Dem DeathWatch 2020
Buttigieg out, Steyer out, Klobuchar out. Only five left, maybe five-and-a-half if there is a brokered convention.
I always imagined Steyer was in some sort of Brewster’s Millions situation, but he really should have been out after Iowa.
It was a good time for Mayor Pete to get out of the race, considering he was heading for a drubbing tomorrow. Now his poor numbers can be chalked up to him being out of the race and he saves some dignity for whatever is next for him. Maybe a VP slot with Biden to allay stroke-out fears, but Pete doesn’t really bring any voters with him who weren’t going to cross their fingers and vote for Biden anyway.
Klobuchar never made any sense. She was running for a VP slot and got some spill-over nag and schoolmarm vote from Warren.
Of course, the conspiracy-minded among the Sanders’ supporters (all of them?) think Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out to boost Biden’s vote totals. Klobuchar is set to endorse Biden; Mayor Pete hasn’t so far.
Given that Sander and Biden are projected to come in one and two on Super Tuesday, I imagine this will also mean an end to Warren and Gabbard’s runs, especially if Bloomberg comes in third. But Biden is out of money and hasn’t had the stamina to campaign in the Super Tuesday states as much as he should have. If Biden drops to third or fourth, and Sanders gains enough of a delegate lead, Bernie could have a commanding lead, especially if he can ignore Florida before he blunders on Cuba again.
If Biden and Bloomberg hold on, they might be able to gather the delegates to trigger a brokered convention. Which might cause the Queen of the Vampires to rise from her Hulu-warmed crypt.
Speaking of women who want a double standard for their behavior…
“Any chance you could grab us a bottle of wine or something? Lol,” former California congresswoman Katie Hill texted. We settled on rosé. Hill and I had never met, but she was in the midst of a professional and personal crisis. It was 4:30 in the afternoon, and she would be going live on air with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that night. “ROUGH day,” she wrote. I brought wine as well as a bag of pretzels to Hill’s Manhattan hotel room. Wearing leggings and a hoodie, she took the wine and glanced down at her phone. An editor at the New York Times had questions about an op-ed the 32-year-old Hill wrote about contemplating suicide, one that’s set to publish the next day; they’d been going back and forth for hours.
This was in early December as Hill scrambled to form a new life after photos of her — some of which she said were taken without her consent — were published online in mid-October. One shows Hill nude, brushing the hair of a junior female campaign staffer, Morgan (referred to here only by first name), in a hotel room. In others, there is Hill naked, holding a bong, with a tattoo of an iron cross — a Nazi-associated symbol used by white supremacists — near her groin; Hill and Morgan kissing. The articles accompanying them include private text messages among Hill, Morgan, and Hill’s estranged husband, Kenneth Heslep, detailing a three-way romantic relationship, as well as a claim by Heslep from a since-deleted Facebook post that Hill had had an affair with her male legislative director, Graham Kelly.
8200 words, part hagiography and part apologia that #metoo shouldn’t apply to women because reasons. Also, these sort of chummy lifestyle pieces are rarely written about male sexual predators, right?
The Socialist vanguard who make $168k a month for being halfwits.
The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders
IOWA CITY — The people in the crowd were angry, and “Chapo Trap House” wanted them to stay that way. The five hosts of the popular socialist podcast wanted everyone to know they had all been lied to. About everything.
The media they consumed was fake news aimed to distract them from the only war worth fighting: the class war. Politesse, civility, even pleasure — those were tools of the neoliberal oppressor. The right answer is rage.
“That joy,” the Chapo co-host Will Menaker said to the crowd gathered in Iowa City on the eve of the Iowa caucus. “That’s good but it’s not as good a motivator when you’re really going to war as spite.”
“Let the hate feed you,” the co-host Amber A’Lee Frost added as the audience roared.
And it does. Especially toward other Democrats.
Supporters of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. are “gelatinous 100-year-olds.”
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg is “a bloodless asexual.”
“The gayest thing about him is he descends from an ethnic group that’s like a little toy dog,” Ms. A’Lee Frost said.
When Senator Elizabeth Warren’s name came up, the crowd made the sound of a snake hissing. She had accused Senator Bernie Sanders of saying that a woman could not beat President Trump, and so she is a snake.
“Yes, my sssssoldiers,” Mr. Menaker said.
Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s run appalls them. “Beat him so badly that this midget gremlin won’t even have a shot even with a trillion dollars,” Mr. Menaker said.
“Kill him,” someone shouted from the audience. These were jokes, of course. Everyone was laughing.
It’s a great scam and they should ride if as long as they can. Each of them is grossing 400k a year and the overhead for three beardos and two women can’t be all that much: organic Cheetos, PBR, loperamide and abortion aftercare.
R.I.P. James Lipton, creator and former host of Inside The Actors Studio
As confirmed by The New York Times, iconic writer, actor, and teacher James Lipton—best known as the creator and longtime host of Inside The Actors Studio—has died. Lipton was also dean emeritus at Pace University’s Actors Studio Drama School in New York City, after having previously introduced the Actors Studio graduate program to New York’s New School. In addition, he had two distinct acting careers, one before transitioning into writing and teaching and one after he had become a pop culture figure due to Inside The Actors Studio. Lipton was 93.
I find few things so dull as actors talking about acting, so I didn’t see many episodes of Inside The Actors Studio over the years, but his attempts to give Lucille chlamydia were greatly appreciated.
Sheesh. I think that one image needs to load faster at this point!
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yessssssssssssshhhhhhhh
It’s all the red, takes a computer forever to draw.
The fix is in! Who wants to bet we see Hillary appear at the brokered convention?
Out of a cloud of acrid purple smoke?
It might not be purple.
Well, sulfur is yellow, so…..
At this point I think I’d be shocked if it didn’t happen. Biden is so obviously going senile, I can’t imagine there’s going to be some great unification behind him.
If it does, I expect some serious fireworks.
*buys more popcorn*
Oh, the Bernie bros will riot at the DNC. The white middle-class feminists will grit their teeth and ignore the groping and sniffing. The DemOp media will keep covering for him for as long as possible.
The real fun is going to come if he becomes obviously, undeniably, incompetent before being sworn in.
Non compos mentis, not regular incompetent.
https://twitter.com/CBoothStuntman/status/1234575916900265984?s=20
“You know what i’m talkin about, I hope, cause i sure don’t.”
– Joe Biden, Oct 2020 at campaign stop.
Exactly. He wasn’t exactly sharp as a tack to begin with and now his brains are clearly liquefying into Jell-O.
+1 IQ test challenge
“Blue no matter who.” LOL
Ah, you’ve met my next door neighbor, I see.
Does Michelle Obama want to run for President?
Well, I’ve got salmon in the oven, and have to figure out what veggies to have with it.
Ooo… new links.
These euphemisms….
I had leftover grilled salmon for lunch with loaded baked cauliflower.
Yes it did stink up the whole lunchroom {grins maliciously} and the cauliflower has had after-effects ALL AFTERNOON {crop dusts unsuspecting cow-orkers}
Well, I went with green beans and potato wedges – because that’s what I had.
Nothing like a good crop dust to bring a wicked smile to your face.
OMG, the pic accompanying this post absolutely kills.
I can’t muster up too much hatred for anybody in the socialism grift hustle. Somebody needs to fleece angry losers, right or left.
I just want money and fame and the occasional squeezer from biofemale podcast groupies.
I just want money and fame and the occasional squeezer from biofemale podcast groupies.
You’re going to get Glibertarians listed as a hate-group somewhere talking like that. Such transphobic.
Although I guess you guys have good lawyers who could fight it. STEVE SMITH is a lawyer, right?
STEVE SMITH PRACTISE LAW. BY PRACTISE MEAN RAPE.
The reason lawyers practice law is because they never get it right.
I saw Inside the Actor’s Studio years ago and came away with the impression that Lipton was already dead inside.
I expect Obama to come out and say Biden’s mind is broken and then offer Michelle as the only candidate that can beat orange man.
Oh, that would be delicious.
O.T.: Flavor Flav speaks!
https://twitter.com/FlavorFlav/status/1234569002078236672
At least now he has time to add a fourth season of his search for a wife.
Klobuchar will be run as Biden’s VP. Buttgieg will be kept out of the spotlight during the campaign then appointed to HHS, HUD, or head of some other nonessential agency should Biden win. Biden will probably not run for a second term, and may not even finish the first. He’s already an old man and the job of POTUS is incredibly stressful. Klobuchar might give him a big boy cabinet appointment but unless there is a sea change in views about homos he’s not going to get the VP slot when Klobuchar runs for president in 2024.
“some other nonessential agency”
Do you have any in mind as essential other than Defense and Treasury?
And that is assuming that you count those two as essential.
I’d say, at least per the Constitional powers of the Executive, the Essential Cabinet positions would be State, War, Treasure, and maybe Interior (Indian Affairs and Management of Federal Lands).
In leon’s USA, would the census be run by the executive or the legislative, considering where the census appears in the document?
The first 9 Censuses were conducted by the US Marshals. I skiped over the AG, but i guess that could be a legitimate constitutional job of the executive.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Squirrel!
I don’t think anyone cares that he’s gay. It’s that he looks twelve.
They care that he’s gay and that his last name starts with ‘Butt’ It’s a grade-schoolers joke name generating dream come true.
Which is why Hickenlooper will never be VP.
He..Hee…
Not Adahn said Lickenpooper.
^This.
And the uncertainty about the ‘correct’ way to say his name so that calling him Pete Booty Judge is fair game.
Judge of a booty contest has got to worth a few jokes.
Subtle.
Um, remember that chick in the Iowa caucus who wanted to change her vote once she learned he was a homo?
Why was a deplorable Republican voting in the Iowa Dem caucus? Probably because she was too stupid to know she was in the wrong caucus. Republicans, amirite?
Apparently the Berniebots have been extremely nasty to Buttigieg too, claiming he’s not a real gay because he’s not lefty enough.
I thought that was the “Queer Nation” types.
Both.
Really?
Of course, we’re talking about someone who gets excited about DNC caucuses, so painfully stupid isn’t out of the question.
Rilly.
I wouldn’t make up stuff like that, Scruffy.
Oh I’m not doubting you. It was more an expression “oh, of course there was… “
I’m convinced she was a plant by his campaign to try to amp up his intersectionality cred.
That was my cynical thought as well.
Hmm… she never did get doxxed and pilloried did she? You may be onto something.
Hell, if Biden wins he’s not taking a second term anyway, as the economy probably won’t survive a new raft of Dem regs hitting at a time when it’s already overdue for a correction.
Tonio, did you see my reply to my reply? I’m Left handed , Duh…….
You are obviously correct,
Bob: Thanks.
Everyone else: No, it’s not what you think. Really.
It’s not what we think. It’s worse.
It’s the New York Times, so maybe Amber A’Lee Frost was misquoted.
“Let the hate feed you.” or “Let the hate flow through you.”
You decide.
8200 words about Katie Hill is about 8195 too many.
Pics, plz.
8200 words, part hagiography and part apologia that #metoo shouldn’t apply to women because reasons. Also, these sort of chummy lifestyle pieces are rarely written about male sexual predators, right?
But she’s not a sexual predator, Those interns voluntarily had sex with her. Sure she presented a power dynamic, that we would usually crucify someone for, and is blatantly against all sexual harassment in workplace laws, but that doesn’t make her a predator. Only men can be predators.
I was a fucking person that was a few years older than her, and we got wrapped up in this movement of trying to do something, and I happened to be the face of it. But to me, she was just as responsible for it, you know?”
Yep.
That Katie Hill story…the only part I believe is the part that got her kicked out of congress. I believe this too, which could be the most disgusting part of her story:
Hill began a career in the nonprofit sector, first working at an organization that helps at-risk youth, then at People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), where she was employed for eight years. Hill worked her way up to executive director, managing a $50 million budget and earning $174,000 a year.
Who does she think she is, Michelle Obama?
My career recently took me into the nonprofit sector, and I must say this doesn’t shock or surprise me one bit. The amount of shameless grift – especially when government funding is involved – is outrageous.
And what is the going rate for an executive at a $50 million a year manufacturing company? Or do you think someone making 20 an hour can run a 50 million a year company?
“Steven Spielberg’s porn star daughter, 23, looks tearful in mug shot after domestic violence arrest following late night argument with fiancé, 47, in Nashville”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8063247/Spielbergs-daughter-injured-fianc-s-wrist-throwing-things-arrest-record-says.html
I suspect there might be daddy issues.
That speaks volumes about all parties involved.
I think that speaks of desperation over losing her.
Her fiance’ is, apparently, a professional dart(s?) player.
Yeah, she’s 23 and dating a 47 yo with dirtbag facial hair.
Even if she’s extremely untalented, she could have had a career in feature films arranged by her father. That’s the only reason Nicolas Cage has an acting career – “Daddy [Francis Ford Coppola], buy me a movie.”
Nic Cage is a goddamned National Treasure!
He is kind of kick-ass.
Meh he’s no The Rock.
These puns will be gone in sixty seconds.
Point taken, but I will quibble by saying I do think that Cage would have had a decent shot at an acting career, regardless, because he’s (for better and worse) memorable, and people who stand out can make a career in that business.
Nicolas Cage is a very good actor given good material to work with. His fatal flaw is that he spends money like he’s Montgomery Brewster and pretty much has to take any role that offers a decent paycheck to stay ahead of his creditors. That’s how he ends up in so many awful movies.
Awful Nic age movies? Name seven.
National Treasure II.
Left Behind, The Wicker Man, Next, Knowing, Ghost Rider, Season of the Witch Zandalee,
Ghost Rider is a guilty pleasure. #sorrynotsorry
Ghost Rider had a sequel.
I actually paid money to see it.
Ghost Rider can’t be awful it had Sam Elliot, like Harry Dean Stanton and M. Emmet Walsh, no movie featuring any of the three in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
M. Emmett Walsh was in Harry and the Hendersons, Sam Elliott was in Fatal Beauty, and Harry Dean Stanton was in Fire Down Below. I love all those guys, Harry Dean Stanton in particular, but they can end up in dreck just like any other actor.
Captain Crapetti’s Crapolin.
Wicker Man counts for at least 10
I laughed at loud a few times during Wicker Man. My God how did that get released!
I’m still not sure what to think of Vampire’s Kiss it was so over the top, but i watch it whenever it shows up on TV
Why the fuck is Warren still in this? Does she think she’ll win a contested convention?
Because she’s a grifter extraordinaire.
according to the Memo Ozy linked in the last post, yes she does.
oh. i totally knew that.
Tulsi doesn’t have a chance either, but of those remaining I’d say she would be the best candidate against Trump.
I also think Tulsi stays in cause she is very ideologically driven. I could be off, but i don’t see her trying to position herself, but trying to get a statement out. of course she will be ignored by the Major media networks for the Debates, so why bother?
I think Tulsi genuinely dislikes the other Democrats and is staying in purely for spite.
Will she run as the Peace Party or Green candidate?
If she runs as a 3rd party candidate i don’t see how she makes it to election day without being found dead in the tub with a hairdryer in it and a gunshot to the back of the head with a noose around her neck and stomach full of valium with her wrists slit and a syringe in her arm with a running car on the bathroom.
This makes sense: she seems like a D version of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign.
If possible, the DNC establishment hate her more than Bernie. She’d put an end to military adventurism, “nation building,” and all the other neo-whatever/deep-state shenanigans.
Bernie/Tulsi would be a very strong ticket imo
She now has the naggy schoolmarm vote all to herself.
This is the first Dem Deathwatch where I could put a name to every face.
Why the fuck is Warren still in this?
My theory is, she is still in it at the behest of the DNC, to split the hard left vote with Bernie to keep him from getting a majority by the convention. I count her sudden status as the candidate with the phattest SuperPac as an indication that the DNC is propping her up.
Ponder, for a moment, that the DNC’s best case scenario is their leading candidate dying, and their second best case scenario is a brokered convention. Even if they steal it from Bernie at the convention, I don’t think there will be a full-scale Chicago ’68 riot. But there will definitely be ugliness in the streets.
And probably against all of those TRUMPTARDZ who caused all of these problems!!
Maybe she thinks she can take votes away from Bernie too.
“Why the fuck is Warren still in this?”
Because she’s going to be the VP candidate for Biden or Bloomberg.
And after the convention, either her or Biden or Bloomberg, which ever one
winsis given the nomination is going to come out and one of the will claim to be black.“Black Lives Matter protesters say the husband of the Los Angeles County district attorney pointed a gun at them and threatened to open fire before sunrise Monday as they demanded a meeting with her at her home.
Authorities have not confirmed the activists’ account regarding the events at the home of District Attorney Jackie Lacey. In a video posted by Black Lives Matter organizer Melina Abdullah, a man pointing a black handgun opens the door and says: ‘Get off. Get off of my porch.’
The encounter came a day before a primary for district attorney; Lacey is seeking a third term.
Melina Abdullah, professor of pan-African studies at Cal State LA and a Black Lives Matter organizer, says she was one of the people who was threatened by David Lacey”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8066343/Protesters-say-LA-DAs-husband-pointed-gun-them.html
50 protesters banging on his door at 5:30 in the morning? They’re lucky he, or one of his neighbors, didn’t just up and shoot them.
Yeah. Banging on a door as a mob, early in the morning, is one of those stupid games.
Isn’t nice that Public Officials in Commifonia give themselves the right to arm themselves.
It’s OK as long as they let the others join them.
a man pointing a black handgun
Handgun of color?
/formatting fail
Planned provocation, obviously. And they fell for it. If a DA, or any prosecutors, calls the cops and says there’s a mob outside the house the po-po are going to show up damn skippy.
Top Men bottomed out
When Donald Trump came into office, there was a sense that he would be outmatched by the vast government he had just inherited.
The new president was impetuous, bottomlessly ignorant, almost chemically inattentive, while the bureaucrats were seasoned, shrewd, protective of themselves and their institutions. They knew where the levers of power lay and how to use them or prevent the president from doing so. Trump’s White House was chaotic and vicious, unlike anything in American history, but it didn’t really matter as long as “the adults” were there to wait out the president’s impulses and deflect his worst ideas and discreetly pocket destructive orders lying around on his desk.
After three years, the adults have all left the room—saying just about nothing on their way out to alert the country to the peril—while Trump is still there.
James Baker, the former general counsel of the FBI, and a target of Trump’s rage against the state, acknowledges that many government officials, not excluding himself, went into the administration convinced “that they are either smarter than the president, or that they can hold their own against the president, or that they can protect the institution against the president because they understand the rules and regulations and how it’s supposed to work, and that they will be able to defend the institution that they love or served in previously against what they perceive to be, I will say neutrally, the inappropriate actions of the president. And I think they are fooling themselves. They’re fooling themselves. He’s light-years ahead of them.”
The adults were too sophisticated to see Trump’s special political talents—his instinct for every adversary’s weakness, his fanatical devotion to himself, his knack for imposing his will, his sheer staying power. They also failed to appreciate the advanced decay of the Republican Party, which by 2016 was far gone in a nihilistic pursuit of power at all costs. They didn’t grasp the readiness of large numbers of Americans to accept, even relish, Trump’s contempt for democratic norms and basic decency. It took the arrival of such a leader to reveal how many things that had always seemed engraved in monumental stone turned out to depend on those flimsy norms, and how much the norms depended on public opinion. Their vanishing exposed the real power of the presidency. Legal precedent could be deleted with a keystroke; law enforcement’s independence from the White House was optional; the separation of powers turned out to be a gentleman’s agreement; transparent lies were more potent than solid facts. None of this was clear to the political class until Trump became president.
But the adults’ greatest miscalculation was to overestimate themselves—particularly in believing that other Americans saw them as selfless public servants, their stature derived from a high-minded commitment to the good of the nation.
Glob help us.This is what passes for intellectualism. A petulant child weeping disconsolately because there is no Easter Bunny.
particularly in believing that other Americans saw them as selfless public servants, their stature derived from a high-minded commitment to the good of the nation.
If public employees thought that, they are greater fools than i thought.
We come to work to get paid.
And we try to avoid any undue work while we’re there.
What they didn’t recognize and still fail to recognize is that Trump is just a giant middle finger from his supporters to all of the entrenched DC swamp creatures.
It took the arrival of such a leader to reveal how many things that had always seemed engraved in monumental stone turned out to depend on those flimsy norms, and how much the norms depended on public opinion. Their vanishing exposed the real power of the presidency. Legal precedent could be deleted with a keystroke; law enforcement’s independence from the White House was optional; the separation of powers turned out to be a gentleman’s agreement; transparent lies were more potent than solid facts. None of this was clear to the political class until Trump became president.
*Laughs in Machiavellian*
Every “adult” in the article is parasitic asshole.
Written as a lamentation, heard as an exultation.
there is Hill naked, holding a bong, with a tattoo of an iron cross — a Nazi-associated symbol used by white supremacists —
That fucking lie again? That’s not an Iron Cross in her tattoo and the Iron Cross predates the Nazis.
Germany used that Maltese (?) cross on their aircraft in WWI, back when they had the Kaiser.
Doesn’t matter. Nazi contagion is contratemporal and reaches backward to taint symbols at their point of historical. See also: the OK symbol.
“taint symbols”
———
Read the article again, I believe that the tattoo is actually just on her leg
They needed her to be toxic to liberals because the alternative was admitting that #believewomen can also mean believing the abuser.
Big news from NH
A 58-year-old Center Harbor fisherman reeled in a 37.65-pound lake trout, breaking a state record set before he was born.
Thomas Knight’s catch beat by more than nine pounds the 1958 record, said Andy Schafermeyer, a fisheries biologist with the state Fish and Game Department.
According to Schafermeyer, Knight’s fish is the biggest lake trout caught in New England.
Knight hauled in the titanic trout last Tuesday while ice fishing on Big Diamond Pond in West Stewartstown.
The obesity epidemic in America knows no bounds.
I had no idea trout could get that big.
Seen Meg Ryan lately?
She isn’t that big. For a 50 yo woman she’s in pretty good shape. Could have left off the botox, though.
Fine
Eeeew. Those lips look like a lamprey’s mouth.
Mmm, mm… nature’s Fleshlight.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING THE TROUT FAT
The Berniebros on Twitter are calling for Warren to drop out. Warren supporters are fighting back. Berniebros continue to tell me that they won’t vote in November if Bernie isn’t the nominee. I keep upping the margin of victory I think Trump will end up with.
Why the fuck is Warren still in this? Does she think she’ll win a contested convention?
She’s waiting to be bought out with a promise of Secty of the Treasury. She has some ideas she’d like the IRS to try.
Today on “Berniebros tweet nonsense at JB”…
(~95% of polls indicate Bernie would beat Trump, by the way.)
yeah, sure
I believe it. ~95% of polls sounds about right for Hillary in 2016.
but Bernie’s coming in hot with the most votes
Here’s my problem with this. They are arguing that a Plurality should be sufficient to be elected. If Bernie has a plurality, but is unable to build a coalition to support him as a majority, shouldn’t the majority of delegates get their way and have whomever they agree to vote for?
I mean yes there will be shenanigans, and it won’t be fair, but the Idea that Bernie deserves the win just for having the plurality is even worse than “Majoritarian rules” democracy.
Extra butter please.
I keep telling you, they are going to riot at the DNC if Bernie doesn’t get the nom. Chicago ’68 all over again.
I would like to believe this, but how many of them are capable of actually getting to Madison?
Or Milwaukee, or Minneapolis or Minnehaha or wherever it is.
Fuck You!
*gets ready to leave his Minneapolis office and head to his Minneapolis home*
I kid. When I lived back east, most folks weren’t certain what state Minneapolis is in.
They will be bussed in, travel in smelly caravans, and sleep on the floors and couches of complete strangers. Remember, these are not the people who hold regular jobs.
Tonio’s Realtor: “How many successful people you know who support Bernie?”
Uhhh quite a few, actually…
The Berniebots apparently were out in Carytown this weekend. We saw a bunch of handprinted signs taped up on poles and newspaper boxes while shopping yesterday, ranging from specifically Bernie-related pleas to general Commie agitprop, as well as the always-charming “FUCK TERFS”
I know a bernie bro 27 year old who makes 6 figures working in finance and whose parents outright own a 3-5 mllion dollar brownstone. I just laugh and laugh when he insists that him and his parents won’t have to pay higher taxes under Bernie. It’s the rich who will pay for all the free shit.
100% of those polls also predicted a Hillary victory, but whatevs.
Well she did win the popular vote.
“popular vote” – FTFY
(The real champion was the 110MM or so who said FU; “I can’t be bothered” was actually the most popular choice.)
…but Bernie’s coming in hot with the most votes…
If you feel like giving a virtual smack-down to this person, you can link them to this table showing the popular vote count as of today: Biden +64,929.
Yes, it’s only four states, and South Carolina had by far the biggest electorate and Biden took +150,850 there, but this kind of twitter spat does not call for reasonable and nuanced response.
What they didn’t recognize and still fail to recognize is that Trump is just a giant middle finger from his supporters to all of the entrenched DC swamp creatures.
Exactly. He’s the giant flaming bag of dog shit on the Deep State’s front porch.
If Biden drops to third or fourth, and Sanders gains enough of a delegate lead, Bernie could have a commanding lead, especially if he can ignore Florida before he blunders on Cuba again.
I wonder how much Bernie’s Cuba remarks actually hurt him, in the Democratic primary at least. Sure, I’d imagine they hurt him in the general, but do Florida Democrats actually dislike the Castro regime?
The Cubans in Florida hate Bernie. HAAAAATE him.
It won’t affect him that much in the primary because it’s closed, but he’s got zero chance in the general in Florida.
He isnt’t winning the primary either. The polls since January have been pretty consistent with Biden close to 40% and Bloomberg/Bernie at around 15%.
Plenty of Cubans in Florida would considering voting for a Democrat. Very, very few of them will vote for a man who has been proclaiming his admiration for Fidel Castro for decades.
Florida’s an uphill climb for them anyway – DeSantis is very much tied to Trump and he’s rather popular.
The Castro remark will 100% lose Florida for Bernie. The only way a Democrat can win Florida is to get a supermajority in Miami/Fort Lauderdale/WPB/Tampa/Orlando. The Miami Cubans and the Fort Lauderdale (or thereabout) Venezuelans will absolutely vote for Trump because of those remarks. And they’re enough of the vote to make sure he can’t get the votes he needs to win the state.
Yes, but IIRC you are a Floridian so I’d like to pick your brain on this, how are his remarks received among the prospective Democrat primary voters? I totally get it would sink him in the general, but I’m wondering if it would also sink him in the primary.
See above. Polling hasn’t really changed since January, but he’s consistently been far behind Biden in Florida primary polling. He has his die-hards (~15% in the polls) which aren’t going to change, but most of the voters here already knew what he was vis a vis his love for communists and weren’t going to vote for him in the first place.
Interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed Biden was doing so well there. Thanks for the response.
I have to amend what I said because I missed the poll that came out last week. Biden’s been losing ground … to Bloomberg.
Poll (2,788 likely voters, 1.9% margin of error) had:
Biden 34%
Bloomberg 25%
Bernie 13%
Mayor Pete 8%
Amy K 4%
Would expect the latter’s votes to go to Biden.
I tried reading the Katie Hill story. I tapped out at her claims of having been sexually assaulted four times. Sure. Anything you say.
Even if it’s true, almost every sexual predator was a victim of sexual abuse as a child too, doesn’t mean we withhold punishment.
Pfffftttt…..
File charges or STFU.
She kept going back to the frat house to get her train on, and four times they let the nerd that writes their term papers have sloppy 16ths.
“I find few things so dull as actors talking about acting, so I didn’t see many episodes of Inside The Actors Studio over the years, but his attempts to give Lucille chlamydia were greatly appreciated.”
Then you missed out on one hell of a fascinating David Lynch interview.
“Let the hate feed you,” the co-host Amber A’Lee Frost added as the audience roared.
Secret Sith Lord?
See above.
Donation Not Taxation on March 2, 2020 at 3:12 pm
It’s the New York Times, so maybe Amber A’Lee Frost was misquoted.
“Let the hate feed you.” or “Let the hate flow through you.”
You decide.
Who’s looking forward to the Olympics (if it isn’t cancelled due to Kung Flu)? This should pretty well end female sporting events.
Transgender Weightlifter Continues Olympic Quest
Didn’t a transfem marathoner just get rotflstomped? Like didn’t even finish in the top 100?
Got beat by more than 200 actual women. Time was like 2:50.
Loser.
Your link identifies as sugar free.
Was this supposed to be the link?
Infinite Elgintensity on the transgender weightlifter’s debut.
Yes – thanks
You’re welcome!
I’ll watch the hockey at the winter olympics, but IDGAF otherwise.
The Olympics has been a joke forever.
Um. Womens’ curling? As close to beach volleyball as the winter olympics get.
Sure. Maybe some women’s figure skating, too.
The only reason to watch figure skating is for the falls.
It’s like watching Nascar for the crashes.
You spelled ‘asses’ wrong TedS’.
As an ex-skier I still enjoy the Alpine Skiing events, the Downhill in particular.
Curling is awesome. Women’s curling particularly.
What do you do if you’re governor of the state with the highest taxes? Raise the shit out of them and make sure they only go to your supporters.
Murphy wants $1.6 billion in new taxes to fund schools, transit
Damn
New Jersey actually has the highest taxes in the nation?
Top 3 depending on your income and lifestyle. Property, income, sales, gas…
Elections today. Benny Gantz of Blue and White wants to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud
“‘Netanyahu has ended his historic role from a political standpoint. The Likud with Bibi cannot form a government, and without Bibi there’s unity,’ he said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname. Gantz, a former military chief, has been campaigning furiously in pursuit of a knockout punch as the election grows nearer.”
https://apnews.com/156653623a0f717e875ec0ce44816edd
This is the third time they’ve gone to elections, since neither Gantz or Netanyahu can form a government. It will be interesting to see if this time is different. If Gantz wants unity, he might have to offer clemency to Netanyahu in addition to whatever portfolios he’d give Likud.
We will see.
Exit polls have Likud’s coalition on either 59 or 60 seats, with 61 needed for a majority.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ER9I2PhW4AIC7tc.jpg:large
LOLOLOLOL
I don’t get it, what context am I missing?
David Simon was the creator of The Wire.
David Simon was asked if he’d seen The Wire
David Simon was the showrunner and producer for The Wire.
Doesn’t mean he watched it 😛
And I note he never says he has. Just repeats the question, which is an old dodge for not answering the question.
This is pedantic, even for you.
It’s not an “old dodge” on Twitter.
On Twitter, it’s an invitation for people following the conversation to dogpile the idiot who didn’t bother to Google who s/he was talking to before opening his/her mouth.
And might I add, people who do not Google who they’re talking to before they open their mouths and make fools of themselves absolutely deserve to be dogpiled.
Who are you Hyperbole?
No. But why would I know the creator of a show I didn’t watch?
I didn’t watch it, either, but I drew on the context of the tweet and googled David Simon + The Wire.
I’m just now wrapping up eating dinner.
The salmon turned out perfectly.
I remember when people were claiming The Wire is a libertarian show while Simon himself thinks that libertarianism is a crazy, evil ideology.
Crazy, Maybe. But Evil? I mean i’m not the one advocating violence…
I’d still say it is a libertarian show, if nothing else just to see Simon stroke out more. It’s not my fault he illustrated government corruption and incompetency so well yet still thinks it is the answer.
This is why asking him if he’s actually seen the show is appropriate.
It was unintentionally libertarian. The few good people in the police department/school system/media/politics either got steamrolled or swallowed up by the beaurocracies.
One of my favorite story lines was the guy who tried to open up a boxing gym for kids. He got the run around from the various agencies he had to pay off to get permits. Finally he was pointed in the right direction and found a local politician to grease the wheels. Then he got funded by the head of the local drug gang
I don’t get the love for this show. The 1st and maybe 2nd season were great, no doubt. But at point it started sucking hard.
I recall quitting around the season it become a damn middle school drama show. Like WTF, I enjoyed cops staking out drug dealers from the rooftop with binoculars. I don’t want to watch some loser cop-turned-teacher or whatever the fuck that became.
All of the seasons were supposed to show different aspects and viewpoints of the same problem.
I hear you but i stuck with it and it was more than worth it. That part of the series was a tedious set up
(~95% of polls indicate Bernie would beat Trump, by the way.)
At what, shuffleboard?
i think it’s closer to 100% currently.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1234573252221120513
so eloquent much memory
Hey, New Yorkers, how’s life without plastic bags? I will soon experience this too along with no more plastic straws. And you Brits will live this life too.
And we will never get them back.
Really annoys me at how ironically weak prosperity and freedom makes people.
I have a bag of fresh, new plastic bags that I keep in the car and bring into stores. I’m annoyed at how weak this set turned out to be, I’m going to look for stronger bags in the future.
Uline.
Is that a brand name, or a reseller?
Nevermind, I found them.
LMGTFY https://www.uline.com/Grp_96/Plastic-Shopping-Bags
Hefty.
Fair warning, .5 mil is pretty darn thin, and I’m disappointed with how weak that weight of plastic is.
I’m going to continue to search for a good balance between durability and price.
I don’t actually know what the thickness of the Walmart ones is. The ones HyVee (I don’t think they’re in your neck of the woods) has are great. Michael’s and Hobby Lobby have sturdy ones too. Better than Home Depot, that’s for sure.
We had a plastic ban bag here in Dallas and successfully got it overturned
Who overturned it?
What method did they use? Legislative? Judicial?
Judicial.
Well I’m not expected the Canadian Supreme Court to stop Turdeau Jr. on this.
Do you happen to know the grounds they used?
A state law — the Solid Waste Disposal Act — says that local municipalities can’t employ plastic bag bans. I think this was tested further in places like Dallas that tried to say they could tax for them, and the courts ruled against that too.
Wait until the Democrats either gain the Statehouse or Joe Biden gets elected.
Damn. Won’t help us here in PDRNY
After Joe Biden is incapacitated by dementia, I wonder who takes the helm?
If it’s no one, I’m voting for the incapacitated guy. That’s the kind of leadership we need for America.
I mean if I’m honest, I think municipalities should be allowed to ban plastic bags. Not that they should, mind you, but it’s their fucking city.
I think no layer of government should be telling me and my store what sort of packaging we should be using for carrying the goods purchased from the store to wherever I want them.
If not Joe then some other Democrat.
Agreed. But still. Something feels off about wielding some bullshit state law from the 1930s to control cities. If they want to sink their own town with some social signaling democratic bullshit, let them. It’s not the local governments that frighten me, truly.
It’s more the general trend to me…
Even a store completely inside of and catering to the members of a HOA?
Or say you want to carry your goods in a bag shaped like a giant schlong emblazoned with scenes of Sugarfree’s Hilary and Huma sex stories?
The good thing about most local governments is I feel like I can fight them. Of course, I don’t live in a giant city.
No intelligent person thinks they have any real effect on our federal government.
By “general trend” I was speaking more of an ideological trend. These urban statists are the educated elites that will be influencing Federal and State Democrats.
There had been in injunction filed by a company that makes grocery bags, so NY has agreed (in writing even!) not to enforce the ban until the judge dismisses it later this month.
Was talking about this with my therapist (yes, I have one now!) (he says I am not crazy!) and it’s because people have too much time on their hands, which then turns to navel gazing and existential/nihilistic crises.
When people aren’t worried about starving to death, they spend their time worrying about increasingly frivolous, silly things.
The hands working the oars are too busy to rock the boat
Don’t rock the boat, baby!
You forgot the link. I am disappoint.
https://youtu.be/FfBwsG8ubFw
They all say that. It is dangerous to tell a crazy person they are crazy. Don’t lose heart, you could still be crazy!
I will admit to being slightly disappointed to find out I am not crazy.
Maybe I’ll paint my fingernails neon green. That’ll convince him, I’m sure.
In our wonderful land of Commifornia, coincidentally it seemed that shitting on sidewalks and hepatitis came about right after the plastic bag ban. Don’t know if that is a reason why, but seems plausible to me.
I understand there was a fair amount of shitting into plastic bags by the slightly more together homeless.
I will soon experience this too along with no more plastic straws.
The Whataburger near my office has gone to paper straws (voluntarily, I presume, as none of the other restaurants in the vicinity have abandoned plastic) and I hate them. You have my sympathy.
They are godawful. I usually need to use about 4 per beverage because they are structurally unsound. It can’t be less wasteful.
I bought a smoothie the other day from a place that used paper straws.
It was awful
They are truly the worst. They invariably collapse on themselves within 60 seconds of use.
Also are “single-use plastics” A Hill To Die On?
^^ A reason why i hate the “Hill to Die on” argument. at TOS people would make it all the time, as to why we should give up on principles. I get it, but if you can’t even make a principled stand on a small hill, why would you be competent to make it on a big one?
Hell Yes.
Yes.
In fact, I think it’s the last hill we have TO die on. This goes south on choice, and the rest of the climate change alarmists’ agenda gets the green light and unlimited funding and a steady march through petroleum products.
Yes, because 1) the fight touches on important principles, 2) the fight is winnable, 3) defeat does not equal (metaphoric) death. Things that meet all 3 criteria should be fought for, assuming doing so does not diminish the resources for more important fights. Whereas something such as DUI traffic stops only meets the first one but is surely a lost cause and the losing will also tarnish the reputation of the fighter, so it’s not a hill to die on (unless it’s super important to you, of course – the world needs its martyrs too).
Good article on how bans are detrimental to the environment. (Also bonus of how curbside recycling is a giant scam).
https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-disposable-plastic
Very true but the politicians and the masses don’t give a shit.
Now getting “reusable” plastic bags at checkout (for a nickel each). They’re like the previous ones but heavier weight.
I get cloth bags with my books/author name printed on them. The trick is to remember to take them back out to the car when you’ve unloaded them.
Where do you get your cloth bags?
Zazzle
But I get the concept.
Oh, crap!
Here’s the one I currently have for sale, but it is not a “grocery tote” nor would I use it for one. It’s too small.
The one I TRIED to link is close to this tote. I got mine so long ago the bag I actually had them printed on is not available anymore.
Ordered.
I just got a set of reusable nylon bags – we’ll see how well they perform.
They’re really good at absorbing mold and fungii and probably the coronavirus
Sweet.
One of the best things about leaving NYC/north jersey for philly is the plethora of plastic bags. Now i horde them in the extra kitchen cabinets i can now afford
Problem with a free society is that only the statists care enough to actively campaign for anything.
Oh and only the socons are the ones who care enough to roll back some of the things that leftists have done.
The problem is that we lack the resolve to form an angry mob and lynch them all.
Resolve huh? I’ll start using that instead of lazy
My min sewing machine arrived today, and it is tiny. I just have a handful of seams to fix, and maybe a few pillows to make with my excess upholstery materials after I fix my chair.
Which one did you get?
How much to replace a zipper on a jacket?
20 bucks. Same as downtown.
Sounds about right.
So I’m reading that the stock market rebound is a dead cat bounce. True or false?
I think the fundamentals are too solid. Big beats on trade balance, durables, and personal income last week that got washed out in the hysteria.
As long as there’s uncertainty about future direction.
What do you do if you’re governor of the state with the highest taxes? Raise the shit out of them and make sure they only go to your supporters.
Murphy wants $1.6 billion in new taxes to fund schools, transit
And make the Democrats break a promise they made when they raised the gas tax.
And make the Democrats break a promise they made when they raised the gas tax.
who could have ever seen that happen?
I think its kinda ridiculous, but faced with the alternative that the legislature sells a tax increase for a purpose and then lies and changes it, Utah’s system of having certain taxes constitutionally appropriated doesn’t seem so crazy (e.g. all income tax goes to Education)
If only there were some alternative…
Such as funding government by voluntary money instead of taxes.
I’m all for starving the beast but Rand must have been hit on the head when she proposed that New Objectivist Man would voluntarily pay for taxes and the New Objectivist man would not have huge regulatory capture issues.
A Bad Lip Reading of the 2020 State of the Union
A key weakness in a free society is the judiciary. Who are these judges that should be appointed? Who appoints them? When should they ignore opinion polls? Where do they gain their legal theories? Which law schools are they going to get their legal theories from?
Also “judicial independence” and “judicial review” have always been partisan, political and culture war stuff. Always have been and always will be.
Marbury vs. Madison was literally about Jefferson trying to stop Adams from appointing judges.
Lifetime appointments for judges is all about reducing monarchial power and ensuring that judges who vote a certain way remain in power.
Maybe, but it’s better than the alternative.
How about reducing the power of the judiciary by using the as a backstop for arbitration and mediation? As a deterrent threat against the parties act in bad faith on agreeing on arbitrator/mediator, if the arbitrator/defendant/mediator and/or plaintiff ridiculously bad faith the process, not respecting implementing the agreement and/or judgment, that sort of thing?
It’s not a weakness, because not having one is a lot worse.
Congratulations! You have learned that perfect solutions are not possible to fallible creatures.
“How do we know Jesus had male genitalia?”
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1234216870418567168
“What Finding Jesus’ Private Parts in the Turin Shroud Says About Faith
His gender has been used to justify a male-dominated church, so the debate has caused quite a stir.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-finding-jesus-private-parts-in-the-turin-shroud-says-about-faith
Oh geeze. This is one of those debates that you lose by choosing to engage at all.
Debate? Sorry, not all questions are debateable.
WHO COMES UP WITH THIS BULLSHIT?!
The Papal Bull?
Didn’t Leonard Nimoy debunk the shroud of Turin thing back in the seventies?
I think it was Spock.
The age of the shroud was ‘debunked’ back then, but it turns out the piece they radio carbon dated was a patch job done later. In the early 00s they tested a different section and the dating was much closer.
The actual image and how it came to be has gone back and forth several times as well.
It’s not something I believe in, but also has not been resoundingly debunked.
The left: Jesus didn’t exist!
The left: What would Jesus do, he was a socialist!
The left: Jesus didn’t exist!
The left: Jesus could have been female!
They contain multitudes.
He was also black.
Mammary Monday is staying in this race to the end!
http://archive.is/gAmai
#19 is Irene Nell. I think she got away from modeling and sportscasting when she had kids.
#7 is intriguing. Something about her.
Coronavirus in Washington state: 6 dead, 12 others infected
That’s not reassuring. Two oldsters – 70’s and 80’s, and a guy in his 40’s. And now 29 firefighters and cops who responded to their emergency calls are sick and in quarantine.
I call upon Spud to set up a quarantine from Washington along the Washington/Idaho border and to destroy any vehicle trying to leave.
Earlier today the stock market was all “buy buy buy”. Will it be “sell sell sell” again tomorrow? lol.
It’s going to be volatile based on the day to day news. People were bargain hunting today from last weeks drops.
No, it’s not.
It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
It’s reasonably likely that the number of “confirmed cases” is off by multitudes (in other words, there are far more cases out there than are being reported, mostly from people who were either asymptomatic or had mild symptoms). Which is both good (because it means the death rate is far lower than the numbers would indicate) and bad (because it allows it to be transmitted more easily).
The 1957 pandemic flu killed ~70k people in the US and ~2 million people worldwide. That’s about what I’m thinking we’ll see here.
I hope so, but there are reasons to think it could be worse. Mortality rates are the tip of the iceberg. Hospitalizations and medical care are more worrisome if the peak isn’t smoothed down.
I think it’s an absolute certainty. The fatality rate is grossly exaggerated, but you can tell from the movement of the disease a huge number of people are spreading while getting only mild symptoms. It’s going to not be that contain-able and is going to mow down some people w/ existing respiratory or heart problems.
In a more mobile world with greater urbanization and population density, I wonder if 1957 represents a best case scenario.
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My wife just showed me a new Taylor Swift song : The Man. I guess about how much men suck.
“showed” you?
It’s about TS fantasizing about being a man instead of a woman.
Ahhh. I was looking at the music video, which is very much “men suck, going around manspreading”
T-Swizzle futa?
Hmm… weird world. I just found out a very close friend of mine dated Tulsi’s brother Bhakti, back in 1993.
“Buttigieg out, Steyer out, Klobuchar out.”
They were told to leave so that Biden gets the nomination. Sanders is doing too well. They would rather Biden wins with actual votes, but if they have to as last resort, they will give it to him at the convention anyway.
I think they still want to see how well Bloomberg does after all the recent dropouts, as they consider him an acceptable alternative to Biden.
Their plan is still Biden/Warren, but a Bloomberg/Warren ticket is acceptable to the establishment.
How they’ll get the Bernie Bros to leave their mom’s basement and vote for Biden or Bloomberg, I have no idea.
The problem with these guys out is I wonder if Biden is the second choice for most of them. I already know he’s not for Buttigieg fans. Not sure about Amy.
Either Biden or Bloomberg will come out after the convention. And the VP candidate Warren will claim to be a black Cherokee.
Who was the comedian who suggested Trump declare himself a woman right before his presidency ends so progressives have to recognize him as the first woman president?
Not a real woman. /democrats
Keep him close and let the superdelegates put him over the top.
As sad as it is, Biden has the best chance against Trump. Also, if it’s Sanders, the socialist wing of the Democrat party will have their hopes crushed into oblivion for at least a decade.
I’d prefer to see Trump go against Sanders but it’s obvious what way the Democratic apparatus is moving. Also, a clearly victorious Biden would stand a fairly good chance against Trump but a Biden who won by screwing over a fanatical 25 percent of his potential voters party is going to need a miracle.
I so want it to be Sanders, but it won’t be. He also will not run 3rd party. Biden will fair less well then Hillary did, but it will be somewhat close. He’ll probably lose one or two more states than Hillary did and some others by wider margins. I think Trump is a lot more popular than he was in 2016 and will get more votes. He might even win the popular vote this time.
I think Sanders does.
He would lose in as close to a landslide as it’s possible in this day and time. He might win 10 states.
I certainly hope so.
But it doesn’t look that way.
I understand the polls data has problems at this point, but it also is all we have. So far he appears most formidable to Trump primarily because he steals away some of Trump’s base.
If we’re actually so far gone that Bernie can win we may as well just elect him and get it over with because we’re screwed anyway.
Just keep these things in mind.
Bernie will have the likes of Gulag Barbie campaigning for him. She will actually talk and everyone will hear it.
Bernie will NOT have the media on his side as they hate him almost as much as they do Trump.
At some point, he will start needing to talk about numbers to pay for all of the free shit like Medicare for all, free college, the insane Green New Deal. And people will start to figure out their taxes are going to look like European level taxes.
See I don’t think the media *hates* Bernie. I think they’re just a bit scared he will blow their cover.
“the socialist wing of the Democrat party will have their hopes crushed into oblivion for at least a decade.”
Nope. It will always be someone else’s fault.
Yup. Crushing defeat encourages them. Martyrdom is baked in, oppression is expected, nay, guaranteed.
Yeah, they’ll be encouraged after they spend the next 4 years in their mom’s basement eating crayons and wallowing in misery.
eating crayons
Hey! Don’t be demeaning the good men (and women) of the Marine Corps by lumping them in there.
I’m really hoping Warren doesn’t win Mass tomorrow, just for the LOLs.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer lady.
Mass has a wealth of hateful politicians – save for Scott Brown, the rest of the country could be enjoying Senator Martha Coakley instead of Warren.
I’m not sure which of those two is worse.
Hope it happens. Cause it will be her first and only loss in MA.
A big advantage that statists have is that people won’t miss something they never experienced or only associate with backwards rednecks who can’t accept that Progress has left them in the Dustbin of history.
Once guns are banned and people are fine then well why should we want them back? You don’t want to be one of those racist homophobic hicks who love guns, right?
Looks like the Pinoy hostage crisis was revived safely. That brings back memories from high school. My buddies and I would hang out in the internet cafes in the Green Hills mall playing Quake deathmatch and buying cheap software.
Not sure if that was an ironic dig about gun laws or if the laws have changed since I lived there in the 90s, but theres a reason for the Stephenson quote “Filipinos are a warm, caring people – which is a good thing because so many of them carry concealed weapons”
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WALL STREET =/= MAIN STREET
*whoops like monkey, flings shit*
? on the music pick – moar in “painfully 80s”
Dance with me, but not the 80s
Prefer Ted’S’s.
But then I like disco and funk more than punk/ish.
I was thinking of linking to Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself”, but figured that was too conventional.
Just pulled the trigger on XX’s prom dress and shoes. ?
Gilmore’d or not?
You decide.
Not.
Mine was just modeling hers for us last night. It was quite tasteful and flattering.
Thank God the ‘Bangkok Hooker’ look is apparently over. A few years ago, one of the chicks in Spawn 1’s group looked like she had just made bail.
Relatively restrained and will flatter her figure.
My ? is because a) it’s coming from China and b) to guarantee its arrival on time I had to fork over $23.00 and c) I don’t know if it’s returnable.
That dress looks good.
I also say not Gilmore’d.
Moje, that’s a lovely dress for a young lady.
Dance with me, also the 80s
Come Dancing
Also ’80s
Ultimate 80’s Dance Video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc
And we danced
?
Looks like a Duran Duran and Modern English had a baby.
Yep, painful…
Special K as ya’ll call her, has already endorsed Biden.
What, with a cloth?
Judge Royce Lamberth was found dead today in his DC apartment of apparent suicide, having shot himself in the back of the head three times.
And in a freak computer error all records of cases pending before him have been lost. The court IT team promises to look into the matter. However the hard drive backups were inadvertently shredded, dealing another blow to the embattled records retention department.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/anti-woke-right-liberals
And I recall the left constantly ridiculed those conservatives and relished how the Boomer counterculture offended them.
Of course….
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
That being said the need to be “transgressive” certainly does lead to problems. In the early 19th Century being a classical liberal (especially in Continental Europe) was a very transgressive attitude so a lot of artists were classical liberals, By the end it was no longer transgressive and artists became socialists and communists.
And if a libertarian society is too ever be achieve the bohemian artist class will be filled with Communists and Nazis since what better way to offend a libertarian?
And if the artists are so transgressive, why practically all of them are subscribing to the same conformist ideology in the USA?
Because the progs are the professors and critics so anyone who doesn’t gets classified as a commercial hack and not an artist?
This.
Also Arts funding.
And you are not supposed to be transgressive against your own social group but only the groups you hate.
How dare you act like us?
If there’s one thing that characterizes the modern left, to me, it’s civility and restraint.
Oh my.
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1234482377155629056
Just to be on the safe side, Bridget, you might want to peek underneath your car before starting.
I liked this reply to her:
Now if only they can appoint someone named Cromwell to head up the event.
Helllooooooo, nerds! My procrastination levels are so high, I’m putting off setting up my login token for work on my new phone. Like, ain’t nobody got time for that! There’s a whole DVR of shit to watch!!
(OK, I set the fucking thing up, but it looks like they’re doing system maintenance so I can’t test it. Motivation crashing…)
Might as well pour some booze:)
My thoughts exactly
Hahaha, my favorite part is the number of replies thanking / agreeing with her. How can anyone watch 10m of Joe and not instantly see he’s not all there in the head?
Alyssa Milano
@Alyssa_Milano
I refuse to underestimate the power of intelligence, kindness and decency. My friend, @JoeBiden has all of that and so much more. Joe already has the respect of world leaders. He has the experience to effectively lead on day one. I’m endorsing Joe Biden for President.
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1234556669960445952
He’s done.
People give the benefit of the doubt to those they agree with and are most critical of their perceived enemies? It’s why Trumpsters think he’s playing 4D chess and TDS sufferers think he’s a raving lunatic.
A #metoo darling endorsing the guy who can’t keep his hands off of women and children is what makes it funny.
Hmm, this may explain why the Glib commentariat thinks TH is a raving lunatic who’s playing 4D chess.
/jk
I’m offended that you believe I’m intelligent enough to play 4D chess.
It’s like you don’t know me at all…
Hmm, I’ve been drinking this and so failed to notice the same potential abbreviations. I was, of course, referring to The Hyperbole.
Ah, thank goodness. I was afraid you people were going to start holding me to standards or something.
The drink looks delicious. Unfortunately, brown liquor makes me mean. I avoid it at all costs.
…and I’M TH, dammit! He’s Hype, or The Contrarian We Didn’t Ask for, but The Contrarian We Deserve.
*sticks tongue out at Hype*
I’m drinking this. I am not enjoying it all that much. Ah, well, I took a shot on someone local-ish.
Mebbe it’ll grow on you.
The Government: Americans “must remain aware that foreign actors continue to try to influence public sentiment and shape voter perceptions.”
The furriners are interfering with our democracy again!
The Saudis and the Israelis are up to their old tricks again?
So Warren’s staying in to try and divert votes from Bernie?
She’s staying in so that when Biden chooses her as VP, he can remember who she is, maybe.
Well she would effectively be President since he’s brain dead. I just figured since her and Bernie are promising the most free shit, the DNC (or Bloomberg) wants her to take some of the free shit brigades votes from him.
She would be a truly poor choice as VP strategically. She doesn’t add any potential states.
She adds one vagina and all of the minority they have left. So obviously, her or old Joe has to come out either at or shortly after the convention.
There are other vaginas in existence. Some of them not even lily white liars.
I’m not an expert on the Democratic party, but I predict there is a better strategic choice out there.
Also important, Mass. is one of those states no Democratic-elect needs to worry about much.
The wife is getting her hair done, so I’m doing the only appropriate thing. I’m sitting at the bar drinking one of these:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/429/454765/
Yum.
Seconded.
Shit, I hope the drive isn’t far!
About a quarter mile from the bar and then eight minutes to home.
Also…thinking about the virus while I started up Ringo’s “The Last Centurion” audiobook again this weekend.
Interesting sidenote re how everywhere else in the world, SARS was (Serious) while in the US it was MARS (Mild).
My favorite thing about the primaries, especially recently, is how all the Democrats are wailing about how racist and sexist the….Democratic Party is.
Hey when it’s your Go To attack on someone, why stop using it when you are infighting?
When all you have is a hammer..
Trump is going to be re-elected. In a year we won’t remember who ran against him.
I’m ready for it to be over already. Except for when Trump debates.
I’ll remember. It’s Biden who won’t.
I hate that this the best we can hope for.
Corona virus is doing the best it can!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRHCDUEUIAAI5oB.jpg:large
Have you seen The Wire? That place is a shit hole!
Crabs make sense for Maryland. But flamingos?
Global warming, dude.
Pink Flamingos.
Ah, celebrating the Feast of Bad Taste early this year.
I approve.
And Buttgig endorses Biden. Shocking!
Murray Rothbard was born March 2, 1926
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.”
https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard
What the hell happens to the votes of people who early voted for candidates that dropped out?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMsSax7ajs
Bloomberg buys them?
They get to vote twice in the general.
Going out on a limb here but maybe they are counted as votes for the person who dropped out? Like write in votes for Mickey Mouse count as votes for Mickey Mouse even if he isn’t in on the ballot.
Yup
My brother — despite being a log cabin Republican — voted for Pete Buttigieg last week. Now he’s pretty pissed.
I guess for the same reason many around here voted for Tulsi.
At least considered voting for her.
Pete has nice tits? I didn’t notice.
Makes sense. It seems rather stupid to vote early in a primary when you don’t know if your candidate will still be around. This hurts Biden since those who voted for Fauxcahontas or BootyJudge might have decided to vote for him instead as of today.
This had long been an argument against early voting. Also you could learn important things about a candidate after you shoot your civic wad.
. . . after you shoot your civic wad.
/Ewwwwwwww!
Now I know why so many of your ballots end up in somebody’s car’s trunk.
Not Fauxcahontas, K-Hole.
“Chris Matthews announces that he will be retiring and that this will be the last episode of Hardball:
“I’m retiring. This is the last ‘Hardball’ on MSNBC, and obviously this isn’t for lack of interest in Politics…””
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1234631064112521218
It was that temporary lapse into sanity when he ranted against socialism. They told him it’s time to go.
“retiring”
Wow. The Dems went so far off the reservation that they claimed Chris Fucking Matthews’ scalp; Mr. Leg Tingle himself. Amazing what 3.5 years of TDS will do.
He resigned because of #metoo.
Years ago I held office hours at the Kennedy School of Government right before he would broadcast his show from the inner courtyard of the building. For several weeks I saw him before the show.
The PTSD that poor woman must be suffering.
I know, that must have been overwhelmingly horrible.
Shoulda followed the Pence Rule, Mr Matthews!
That’s pretty tame and he shouldn’t have been fired.
It’s so fucking ridiculous. She could have said knock it off and gone on with her life but she saw her opportunity to advance her career by claiming someone else’s.
Honestly, if it was a “no, we won’t to fire you, HR will need you to jump through these hoops, and apologize to the Becky” and he told them to shove it, he may be a heroic figure after all (in the classical sense, not A Good Guy sense).
I won the chili cook off. I still think it should have been spicier, but I’m pleased.
Hotter (let’s be real — that’s what everyone means when they say “spicier” anyways) is usually a good thing IMNSHO, but the average North American palate still can’t handle elevated levels of heat. You were smart to dial it back.
Picante contra caliente.
Yeah, yeah . . . whatever, d00d. I keep trying to tell my extended family members this, and they keep calling hot “spicy.”
Congratulations!
Awesome! Congrats.
Congrats!
The secret ingredients:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4qf5y7AaWbU
Recipe? I wasted my caloric and sodium budgets on some godawful Upstate NY chili over the weekend.
I don’t buy the “they’s teechin sekshooull prahmiskyooitee!” considering percentage of sexually active teens and teen pregnancy rates have gone down, but the point about education being the epicenter of indoctrination is well taken.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/29/why-education-has-destroyed-the-next-generations-s/
Well, they _would_ be sexually promiscuous, but they have to check Instagram first…
Most of them are probably too confused to have sex. They don’t even know which of the 34 sexes they are or who it’s OK to have sex with. They just know they’re supposed to use the right bathroom and they don’t know which one it is.
That’s the impression I get from them. My 6th grade niece is proclaiming to be bi or pan or some shit like that and she’s about as soon interested in sex as they get.
It’s purely about the bullshit they hear from the education system, Instagram, and their peers.
Soon = non
Or scared shitless of being accused of rape.
I seem to recall seeing from several sources claiming that 1 in 3 girls in North America during the colonial era were pregnant before they got married. Of course, they usually married the guy who knocked them up far more often than now. Regardless, the point is: Teenagers fuck. And no social or religious force yet known has been able to stop that.
#MeToo and actively encouraging 5 year olds to undergo sex change operations may finally do it.
Nah, indoctrination and fear aside, I still have faith in the human sex drive to make the outliers of today stay so in the future…Western Civilization may be in for some bigger trouble than the rest of the world in the short term though, I’ll give you that.
It was quite split between rural and urban areas. I read a diary entry from a revolutionary war soldier who was disgusted at the red light district of Boston.
/Southie Girls
eeeeeeewww.
Regardless, the point is: Teenagers fuck
Not always in all places. Not in the land of the Stroking Son.
I wonder what the promiscuity rate for teenagers actually is in Japan. I wonder if the numbers are accurate due to what my far away view would see as culture shame making people less than honest.
I also wonder how one can find those stats and studies without ending up on a watchlist.
Yep. I would submit that – to the extent they’re sexually active – they’re not learning it at school, they’re learning it from their parents.
I think the reason that “teen pregnancy” is down is the stat. was always kinda b.s. to begin with. It also included girls who didn’t go to college, just got married, and had a family. 18 and 19 year olds included. There was nothing actually wrong with “teen pregnancy” in that case except they didn’t follow the path the political left wanted them to follow which was to get some college degree.
Nowadays after dangling lots of cheap money and decades of telling them they need an education before getting married, that’s what they’re doing.
Everett Piper, former president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University
So, can we expect sepukku or a public immolation? Or, if it’s not Christian enough, going to live as stylite in the desert to atone for your own sins, Mr SoCon?
It’s one thing to see generic “We need Jesus but I’m too much of a bitch to say so” pablum, coming from the man who had actual power to prevent what he rants about is galling.
His college had a smaller enrollment than my high school.
Ooh, I stand corrected, his University at fought back against their brethren!
A longtime member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), in 2015 the university withdrew from the organization. OKWU’s president cited CCCU’s “reluctance to make a swift decision” in response to the decisions of two member schools (Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite University) which changed their hiring policies to include same-sex couples, as an unwillingness to defend the biblical definition of marriage.
OK, he doesn’t have to go live on a pillar in the desert.
Brokered convention? Seems Shorty Blomberg is buying (sorry, hiriing) himself some super deligates.
From Baltimore.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2020/02/22/former-baltimore-mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-joins-presidential-candidate-michael-bloombergs-campaign/
and Texas and California
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/28/bloomberg-super-tuesday-texas-california-democratic-party-hires/
G’damn that would be so funny.
I can only imagine what the Bernie Bros would do…
They’ll probably urine bomb the convention stage, live on TV. It will be epic.
Here’s a preview of the action
https://youtu.be/1u8HQNG9k2s
Lol.
Some men just want to watch the world burn…..
I’d suspect he’s a Republican plant but they aren’t smart enough to pull that off.
I still thinks there’s some chance that Karla Marx is a Republican plant. Especially since she has pretty much all of the dem candidates endorsing her complete line up of insanity.
Rawlings-Blake was definitely for sale. She’s looking for a way back into power.
Oh, I think the DNC PTB would prefer Bloomberg to any of the rest. They just can’t appear too. He’s basically status quo for them and could possible make to November without totally screwing the pooch.