This is actually why I moved from Illinois to Wisconsin. "Land of sky-blue waters" imprinted on my six-year old brain, and I just hadda see for myself.
As for the waters, you should see Lake Mendota in the summer: Bright green, the consistency of latex paint, smells like the Wrigley Field men's room.
Hey, what a coinkydink that Mandate For Leadership points out Greenland for its upcoming value in tourism and resources! Any mention of why that might be happening? Of course not!
BTW, this seems to be where the climate denialists are now, "Sure, it's happening, but we can't know FOR SURE whether it's good or bad." Preparing to sell time-shares in Greenland, I suppose.
Thanks for keeping an eye on the outrage brigade. Meanwhile, I’ve got to start counting those 57 genders Don Jr was talking about. That’s a lot of genders! The look on the old demon’s face was pretty rich, that broad, doped up smile—he looked like a frog I had to dissect in class once. Just keep that ass-kissing coming, don’t mind me if I doze. Vance’s speech was dull, but just like there’s no oaf like a buckeye state oaf* there’s no dullard like an Ohio dullard.
*The ‘Fred Willard Law.’ I can say that because my dad was from Canton, O.
"Want some french fries for that ketchup?" I loved that verbal picture Schvantz was painting of Donny bringing them in for a hug, and Don Jr and Eric squirming. "Jeez, dad, don't be a fruit!"
Funny you should mention it. I had the thought that, once in office, Trump (mercurial, stupid, uncontrollable, old) would be bumped off and Vance (young, ruthless, not insane) would step it. So I found on You Tube Angela Lansbury's climactic speech to Laurence Harvey about whom he should kill, and when, so that they'll be swept into office with powers "that will make martial law look like anarchy." Fun Fact: I thought, while watching that, "Oh, right--two Brit actors playing Americans in a movie about the presidency."
Aw, crist, now I'm remembering TWENTY YEARS AGO when they had to have "W Brand Ketchup" for their Freedom Fries because argle bargle Theresa Heinz-Kerry.
People have been bringing up the Manchurian Candidate, here's another parallel: That breakfast-table scene where her idiot McCarthyite Senator husband begs Angela Lansbury: "Can we just settle on one, nice, simple number for how many Communists there are in the State Department?" and their eyes fall on the bottle of ketchup.
We've got too much to remember already! Why there's the Chosen One, the Dynamic Duo, the Three Stooges, the Four Noble Truths, the Five Chances, the Six Degrees of Separation, the Seven Samurai, the Eightfold Path ... the Ocean's Eleven, the Dirty Dozen ... The Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover. And now the Fifty-Seven Genders?!
BTW someone mentioned "dynasty" yesterday in relation to the VP and all I can think of now is Preznit Don Jr., tripping balls at his first SOTU and the legacy press gushing over him. "But he snorted coke off the podium!" "And Hunter Biden smoked crack! Bothsides!"
(Also: yes, the section on the DOJ in Mandate For Leadership does, indeed, mention HB's fucking laptop. Because they couldn't show the dick pics in the 2020 election. They mention this TWICE. So far. 🙄)
The Republican who shot at Trump only hit his ear but he was trying to kill him and he did use an AR-15 and the fact that this didn’t make Trump and everyone else go, “Shit, Biden’s right, let’s ban those things!” is another example of Scalise Syndrome, where unlike Brady your misunderstanding of the Second Amendment is so Scalia-ed in your brain that you can’t produce a rational thought of self-projection.
The Hardcore rags are complaining Jim Dave is being smeared with one quote, but I didn’t think that quote would be the Labour/Islamist one. When you’ve got the guy who has been sucking Trump’s toes to try to get on the ticket on record comparing Trump to Hitler, you really only need that one quote, more would be superfluous.
Have you seen the jar of formaldehyde that sum bitch's cock is in? (No, for reals). Hung like a horse. "He had this mystical power over the ladies". Yeah, all nine inches of it. Sheesh.
I knew you'd say that. Wish I coulda got a bet in Vegas, because as surely if I drop a hammer on a planet with positive gravity, I do not need to see the hammer fall to know it has, in fact, fallen.
(ST:TOS "Court Martial" Quoted often in Casa de Little Pig)
I will admit to being delighted with the Sotomayor/Second Amendment thing. Had a Rightwinger bring that up right after it happened and it was clear that "Oh, she was saved by the Second Amendment she hates!!!" was the programmed talking point. I pointed out to him that, yes, the carjacker was shot to death BY STATE-SANCTIONED POLICE and not just some random armed citizen. Which pretty much makes the exact opposite of your Second Amendment argument. "Oh."
Shot: yesterday morning I got one of those rare pieces of liberal hardcore from something called Capital Sentinel, telling me “Biden Backs New ‘Game-Changer for Humanity’ Technology”! Well, you go Joe, right? Long story short, it links to a pitch for buying stock in Nvidia.
Chaser: yesterday afternoon, Nvidia stock, along with that of multiple other chipmakers, tanks when Tubbie says he won’t defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. Insert sad trombone sound here.
" Count Alucard " Thiel the most. We need to replace " Shark Tank " with " Billionaire Deathmatch. "
The billionaires have figured out they can buy Trump pretty cheap which just makes everything even more difficult.
There's a good chance that cheesy con man Trump has gone all Max Bialystock on their asses and sold 25,000% of his presidency. I would actually be in favor.
Take this however y'all want -- at the moment, I think it's in good faith -- but after the disaster that's coming next winter*, will it even be worth it running this hardcore series?
(*Shifty Schiff's screwing of Biden on Wednesday strongly suggests that like the DNC/DCCC doesn't care about having a majority in the House, the party's also cool about losing the White House. As a de facto for-profit grift, Job 1 is pulling in the money. Don't need to be in power for that, just need a threat to point at to hoover (yes, pun) the money from the rubes.
(Dumping Biden, as a practical matter, means giving the election to Trump as follows: Harris has to replace him as candidate. As such, if she ends up as POTUS-elect (unlikely given the Electoral College) or POTUS in case Biden resigns, she cannot be in charge of House proceedings on 1/6/2025. The Speaker gets honors, which is to say a Trump tool. So when the Rs start pulling shit -- which they will -- they will have freedom to do so.)
So Republican voters are imbeciles and morons. They're also en route to the final victory, sooner if not later but inevitably so, you know, the humor of course would be there yet not be all that funny.
I voted for Schiff in the California primary and the guy has done nothing but make me regret it ever since. First he went all in on Israel, and now this. I feel like I voted for a Republican double agent who's seizing the opportunity to trash Democratic chances.
And FFS, the whole "Someone younger! Anyone!" drive is so blatantly a fantasy. Would be nice if we had journalists to ask, "Great, who do you have in mind as candidate instead, and which polls are you using to conclude 'Biden can't win' -- or is it just vibes, you goggle-eyed panicking bomb-thrower?"
Yeah, there were/are solid reasons to vote for Schiff. He did a great job as a leader of the first impeachment team. He is a good public speaker and smart. The other choices, Katherine Porter and Barbara Lee, seemed less likely to become effective Senate leaders; Porter is very good on TV but per rumor less so behind the scenes, and Lee is willing to stand alone on big moral issues (she voted against invading Iraq) but also most likely to end up standing alone on them. I suppose Schiff is smart enough and backroom-savvy enough that he would not make a public announcement of Biden's Doom unless he has moved the ball forward on a viable replacement scheme... but I am not *sure* he has done that work, and I'm not sure I want that.
They don’t ask that question because, to them, it doesn’t matter. Their entire goal is a brokered convention, the holy grail of political events. What candidate do they want? All of them, and at the same time! A Wrestlemania style battle royale! Sure, it would destroy the Dems and guarantee fascist victory in November, but who cares, what a story to cover! Fuckers, the lot of ‘em.
This is my fear. Journalists (and people in general) who think causing the collapse of the republic is more heroic than managing the continued stablity of it.
I raise my hand, timidly, to ask a gentle question: These nearly 5000 delegates at the convention in Chicago, were they chosen randomly from among The American People? Or are they all Dem-party insiders, Biden delegates, chosen as Biden delegates because of their loyalty to one Joseph Robinette Biden?
So sure, let's all have the spectacle and then be bitterly disappointed when 5000 of Joe's best pals all vote for Joe Biden. The perfect outcome, if you're the Prestige Press or you just want Trump to win (but I repeat myself.)
Let me just say, for the record that doesn't exist, that I truly don't understand why anyone not a plutocrat or a MAGA imbecile would want Trump to win. Forget...you know..."democracy" or "morality." I can't see how Trump 2.0 can be anything but a disaster for the economy, for Wall Street, for business in general. Am I wrong?
That's me as well. Forced church services, forced birth, the unexpected knock at the door in the middle of the night? Yeah, unless all these jokers are short sellers, it makes absolutely no sense.
Not sure if you're talking about November but here in Wisconsin we don't even consider that winter. Not even close. Winter starts in January, Christmas is in Late Fall.
Here's a better Q: what's the name of the Mexican restaurant we enjoyed in Madison -- in part because they had a Thursday evening happy hour that coincided with us being there on a Thursday?
Aw dammit. One of the best meals of my life, accompanied by a statuesque Valkyrie I was graced to have a co-worker on that project. She stole every eye in the place. Was I strutting like a peacock? You bet your ass.
The Congressional Dems are gonna be pretty embarrassed when Holy Golden God-Emperor Savior Of Humanity (CF) Donald I dissolves Congress for contradicting His Holy Word.
Why would he do that? Only the (coming, inevitable) R majority can write his middle class-fucking tax cuts -- a rerun of 2019 with open-ended cuts for the wealthy, sunset provisions for the middle class.
What I don't understand is why it's important to know the outcome nearly four months in advance? You got a bet down somewhere? I'm fine with "I don't know." Because making predictions is hard, especially when they're about the future.
I’m willing to put the money except I don’t think there’s profit to betting on a sure thing.
And to be clearer because I know I’m failing, the pessimism is in direct proportion to the importance of the office: the higher the office, the greater the pessimism. The flip side of that is that local races matter, governorships may matter depending where, some state legislature races matter.
But how important is it to be correct about the future? I mean, is it more important to THINK the right things or to DO the right things?
Myself, I'm kind of a utilitarian: I'm prepared to think whatever I need to think so that I do the things I should do.
If thinking there's still a chance means I do more to help defeat the fascists, then that's what I'm gonna think. I honestly don't care if it turns out later I was wrong, that will be the least of our problems.
I'm not a conspiracy guy, usually, but I am starting to notice we have a national press corps who spent two weeks angrily demanding detail upon detail about Biden's health because he looked real tired... and they seem content to ask zero questions about Trump's injury, the shooter and the shooter's family... I mean two days after Sandy Hook I could draw you the blueprint of that asshole's house.
Then I think of how the Vegas shooter was stuffed right into a black box, and it seems Crooks is being stuffed in there too. It makes me itchy. Is there is some undercurrent in the nation the law and the fourth estate do not want to discuss with us? What exactly it might be, I don't know. But I feel like I'm smelling something real weird maybe coming from the basement and no one wants to get the flashlight and go see what.
Secondhand, but I'm hearing he was carrying a 20' ladder, the building was where the police were assembling, and the Secret Service had an eye on him for 20 minutes.
But, again as someone said, this probably is less conspiracy than straight up incompetence.
Getting into someplace by just acting like you belong there is surprisingly easy, especially if you’re a white guy. Back in the day I used to travel a lot for trade shows and conferences, and a lot of the time these were held in big hotels or convention centers that had several other events going on at the same time. As just another white guy in a suit with a love of free beer, I routinely crashed events regardless of whether it was put on by the show I was attending or not. And I rarely got caught. I have no doubt that every cop and secret service guy who saw some guy brazenly carrying around a rifle and ladder thought he just had to be law enforcement…right?
Jerzy Kosinski (sp?) used to say that you could walk around any corporate office in the world as long as you wore a suit and carried a manilla envelope.
The greatest heist I know of personally, friends lifted a taxidermied bear from a seasonal mall display by wearing white jumpsuits and carrying a clipboard. When security asked, they said "We're taking it to get it cleaned." A newspaper reported the stolen bear's value at $10,000. (They returned it -- they just wanted to see what they could get away with, they did not want a bear.)
(all you need is a clipboard, and free beer and pizza are yours for the taking. Well, a clipboard and moderate bullshitting skills. Being OP level bullshitter, I've even scored shittons of chocolate. Official taster, you know)
Nah, several witnesses interviewed by the BBC said he "bear climbed", which I took to be shinnied up a pipe or some such, up to the roof. No ladder needed, and way way too conspicuous. It's not hard to get on a roof like that (or it wasn't when I was twenty years younger). Hell, we used to pull that stuff all the time. Easy peasy for a 20 year old.
You are not wrong. CNN, after being purchased by a right-wing billionaire (and losing money hand over fist) is in the tank for Trump. The NYT is clearly in the tank for Trump, because the dumbasses don't know it's up against the wall for you. Hell, even MSNBC, with the damnable Katy Tur idolising Trump, is just following corporate master NBC.
It's either a) perform enough analingus on Trump and he'll let us keep our jobs, or b) cynical corporate types thinking they make beaucoup blow-dough in the new economy. Both are ridiculous beliefs. Orange-Glo never forgets a slight, and Handmaid's Tale America will not generate tons of money. I just hope I live to see them fall. I've already sent a note to Chuck Todd saying he and I have an appointment in the camps.
Tee hee. You remind me of one of those arrow signs you put the letters on. In Flippin, Arkansas as I recall. It was for a movie rental joint, and they displayed two current films they had in stock. Put both titles on the same line.
Today at the RNC, Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden is claiming he was assaulted by a Palestinian woman outside the Pfister hotel, calling it "an act of political violence". The woman says they got in an argument and he bumped her. She was held briefly by the cops and let go, probably because nobody was hurt and there was no evidence.
And we all know how this goes from here, right? Fox and other right-wing media play up "Republican Congressman ASSAULTED by HAMAS in HORRIBLE Milwaukee", and if the DA decides to drop the whole thing, they add it to the grievance list, how Antifa burned down the entire city of Portland and no one was arrested, but those poor J6 hostages sit in jail, singin' their poor hearts out.
Geez, they are such snowflakes! That's why I don't particularly fear the coming "Second American Revolution", because these jokers are internet tough-guys taken out by a hangnail.
Old men have been running things since forever, and now it's a problem all of a sudden?
You go to war with the knowledgeable, successful, decent president you have, not the one you might want.
(I noticed that Rumsfeld's 2nd clause is far clunkier than we remember. "..., not the army you might want, or might wish to have at a later time." I get the idea that he could have added further qualifications, sun setting slowly behind him, but decided to err on the side of brevity.)
Time was when the wisdom of a fool connoted some timely but uncomfortable comment that could only be assayed from behind a fool's mask. Would that I were such a fool in the court of public opinion.
Trump is an idiot with no silver lining. Biden is a savant. Not the prettiest onion, but a good one.
I was ready to bail when I heard him claim "Nobody's done more for the Palestinians" on a radio show, but, SIGH, we're stuck with him I guess. See, unlike a sitting US Congressman, I actually THINK before I phone up the New York Times.
Nevertheless, I can imagine the impact of that statement on any Palestinian-American who's lost family in Gaza.
When "uninstructed" was a thing in the Wisconsin Dem primary and got nearly 15% (including my vote) I thought, "Eh, it's OK, I'm sure 90% of these folks will come around by November" But if Joe's gonna keep pokin' 'em in the eye with a sharp stick, now I'm not so sure.
Could be. I still think Uncle Joe plays a different game on a broader scale and maybejustmaybe kept the whole region from becoming (so far) the melted-glass wet dream site of the Hallelujahans.
But now I write it, it stands to reason that the Palestinians get little outta the deal either way except dead.
I know everyone on the internet thinks they're an expert at "messaging", but I really don't think this is all that difficult: "Yes, this is a tragedy, my heart bleeds for the loss of life on both sides, we're working hard to bring peace to this troubled land. Oh, look at the time! Well, it's been nice talking to you!" Yeah, it's bullshit, but it's not bullshit that so directly antagonizes people who are already mad at you.
He's Karl Becker?!! Son of a bitch, I thought he passed away in 1968....
Oh wait. You're being figurative.. Ahhhh. Markie don't play that. And certainly not with that movie (Goddamn Gone With The Wind, that pro-CSA propaganda bullshit should NOT have won Best Picture! PROTIP: Don't cheer the burning of Atlanta in a Southern theater. Only our youth saved our asses)
I gotta admit, I didn't have "Democrats go all Jimmy Carter on Biden's ass" on my bingo card. Has there been anything in Hardcore about that? Seems a natural: Democrats Admit Sleepy Joe Can't Wake Up! You Won't Believe What Slow Talkin/Sleep Walkin Joe Called Kamala! Is Joe Biden Dead? Doctors Disagree! I could do this all day. They could sell suppliments as "the drug White House doctors give Joe to keep him awake more than 4 hours a day". Anything other that talking about Trump getting shot by, who was that guy again? Matt something, right? Or was that the Vegas guy?
I feel these are the same kind of people who were all "LONDONISTAN!!!" when Sadiq Khan got reelected as Mayor of London.
The GOP really does appear to have a plan to simultaneously do Empire AND Isolationism, where we sell others weapons and sanction them if they don't raise their "defense" spending, we dominate the Pacific, the Arctic, and the whole fucking Northern Hemisphere, ready to fight two wars simultaneously, but we ignore other nations and international agreements if they don't directly benefit the USA. Oh, and strengthen relations with "Eastern European states", which I'm assuming means Orban's Hungary.
Did they have a similar reaction to Rishi Sunak? Or is being a billionaire a special immunizing bubble that surrounds you and protects you from all racism?
Rishi must have wanted to spend more time with his wife's money, because calling an election when it's running Labour 2, Tories 1 there was no doubt about the outcome.
Such a sacrifice he made to enter "public service" when he could just be soakin' up the sun on his yacht in the Mediterranean. But did the people of Britain appreciate his sacrifice? Apparently, they did not.
Well put. It's incoherent. More improvisatory than the domestic stuff. History and geopolitics are boring and confusing. Even the bullet points are, like, endless. Slide after slide after slide. Ah well, they can always get rich(er) and abscond to redoubts.
I heard a clip of a convention speech where some Republican Congressman said "We need to win the AI war with China." Of course no actual policy attached, a liberal could bore your ears off with talk of government grants for research...zzzzzzzzzzz but on the Republican side it's important to stoke the fears and never do a thing to alleviate or respond to them. Just keep 'em simmering in permanent state of fear and hate.
Like Biden has this thing, the CHIPS act, trying to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the US, looks like it's having some effect, but who knows, he should have just called it CHIPS WAR and then had the legislation be a stack of blank pages.
Their plan would probably be tax cuts, credits of some sort. No concern whether the plan worked, only whether somebody could profit off it.
The most frightening thing about AI is its potential for warfare. All the research can be (or already is) purposed for some form of conflict. China will force us to compete around doing things nobody should do. It'll make the quest for nuclear arsenals look like kids collecting marbles. (Although the marbles won't have the same raw destructive power -- nothing can.)
durr durr durr VD Vance has only been in office a tiny skosh and we know nothing about him durr
HE WROTE AN ENTIRE FUCKING BOOK YOU WILLFULLY ILLITERATE ASSCLOWNS A BOOK THAT EVERYONE OBSESSED OVER FOR MONTHS THEY EVEN MADE A FUCKING MOVIE WHY DO YOU THINK WE'RE THIS FUCKING STUPID
You ain't kidding. As a fer-real hillbilly (Western Division) I want to meet that sorry son of a bitch in a dark alley.
Oh look, I'm a weak old, old man. Come closer, J.D. that I may hear your words.... (waits for him to get within four feet of this weak old,old man....)
Headline: "Trump supporters bandage ears in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters raise stupid, vicious children in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters assault beauty pageant contestants in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters commit dozens of felonies in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters consume horse paste in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters call US service members who died in war 'losers' and 'suckers' in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters stand in middle of 5th Avenue shooting people in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters attempt to hang vice president in act of solidarity with former president"
Headline: "Trump supporters buy Greenland in act of solidarity with former president"
"nine Supreme Court Justices standing around in their robes and dropping their jaws"
Vultures everyvere...
It’s so unbelievable. Now if they told me each of the republican Supreme Clerics *unhinged* their jaws and swallowed a live capybara, I’d believe it.
I came for the waters, the healing waters of Minneapolis.
Aw dammit, you triggered the Hamm's beer commercial in me widdle brain.
"From the land of sky blue waters (waters)
Comes the beer refreshing
Comes the beer refreshing
Hamm's"
Excellent ad. The beer...well....
The great beer drinking brotherhood...of Hamm's! How to succeed in advertising without really trying?
This is actually why I moved from Illinois to Wisconsin. "Land of sky-blue waters" imprinted on my six-year old brain, and I just hadda see for myself.
As for the waters, you should see Lake Mendota in the summer: Bright green, the consistency of latex paint, smells like the Wrigley Field men's room.
Indeed. But hey, it ain't Lake Menona, where Otis Redding waits eternally on the dock of the bay.
"Thump thump thump thump/Thump thump thump thump"
Also, sponsor of Cubs broadcasts in the late fifties/early sixties.
Damn bro. Brickhouse in da house!!!
Gotta love the sound effects.
Give the drumma some!
Nah, they're just buyin' STOCK in Greenland. You can see it right here on the fancy stock certificates they mailed me!
If you care to broaden your portfolio, I got a tip about a bridge ...
Bugs Bunny: And dat's how Steve Brodie jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge
Geezer: Ok son, you've convinced me. I'll buy it!
Hey, what a coinkydink that Mandate For Leadership points out Greenland for its upcoming value in tourism and resources! Any mention of why that might be happening? Of course not!
Because we're gonna melt off all the ice with the tailpipe emissions from our Rolling Coal pickups and a verdant paradise will be revealed beneath?
BTW, this seems to be where the climate denialists are now, "Sure, it's happening, but we can't know FOR SURE whether it's good or bad." Preparing to sell time-shares in Greenland, I suppose.
Nah, Jewish Space Lasers. Get with the program, bucko!
Headline: "Trump supporters raid SCIF and remove classified national security documents in act of solidarity with former president"
Glad a few a yinz picked up the baton on this thread.
Nicely done!
Headline: "Trump supporters bury classified documents in their ex-wives graves on a golf course in act of solidarity with former president"
Heh heh heh. You think you're kidding, friend....
Nobody checked the Mar-a-Lago room that Trump told them not to check. They certainly won't dig up what oddly looks like a fresh grave.
Thanks for keeping an eye on the outrage brigade. Meanwhile, I’ve got to start counting those 57 genders Don Jr was talking about. That’s a lot of genders! The look on the old demon’s face was pretty rich, that broad, doped up smile—he looked like a frog I had to dissect in class once. Just keep that ass-kissing coming, don’t mind me if I doze. Vance’s speech was dull, but just like there’s no oaf like a buckeye state oaf* there’s no dullard like an Ohio dullard.
*The ‘Fred Willard Law.’ I can say that because my dad was from Canton, O.
A Heinz for every gender!
Naturally, his tribe does a shout out for ketchup. (Came in so handy Saturday.)
Blowback.
"Want some french fries for that ketchup?" I loved that verbal picture Schvantz was painting of Donny bringing them in for a hug, and Don Jr and Eric squirming. "Jeez, dad, don't be a fruit!"
Jr and Earache getting a hug? First time for everything...
Anticipation. Anticipation, it's making me wait, it's keeping me waaaay-ting
They'll never love it as much as mayo.
Jeez, so many triggers today.
"Good times are flowing
people having fun
life flows like a river
like ketchup on a bun....
Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup
Them as has ears, let them hear....
A quote from the original Manchurian Candidate movie?
Funny you should mention it. I had the thought that, once in office, Trump (mercurial, stupid, uncontrollable, old) would be bumped off and Vance (young, ruthless, not insane) would step it. So I found on You Tube Angela Lansbury's climactic speech to Laurence Harvey about whom he should kill, and when, so that they'll be swept into office with powers "that will make martial law look like anarchy." Fun Fact: I thought, while watching that, "Oh, right--two Brit actors playing Americans in a movie about the presidency."
Aw, crist, now I'm remembering TWENTY YEARS AGO when they had to have "W Brand Ketchup" for their Freedom Fries because argle bargle Theresa Heinz-Kerry.
That is a deep cut, you should get a conspicuous bandage for that.
Beat me to it!
People have been bringing up the Manchurian Candidate, here's another parallel: That breakfast-table scene where her idiot McCarthyite Senator husband begs Angela Lansbury: "Can we just settle on one, nice, simple number for how many Communists there are in the State Department?" and their eyes fall on the bottle of ketchup.
Ketchup is RED.
THINK ABOUT IT.
NUH HUH they told me there are 100 genders now and you have to memorize the pronouns for ALL OF THEM or they'll arrest you for hate criming
he, her, him, ham, hem, hum, hör, hür, dür...
who, me?
And half the people in Chinatown turn to look at you....
Sorry, old racist joke, but a good one.
We've got too much to remember already! Why there's the Chosen One, the Dynamic Duo, the Three Stooges, the Four Noble Truths, the Five Chances, the Six Degrees of Separation, the Seven Samurai, the Eightfold Path ... the Ocean's Eleven, the Dirty Dozen ... The Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover. And now the Fifty-Seven Genders?!
The Seven Samurai, from memory, are [counts on fingers]:
Kikuchiyo, Dopey, Sloth, Doc, Gluttony, Pride, and ... Kyuzo.
Frodo of The Nine Fingers
Thumb, Index, Ring ... scratch that
You forgot Upraised.
Because it's an adjective. Let's not get silly here.
The Dirty Thirty, the Naughty Forty, the Shifty Fifty, the Filthy Five... (courtesy John Cooper Clarke)
I wasn't aware of that guy!
Long time fan here - he's great! A couple of favorites here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxm0VZO7l0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htHwVmfiTYA
https://fo-fo.facebook.com/100044085773601/videos/its-a-hire-car-babyy-%EF%B8%8F/159908962619627/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZpa-tY8hzI
BTW someone mentioned "dynasty" yesterday in relation to the VP and all I can think of now is Preznit Don Jr., tripping balls at his first SOTU and the legacy press gushing over him. "But he snorted coke off the podium!" "And Hunter Biden smoked crack! Bothsides!"
(Also: yes, the section on the DOJ in Mandate For Leadership does, indeed, mention HB's fucking laptop. Because they couldn't show the dick pics in the 2020 election. They mention this TWICE. So far. 🙄)
"What the media just did to J.D. Vance was simply horrible"
They didn't fuck his sister, did they? I hear he gets really mad if anybody messes with his squeeze.
Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama have just entered the chat.
Damn girl! As an Arkansas hillbilly.....I think that is funny as all hell. Here, let me ask my wife. "Hey, Sis, don't you think that was funny?"
The Republican who shot at Trump only hit his ear but he was trying to kill him and he did use an AR-15 and the fact that this didn’t make Trump and everyone else go, “Shit, Biden’s right, let’s ban those things!” is another example of Scalise Syndrome, where unlike Brady your misunderstanding of the Second Amendment is so Scalia-ed in your brain that you can’t produce a rational thought of self-projection.
"Shit! Biden's finally gunnin' fer the Emperor!" is what they actually assumed.
He said "bullseye" in that conference call! And he held his fists up in that picture a couple years back JUST LIKE HITLER! Q.E.D.
Yeah, no, in fact the reprogrammable meatbags at the RNC have switched out their American flag pins for AR-15 pins, because always classy.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..."
Aw hell, the Founding Fathers didn't *mean* that, it was just a flourish.
Join the National Guard, aka A well-regulated Militia. Those drunk bastards that wrote the damn thing didn't put in extra words for the hell of it.
The Hardcore rags are complaining Jim Dave is being smeared with one quote, but I didn’t think that quote would be the Labour/Islamist one. When you’ve got the guy who has been sucking Trump’s toes to try to get on the ticket on record comparing Trump to Hitler, you really only need that one quote, more would be superfluous.
And weirdly, JD is too young to have tasted Hitler's toes.
Au contraire. They Saved Hitlers Toes.
They're in the fridge, in the back, in that one Tupperware container you never look in.
Because it's behind Rasputin's dick wrapped in aluminum foil.
This entire thread is getting disturbingly specific...
Have you seen the jar of formaldehyde that sum bitch's cock is in? (No, for reals). Hung like a horse. "He had this mystical power over the ladies". Yeah, all nine inches of it. Sheesh.
He had so many assets though. The gaze, the hair. Unkillable as a revenant.
Don't mean to take down one of your heroes, but maybe it really is a horse's cock?
I knew you'd say that. Wish I coulda got a bet in Vegas, because as surely if I drop a hammer on a planet with positive gravity, I do not need to see the hammer fall to know it has, in fact, fallen.
(ST:TOS "Court Martial" Quoted often in Casa de Little Pig)
I Cloned Hitler's Feet
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/flaming-carrot-comics-16-i-cloned-hitlers-feet/4000-28239/
He can almost taste them, as the saying goes
'I like bread and butter,
she likes toes and jam...'
A "secret ingredient" of Der Blutgraf's Gazpacho Recipe
I will admit to being delighted with the Sotomayor/Second Amendment thing. Had a Rightwinger bring that up right after it happened and it was clear that "Oh, she was saved by the Second Amendment she hates!!!" was the programmed talking point. I pointed out to him that, yes, the carjacker was shot to death BY STATE-SANCTIONED POLICE and not just some random armed citizen. Which pretty much makes the exact opposite of your Second Amendment argument. "Oh."
Shot: yesterday morning I got one of those rare pieces of liberal hardcore from something called Capital Sentinel, telling me “Biden Backs New ‘Game-Changer for Humanity’ Technology”! Well, you go Joe, right? Long story short, it links to a pitch for buying stock in Nvidia.
Chaser: yesterday afternoon, Nvidia stock, along with that of multiple other chipmakers, tanks when Tubbie says he won’t defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. Insert sad trombone sound here.
UPDATE! Just now got another email from Capital Sentinel! The subject line: “Forget NVDA. Buy this A.I. stock instead” Lololololololol
I hate all these fuckers but maybe I hate
" Count Alucard " Thiel the most. We need to replace " Shark Tank " with " Billionaire Deathmatch. "
The billionaires have figured out they can buy Trump pretty cheap which just makes everything even more difficult.
There's a good chance that cheesy con man Trump has gone all Max Bialystock on their asses and sold 25,000% of his presidency. I would actually be in favor.
Thank God for weed.
Take this however y'all want -- at the moment, I think it's in good faith -- but after the disaster that's coming next winter*, will it even be worth it running this hardcore series?
(*Shifty Schiff's screwing of Biden on Wednesday strongly suggests that like the DNC/DCCC doesn't care about having a majority in the House, the party's also cool about losing the White House. As a de facto for-profit grift, Job 1 is pulling in the money. Don't need to be in power for that, just need a threat to point at to hoover (yes, pun) the money from the rubes.
(Dumping Biden, as a practical matter, means giving the election to Trump as follows: Harris has to replace him as candidate. As such, if she ends up as POTUS-elect (unlikely given the Electoral College) or POTUS in case Biden resigns, she cannot be in charge of House proceedings on 1/6/2025. The Speaker gets honors, which is to say a Trump tool. So when the Rs start pulling shit -- which they will -- they will have freedom to do so.)
So Republican voters are imbeciles and morons. They're also en route to the final victory, sooner if not later but inevitably so, you know, the humor of course would be there yet not be all that funny.
At least to me.
I voted for Schiff in the California primary and the guy has done nothing but make me regret it ever since. First he went all in on Israel, and now this. I feel like I voted for a Republican double agent who's seizing the opportunity to trash Democratic chances.
And FFS, the whole "Someone younger! Anyone!" drive is so blatantly a fantasy. Would be nice if we had journalists to ask, "Great, who do you have in mind as candidate instead, and which polls are you using to conclude 'Biden can't win' -- or is it just vibes, you goggle-eyed panicking bomb-thrower?"
I seem to recall him talking effectively against Republicans too. But that doesn't work, doesn't have sexy legs. Not like some talk.
Yeah, there were/are solid reasons to vote for Schiff. He did a great job as a leader of the first impeachment team. He is a good public speaker and smart. The other choices, Katherine Porter and Barbara Lee, seemed less likely to become effective Senate leaders; Porter is very good on TV but per rumor less so behind the scenes, and Lee is willing to stand alone on big moral issues (she voted against invading Iraq) but also most likely to end up standing alone on them. I suppose Schiff is smart enough and backroom-savvy enough that he would not make a public announcement of Biden's Doom unless he has moved the ball forward on a viable replacement scheme... but I am not *sure* he has done that work, and I'm not sure I want that.
They don’t ask that question because, to them, it doesn’t matter. Their entire goal is a brokered convention, the holy grail of political events. What candidate do they want? All of them, and at the same time! A Wrestlemania style battle royale! Sure, it would destroy the Dems and guarantee fascist victory in November, but who cares, what a story to cover! Fuckers, the lot of ‘em.
This is my fear. Journalists (and people in general) who think causing the collapse of the republic is more heroic than managing the continued stablity of it.
But... but... it's more DEMOCRATIC
Link in today's Wonkette Tabs about the FGNYT editing a quote from VD Vance to make him sound softer on abortion bans.
https://jessica.substack.com/p/gop-platform-author-admits-theres
I raise my hand, timidly, to ask a gentle question: These nearly 5000 delegates at the convention in Chicago, were they chosen randomly from among The American People? Or are they all Dem-party insiders, Biden delegates, chosen as Biden delegates because of their loyalty to one Joseph Robinette Biden?
So sure, let's all have the spectacle and then be bitterly disappointed when 5000 of Joe's best pals all vote for Joe Biden. The perfect outcome, if you're the Prestige Press or you just want Trump to win (but I repeat myself.)
Let me just say, for the record that doesn't exist, that I truly don't understand why anyone not a plutocrat or a MAGA imbecile would want Trump to win. Forget...you know..."democracy" or "morality." I can't see how Trump 2.0 can be anything but a disaster for the economy, for Wall Street, for business in general. Am I wrong?
Fuckin' stock market's looking super good. Let's blow a hole in it then blame the Democrats. We'll make up the difference in tax cuts.
That's me as well. Forced church services, forced birth, the unexpected knock at the door in the middle of the night? Yeah, unless all these jokers are short sellers, it makes absolutely no sense.
But at least we can all agree that everyone wants birth control and contraception to be illegal, right?
The MAGAts enjoying having their prejudices dignified and legitimized.
Nearly all of them do it expecting tax cuts, even if they’re as shitty or short termed as as the GW Bush or Trump tax cuts.
I think that covers all of them.
I’d add that they also suffer defective BS detectors but that’s too coastal liberal elite for me.
Hey, let's bring someone totally new in three months before the election, what could go wrong?
The Republicans won't think up about a dozen bullshit lines of attack for THEM, that's for sure!
This goes right up on the whiteboard alongside "Can't nominate Bernie because they'll call him SOCIALIST".
Remind me to share my theory that the DNC doesn't want to be an opposition party so much as they just want to appear as one.
If one's yardstick is being a New Deal/Great Society Democrat, they're nearly all DINOs.
I define "opposition party" pretty simple-mindedly as "If they win it means the other guys don't."
That and raising the big bucks on a fear of Republican domination is what the DNC’s rolled on since the late 1980s and here we are.
Your definition is fine til it isn’t. And on the national level, this is the cycle where it stops working.
And so democracy votes itself.....out.
Oh, der Drumpfland uber alles....
From nearly sixty years ago:
"Going to the candidates debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this, you lose"
A couple of decades of only getting a choice between evils and here we are.
Well, my fear of Republican domination is real enough, that's for sure.
That touches another old fart theory:
Are we on the cusp of an existential crisis? Or is the crisis here? Or did it happen long ago and we're just realizing it now?
I've been professionally trained to choose any of them. OTOH, my choice keeps moving around.
Not sure if you're talking about November but here in Wisconsin we don't even consider that winter. Not even close. Winter starts in January, Christmas is in Late Fall.
1st Q 2025.
Here's a better Q: what's the name of the Mexican restaurant we enjoyed in Madison -- in part because they had a Thursday evening happy hour that coincided with us being there on a Thursday?
Hey, the Essen Haus in Madison is.....heaven.
It's closing! Being torn down for a luxury condo development. Because, you know, Madison is such a Liberal Hellhole that NOBODY wants to live here.
Aw dammit. One of the best meals of my life, accompanied by a statuesque Valkyrie I was graced to have a co-worker on that project. She stole every eye in the place. Was I strutting like a peacock? You bet your ass.
The Congressional Dems are gonna be pretty embarrassed when Holy Golden God-Emperor Savior Of Humanity (CF) Donald I dissolves Congress for contradicting His Holy Word.
Why would he do that? Only the (coming, inevitable) R majority can write his middle class-fucking tax cuts -- a rerun of 2019 with open-ended cuts for the wealthy, sunset provisions for the middle class.
Good try, bro, but no see-gar.
"the (coming, inevitable) R majority"
OK with you if we go ahead with the formalities of holding the election anyway?
Please. There are of course other races.
But not enough races are run to get majorities... that's not me being cynical but, like, a mathematical reality at work.
What I don't understand is why it's important to know the outcome nearly four months in advance? You got a bet down somewhere? I'm fine with "I don't know." Because making predictions is hard, especially when they're about the future.
Yep. Four months is ages in that world. And maybe some enterprising youth is a better sh.....but I digress.
I’m willing to put the money except I don’t think there’s profit to betting on a sure thing.
And to be clearer because I know I’m failing, the pessimism is in direct proportion to the importance of the office: the higher the office, the greater the pessimism. The flip side of that is that local races matter, governorships may matter depending where, some state legislature races matter.
But what about the Mexican restaurant in Madison?
In the present culture it's never too soon to assume the worst.
Well, trend's been clear enough since the late 1970s so...
But how important is it to be correct about the future? I mean, is it more important to THINK the right things or to DO the right things?
Myself, I'm kind of a utilitarian: I'm prepared to think whatever I need to think so that I do the things I should do.
If thinking there's still a chance means I do more to help defeat the fascists, then that's what I'm gonna think. I honestly don't care if it turns out later I was wrong, that will be the least of our problems.
Mussolini: "I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples."
Trump: "You're fired!"
Trump: "You can camp here, but it'll cost ya!"
I'm just pleased (a little) that we now know what the solvent is for Congress.
Hasn't it always been money?
I thought Pops said ^^^ the God Emperor would dissolve 'em...
Solvent Green?
I'm not a conspiracy guy, usually, but I am starting to notice we have a national press corps who spent two weeks angrily demanding detail upon detail about Biden's health because he looked real tired... and they seem content to ask zero questions about Trump's injury, the shooter and the shooter's family... I mean two days after Sandy Hook I could draw you the blueprint of that asshole's house.
Then I think of how the Vegas shooter was stuffed right into a black box, and it seems Crooks is being stuffed in there too. It makes me itchy. Is there is some undercurrent in the nation the law and the fourth estate do not want to discuss with us? What exactly it might be, I don't know. But I feel like I'm smelling something real weird maybe coming from the basement and no one wants to get the flashlight and go see what.
Secondhand, but I'm hearing he was carrying a 20' ladder, the building was where the police were assembling, and the Secret Service had an eye on him for 20 minutes.
But, again as someone said, this probably is less conspiracy than straight up incompetence.
Well, Pennsylvania is an open-ladder-carrying state. Because a man never knows when he might need to do some roofing.
As it says on the PA license plate, "Let Freedom Rung"
Where's that rolled-up newspaper?
Getting into someplace by just acting like you belong there is surprisingly easy, especially if you’re a white guy. Back in the day I used to travel a lot for trade shows and conferences, and a lot of the time these were held in big hotels or convention centers that had several other events going on at the same time. As just another white guy in a suit with a love of free beer, I routinely crashed events regardless of whether it was put on by the show I was attending or not. And I rarely got caught. I have no doubt that every cop and secret service guy who saw some guy brazenly carrying around a rifle and ladder thought he just had to be law enforcement…right?
Jerzy Kosinski (sp?) used to say that you could walk around any corporate office in the world as long as you wore a suit and carried a manilla envelope.
Perfect.
The greatest heist I know of personally, friends lifted a taxidermied bear from a seasonal mall display by wearing white jumpsuits and carrying a clipboard. When security asked, they said "We're taking it to get it cleaned." A newspaper reported the stolen bear's value at $10,000. (They returned it -- they just wanted to see what they could get away with, they did not want a bear.)
DUDE! Ix-nay on our ecrets-say!
(all you need is a clipboard, and free beer and pizza are yours for the taking. Well, a clipboard and moderate bullshitting skills. Being OP level bullshitter, I've even scored shittons of chocolate. Official taster, you know)
Nah, several witnesses interviewed by the BBC said he "bear climbed", which I took to be shinnied up a pipe or some such, up to the roof. No ladder needed, and way way too conspicuous. It's not hard to get on a roof like that (or it wasn't when I was twenty years younger). Hell, we used to pull that stuff all the time. Easy peasy for a 20 year old.
You are not wrong. CNN, after being purchased by a right-wing billionaire (and losing money hand over fist) is in the tank for Trump. The NYT is clearly in the tank for Trump, because the dumbasses don't know it's up against the wall for you. Hell, even MSNBC, with the damnable Katy Tur idolising Trump, is just following corporate master NBC.
It's either a) perform enough analingus on Trump and he'll let us keep our jobs, or b) cynical corporate types thinking they make beaucoup blow-dough in the new economy. Both are ridiculous beliefs. Orange-Glo never forgets a slight, and Handmaid's Tale America will not generate tons of money. I just hope I live to see them fall. I've already sent a note to Chuck Todd saying he and I have an appointment in the camps.
2 marks for Handmaid's Tale.
Tho come to think of it, I'da gone 2 marks for Handmaid's Tail as well.
Tee hee. You remind me of one of those arrow signs you put the letters on. In Flippin, Arkansas as I recall. It was for a movie rental joint, and they displayed two current films they had in stock. Put both titles on the same line.
Seduced American Tail
Oh, Fivel, you naughty, naughty boy...
Today at the RNC, Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden is claiming he was assaulted by a Palestinian woman outside the Pfister hotel, calling it "an act of political violence". The woman says they got in an argument and he bumped her. She was held briefly by the cops and let go, probably because nobody was hurt and there was no evidence.
And we all know how this goes from here, right? Fox and other right-wing media play up "Republican Congressman ASSAULTED by HAMAS in HORRIBLE Milwaukee", and if the DA decides to drop the whole thing, they add it to the grievance list, how Antifa burned down the entire city of Portland and no one was arrested, but those poor J6 hostages sit in jail, singin' their poor hearts out.
That's our Derrick.
You should meet his little brother Backhoe Van Orden.
Are ALL the Van Ordens snivelly little shits named after heavy eqpt?
Geez, they are such snowflakes! That's why I don't particularly fear the coming "Second American Revolution", because these jokers are internet tough-guys taken out by a hangnail.
Old men have been running things since forever, and now it's a problem all of a sudden?
You go to war with the knowledgeable, successful, decent president you have, not the one you might want.
(I noticed that Rumsfeld's 2nd clause is far clunkier than we remember. "..., not the army you might want, or might wish to have at a later time." I get the idea that he could have added further qualifications, sun setting slowly behind him, but decided to err on the side of brevity.)
Time was when the wisdom of a fool connoted some timely but uncomfortable comment that could only be assayed from behind a fool's mask. Would that I were such a fool in the court of public opinion.
Trump is an idiot with no silver lining. Biden is a savant. Not the prettiest onion, but a good one.
Never has the Internet Tradition quote been more apt: "The stupid, it burns".
I was ready to bail when I heard him claim "Nobody's done more for the Palestinians" on a radio show, but, SIGH, we're stuck with him I guess. See, unlike a sitting US Congressman, I actually THINK before I phone up the New York Times.
Name anyone in this country who demonstrably HAS done more for the Palestinians. The UN does not count.
OK, he's the Mayor of Munchkin City.
Nevertheless, I can imagine the impact of that statement on any Palestinian-American who's lost family in Gaza.
When "uninstructed" was a thing in the Wisconsin Dem primary and got nearly 15% (including my vote) I thought, "Eh, it's OK, I'm sure 90% of these folks will come around by November" But if Joe's gonna keep pokin' 'em in the eye with a sharp stick, now I'm not so sure.
Could be. I still think Uncle Joe plays a different game on a broader scale and maybejustmaybe kept the whole region from becoming (so far) the melted-glass wet dream site of the Hallelujahans.
But now I write it, it stands to reason that the Palestinians get little outta the deal either way except dead.
I know everyone on the internet thinks they're an expert at "messaging", but I really don't think this is all that difficult: "Yes, this is a tragedy, my heart bleeds for the loss of life on both sides, we're working hard to bring peace to this troubled land. Oh, look at the time! Well, it's been nice talking to you!" Yeah, it's bullshit, but it's not bullshit that so directly antagonizes people who are already mad at you.
I'm an expert at the sort of messaging that gets me disinvited from the sorts of parties I don't want to attend anyway.
Go with your expertise, is my motto.
"he's the Mayor of Munchkin City."
He's Karl Becker?!! Son of a bitch, I thought he passed away in 1968....
Oh wait. You're being figurative.. Ahhhh. Markie don't play that. And certainly not with that movie (Goddamn Gone With The Wind, that pro-CSA propaganda bullshit should NOT have won Best Picture! PROTIP: Don't cheer the burning of Atlanta in a Southern theater. Only our youth saved our asses)
I gotta admit, I didn't have "Democrats go all Jimmy Carter on Biden's ass" on my bingo card. Has there been anything in Hardcore about that? Seems a natural: Democrats Admit Sleepy Joe Can't Wake Up! You Won't Believe What Slow Talkin/Sleep Walkin Joe Called Kamala! Is Joe Biden Dead? Doctors Disagree! I could do this all day. They could sell suppliments as "the drug White House doctors give Joe to keep him awake more than 4 hours a day". Anything other that talking about Trump getting shot by, who was that guy again? Matt something, right? Or was that the Vegas guy?
Now he's got Covid, which is ALL THE MORE reason for him to drop out. Sympathy is for Republicans.
"They could sell supplements as 'the drug White House doctors give Joe to keep him awake more than 4 hours a day' ".
That's Ronnie "Dr. Feelgood" Jackson's bailiwick, and he's not letting go of that for no Democrat.
Hey, how did all those Muslims get into Britain in the first place, huh? It's like havin' an empire is some big DEI program!
Although their vision of the US being an empire is we rule over the whole world but the world never comes to visit. No roads lead to Rome.
To which our dumb populace might say - that's stupid, you can't build a road from here to Rome. Can you?
No Appian way, man.
Pining for the Appian Way.
Oh y'all!
I feel these are the same kind of people who were all "LONDONISTAN!!!" when Sadiq Khan got reelected as Mayor of London.
The GOP really does appear to have a plan to simultaneously do Empire AND Isolationism, where we sell others weapons and sanction them if they don't raise their "defense" spending, we dominate the Pacific, the Arctic, and the whole fucking Northern Hemisphere, ready to fight two wars simultaneously, but we ignore other nations and international agreements if they don't directly benefit the USA. Oh, and strengthen relations with "Eastern European states", which I'm assuming means Orban's Hungary.
Did they have a similar reaction to Rishi Sunak? Or is being a billionaire a special immunizing bubble that surrounds you and protects you from all racism?
No, and Yes.
Rishi must have wanted to spend more time with his wife's money, because calling an election when it's running Labour 2, Tories 1 there was no doubt about the outcome.
Such a sacrifice he made to enter "public service" when he could just be soakin' up the sun on his yacht in the Mediterranean. But did the people of Britain appreciate his sacrifice? Apparently, they did not.
Well put. It's incoherent. More improvisatory than the domestic stuff. History and geopolitics are boring and confusing. Even the bullet points are, like, endless. Slide after slide after slide. Ah well, they can always get rich(er) and abscond to redoubts.
I heard a clip of a convention speech where some Republican Congressman said "We need to win the AI war with China." Of course no actual policy attached, a liberal could bore your ears off with talk of government grants for research...zzzzzzzzzzz but on the Republican side it's important to stoke the fears and never do a thing to alleviate or respond to them. Just keep 'em simmering in permanent state of fear and hate.
Like Biden has this thing, the CHIPS act, trying to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the US, looks like it's having some effect, but who knows, he should have just called it CHIPS WAR and then had the legislation be a stack of blank pages.
"We need to win the AI war with China."
Their plan would probably be tax cuts, credits of some sort. No concern whether the plan worked, only whether somebody could profit off it.
The most frightening thing about AI is its potential for warfare. All the research can be (or already is) purposed for some form of conflict. China will force us to compete around doing things nobody should do. It'll make the quest for nuclear arsenals look like kids collecting marbles. (Although the marbles won't have the same raw destructive power -- nothing can.)
You are correct sir!!!
Like I've been saying for fifty fucking years, DON'T GIVE THEM HANDS.
Look Steve, if the Republicans did something to alleviate or respond to them, they would have to find new fears to stoke and that can be tricky
C'mon, I BLAMED someone for this problem, what MORE do you want from me?
Every time I see JD Vance and his Playskool snap-on beard, I think “Nazi Ewok.”
We're not Taliban (yet), we don't HAVE to grow beards like J.D. and those two boys. If mine looked like shit I would shave it off.
I think "GI Joe with the kung-fu grip" 'cause my asshole brother had one back in the '70s.
A Real American Hero, Pee-Wee Herman is there!
durr durr durr VD Vance has only been in office a tiny skosh and we know nothing about him durr
HE WROTE AN ENTIRE FUCKING BOOK YOU WILLFULLY ILLITERATE ASSCLOWNS A BOOK THAT EVERYONE OBSESSED OVER FOR MONTHS THEY EVEN MADE A FUCKING MOVIE WHY DO YOU THINK WE'RE THIS FUCKING STUPID
You ain't kidding. As a fer-real hillbilly (Western Division) I want to meet that sorry son of a bitch in a dark alley.
Oh look, I'm a weak old, old man. Come closer, J.D. that I may hear your words.... (waits for him to get within four feet of this weak old,old man....)