I do believe they have all underestimated how many Americans are furious about the Tiktok shenanigans and have also completely lost whatever faith they had in our government due to the perceived inaction on the Palestinian genocide and the overall slide into christofascism.
True, but he mentioned there was reason for the delay, which is something one of my CGs did apologizing to all the staff monkeys who had been waiting 20 minutes for him to arrive. Fuckin' Pentagon on the line....
OT is Devin Nunes really smart or really stupid? This is either a fantastic bluff or the most idiotic move ever. The stock has been trending back up despite its complete lack of value and you want to see who’s manipulating it??
Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes on Tuesday urged House Republican committee leaders to investigate possible "unlawful manipulation" of the company's stock.
Nunes, himself a former House GOP chair, in a letter asked them to probe "anomalous trading" of the stock in order to gauge the extent of the alleged manipulation and "whether any laws including RICO statutes and tax evasion laws were violated."
So Congress is investigating why a particular stock isn’t doing well, causing that stock to shoot upwards, and oh by the way it happens to be funding their nominee. Who’s manipulating what now?
Hmm, Congress poking it's nose into the stock market sounds entertaining. I wonder, how all of that Wall Street money will react? Will those folk be happy to sit in front of James Comer answering stupid questions about their transactions?
I'm amazed that there are still many on the left who watched Biden offer the GOP everything it wanted in a border bill, watched the Republican-written bill (predictably) fail in the GOP conference, then watched the White House get pretty much everything it wanted in Ukraine funding, and think the outcomes are coincidental, accidental, or unrelated.
This WH staff boasts some of the savviest political operators we've seen since FDR's day. While I don't think they necessarily expected Trump to overtly sabotage Lankford's bill, I've no doubt they'd already counted snouts, and knew the House would reject it. Johnson got his show-vote, and the WH got Johnson on board a Ukraine effort.
*This WH staff boasts some of the savviest political operators we've seen since FDR's day.*
*sigh* Look... snark aside, you guys really have to get a lot more cynical about what happens in the White House. Going from Ron Klain to Jeff Zients as Chief of Staff represented a massive rightward sea-change for this administration. The IRA, the Infrastructure Bill, the American Rescure Plan, that was all under Ron Klain's watch. Since then, the WH has given up all pretense of ambition and embraced right wing stances on everything from immigration to foreign policy.
There's no reason to believe that the White House wasn't being 100% good-faith in its attempt to pass that draconian border bill, especially in a Washington that fetishizes bipartisanship. It's only after it failed did the post-hoc rationalizations of "Oh, they were being so cheeky, knowing it would fail...!" come out. People like Zients really believe this stuff. His motto is "Execute, execute, execute!" for a reason.
What getting it done and clearing the crisis? So you have nothing but sour grapes, small surprise concerning the dude who jizzes in his socks to Putin and Stalin
Just some comments on other sites' reporting on the aid package making it through the house. People who are like "Yeah, now that we've got Johnson actually doing stuff, let's get that done," who clearly have no idea what was actually in the bill, or why it was politically useful to have Republicans shoot down the most conservative immigration legislation in decades.
Russian bots on Yahoo! "Won't do any good. It'll take months."
Yeah? Bite me. The fancier stuff might take weeks, but what they need RIGHT NOW, the bullets and the Howitzer shells) are already sitting in warehouses all over Europe just waiting for the order to be shipped.
OT: Anyone else tracking the arguments in the Idaho EMTALA case? Because I have been surprised a couple of times. This might not go the way the misogynists want it to go.
I was thinking of candidates, not SCOTUS. We’ll see how well murder plays in the polls. My gut tells some people might be a tiny bit, you know, enraged.
And Alito is still a raging asshole who gets into a snit when he's called out.
Also, the government's lawyer was absolutely 15/10. She was fantastic all around. Thomas likes to score points in his own mind by stumping lawyers with obscure individual cases, and she had his fucking number.
Apparently Coney-Barrett is backstopping Sotomayor who raised a bunch of questions for the troglodytes representing Idaho that they utterly failed to directly answer.
I do believe they have all underestimated how many Americans are furious about the Tiktok shenanigans and have also completely lost whatever faith they had in our government due to the perceived inaction on the Palestinian genocide and the overall slide into christofascism.
SUCK it, Vlad!!!
Well, no Reek today.
[with histrionic, Bernhardt level melodrama] How WILL we carry on?
He sez there's good reasons for being so late to the podium. OK.
Nothing ever starts on time.
True, but he mentioned there was reason for the delay, which is something one of my CGs did apologizing to all the staff monkeys who had been waiting 20 minutes for him to arrive. Fuckin' Pentagon on the line....
IT'S ABOUT TIME!
OT: Here's a whale of a post. Humpin' you Wonks like it.
https://www.king5.com/article/life/animals/first-humpback-calf-whale-watching-season-spotted-salish-sea-2024/281-f03195ea-2e7f-493b-89f7-3771d1bf3b71
OT is Devin Nunes really smart or really stupid? This is either a fantastic bluff or the most idiotic move ever. The stock has been trending back up despite its complete lack of value and you want to see who’s manipulating it??
Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes on Tuesday urged House Republican committee leaders to investigate possible "unlawful manipulation" of the company's stock.
Nunes, himself a former House GOP chair, in a letter asked them to probe "anomalous trading" of the stock in order to gauge the extent of the alleged manipulation and "whether any laws including RICO statutes and tax evasion laws were violated."
So Congress is investigating why a particular stock isn’t doing well, causing that stock to shoot upwards, and oh by the way it happens to be funding their nominee. Who’s manipulating what now?
I would check account receivable for purchases from the Prince Bone Saw Saudi fund.
Indeed. Someone's propping up that stock and it's not small-time rubes.
Hmm, Congress poking it's nose into the stock market sounds entertaining. I wonder, how all of that Wall Street money will react? Will those folk be happy to sit in front of James Comer answering stupid questions about their transactions?
Nunes won't be cowed on this. If there is self-damaging blather to be blathered, then dagnabbit he's the one to do it.
He and his boss think this is being done by Democrats. Probably Soros. Because stupid as fuck.
Nunes once drew attention to a twitter account mocking him that most people had never heard of. He's an idiot.
Surprised he hasn’t gotten a call from Russia telling him to STFU at this point.
Putin is far too busy losing the war in Ukraine to care about Trump's fail company.
Gateway Pundit declares bankruptcy.
Pay-up Hoft!
(Insert Ted Knight "well, we're waiting!" gif here)
OT. South Carolina town didn't get the memo.
"South Carolina police field calls from residents alarmed by noisy cicadas"
• Newberry county sheriff’s office reassures people siren-like roar is male cicadas singing to attract mates after a decade dormant
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/police-cicadas-south-carolina
Shorter: "Their collective songs can be as loud as jet engines and scientists who study them often wear earmuffs to protect their hearing."
911 call: "Since when did you coppers attach jet engines to your rollers?"
I'm honestly surprised that no exorcist got involved.
I'm amazed that there are still many on the left who watched Biden offer the GOP everything it wanted in a border bill, watched the Republican-written bill (predictably) fail in the GOP conference, then watched the White House get pretty much everything it wanted in Ukraine funding, and think the outcomes are coincidental, accidental, or unrelated.
This WH staff boasts some of the savviest political operators we've seen since FDR's day. While I don't think they necessarily expected Trump to overtly sabotage Lankford's bill, I've no doubt they'd already counted snouts, and knew the House would reject it. Johnson got his show-vote, and the WH got Johnson on board a Ukraine effort.
Joe is still old, though.
*This WH staff boasts some of the savviest political operators we've seen since FDR's day.*
*sigh* Look... snark aside, you guys really have to get a lot more cynical about what happens in the White House. Going from Ron Klain to Jeff Zients as Chief of Staff represented a massive rightward sea-change for this administration. The IRA, the Infrastructure Bill, the American Rescure Plan, that was all under Ron Klain's watch. Since then, the WH has given up all pretense of ambition and embraced right wing stances on everything from immigration to foreign policy.
There's no reason to believe that the White House wasn't being 100% good-faith in its attempt to pass that draconian border bill, especially in a Washington that fetishizes bipartisanship. It's only after it failed did the post-hoc rationalizations of "Oh, they were being so cheeky, knowing it would fail...!" come out. People like Zients really believe this stuff. His motto is "Execute, execute, execute!" for a reason.
Shut the fuck up, commie who doesn't go here. Everything to you is rightward.
You don't know who Jeff Zients is, do you?
You mean a normie business/tech guy?
Thanks, Wikipedia. Now if you knew his track record as COVID czar, you'd understand what I'm talking about.
What getting it done and clearing the crisis? So you have nothing but sour grapes, small surprise concerning the dude who jizzes in his socks to Putin and Stalin
They got it done, didn't they?
I know you prefer your cornflakes pissed upon, so slurp up as usual, pal.
A giveaway to the defense industry, yeah, gargantuan task in Washington.
We all know you want Russia to win
At this point, I just want Ukraine not to lose.
Keep backing up some more, dude who was rooting for Ukraine to l9se for over a year
Exhibit A.
Yeah, I only have the entire history of Biden's political career to bolster my case.
fuck you
The republicans brought a Johnson to a brain fight
The right-wing wanted a Speaker who couldn't control their conference. They got one.
They learned from Nancy Smash. Learn how to count, which is something the GQp is incapable of.
those goobers still can't figure out Dark Brandon is Master Class even with all those bigly brains and deal.makers .
I'm most annoyed at a handful of people I've seen who want them to turn around and pass that border bill now.
I haven't seen that yet. Who are these people?
Just some comments on other sites' reporting on the aid package making it through the house. People who are like "Yeah, now that we've got Johnson actually doing stuff, let's get that done," who clearly have no idea what was actually in the bill, or why it was politically useful to have Republicans shoot down the most conservative immigration legislation in decades.
Oh, I thought you meant congresscritters.
Yeah, takes genius political maneuvering to please the military industrial complex.
Cry more, tankie
For the Palestinians that will be killed by the arms, yes. For the Russians, not so much.
Keep stanning for Putin
Odd way of doing that, not shedding tears over Russian casualties. Your head on straight today?
Says the guy shitting on Ukraine and Ukraine funding for over a year. Folks remember your dumb past positions
He will be even older tomorrow.
He's not getting any younger.
"Supremacy Clause? What's that?" ~SCOTUS
This is scary: Her Majesty's equines were spooked by construction and are running wild in London.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-england-london-68888725
Is it still “Her” majesty?
I think they have them rounded up. Two of them made it four miles east before getting caught.
Avenge Queen Boudicca, Seabiscuit!
☹️
(His Maj's now)
(two squires skipping around, banging coconut halves together)
African or European swallows?
Oh, um, I dunno - AHHHHH!
(is hurled into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)
At least it didn't happen when you asked your favorite color.
Russian bots on Yahoo! "Won't do any good. It'll take months."
Yeah? Bite me. The fancier stuff might take weeks, but what they need RIGHT NOW, the bullets and the Howitzer shells) are already sitting in warehouses all over Europe just waiting for the order to be shipped.
I hope they all go home and wet their beds. Ukrainians are coming for you and they are even more pissed off than before.
The equipment has been staged for MONTHS. Fuck off, orcs.
Right. This is bad news for those assholes.
OT: Anyone else tracking the arguments in the Idaho EMTALA case? Because I have been surprised a couple of times. This might not go the way the misogynists want it to go.
If SCOTUS rules against Idaho, Biden can go “These measures are so extreme that they couldn’t get past the conservative court that overturned Roe.”
If SCOTUS rules for Idaho, the White House can say “Extremist Republicans are perfectly happy to murder your mother, wife, or daughter.”
The object is to get them to deny it.
They won't deny it though because they've denied every other horrific outcome of Dobbs.
I was thinking of candidates, not SCOTUS. We’ll see how well murder plays in the polls. My gut tells some people might be a tiny bit, you know, enraged.
What I read was basically...a 50/50 shot at best.
At best.
And Alito is still a raging asshole who gets into a snit when he's called out.
Also, the government's lawyer was absolutely 15/10. She was fantastic all around. Thomas likes to score points in his own mind by stumping lawyers with obscure individual cases, and she had his fucking number.
But I suspect they rule in Idaho's favor.
I think it’s 5-4 against Idaho. With Barrett and Gorsuch joining Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson.
One hopes.
I'll take it.
Apparently Coney-Barrett is backstopping Sotomayor who raised a bunch of questions for the troglodytes representing Idaho that they utterly failed to directly answer.
“Why are you here?” was one of my favorite moments lol
Interesting.
OT: OH NOES! SMOTI has declared bankruptcy!
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/fake-news-site-gateway-pundit-declares-bankruptcy/
Ahh, so he's losing in court and wants to side-step things. Alex Jones did the same thing.
EVERY BODY HATES ME 'CUZ I'M FEARLESS!!1
Yup, flawless intellect declares flawless victory. Don't go away mad, just go away...
Yes, so sad. Anyway...
That's a shame.gif
[cackles with delight]
Innit tragic? [snicker/smirk]
So much for paying the fuck up.
no munneez for Trix then?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/a-childrens-treasury-of-nazi-themed-signs-at-jim-hofts-sad-dumb-los-angeles-teabag-thing?utm_source=publication-search
ah! nostalgia.