One hates ti be a smarty-pants, but algae is going to keep coming back unless they treat the water to remove the nitrates and phosphate that cause algae to bloom.
How come they're always the only ones who are allowed to see the evidence? The rest of us are supposed to be satisfied with their description of what they saw.
I love all the Trump folks who look in the mirror in the morning thinking they will one day be president.
They know how to say important sounding words and phrases etc, look "presidential" etc and so forth...
...and then you read a paragraph of them responding to an obvious question that they are unprepared for (or unable to answer/even allowed to prepare for because of giving Trump their soul) and when you look back on it im text it's no different from that South Carolina beauty pageant contestant that went viral in simpler times.
(She would still go viral today - but pretty sure it was in before/simpler times).
I would be SO happy to break it to all of them that they will never be president.
A Butterfly Effect of the post war era, Fred Trump and Roy Cohn and a million other things made Trump a singular phenomenon, none of you will ever have his "just enough" popularity to pull this shit off.
And guess what, he'll be gone one way or another in the not to decent future. And Merrick Garland will never be Attorney General again. And Trump will be a lame duck the day after the election. At a bare minimum the House will have investigative power.
It's all going to come out. You enabled it. You'll be asked about it at your campaign kickoff and forever after.
The staggering corruption involves huge sums of money. Fox and the rest of the white wing echo chamber will face a credibility crisis if they don't talk about it.
And that starts to reveal the rest of the iceberg going all the way back to the escalator.
Since it would be irresponsible not to speculate, I think McConnell is being kept alive by machinery. The GOP need to hang on until August 3 where the clock runs out on having a special election to replace him. I think they're unwilling to test the waters of this electorate right now in a SE. But it does blow me away that they are managing to keep this all secret. There are actual people responsible for his care. But then again, these people are used to keeping medical shit private. His wife being in China is also highly suspect.
You would think that anyone visiting their loved one, would be able to discern any care that mcturtle is receiving or not receiving and how many times drs & nurses have to enter his space to see if the machinery is still working???? Not a peep from anyone on that floor that is not a medical care person, (I know HIPAA limits medical information from hospital employees), about activity around there or if his beloved spouse comes to visit???
The paramedics who went to his house found an unconscious person who'd had a heart attack and they administered CPR. I have been reading graphic reports for days of what CPR does to an elderly patient - think smashed ribs. If he's still alive it's because he's being kept on life support.
This is so fucking creepy and the media are just letting Senate Republicans bullshit everybody. It's like Death of Stalin but dumber.
Fucking cable TV 'pundits' (including MSNOW) are fucking bottom-feeders. Now they are all hyped up about Graham Platner – and using him as their new fap toy. Ugh. Is Trump's war still going? What about the dozens of people killed by guns over the 4th and how Republicans want to erode our gun laws even further? What about the hypocrisy in MAGA-SCOTUS' rulings and their utter disregard for precedent and what is in the fucking text of the Constitution? Yeah.
Oh look, the walking red flag has more skeletons. This guy must have been a terrible boyfriend because multiple exes are leveling “categorically untrue” abuse accusations.
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Oh, but be careful not to discuss it here, else you be accused of "helping Collins win."
Platner did all of this to himself (and us) and now this is what we have to contend with in one of the most important Senate races in the country. He's basically even with Collins now. Last time her opponent had 7 points on her ahead of the election, and Collins ended up kicking her ass.
I sincerely hope he wins and we are able to retake the Senate. And we can then congratulate ourselves on our race to the bottom and having absolutely no standards for behavior in public office.
Being frank here: If I thought he could win, I’d back him. He can’t and the sooner he drops out the sooner our candidate can hit the ground running. I heard someone speculate that he’s probably in talks about picking a successor and that’s why he didn’t drop today. That would be the best outcome. Someone like him that doesn’t have this crap in his background. Fucking Hasan Piker said he needs to drop out. Platner doesn’t have a constituency now.
It's funny how credible rape accusations can surface even after a primary is over.
The blame for this should be pointed where it belongs - on Platner. He should have been disqualified ages ago, long before we had to be saddled with this problem that he foisted on all of us.
I don't know what the answer is. No, I don't think it's Mills. But I do know that the primary voters in Maine should have fucking well known better. I'm sure there were better options who were overlooked because Platner was so shiny.
Men who have stated that women bear responsibility for their own sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable as candidates for public office. We're not Republicans.
I get it - if I were in Maine I would be forced to vote for him too. And I'd be absolutely fucking furious about it, because this motherfucker has been a disaster almost from the get-go. And if I may also be frank, I've been deeply disgusted by all of the people here who have been excusing his Nazi tattoo and his well documented misogyny because they like that he's DSA. All I can say is that I sure as hell hope that is not what DSA is now because he should not be put into the same category as AOC or Mamdani. When we start overlooking that kind of shit, we need to take a good hard look in the mirror, because we should not be grading candidate acceptability on a curve against Republican filth.
We all know what the stakes are and the primary is over. If he does drop out now I can just hear them screeching that it's because he was somehow "driven out" and how it's so unfair what the media did to him, as if he didn't give them every bit of the ammunition.
She does. And you could see this coming from a mile away with Platner.
With guys like this, there is always another shoe to drop. Always.
ETA: Gideon should have won. She was polling well ahead right up to the election. Then Collins beat her by about 9 points. That is why I've been rolling my eyes at how excited everyone is about Platner. He does not have anywhere the lead he needs, and he's been steadily losing the lead he did have even before this latest accusation came out.
Knowing what we now know about John Fetterman, would you have voted for him over Mehmet Oz ( can't bring myself to call him "Dr Oz)? I guess I would have, and the same goes for Platner over Collins.
It's like you're asking If we'd still eat a shit sandwich on rye or white bread. Very hard to swallow either way. Yet, that so often becomes the choice.
One hates ti be a smarty-pants, but algae is going to keep coming back unless they treat the water to remove the nitrates and phosphate that cause algae to bloom.
How come they're always the only ones who are allowed to see the evidence? The rest of us are supposed to be satisfied with their description of what they saw.
"someone can run and be elected saying that they're a communist"
> who did that?
Vladimir Putin.
I'm visiting my Mom in the Twin Cities - and unfortunately SHE likes to watch the Sunday Morning shows and I saw Doug Burgam. I hate those shows.
Breaking!
Kash Patel still has no clue what happened to Nancy Guthrie.
But at least he knows who’s in the Trump/Epstein files!
I thought "Burgum" was a brand of some cod-flavored chewin' tobacco?
I love all the Trump folks who look in the mirror in the morning thinking they will one day be president.
They know how to say important sounding words and phrases etc, look "presidential" etc and so forth...
...and then you read a paragraph of them responding to an obvious question that they are unprepared for (or unable to answer/even allowed to prepare for because of giving Trump their soul) and when you look back on it im text it's no different from that South Carolina beauty pageant contestant that went viral in simpler times.
(She would still go viral today - but pretty sure it was in before/simpler times).
I would be SO happy to break it to all of them that they will never be president.
A Butterfly Effect of the post war era, Fred Trump and Roy Cohn and a million other things made Trump a singular phenomenon, none of you will ever have his "just enough" popularity to pull this shit off.
And guess what, he'll be gone one way or another in the not to decent future. And Merrick Garland will never be Attorney General again. And Trump will be a lame duck the day after the election. At a bare minimum the House will have investigative power.
It's all going to come out. You enabled it. You'll be asked about it at your campaign kickoff and forever after.
The staggering corruption involves huge sums of money. Fox and the rest of the white wing echo chamber will face a credibility crisis if they don't talk about it.
And that starts to reveal the rest of the iceberg going all the way back to the escalator.
You can tell immediately by the rehearsed electrical engineering jargon that he has absolutely no clue what he's talking about.
I always wish that the interlocutor would ask to clarify just one of those terms used.
I have solar. It works. I’m considering battery to be off grid when i want or when power is out. He’s an idiot.
"BASH: There are photographs of a person or people cutting a 300- or 350-foot gash in the bottom of the Reflecting Pool?"
Antifa supersoldiers. With box cutters. At the reflecting pool.
It could work. Boxcutters got us into a twenty year war with Afghanistan.
“It’ll be so tough. You can’t cut it. “
-trumps ass talking.
Nighters sheeple, be kind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0OBUVCpxXU&ra=m
I'm still waiting for Crash Patel to find the smoking gun in the form of a boxcutter with "Antifa" scrawled on the handle in Sharpie.
Since it would be irresponsible not to speculate, I think McConnell is being kept alive by machinery. The GOP need to hang on until August 3 where the clock runs out on having a special election to replace him. I think they're unwilling to test the waters of this electorate right now in a SE. But it does blow me away that they are managing to keep this all secret. There are actual people responsible for his care. But then again, these people are used to keeping medical shit private. His wife being in China is also highly suspect.
You would think that anyone visiting their loved one, would be able to discern any care that mcturtle is receiving or not receiving and how many times drs & nurses have to enter his space to see if the machinery is still working???? Not a peep from anyone on that floor that is not a medical care person, (I know HIPAA limits medical information from hospital employees), about activity around there or if his beloved spouse comes to visit???
I wonder who has power of attorney if Mitch is in a situation where they have to discuss taking him off of life support?
Could that person, perhaps, be his wife ... who is in China?
Not Elaine Chao. Mitch isn't THAT crazy.
yes, exactly.
Why does my Spidey Sense tell me Dorothea is right?
It would not surprise me at all that they're keeping Mitch on a respirator as long as possible to keep Massie from running for his seat...
There’s irony. Akin to his holding Supreme Court seat open.
You're right. Mitch would have wanted it this way.
Scheming ghouls.
The paramedics who went to his house found an unconscious person who'd had a heart attack and they administered CPR. I have been reading graphic reports for days of what CPR does to an elderly patient - think smashed ribs. If he's still alive it's because he's being kept on life support.
This is so fucking creepy and the media are just letting Senate Republicans bullshit everybody. It's like Death of Stalin but dumber.
It is, however, possible to recover from broken ribs.
That said, the only time I performed CPR for real was on my husband, to no avail. The next time I had to qualify for CPR I had a panic attack.
so sorry you had to go through that
*bows head*
I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine.
Terry Shiavo
Oh, my dear husband is dead/dying? I’ll FaceTime the nurses from Shanghai.
Fucking cable TV 'pundits' (including MSNOW) are fucking bottom-feeders. Now they are all hyped up about Graham Platner – and using him as their new fap toy. Ugh. Is Trump's war still going? What about the dozens of people killed by guns over the 4th and how Republicans want to erode our gun laws even further? What about the hypocrisy in MAGA-SCOTUS' rulings and their utter disregard for precedent and what is in the fucking text of the Constitution? Yeah.
Maybe we need to go back to politics being for ugly people so that “stan culture” can be kept out of policymaking and elections.
Paul Begala deserved a Pulitzer for coining the phrase "Politics is show business for ugly people".
Oh look, the walking red flag has more skeletons. This guy must have been a terrible boyfriend because multiple exes are leveling “categorically untrue” abuse accusations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Oh, but be careful not to discuss it here, else you be accused of "helping Collins win."
Platner did all of this to himself (and us) and now this is what we have to contend with in one of the most important Senate races in the country. He's basically even with Collins now. Last time her opponent had 7 points on her ahead of the election, and Collins ended up kicking her ass.
I sincerely hope he wins and we are able to retake the Senate. And we can then congratulate ourselves on our race to the bottom and having absolutely no standards for behavior in public office.
Being frank here: If I thought he could win, I’d back him. He can’t and the sooner he drops out the sooner our candidate can hit the ground running. I heard someone speculate that he’s probably in talks about picking a successor and that’s why he didn’t drop today. That would be the best outcome. Someone like him that doesn’t have this crap in his background. Fucking Hasan Piker said he needs to drop out. Platner doesn’t have a constituency now.
Is there another candidate out there? I thought that the primary was already over? And, please, God, do NOT fucking say ambulatory corpse Janet Mills.
It's funny how credible rape accusations can surface even after a primary is over.
The blame for this should be pointed where it belongs - on Platner. He should have been disqualified ages ago, long before we had to be saddled with this problem that he foisted on all of us.
I don't know what the answer is. No, I don't think it's Mills. But I do know that the primary voters in Maine should have fucking well known better. I'm sure there were better options who were overlooked because Platner was so shiny.
Men who have stated that women bear responsibility for their own sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable as candidates for public office. We're not Republicans.
I get it - if I were in Maine I would be forced to vote for him too. And I'd be absolutely fucking furious about it, because this motherfucker has been a disaster almost from the get-go. And if I may also be frank, I've been deeply disgusted by all of the people here who have been excusing his Nazi tattoo and his well documented misogyny because they like that he's DSA. All I can say is that I sure as hell hope that is not what DSA is now because he should not be put into the same category as AOC or Mamdani. When we start overlooking that kind of shit, we need to take a good hard look in the mirror, because we should not be grading candidate acceptability on a curve against Republican filth.
We all know what the stakes are and the primary is over. If he does drop out now I can just hear them screeching that it's because he was somehow "driven out" and how it's so unfair what the media did to him, as if he didn't give them every bit of the ammunition.
Yes. I’m furious. This sucks. Collins has to go.
There’s talk of shenna bellows.
She’d work. Unfortunately she doesn’t raise the roof with town halls.
Then again I was surprised when Sara didn’t win. Oh well.
She does. And you could see this coming from a mile away with Platner.
With guys like this, there is always another shoe to drop. Always.
ETA: Gideon should have won. She was polling well ahead right up to the election. Then Collins beat her by about 9 points. That is why I've been rolling my eyes at how excited everyone is about Platner. He does not have anywhere the lead he needs, and he's been steadily losing the lead he did have even before this latest accusation came out.
No kidding. Dammit
I am skeptical that his successor would be any better in that regard. He doesn't strike me as someone who's judge of character should be trusted.
This sucks 😕. Dude, did you not rethink this when Swalwell was busted?
No. They never think they'll be caught. Selfish fucking assholes.
one bit of good news is that this notable fuckwit's face will be off the center square of the front page, nao, because yrrrrrrr
smoking lamp is lit!
(that's the other bit of good news :] )
Be careful what you wish for, image-wise. ETA looks like we got lucky.
I've seen things, maaaaaan
Thought experiment:
Knowing what we now know about John Fetterman, would you have voted for him over Mehmet Oz ( can't bring myself to call him "Dr Oz)? I guess I would have, and the same goes for Platner over Collins.
I call that quack THE OZHOLE.
As for FetterMANCHIN I regret not sending money to Conor Lamb.
Will he kill fascists or women and immigrants? Because that is what is going on.
It's like you're asking If we'd still eat a shit sandwich on rye or white bread. Very hard to swallow either way. Yet, that so often becomes the choice.