A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. - Alfred E. Wiggam
Conservatives believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth. - Barney Frank
Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen. - Mort Sahl
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks; mostly sits. - Woodrow Wilson
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. - George Will
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. - Elbert Hubbard
A man who has both feet firmly planted in the air can safely be called a liberal, as opposed to a conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. - Jacques Barzun
Republican Jokes Group 3
The Republicans want to extend tax cuts for everybody, but compensate by cutting federal spending at a later date using an amazing new spending-cutting device they have seen advertised on TV. - Dave Barry
Rick Santorum home-schooled his 7 kids, meaning there are now at least 8 people who don't understand evolution. - Andy Borowitz
I’m just tired of the Republican Party being the stupid party. - Joe Scarborough, on Republicans relationship to science
When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else. - Frank Zappa
Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular. - Alex Castellanos, G.O.P. strategist
: “The White House is also scaling back the president’s travel so he can support the agenda on Capitol Hill, but it’s led to concerns among some Democratic lawmakers that Biden isn’t doing enough to personally sell the legislation to their constituents across the country.”
“Some aides worry about the exposure level Biden may have faced when he mingled in groups during a recent trip to the West and his three stops to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary, two officials said. Biden, 78, also did not get a summer vacation. His plan to spend time at his Delaware home in August was scuttled by the Afghanistan crisis.”
After Joe Biden was declared the US President-elect by most major news outlets last November, many Republicans were in disbelief that the former vice president had beaten then-President Donald Trump.
But then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who had served in the upper chamber alongside Biden for decades, was "the least surprised," according to a new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, an early copy of which was obtained by Insider.
McConnell, who had been a governing partner with Trump, shepherding through three Supreme Court justices and scores of appeals judges, along with passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other conservative priorities, nonetheless had to contend with the wildly unpredictable president, who could tank a piece of legislation as easily as he could sell it to conservatives.
The senator, who at the time was closely watching the Georgia Senate runoff contests that would determine whether Republicans controlled the upper chamber or ceded control to the Democrats, chose to give Trump some space as the election results were still sinking in, which Woodward and Costa wrote in "Peril."
Despite being in the same political party, McConnell told his staff that the president's actions could often lead to stressful predicaments, according to the book.
"There were so many Maalox moments during the four years," he reportedly told his staff, referring to the antacid commonly used to treat stress-induced heartburn.
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During this time, McConnell continued to tread slightly with Trump — working behind to scenes to keep Biden from calling him for fear of upsetting the president, whom the then-majority leader still wanted to keep in his fold.
"McConnell worried Trump might react negatively and upend the upcoming, hotly contested runoff Senate elections in Georgia," the book said. "He also said he did not want Biden, a serial telephone user, to call him. Any call from Biden was sure to infuriate Trump and set off unwanted calls from him, asking if he believed Biden had won the presidency."
He actually believes that Sleepy Joe Biden won the most corrupt election in history!
I’m a regular reader, writing in from Australia. I really enjoy reading your analysis and thoughts at TPM. Most of the time I think it’s spot on. But on the topic of the Aukus deal, I think you are missing quite a bit of the picture. So, I thought I’d write in with a contrary view.
First off, this is not really just a choice of submarine propulsion technology. The French offer initially *was* for nuclear boats; the Australian government specifically requested a downgraded diesel/electric version, on the grounds that Australia did not (and still does not) have domestic nuclear capability to build or keep them operational. If our govt had simply decided we needed nuclear after all, they could have just upgraded to the nuclear version of the Barracuda (already in production, and I believe even an option in the contract).
The real choice is one of strategic posture. The Biden admin, despite the anti-Blob cred they (rightly!) gained by ending the war in Afghanistan, seem to be on a path towards a cold war-style superpower standoff with China in the Pacific. Maybe that’s inevitable and they’re just trying to stay ahead of events; I’m not questioning that here. My question is, what should Australia’s position be?
Nuclear powered subs are, by their nature, offensive (or at least not purely defensive) weapons. That’s the whole point: they can operate anywhere, not just in waters nearby. (Moreover, these boats will reportedly be armed with land-attack-capable cruise missiles; again, not defensive.) So, Australia will be fielding far-ranging offensive weapons in the Pacific, and doing so effectively on behalf of the US (remember, Australia can’t keep the subs operational without continuing US support).
This is far from a “straightforward” decision. It sure looks like it commits Australia to being a forward outpost of the US in its standoff with China. Not only is this not obviously wise, it also goes against the last few decades of national security thinking in Australia, which has been all about building our own relations in Asia, rather than blindly following US/UK policy.
Anyway, just a contrary opinion from down under; hope you find it helpful.
This point is very well taken. I tried to allude to it in my earlier posts. My understanding – limited, as it is – is that the US technology is superior. But having submarines from the US deepens the security relationship with the US, regardless of the particulars of the technology. And that’s really the key. There’s one power challenging China’s military power in East Asia and only one capable of doing so. That’s the US not France.
Emperor Trump is following my path to a slow revolution.
“Mr. Trump has spoken recently with senators and allies about trying to depose Mr. McConnell and whether any Republicans are interested in mounting a challenge, according to people familiar with the conversations.”
“There is little appetite among Senate Republicans for such a plan, lawmakers and aides said, but the discussions risk driving a wedge deeper between the most influential figure in the Republican Party and its highest-ranking member in elected office.”
The fake news CNN has confirmed the CIA are traitors too!
“Just after the US military launched a Hellfire missile to stop a white Toyota Corolla it believed to be an imminent threat to US troops leading the evacuation at the Kabul airport, the CIA issued an urgent warning: Civilians were likely in the area, including possibly children inside the vehicle,” CNN reports.
“It was too late. The warning on August 29 came seconds before the missile hit the car, killing 10 civilians, including seven children.”
If any normal person makes a grave mistake and people die, they are generally held accountable. Manslaughter charges come to mind. After the Derek Chauvin incident, there is no more concept that you were just doing your job and made a mistake. If someone dies while you make a mistake doing your job, then you go to jail.
Whoever is ultimately responsible for killing an Afghan family of ten should be treated no differently than Derek Chauvin (or any number of police officers charged with crimes while performing their duties).
But doing something like that would shed a bad light on the Biden Administration and we cannot have that.
Even some Foxnews fans are talking the 12 step process.
A new Fox News poll finds 67% of Americans said they support mandatory mask-wearing for students and teachers in schools, with 66% also saying businesses should require face coverings.
Also, 61% said would support vaccine mandates for teachers, 58% agreed for federal government workers and 55% backed requirements for businesses employees.
Like booze, social media seems to offer an intoxicating cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and, for some, dependency on Emperor Trump.
1. We admitted we were powerless over Emperor Donald Trump – that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our–selves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Trumpalcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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Sunday Funnier
Roger is a very dull boi.
NO original thoughts.
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
- Alfred E. Wiggam
Conservatives believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.
- Barney Frank
Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.
- Mort Sahl
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks; mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
- George Will
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
A man who has both feet firmly planted in the air can safely be called a liberal, as opposed to a conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
- Jacques Barzun
Republican Jokes
Group 3
The Republicans want to extend tax cuts for everybody, but compensate by cutting federal spending at a later date using an amazing new spending-cutting device they have seen advertised on TV.
- Dave Barry
Rick Santorum home-schooled his 7 kids, meaning there are now at least 8 people who don't understand evolution.
- Andy Borowitz
I’m just tired of the Republican Party being the stupid party.
- Joe Scarborough, on Republicans relationship to science
When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.
- Frank Zappa
Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.
- Alex Castellanos, G.O.P. strategist
: “The White House is also scaling back the president’s travel so he can support the agenda on Capitol Hill, but it’s led to concerns among some Democratic lawmakers that Biden isn’t doing enough to personally sell the legislation to their constituents across the country.”
“Some aides worry about the exposure level Biden may have faced when he mingled in groups during a recent trip to the West and his three stops to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary, two officials said. Biden, 78, also did not get a summer vacation. His plan to spend time at his Delaware home in August was scuttled by the Afghanistan crisis.”
The coverup is getting worse
After Joe Biden was declared the US President-elect by most major news outlets last November, many Republicans were in disbelief that the former vice president had beaten then-President Donald Trump.
But then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who had served in the upper chamber alongside Biden for decades, was "the least surprised," according to a new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, an early copy of which was obtained by Insider.
McConnell, who had been a governing partner with Trump, shepherding through three Supreme Court justices and scores of appeals judges, along with passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other conservative priorities, nonetheless had to contend with the wildly unpredictable president, who could tank a piece of legislation as easily as he could sell it to conservatives.
The senator, who at the time was closely watching the Georgia Senate runoff contests that would determine whether Republicans controlled the upper chamber or ceded control to the Democrats, chose to give Trump some space as the election results were still sinking in, which Woodward and Costa wrote in "Peril."
Despite being in the same political party, McConnell told his staff that the president's actions could often lead to stressful predicaments, according to the book.
"There were so many Maalox moments during the four years," he reportedly told his staff, referring to the antacid commonly used to treat stress-induced heartburn.
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I was fired from Google after my productivity plummeted
During this time, McConnell continued to tread slightly with Trump — working behind to scenes to keep Biden from calling him for fear of upsetting the president, whom the then-majority leader still wanted to keep in his fold.
"McConnell worried Trump might react negatively and upend the upcoming, hotly contested runoff Senate elections in Georgia," the book said. "He also said he did not want Biden, a serial telephone user, to call him. Any call from Biden was sure to infuriate Trump and set off unwanted calls from him, asking if he believed Biden had won the presidency."
He actually believes that Sleepy Joe Biden won the most corrupt election in history!
Lynch him with the magic negro !
https://www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-fox-news-subpoena/
From TPM Reader MV …
I’m a regular reader, writing in from Australia. I really enjoy reading your analysis and thoughts at TPM. Most of the time I think it’s spot on. But on the topic of the Aukus deal, I think you are missing quite a bit of the picture. So, I thought I’d write in with a contrary view.
First off, this is not really just a choice of submarine propulsion technology. The French offer initially *was* for nuclear boats; the Australian government specifically requested a downgraded diesel/electric version, on the grounds that Australia did not (and still does not) have domestic nuclear capability to build or keep them operational. If our govt had simply decided we needed nuclear after all, they could have just upgraded to the nuclear version of the Barracuda (already in production, and I believe even an option in the contract).
The real choice is one of strategic posture. The Biden admin, despite the anti-Blob cred they (rightly!) gained by ending the war in Afghanistan, seem to be on a path towards a cold war-style superpower standoff with China in the Pacific. Maybe that’s inevitable and they’re just trying to stay ahead of events; I’m not questioning that here. My question is, what should Australia’s position be?
Nuclear powered subs are, by their nature, offensive (or at least not purely defensive) weapons. That’s the whole point: they can operate anywhere, not just in waters nearby. (Moreover, these boats will reportedly be armed with land-attack-capable cruise missiles; again, not defensive.) So, Australia will be fielding far-ranging offensive weapons in the Pacific, and doing so effectively on behalf of the US (remember, Australia can’t keep the subs operational without continuing US support).
This is far from a “straightforward” decision. It sure looks like it commits Australia to being a forward outpost of the US in its standoff with China. Not only is this not obviously wise, it also goes against the last few decades of national security thinking in Australia, which has been all about building our own relations in Asia, rather than blindly following US/UK policy.
Anyway, just a contrary opinion from down under; hope you find it helpful.
This point is very well taken. I tried to allude to it in my earlier posts. My understanding – limited, as it is – is that the US technology is superior. But having submarines from the US deepens the security relationship with the US, regardless of the particulars of the technology. And that’s really the key. There’s one power challenging China’s military power in East Asia and only one capable of doing so. That’s the US not France.
Emperor Trump is following my path to a slow revolution.
“Mr. Trump has spoken recently with senators and allies about trying to depose Mr. McConnell and whether any Republicans are interested in mounting a challenge, according to people familiar with the conversations.”
“There is little appetite among Senate Republicans for such a plan, lawmakers and aides said, but the discussions risk driving a wedge deeper between the most influential figure in the Republican Party and its highest-ranking member in elected office.”
My death was faked.
The fake news CNN has confirmed the CIA are traitors too!
“Just after the US military launched a Hellfire missile to stop a white Toyota Corolla it believed to be an imminent threat to US troops leading the evacuation at the Kabul airport, the CIA issued an urgent warning: Civilians were likely in the area, including possibly children inside the vehicle,” CNN reports.
“It was too late. The warning on August 29 came seconds before the missile hit the car, killing 10 civilians, including seven children.”
It was too late???
Not way.
Wray committed treason
If any normal person makes a grave mistake and people die, they are generally held accountable. Manslaughter charges come to mind. After the Derek Chauvin incident, there is no more concept that you were just doing your job and made a mistake. If someone dies while you make a mistake doing your job, then you go to jail.
Whoever is ultimately responsible for killing an Afghan family of ten should be treated no differently than Derek Chauvin (or any number of police officers charged with crimes while performing their duties).
But doing something like that would shed a bad light on the Biden Administration and we cannot have that.
Like booze, social media seems to offer an intoxicating cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and, for some, dependency on Emperor Trump.
Even some Foxnews fans are talking the 12 step process.
A new Fox News poll finds 67% of Americans said they support mandatory mask-wearing for students and teachers in schools, with 66% also saying businesses should require face coverings.
Also, 61% said would support vaccine mandates for teachers, 58% agreed for federal government workers and 55% backed requirements for businesses employees.
Like booze, social media seems to offer an intoxicating cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and, for some, dependency on Emperor Trump.
Scott an act of war is not the same thing as the justifiable murder of a drug addicted black man.
Your out of your mind.
1. We admitted we were powerless over Emperor Donald Trump – that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our–selves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Trumpalcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
WHY WAS THE RALLY SUCH A FIZZLE?
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