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David Hendrickson's avatar

Too mild. "America's Mayor" has earned and deserves much harsher condemnation.

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jamie y's avatar

no butter in his grits! an insult so fantastically great that i will be using it from now on.

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RRJKR's avatar

Us evil Libs have harassed "America's Mayor " to the point that the poor guy has to drink himself into a coma nearly ever day just to escape our pointless, nasty assaults. we should be ashamed.

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Berkeleyfarm's avatar

Just catching up on this. So, he basically admitted to defamation to avoid having to go through discovery? Because it was expensive, but apparently also because he destroyed a lot of stuff? And they're acting like this was all part of the clever plan for Rudy to go to trial and dazzle them with his stuff?

That's some galaxy brain action.

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Joe Max's avatar

Only in Georgia are salted peanuts added to Coca Cola, because Coca Cola. Everywhere else in the South we knew the proper ingredient was ROYAL CROWN COLA!

Damn yankees!

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Peanuts and cola? Mixed? Am I in the same country? And, omg, RC Cola. Just eew.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Lady Catherine de Burgh for the win!

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Sara Benincasa's avatar

I want everybody to know I was disappointed to find out that Kum 'n' Go has no Georgia locations, because I really wanted to put that in. :(

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MRobtheMathSnob's avatar

As a lapsed Iowan, I approve of this message. Spew 'n' Split forever!

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The Horned Tulip God's avatar

Question: Does the Kroger ban extend to all Kroger and Kroger-owned stores nationwide? Because I'd really appreciate it if I didn't have to hold my breath every time I entered a Fred Meyer's or QFC, on the off-chance Roodles wandered into the liberal hellscape that is Western Washington.

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Sara Benincasa's avatar

He isn't allowed to go to any stores, I have decided.

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Caepan's avatar

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 (𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳, 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵) 𝘙𝘶𝘣𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘈𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴."

Well, I have been an election worker (though not in GA), and that lying, un-American drunk Rudy 9/11 needs to pay up for his slanderous and terroristic threats. Then he can fuck off.

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Rick Jacobs's avatar

A perfect example of "Fuck Around and Find Out".

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DR Darke's avatar

I was a poll worker for 16 years in New York State, including a few spins as a Poll Site Manager. Everybody I know, including the most Vociferously Right Wing Election Inspectors, are all there to do an important and necessary job, make sure everyone who has the right to vote gets to vote, and see that the system works the way it is supposed to.

That Mr. "Law & Order" Giuliani dares to suggest that a pair of poll workers engaged in ballot box stuffing solely because they are two Women of Color that he believes won't fight back, takes everything he said from the merely malicious lie to the unforgivable hate crime. And that, when they do fight back, he contemptuously refuses to obey demands for Discovery? Makes his losing this case because he didn't bother to treat it seriously in the first place so much sweeter.

I hope if and when His Rudeness ever gets out of prison, he's reduced to living in a cardboard box begging for change, because the settlement conferred on him wipes him out financially.

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Jen McAllister's avatar

True poetic justice would have His Rudeness trying to earn his living by squeegeeing windshields near the Manhattan entrance to the Triborough bridge.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

So the right wings behaved and never gotten out of hand? Do you think that holds true today?

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DR Darke's avatar

Given it's New York State, and not the Cousin-Fucking, Putin-Loving, Jesusland South? Yes, I think that still holds true—at least it did as of last year when I was still living in upstate NY and discovered that, despite having used me once as a Poll Site Manager, the local Board of Elections chose me to do it again anyway! Most Democratic and Republican Election Inspectors (that the name NY uses for pollworkers) take their civic duty very seriously, and don't bring partisan politics into it at all because New York State enforces "NO ELECTIONEERING" rules.

I remember the first General Election I worked in 2008—people kept coming in saying "I want to vote for Obama", and part of my job then was to politely explain to them they could vote for who they liked, but publicly saying who you were voting for or wearing that candidate's merch violated election law. I was personally delighted because, despite being a registered Republican at the time (NY was having a real problem finding ACTUAL Republicans who were willing to work the polls, so the BoE requested that I register as one because I was an Independent prior to that), I also supported Obama—but "No Electioneering" means No Electioneering.

NY State has its own problems with elections, like Closed Primaries (Democrats can only vote for Democratic candidates, Republicans can only vote for Republican candidates, Independents can't vote in the Primaries at all!), and we've been fighting for decades now for Excuse-Free Absentee Balloting (if you want to vote by mail you need a reason the BoE accepts to do it, like Out of State on Military Duty, in the hospital, or working the elections!). During COVID-19 lockdown NY finally relented and sent out Vote-By-Mail ballots, but once the immediate lockdown was over, it was back to "Want to Vote By Mail? What's your reason for it?" SMH....

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SunMoonStars's avatar

You vote R?

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DR Darke's avatar

Nope, not at all! I tried talking my then-wife and friends into switching to the Republican Party so we could all write in Leftist candidates like the Green Party's Howie Hawkins, the Democratic Party's Zephyr Teachout, or Bernie Sanders in the Primary, but nobody else bit. In the General I could vote for whoever I chose, and I usually chose Leftist Democrats (of which NY has damned few!) or other non-NeoLiberals.

Unfortunately, if you're registered as a Republican, you get a LOT of Republican campaign literature. If you think the MAGA Chuds who attacked the Capitol on 1/6 is a new phenomenon, you didn't see most of the flyers and donation letters we got! My wife finally had enough of anti-choice and pro-violence propaganda, and demanded I switch parties...so I went through the arduous and lengthy process of becoming a Democrat, since until very recently only Democrats or Republicans would work the elections!

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Suzie Greenburg's avatar

Hell yes

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DR Darke's avatar

Well, Bless Your Heart...! 🤣🤣🤣

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JCfromNC's avatar

It's been a long time since I dumped salted peanuts into a bottle of Coke, but I always just figured a Lance(TM) packet's worth to a 16oz bottle was good enough.

No butter in my grits! My God, why would you even *want* to eat grits any more if you couldn't have butter in them? Roodles has proved himself a waste of oxygen, but that punishment might be too severe for me to condone.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

How about a kidney stone he can't pee out?

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Why would anyone want to eat grits anyway? Is what I'd like to know. Actually I don't care. I will just stick with mashed potatoes or rice for my starchy substrate.

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JCfromNC's avatar

I don’t agree with this, but then there are a number of foods that I feel similarly about, so I’ll just help myself to your share of the grits. And butter.

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Caepan's avatar

The ONLY time I would eat grits without butter is if they are smothered in sausage gravy.

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Never, would be a good time for me to eat grits. I'm okay waiting until never rolls around.

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DemoCat's avatar

Very heartfelt letter to Roodles, Sara. He’s just cracking open the first can of Found Out Soda, after fucking around shamelessly for PAB and The Big Lie. He gambled the tattered remains of his reputation on the unlikeliest of chances that somehow the potus candidate who lost convincingly would nonetheless be awarded power. It was a bad call, and he hurt people along the way. Time to pay the fiddler, fuckstick.

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Zap's avatar

He's still got the rest of the six-pack to open!

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HerstoryRepeating's avatar

Sara Benincasa,, if you can’t say anything nice about someone, please come sit to next me.

Please, like right now, if possible. 💖

So excellent!

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

VERY nicely said!

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