I'm going to use "Devilslut."

It has a nice ring to it.

Woooooooooooow...either you are all brand new to politics and completely missed how NK played Obama like a fiddle or you just choose to ignore it so you can continue being hypocrites, which seems to be the Liberal brand these days. NK played Clinton, W, Obama and Trump. It's very easy to Google all of the events over the last 25 years with NK to see how they played out, and how the same thing kept happening every few years no matter who was POTUS. I remember during W's tenure how twice NK did the same stupid thing with their missile posturing and America reacted the same way, and nothing changed. But W was the only one of the bunch who actually wanted to do something significant against NK but Reps and Dems alike wouldn't support him, so there's that.

Also, what's even more sad, is that there are articles put on DR all the time about how this or that Republican is ruining America's image in the world. Yet, there are stories like this of Trump and other Reps being the nice guys, extending handshakes, etc. and Liberals immediately demonize them for it.

The fact you can't see how your hypocrisy and hate are running your party is very telling because nothing is being done to stop it, or at least make it any better.

"For months, some of Donald Trump's top advisers"

The ones that leak oil or the ones that sell pillows?

Trump was stroking his bird. That's part of the art of negotiating.

That golden idol looks about 200lbs too light to be the orange tub of goo.

Who exactly are these people, and what turns them away?

The Trumpification of the GOP has turned them away. January 6 turned them away.

Are you really a regular on this site and yet remain unaware of this?

Are you one?

#17 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

You're a bigger idiot than I thought if that's a real, straight faced question.

#46 | POSTED BY REDIAL

The gubmint just turned up the lava tubes.

Duh. Moron. *eye roll*

What are "moderate Republicans"? What are their ideas?
Examples?

#13 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

Those who have been disgusted enough by Trump to leave the GOP and change their affiliation.

You can either move to attract them or simply hope the fracture lasts long enough that ignoring them isn't Russian roulette.

Why can't Israel fight their own damned wars?

Why do we have to kill for them? Do they even know for sure if the rebels are "Iranian backed"? More knee jerk bombing. Biden's looking more like Hillary All the time. Both sides love war and Militarism. We really can't change,can we?

OK Corky, but after we wash our hands and have supper we'll have change your Depends, put you in your fuzzy Hillary Clinton pajamas, help you take your Ditropan XL tablets, and go to bed (but of course you can still finish your Miss Marple episode before we shut off the lights).

Of course they're Nazis. Was there ever any doubt? Trump keeps a copy of Mein Kampf next to his pillow, and people are wondering if his most adrent supporters are Nazis?

Eberly, please get in here and scold us for our Faux Outrage!

Humtake, I read your post #9, and I'm concerned.
The word "liberal" only appears twice.
Are you feeling okay?

"But...but...but...he STRONGLY denied it..."

Personally, I like EmptyG because she is so vacuous.

#11 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY AT 2021-02-25 12:08 PM | REPLY

I was reading about a new series of black holes discovered by astronomers and fully expected to see Madge's photo accompanying the story. She's so vacuous standing next to her drops your IQ by 50 points. Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, Gym Jordan and Louis Gohmert had better watch out, because that'll put them in negative numbers.

This was a horrible result from de-regulation.

Some de-regulation has been good. Long distance and phone service comes to mind. Anybody remember paying $.28 a minute for long distance?

Airlines were another.

Banking? yeah..real consequences for that. But I've not studied it much and perhaps there are some better examples of energy de-regulation that were successful.....but I don't know.

Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee
God created ONLY TWO genders.

She still insists Fat Nixon won the election so it is clear she has trouble with math.

Half the brains, half the style, and 1% of the class.

Great Valu AOC.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Found out the other day some of my family is hesitant because they think it will change their DNA.

Not sure why they'd go on believing such nonsense when they could call me and I'd gladly explain why it's not true.

Did Dotard offer his favorite crown prince a spin on Air Force One?

Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee
God created ONLY TWO genders.

which garnered this response:

Bill Kristol @BillKristol
But, @RepMTG, did God create ONLY ONE polyamorous tantric-sex guru?

Sickos

Bitem could toss them kids back into the Rio Grande and the left would cheer about the free swimming lessons.
Bah Fangu..

#12 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

Tell us when the kids are taken from their parents and held for months without proper clothes, blankets, hygiene ect.

Then we'll talk.

"How do you solve a problem when the root propagation of that problem is a very thing you cherish in your society?"

Perhaps the answer lies in re-evaluating what you most cherish in your society.

"How do you solve a problem when the root propagation of that problem is a very thing you cherish in your society?"

Good luck getting them to see it!
For example, the root of (our abysmally high rate of) gun violence is the Second Amendment.
Except, literally nobody who loves guns believes this to be the case.
Not a one. Not even the smart ones like JPW and Zatoichi.

they aren't concentration camps they are closer to prison camps than anything else and believe it or not after actual concentration camps were liberated the prisoners weren't always allowed off the grounds.

why?

Because the buildings had roofs and often their own utility systems where as lots of places were lacking one or the other.

...Texas's deregulated electricity market was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price. ...

And if you believed that, you're just stupid.

This is what happens when you do not contain...

POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE AT 2021-02-24 08:12 AM | REPLY

Our society is too selfish for that.

That's going to be tough...current DNC is 1980's middle of the road GOP. Current GOP is mostly far right, ignorant, evil manipulative, just short of actual Nazi.

Well maybe not even just short of Nazi.

Not sure why they'd go on believing such nonsense when they could call me and I'd gladly explain why it's not true.

Why ask an expert when all the info is on Facebook or Parler?

I face the same thing as a climate scientist with some of my family in regards to climate change. Apparently, I'm being brainwashed (despite the fact that I do my own research that has been published) and don't get my information (raw data) through the proper channels (which is some dumb Q meme on Facebook). The peer reviewers are all in on it too.

Its stupid, and changing their mind is hopeless.

Trump was stroking his bird. That's part of the art of negotiating.

#4 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE AT 2021-02-24 01:24 PM | FLAG:
(CHOOSE)

Clearly you know nothing about negotiation. Stroking somebody's ego is how people negotiate with Dotard, because he's a well-known narcissist and if you stroke his ego he'll let you steal his wallet. He is without a doubt the worst negotiator on the planet. The art of negotiation is a give and take. It's recognizing what you really want, and what you're willing to compromise on, and the same for your negotiating partner. It's understanding their position as well as you understand your own, and then working toward a mutually agreeable solution. It's also being a little duplicitous, keeping your cards close to the vest and making it seem that the compromises you are making are far more valuable than they really are. Being a great negotiator is NOT announcing all over Twitter what a fantastic negotiator you are while you've screwed over probably hundreds of contractors through the years, declared multiple bankruptcies due to your lack of business sense, and are such a bad financial risk that only one bank was willing to loan you money, loans likely backed by Russian oligarchs.

There are 2 sexes. Gender roles are a social construct.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2021-02-25 12:35 PM | Reply | Flag

Am I the only one who still reads "MTG" as Magic: The Gathering, having not yet adjusted to it commonly meaning Marjorie Taylor Green lately?

A lot of stories read better using the former so I'm not persuaded to correct the habit.

Plus people are using it as a cheap conservative knock-off of AOC. Half the brains, half the style, and 1% of the class.

I'm just going to use Madge for a while. For my own entertainment purposes.

This is an interesting examination of how a broken and untrained mind can be bent to see what isn't there.
Reduce everything down to a few blocks, name them the same, and Voila!
Trump=Biden.

Who am I kidding? It's just not that interesting.

It's facile, idiotic, logically fallacious, and serves only to feed a confirmation bias.

This kind of "reasoning" is what I'd expect from a not particularly developed early middle, late elementary student.

Thread sucks.

"Free-market conservative ideologues seem to believe that society works better when a few people get paid a lot, while the rest of us have very little, and advocate policies that bring that about."

Dave Johnson

Headline fail, it should be: Liz Cheney calls for GOP to reject their base.

As a start we can grant DC and Puerto Rico statehood.

This is what happens when you do not contain...

#1 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE

I agree. The Americans who couldn't be inconvenienced to follow guidelines are significantly responsible for how bad this has gotten. But I will also say.. If the vaccines don't substantially stop this thing, America is most likely to simply give up. And one more big wave will cause the collapse of our healthcare system.

Our representatives on both sides of the aisle never had the political will to make it possible for most people to stay home

Congress passed the CARES Act and gave everyone $600/week of unemployment TO stay home.

The GOP aggressively attacked that as "too much" when CEO's that make $15000/hour saw that the minimum wage crowd was not showing up to make them their money because "they made more not working".

How sad is America that $15 an hour to stay home is more than what a person makes for 40 hours work?

Both sides may not have done enough to squash this down in the beginning, but ONLY ONE party right now is saying that giving relief to the middle class that is being destroyed by the virus is UNAFFORDABLE.

The GOP wants full reopen.

The GOP wanted no testing.

The GOP wants no additional aid for vaccines, relief and unemployment.

They hide behind the "$1.9 trillion is too expensive" after passing a $2 trillion tax plan in 2017 that was negotiated in secret and crammed down Congress's throats.

It's not too expensive, it's just that 85% of it is not going to the 1% like the last two times.

" Our society is too selfish for that."

While that may be true it's not even the biggest part of our problem. Our representatives on both sides of the aisle never had the political will to make it possible for most people to stay home. We could have done things must faster and at a significantly lower price tag if we had done the right thing at the very beginning. I can think of only one or two politicians who were suggesting taking the appropriate measure at the time, but as popular as they are nationally, Washington hates them so their ideas were non starters.

I wonder how much of his love affair with Lil Kim was at the urging of Putin to make him look foolish or did he really believe that he could be the one that would not be played a fool by him?

Either way Conjob Don looked like a grade A sucker at the end of the day.

The way he got played by Lil Kim should be reason enough to keep him far far far away from US foreign policy.

1 in 2000 babies are born with some level of intersex. Since this is a FACT, then MANY babies born each year do not clearly adhere to the male/female classification. For the sake of argument and to use religious extremists own worldview against them, God doesn't always create clearly male or female babies.

I guess every soon to be parent did not get the same new parents pamphlet I got decades ago. Mine clearly presented the facts of birth defects and the intersex statistics. The pamphlet confirmed my already existing belief that people have to be accepted as they are and not as some cultural/religious group's black and white view of humanity that does not exist.

An ethical atheist would be an improvement over the hateful Christian views that Greene claims to support.

You have an MBA. It is impossible you don't understand what inflation is.

Sure it is.

MBAs are a dime a dozen.

My left -------- could sign up for an MBA program and finish it. Probably top in its class too.

Mitch would support Hitler's corpse if it was nominated for the GOP candidacy in 2024.

He's a politician first and slimy swamp thing second, third, fourth, fifth, !

"NK played Obama like a fiddle"

Sure sure trumper. Make up all the lies and excuses you want. You are very good at it!

But regardless the north was unable to successfully develop nuclear weapons until Trumpy arrived on the scene and basically told him to go for it.

It's enough to make a proud boy even prouder.

I guess one of the big features of Trump's presidential library will be his "love letters" to and from dictators like Kim Jong Un. They'll look right at home next to the display his fake Newsweek covers.

"The entire Texas electric system grid failed. What the hell were they studying?"

That's an easy one!
Capitalism and deregulation.

They literally chose to turn off the power plants, rather than pay for natural gas.
I mean, wouldn't you do the same, if the cost of natural gas went up 1,000x?

There's an old saying, markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
In Texas, they say markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain not-frozen-to-death.

This is how deregulation is supposed to work. The only purpose it ever serves is to make a few rich people even richer.
You can say it has all kinds of other downstream effects, and it does. But the purpose of deregulation is always to make a few rich people even richer.

Zed, you do know the vaccines began getting to nursing homes in December 2020?

#2 | POSTED BY JAMESGELLIOTT

Sure, but not because of Donald Trump.

The truest thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he never cared if other people suffered and died.

Her plan is to open the flood gates then wonder why there are so many weird rona variants in kalipornia.
#18 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

^
Look everybody, it's the old "Migrants carry disease" trope from Nazi Germany.

Goebbels would be proud of you, PhesterOBoyle.

"Free-market conservative ideologues seem to believe that society works better when a few people get paid a lot, while the rest of us have very little, and advocate policies that bring that about."

Dave Johnson

#7 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2021-02-24 09:28 PM | Reply | Flag

The billionaires pay Congress to convince the bottom 99% that if we allow them to skip paying their taxes and remove all regulations on their activities then someday, somehow, someway the 99% will become the a member of the 1% club.

And the GOP voters are dumb enough to believe them.

When the single biggest corrupt administration in American history can convince 30% of the voters that they are fighting the deep state and draining the swamp you really have to question the quality of education in America.

The rights war on education has been highly effective in churning out generations of complete dumbasses that buy into their mularkey trickle down and business killing regulations myths.

Is that a problem?

Can't we just put them all in TX with the crappy electric grid and build a wall around it?