips on the playa

Posted by: Zombie Richard Nixon at June 04, 2025 04:27 PM (ZmEVT)

259 247 I got banned .. like hanging.
.
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I got temporarily banned .by way of trebuchet,

Posted by: Lady in Black
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It's those literal words that hit the Trigger.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:27 PM (yQMZb)

260 . Cf. kleenex, jeep, xerox.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

[leaves a rubber ducky]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (XeU6L)

261
231 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK

I don’t want to list the things that he actually did since that’s doing the Left’s job for them.
Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:21 PM (VofaG)

The issue here is not whether he broke a few rules, or took advantage of his female party guests. (he did.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (uWKK8)

262 Senator Thom Tillis wants to remove President Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” legislation from the Big Beautiful Bill.

Another R Senator that needs the boot.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (/U5Yz)

263 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice. The thought is disturbing.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (kTd/k)

264 What I want is for the left to spend a massive amount on this election and lose. That seems to happen a lot in Texas and I love to see it.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (cduTK)

265 Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy ·

California’s high-speed rail has all the marks of a boondoggle:

- $16 billion spent
- 17 years gone
- No high-speed track laid

We have put California on notice: If you can’t deliver, American taxpayers will not fund your train to nowhere.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

266 Cf. kleenex, jeep, xerox.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Those are all still valid trademarks, no?

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

267 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice. The thought is disturbing.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (kTd/k)
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I've had that idea for a while. Just didn't know how to sell it.

Posted by: Jeff Dunham at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

268 I got banned .. like hanging.
.
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I got temporarily banned .by way of trebuchet,

Posted by: Lady in Black
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It's those literal words that hit the Trigger.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:27 PM (yQMZb)

Oddly, calling for yt genocide or killing yt pipo never tiggers the algorithm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:30 PM (i24o9)

269 Any American going to Mexico now is crazy.
......

This is true. American gay men are buying up all the condos in Puerto Vallarta.

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:30 PM (v0R5T)

270 >>> I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice. The thought is disturbing.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (kTd/k)

A cunning stunt if true.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2025 04:31 PM (cduTK)

271 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice. The thought is disturbing.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (kTd/k)
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I've had that idea for a while. Just didn't know how to sell it.

Posted by: Jeff Dunham at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

That'd make for an amusing Seinfeld-like comedy. Just random situations with bad-actinng genitalia.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:31 PM (i24o9)

272 We have put California on notice: If you can’t deliver, American taxpayers will not fund your train to nowhere.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

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How 'bout repayment with interest & penalties and serious feral PMITA prison time ... but mostly feral PMITA prison time!

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 04:31 PM (Vl4aT)

273 263 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice. The thought is disturbing.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

Better than My Backhole Has A Voice, no?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:31 PM (/U5Yz)

274 I've had that idea for a while. Just didn't know how to sell it.
Posted by: Jeff Dunham
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'I will keeeel you' doesn't really wouldn't work very well.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (XeU6L)

275 Would a talking vagina have a voice like Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (kTd/k)

276 I smelled blood in the water and palpable fear so I called Cornyns office to demand that he include GOA's 'the short act" language removing short barrelled rifles etc. from the NFA. in H.R. 1.

Lets see how strong his sense of self preservation is. hee hee.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (osBbQ)

277 The AG doesn't actually personally do much. ...That isn't happening in a few months no matter who you are.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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RE: Eric Holder?, Merrick Garland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:25 PM (yQMZb)

Neither of them did shit. They sent down instructions to the department that the ham-and-eggers were happy to obey. Holder didn't personally schlep a bunch of guns to south Texas. Garland didn't personally arrest anyone. The whole system is corrupt. Until you drain the corruption you won't get good results.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (ExV1e)

278 If they tried doing Love Boat today, it would be all gay, lesbo, and trans story lines.

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

279 We have put California on notice: If you can’t deliver, American taxpayers will not fund your train to nowhere.
Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

If you had a brain you wouldn't have started 17 years ago, given the tectonic mountains you have to cross - twice - to even get to the actual cities on the end.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

280 If that woman's vagina has a voice she should be in the circus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 04:33 PM (6L8Ax)

281 That'd make for an amusing Seinfeld-like comedy. Just random situations with bad-actinng genitalia.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:31 PM (i24o9)

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Old & Busted: Fusilli Jerry.
New Hotness: Vulva Mulva.

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (Vl4aT)

282 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice. The thought is disturbing.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

ban vaginal flatulence in Colorado !!!

Posted by: Cartman at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

283 Would a talking vagina have a voice like Mickey Mouse.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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A lot of bilabial fricatives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (XeU6L)

284 If it has a voice, I bet it has teeth, too. sharp ones.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (uWKK8)

285 > 275 Would a talking vagina have a voice like Mickey Mouse.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (kTd/k)

The only sound I've ever heard coming from one of those is more like a farting noise.

That's either embarrassing or amusing, depending on the uptightness of you and/or your partner, but I kinda doubt that's what this bint has in mind.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (qpyNK)

286 @BillMelugin_
·
2m
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)

287 Surprised the word 'killing' isn't on the list. Perhaps they have contextualized it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (yQMZb)

288 Would a talking vagina have a voice like Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (kTd/k)

Aged Kathleen Turner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9)

289 If you had a brain you wouldn't have started 17 years ago, given the tectonic mountains you have to cross - twice - to even get to the actual cities on the end.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)
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"Not" and "grift" are two words in an order that neither DC nor Sacramento could recognize.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (krQz2)

290 Senator Thom Tillis wants to remove President Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” legislation from the Big Beautiful Bill.

Another R Senator that needs the boot.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:28 PM (/U5Yz)

He deserves booting. Its TOM or THOMAS, take one only.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (8avO+)

291 BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman

Of course They should have immediately sent them back to Egypt

Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (VE6XX)

292 >>I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

Can you imagine having to listen to a Woman talking out of 2 of her holes?

Jesus. They never shut the fuck up using only one of them.

Posted by: garrett at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (hJb7m)

293 Would a talking vagina have a voice like Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

Alvin of Chipmunks fame?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (/U5Yz)

294 Better than My Backhole Has A Voice, no?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Leave Jazzy Crockett out of this!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (L/fGl)

295 If you had a brain you wouldn't have started 17 years ago, given the tectonic mountains you have to cross - twice - to even get to the actual cities on the end.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

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They should've watched the TV series "Hell On Wheels."

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (Vl4aT)

296 2m
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

Of course, of course.

Posted by: The FBI at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (s8j++)

297 If the Cali high speed rail is ever completed it will just become a place for the homeless to sleep. Also drug gangs will be able to move their product easier

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (6L8Ax)

298 2m
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)
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I did nazi that coming.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (krQz2)

299 Talking vagina or a talking toaster

Choose wisely

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2025 04:36 PM (jTDUM)

300 If they tried doing Love Boat today, it would be all gay, lesbo, and trans story lines.

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

And e'ryone would be black, except the bartender.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (i24o9)

301 As I think about it, I am pretty confident SC has more old south money than AL. GA is in this game, too, but they have had so many locusts it has changed the bigger areas. Alpharetta is Atlanta Lite without the drugs and trash. Buckhead tries to break free every now and again, but they are like Martha’s Vineyard. Just hotter. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 04, 2025 04:11 PM (pZEOD)

Ya might throw Memphis Into the mix too.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (g8Ew8)

302 To the members of congress:

Gentlemen, I despise each and every one of you. I dream of a day when every single one of you is primaried every election until you finally get the point. Have a fantasy in which you lose your election and are replaced by a primary challenge, buried under voter wrath.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (2VST1)

303 If that woman's vagina has a voice she should be in the circus
Posted by: Smell the Glove
________
But it would probably be the gravelly voice of a four-pack-a-dayer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (UBKzV)

304 Can you imagine having to listen to a Woman talking out of 2 of her holes?

Jesus. They never shut the fuck up using only one of them.

Posted by: garrett at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (hJb7m)

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lol

Two front holes is one too many!

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (Vl4aT)

305 @BillMelugin_
·
2m
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)

I missed that part of the Constitution. They pulled their green cards, so if they don't leave on their own they will be arrested for being illegal.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (8avO+)

306 BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)

You know they knew what he was up to.... He made a s**t load of molotov cocktails....Arrest them as accomplices... At least the wife and adult Children

Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:38 PM (VE6XX)

307 >>I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

Her and Swalwell would hit it off.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:38 PM (i24o9)

308 Does that talking vagina have teeth?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:38 PM (kTd/k)

309 > I missed that part of the Constitution. They pulled their green cards, so if they don't leave on their own they will be arrested for being illegal.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:37 PM (8avO+)

As I read it, they don't even have green cards.

The whole clan is made up of illegal aliens.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:39 PM (qpyNK)

310 How has the Trump administration complied with the orders to get Garcia back?

They haven't. They've filed motions in court saying, "nope."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 04, 2025 04:09 PM (cD1dp)

This is you being pedantic. Again.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 04, 2025 04:39 PM (dGCAG)

311 Throw out Rand Paul or either of the jokes in Oklahoma (Amnesty Lankford & MarkWayne Mullins) and NOW we're talking.
Posted by: Mister Fabulist at June 04, 2025 04:26 PM (kcBZn)

Two of the biggest disappointments I've seen in OK politics.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at June 04, 2025 04:39 PM (poNS8)

312 2m
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 04, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)

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Can we just execute them?

/That might be an incentive ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 04, 2025 04:40 PM (Vl4aT)

313 Would a talking vagina have a voice like Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:32 PM (kTd/k)

Aged Kathleen Turner.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
......

Fran Drescher

Posted by: wth at June 04, 2025 04:40 PM (v0R5T)

314 The part of Duffy's tweet that floored me was "No track laid".

Man, it looks like they can waste more money per foot of high-speed rail than they can per charging station under Build (eventually) Back Better.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:40 PM (krQz2)

315 saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

Can you imagine having to listen to a Woman talking out of 2 of her holes?

Jesus. They never shut the fuck up using only one of them.
Posted by: garrett at June 04, 2025 04:35 PM (hJb7m)

3!!! There are 3!!! How many times do i have to tell yall ?

Posted by: LASue at June 04, 2025 04:40 PM (tt8HG)

316 Vagina's IQ : 12

Woman's IQ : 8

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (jTDUM)

317 Another one bites the dust.

Posted by: yourmamatoo at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (GMbtb)

318 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

Queefs.

Posted by: I call this one the Prancing Unicorn at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (TbWk/)

319
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

Posted by: JackStraw

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I bet the wife-and-five are hoping like mad they don't have to stay with that monster.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (8q3QY)

320 Would a talking vagina from the Bronx sound different than one from South Carolina?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (kTd/k)

321 Colorado Judge rules Molotov cocktail terrorist’s family cannot be deported but the Jewish victims must be deported to Israel for their own safety.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (VofaG)

322 3!!! There are 3!!! How many times do i have to tell yall ?

Posted by: LASue at June 04, 2025 04:40 PM (tt8HG)

How you doin'?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (i24o9)

323 Another rino bites the dust.

Posted by: yourmamatoo at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (GMbtb)

324 Does that talking vagina have teeth?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 04, 2025 04:38 PM (kTd/k)
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You need teeth to make the T/D sound.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (krQz2)

325 Trump Department of Education pulls Columbia University's accreditation.

Stop, please!

My schadenboner can only get so big.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (qpyNK)

326 You know they knew what he was up to.... He made a s**t load of molotov cocktails....Arrest them as accomplices... At least the wife and adult Children
Posted by: It's me donna at June 04, 2025 04:38 PM (VE6XX)

Probably but trials just let the Dem lawyers have time to work. But again its hard to imagine a less politically wise thing to try and defend in public when tons of actual Dem voters here legally aren't on speed dial and need something.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)

327 Woman in burka > tyrant in black robes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (jTDUM)

328 >>Talking vagina or a talking toaster

>Choose wisely

How many slots in that Toaster?
and
How many talk?

Posted by: garrett at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (hJb7m)

329 who is the current democrat contender. We must always be wary of tossing out the baby with the bathwater.

Posted by: dude1394 at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (JuJSY)

330
The part of Duffy's tweet that floored me was "No track laid".

Man, it looks like they can waste more money per foot of high-speed rail than they can per charging station under Build (eventually) Back Better.
Posted by: Axeman

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And every declared Dem gubernatorial candidate has said they'll keep that money pit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (8q3QY)

331 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

I bet it sounds like Fran Drescher.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

332 Colorado Judge rules Molotov cocktail terrorist’s family cannot be deported but the Jewish victims must be deported to Israel for their own safety.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:41 PM (VofaG)
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But mainly to Gaza.

Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (krQz2)

333 Trump Department of Education pulls Columbia University's accreditation.

Stop, please!

My schadenboner can only get so big.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (qpyNK)

Columbia non-University.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)

334 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

She embodies the joke "what do you call the useless piece of flesh attached to a vagina"

Posted by: Three guesses at June 04, 2025 04:43 PM (TbWk/)

335 I saw Talking Vagina open for Thin Lizzy at the LA Coliseum in 1978

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 04, 2025 04:43 PM (2VST1)

336 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

Pfft. I use telepathy to control my host organism.
-- Fetterman's lump

Posted by: Bulg at June 04, 2025 04:43 PM (77rzZ)

337 Nood. Come and mock the formatting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 04, 2025 04:44 PM (ExV1e)

338 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

I bet it sounds like Fran Drescher.

Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

*cackles in KamalaHarrisese*

Posted by: Progressive Woman's Fronthole at June 04, 2025 04:44 PM (i24o9)

339 I bet it sounds like Fran Drescher.

Bart Simpson's aunts

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 04, 2025 04:44 PM (2VST1)

340 "I determined that the danger we face as a country requires freeing ourselves of boxes."

--- Coming from a lesbian? DURING PRIDE MONTH?!?

Posted by: The_Hoser at June 04, 2025 04:44 PM (f4jia)

341 That woman with the sign proves the point in the Empress' epic rant - Democrats only see women as the sum of their naughty bits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2025 04:44 PM (jTDUM)

342
We have put California on notice: If you can’t deliver, American taxpayers will not fund your train to nowhere.
Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

If you had a brain you wouldn't have started 17 years ago, given the tectonic mountains you have to cross - twice - to even get to the actual cities on the end.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 04, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

Even Amtrak has only a single line going from LA to San Jose and the East Bay (Fallujah with palm trees and hippies). The coastal line with a shitload of stops about every 15 miles slowing it down to a crawl. Never comes close to Frisco. You have to get off in San Jose and catch the local commuter rail to get to Frisco, while dodging the bums on the train pissing on your luggage.

The current Central Cal line through the SJ Valley goes from E Bay down to Bakersfield, and then you have to ride an Amtrak bus to get over Tejon Pass and into LA. No way that HSR gets over Tejon unless the engines are nuclear-powered.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2025 04:45 PM (y9nCu)

343 The part of Duffy's tweet that floored me was "No track laid".

Man, it looks like they can waste more money per foot of high-speed rail than they can per charging station under Build (eventually) Back Better.
Posted by: Axeman

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And every declared Dem gubernatorial candidate has said they'll keep that money pit.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 04, 2025 04:42 PM (8q3QY)

Even though no track has been laid, one of the pieces discussing it said how they not long ago had a party celebrating the 10,000th employee hired. It's nothing but a permanent do-nothing jobs program for Dem party supporters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 04, 2025 04:45 PM (uWKK8)

344 A shoo-in for The Vagina Monologues.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:46 PM (XeU6L)

345 >>That woman with the sign proves the point in the Empress' epic rant - Democrats only see women as the sum of their naughty bits.

It's the one thing I agree with them about.

Posted by: garrett at June 04, 2025 04:46 PM (hJb7m)

346 >> A shoo-in for The Vagina Monologues.

NOW : In Stereo.

Posted by: garrett at June 04, 2025 04:47 PM (hJb7m)

347 314 The part of Duffy's tweet that floored me was "No track laid".

Man, it looks like they can waste more money per foot of high-speed rail than they can per charging station under Build (eventually) Back Better.
Posted by: Axeman at June 04, 2025 04:40 PM (krQz2)

It's worse, they have not even finalized the plan of WHERE the tracks would go.

Highway construction of 99 Highway at one end (Merced) was supposed to widen the highway to 3 lanes on each side... started 15 years ago under Obama, shovel ready project... but... as the High Speed Rail route would impact it, they halted all the widening part of the project... because they have not got the right of ways to the land needed... which would be right next to the Highway.

Note, they did do 2 YEARS of highway construction through Merced... and Atwater (next town over)... and during construction it was rated as the most dangerous highway in America... almost daily accidents... but did NOT WIDEN THE FUCKIN HIGHWAY.

Oh... and... Central Valley Calif... which votes Republican normally.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 04:49 PM (mP0Kj)

348
A shoo-in for The Vagina Monologues.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:46 PM (XeU6L)

One of these days I'm gonna write a companion piece, "The Penis Chorus".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2025 04:49 PM (y9nCu)

349 This thread has spun completely out of control.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:50 PM (XeU6L)

350 One of these days I'm gonna write a companion piece, "The Penis Chorus".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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For organ?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:51 PM (XeU6L)

351 349 This thread has spun completely out of control.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:50 PM (XeU6L)

THIS IS AOS!!!!!

/Tries to kick Mike into a pit... fails... falls on his ass....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2025 04:51 PM (mP0Kj)

352 The U.S. Department of Education has notified the Middle States Commission on Higher Education that Columbia University has violated federal antidiscrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus123. The Department of Education initiated the process to remove Columbia University's accreditation over its antisemitism allegations4.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 04, 2025 04:51 PM (yQMZb)

353
This thread has spun completely out of control.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2025 04:50 PM (XeU6L)

You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round
Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round
Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2025 04:52 PM (y9nCu)

354 BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman

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Gordon Gallagher story. He was representing a criminal defendant and promised him the moon. There was a suppression issue that would exclude the evidence. But he couldn't work for free so the defendant needed to come up with an additional x thousands of dollars or he would have to cast his fate upon the competence of the public defender's office. My smart ass friend knew there was no such suppression issue so he talked the judge into appointing Gallagher as court appointed attorney leaving him to explain why the suppression issue went away.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 04, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

355 Musk has absolutely been smoking the Republicans on X

It’s about time someone called out these frauds who used the bill to increase taxpayer handouts to their states and pet projects. There isn’t a dime of the DOGE fraud that is cut back in that bill.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 04, 2025 04:54 PM (39fkk)

356
Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher

Fuck you, your honor. We have Seal Team Six and Delta. How many divisions have you got?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2025 04:55 PM (y9nCu)

357 I saw a photo on X today of a progressive woman carrying a sign saying her vagina has a voice.

_________________________________

It's a fart clam

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 04, 2025 04:59 PM (NtVYv)

358 Didn't any of you see "The Exorcist?"

If a demon can turn your head 360, it can easily talk through your vagina.

Posted by: Zombie Richard Nixon at June 04, 2025 05:08 PM (ZmEVT)

359 Off Tricky Dick sock.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 04, 2025 05:09 PM (ZmEVT)

360 RINO Karma is coming for John Cornyn. Maybe we can get a two-for-one deal and get Lindsey Graham on the unemployment line as well!

Posted by: Tracy at June 04, 2025 06:49 PM (8mOWQ)

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