Texas Democrats Flee the State to Block Redistricting; Greg Abbott Says That the State Constitution Allows Him to Declare Their Seats Forfeited

I don't know why they didn't fix this the past twenty times the Democrats did this. They do this every time there's a major vote, and we just keep letting them.

More than 50 Texas Democrats fled to Chicago on Sunday to block a redistricting plan that could give Republicans several new congressional seats. The move threatens to stall legislative business by denying the House a quorum.
Key Details:
Texas Democrats are attempting to deny the GOP a quorum in the 150-member state House, where at least 100 members must be present to move legislation forward. Democrat leaders say at least 51 members left the state.
The redistricting plan, introduced last week, would shift district lines to favor Republicans -- potentially flipping several urban Democrat seats.
Texas Republicans, led by House Speaker Dustin Burrows, are demanding Democrats return, with Attorney General Ken Paxton warning they could be arrested.

Steve Turley said that if the redistricting plan goes through, Jasmine Ratchet will probably lose her seat.

Greg Abbot says he will declare the "fleebaggers" to have resigned from their seats.

Can he actually take their seats away from them? I don't know. Even if he does, there will then be years of litigation to determine if the redistricting map was passed legally.

Governor Greg Abbott is threatening to oust the Texas Democrats who fled to Chicago to block a GOP-led redistricting bill, accusing them of abandoning their posts and violating the Texas Constitution by intentionally denying the House a quorum.
In a letter released Sunday, Abbott made clear that lawmakers who continue to skip work could be removed from office altogether. "These absences were premeditated for an illegitimate purpose," he wrote, noting that Democrats "hatched a deliberate plan not to show up for work, for the specific purpose of abdicating the duties of their office and thwarting the chamber's business."
To justify potential removals, Abbott pointed to Texas Attorney General Opinion No. KP-0382. That 2021 opinion concluded that legislators who intentionally break quorum can be found to have "vacated office." Abbott emphasized that under this legal framework, "a district court may determine that a legislator has forfeited his or her office due to abandonment and can remove the legislator from office, thereby creating a vacancy."
He added, "That empowers me to swiftly fill vacancies under Article III, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution."

Speaking of redistricting: The Supreme Court says it wants to hear arguments on the question of the constitutionality of racially-gerrymandered congressional seats.

Since the 80s, states have prioritized race as a factor in drawing congressional districts. Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states to pick up black neighborhoods here and there to guarantee a "majority minority" district where blacks are guaranteed to elect a black Democrat.

Is this even constitutional? The Supreme Court seems to think it's not, because they have asked for arguments on the issue even though it was basically ignored in the lower courts.

The Supreme Court said Friday that it will weigh the constitutionality of a common form of redistricting used to protect the voting power of Black and Hispanic voters: the drawing of congressional districts where racial minorities make up at least half the population.
Experts in election law said the move signals that the court may be poised to further narrow the Voting Rights Act.
In a terse order issued Friday evening, the justices called for briefing on whether the "intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution."
The order came in a case challenging Louisiana's congressional map, which contains two majority-Black districts out of the state's six House seats.
The court heard arguments in the case in March and had been expected to rule by June. But on June 27, the justices punted the case into their next term and ordered that it be reargued.
Now, Friday's order loosely sketches the terrain on which the justices want further arguments: the claim that the longstanding practice of drawing majority-minority districts under the Voting Rights Acts may be unconstitutional because of its focus on race in drawing district lines. The voters challenging Louisiana's map had already advanced that constitutional claim in the case, but the justices' call for further briefing on the issue suggests they want to consider the claim more fully.

Below, Steve Turley argues that ending the racial gerrymanders will effectively wipe out all Democrat congressional representation in the south and guarantee the Republican Party a minimum of 230 seats in Congress. (218 seats are needed for the majority.)

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1 Yay! Welcome back, Ace!
how was your weekend?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:32 PM (dKEEs)

2 st

Posted by: RUReadingthis at August 04, 2025 12:32 PM (aQ25I)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

4 I will laugh if Abbott actually has them arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

5 I don't know why they didn't fix this the past twenty times the Democrats did this. They do this every time there's a major vote, and we just keep letting them.

That's not who *WE* are.

Posted by: GOPe at August 04, 2025 12:34 PM (ULPxl)

6 Huh.

Texas Dems are little bitches. Check.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (bss/y)

7
That's not who *WE* are.
Posted by: GOPe at August 04, 2025 12:34 PM (ULPxl)
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We know that, which is why you're continually being strong armed into doing stuff you would otherwise not do.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

8 Speaking of redistricting: The Supreme Court says it wants to hear arguments on the question of the constitutionality of racially-gerrymandered congressional seats.

Since the 80s, states have prioritized race as a factor in drawing congressional districts. Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states to pick up black neighborhoods here and there to guarantee a "majority minority" district where blacks are guaranteed to elect a black Democrat.

Is this even constitutional? The Supreme Court seems to think it's not, because they have asked for arguments on the issue even though it was basically ignored in the lower courts.

Of course it's unconstitutional. Or would it be okay to gerrymander for explicitly white districts? How about gay districts? Once you start down this road, it's a neverending CF.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

9 test

Posted by: toby928 at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (jc0TO)

10 Stop, stop! I can't stand all this winning!

Posted by: Josephistan at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (y9ksN)

11 Steve Turley said that if the redistricting plan goes through, Jasmine Ratchet will probably lose her seat.

Hell, if this shuts her up, it is totally worth it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (W/lyH)

12 Running to Illinois to protest gerrymandering.
This is a joke, right?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (6o/ca)

13 4 I will laugh if Abbott actually has them arrested.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

What if he arrested them and brought them back to vote?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (bss/y)

14 Cancel the Wellness Check at the Ewok Abode.

Posted by: Fire Brigade at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (G5+As)

15 More than 50 Texas Democrats fled to Chicago on Sunday to block a redistricting plan that could give Republicans several new congressional seats.

Isn't that up to the voters?

Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (jc0TO)

16 Steve Turley said that if the redistricting plan goes through, Jasmine Ratchet will probably lose her seat.

I'm sure she has lots of other careers on which to fall back.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

17 Hell, if this shuts her up, it is totally worth it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (W/lyH)

Is it wrong that I look at her as actually important? I think having her as an example of how banana sandwich crazy they are is a good thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)

18 Democrats never win an election they haven't rigged.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

19 "Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states to pick up black neighborhoods here and there to guarantee a "majority minority" district where blacks are guaranteed to elect a black Democrat."

This is why a city 90 miles away is in my district.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (vFG9F)

20 4 I will laugh if Abbott actually has them arrested.

Posted by: Sponge

eh, I like the vacate seats and appoint MAGA loyalists approach; arrest and bring demonrats back and they will just vote "no".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (dKEEs)

21 11 Steve Turley said that if the redistricting plan goes through, Jasmine Ratchet will probably lose her seat.

Hell, if this shuts her up, it is totally worth it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 04, 2025 12:35 PM (W/lyH)

It won't - she'll just be the 1st candidate in to the 2028 race...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (tOcjL)

22 Didn't a bunch of Dems flee from one state to another for similar purposes a couple years ago?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (63Dwl)

23

I'm sure she has lots of other careers on which to fall back.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

She has a net worth of over $9m.

She'll be fine. The grift will continue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

24 IF the SÇ actually does that, the Dems will be off the charts racism and oppression

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (/6GbT)

25 Of course it's unconstitutional. Or would it be okay to gerrymander for explicitly white districts? How about gay districts? Once you start down this road, it's a neverending CF.

The obvious lefty rejoinder will be that blacks are unique in light of their history. My question is then "and when will these districts go away?" We all know the answer; never.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

26 about time that the right started using legal challenges against the left. Removing fleebaggers and appointing monkeys in their place will certainly tie up courts forevet.

Posted by: Wingnutt at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (kgQTA)

27 Jasmine Ratchet will probably lose her ass...

See, much better...

Posted by: man at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (tubbA)

28 Didn't a bunch of Dems flee from one state to another for similar purposes a couple years ago?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (63Dwl)

Texas Dems did it several years ago as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

29 Go find 10 of them and force them back with the Sergeant at Arms.

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)

30 I'm sure she has lots of other careers on which to fall back.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

Jasmine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
-Dr Peter Venkman

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (bss/y)

31 Crockett elders missed a big opportunity. Jazzmine would have been a much cooler name.

Posted by: DJ Jizzy Jeff at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (G5+As)

32 good then maybe these tw@ts will be hoisted by their own petards

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (dCxaZ)

33 If the TX governor can simply take away seats of fleebag teabagging Democrap cunks, why hasn't this been done before?

And why are these cunks going to Chicago? That's 1,200 miles away.

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

34 Change the locks on their office doors, take down their nameplates then box up their personal shit and leave it in the hallways. "Welcome Back" banners are purely optional, but strongly encouraged.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (AIQyJ)

35 Which Turley is this?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (wVcYX)

36
eh, I like the vacate seats and appoint MAGA loyalists approach; arrest and bring demonrats back and they will just vote "no".
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (dKEEs)

I thought his letter said he could vacate their seats AND arrest them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

37 Stop, stop! I can't stand all this winning!

So Trump was right about that too? Another win!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (/y8xj)

38 22 Didn't a bunch of Dems flee from one state to another for similar purposes a couple years ago?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Wisconsin, I think over Walker's public union reforms . GOP did it but did not leave the state in Oregon to try to block some bill.

And I think Texas Dems have done it before over something else but don't remember.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (ctrM5)

39 Below, Steve Turley argues that ending the racial gerrymanders will effectively wipe out all Democrat congressional representation in the south and guarantee the Republican Party a minimum of 230 seats in Congress. (218 seats are needed for the majority.)

does this apply to the state level too?

because then PA will get its GOP majority back

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (dCxaZ)

40 Didn't a bunch of Dems flee from one state to another for similar purposes a couple years ago?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (63Dwl)
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Wisconsin.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (tT6L1)

41 Origin of gerrymander. Goes back further than I thought:

"...from 1812 as a noun, American English, from name of Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander. Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, was lampooned when his party redistricted the state in a blatant bid to preserve an Antifederalist majority. One sprawling Essex County district resembled a salamander, and a newspaper editor dubbed it the Gerrymander."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (XvL8K)

42 Remember when they did this before during the phony pandemic.
A bunch of vaccinated dem pols took a flight somewhere out of state with their boxed wine and all of them end up with covid.

Posted by: Cmonman at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (xKmsh)

43 Why on earth would you make a ridiculously drawn district to get one single "voice" for an arbitrary minority category into a deliberative body that will immediately be subsumed into a greater political pole as another brainless rubber stamp?

You're not "giving black people a voice" by doing that. You're just shoving your hand up all their asses at once and making them "talk".

And we can totally see your lips moving.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (VoAdT)

44 Since the 80s, states have prioritized race as a factor in drawing congressional districts. Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states to pick up black neighborhoods here and there to guarantee a "majority minority" district where blacks are guaranteed to elect a black Democrat.

I don't fully understand the claims that the Republicans will gain a lot from eliminating racially discriminatory districts.

Years ago, I knew one of the Republican redistricting experts in Illinois, and he said that gerrymandering was very simple - you create as many 60-40 Republican districts as possible, and stick the remaining Democrats into districts that are as close to 100% Democratic as possible. It's easy to make those 100% Democratic districts black districts, given where people live.

There was a dispute over Congressional reapportionment in Pennsylvania at the time, and the Republicans won the case, simply because the Republican map had more black seats than the D's, even though the Republican map had more Republicans.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (xTIDn)

45 for a good laugh, look at illinois' 13th district

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (dKEEs)

46 I guess it should also be mentioned that paying legislators to keep legislation from being passed is bribery and anyone funding this, or taking taking money to flee should be so charged.

Posted by: Thatch at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (Cofqi)

47 When they were first proposing minority districts, there was a lot of discussion about whether we (the right) would be better off with or without them. Yes, the left gets some very safe left districts, but only at the cost of stripping all their other districts of black voters.

I suspect that the right is better off with M/M districts, but that's irrelevant to whether they're constitutional, which they are not.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

48 "Jasmine Ratchet will probably lose her ass...

See, much better...
Posted by: man "

I doubt it. If anything it will get bigger.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (vFG9F)

49 Leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when they'll be back again.

Posted by: Peter Paul Mounds at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (63Dwl)

50 Run away! Run away!

Posted by: Texas Statehouse Dems at August 04, 2025 12:41 PM (wVcYX)

51 Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX) suffered a meltdown after the Texas GOP unveiled a new congressional map that leaves her quite literally out of bounds.

Crockett, who now doesn’t even reside in the district she currently represents, was livid.

“I currently don’t live in the [Congressional District] 30 that they created…that’s not where I live now,” Crockett said in a video, according to The Grio.

“They are supposed to take that into consideration, and these are some of the things that the court will look at when they’re trying to determine whether or not there were problems with creating the maps. It’s really awful.”

Crockett called the situation a “hot mess” and suggested the changes were racially motivated.

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2025 12:41 PM (RHGPo)

52 Willowed:

I don't get the Jack Hate.

Jack and Coke, Jack and 7-UP was pretty much a 4 year right of passage for all the students I knew in college.

I still will drink it on occasion cuz you know, it's like getting a McDonald's Big Mac. You know what to expect no matter when or where. Same quality.
Better than ordering say a Sazerac and getting fobbed off with scotch mixed with Hawaiian Punch from some ignorant bartender, which you have to send back and get a Jack and Coke anyway.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 04, 2025 12:41 PM (iJfKG)

53 If Jazmine Ratchet gets redistricted out of her seat, I will schadenfreude my pants.

If only we could do the same for miserable toxicunt AOC.

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

54 okay, Sponge, one more win for healing power of and in that case!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:41 PM (dKEEs)

55 "Republicans are using our tactics. This is a threat to Our Sacred Democracy!"™

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2025 12:42 PM (lXoJ5)

56 Democrats screaming loudly because the GOP is engaging in the same hardball tactics Democrats have employed for years is music to my ears.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:42 PM (tT6L1)

57 I guess it should also be mentioned that paying legislators to keep legislation from being passed is bribery and anyone funding this, or taking taking money to flee should be so charged.

Accepting free private jet rides to Illinois is also bribery.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 04, 2025 12:42 PM (xTIDn)

58 33 If the TX governor can simply take away seats of fleebag teabagging Democrap cunks, why hasn't this been done before?

And why are these cunks going to Chicago? That's 1,200 miles away.
Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

A) because the legality of this is very much in question. The only "authority" on it is an untried opinion written by Ken Paxton as AG in 2021. Abbott can declare their seats vacant, but any legislation passed without them (especially redistricting) is going to be in litigation for years.

B) why Chicago? Because Pritzker is paying them travel, room and board.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 12:42 PM (uWKK8)

59 Russian TikTokers forced to issue grovelling apology by Putin after filming video at oil depot blown up by Ukraine

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2025 12:42 PM (RHGPo)

60 A few years ago, the dem Texas Hispanic caucus wanted to create an extra district or two for its "people," ignoring the fact that many of the rural towns and counties are majority Hispanic, including the one I live in. They vote repub, so I guess they don't count. It didn't fly.

Posted by: huerfano at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (98kQX)

61 Bobby Scott is a perpetual House member from VA. The map of his district is laughable, bizarre, and wouldn't be tolerated in an intelligent society.

Posted by: More Equal Than You! at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (G5+As)

62 Change the locks on their office doors, take down their nameplates then box up their personal shit and leave it in the hallways.

RINO. They need to have their personal effects strewn on the lawn outside the TX state house.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

63 Having Jasmine Crockett as the face of the Democratic Party benefits Republicans.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (xTIDn)

64 Origin of gerrymander. Goes back further than I thought:

"...from 1812 as a noun, American English, from name of Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander. Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, was lampooned when his party redistricted the state in a blatant bid to preserve an Antifederalist majority. One sprawling Essex County district resembled a salamander, and a newspaper editor dubbed it the Gerrymander."

I've never heard that before. It's too good to check.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

65 Do it and ban them from coming back. Chicago can have 'em.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (vFG9F)

66 And I think Texas Dems have done it before over something else but don't remember.
Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (ctrM5)

The Killer Bees, early 2000's.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (uWKK8)

67
Wisconsin.
Posted by: blake

Yeah, that's what I was trying to remember.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 12:43 PM (63Dwl)

68 Last time they had this big of a contingent flee it was to Oklahoma when Perry was governor. I forget what the issue was.

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 12:44 PM (VofaG)

69 Crockett called the situation a “hot mess” and suggested the changes were racially motivated.

Do I need to say the word?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

70 The entire Congressional Black Caucus exists because of racial gerrymanders.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 12:45 PM (uWKK8)

71
Better than ordering say a Sazerac and getting fobbed off with scotch mixed with Hawaiian Punch from some ignorant bartender, which you have to send back and get a Jack and Coke anyway.

_____________________________

Wait For It

https://youtu.be/9snyIq5xOcI

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2025 12:45 PM (6o/ca)

72 I'm not positive, but I think the rule has been to guarantee as many black seats as possible. Again, my (mis-) understanding is a state can't crowd all the blacks into a single district when they could be split into two groups sufficiently large so as to guaranteed two black-elected seats.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (MMp6W)

73 "Run from the Alamo" just doesn't have the same punch.

Posted by: Mongo at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (s9EN2)

74 That bitch!

In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

75 Would declaring the Dems seats abandoned change the quorum and permit immediate voting on the new districts?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (hWxEy)

76 Rum and coke called the cuba libre or the little lie

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (bXbFr)

77 it is easy to get everybody back to congress give free weaves, nails, and lashes, they are going to riot to get in

Posted by: n at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (VKqEh)

78 thx for the historical insight, Biff!

too good to check, indeed

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (dKEEs)

79 Gavin Newsom
Retweeted this-

@StatisticUrban
Even in a bad year for CA Dems (2024), you can create a 52D-0R map with no seat being less than Harris +10. Would probably eliminate 9 Republicans.

If you're willing to create 1-2 GOP vote sinks, you can create a map with no seat less than Harris +14.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (NpAcC)

80 Since the 80s, states have prioritized race as a factor in drawing congressional districts
--
I consider myself more informed than the average voter, but this is a "wait- WTF?" for me.

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at August 04, 2025 12:47 PM (KVJAR)

81 Change the locks on their office and don't give them a key.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 04, 2025 12:47 PM (W3T6M)

82 Such a rite that few people know Jack's last name is Daniel, not Daniels.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 04, 2025 12:47 PM (KAi1n)

83
Having Jasmine Crockett as the face of the Democratic Party benefits Republicans.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

That's what the Dems thought about Trump in 2016.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 12:47 PM (63Dwl)

84 Seize their houses, cars, and bank accounts, too, while you're at it.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 04, 2025 12:48 PM (5IFb9)

85 More than 50 Texas Democrats fled to Chicago on Sunday to block a redistricting plan that could give Republicans several new congressional seats.

Didn't Wisconsin democrats flee to Chicago a few years back.
It really is a sanctuary city, isn't it?

Posted by: From about That Time at August 04, 2025 12:48 PM (n4GiU)

86 We can remake The Defiant Ones.

Posted by: Texas Statehouse Dems at August 04, 2025 12:48 PM (wVcYX)

87 In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars

Is that from the Babylon Bee or from Not the Bee? Works equally well for either of them.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 04, 2025 12:48 PM (/y8xj)

88 Who's gonna pay for Jasmine's nails and fake lashes ? The horror....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)

89 Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting. Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats.

Governor Pritzker is putting the Texas Democrats up in one of his hotels free of charge. This is how Democrats fight fire with fire. If we have a 2028 election, Pritzker has to be at the top of the list.

The Supreme Court must be really proud of what they've created here. Everything we learned in junior high school about why the Articles of Confederation failed is being played out now in real time.

You either have a federal government, or you have separate nations. Period. Confederacy is a clown show, a failure again and again and again.

Nothing fascist about this. Either you allow us to rig the system or we arrest you. Such a choice. This is not a legitimate political party.

I expect every state to be heavily gerrymandered by 2026. The gloves are off now. It was silly of us to de-escalate. It makes more sense to go all-out until Federal legislation is made that addresses it. New York and California have potential, and if we can squeeze Maryland down to zero, great!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

90 An FYI as to why the Democrats won't care much about Abbott's threat, and won't be coming back to the session - The Texas legislature only meets once every two years, and that session is over - so all of their jobs are already over until the next election in 2026. (except for special sessions)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (uWKK8)

91
Such a rite that few people know Jack's last name is Daniel, not Daniels.
Posted by: Dark Litigator

Is his real given first name Jack or John?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (63Dwl)

92 Gerrymandering based on race is 100% unconstitutional. Duh. But there would be no need to do it if blacks didn't overwhelmingly vote Democrap. Or at least if whoever they sold their votes to didn't vote overwhelmingly Democrap.

I suspect if the SC rules that racial gerrymanders are illegal, the Democrap strategy will then be to make political gerrymanders, based on ... race.

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

93 In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

Those are resume enhancers. Dear gussie, these people are stupid.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (k9OZB)

94 Even in a bad year for CA Dems (2024), you can create a 52D-0R map with no seat being less than Harris +10. Would probably eliminate 9 Republicans.

If you're willing to create 1-2 GOP vote sinks, you can create a map with no seat less than Harris +14.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (NpAcC)
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And? That's exactly what CA Democrats will try to do when they next redistrict. I don't think Gavin is making the point he thinks he's making.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (tT6L1)

95 You know, all these Dems leaving at the same time, going to the same location certainly seems like a conspiracy of some sort.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (Vh9CX)

96 Ship all their red Swingline staplers to Illinois along with a nice letter thanking them for their service. Then replace them.

Posted by: Tuff Love! at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (G5+As)

97 Yes they always do of course when they had control of the census bureau they went whole hog

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (bXbFr)

98 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Democrats love theatrics

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (lBB1X)

99 "and we just keep letting them."

That applies to most everything. You could call that the longstanding unofficial motto of the GOP.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2025 12:50 PM (UseAb)

100 Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states…

I don’t remember the guy’s name, but there was an insurgent conservative candidate in New York who Democrats and Republicans joined up to defeat. One of the “scandals” was that the guy wasn’t in the district he was running for.

But he used to be. And if you drew a line due north, due south, due east, and due west, you would hit that district.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 04, 2025 12:50 PM (EXyHK)

101
Governor Pritzker is putting the Texas Democrats up in one of his hotels free of charge. This is how Democrats fight fire with fire. If we have a 2028 election, Pritzker has to be at the top of the list.

Well he certainly at the top of the weight list for Governors....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

102 There are currently 59 black voting reps in the House.
This is about exactly the same percentage as the population.
90% of all blacks in Congress are Dems

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 04, 2025 12:50 PM (Na6rr)

103 arrest and bring demonrats back and they will just vote "no".

They don't have the votes to stop it unless some Republicans go along for the ride so their no vote is irrelevant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 12:50 PM (ExV1e)

104 Updated Data Shows Media Grossly Overestimated The Number of U.S. Military Transgender Personnel

“some outlets fearmongered that up to 15,000 service members would be booted. But…only four ‘transgender servicemembers’ have been ‘removed from the military so far under the new Trump administration policy.'”

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2025 12:51 PM (RHGPo)

105 >>> 19 "Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states to pick up black neighborhoods here and there to guarantee a "majority minority" district where blacks are guaranteed to elect a black Democrat."

This is why a city 90 miles away is in my district.
Posted by: fd at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (vFG9F)

It looks like *MY* new district will reach all the way into the DFW zone, blech.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2025 12:51 PM (ULPxl)

106
I expect every state to be heavily gerrymandered by 2026. The gloves are off now. It was silly of us to de-escalate. It makes more sense to go all-out until Federal legislation is made that addresses it. New York and California have potential, and if we can squeeze Maryland down to zero, great!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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Yes, moderation, consideration, contemplation and negotiation are what Democrats are most noted for.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:51 PM (tT6L1)

107 @ 89, "It was silly of us to de-escalate. "

LOL! Comedy gold!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:51 PM (dKEEs)

108 How about gay districts?

Did SF lose its representation?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

109 Afternoon Ace.
The Dems reaction to this decision against them will be rival 2016 election night vids. Looking forward to seeing it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2025 12:51 PM (9hqnJ)

110 Well his gravity well is impressive

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (bXbFr)

111 The part in the VRA that made certain states submit their redistricting maps for approval always seemed unconstitutional to me. Wouldn't Congress singling out a state and making them "pay" for their past sins with no end date violate due process and equal treatment under the law?

Posted by: pookysgirl, not a Constiutional scholar at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (Wt5PA)

112 79 Gavin Newsom
Retweeted this-

@StatisticUrban
Even in a bad year for CA Dems (2024), you can create a 52D-0R map with no seat being less than Harris +10. Would probably eliminate 9 Republicans.

If you're willing to create 1-2 GOP vote sinks, you can create a map with no seat less than Harris +14.
Posted by: redridinghood
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I doubt it. Plus, CA handed their redistricting off to a commission which complicates matters.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (ctrM5)

113 BIG NEWS!!

You can now bet on what color the next dildo thrown out at the Black Lesbian National Bakkaball Association game.

https://tinyurl.com/jz8sakue

$5 on PINK

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (17s+e)

114 So no Hawaiian Judge stopped this redistricting in Texas ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)

115 If Abbott thinks he can remove the Democrats from office in some quasi-legal way, do it. Let the Democrats spend some time and effort fighting it.

The process being the punishment and all.

But until that's resolved, they're out of a job.

Because fuck them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (Q4IgG)

116 >>>Yay! Welcome back, Ace!
how was your weekend?

thank you. My weekend was... bad. I got no sleep and was in a daze for most of it.

So most of you should dip out of this post now because I'm about to get all Real World up in this piece.

One night I had some Atkins candy before bed. This candy contained maltitol, a horrid sugar alcohol that passes through your stomach undigested and goes to your intestines intact. The bacteria there have never seen an undigested carbohydrate before, so the sudden infusion of food causes them to multiply like crazy, causing painful gas and unending diarrhea.

Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

117 Texas Dems did it several years ago as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

I believe this'll be the third time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (ExV1e)

118 Wow, Texas.

Stupid stunts, a forte of Democrats, should have consequences.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2025 12:53 PM (ASt0K)

119 93 In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

Those are resume enhancers. Dear gussie, these people are stupid.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 04, 2025 12:49 PM (k9OZB)

I overheard Trump from the break room TV in a press gaggle saying "Oh, she's a Republican? I hadn't heard that. Well, if she's a registered Republican, then I think it's a GREAT ad!" I paraphrase.

But I could literally hear the guy smirking as he said it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 12:53 PM (VoAdT)

120 Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (NpAc

Right now it's 43 Dems and 9 Republicans. Let them try get 52. I think they would only get 49 at the most .

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 12:53 PM (VofaG)

121 "Steve Turley argues that ending the racial gerrymanders will effectively wipe out all Democrat congressional representation in the south and guarantee the Republican Party a minimum of 230 seats in Congress."

I hope he's right. I don't think he's right. There still will be a lot of blue southern cities electing Democraps. Maybe not specifically black Democraps, but Democraps nonetheless.

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

122 Wouldn't Congress singling out a state and making them "pay" for their past sins with no end date violate due process and equal treatment under the law?

It's okay, because the intended targets are white.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

123 >>>I hope he's right. I don't think he's right. There still will be a lot of blue southern cities electing Democraps. Maybe not specifically black Democraps, but Democraps nonetheless.

yeah it seems overstated to me. but there will be an impact.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (KRtlO)

124 Weren't Democrats bragging not so long ago that with control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court they would gerrymander Republican seats out of existence?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (6o/ca)

125 Somali child rapist gets light sentence from Minnesota court after mosque says he's "devoted family man" who's trying to figure out "new culture"

-
Yeah, that whole don't rape kids thing is real hard to understand.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (L/fGl)

126

It's so weird that it's always blacks.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (et1vG)

127
Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

Maltitol is nasty stuff.. Avoid it at all costs...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (VE6XX)

128 You're fired!

Get the fuck out. You can't throw tantrums like this anywhere else without repercussions, unless you're a union lackey.

Nobody is irreplaceable. Get used to it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (9bq/n)

129 I'm not sure salamanders should be eligible for elected office.

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (G5+As)

130 But he used to be. And if you drew a line due north, due south, due east, and due west, you would hit that district.

I used to live in a neighborhood northeast of San Antonio. For years, I was in the very tip of a tendril of a district that was mostly Laredo, almost 200 miles away. Then it got redrawn to be in the tip of a tendril of a district that was mostly Austin, a mere 70 miles away.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (/y8xj)

131 I occasionally thought that a simple solution (for some definitions of “simple”) would be for the law to designate an alternate in the event that a rep or senator chooses to avoid their job: and the alternate would be the runner-up in the previous election.

But that runs the risk of having to define “chooses not to do their job” to not include “was shot by a Democrat”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (EXyHK)

132 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Crohn's Disease.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (jRYyy)

133
On this day in 1984, the lovely Mrs. Rabbit and I were married. We had planned an exclusive courthouse wedding but was overruled by one of her aunts. The wedding took place in the small living room of said aunts' house in the hills of Tennessee. Her uncle slipped me $15 to give to the preacher.

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (5hfjS)

134 Why do thry put it in candy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (bXbFr)

135 And I think Texas Dems have done it before over something else but don't remember.
Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 12:39 PM (ctrM5)

I believe that Texas Dems have done it twice before. At least once was over redistricting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (ExV1e)

136 111 The part in the VRA that made certain states submit their redistricting maps for approval always seemed unconstitutional to me. Wouldn't Congress singling out a state and making them "pay" for their past sins with no end date violate due process and equal treatment under the law?
Posted by: pookysgirl
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The emergency provision was declared unconstitutional in Shelby County v. Holder case in the early 2000's. Scotus had warned that if there was an emergency in the 1960's justifying different treatment of states, there was no longer any such justification. That dealt with DoJ preclearance bullshit.

Bush I's DoJ in a way, setup the current majority minority districts as a way to gain seats under the VRA--the losers were Southern and Bluedog Democrats as their constituencies were split--the blacks got their own districts and the whites began to vote Republican.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)

137
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Crohn's Disease.
Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (jRYyy)

And IBS

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 12:55 PM (VE6XX)

138 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Ace, you watched Fantastic Four then after eating at Taco Bell?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (ASt0K)

139 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

At the beginning of a two hour road trip home from work one night, I stopped into a store and bought some of that Body Armor stuff because I was crushingly dehydrated.

Turns out I need to read labels, because the ones I grabbed and chugged were "sugar free", as in sorbitol-full.

I've never clenched so hard, for so long, before or since that day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (VoAdT)

140 I'm not sure salamanders should be eligible for elected office.

Posted by: Emily Litella

It's long in the past, so it's a newt point.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

141 aw jeepers Ace, that sounds awful!

that stuff used to be used as a kid's laxative.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (dKEEs)

142 Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (NpAc

Right now it's 43 Dems and 9 Republicans. Let them try get 52. I think they would only get 49 at the most .
Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 12:53 PM (VofaG)
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I think if they could, they would have already done it. I think CA is maxed out at 43-9. If anything, the GOP could pick up a few seats if they weren't worthless oozing pustules of failure and regret.

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

143
Townhall.com
@townhallcom

Hakeem Jeffries: Texas Democrats have Trump and Republicans "running scared."

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhd9hk

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

144 >> Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

I mark this comment as false.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Y1sOo)

145 Congrats, Swamp Rabbit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (Ve+75)

146 I believe that Texas Dems have done it twice before. At least once was over redistricting.

Another time was in opposition to an election integrity law.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (EXyHK)

147 I believe that Texas Dems have done it twice before. At least once was over redistricting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I defer to your knowledge. As a tactic though, I don't think it works out.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (ctrM5)

148 eh, I like the vacate seats and appoint MAGA loyalists approach; arrest and bring demonrats back and they will just vote "no".
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 12:37 PM (dKEEs)

Just declare them to be outlaws, and subject to being shot by any Texan if they set foot back in that State.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (6LwyY)

149 Texas is currently 25 Republicans and 12 Dems . That's about 52% more Republicans than Dems.

California has 80% more Dems than Republicans.

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (VofaG)

150 Sharing again because WTF.

https://is.gd/RP38AI

@NatHalberstadt
I've heard the horror stories, Carol.
[chart - Estimated % of 30-Year-Olds Who Are Both Married and Homeowners (1950-2025)]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (ULPxl)

151 " paying legislators to keep legislation from being passed is bribery and anyone funding this, or taking taking money to flee should be so charged."

Abbott mentioned that on FOX.

x link

https://tinyurl.com/34s6vt62

Posted by: illiniwek at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (vbXSk)

152 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

I mark this comment as false.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Y1sOo)

Sleep like a baby.

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (Ve+75)

153 Gassy ace is the best ace. Cruel ace comes second

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (ycs3a)

154 Hakeem Jeffries: Texas Democrats have Trump and Republicans "running scared."

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhd9hk
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (NpAcC)
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I think Temu Obama is confused about who did the actual running.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

155 California has 80% more Dems than Republicans.
Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 12:57 PM (VofaG)

And it's a 60/40 State.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (VE6XX)

156
https://tinyurl.com/jz8sakue

$5 on PINK
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (17s+e)

Whomever is doing it will see what has the highest odds, bet significantly, then throw the dildo of appropriate color.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

157 Well, didn't see that coming.

@nypost 1h
Start the presses! New York Post will expand to LA with launch of The California Post https://trib.al/LhHG9aB

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (mlg/3)

158 One night I had some Atkins candy before bed. This candy contained maltitol, a horrid sugar alcohol that passes through your stomach undigested and goes to your intestines intact. The bacteria there have never seen an undigested carbohydrate before, so the sudden infusion of food causes them to multiply like crazy, causing painful gas and unending diarrhea.

Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace
===

Ace you should read the tales of the "Gummy Bears from Hell" on Amazon. Hilarious... you know if you haven't eaten a sugar free gummy bear.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (17s+e)

159 On this day in 1984, the lovely Mrs. Rabbit and I were married.

Congrats!!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (/y8xj)

160 >>> 154 Hakeem Jeffries: Texas Democrats have Trump and Republicans "running scared."

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhd9hk
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (NpAcC)
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I think Temu Obama is confused about who did the actual running.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

Hey, *I* am Temu Obama!

Posted by: Cory SPARTACUS! Booker at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (ULPxl)

161 > Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace
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Two words: rubber sheets

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)

162 Charge them and their friends and family members all with crimes. Whether there's evidence or not.

And let them all personally litigate their ways out of *that* at personal expense, in personal pain, for as long as the process can possibly be drawn out.

Do what they would do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Fe3xz)

163
I think Temu Obama is confused about who did the actual running.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

The best offense is a prevent defense.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

164 Weird thing about the word “gerrymander”: It’s pronounced with a soft “g,”’ but the surname means it’s derived from, “Gerry,” is pronounced with a hard “g.”

Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

165 Snack on us and you WILL lose weight.

Posted by: Atkins Candy at August 04, 2025 01:00 PM (wVcYX)

166 >>> 162 Charge them and their friends and family members all with crimes. Whether there's evidence or not.

And let them all personally litigate their ways out of *that* at personal expense, in personal pain, for as long as the process can possibly be drawn out.

Do what they would do.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Fe3xz)

YD Johnson is right!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2025 01:00 PM (ULPxl)

167 I think if they could, they would have already done it. I think CA is maxed out at 43-9. If anything, the GOP could pick up a few seats if they weren't worthless oozing pustules of failure and regret.
Posted by: Elric

The unconstitutional blanket primary bullshit is part of it along with cheat by mail well after Election Day. I think fed courts are considering a case now as Trump made an EO announcing that all ballots had to be received by federal election day or not be counted.

In a way, the stupid Resist faction is not doing themselves any favors by letting lefties sue and result in ridiculous district court decisions that Scotus and appellate courts then have to deal with.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 01:00 PM (ctrM5)

168 Arrest them and eliminate their positions.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:00 PM (ZRzmB)

169 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace

Wait.....what?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 04, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

170 Appeals Court Allows Trump To End Union Bargaining For Some Federal Workers

In a 15-page decision, the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit panel stated that the government is likely to succeed on the merits of the plaintiffs’ retaliation claim, finding that Trump’s order does not, on its face, “express any retaliatory animus.”

“Even assuming that plaintiffs have made out a prima facie claim of retaliation, on this record the government has shown that the president would have taken the same action even in the absence of the protected conduct,” the judges stated.

The three-panel judges said that while parts of a fact sheet published with the order may “reflect a degree of retaliatory animus toward plaintiffs’ First Amendment activities,” it also “demonstrates Trump’s focus on national security” when taken as a whole.

“In other words, the fact sheet conveys an overarching objective of protecting national security through its assessment that collective bargaining impedes the functioning of agencies with national security-related responsibilities,” the panel said.

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (RHGPo)

171 BIG NEWS!!

You can now bet on what color the next dildo thrown out at the Black Lesbian National Bakkaball Association game.

https://tinyurl.com/jz8sakue

$5 on PINK
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (17s+e)
____________

The WNBA finally has a marketing campaign that works!

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

172 Abbott emphasized that under this legal framework, "a district court may determine that a legislator has forfeited his or her office due to abandonment and can remove the legislator from office, thereby creating a vacancy."

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

"DENIED!

/US District Clown Judge Bozoberg, De Facto POTUS, SCOTUS, and Congress

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (4vkvD)

173 >>>Turns out I need to read labels, because the ones I grabbed and chugged were "sugar free", as in sorbitol-full.

Sorbitol's another one. I started getting sugar-free Slurpees after my walk/runs. Finished it later in the night, discovered that they use sorbitol as a sweetener and the same thing happened to me. (Though I think that sorbitol is less potent for causing GI problems than maltitol.)

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (KRtlO)

174 Hakeem Jeffries: Texas Democrats have Trump and Republicans "running scared."

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhd9hk
Posted by: redridinghood

Ah yes, the Brave Sir Robin strategy, "Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?"

Posted by: Movie Moron at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (JCZqz)

175 Ace, might I suggest something in a Lazy Bowl Recliner?

Posted by: Tim the tool man Taylor at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (tT6L1)

176 Abbott will build a jail for AWOL democrats in the flood plain of the Guadalupe River.

Austin Alcatraz.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 04, 2025 01:02 PM (D7pq5)

177 California is redistricted by an "independent" commission that somehow happens to be stacked with left-wing activists.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2025 01:02 PM (6o/ca)

178 Temu Democrats?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2025 01:02 PM (ASt0K)

179 132 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace

C'mom Jack, that's BS! I do it multiple times a day!

Posted by: President Emeritus at August 04, 2025 01:02 PM (G5+As)

180 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace
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Two words: rubber sheets
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)
______

"Butt plug"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

181 >>Ace you should read the tales of the "Gummy Bears from Hell" on Amazon. Hilarious... you know if you haven't eaten a sugar free gummy bear.

oh yes, I discovered the problem with sugar-free Gummy Bears.

I have no idea why they use this crap when there are lots of artificial sweeteners that do not cause customers to have eight hours of uncontrollable GI distress.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (KRtlO)

182 >>>Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (i24o9)

183 It's interesting that other races show such strong racial solidarity we can draw a ridiculously gerrymandered district and it will guarantee a candidate of that race will be elected.

Now if whites showed that kind of racial solidarity somehow I think there would be a some sort of term for it that would be --- negative...

Posted by: brak at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (jGJov)

184 Madison had George Clinton as his first VP. Clinton died in office. No VP until next swearing in. Madison's next VP was Elbridge Gerry who also died in office. No VP until next swearing in.
Madison did not have VP luck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (9hqnJ)

185 175 Ace, might I suggest something in a Lazy Bowl Recliner?
Posted by: Tim the tool man Taylor

Once again, Idiocracy was ahead of its time.

Posted by: Movie Moron at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

186 Nothing says 'muh demoocracy' like holding legislation hostage because you don't like it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

187 BIG NEWS!!

You can now bet on what color the next dildo thrown out at the Black Lesbian National Bakkaball Association game.

https://tinyurl.com/jz8sakue

$5 on PINK
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (17s+e)

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Rainbow-Colored Unicorn FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (4vkvD)

188 After Years Of Refusing Reforms, The CPB Accepts Institutional Death Over Political Dishonor

It is official. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting finally accepted death over balance.

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

189 Is this even constitutional?

If it keeps the Uni-Party charade going by ensuring a '50-50' country, it is, by definition, constitutional.

Posted by: The Uni-Party at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (J2Jn3)

190 Most blue states seem to have few R Reps even a fair map would give the R's 30-40% of their seats.

Hell, look at benighted MA. 36% of the population votes R, 100% of the Rep seats are held by Democommunists. And all extreme communists, not some moderate democrat...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (t0Rmr)

191 Here in Ohio, our muslim physicians have had it with our jewish representatives.

"A local doctor charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Max Miller (R-Rocky River) and his family in an “antisemitic” rant on a local highway appeared in a Cuyahoga County courtroom on Monday morning.

"Feras Hamdan, 36, of Westlake, is facing felony counts of ethnic intimidation and tampering with evidence and misdemeanor counts of aggravated menacing and menacing, court records show."

https://tinyurl.com/2ae3x4hb

Posted by: Oglebay at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (MMp6W)

192 Now if whites showed that kind of racial solidarity somehow I think there would be a some sort of term for it that would be --- negative...
Posted by: brak
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Prior VRA litigation actually uses racially polarized voting by whites as grounds for DoJ and federal courts to intervene. Not so for minorities.

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

193 Hakeem Jeffries: Texas Democrats have Trump and Republicans "running scared."

They're hiding out in a pillow fort in Chicago. They're really fearsome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

194 In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

I would let her her grease the center pivot on my Studebaker, and shoot my guns, any day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (6LwyY)

195 Sorbitol's another one. I started getting sugar-free Slurpees after my walk/runs. Finished it later in the night, discovered that they use sorbitol as a sweetener and the same thing happened to me. (Though I think that sorbitol is less potent for causing GI problems than maltitol.)
Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 01:01 PM (KRtlO)

*leans in*

*points*

*laughs*

Posted by: Olestra at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

196 I'm in the most Republican district in Illinois, which goes all the way across the middle of the state. But a little ribbon runs through the middle, I assume to collect black areas in Springfield, parts of E St. Louis, and whatever else.

That way they grab another district in deep red "downstate".

just an image of the districts
https://tinyurl.com/3hx6vk36

Posted by: illiniwek at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (vbXSk)

197 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

Would you really want to?!?

Posted by: ace's mattress boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (Kv5Mj)

198 >>>Years ago, I knew one of the Republican redistricting experts in Illinois, and he said that gerrymandering was very simple - you create as many 60-40 Republican districts as possible, and stick the remaining Democrats into districts that are as close to 100% Democratic as possible. It's easy to make those 100% Democratic districts black districts, given where people live.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 04, 2025 12:40 PM (xTIDn)

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The overabundance of radical, loudmouth, bomb-throwing Dems in the House can be linked to this kind of gerrymandering.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (wzAuc)

199 Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (KRtlO

I quit eating the sugar free Turtles because they messed with my stomach also.

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (VofaG)

200 Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states to pick up black neighborhoods here and there to guarantee a "majority minority" district where blacks are guaranteed to elect a black Democrat.

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That sentence omitted one -- possibly two -- "retarded" adjectives.

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (4vkvD)

201 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.
Posted by: ace

Wait.....what?
Posted by: Joe Biden

In Joe's defense, he's 1- unaware he's about to shit himself and 2- never "on the verge of" shitting himself...it just happens.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (JCZqz)

202 >>>You can now bet on what color the next dildo thrown out at the Black Lesbian National Bakkaball Association game.

https://tinyurl.com/jz8sakue

Come out and see blind woman Caitlin

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (ZRzmB)

203 The sad part is he's right.

Hamas Official Says 'Palestinian' State Gaining Support Due to October 7 Terror

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

204 Then: Only a small fraction of our income comes from the government, it isn't even worth spending the time talking about it.

Now: You took away our federal funds so we are out of money. Damn you Big Bird will be sold off as a Rotisserie Chicken now are you happy with yourselves?

Posted by: CPB at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (t0Rmr)

205 After Years Of Refusing Reforms, The CPB Accepts Institutional Death Over Political Dishonor

It is official. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting finally accepted death over balance.

It's such an amazing coincidence that only days after their subsidy was finally eliminated, an outfit that gets only an insignificant percentage of their funding from government goes under. Reality is so strange.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

206 125 Somali child rapist gets light sentence from Minnesota court after mosque says he's "devoted family man" who's trying to figure out "new culture"

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Yeah, that whole don't rape kids thing is real hard to understand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (L/fGl)

*removes one testicle with a .45*

How about now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, rhetorical question at August 04, 2025 01:06 PM (bss/y)

207 I'm shocked the idea of mandating black majority congressional districts has survived as long as it has. Even when the SC had a "mushy" majority decades ago, it's just absurd and violates basically everything.

The SC will strike it down, feel very confident.

Posted by: Leupold at August 04, 2025 01:06 PM (4pwAx)

208 I have no idea why they use this crap when there are lots of artificial sweeteners that do not cause customers to have eight hours of uncontrollable GI distress.

Posted by: ace
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Because causing diarrhea in consumers is part of the kink by those companies. MAHA has a point that food companies have been running experiments without informed consent on the general population for years now.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

209 199 Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (KRtlO

I quit eating the sugar free Turtles because they messed with my stomach also.
Posted by: polynikes

So, uh....how do y'all feel about me?

Posted by: Olestra at August 04, 2025 01:06 PM (JCZqz)

210 It's kind of a lazy bitch move anyway, isn't it?

Back in the day The Party would blackmail, bribe, and beat their way to a winning vote count the old fashioned way, darn it. Like Americans. They wouldn't just tuck tail and run for the hills trying to win on a technicality.

Everything with this commie-come-lately clique is just whining, bitching, and cheating. They say "fight fight fight" but they have zero confidence in their ability to actually fight for anything.

Paying some neckbeards to fuck up a Gucci store once in a while isn't "fighting", dumbasses. Get out there and actually try being politicians for once.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (VoAdT)

211 Hamas Official Says 'Palestinian' State Gaining Support Due to October 7 Terror

People respond to incentives. Reward jihadis for terrorism and they will continue embracing terrorism.

And we've been mostly rewarding them since long before 9/11

Posted by: CPB at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (t0Rmr)

212 Also stay away from Chicory Root Extract aka Inulin. Trust.

Causes inexplicable cramping and gas pain in people and they have no idea. Gross shit.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (jRYyy)

213 Arrest them and eliminate ~~their positions~~ them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (ExV1e)

214 182 >>>Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (i24o9)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (bss/y)

215 At this point, Baghdad Bob is less delusional than the average Democrat in the House of Representatives.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (ASt0K)

216 If raping children is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Posted by: Our blessings of diversity at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (t0Rmr)

217 Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.
Posted by: ace at August 04, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

If you're past the sh*tting yourself part, check out a sample of the reviews for sugar free Haribo gummy bears on amazon. Hilarious!

https://tinyurl.com/yv2scp2h

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 04, 2025 01:08 PM (k9OZB)

218 At this point, Baghdad Bob is less delusional than the average Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (ASt0K)
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Heh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 01:08 PM (tT6L1)

219 Look at the Maryland congressional delegation if you want to see blatant gerrymandering. The state, except for he I95 corridor and Montgomery county, is as red as WV but there is a 7-1 democrat make up. All out lying red districts are given just enough MontCo or corridor population to make most of them democrat. It is insidious

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 04, 2025 01:08 PM (ycs3a)

220 I would let her her grease the center pivot on my Studebaker, and shoot my guns, any day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Oooh, if Sydney won't do it, I will! I have lots of experience being pivot man.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 04, 2025 01:08 PM (G5+As)

221 Note to self: No Chet Atkins candy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (63Dwl)

222 Hmmm ....

Boobs
Guns
Babes
Food
Booze
...
Projectile diarrhea?

Posted by: Elric at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

223 Ace your point about being unable sleep when you're going to shit sounds like the worst Cliff Clavin trivia ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (9hqnJ)

224 Arrest them and eliminate their positions.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:00 PM (ZRzmB)

You had me up until the fifth word

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (jRYyy)

225 >>>Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace

>So sorry to hear this, ace. During a bad case of the squirts, your ass starts to feel raw like after eating a batch of nasty jalapenos. Stay hydrated.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (9bq/n)

226 Happy anniversary, Swamp Rabbit!

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (0lzjf)

227 Also stay away from Chicory Root Extract aka Inulin. Trust.

Causes inexplicable cramping and gas pain in people and they have no idea. Gross shit.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:07 PM (jRYyy)

*makes mental note for enemies list*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (i24o9)

228 Madison had George Clinton as his first VP. Clinton died in office. No VP until next swearing in. Madison's next VP was Elbridge Gerry who also died in office. No VP until next swearing in.
Madison did not have VP luck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (9hqnJ)

He spent a lot of time talking about Prometheus and no one wanted the job.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

229 I tried a Dr Berg recommended kale/Blueberry/Kefir smoothie for... think it was to aid with fatty liver.

It was harsher than Colonoscopy prep.

Fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (bss/y)

230 Please let Abbott go all FAFO on their asses. That would be hilarious.

The howling from the Democrats would just be more howling that is the background noise of their existence.

Sweet. A lady on the Price is Right with Bob Barker just won a $7600 car. Good for her. And my ads are back to hot, young millionaire asian ladies in a city near me. Back to work.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.2% at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (jvJvP)

231 206 125 Somali child rapist gets light sentence from Minnesota court after mosque says he's "devoted family man" who's trying to figure out "new culture"

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Yeah, that whole don't rape kids thing is real hard to understand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (L/fGl)

*removes one testicle with a .45*

How about now?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Death penalty needs to come back for raping kids. I blame Anthony Kennedy personally for his bullshit opinions on the death penalty for causing needless American deaths and child rapes.

Pedophiles (not Pederasts) always go back to doing it if able. Truly sick and evil behavior.

Posted by: whig at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (ctrM5)

232 >>>Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Posted by: ace

>So sorry to hear this, ace. During a bad case of the squirts, your ass starts to feel raw like after eating a batch of nasty jalapenos. Stay hydrated.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (9bq/n)

Dude needs to write a book, The Nutritional Misadventures of Ace.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (i24o9)

233 *makes mental note for enemies list*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (i24o9)

You don't actually have a list.

And neither do I.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (jRYyy)

234 Yeah, I've tried those sugar free versions of hersheys and York peppermint patties and both gave me GI distress.

Best to just quit sugar altogether

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (1ZgD/)

235 "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary . . . "

Posted by: Associate Justice O'Connor, 2003 at August 04, 2025 01:11 PM (wVcYX)

236 >>>Arrest them and eliminate their positions them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Better point.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:11 PM (ZRzmB)

237 He spent a lot of time talking about Prometheus and no one wanted the job.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

He killed them with boring movie reviews from the future.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)

238 Yeah, that whole don't rape kids thing is real hard to understand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:54 PM (L/fGl)

*removes one testicle with a .45*

How about now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, rhetorical question
===

Save the cost of .45 (which is pretty expensive these days) and use an economical and sustainable ball peen hammer.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (17s+e)

239 Texas statutes and the constitution are pretty clear. These legislators have abandoned their seats and can be replaced. There isn’t any material argument they can make to the contrary. They’ve already sug that hole by stating they left the state to avoid a quorum. That’s not just a violation of the text, it’s an admission by of guilt. Their only hope
Is a friendly judge issues an injunction and gives them a chance to return.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (GH9Yd)

240 We could use a man like Percy Grimm again.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (MMp6W)

241 Political seats shouldn't be based on manufactured boundaries. Lay a grid over each state, with pre-determined dimensions and let that be the district a politico can run to represent.

Even if there's only a handful of residents.

See who actually decides it's worth the effort after that. Bet a lot of these freeloaders wouldn't take the effort.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

242 Most, if not all, US states had a system analogous to the Federal Electoral College, only at the state level - counties.

This served the same function as it has the same intent - prevent a large populous city from dominating the entire state, serving as a balance between urban and rural areas lacking the higher population centers.

SCOTUS struck those laws down. A long time ago. That was the lightning. The thunder we hear today, is rural parts of several states being completely disenfranchised. Wanting to attach themselves to other states, if not outright secession.

If you’ve wondered why or how this happened, look no further.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (I2gYJ)

243 Abandoning your post means the guv gets to fill your seat, no?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (1ZgD/)

244 Enough messing with Tensor, time for lunch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (ASt0K)

245 You don't actually have a list.

And neither do I.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:10 PM (jRYyy)

That's exactly what people with lists would want their enemies to think.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)

246 Save the cost of .45 (which is pretty expensive these days) and use an economical and sustainable ball peen hammer.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (17s+e)
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Don't forget the ritual "slap a hot iron to it" to staunch the bleeding.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (tT6L1)

247 Save the cost of .45 (which is pretty expensive these days) and use an economical and sustainable ball peen hammer.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (17s+e)

How about just a dead blow hammer? Save on the reps.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)

248 Somali child rapist gets light sentence from Minnesota court after mosque says he's "devoted family man" who's trying to figure out "new culture"

This raping of children is your custom; prepare the lubricant. But my nation has also a custom. When men rape children, we shoot them, and confiscate all their property. My snipers shall therefore ready their rifles with which to shoot all concerned when the child is raped. Let us all act according to national customs.

Posted by: Repurposed Quote at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (JCZqz)

249 You know, gravity is free.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (1ZgD/)

250 At the beginning of a two hour road trip home from work one night, I stopped into a store and bought some of that Body Armor stuff because I was crushingly dehydrated.

Turns out I need to read labels, because the ones I grabbed and chugged were "sugar free", as in sorbitol-full.

I've never clenched so hard, for so long, before or since that day.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 12:56 PM (VoAdT)

Why not sell "unsweetened" sodas and sports drinks? Not everyone needs to have their beverages sickly sweet. Sour is good, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (6LwyY)

251 In my blue area all the locales are claiming they were donating to CPB and will donate more to keep them going.

The fact they are shutting down without even trying to just work with donated money says these leftists were and are lying...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (t0Rmr)

252 Hakeem Jeffries: Texas Democrats have Trump and Republicans "running scared."

They're hiding out in a pillow fort in Chicago. They're really fearsome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

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

Odds that Obama has erected a "pillow fort" in Hakeem Jeffries' rectum?

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (qsa9v)

253 They're just misunderstood.

Hamas Forces Emaciated Israeli Hostage To Dig His Own Grave

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

254 So if they are in Chicago, and say...a dozen of them got shot, would anyone notice? Or care?
I mean, it is Chicago after all.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (W/lyH)

255 SCOTUS struck those laws down. A long time ago. That was the lightning. The thunder we hear today, is rural parts of several states being completely disenfranchised. Wanting to attach themselves to other states, if not outright secession.

Why, it's almost as if SCOTUS doesn't think through the implications of their overreach. Almost.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (Riz8t)

256 I'm sure the DEI admits on the SC will be able to get Roberts to hold the line.

Posted by: brak at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (jGJov)

257 >Steve Turley argues that ending the racial gerrymanders will effectively wipe out all Democrat congressional representation in the south and guarantee the Republican Party a minimum of 230 seats in Congress.
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no court will allow this

Posted by: Don Black. at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (AOsQT)

258 Well, didn't see that coming.

@nypost 1h
Start the presses! New York Post will expand to LA with launch of The California Post https://trib.al/LhHG9aB
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 04, 2025 12:58 PM (mlg/3)
*********
I think this is a great. More right leaning news to get the message out to the brainwashed Dems.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 01:14 PM (NpAcC)

259 Texas statutes and the constitution are pretty clear. These legislators have abandoned their seats and can be replaced. There isn’t any material argument they can make to the contrary.

Take the issue to a district judge. Make them appear to defend their seat (and be arrested and forced to attend the session) or they forfeit for failing to respond.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

260 During a bad case of the squirts, your ass starts to feel raw like after eating a batch of nasty jalapenos. Stay hydrated.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

That's nothing. You know what REALLY makes your ass raw?!?!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 04, 2025 01:15 PM (JCZqz)

261 Do Democrats not realize President Trump is more than willing to point out they consistently defend people who kill, maim and otherwise harm American citizens? Have Democrats not yet figured out they're no longer dealing with the GOPe?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 01:15 PM (tT6L1)

262
Madison had George Clinton as his first VP. Clinton died in office.

The day the funk died.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2025 01:15 PM (63Dwl)

263 Save the cost of .45 (which is pretty expensive these days) and use an economical and sustainable ball peen hammer.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (17s+e)

How about just a dead blow hammer? Save on the reps.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)

That sledgehammer carnival game. Tee up the teste and win a kewpi prize if you can ring the bell with it in one hammer blow.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (wVcYX)

264 In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM

Not sure how that's unattractive to American men. American soibois, yeah...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (dPfyF)

265 Abandoning your post means the guv gets to fill your seat, no?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (1ZgD/)

Ready for action. -- Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

266 Odds that Obama has erected a "pillow fort" in Hakeem Jeffries' rectum?

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring!
===

Redtum?!? Damn near killed him.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (17s+e)

267 264 In Effort To Paint Sydney Sweeney As Unattractive, Libs Teach American Men She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 04, 2025 12:46 PM

Not sure how that's unattractive to American men. American soibois, yeah...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (dPfyF)

Bee article. Satire.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (1ZgD/)

268 I wonder if Texas Democrats are pretending they're engaged in a righteous cause.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (Fm6XL)

269 She Is Republican Who Shoots Guns And Works On Classic Cars
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Satan's minions at work again!

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (jRYyy)

270 The squirts and riding a Vespa mix poorly. Especially if the roads are bumpy.

Posted by: Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (G5+As)

271
Why not sell "unsweetened" sodas and sports drinks? Not everyone needs to have their beverages sickly sweet. Sour is good, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2025 01:13 PM (6LwyY)
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Why drink those abominations at all? If I feel the need for a carbonated beverage, it darn well will contain some alcohol.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

272 268 I wonder if Texas Democrats are pretending they're engaged in a righteous cause.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (Fm6XL)

Well of course they are. Everything they do is to fight racism and Hitler.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (1ZgD/)

273 >>>Take the issue to a district judge. Make them appear to defend their seat (and be arrested and forced to attend the session) or they forfeit for failing to respond.

I rule that the Republicans have actually forfeited their seats by forcing the Democrats to do this. So there.

Posted by: Hawaii Judge at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (jGJov)

274 225 >>>Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.
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Would a butt plug work in this circumstance or insure a projectile explosion?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 04, 2025 01:18 PM (W3T6M)

275 Maybe the Texas Republicans should join the Dems in Chicago and hold the vote there....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 01:19 PM (VE6XX)

276 Bee article. Satire.

* buffs nails on lapel *

Posted by: Poe's Law at August 04, 2025 01:19 PM (/y8xj)

277 Would a butt plug work in this circumstance or insure a projectile explosion?
____________

Depends

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2025 01:19 PM (6o/ca)

278 Would a butt plug work in this circumstance or insure a projectile explosion?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 04, 2025 01:18 PM (W3T6M)

"We found her with a butt plug lodged in her abdomen and covered in diarrhea."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

279 >>Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

Didn't seem to be a problem for Biden.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (viF8m)

280 Nuts are the only snack people should eat.

YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE MY NUTS!

Posted by: Vince, The Slapchop Guy at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (ycs3a)

281 276 Bee article. Satire.

* buffs nails on lapel *

Posted by: Poe's Law at August 04, 2025 01:19 PM (/y8xj)

You're kidding me!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (1ZgD/)

282 Why drink those abominations at all? If I feel the need for a carbonated beverage, it darn well will contain some alcohol.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

This.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

283 >>>The squirts and riding a Vespa mix poorly. Especially if the roads are bumpy.
Posted by: Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad

Bumpin' Bad

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (ZRzmB)

284 Diarrhea is bad, C-Dif is worse.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (vbXSk)

285 Would a butt plug work in this circumstance or insure a projectile explosion?
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In the battle between fire hose diarrhea and butt plug, fire hose diarrhea always wins.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:21 PM (17s+e)

286 You're kidding me!

Maybe. Maybe not. How can you be sure?

Posted by: Poe's Law at August 04, 2025 01:21 PM (/y8xj)

287 188 After Years Of Refusing Reforms, The CPB Accepts Institutional Death Over Political Dishonor

It is official. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting finally accepted death over balance.
Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2025 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

The entire Left will do this, over any institution they control. This is why thoughts of "reform" of any such institutions is fantasy. Anything they control must be destroyed and rebuilt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 01:21 PM (uWKK8)

288 Any sufficiently advanced form of satire is indistinguishable from magic.

...

Wait, that's not how it goes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 01:22 PM (VoAdT)

289 286 You're kidding me!

Maybe. Maybe not. How can you be sure?
Posted by: Poe's Law at August 04, 2025 01:21 PM (/y8xj)

If only there were an independent truth purveyor to clear these things up!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:22 PM (1ZgD/)

290 f you're past the sh*tting yourself part, check out a sample of the reviews for sugar free Haribo gummy bears on amazon. Hilarious!

https://tinyurl.com/yv2scp2h

Can a TikTok challenge be far behind?

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2025 01:22 PM (Qgg5f)

291 The entire Left will do this, over any institution they control. This is why thoughts of "reform" of any such institutions is fantasy. Anything they control must be destroyed and rebuilt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 01:21 PM (uWKK

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^^^^^^ THIS!! SO MUCH THIS!!!! ^^^^^^

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:23 PM (17s+e)

292 Anything they control must be destroyed and rebuilt.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 01:21 PM (uWKK

Or, and hear me out here, just destroyed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

293
"We found her with a butt plug lodged in her abdomen and covered in diarrhea."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

The Elephant, the Monkey, and the Cork.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 01:23 PM (uWKK8)

294 133
On this day in 1984, the lovely Mrs. Rabbit and I were married.
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Happy Anniversary, Swamp Rabbit.

Posted by: scampydog at August 04, 2025 01:23 PM (2bFN5)

295 Bee article. Satire.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM

Hard to tell these days, innit?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2025 01:24 PM (dPfyF)

296 We can help you do the needful.

Just remember to pick your spot on the beach to shit first, because trust me you will not have much time.

Posted by: Some Indian buffett owner at August 04, 2025 01:24 PM (t0Rmr)

297 All I know is that whichever film Sweeny shows her chesticles in will reach 500 million bucks in a week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (1ZgD/)

298 Inevitable:

Sydney Sweeney now needs a security team

https://tinyurl.com/4mxcdprs

Posted by: Don Black. at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (AOsQT)

299 If only there were an independent truth purveyor to clear these things up!!

I tried!

Posted by: Not Quite Zombie Glenn Kessler at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (/y8xj)

300 298 Inevitable:

Sydney Sweeney now needs a security team

https://tinyurl.com/4mxcdprs
Posted by: Don Black. at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (AOsQT)

With how she shoots?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (1ZgD/)

301 272 268 I wonder if Texas Democrats are pretending they're engaged in a righteous cause.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 04, 2025 01:16 PM (Fm6XL)

Well of course they are. Everything they do is to fight racism and Hitler.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:17 PM (1ZgD/)

The Democrats, by their own campaign rhetoric, continue to lose every war they started since 1965. War on Poverty, War on Raycissm, War on Guns, War on Misogyny, War on Inflation, War on Republicans, War on White Supremacy, War on Christians, War on Nationalism, War on Populism, War on Middle Class Losing Ground Economically, and so on.

It's almost as if they never intended to win all the Wars they started.

Posted by: Gref at August 04, 2025 01:26 PM (aBgBM)

302 The comments from Amazon on sugar free gummy bears

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2JGNJ5ZPJT4YC

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 04, 2025 01:26 PM (17s+e)

303 Why drink those abominations at all? If I feel the need for a carbonated beverage, it darn well will contain some alcohol.
Posted by: blake

Have you seen my video on making homemade Kvass?
https://tinyurl.com/3kx8mxbx

Posted by: Boris at August 04, 2025 01:26 PM (JCZqz)

304 /sock. Back to the grind.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 04, 2025 01:27 PM (/y8xj)

305
Sydney Sweeney now needs a security team

https://tinyurl.com/4mxcdprs
Posted by: Don Black. at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (AOsQT)

She's likely had a security team when she's out in public.

The dumb c*nt yelling at her is just another paid braindead shill.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

306 All I know is that whichever film Sweeny shows her chesticles in will reach 500 million bucks in a week.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (1ZgD/)

I believe that she has already been very naked in multiple films.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

307 "Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load"

This seems apropos to the current conversation, especially since Jackson Browne is an asshole...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 04, 2025 01:28 PM (n9ltV)

308 I believe that she has already been very naked in multiple films.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:28 PM (ExV1e

And you don't list them with proper spelling and year released?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:29 PM (1ZgD/)

309 164 Weird thing about the word “gerrymander”: It’s pronounced with a soft “g,”’ but the surname means it’s derived from, “Gerry,” is pronounced with a hard “g.”

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Jesus, Gerry!

Posted by: Tom Haverford, Pawnee Parks and Recreation at August 04, 2025 01:29 PM (wqxP9)

310 Marketing opportunity:

Sweeny does a commercial for a private security firm. She says "Some people are crazy, so I had to get a bodyguard. This is my bodyguard. Hey bodyguard. Nice guns."

Camera pans over to bodyguard who is a giga-chad man-mountain busting the seams of an XS t-shirt, with some pistols carried OWB. He smiles and says "Thanks, Sidney."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 01:29 PM (VoAdT)

311 Political seats shouldn't be based on manufactured boundaries. Lay a grid over each state, with pre-determined dimensions and let that be the district a politico can run to represent.

Even if there's only a handful of residents.

See who actually decides it's worth the effort after that. Bet a lot of these freeloaders wouldn't take the effort.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

If it's rep by pop, take the population of State X, say it's 21 million, and each million people get 2 reps. So, start at the southern boundary, and scroll a line North until, from most recent Census data, you have 500,000 people South of that line. There's your first district. Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2025 01:29 PM (6LwyY)

312 >>>Diarrhea is bad, C-Dif is worse.
Posted by: illiniwek

Much worse.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:30 PM (ZRzmB)

313 I believe that she has already been very naked in multiple films.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

And it is much appreciated.

Can she act, or are her skills more narrowly focused?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 04, 2025 01:30 PM (n9ltV)

314
What would happen to any of us who didn't show up for work?

FIRED.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 04, 2025 01:30 PM (IifOV)

315
Sydney Sweeney now needs a security team

https://tinyurl.com/4mxcdprs
Posted by: Don Black. at August 04, 2025 01:25 PM (AOsQT)

The party of inclusion and tolerance strikes again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

316 Can she act, or are her skills more narrowly focused?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 04, 2025 01:30 PM (n9ltV)

She had a very small part in a Tarantino movie and was fine.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:31 PM (jRYyy)

317 Ace:

Long as I remember
The brown rain been comin' down
Clouds of misery pourin'
Confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages
Tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder
Still, I wonder
Who'll stop brown rain

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 04, 2025 01:31 PM (i24o9)

318 So Abbot is gonna charge them with bribery? Was it the Free Plane ride or what am I missing

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 04, 2025 01:32 PM (FCrpy)

319 So the headline story right now is Sydney Sweeney is a Republican ? And.... I believe the Republican party has more registered voters than Dems now? So it's some sort of crime to be registered as a member of the GOP ? People definitely have too much time on their hands...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2025 01:32 PM (VE6XX)

320 6 All I know is that whichever film Sweeny shows her chesticles in will reach 500 million bucks in a week.

What happens if she doesn't show her chestickles- not to a large extent anyway?. Is she actually a good actress? I have never seen her in anything

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 01:32 PM (2GCMq)

321
I believe that she has already been very naked in multiple films.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

She's also had nudes and a sex tape 'leaked.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

322 There's some satisfaction
In the San Francisco rain
No matter what comes down
The Mission stays the same

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2025 01:33 PM (viF8m)

323 What's the lesson from this thread? Sorbitol is bad, but damitol and fukitol are OK?

Posted by: Sweet Repose at August 04, 2025 01:33 PM (G5+As)

324 Below, Steve Turley argues that ending the racial gerrymanders will effectively wipe out all Democrat congressional representation in the south and guarantee the Republican Party a minimum of 230 seats in Congress. (218 seats are needed for the majority.)

LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 04, 2025 01:33 PM (wtvvX)

325 Bizarre snake-like gerrymanders slither throughout states

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This is where the term gerrymander comes from. It’s called gerrymander because a guy in Massachusetts created districts that looked like a salamander and his name was Gerry. Hence Gerrymander.

Snake line gerrymander is kinda like saying wet water.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 04, 2025 01:34 PM (EB4n3)

326 Sorry. I see that CBD already asked my question.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 01:34 PM (2GCMq)

327 >>> 242 Most, if not all, US states had a system analogous to the Federal Electoral College, only at the state level - counties.

This served the same function as it has the same intent - prevent a large populous city from dominating the entire state, serving as a balance between urban and rural areas lacking the higher population centers.

SCOTUS struck those laws down. A long time ago. That was the lightning. The thunder we hear today, is rural parts of several states being completely disenfranchised. Wanting to attach themselves to other states, if not outright secession.

If you’ve wondered why or how this happened, look no further.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2025 01:12 PM (I2gYJ)

Saved comments from Sarah Hoyt's place:

Nathan C. Brindle says:November 6, 2024 at 6:18 pm
FWIW, there are three cases, all from the Warren *spit* Court, that are involved.
Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964)
Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964)

TXRed says:November 6, 2024 at 6:43 pm
Baker is the key case. It had a double whammy: states must redistrict every 10 years, and the federal courts may intervene in redistricting.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2025 01:34 PM (ULPxl)

328 >>She's also had nudes and a sex tape 'leaked.'

This information is useless without links.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2025 01:35 PM (viF8m)

329 NOOD

commies hate boobs

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2025 01:35 PM (ULPxl)

330 >>>I believe that she has already been very naked in multiple films.

God Bless her.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:35 PM (ZRzmB)

331 So Abbot is gonna charge them with bribery? Was it the Free Plane ride or what am I missing
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

I think it was from soliciting donations to cover their $500 a day fine. Crazy.

Posted by: Cheri at August 04, 2025 01:36 PM (oiNtH)

332 I hope Sweeney's boobs are armed.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 04, 2025 01:36 PM (Fm6XL)

333 And you don't list them with proper spelling and year released?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2025 01:29 PM (1ZgD/)

A quick search suggests the following:

The Voyeurs (2021)
Anyone But You (no idea)
Euphoria s01e06 (2019)
Possibly also "Everything Sucks", "Vikes", and "Along Came the Devil"

I've seen none of these so I cannot confirm quality.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 01:36 PM (ExV1e)

334 God Bless her.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:35 PM (ZRzmB)

Already did

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025 01:36 PM (jRYyy)

335 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul accuses Texas Republicans of drawing “racist lines” to disenfranchise “communities of color.”

https://tinyurl.com/32dentr5

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2025 01:37 PM (NpAcC)

336 >>>NOOD

commies hate boobs
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Depends of the commies.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:37 PM (ZRzmB)

337 >>>Already did
Posted by: ... at August 04, 2025

LOL

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2025 01:38 PM (ZRzmB)

338 Over at Insty, there's a link to a story that the New York Post will start a new publication named the "California Post" in LA. It will likely need a bunker complex and armed security for the duration. Baghdad-style resupply logistics, too.

Posted by: mrp at August 04, 2025 01:38 PM (rj6Yv)

339 If Governor Abbott of the Republic of Texas says these carpetbagges/scalawags vacated (abandoned) their posts, then that's the law.

Posted by: Eromero at August 04, 2025 01:43 PM (LHPAg)

340
Here's a Fun Fact: You can't fall asleep or stay asleep when you're on the verge of shitting yourself every ten minutes.

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Sure ya can, fat!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 04, 2025 01:45 PM (AFztM)

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