Happy Monday, everybody. I believe (**crosses fingers**) I have finally finished moving and/or assembling all of the large furniture items to be had. The count stands at: 4 beds moved, 1 assembled, 1 crib assembled. 5 dressers moved, one assembled, and a glider moved in and assembled. Literally every bedroom we use as a bedroom has a different bed and dresser than it did on the first of September. Nothing is too good for my family (**he grumbled**).
We coulda had a smokin’ hot Jewish chick as our Vice President. Not to worry, under our current dynastic rules, she’ll be the GOP Presidential nominee in 2032.
Maybe this guy should teach freshmen in HS instead of kindergarten. As an object lesson to the kids.
Homeopathy comes for our seltzer water! Parts per trillion. Heh. Cyanide is safe at parts per trillion. In fact, your apple juice may contain that level of cyanide.
This is absolutely infuriating, if true. Initial reports indicated that the cop injured in the Breonna Taylor shooting was injured by a 9mm bullet, and the only person firing 9mm was her boyfriend (who, to be clear, was not the same man named in the warrant — there has been some confusion there). Turns out, the cop who was indicted for mag-dumping now also appears to have been carrying and firing a 9mm pistol. Now I understand why the wrongful death settlement came so high and so fast. $12M was a big number… I’m guessing now that was to keep some inconvenient facts from being made court record in discovery.
“a glider moved in and assembled”
What?
“Finger eaters”
It’s a big bedroom.
Sorry, that’s what my wife calls an arm chair that rocks back and forth.
It glides back and forth, glides…
I had this conversation with my wife as well.
Not a rocking chair?
See Scruffy’s assertion. I guess it glides. It does not change plane like the perfectly useable rocking chair we own.
I guess a Hawaii chair stays in the same plane, too….
WTF was that. I haven’t laughed at something like that for a while.
LOL
Nano-tech glider, duh!
REDRUM!!!!
“We coulda had a smokin’ hot Jewish chick as our Vice President. Not to worry, under our current dynastic rules, she’ll be the GOP Presidential nominee in 2032.”
Why not 2024? She’s 38 now.
Please, no more political family dynasties.
Well, imma think that you should vote Biden then, because that family is a shit-show.
It took the Kennedy’s about 4 generations to reach that level.
I can’t think of anything Slow Joe could say to get me to vote for him.
He just has to keep his promise to punch trump on the nose during his debate.
“Three generations of imbeciles is enough….”
POTUS switches parties every 8 to 12 years.
It’s the wookie’s turn from 2024 to 2032. Then the pendulum returns to Ivanka in 2032.
The good news is that it looks like the Clinton spawn has fallen out of the cycle.
Clinton spawn has fallen out of the cycle.
That’s the uncanny valley at work.
Last I read, Her Malignity was grooming a new he-spawn.
“It’s the wookie’s turn from 2024 to 2032.”
I can’t fap to that.
You’re not fooling anyone
We have yet to survive one term of a woman being president. Fist time we get one who still has her period, it’s gonna be nuclear war before 6 months is up. Some dummy probably delivers the wrong drapery to the Whitehouse, she’s having PMS and BOOM!
The US survived both Edith Wilson and Nancy Reagan, so it’s not like this hasn’t been tried before.
Sources familiar with Rhywun’s thinking say that he doesn’t believe any part of that story.
I’ve seen some noise about convincing Kristi Noem to run in 2024.
It’s an uncommon thing for the incumbent party to retain the Presidency after 8 years (if Trump were to win). I think her best bet would be 2028 (fuck, that seems so far away). But I think she should give it a shot in 2024 anyway.
Don’t worry, the media will find a way to make Noem look at silly as Sarah Palin. Republican women politicians aren’t really women.
Normies don’t appreciate the tattoo art. I don’t understand it but there’s a lot of things I don’t understand.
I got blackwork partial sleeves when I was 17 y/o. The cops treated it as a criminal offense and tried their damnest to charge me with something, anything. I’m almost glad that the whole world got inked, just so they relaxed on me some. It was basically like the Yakuza or something back then. I just thought they looked cool. Haven’t seen a tattoo gun since my 18th birthday.
“A schoolteacher whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black said he was prevented from teaching at a French kindergarten after a parent complained he scared their child.”
Maybe he should have gone into different line of work?
When did kids get the right “not to be afraid”? They need nightmare fuel if they are going to grow up strong. Bah!
Its Discrimination! If our kids can’t be taught by people who make poor life decisions, how will they experieince the full breath of diversity life has to offer them.
Circus freak?
“All my life I’ve been terrifying children. I finally thought I’d found a way to give back, by teaching them while I terrify them.”
His job seems to be “attract attention”. I bet he’s wildly successful at it.
I’m guessing now that was to keep some inconvenient facts from being made court record in discovery.
Whaaaa?
Turns out, the cop who was indicted for mag-dumping now also appears to have been carrying and firing a 9mm pistol.
I recall the popo swore up and down that the cops had .40s, so the one who caught a bullet had to have been shot by the boyfriend.
Also of interest, I saw a report that the single witness “confirming” the knock and announce is getting wobbly, and there are over a dozen witnesses saying they heard no such thing.
All told, the decision not to charge the boyfriend was right on the law, and it looks like it might not have any factual support, either.
Brett, did your family expand? Upgrades?, Move? Sounds like a lot of work but the family is worth it. God for you and yours.
Good
New baby due sometime in the next five weeks, depending on how long he decides to lay around parasiting off his mom’s blood.
*tips hat at fellow man dealing with 30-something week pregnant wife*
Is it November yet?
I just need him to cook for 2 more weeks and he’s not a premie. God knows what sort of protocols it takes to break your premature infant out of the NICU right now. When is yours due?
God knows what sort of protocols it takes to break your premature infant out of the NICU right now.
I’m pretty sure it involves body armor, multiple high-capacity firearms, and some kind of incapacitating gas grenades.
At least, if our NICU nurses are any indication.
Oh, and make sure your will is up to date.
I, er, kind of meant legally be allowed to leave with him. I ain’t fighting no NICU nurse.
Listen. Understand. That [NICU Nurse] is out there. It can’t be reasoned with, it can’t be bargained with…it doesn’t feel pity of remorse or fear…and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.
Let me just say, uroxatral does not agree with me.
I’m belching up sulfur clouds.
Is that chunk of granite moving or expelled yet? I hate that when that happens.
Honestly not sure.
It’s better to let it out and bear the shame, than hold it in and bear the pain.
This goes for flatulence as well.
If it stops at flatulence. After the fact discoveries may bear some shame as well.
Farting is way more hilarious than burping anyway
Hawt.
Very hot, and very stanky. Ugh
“Serious side effects of Uroxatral include floppy eye syndrome.”
What?
“his pupils see past his appearance.”
I know there’s a joke in there somewhere, but this statement is really tripping me out.
I’m always amazed at the disdain for parental wishes by the education complex.
“While there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
Oh, fuck off.
as long as capitalism exists, we are all immoral and damned.
DuckShit-flinging howler monkey seasonAs my colleague Tom Scocca observed one year ago, Trump was elected as the ultimate expression of a political party more concerned with taunting and obstructing its opposition than with any specific governing agenda. Others have noted that, for decades, the driving principle behind the Republican project has been the conviction that people of color and their political allies are undeserving of full participation in American democracy. The push to shield those who murder protesters with their cars from criminal or civil liability, which Republican legislators have attempted to do in at least eight states, is a particularly gruesome offshoot of these two philosophies. It’s also not solving any problematic gap in the legal sphere: Property damage is already a criminal offense; self-defense is already an accepted legal defense for causing others harm. DeSantis and his peers are simply trying to create space within the law—or the perception of it—for their political supporters to kill their political opponents.
Now do “race hate” enhancements.
“ultimate expression of a political party more concerned with taunting and obstructing its opposition than with any specific governing agenda”
Now that’s utter bullshit. The GOP desperately did not want Trump. Trump was a fuck you to the GOP.
I think that actually explains some of the outright hatred from the establishment. Before it was just gamesmenship and you were competing against the candidates that each team put up. Then the GOP had to go and put forward a guy that the people of the party wanted. That was unacceptable, and is why you see the vitriol targeting regular people much more than you used to. The establishment _knows_ that it was the GOP voters who put trump in, and they hate them for it.
Yes
They were busily content fleecing the system and they had the nerve to vote for someone who’s wrecking their grift.
Bingo. Ab-so-fucking-loot-lee.
Great comment, leon.
I had never thought of it in those terms, but I couldn’t agree more. The Dems hate Trump the way they would a third-party candidate (if one had ever been elected). He stole “MUH GOP!!?!?!!” from establishment, neocon Republicans… but he also stole it from establishment Dems, too. And he forced Republicans to adopt policies and tactics that don’t line up with the “usual way of doing business.”
There’s room for criticism in there, as well. Trump’s not exactly a parliamentarian or expert on Roberts’ Rules of Order. BUT, his political instincts are to try to help the American people – as best he knows under the limitations people (undoubtedly) keep telling him he has to live with.
That’s why I suspect there are so many articles in the past 4 years about Trump abandoning “norms.” I can’t ever remember hearing so much fucking whining by the media about “norms” as I have the last 4 years. But when you think of Trump as a biz guy, a political outsider, trying to deliver on his promises to the American people, and who has undoubtedly watched Repub and Dem presidents for decades do whatever the fuck they wanted while pissing on the Constitution and the People, Trump makes so much more sense. Of course he stomps all over “norms,” because he seems for what they’ve turned into: bullshit tools used by establishment hacks to keep their gravy train flowing. Hell, Trump was a part of the gravy train back when he was a real estate guy in NY. He knows exactly how fucking slimy politicians are.
Well, he was pox on both parties.
Hah! Tom Scocca was a particularly screechy leftist cunt at Deadspin years ago. Of course he ended up at Slate. Of course.
“Murder”….get the fuck out of the roads and there won’t be any “murders”.
Property damage is already a criminal offense
Meaningless if the police and prosecutors chose to do nothing about it.
self-defense is already an accepted legal defense for causing others harm.
Also meaningless if a prosecutor chooses to charge you, and then drive you into penury defending yourself.
Bonus points, you’ll be an internet sensation, in the worst possible way. Good luck keeping your job.
Yup. They are making self defense criminal by process.
I would get a tat if I could figure out something that I would want on me for a lifetime. Also, I’m afraid of needles.
But I have occasionally thought about getting an Elmer tattoo
I’m correcting the Wiki article:
I’m with you sister. I like tattoos but I don’t care about anything enough to put in on me forever.
There’s always a custom t-shirt.
The cheaper smarter play.
I love playing this game with friends:
https://www.jackboxgames.com/tee-ko/
Luckily they be longer sell the shirts or I would be broke.
With everybody and his dog getting tats, I’m a little discombobulated that I have one. It’s in a place no one sees it and for the most part, I forget it’s there. I got it as a trophy for an accomplishment but now it doesn’t feel very trophy-like.
Send a picture so we can judge you.
Heh. My dog actually has tattoos.
Your dog’s a chef?
No, a concentration camp survivor.
No, he lives on Fantasy Island and has a cloning machine.
Jeez.
It took me a long time to decide and its not for everyone. It wasn’t a strong desire until I was older (don’t know why). Mjölnir to represent my heritage and Odin’s ravens, Huginn and Muninn, for my two boys.
Maybe when I am 90 I will regret it. I dunno.
No tatts, no regrets
That would be No Ragrets my good man
For 4Score:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSW2FDXuFe4
Ummm-ummm, ain’t that sumthin?
Odin!
I almost got a tattoo a couple of times and glad I didn’t.
THICC across your knuckles?
No, it’s a tramp stamp that says “Thicc?”
My one and only tatt is of the obligatory Marine Corps variety.
I never got quite drunk enough – would have gone for the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor or First Marine Division. In the National Guard, lots of former active Army types were wearing their combat unit patch on the left shoulder so I put a 1st Div patch on one of my uniforms.
My Dad was 1st Marine, Salute!
I sometimes wish I had gotten a moto tat when I was in. Would be the height of lameness to get one now, though.
Yep – why I’m tat free.
Why I got a Fender tat, my love will never die
A Tatocaster?
I have an ama-gi on one shoulder blade. And a dragon on the other one of course.
Everybody said one day I’d regret getting that tattoo of OJ Simpson and Bill Cosby dressed like the Blues Brothers.
I larfed
Dragon in the classic ouroboros pose on my back.
I’ve had it for awhile; it needs refreshing. I’m thinking about going with a Japanese-style color for it (its currently black and white).
Why get a tat you can only see in the mirror? I have two tats BTW. If there is a contest for lamest tat, I’ll be a finalist for sure. It’s funny in a sad kind of way. I don’t even see them anymore, haven’t for years. Until I “see” them. SMDH.
Go big or go home!
Back in August, we received notice that our school district had a cyber-security incident. They brushed it off and made BS claims that all was well. Welp, looks like all isn’t well.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-releases-information-on-las-vegas-area-students-after-officials-dont-pay-ransom-11601297930
Now I have to find out if my kids information was posted a month after the fact.
Interesting. The county I live in also had a data breach recently.
Hey, their a public school, so i’m sure you could sue them and get to experience the joy of having sovereign immunity thrown in your face.
“National media outlets are reporting information regarding the data security incident CCSD first announced on Aug. 27, 2020. CCSD is working diligently to determine the full nature and scope of the incident and is cooperating with law enforcement. The District is unable to verify many of the claims in the media reports. As the investigation continues, CCSD will be individually notifying affected individuals.”
Which I respect that maybe the media is wrong, but its nice to see you playing catch up with your PR CCSD. Maybe you should have stayed on top of the news cycle.
My parents sued our high school school district LOL
(it was for a breach of contract type thing…I think they settled. My parents hired a lawyer that was big on suing the school district)
Grasping. At. Straws.
Pelosi said, “I’m an intelligent person, as you know and I do know that if there is a review of somebody if they’re going to be federally appointed to a job or whatever, if they have outstanding debt, that is an important factor, because that means somebody else has leverage over them. This president appears to have over $400 million in debt, $420 million, whatever it is, million dollars in debt. To whom? Different countries? What is the leverage they have? So for me, this is a national security question. In addition, to which it’s so strange that in 2017 the president paid $750 in federal taxes, and he paid over $300,000 in taxes to other countries that we know of. It may be more. So, again, let’s come back to — we take an oath to protect and defend. This president is a commander-in-chief. He has exposure to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, to whom? The public has a right to know.”
She added, “The question is what does Putin have on the president politically, personally, financially in every way that the president would try to undermine our commitment to NATO, give away the store to Russia, and Syria, try to cast blame on Ukraine for interfering in our elections when he knows full well with the consensus from the intelligence community that it is Russia. The list goes on and on. The annexation of Crimea, and the rest of that that the president turns away from. So, he says he likes Putin and Putin likes him. Well, what’s the connection? We’ll see.”
Just go ahead and initiate another faux impeachment. You know you want to.
Anyone still pushing the Russia nonsense is either a lying piece of fucking shit or a retard and Pelosi’s many things but stupid isn’t one of them.
“if they have outstanding debt, that is an important factor, because that means somebody else has leverage over them.”
Right on, Nancy, now do countries…
Do we really know Pelosi is intelligent?
“I’m an intelligent person, as you know…”
I know no such thing.
Objection: facts not in evidence.
It seems to be undisputed that his tax filings were completely legal, so maybe Pelosi should complain to whoever makes the tax laws.
I’m sure Nancy will be right at the front of the line to disclose the financial structure of her (and her husband’s) business dealings. He’s big in real estate, right? I don’t suppose he ever borrowed against any property. Its unheard of in real estate, after all.
The old bat just can’t let Russia go. The idea that Trump is in cahoots with Putin only makes sense if you think Putin is Trump’s stooge, not the other way around.
As you know, Shes intelligent
Oh FFS!
The report said something like “no ties to Russia” but sure let’s run with that anyway. ?
Yes, it was SO WRONG of Trump to sit back and let Russia annex the Crimea back in 2014.
Morally reprehensible.
Is she aware that taxes are based upon profits if you’re a business, and not gross revenue?
I doubt it.
Also, turn it over to the IRS and let them audit him. Oh, right, they already did that. Make SanFran Nan head of the IRS?
This time, for sure
The publication of the deeply reported article, based on more than two decades of his tax information obtained by The Times, comes just two days before the first presidential debate and 37 days before an election in which he is trailing Democrat Joe Biden. It poses a grave challenge to a presidency that we now know Trump may need to preserve to outrun creditors with hundreds of millions of dollars in loans soon coming due.
Somebody had better do some serious jail time. Several somebodies. And if Trump’s crazy niece is one of them, all the better.
So now he needs to stay President to outrun creditors?
Circling the wagons. This time for realz.
I reject your premise.
Chuck Schumer
A vote for Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a vote to eliminate health care for millions in the middle of a pandemic.
Democrats are fighting for Americans’ health care.
They’re still beating that dead horse. I just saw a Biden commercial. It had a mom who had a kid with cancer. “If Trump takes our health care, we won’t be able to afford medicine!” IOW, we can’t let Trump have a chance to do something he had 4 years to do, but didn’t.
A friend told me those same words last night, that pre-existing conditions would no longer be covered. I asked if that was included in the BoR. He’s an NJ lawyer, about 77 and still working. Someone has to pay.
Too bad your media arm’s criminal release of Donald’s (supposed) tax returns will probably motivate the Pubs to nominate her even more quickly.
#owngoal
“A vote for Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a vote to eliminate health care for millions in the middle of a pandemic.”
Prove it. Because you can’t.
Libertarian Voters Flock To Trump After Learning He Avoided Paying Taxes
Exclusive: We Have Acquired A Copy Of Joe Biden’s Debate Prep Notes
Perfect. The bee is soon going to be my only news source.
One day, we’re going to find out which one of you here are editor at the Bee. I mean, come on man, you horse face pony soldiers, here’s the thing, you know, the thing!
Winning Debate Strategy: Trump Announces He Will Simply Let Joe Biden Talk For The Full 90 Minutes
ACB Racing To Get Dinner Ready For Husband So He’ll Let Her Out To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Judge Barrett’s husband told her, “Okay, you can go do your knitting club or whatever.”
This is where I lost it.
“End my hunger” did it for me.
Seen on Twitter: “Just think of how far she could have gone if she didn’t belong to a cult that holds down women.”
Trump says he will simply go on stage and say, “I cede my time to Joe Biden,” before calmly sitting down and watching in delight as Biden tries to maintain coherence for nearly two hours.
“It’s a genius move, frankly,” said one political analyst. “There’s some real 4D chess going on over there in the White House. Or perhaps 7D Axis & Allies, or even 17D Diplomacy. The Biden campaign simply isn’t operating on Trump’s level.”
That actually would be a winning strategy.
Trump was a fuck you to the GOP.
Flaming-Bag-of-Dogshit-on-Your-Porch-in Chief.
To give you an idea of how little one part in a trillion is: Take a reaaally big pile of white rice. Start in LA and lay them end to end so they touch. Keep on going until you get to NYC. Now, repeat this 500 times. Somewhere in this process, substitute a single grain of brown rice.
That single grain of rice is one of a trillion grains you’ve lined up.
That’s how retarded obsessing about one part in a trillion is.
Hmmm. Could you do the metaphor but with one drop of blood?
/ Both right and left wing racists.
Indica or Japonica rice?
I heard the Sativa is good.
“Teacher” is asshole.
A Colusa High School student exited his Zoom classroom early after a teacher threatened to reprimand him for displaying the Trump 2020 flag hanging on his bedroom wall.
“Since school has begun, my son has had this Trump flag hanging in his background,” Tiffany, the student’s parent, said.
Tiffany says her son’s high school chemistry teacher did not approve of the political statement and asked him in the middle of class to get rid of it.
“You can sit up, remove the flag, or reposition your camera within the next 15 seconds or I’m kicking you out of class,” the teacher said during their virtual class.
Tiffany says the teacher then began to count and did not make it to 10 before Tiffany’s son waved goodbye and exited the virtual classroom.
See, Rebel, see? These kids get out of the classroom and start thinking for themselves and acting like adults. Next he’ll have a job and pay taxes, and then he’ll be permanently lost to the liberal cause.
I bet you, somewhere in the teacher’s classroom is some type of political showing. I prescribe to the “time and place for everything” but yeah, teacher is asshole.
Kid does well in math, too.
I bet all those kids in his class that saw that happen realize that it was all his fault, and see the teacher as a person speaking truth to power. They definatly wouldn’t ever see it as a crazy authoritarian bent of a teacher harassing one of her students.
I had a few teachers in college who would interrupt the whole class to yell at someone about how they were being disruptive as they were quietly leaving. It was my impression that every student thought the only person being disruptive was the teacher.
Those are the kind of teachers who are not there to impart knowledge and wisdom. They are there because they couldn’t earn authority and control any other way.
“‘Brad came out of his office and cocked his handgun’: Moment bruised wife of ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale flees their home in bikini and tells cops he’s armed and hit her – before SWAT officer slams him to ground”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8781745/Brad-Parscales-wife-pictured-fleeing-screaming-help-just-bikini.html
Finally finishing the Tour dee France on my DVR, despite BEING SPOILED BY A GLIB (can’t remember who). I didn’t have much hope for this year, but I think it will end up being an all-time classic. I think Pogacar won 3 out of the 4 jerseys.
Yeah, I can’t remember the last one that was this entertaining.
Still can’t pronounce his name.
I’d have to go back to Armstrong-Ulrich battles to remember a really great Tour.
I do remember some individual stages, though. Like the time Thor Hushovd won a mountain stage in a solo breakaway.
Wow. A week later. I have to avoid so many sites to be able to watch a soccer match without spoilers. No way I could wait more than one day.
I knew who won THANKS TO BEING SPOILED, but I wanted to see the time trial and Champs Elysee
I didn’t really like the TT being the last “real” stage, though. I think the TT should be in the middle. Or, they could have two TTs – one flat, one mountain.
Aren’t there usually two TTs, one after about a week and one between the last mountains and the final stage?
I believe when Greg Lemond won in 1989, the final stage to the Champs-Élysées was a time trial.
Phil Liggett is a master of commentary. When he retires, it will be a sad day for cycling. I’m glad he stayed on after Paul died.
Alaphillipe won the World Championship yesterday. I hope that didn’t spoil it for you.
I only watch the TdF…I’ve tried watching the Vuelta & Giro, but they’re not the same.
Now you’ve gone and pissed off Rufus. 😉
I think that was me. I did feel a little bad and I do apologize. In my defense though, how many people in the US are DVRing the tour de france to watch later? Probably can count them on one hand.
LOL
Some bicyclist in tight shorts won.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8782537/Demi-Rose-protects-modesty-hands-racy-snaps.html
Yes, you have to be thicc-headed to keep posting Demi Rose shit.
That goes for the Daily Fail, too.
Nope. Toned abs
OT, and I need to glib a bit : They are doing everything they can to get another lockdown.
I was at the work office today, (Approaching 40, bit of a middle life crisis, working on finding something I like where I can finally give back instead of taking)
Full complete uber-retard mask theater.
– Only one person in the elevator.
– No 2 people in the same room unless somebody points a gun at the receptionist.
– I was filling forms on a table, facing a wall, 2 meters away from the main door :”Could you put your mask on please sir?”
The scared little shits in our governments have decided they enjoyed spending their days at home with full pay.
And there is the stupid Karens that are scared of their shadows, that will happily make sure everyone complies.
Oh and yes, I borrowed a pen, ”let’s not touch it for a few days….”
They want their lockdown again, they will get it, it’s just a matter of time.
I’m to the point that I’d think about locking all the media in their houses for 23 hours a day and turning off the transmitters of their TV stations/cable channels for the same 23 hours.
Everything for the Glib,
Nothing outside of the Glib
Glibertarians uber alles!
That’s not what the Constitution says.
“U.S. Constitution provides one chance — one — for the Americans to have their voices heard on who serves a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, who makes those big decisions about their healthcare, their civil rights, and much else,” said Biden.
“That chance is now. That moment is now. And the voters, in my view, are not gonna stand for this abuse of power. And if we’re to call ourselves a Democracy, their voices must be heard,” he added.
I believe the term used in the Constitution regarding the appointment of scotus vacancies is the president “shall” appoint. Now the ball is in the Senate’s court.
If I can track it down, someone did the lifting on SCOTUS appointments during the last year of a President’s term.
With only a few exceptions, the pattern was that when the Senate is held by the same party as the President, then the vacancy gets filled, and when the Senate is held by the other party, it doesn’t. With multiple examples each way.
Here you go:
That was McConnells reasoning when he got rid of Garland. Stupid or not they let that reasoning get away from them to the point that it looks hypocritical when he is doing it now (which maybe it is, though the situation _is_ different). I don’t know if it is really hypocritical to say “If we don’t like the person nominating the candidate, we won’t give them a look”, to me it is just politics.
Look hypocritical all you want so long as you are playing by the actual rules. Personally, I don’t care about the reasoning, I care about what they actually have the authority to do. As far as nominating someone, the president has to do that. Barry did it. Now Trump did. And the Senate gets to confirm, deny, or ignore.
Yes, I have been comfortable in my position regarding Garland and now ACB. Rules were adhered to. Thems the breaks.
I’ll add, that Dems, in their quest for power, have thrown out any semblance of norms or decency. Team Red needs to play by the rules being used against them. Ruthless politics*.
*Within the bounds of legitimate authority of course. But when you have an advantage, use it.
His reasoning was (I mean, you can see the exact words he used) that there would be a new president. That reasoning does not apply here, where Trump isn’t term-limited out.
He’s not even being hypocritical. He SAID in 2016 “until we have a new president.”
What’s funny is, GInsburg’s deathbed wish was to hold her seat vacant “until a new President is installed”.
Meaning, if Trump wins this year, she wanted her seat to be vacant all through his second term.
Norms!
Yeah… I’m still calling bullshit on that. Too pat.
Hey! Her granddaughter swears it is true! She even read it back to her on the deathbed to make sure it was right! How DARE YOU! 😉
Who is we, and, what Democracy?
That is playing up the Leftist dream of ridding the country of the Senate. Why come Wisconsin gets just as big a say as California!
After the Kavanaugh shit show, I have no sympathy for these people. They get what they deserve.
Alright, this is funny:
Apple apologizes after Siri points users to police stations when asked, ‘where are the terrorists?’
Not Bee!
“Queens voters are wrongly receiving mail-in ballots marked for military use ”
https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/nyc-voters-wrongly-getting-mail-in-ballots-marked-for-military-use/
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
And when I say there is None, I mean there is Some.
As someone pointed out earlier, if there is no voter fraud, then why does the media and/or Dems get all up in arms when its brought up.
Same with any conspiracy theory. They get very upset when anyone questions the official story.
WTC Building 7 dude…look it up
Hmmmmm. The one borough of NYC that has a GOP lean to it. Must be sheer coincidence.
I thought that was Staten Island.
So the claim is that someone intentionally removed the dash/slash between military and absentee because they figured that people would be confused and just not vote? Got to give ’em points for creativity there.
I posted this in the earlier afternoon thread, but it was at the end. Forgive the repost, please?
A friend of mine whose daughter is in college in Alabama says that he and his wife just received a second mail-in ballot addressed to his daughter (here in PA).
Any idea how multiple ballots would work? Are the voting systems smart enough to catch that a particular registered voter has already been recorded, in the case of mail-in ballots?
With a messed-up, dragged-out, extended-mail-in-voting election, that threatens to put Bush-Gore 2000 to shame, would there be a greater or lesser chance of someone sneaking in multiple ballots under the same name? Or would the recounts actually serve to reduce this kind of fraud?
I had a friend who got two ballots and asked if she should vote twice, for Trump, I called bs on that and said No!
I get two ballots, every year, from two different states. I cannot for the love of God, get Los Angeles County to stop sending me absentee ballots (I signed up for them when I was in the military and that was my home of record). I have called and written and even sent a picture of my current registration in Nevada; they claim I have to go in person with a signed affidavit to get removed or some such.
I also get a ballot from the State of Nevada, Clark County. I always burn my LA County ballot (no way I am just tossing it without destroying it).
California has been ordered to clean their roles by courts and still refused to do so.
Fun part? I haven’t voted nor lived in the State for over 17 years. Go figure.
That’s messed up.
Wow.
I tried to change my party from “Independent” (i.e. none) to LP some time back. Two weeks later I got a form letter noting my change to Independent.
I gotta figure the margin of error on elections is at least 10 or 15 percent.
When I was in high school we learned that if you don’t vote for some number of consecutive elections, your name is automatically removed from the voter roles. I guess they don’t do that any more.
I saw a woman in South Dakota wearing one of these and it looked AMAZING. Of course, she was about 50lbs. skinnier than me.
That’s Tacticute! Like Freddy Mercury does Rambo!
I have had that exact purse from that exact vendor for years and years and years. I adore that thing. Sadly, I am too poor. And too fat.
vendor ON MY WISH LIST* for
I just bought one…gave them my fat person measurements LOL
And you didn’t take pictures for us?
After the Kavanaugh shit show, I have no sympathy for these people. They get what they deserve.
*uptwinkles*
Lol, what else can the totem do?
Ahahahaha
I will tell you this, partly because of the heatwave stuff and partly because of the masks, I’m certain that the local women are dressing way sluttier than they used to. This is L.A. and slutty is a type around here, but man, I feel like I should give some of them dollar bills just shopping at the grocery store. I think it’s the masks.
Overheard at the office today: 2 engineers in masks in the hall passing by my office door. One guy mutters, “Wait until a turtle chokes on a mask. Then we’ll see the real fun begin.”
Now that is funny.
:snort: That’s funny, especially since both “social distancing” and “straw bans” began with Science fair projects.
LOL
Pacific Mask Vortex
It shouldn’t be hard to Photoshop that to get the ball rolling.
Remington breakup
The biggest buy revealed so far is Vista Outdoor Inc.’s purchase of Remington’s Lonoke ammunition business, at $81.4 million.
I didn’t buy nearly enough VSTO, last spring. Dammit.
Buying an ammunition business on fire-sale discount seems like printing money ATM.
As long as the raw materials are available.
I dont care if drugs fall out of my ass because USA Today stepped on a rake and I sure hope the Bee makes them pay dearly.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/27/fact-check-only-satire-could-9th-circuit-overturn-ginsburgs-death/3548008001/
That is…insane
What was insane is they researched it, with sources, to come to the conclusion it was satire. I mean, what in the actually hell. Is that to make it seem they always do so in their other stories?
I mean, do they live, like, in the world?
I’m gonna be generous and say they needed content – any content.
FTA. Their fact checking work is funded in part by a grant from Facebook.
I registered to vote today, R, and feel secure enough to get some Trump stickers for the van, Fuck it, let’s get it on.
I also bought
This, posting from phones sucks, but this ign doesnt,
https://www.etsy.com/listing/871560545/pure-moron-double-sided-yard-sign-anti
Land of milk and honey
Billionaire bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach is considering packing his bags to escape the “incompetent governance” of California.
“Elon Musk, Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro, to name just a few, are leaving California to escape incompetent governance,” Gundlach tweeted on Saturday evening. “The ‘response’ from Sacramento? Wealth and massive income tax increases on job creators (AKA ‘the wealthy’).”
Gundlach, who did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for additional comment, has an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, per Forbes. His firm, DoubleLine Capital, has more than $137 billion in assets under management.
While Gundlach hasn’t said where he is considering relocating, on Sunday evening he tweeted a picture of himself wearing a cowboy hat.
Other wealthy Californians have already announced their departures from the Golden State after legislators last month proposed a 0.4% wealth tax on anyone who has a net worth of $30 million or more. The tax would also apply to former residents for 10 years before phasing out completely.
An additional proposal would raise the state’s top income tax rate to 16.8%, up from 13.3%.
I’ve got a little piece of Big Sky Country I’d be happy to sell him.
An extra 10 years? Good luck with that
One would hope that won’t survive judicial review.
I mean, Roberts will vote to uphold, of course. But there should be five other Justices who vote to overturn.
Emigrotax
Migro, please.
Well, you never know. Whoever is pulling his strings might be subject to this nasty little tax themselves.
Wow, really? You’re supposed to obey the laws of a state 10 years after you’ve lived there?
Businesses have to pay sales taxes in states where they have no physical presence. Why should the fact that a person has no physical presence in a state prevent the state from collecting income and wealth taxes from that person?
I lived in Playa del Rey in the 90s – cheap apartment next to a rich neighborhood. Even back then half the cars in the driveways had AZ, NV, or UT plates.
“The tax would also apply to former residents for 10 years before phasing out completely.”
Come and take it.
Blatantly unconstitutional.
Oh yeah, well we don’t need your tax money anyway, man.
My wife went to a funeral recently for a kid who was something like 9 years old. At the funeral home, there was plexiglass barriers separating the family off, taped X’s every six feet for people to stand in the receiving lines, and signs everywhere warning people that hugging or any contact at all between mourners would not be tolerated. I assume there were similar restrictions preventing visitors for this poor child when he was in the hospital.
What the fuck has happened to our country? The main discussion focus is usually on retail businesses, but the impact of this hysteria and power grab on those dying and the family of the deceased saddens me the most.
mass social cowardice. Two and a half generations taught that they are the center of the universe results in a whole lot of cowards who care only about the panic they feel.
Can’t wait to get the ‘Vid from walking around South Dakota like a normal person.
Sister got the video, respirator, the whole nine, shes fine, except her hair fell out, now look weird with my long hair and her butch cut, it’s coming back full though,
The vid, dammit!
I’m very sure I’ve already been exposed to it many times over.
I’ve never heard of someone losing their hair because they were sick with the ‘Vid.
It seems to be somewhat common: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Losing-Your-Hair-Can-Be-Another-Consequence-of-15594608.php
It is growing back just fine, but it is a thing,
The panic is a sign of validation. If you’re panicked, you must be a victim, and being a victim is a desired social status
One could say hysteria and over reaction, others could say its social conditioning to isolate us and make us fear even our own family members.
Awful.
What the fuck has happened to our country?
We got weak.
Affluenza.
I was trying to think of a better single word response, but I think you nailed it.
Fucking sad.
Did anyone break the rules and hug the kid’s parents?
I went to an internment (ashes only) at the local cemetery, about 25-30 people, only a couple masks. No social distancing. Hugs all around for the widow. A week later we hosted a get together of 30-35 people, no masks (2) and no social distancing. I shook a lot of Glibs’ hands that day. AFAIK no setbacks.
Justice prevails. Boulder, CO residents aged 18-22 may now gather in groups of…. two.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/modified-boulder-public-health-order-allows-people-aged-18-22-to-gather-in-groups-of-two
This part really got me, more than the initial order.
“Designation as an ‘essential worker’ is not sufficient reason to be granted an exemption, nor is a negative test for the COVID-19 virus,” the health department said.”
The fact that these college kids are just taking it and going with it, makes me even less optimistic for the future.
If one person aged 18-22 is in a “gathering” of more than two persons, that gathering is illegal and must be broken up. Note that the prohibition applies even if “social distancing” and masks are deployed, or make an exception for living arrangements. “Gathering” is conveniently undefined.
This would effectively bar anyone in that age range from holding a job, taking public transportation, having an in-person conversation, going to a store or restaurant, etc. ad infinitum. If there are two people on a bus, an 18-22 year old can’t get on, and so forth.
I don’t get it. What is the stated motivation for this?
The kids were scared to be alone, so they’re allowed to have a safety buddy now. Everybody else is still on their own.
That’s not sarcasm, by the way. That’s the actual stated reason.
Wait the fuck up. Are you telling me that everyone else is banned from “gathering” entirely?
No gathering of more than two people can have a person between the age of 18 -22.
If I’m talking to a nurse manager, and a 22 year old nurse walks up, that is an illegal gathering. Of course, this is a ridiculous example, because no 22 year old could possibly work as a nurse under this requirement. I’m not sure how they could work in any job that wasn’t WFH.
It also means that if a female 22 year old wants an escort to her car in the parking lot, whoever escorts her can only escort her, and not anyone else who wants an escort to the parking lot.
I must be drunk because none of that makes any sense.
It’s not supposed to. It’s a way for the authorities to harass disfavored people.
Well, see, the senior prom is coming up, and some upstart wants to end the ordinance that bans dancing.
No wait, there’s been an upswing in coronavirus in Boulder because the youngsters just won’t stay away from each other. Illegal parties have been happening. Probably with rock music.
Sorry to be gross, but in the continuing saga of Scruffy Stones, I just did myself
OFFS
just rid myself of all stomach contents. That uroxatral is some nasty stuff.
Doing yourself made you barf? Talk about self loathing!
It’s not hard to hate myself at the moment. I hurt, I smell bad, etc…
At this point, are you sure it’s not hard?
You dudes really can masturbate under any circumstances, can’t you?
Uncommon side effects of uroxatral include priapism.
“And, Nurse–Keep an eye on that priapism.”
“Oh, I *will*, Doctor.”
Oh it’s twoo, it’s *twoo*.
I figured he was going to say that he wet himself.
That’s probably next.
Hawt.
Sorry.
What the fuck has happened to our country? The main discussion focus is usually on retail businesses, but the impact of this hysteria and power grab on those dying and the family of the deceased saddens me the most.
It’s shameful.
I think California should just claim everyone in America is subject to California income and wealth taxes. The nation couldn’t survive without them.
California, a great place to be From…
It wasn’t always this way
It used to be a nice place to visit, but that is becoming less so all the time. Living there … no way!
https://nationalfile.com/bidens-texas-political-director-accused-of-illegal-ballot-harvesting-at-texas-supreme-court/
Huh.
Is that a legit site?
Well, one of their related articles they link to is also mentioned here.
Illegal ballot harvesting in Texas? Those filthy cheating Republicans!
We had some of my coworkers over for a BBQ this weekend. For some of them it was their first in-person social gathering since the lockdown. Sad.
Other than a couple spells in the hospital and doctor visits I haven’t interacted with anyone in person for months.
Battlespace preparation
https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-biden-election-results-may-take-weeks/507-86b75dd7-5fad-472d-aba4-3ea266f85c74
“Trump on Sept. 23, signaled he expected the election to be contested all the way to the Supreme Court. He has claimed — without proof — that voting by mail will be rife with fraud.”
How does one provide proof of something predicted to happen in the future?
He has claimed — without proof — that voting by mail will be rife with fraud.”
proof #1
proof #2
proof #3
proof #4
And Russia never wired Hunter Biden millions of dollars.
I can’t wait for the ‘trunks full of ballots.’
The New York Times asserted — without proof — that Trump was underpaying his taxes.
Can I assume, from this phrasing, that there’s evidence, just not what the writer would consider proof?
The KSP report says that “due to limited markings of comparative value,” the 9mm bullet that hit and exited Mattingly was neither “identified nor eliminated as having been fired” from Walker’s gun.
Cameron said Hankison had been eliminated as the shooter because the three officers carried .40-caliber handguns, while Walker had a 9.
Wednesday night on CNN, Steven Romines, one of Walker’s attorneys, said he obtained a Louisville Metro Police Department record showing Hankison had been issued a 9mm weapon as well.
What a shitshow.
There’s also the bodycams, which they weren’t wearing, even though there is video and photographs showing at least two of them wearing them. But I’m sure they would have malfunctioned anyway, so it’s all good.
even though there is video and photographs showing at least two of them wearing them.
Linky?
Wikipedia: The Louisville police claimed that none of the officers were wearing body cameras, as all three were plainclothes narcotics officers.[34] On September 4, several news sources including The Courier-Journal, reported that photographs of police officers taken late that day showed that at least one wore a body camera. In the later photographs, one of the officers who fired his weapon, Myles Cosgrove, was wearing a mount for a body camera; another detective who was present wore a body camera, although it is not known whether it was active.[53][54]
New Photos Show at Least One Cop in Deadly Breonna Taylor Raid Was Wearing a Body Camera
Breonna Taylor shooting: 1,200-plus new crime scene photos tell a story of a chaotic night
I also saw something about the body camera footage for one of the cops who responded to the shooting showing the body camera worn by one of the involved cops. Don’t have a link handy, though.
If those pictures of the cops were taken at the scene (and it seems they were), then that’s pretty effing definitive.
If all true, the police dept and the AGs office should be wiped clean.
Because you guys might care,
Wendy used to call me her little machine,
Just membering
Membering? Heh!
hmm, phrasing I guess….
“The Ballots being returned to States cannot be accurately counted. Many things are already going very wrong!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1310585397630689280
I love how Twitter adds “! Learn how voting by mail is safe and secure”
Some votes are so safe and so secure they could be double or triple-counted, or more!
“Is Big Government Really the Problem?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTou0ViHOXM
Yes, it is.
Government is bought because it’s big.
“There’s one thing Americans can agree on: we value democracy.”
And I’m out.
This is rich.
https://twitter.com/EmmaRitch/status/1310154303722663936
People @EmmaRitch follows or mentioned can reply.
lolol
I wonder how long that gimmick will last before people realize their cloistered tweets garner next to no engagement, while people retweeting her are racking up thousands of replies and retweets. People go to Twitter for the brawls, they’re not there to be edified.
Mine says “You can reply” above that. Um… OK.
Mine does too, but I’m not logged in.
I don’t have a Tweeter account.
I don’t either.
I also see “You can’t view this tweet” or something similar every time I click a link for the first time, so Twitter being Twitter, I guess.
Shit, I thought that was either my ad blocker or Safari doing its thing!
God I hate that site.
“misogynist conspiracy Gamergate”
And… I’m out.
But it gets worse!
LOL gasbag
Sigh. The preview looked right.
It astounds me that people buy that dreck. The spousal unit and I were on a train to Barcelona from Paris two years ago and some douche was reading the book “Thanks, Obama” across the aisle from me. Yes, he (and his weedy wife) looked exactly like you’d expect. The perfect instantiation of the decline of Western civilization in human form.
I only ever hear that phrase as a sarcastic enjoinder. Are there people who’ve sincerely thanked him?
And there’s a book about it?!
Written by David Litt, Obama speechwriter. New York Times bestseller, no less, or so its paperback version says on its cover.
My son’s have received multiple hand-written post-cards that trash the incumbent Republican Senator (Joni Ernst) and encourage them to VOTE her out. Post-marks are all from California.
How do people in CA know your sons addresses?
Voter registration rolls.
Are those like egg rolls or spring rolls?
😛
Your sons are registered Democrat?
No – it appears they targeting young, Republican voters.
I just got an email from an outfit called “inkling News” that was clearly a pro-Greenfield (anti-Ernst) group; they are based in Washington state.
I unsubscribed, and they asked why, giving five choices (you can only choose one) : 1) I did not subscribe to this, 2) this is inappropriate, 3) I no longer want to receive these emails, 4) these emails are spam and should be reported, and 5) other — fill in reason below. I chose 5), and said “all of the above”.
“Cream of Wheat says it will remove Black chef from box that some consumers found offensive”
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/food/story/cream-wheat-remove-black-chef-box-consumers-found-73289692
Because a black person can’t be a chef?
Worse.
Us whiteys are convinced that black people can’t even cook!
(I hate this world right now.)
I… can’t even.
The people who see a depiction of a black person in advertising and don’t immediately leap to “slavery” are the not-racists.
Well, I screwed that up.
I suppose I should lay off the sauce.
Ben’s original football team?
No, white supremisists can’t stand the sight of darkies.
Richard Spencer has switched parties.
Just the other day, our little granddaughter picked up a box of that Uncle Ben’s rice in the pantry, saw that darkie on the box, stared at it wide eyed for a few seconds, screamed, threw it straight up in the air, it hit the ceiling I swear! The she ran away crying! We were picking up rice all afternoon! Someone had to do something! For the children!
Because the Marketing/PR department is full of cowardly shitheels.
Only if democrats help them.
Hate to tell you girl everything might kill you. And if everything doesn’t, that one thing will.
No one better tell her that stressing out over petty bullshit will also shorten your life.
“And I was just about to drink ten thousand cans of seltzer tonight. Whew! Dodged that bullet.”
We all know this Trump is a Putin puppet is BS, but c’mon man. If Putin owned Trump the first thing he would have Two Scoops do is to ban fracking. Low oil prices helped destroy the USSR and they’re hurting Russia which still can’t make anything that anyone wants to buy.
They can make mail-order brides.
It’s Putin’s hundred-year plan to destroy the United States via global warming.
1000x this.
Why do you think Cuomo and friends are all over this?
Epic butt-hurt incoming!
Outrage as Whole Foods CEO Says Ignorance and Poor Choices Cause Obesity
The freakout is hilarious. I remember Warty’s diet advice: “Don’t want to be a fat fuck? Stop eating fat fuck foods.”
Nice.
I’m in a bit of a fat-fuck food rut myself.
I love fat fuck food. Hell, my dream is to run a food truck and work for myself. Might name it Fat Fucks Food.