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To that member it would be an insult.
Good point, janice. So you think that fuagf should not post because he is in Australia?
No. I think YOU shouldn't post because you've probably never lived outside wherever you grew up. Thanks for understanding!
I know. I've had the Jersey Sloppy Joes, and they're very good. I even make the same kind of sandwiches at home. Tasty.
Oh yes! How does B4 feel about Tootsie?
Don't forget about Dustin Hoffman
Really? How do you feel about Robin Wiliams? Or Tyler Perry??
On the Execution of Puppies, and the Legal Immunity of Narcoleptic Rapists
Friday, April 26th, 2024
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal | 0 comments
I’ve decided to compose a comedy of manners/courtroom thriller about our topsy-turvy times. My working title: The Drowsy Rapist. Perhaps The Chilly Rapist. The Drowsy, Chil- no, that’s too much.
ANYWAY, there’s this rapist, who commits bunches and bunches of crimes on top of the rape, including an honest-to-goodness attempted coup, and this idiot death cult that thinks the rapist should be President.
It’s a REALLY cool cult, you probably can’t get in. Gosh, how can any of us look at the life of dignity and universal respect Bill Barr leads without seething with envy? Getting publicly humiliated by a rapist game show host looks so, so rad, and I just wish SO HARD that I was you, Bill.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-trump-accepts-bill-barrs-endorsement-by-implying-hes-a-tub-of-lard
So the rapist is on trial, for a few of the dozens of crimes he’s committed, and he keeps nodding off during the trial and allegedly farting in his sleep although rumors of actual pants-shitting are lies planted by the Clinton Foundation operatives who killed Seth Rich.
It’s certainly not hard to understand why this particular rapist inspires such fervent devotion.
He is being air conditioned for our sins, you know. And are the unflattering courtroom sketches depicting a dozing, unnaturally hued old fop not a modern-day crucifixion?
All he does anymore is fall asleep (but definitely not shit himself) and complain about being cold, while down the road, the Supreme Freakin’ Court ponders granting him absolute criminal immunity, or at the very least delivering a massive in-kind contribution to his flailing campaign, in the form of a desperately needed delay of one of his other criminal trials.
How many crimes does this one, specific rapist get to commit? I’m willing to compromise. Tell you what, we’ll do a punch card system. Every ten felonies, you get a free one. Considering he’s facing exactly 88 counts (for now) that works out rather tidily.
It’s fuckin’ wild, watching the rapist’s strip mall attorneys argue he has the legal right to not only overthrow the government, but to assassinate anybody who doesn’t like it.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pressed-assassination-question-team-trump-doubles-rcna149494
This rapist who can no longer remain awake.
We must grant him these powers for the restored Reich to come, you understand. He has big plans for that power, and many of those plans are *technically* criminal. Sure, he’s lost a step, but he’s still got a coupla rapes left in him.
As you’d imagine, MAGA Nation is handling all this rather poorly, though I find myself uncharacteristically sympathetic. You’ve spent the better part of the last decade worshipping a turd, and now the turd is melting in the harsh light of day, and of course it’s embarrassing. Shouldn’t’ve worshipped that turd in the first place, though. That’s on you.
Jesse Watters practically begged viewers to see not the impotent flopping of a deflated, declining narcissist, but King Kong in a cage. Sure, and he’s a “style icon,” too. He’s strong and he’s smart and he never said to drink bleach just inject disinfectant and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy libtard commie sheeple.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/23/trump-losing-courtroom-campaign-bragg-trial/
…and yet every time I look at my phone, he is either asleep, or waving physical printouts of Fox News stories, complaining about the temperature in the courtroom. Can somebody please get the God Emperor a blanket?
At least nobody seems particularly interested in rioting on the doddering old coot’s behalf these days. That’s downright encouraging. Perhaps they’re deterred by all the seditious conspiracy convictions. Perhaps they are too mortified to show their faces in public. I certainly would be.
He’s trying so desperately to conjure another riot, too, (when he’s awake, that is) whimsically evoking Charlottesville, insisting there’s an adoring throng, just off camera, clamoring for his release, bear-spraying the odd law enforcement officer.
Not so tough without yer lynch mob, are ya, Donnie? Whole lot more folks turning out to vote for Nikki Haley in your primary, in fact, than to protest for your sad, sloppy self anymore.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/trump-protest-vote-pennsylvania-gop-primary
Should the American electorate prove sufficiently brain-broke this November, Junior n’ Eric are to serve as “loyalty czars” during the transition back to kakistocracy. Executive branch staffing overseen by Beavis and Butt-Head in jodhpurs…well, we’d deserve it.
So I guess Kristi Noem murdered a puppy.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-shoots-puppy-she-hated-book-1235011230/
That’s what she says in her book, anyway. Some speculate this may be a ploy to gain favor with the famously dog-despising Drowsy Rapist, in the authoritarian groveling Olympics some call th’veepstakes. Not the worst strategy, honestly. No doubt Byron Donalds will be crushing hamsters on Newsmax by Thursday.
Any history textbooks that don’t dedicate at least half a page to the Kristi Noem Executed a Puppy news cycle would fail this nation’s precious children. People need to understand how weird and gross and stupid everything was.
The Consequences Fairy doesn’t need the map app to find Rudy Giuliani’s house anymore, y’know? Rudy earned a fresh set of indictments, alongside several of the usual suspects, plus a few new faces, for his role in the Arizona chapter of the fake elector scheme.
Gosh, they sure do commit a lot of crimes, don’t they? These would-be greatness restorers?
For example, here’s a headline reading “Kevin McCarthy Protege Under Investigation For Sexually Assaulting Daughter.” How strange that so many (alleged) sex criminals find themselves drawn to this rapist-led resentment cult!
https://lamag.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-protege-under-investigation-sexually-assaulting-daughter
Speaking of Matt Gaetz, he seems to’ve fallen off a few colleagues’ Xmas card lists. Tony Gonzalez called him a “real scumbag” (Geppetto checkmark) who “paid minors to have sex,” (depends who ya ask) earning the enmity of the feral Freedumb Caucus, who were already pissy over letting down their genocidal buddy, Vlad.
The Ukraine debate seems to’ve finally forced House Republicans to ask themselves, how do you solve a problem like Marjorie Taylor Greene? Easy. A FUCKING STRAIGHTJACKET. Dems did their part when they stripped her of her committee assignments; you gave ‘em back. You are bad at making decisions, and that is not our fault.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/greene-trump-gop/
I do enjoy watching the Putin wing of the GOP fail, even if it means being nice(r) to Mike Johnson for a week. I therefore proclaim thee…Marginally Superior to Kevin McCarthy! Some hurdles are low enough for even you, Mike, congratulations. Why, I bet none of your protégés commit incestuous sexual assault.
Riding a wave of Not Fucking Up For Once, Speaker Moses decided to insert himself into the white-hot center of the campus protest issue, which went super well, he made lots of new friends.
Predictably, all the wannabe autocrats’re clawing and biting for a corner of the spotlight, competing to be seen calling for the violent suppression of speech. You always get grade A ghoulishness outta Cotton and Hawley during times of civil unrest, but I imagine it’s Greg Abbott who gained the most in the eyes of the discerning proto-fascist, because speeches n’ op-eds are all well and good, but they cannot hold a candle to footage of uniformed officers beating up people you hate. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/
Melania has appointed herself Duchess of LGBTQ outreach for her sleep-farting rapist husband’s bid to regain power. Gotta fill the time somehow, I suppose.
Wanna hear something funny?
Jimmy Comer wants to run for Governor.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/house-gop-biden-impeachment-effort/index.html
Heh. Hah. Hahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhh
Like, there’s kakistocracy and there’s KAKISTOCRACY, y’know? I cannot recollect a single James Comer story since he became a national figure under McCarthy (inspired leaderin’ there, Kev!) where he failed to come off like a drooling, overmatched bumpkin. And after a year and a half of punching himself in the dick on C-SPAN, he expects voters back home to put him in charge of the whole dang STATE.
And y’know what? They just might. MAGA voters make bad choices, nowhere more so than in the voting booth. Governor Comer? Why the fuck not? Future generations might wonder how, precisely, Kentucky managed to break loose from the continental United States and fling itself into the sun, but we who lived through it will simply shrug and say, “that’s just what red state voters wanted back then.”
Like, Louisiana Republicans advanced a bill that would “repeal a law that requires employers to provide a 30-minute meal break for minors who work at least five hours.” That’s what the GOP is for now. Rolling back child labor laws, and whatever that one rapist wants. The rapist that’s sleeping (and allegedly farting but absolutely positively not shitting himself) through his porn star hush money trial.
Tom Petty-defiling RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump announced plans to dispatch poll workers to illegally “physically handle ballots” in all 81 states, so maybe whatever’s wrong with Eric is transmitted sexually?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4618000-lara-trump-rnc-2024-election-day-physically-handle-ballots/
Let’s check in on our freshly hatched Republican Senate candidates real quick. Wow, let no one claim Tim Sheehy is taking the anti-Semitic vote for granted. Eric Hovde could learn a thing or two from Tim, perhaps even the Pledge of Allegiance. https://heartlandsignal.com/2024/04/24/republican-senate-candidate-tim-sheehy-spreads-antisemitic-image-of-chuck-schumer/
If you hate your own brain and want it to die screaming, you can always watch Tucker Carlson reject the theory of evolution on Joe Rogan’s podcast, I guess. Didja see Mitch McConnell pick a fight with Tucker, during the Ukraine aid debate? I confess I felt a transgressive little thrill, backing Yertle for once. Go GIT ‘im, Mitch! Fuck him right up!
If you’ll allow consecutive positive paragraphs about Republican Senators, let me say I sincerely hope campaign season offers up a steady stream of drolly withering Mitt Romney put-downs.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/mitt-romney-of-course-trump-had-sex-with-stormy-daniels
Especially since the George Santos comeback tour has, heartbreakingly, been called off. They were negotiating with J.R. Majewski about coming on as the opening act, too.
What happened was, a bunch of sponsors had to pull out. The NRA. Project Veritas. Why, even Jim Hoft’s Th’Gateway Dipshit has declared bankruptcy. It’s hard times out there in the wingnut griftosphere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/04/24/gateway-pundit-bankruptcy/
Everybody lost their shirt on Trump Bucks and NFTs and Trump Media stock and honestly how do any of these people have money left to feed themselves at this point?
I have what feels to be as good an analysis of the SCOTUS deliberations as any legal blog (hint) site could give. Posting is gonna have to wait though until my evening or my tomorrow, it's long and is sorta blowing my head. Am about halfway through but when the head starts building to that pressure cooker in action feeling (don't like it but it happens) it's time for a break. An afternoon of fairly relaxed yet disciplined .. .. socializing, to get the electricity at least down to a more healthy and sustainable simmer. For balance. So enjoy. Promise i will get it finished as soon as i do. .. .. all. Well most all .. lol .. enjoy. Repeat
Exactly. "Trump could never be a real mob boss, he is too whimpy, mob bosses are direct, and determined. Trump is a spoiled rich kid who never knew what he wanted." Trump has always been a wannabe. Habitually never satisfied is not a good place for anyone to be.
TO ALL, NEWSFLASH, chuckle, I wonder who went whining to admin. that Tornado Alley had slipped back into the Most Posted board list ..https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174279607 . After that news those few days ago i wondered how long we would last.
Sooo, LOL yesterday i noticed we had again disappeared. And i'm thinking Tornado Alley's delisting from there this 2nd time did not happen solely because an admin., or more, heh, read of our inclusion on this board without being told about it. Today we are at 104 (this moment) and LOLs we ain't on here .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/most_post.aspx .. sob .. lol.
I think so. Feel so too.
LOL He does it so well.
Not everyone is a fan of Tiedrich's cursing but I'm not one of them. lol
Superb Tiedrich. and for your included insight into conix's contributions over years.
Aside: i've just realized that there has always been some truth to conix in her labeling this place an echo chamber. What has she done here for so long, she has echoed GOP talking points. So yeah for her - for her - this place is in fact an echo chamber. Finally understand that more.
conix, You, on all the evidence you have so ungraciously given us, are no more suited to speak of compassion than any paved street. Actually your heart appears to be so hard it doesn't seem to faze you to have been so repeatedly run over the years you have been afforded the luxury of posting here. LOLs, in the arena you so forlornly have labeled so much in the past as an "echo chamber." I suppose you could be given some credit for at least appearing to have dropped that one furphy of yours, but it has been a concession under some pressure, eh. so sorry, no credit offered.
Who are you gonna vote for in the presidential election? Just OOi.
Att: conix, The false statements and half-truths about immigration that were told in the second Republican presidential debate
"I get it--you are for open borders and not caring about national sovereignty and love more regulations.
Get a new schtick, you've become the class clown. 🤡🤡🤡"
You got it. The broken record is stuck on garbage conservative rubbish.
Statements such as the border is "open" and former President Donald Trump reduced illegal immigration by 90% are not true.
From left, Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott and Mike Pence at the second Republican presidential primary debate in Simi Valley, Calif., on Wednesday.Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images
Sept. 29, 2023, 5:54 AM GMT+10
By Ronny Rojas, Noticias Telemundo
With links
Immigration was among the topics repeatedly discussed during the second Republican presidential primary debate, where seven GOP hopefuls presented their ideas to voters, attacked each other and fired a few barbs at former President Donald Trump, who leads in polls among Republican voters but has not participated in the debates.
Immigration is one of the issues that matters most to Republicans in this electoral cycle: 77% of them consider this a “very important” issue, according to a recent survey by The Economist magazine and YouGov.
During the debate, the candidates threw out some misleading numbers and made false accusations, including associating the fentanyl crisis with "open" borders and increased migration.
Here are some of the candidates' claims, which we fact-checked.
Claim: Fentanyl crisis comes from 'open border'
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina criticized the Biden administration for allowing the entry of migrants and assured that the southern border “is insecure” and is “wide open,” which caused “the deaths of 70,000 Americans in the last 12 months because of fentanyl.”
Associating the entry of fentanyl with the arrival of migrants is a false idea that Republicans have repeated again and again in recent months. Although the amount of fentanyl and other drugs entering the southern border has increased in recent years, experts and federal agencies have explained that the drugs mainly arrive through authorized ports of entry in private vehicles.
“Our research tells us that the vast majority of fentanyl reaches ports of entry, particularly California and Arizona,” Anne Milgram, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said during a congressional hearing.
Only 0.02% of people arrested by the Border Patrol for crossing the border illegally possessed fentanyl, according to data analyzed by the Cato Institute in 2022.
On the other hand, it is also not true that the southern border is "wide open," as Scott claimed. Although the arrival of undocumented migrants has increased in recent months — August recorded the highest monthly number of migrant arrests by the Border Patrol so far in 2023 — there are about 20,000 Border Patrol agents guarding the border with Mexico, which is also monitored by cameras, drones and other technology — not to mention more than 700 miles of border protected by a wall and other barriers,
In addition, the new policies established by the Biden administration after Title 42 expired in May seek to make it more difficult to request asylum at the border between the U.S. and Mexico and encourage migrants to apply from their countries of origin.
How many miles of border wall did Trump build?
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Trump “built 52 miles of wall” during his presidency.
This information is correct, but needs some context.
Although Trump promised his voters that he would build a “big border wall” and that he would force Mexico to pay for it, the truth is that only 52 miles of new primary wall were built during the four years of his administration, according to a Customs and Border Protection document accessed by the verification site PolitiFact.
As of Jan. 8, 2021, just two weeks before Trump left office, his administration had built 47 miles of primary wall, according to a CBP report. According to that report, the Trump administration also had replaced 351 miles of primary wall and 22 miles of secondary barriers that were in poor condition or had outdated designs.
The United States border with Mexico extends more than 2,000 miles. When Trump finished his four years in the White House, there were a total of 706 miles of primary barriers along the border and 70 miles of secondary barriers, according to PolitiFact.
Claim: Trump reduced illegal immigration by 90%
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INSERT - Related: conix, President Trump Reduced Legal Immigration. He Did Not Reduce Illegal Immigration
You have been given similar info before
[...]President Trump entered the White House with the goal of reducing legal immigration by 63 percent .. https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-against-legal-immigration-too . Trump was wildly successful in reducing legal immigration. By November 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of green cards issued to people abroad by at least 418,453 and the number of non-?immigrant visas by at least 11,178,668 during his first term through November 2020. President Trump also entered the White House with the goal of eliminating illegal immigration but Trump oversaw a virtual collapse in interior immigration enforcement and the stabilization of the illegal immigrant population. Thus, Trump succeeded in reduce legal immigration and failed to eliminate illegal immigration.
[...]You either purposely continue to misrepresent immigration facts, or you still
haven't bothered to get yourself out of being stuck with GOP talking points.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174266071
... and ...
Republicans aren’t fixing the migrant border plight. In fact they’re making it worse
"‘The border is not open’: US immediately replaces Title 42 with strict new rules
Trump used Title 42. Biden replaced Title 42 with something designed to help more refugees enter
legally, while at the same time imposing more penalty for refugees attempting to enter illegally."
Andrew Gawthorpe
[...]But the end of Title 42 has also reignited the political firestorm over the US immigration and refugee system. Republicans have seemed to gleefully anticipate “chaos” and “disaster .. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/us/politics/house-republicans-immigration-bill.html ” at the border after the policy is lifted. Less biased observers are also concerned that the US refugee processing system will be overwhelmed by the sheer scale of people now expected to seek asylum. The Biden administration has come under fierce criticism from the left .. https://time.com/6278812/border-title-42-aclu-lawsuit-asylum/ .. for a tough new policy of questionable legality which requires most refugees to seek asylum from abroad using a glitchy cellphone app called CBP One .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/06/us-mexico-border-cbp-one-app-migrants .
P - [Insert: Biden's immigration policy is fairer than that under Trump, and it's tougher. Fairer and tougher.
Yet, Republicans continue to tell mammoth lies about it solely to trick, and deceive, American voters.]
P - Not to be outdone, Republicans have responded to the situation by promising to return to the failed and cruel policies of the past. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill which would order the resumption of Trump’s border wall and eviscerate the right to asylum for those who reach the US. Meanwhile, speaking at a CNN town hall last week, Trump defended .. https://time.com/6278925/trump-family-separation-border-cnn-town-hall/ .. his policy of family separation and indicated that he would consider reinstating it if he became president again.
P - [conix, You say "MAY be." Why if you don't have a clue do you feel you have to say something.
[...] Trump admits he ruined border deal to hurt Democrats
Slapped a Trumpanzee on another board around with the following.
And it's going to get worse for you and your Orange Jesus as the current trial progresses and, especially, because of the growing disparity between Biden's campaign funds and Trump's pathetic funding.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/trump-vs-biden-top-battleground-states/
We'll all be tired of the campaign ads by the end of Oct but you poor Trumpanzees will be so sick from them you'll wonder if you should've gotten the Covid vax.😷
Thanks, just "go normal". OK! Good idea. It's just the caps take away from the content. I was
thinking it's gotta be an emotionally based thing, but thank you very much again for your insight.
"Just remind her this isn't a stock pumping board and go normal. It's tough when one is so conditioned
to promote. Stuck on style. Almost got there though, decent post and not a single 'I' in it."
For some reason i was thinking she was male. Not that it matters, but is your "she" a certainty, or speculation.
Sure. Running for her pro life.
She wants to prove to him she can be trusted to fight his enemies for him. Even those nasty immigrants.
LOLOLOL. Would that be considered pro-life.?
Always good to read of more young voters arriving than older voters leaving. And for sure no right-minded person (lol feels a misnomer there, but politics aside) could possibly deny the moral decay of the GOP is not glaringly obvious. For those of us who still hang onto faith in the American electorate in general it follows that GOP numbers would be down too. Good to know. And always good to see you still around.
It's only the weirdness of the system which maintains tiny niggles of concern in me. The fact that so few votes in so few states can roll the presidency. And the fact Trump has his election-denier people as Cleta working hard on fixes favoring him.
Assuaging that is the fact thinking Trump could not possibly have picked as many
voters up since 2016 as he must have lost. Trump can only have lost voters.
Reminder of ALEC organization and Cleta Mitchell:
After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever
"The Far-Right Christian Quest for Power: ‘We Are Seeing Them Emboldened’"
The American Legislative Exchange Council is where corporations and far-right groups go to buy government policy.
by Arn Pearson, David Armiak
October 4, 2023
[...]
So perhaps there was little surprise when Nelson told donors and activists at a February 2020 meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) that ALEC was working with GOP attorneys (including the chair of ALEC’s secret election working group Cleta Mitchell .. https://insurrectionexposed.org/mitchell-cleta/ ) on “action items that legislators can take to question the validity of an election”—nine months before the presidential election.
P - [It's long and it's past, still the dangers do last, and it is about an election.
"The Lincoln Project"
The Election That Could Break America
A link for your - "Dan Rather 18 hrs
·There is no more time for silence. There is no more time for choosing party over country. There is no more time for weighing the lesser of two evils. All women and men of conscience must speak or they are complicit in America lurching towards a dangerous cliff of autocracy and chaos."
https://www.facebook.com/24085780715/posts/there-is-no-more-time-for-silence-there-is-no-more-time-for-choosing-party-over-/10164278832490716/
The Election That Could Break America
[...][Insert: Meet Cleta Mitchell. Trump's election fixer. Mitchell is heading a real-time Putinesque, Orbanespue,
whichever strongman election-fixer you want to use, American effort to fix American elections.
"Republicans Paddle Faster to Try to Keep their U.S. Senate Hopes from Sinking"
Lawyer Who Plotted to Overturn Trump Loss Recruits Election Deniers to Watch Over the Vote
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169737199]
[...]Let us not hedge about one thing. Donald Trump may win or lose,
but he will never concede
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174005871]
“Obviously we all want President Trump to win and win the national vote,” ALEC’s ostensibly nonpartisan CEO said, “but it’s very clear … that really what it comes down to is the states and state legislators.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174180654
Maybe tie a few steaks to her and drop her in the middle of the woods with a penknife.
Just remind her this isn't a stock pumping board and go normal. It's tough when one is so conditioned to promote. Stuck on style. Almost got there though, decent post and not a single 'I' in it.
And that’s when she iced the goat.
That sentence sounds insane. How in the world did she actually put her name in admitting to her lust for death? Normal people would just give the pets away for adoption.
good question. Maybe just make her sleep outside, in the dog pen, unarmed?
Makes sense now, I forgot orangeshitass hates dogs and most animals. shitgibbon hates animals because he can't control them. They would make him look weak. Like paraplegic war veterans. Those losers make him look weak. Can't have wheelchairs and gimps at his parades.
Seems her sister, if she exists, could very well be a better balanced individual.
For sure. I think we can all agree, growing up with a monster intolerant sister like conix, would make anyone else look good.
And we still wonder why the Biden's dogs have an uncanny taste for secret security detail. My dog is a lunatic but I can't even give her away to another person that wants her. I'm still grappling with that decision. She's not vicious though, just nutty and doesn't listen, like her owner lol.
I really think the cat keeps her in check these days but the thought never crossed my mind to execute her even though how much I got pissed off.
Especially not at 14 months... that's some sadistic shit right there. My dog was 3 when I inherited her.
And that’s when she iced the goat.
poor billy. 🐐😢
Her tweet also tried to show her prowess at euthanizing her horses too. I guess I'm not a rancher in SD so I might not understand but it sure seems to be a strange thing to brag about.
Seems her sister, if she exists, could very well be a better balanced individual.
Demographic Defeat: Why Trump Is Unlikely to Win Reelection
by Fuzzybrain
Friday, April 26, 2024 at 3:00:15p EDT
All our fears to the contrary, Trump actually has little real chance of winning the upcoming election. The key is demographics.
There are, of course, a number of factors that influence which voters vote for which candidates, and these factors can change from year to year, month to month, or even day to day. Unforgettable is the FBI’s announcement, just days before the 2016 election, that it was investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Nevertheless, foundational to the issues and events of the moment is demographics. And there is no denying the fact that Trump’s voters are thinning out while Biden’s are growing—and that voter preferences are changing as a result.
Older voters are dying
As Reed Galen, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, pointed out in an article I first came across on Social Europe:
Between the 2016 and 2024 elections, some 20 million older voters will have died and about 32 million younger Americans will have reached voting age. Many young voters disdain both parties and Republicans are actively recruiting (mostly white men) on college campuses. But the issues that are dearest to Generation Z’s heart—such as reproductive rights, democracy and the environment—will keep most of them voting Democratic.
Demographics is something that doesn’t change significantly from week to week, month to month, or even year to year. Demographic trends may be gradual, but they are all the more stable. Demographic change is tectonic.
The GOP is declining
A related aspect to consider is that the Republican party itself is declining—and I don’t mean just morally, but terms of pure numbers as well. Pew Research finds that while voters of both parties have generally become older since the 1990s, the aging process is more apparent in the GOP than among Democrats:
Reflecting this broader change, both parties’ voters are significantly older now than they were 20 years ago. But today Republican and Republican-leaning voters tend to be older than voters in the Democratic coalition. (In 1996, there was very little difference between the age profiles of the two parties.)
Like clothes dried too long in the dryer, MAGA Republicans of today are shriveling and wrinkling. They may be getting hot under the collar, but in the short term there’s no way to iron out those demographic wrinkles.
As a consequence of such trends, Biden will have a larger pool of possible voters than Trump—which means in turn that Biden can tolerate more of his voters not voting. A Trump victory, on the other hand, will require a higher percentage of GOP voters going to the polls.
Irrespective of how Trump’s criminal cases turn out in the end, he is facing in the wrong direction of demographic trends. Like the GOP in general, he is swimming against the stream in so many ways.
The fundamental issue, then, is that the winds of change do not favor Trump. A slow but ineluctable storm of transition in electoral makeup, with its concomitant shifts in voter preferences, is blasting him head-on, and he’ll have no real chance in November. This doesn’t mean we can rest on our laurels, but it also means there is no cause for deep despair.
Because demographics is destiny.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/26/2237483/-Demographic-Defeat-Why-Trump-Is-Unlikely-to-Win-Reelection?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
conix has always been a card carrying head case, but is now very publically cracking up. Her sister needs to do a serious intervention.
Gee, a former president who doesn't have 91 criminal indictments against him, doesn't need immunity from anything and can speak in complete and coherent sentences. It's hard to believe these simple things are considered "the good old days", but here we are. 😢
So, if noem gets covid, will her family shoot her?
conix, You are getting worse. Your failed satire is not in the least fucking funny. Your personal attacks on a good,
decent and reasonable poster is more than beyond the pale. 2nd time at least you have been warned about this.
Nikodemos, Valid sentiments, and i know we have no real right to tell you how to post, just sheesh - again - would really appreciate if you could leave your love of caps to another place more attuned to sensationalizing what otherwise would come across as good, reasonable reading. Just asking.
Maybe you could take a vacation from this forum. It appears you have issues with everyone. Your transgender medicine must be wearing off. Please refresh your gender to everyone, you're really a man who is trying to be a woman.
What is inexcusable is the Supreme Courts attempts at re-framing the issue!!
They continue to ARGUE in (stark & dark) HYPOTHETICALS -- without one moments consideration that in ~250 YEARS a Presidential Threat like this (Trump) has NEVER EXISTED!!
And their efforts to wax poetic, take inaction, & send this back down to the lower courts DELAYS a decision. Means a trial is NOT likely to start until AFTER 2025 is well underway & thereby clears the path for MUCH GRAVER DAMAGE to be done!! Potentially installing someone -- who has ALREADY THREATENED Democracy -- & who could throw the country into chaos WHILE HE BILKS IT!!
During his Presidency The FAT ORANGE CONald CLOWNSTICK had repeatedly charged U.S. taxpayers 3-5x normal rates (for the privilege of hosting the FAT ASS in his OWN HOMES, resorts & properties): OFTENTIMES, visiting MORE THAN ONE of his properties in the same day! The CONald is out for himself! First, in an effort to STAY OUT OF JAIL --- & SECOND, to ensure his BRAND & that he can BILK TAXPAYERS maximally!
And Lord only knows how much SELLING OUT he'll do -- & how far he'll set the country back.
Here's someone who AT LEAST acted the part, moved with Grace, Dignity (befitting the office) & had the interests of the American People at heart -- even as they (a great deal of them anyways) DESPISED HIM!!
Stroll down memory lane: And PURE CLASS!!
Trump VP hopeful Kristi Noem is very proud of that time she murdered her dog
Kristi Noem, South Dakota governor and puppy killer
If you’re a vice presidential hopeful trying to catch Donald Trump’s eye, there are worse ways to do it than bragging about killing your dog for doing ordinary dog things.
Kristi Noem, who’s best known as the COVID-loving governor of one of America’s top rectangular states, has added capricious dog killer to her résumé. And while in another place, time, or universe it might have seemed outlandish to suggest she’s mentioning her dog-murdering bona fides in order to woo notorious dog-hater Trump, in this political climate, that theory seriously has to be considered.
Biden wants voters to know Trump thinks football is
'boring as hell'
In a new book to be released next month and shared with The Guardian, Noem says she killed her “untrainable” 14-month-old hunting dog Cricket after it ate a local family’s chickens. Yes, she wrote this down—and actually tried to use it as an example of her surpassing grit, determination, and wisdom.
According to Noem, Cricket was an incorrigible dog. So incorrigible that at one point, Noem used an electronic collar (bzzzt, strike one) to force the dog to behave. That didn’t work, and one day on the way home from a pheasant hunt—which Cricket ruined by going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life” (i.e., acting like a dog)—Cricket attacked a local family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.”
Noem, who had just gotten back from shooting at wild birds, decided Cricket, who’d killed some far-worthier domesticated birds, had behaved like “a trained assassin,” and she knew she had to get rid of her.
“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, claiming she was “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog.”
It was then that Noem realized she “had to put her down.”
Oh, but she wasn’t done. As it happens, her dog murder touched off a mini-killing spree. “It was not a pleasant job,” she wrote, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
And that’s when she iced the goat.
Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down.”
Of course, Republicans as a rule have a long and sordid history with dogs.
There was Richard Nixon and his horribly insincere and mawkish Checkers speech. There was Mitt Romney—one of the “good” Republicans—strapping his dog Seamus to the roof of his car for a jaunty 12-hour road trip. And there’s Florida senator-cum-Medicare fraudster Rick Scott, who adopted a dog in 2012 when he ran for governor, named him Reagan, and then abandoned him for doing dog things. (Unfortunately, when the real Reagan did disgusting Reagan things far worse than eating poop or humping Ed Meese’s leg, Republicans just clung to him harder.)
But as they say, the cruelty is the point. In fact, Republicans—particularly in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health—have lately been wearing their insensate evil as a badge of honor.
As Julie Alderman Boudrea of the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge noted on Twitter of Noem’s dog-killing confession, “This is absolutely part of the audition” to be Trump’s VP because he hates dogs and, “This is what Trump wants in a VP; someone who will literally murder a puppy if it gets in her way.”
Note Noem’s callous response when she was recently asked about South Dakota’s near-absolute abortion ban.
“We rely on South Dakota, on the fact that I'm pro-life and we have a law that says that there is an exception for the life of the mother, and I just don't believe a tragedy should perpetuate another tragedy,” said Noem in response to a question from CNN’s Dana Bash.
In other words, a 12-year-old girl being brutally raped is a tragedy, but allowing her to choose whether to take her rapist’s baby to term is an equal, if not greater, tragedy.
The question is, if these kinds of outrages aren’t dealbreakers for Republican voters, what would or could be? Maybe nothing. After all, Trump bragged—in a fucking book—about pursuing married women, and the GOP just loved him more.
The only conclusion? This is exactly the kind of cruelty GOP voters want. And they’re increasingly bad at hiding it.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/26/2237432/-Trump-VP-hopeful-Kristi-Noem-is-very-proud-of-that-time-she-murdered-her-dog?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web
She'll make the perfect VP for trump. Building up her bona fides to prove the cruelty is the point. Most normal people would would try to cover this up but she actually bragged about it to prove to trump, she, like conix would have no problem shooting migrants who crossed over the border. Put her in charge of border control and give her unlimited ammunition. Who couldn't picture conix doing the exact same thing?
No, intolerance of opinions, unsupported by facts and evidence, is not bigotry it's simply a matter of not suffering fools gladly.
This is just one of many properties that he has employed undocumented workers.
His “build the wall” was just a facade.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thehill.com/latino/429136-more-than-100-undocumented-immigrants-worked-at-trumps-bedminster-resort-during/amp/&sa=U&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwie49Ld4d-FAxXFG9AFHcyVBcEQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0vJlJV0tD6qAYxGhuvOMti
I'd say you have both the smallest heart and the smallest brain. You voted for the authoritarian asshole who put 3 stooges on the SCOTUS. Their ill-thought out decision in Dobbs showed an inability, inexcusable, to foresee the consequences of the Dobbs decision on reproductive HEALTH by placing decisions in the hands of the dumbest politicians in the deepest red states. That WAS foreseeable.
As a result far more women are experiencing complications threatening their reproductive health, their ability to have children in the future and their very lives. That is happening far more often than your alleged 'manipulations of children'.
So heart one conix zip.
I get it--you are for open borders and not caring about national sovereignty and love more regulations.
Get a new schtick, you've become the class clown. 🤡🤡🤡
Agree with all of that. Nice to see the connection you made with the uni protests which are featuring in news broadcasts
here as well. Along with the fact the now worldwide protests are held in support of the peace protesters in Israel itself.
click on this thread......
We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024
If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,… pic.twitter.com/bKhpUkchHV
brooklyn13, Only a narrowly opinionated Israel supporter would label the late Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak as media sources. I assume many alternate sites would have similar quotes, used to support position. It is not a case of confirming biases, but a case of supporting arguments. What is your position on that? You remain comafied (don't know if that is an accepted word) when it comes to having an opinion on the quotes of Peres and Barak given you, yet you accuse me of being no good at considering different points of view.
"You’re an expert at finding media sources that confirm your biases. You are absolutely no good at considering that different points of view have any merit.
P - During the course of these discussions, I have conceded that Netanyahu belongs in jail as do the WB settlers. You’ve yet to concede there’s any validity in anyone else’s opinion.
P - Whatever. It’s not worth the effort. "
You have not validly argued against either of their comments. In fact you do nothing more than ignore them. Every one of your opinions have been dealt with here yet you accuse myself and others of ignoring your view, while you stolidly ignore all of ours. All while you ignore the different points of view of Peres and Barak. In other words you unarguably project. As a tangent see .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174307924 . And there is nothing in this as suggesting you are a Trump supporter. The thought i just had was strictly on the fact that you also have projected here.
When did Peres make his critical comments i wonder (not sure if i missed it earlier), so searched "what year did Shimon Peres become critical of Israel anti-Palestinian state policy" . Note: there is nothing at all "expert at finding media sources that confirm your biases" in posing a question as that. You apparently have nothing left but to attack the messenger, and that's perfectly understandable since you had no moral or ethical or humane base for your superficial positions from the start. Anyway the obviously inexpert search came up with this one, and i don't know yet if this one result of the FireFox search has gives me an answer to the question asked, to this point i've read only the first few paragraphs of:
Israel’s last founding father
Itamar Rabinovich
September 28, 2016
[Israeli President Shimon Peres attends a joint news conference with Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov (not pictured) in Sofia, in this August 11, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Oleg Popov/Files - RTSPRLD]
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Editor's note: Shimon Peres was pillar of Israel’s national security leadership and subsequently became an ardent peacemaker. Perhaps most important, writes Itamar Rabinovich, he was an Israeli leader who had a vision and a message. This piece originally appeared on Project Syndicate.
In 2006, a year before Shimon Peres was elected as Israel’s president, Michael Bar-Zohar published the Hebrew edition of his Peres biography. It was aptly titled Like a Phoenix: by then, Peres had been active in Israeli politics and public life for more than 60 years.
Peres’s career had its ups and downs. He reached lofty heights and suffered humiliating failures—and went through several incarnations. A pillar of Israel’s national security leadership, he subsequently became an ardent peacemaker, always maintaining a love-hate relationship with an Israeli public that consistently declined to elect him prime minister but admired him when he did not have or seek real power.
Undeterred by adversity, Peres kept pushing forward, driven by ambition and a sense of mission, and aided by his talents and creativity. He was a self-taught man, a voracious reader, and a prolific writer, a man moved and inspired every few years by a new idea: nanoscience, the human brain, Middle Eastern economic development.
Undeterred by adversity, Peres kept pushing
forward.
He was also a visionary and sly politician, who never fully shook off his East European origins. When his quest for power and participation in policymaking ended in 2007, he reached the pinnacle of his public career, serving as President until 2014. He rehabilitated the institution after succeeding an unworthy predecessor and became popular at home and admired abroad as an informal global Elder on the international stage, a sought-after speaker in international fora, and a symbol of a peace-seeking Israel, in sharp contrast to its pugnacious prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Peres’s rich and complex political career passed through five main phases. He began as an activist in the Labor Party and its youth movement in the early 1940s.
[Insert: Fun fact which only now allows me to relate some more to Shimon
Peres. I was born in 1942. Cool. '46, chuckle, would have me all of four.]
By 1946, he was considered senior enough to be sent to Europe as part of the pre-state delegation to the first post-war Zionist Congress. He then began to work closely with Israel’s leading founder, David Ben-Gurion, at the Ministry of Defense, mostly in procurement, during Israel’s Independence War, eventually rising to become the ministry’s director-general.
In that capacity, Peres became the architect of the young state’s defense doctrine. Running a sort of parallel foreign ministry, his main achievement was the creation of a close alliance and strong security cooperation—including with respect to nuclear technology—with France.
In 1959, Peres moved to full-time politics, supporting Ben-Gurion in his conflict with Labor’s old guard. Later, he was elected to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and became Deputy Minister of Defense and subsequently a full member of the cabinet.
His career entered a new phase in 1974, when Prime Minister Golda Meir was forced to resign after the October 1973 debacle, in which Anwar Sadat’s Egyptian forces successfully crossed the Suez Canal. Peres presented his candidacy, but narrowly lost to Yitzhak Rabin. As compensation, Rabin gave Peres the position of defense minister in his government. Nonetheless, their contest in 1974 marked the start of 21 years of fierce rivalry, mitigated by cooperation.
Twice, in 1977,] after Rabin was forced to resign, and in 1995-1996, after Rabin was assassinated, Peres succeeded his rival. He was also prime minister (a very good one) in a national unity government in 1984-1986; but, despite trying for nearly 30 years, he never won his own mandate from Israeli voters for the post he coveted the most.
In 1979, Peres transformed himself into the leader of Israel’s peace camp, focusing his efforts in the 1980s on Jordan. But, though he came tantalizingly close to a peace deal in 1987, when he signed the London Agreement with King Hussein, the agreement was stillborn. In 1992, the Labor Party’s rank and file concluded that Peres could not win an election, and that only a centrist like Rabin stood a chance.
Rabin won and returned, after 15 years, to the premiership. This time, he kept the defense portfolio for himself and gave Peres the foreign ministry. Rabin was determined to manage the peace process and assigned to Peres a marginal role. But Peres was offered by Rabin’s deputy an opportunity to champion a track two negotiation with the PLO in Oslo, and, with Rabin’s consent, took charge of the talks, bringing them to a successful conclusion in August 1993.
Here was the prime example of competition and collaboration that typified the Rabin-Peres relationship. It took Peres’s boldness and creativity to conclude the Oslo Accords; but without Rabin’s credibility and stature as a military man and security hawk, the Israeli public and political establishment would not have accepted it.
The grudging cooperation between Rabin and Peres continued until November 4, 1995, when Rabin was murdered by a right-wing extremist.[color=red] The assassin could have killed Peres, but decided that targeting Rabin was the more effective way to derail the peace process.[/color] Succeeding Rabin, Peres tried to negotiate a peace deal with Syria on the heels of Oslo. He failed, called an early election, ran a bad campaign, and lost narrowly to Netanyahu in May 1996.
The next ten years were not a happy period for Peres. He lost the leadership of Labor to Ehud Barak, joined Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima party and his government, and was the object of criticism and attacks by the Israeli right, who blamed him for the Oslo Accords. Peres began to play down the Nobel Peace Prize that he had shared with Yasser Arafat and Rabin after Oslo. The discrepancy between his stature on the international stage and his position in Israeli politics became glaringly apparent during these years—disappearing, however, when he became President in 2007.
Peres was an experienced, gifted leader, an eloquent speaker, and a source of ideas. But perhaps most important, he was an Israeli leader who had a vision and a message. This was the secret of his international stature: people expect the leader of Israel, the man from Jerusalem, to be just that type of visionary figure. When the country’s political leadership does not meet that expectation, a leader like Peres assumes the role—and gains the glory.
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Shimon Peres: Eternal optimist, 1923-2016
Natan Sachs September 28, 2016
[Excerpts outed here
Already at the age of 24—before the state was even declared in 1948—he was an aide to Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben Gurion, and by 30 he was director general of the powerful ministry of defense. First elected to the Israeli Knesset in 1959 and first appointed to the cabinet in 1969, he also held a host of other ministerial positions, some created especially for him. He was a man who procured propeller airplanes for the fledgling state battling for its life as a young man, and who extolled the virtues of nano-technology six decades later, still at the apex of Israeli political life.
P - n this long career, Peres became a fixture of Israeli public life, part and parcel of the Israeli establishment. He died a widely respected and beloved patrician and recent former president, a largely apolitical and grandfatherly role. He departs as the very last of the major leaders who were active at the founding of the state and as a symbol of that generation.
[...]
He was born Shimon Perski, in Poland (now Belarus), and had the Polish accent to prove it.
[...]
While he became an essential part of the Israeli leadership for decades, Peres’s outsider origins, ever the immigrant, would follow him throughout his career.
[...]
Peres also embodied a dramatic transformation from ideological hawk to dove, common among several Israeli leaders.
[...]
In the 1970s, as minister of defense under Rabin (in his first term as prime minister), Peres was instrumental in helping the Gush Emunim movement establish its first settlements in the northern West Bank (Samaria, as Israelis often refer to it). Yet after assuming the party leadership and interacting with other social-democratic leaders around the world, Peres began a steady move to the left. By the late 1980s he had become Israel’s most senior dove.]
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/shimon-peres-eternal-optimist-1923-2016/
Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, A Stalwart of Israeli Conservatism
Natan Sachs July 5, 2012
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/former-israeli-prime-minister-yitzhak-shamir-a-stalwart-of-israeli-conservatism/
Israeli Elections: Labor’s Challenge
Natan Sachs January 1
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/israeli-elections-labors-challenge/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/israels-last-founding-father/
Well well. I'm sure others here will find all that as interesting and as helpful as i just have.
Note again: There was no desire to confirm bias in posing the question. And there was no expertise in making the search.
Repeat:
"You’re an expert at finding media sources that confirm your biases. You are absolutely no good at considering that different points of view have any merit.
P - During the course of these discussions, I have conceded that Netanyahu belongs in jail as do the WB settlers. You’ve yet to concede there’s any validity in anyone else’s opinion.
P - Whatever. It’s not worth the effort."
I'm not intolerant of anyone's beliefs. You're the one who just recently criticized families at a story hour, not me. You're the one who went on incessant rants about critical race theory and now diversity, equalitty and inclusion.
Lord forbid we bring The LBGTQ community or immigration into the discussion.
I'll PM you a dick pic if you want but you're going the whole wrong way about it.
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