Trump, illiterate buffoon completely unfamiliar with history and indifferent to it besides. That shriveled brain is focussed on ONE goal: "What's in it for me?"
Totally OT, but I wonder how reptiles think and why we use “reptilian” as an adjective for an evil brain. “Lizard brain” is popular too. I use them myself, must do research. No criticism meant, Fuzzy.
“Shriveled” I wuz referring to Trump’s age, I hear the brain shrinks as we get old.
I see “reptilian” as pertaining to the basic primitive thought processes related solely to survival. I’d call it “selfish” if I thought reptiles had much of what we could call self. That sort of cognition in a human being tends towards behavior which we see as psychopathic or evil. I.e. the subject at hand.
Didn't I read mail-in ballots advantage Republicans, since they're used by older people who have trouble getting to a polling location, and older people vote Republican? I'm not an older people (depends on the definition of "older",) or a Republican, but I always vote by mail. So convenient.
The bill that passed the House is immediately effective and contains no funds for training every single voting registrar in the country to suddenly have to determine the authenticity of every birth certificate, marriage license, divorce decree and name change decree issued over the past century or so, under laws that have changed numerous times in every state, territory, Indian tribe and many foreign countries (people get married abroad, divorced abroad, and were even born abroad but are US citizens). But you see, the Republicans think that applies to Democratic voters; Republican ones have never left the county of their births and since the voting registrars go grocery shopping with them or went to high school with them, they aren't going to need to look at their documents at all.
But I think in general Democrats are likely to have led more interesting and varied lives than Republicans, so even if they knock off many of their own folks, statistically they cancel more Democrat votes.
(Edit) I was reminded in a later comment that fewer Republicans have passports. Makes things murkier.
I do not like John Thune, but he does seem to not be a complete fool, which has got to be a tough trait to have for a Republican these days. You'd be ready to claw your own eyeballs out half the time.
Also do you know who else might -- or should if the law was equably applied -- have a fair amount of trouble actually registering to vote because unless he got his birth certificate altered (which I wouldn't put past him), it and his passport do not match?
James David Bowman, whom more people know as JD Vance
There seem to be enough republicans who are smart enough to know that passing that bill will probably hurt them as much, or more than, it hurts the Dems, and hopefully that piece of trash is really and truly dead.
Oh, I'm not condoning leaving it up to chance! I've let my senators and reps know how I feel (they're all dems), I'm just saying Thune has said repeatedly they don't have the votes, and I'm guessing part of it is because they know lots of gop voters will not be able to vote if this bill passes.
When the 50 plus year history of your political party is a dedication to performance over substance, the idea that voting for a bill equals something that you want to achieve seems quaint.
When there seems no other option, they think, there's always the meaningless gesture. It has the bonus of wasting time, which is paid for by the American taxpayer.
None of these Republicans really care. If they did, they wouldn't be criticizing "paid influencers" unleashed by Trump. They would be criticizing the man who unleashed the paid influencers.
They deserve to suffer what little they suffer. They chose to elect Trump and then to keep him in charge of them and elect him again.
My new slogan is "Glad you asked!"
Trump, illiterate buffoon completely unfamiliar with history and indifferent to it besides. That shriveled brain is focussed on ONE goal: "What's in it for me?"
Reptilian.
Totally OT, but I wonder how reptiles think and why we use “reptilian” as an adjective for an evil brain. “Lizard brain” is popular too. I use them myself, must do research. No criticism meant, Fuzzy.
“Shriveled” I wuz referring to Trump’s age, I hear the brain shrinks as we get old.
I see “reptilian” as pertaining to the basic primitive thought processes related solely to survival. I’d call it “selfish” if I thought reptiles had much of what we could call self. That sort of cognition in a human being tends towards behavior which we see as psychopathic or evil. I.e. the subject at hand.
I like it.
Didn't I read mail-in ballots advantage Republicans, since they're used by older people who have trouble getting to a polling location, and older people vote Republican? I'm not an older people (depends on the definition of "older",) or a Republican, but I always vote by mail. So convenient.
To think that this time last month, none of these troglodytes knew that Puerto Rico was an American territory.
At least one chuckle per paragraph. You are the LeBron James of political punditry. And not a weenus. Or orange. Or stupid.
The bill that passed the House is immediately effective and contains no funds for training every single voting registrar in the country to suddenly have to determine the authenticity of every birth certificate, marriage license, divorce decree and name change decree issued over the past century or so, under laws that have changed numerous times in every state, territory, Indian tribe and many foreign countries (people get married abroad, divorced abroad, and were even born abroad but are US citizens). But you see, the Republicans think that applies to Democratic voters; Republican ones have never left the county of their births and since the voting registrars go grocery shopping with them or went to high school with them, they aren't going to need to look at their documents at all.
But I think in general Democrats are likely to have led more interesting and varied lives than Republicans, so even if they knock off many of their own folks, statistically they cancel more Democrat votes.
(Edit) I was reminded in a later comment that fewer Republicans have passports. Makes things murkier.
Ta, Evan. Trump understands nothing but grift.
I do not like John Thune, but he does seem to not be a complete fool, which has got to be a tough trait to have for a Republican these days. You'd be ready to claw your own eyeballs out half the time.
He may not be a fool
But he went on that Republican "field trip" to Moscow in 2018 with the rest of those senior traitors
Oh, he still sucks, no argument there.
I... I just want to live my little life and be left alone. I'm not bothering anyone with this five o'clock shadow, I swear.
LIKE CALIGULA DID
Shambles summons Cabinet to Oval Office for "Dance of Dawn" Performance.
A man needs his ass kissed regularly.
Especially after he's lost all feeling from the waist down...
https://youtu.be/kCxyj2XDxwA?si=xR7kZyqlw7dwd014
I gotta ask the obvious question -
Has trump actually thought about what happens if passports are required for voting? I mean, have you ever met a MAGA with a passport?
He has not thought it through I have not the slightest doubt -- but it might be worth calling Senate Republicans in order to remind them
https://www.nationalmemo.com/save-america-act
Also do you know who else might -- or should if the law was equably applied -- have a fair amount of trouble actually registering to vote because unless he got his birth certificate altered (which I wouldn't put past him), it and his passport do not match?
James David Bowman, whom more people know as JD Vance
if'n ya cain't vote, ya cain't be in tha guvernment neither
I wish
"A third senator, granted anonymity for similar reasons, summed up the feeling within the conference: 'A lot of us are done.'”
How very brave, Senator...Anonymous.
Hey, not long ago Republicans were afraid to say anything against Trump even anonymously. I think.
It's almost always "reported/commented anonymously, for fear of retaliation" now, do ya notice ...?
What else could it possibly take to just impeach the dumb mother fucker?
What it always does: a majority vote in the House, trial in the Senate, and a 2/3 vote of senators to convict.
That's to impeach and remove from office.
I know what you mean, but the high bar set by our constitution protects saints as it does dumb motherfuckers.
Why is nobody pointing out that a president failing to sign bills is no threat at all.
If a president does not sign a bill passed by both houses of Congress within 10 days, it automatically becomes a law.
I’m surprised he hasn’t threatened to veto every bill.
Nobody has used the word veto .
And the new housing bill just passed the Senate by a veto-proof majority.
Yet the comment in the nyt and in wonkette mention only that chances are slim of passage because "Trump won't sign."
The sad truth? Trump does not know this.
Plus what the fuck bills is he talking about?
It's not like these morons have been busy.
There seem to be enough republicans who are smart enough to know that passing that bill will probably hurt them as much, or more than, it hurts the Dems, and hopefully that piece of trash is really and truly dead.
I don't think we should leave it up to chance
Have you seen what's in that thing
Oh, I'm not condoning leaving it up to chance! I've let my senators and reps know how I feel (they're all dems), I'm just saying Thune has said repeatedly they don't have the votes, and I'm guessing part of it is because they know lots of gop voters will not be able to vote if this bill passes.
When the 50 plus year history of your political party is a dedication to performance over substance, the idea that voting for a bill equals something that you want to achieve seems quaint.
When there seems no other option, they think, there's always the meaningless gesture. It has the bonus of wasting time, which is paid for by the American taxpayer.
None of these Republicans really care. If they did, they wouldn't be criticizing "paid influencers" unleashed by Trump. They would be criticizing the man who unleashed the paid influencers.
They deserve to suffer what little they suffer. They chose to elect Trump and then to keep him in charge of them and elect him again.