Drudge Retort: Recently Flagged Comments

"Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "feeble engines of despotism" in a letter to John Adams in 1821, stating, "The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume the engines and all who work them".

This quote reflects his belief that the American Revolution's ideals of liberty were a powerful force against oppressive regimes."

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That's the way the last episode of the really fine new American Revolution series ended. The last half hour is particularly well done, although the whole 6 episodes are quite good.

There's emphasis on the role of the French, without whom there would likely be no America, and the fact that it was also very much a Civil War between mostly former Brits as Loyalists vs Patriots.

And about the fate of the black slaves and the Native Americans, many of whom fought on both sides.

www.pbs.org

Despotism is a system where one ruler, a "despot," holds absolute, unchecked power, making arbitrary decisions without laws or regard for people's rights, essentially tyranny or autocracy, similar to a dictatorship.

And it's why the first thing that happened after the Constitution was a Bill of Rights that provides 3 Equal but Separate Branches of Government that give protection to the People via a System of Checks and Balances... which Branches are currently run almost exclusively by the Despot in the White House.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-05 07:03 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

When your entire brand is "I alone can fix it"...

You've just got to understand the terms properly. When Trump says "fix", he doesn't mean he's going to correct what's wrong.

He means "fix" like "The fix is in."

You know...like placing large futures bets right before a major economic announcement.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-05 06:28 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Then why don't you point it out, Wile E.

#79 | Posted by BellRinger

So stupid then...

Posted by jpw at 2025-12-05 06:08 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"it should maaaayyyybe be looked into"

Oh I see.

What you see telling us is these allegations are being made, but nobody has looked into it.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-05 05:47 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

I've never in my life seen someone grovel for a Nobel Peace Prize like Trump has.

It is pretty comical.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-05 05:04 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"If it's not about oil and it's not about "drug terrorists" (because that's obviously a lie) then what is it really about?"

drudge.com

Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-05 04:50 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

White House Releases 'National Security Strategy'

"It's laughable to consider Joe Biden's presidency off limits for examination."

Sure, but starting with the premise that "Biden had dementia and others were actually calling the shots without his knowledge" and then using some dubious allegations to come to a circular logic conclusion isn't really an examination, is it?

Lack of Official Count: There is no official public record of the exact number of times any president has used an autopen, making precise comparisons difficult. The claims about Biden's frequency come from partisan analyses.

Even if the frequency did increase greatly, it doesn't "prove" anything about a President's mental capacity or whether or not he was aware of or authorized its use. There are questions that can be raised in good faith about this, but frankly this comes across like when Republicans were all constantly mimicking the partisan talking points about how concerning it was how many "czars" Obama had appointed, and how that supposedly "proved" he was foreign Communist or something, when it was actually a nothingburger.

Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-05 04:29 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

That the staff reflects the prez is a given, so this mob is a pretty lowlife crew of ignorami.
Sadly, the US itself seems to have embarked on a course whereby it mimics the behavior of its sociopathic, senescent president

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-05 03:44 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Corky

Trump Aide Fumes as MAGA-fied Kennedy Center Sees Sales Dip

Well, this whole ticket thingy will change when the Trump Center launches it's month-long residency of Alexis Wilkins, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Lee Greenwood, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West (via phone), Carrie Underwood and Lady A. Man, the doors will be busted! Tickets will start at $9,999 for the entire series. Parking $50 per hour, no refunds, no rain checks, no weapons, no outside food. Platinum sponsor: Trump Media...

Posted by catdog at 2025-12-05 03:10 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by DarkVader

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

Would you have fixed aircraft that, during WWII, were conducting daily raids on cities in Germany and Japan? Raids that killed hundreds of thousands of people?

Brother. I was a young Marine. If ordered to in a Time of War I'd have done what I was told to do. And how on Earth would I know what the aircraft was going to be used for?

But I did not join the SS. I joined the Marines. They are professional warriors under the UCMJ. I would never have been told to kill a helpless enemy sailor floating in the water except maybe as a test. And if I was ordered to then yes I would have refused that order. Because I could pass that test. Could you?

Each situation is judged in its own merits.

What you are describing has nothing to do with the current situation.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 12:57 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"Maybe it's not "working" because the War on Drugs will never work if Americans keep demanding it and buying it."

When I was doing this, we estimated that we intercepted 6% of all drugs coming into the US. And that was with a multinational flotilla, accompanied by a sizable air fleet scouring the Caribbean.

I don't know why Trump has a hair up his ass about drugs, but it's an unwinnable war. Because it's not actually a war. It's the US government trying to prevent US citizens from getting stuff they want.

Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-05 12:56 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

You're the one saying these are innocent fisherman who got blown up for no reason.

No I am not. Trumpy obviously has his reasons. Just not legal ones.

I'll trust US intelligence over you .

lol. You trust this administration but not the previous one. Because you obviously don't have good sense. Who cares who YOU trust.

Also. Don't trust me. Trust the Law.

For decades we had the coast guard try and do the job and it didn't work.

Define "work".

Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25): The Coast Guard seized a historic record of nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean.

Fiscal Years 2021-2023: The Coast Guard interdicted an estimated 421.9 metric tons of cocaine.

Maybe it's not "working" because the War on Drugs will never work if Americans keep demanding it and buying it.

This deters the smugglers.

lol

And if Trumpy was really interested in stopping drug trafficking he would not have just pardoned the guy who smuggled 400 tons of it into America. What kind of message does that send to drug smugglers?

You really are a stupid person aren't you?

Fortunately there are educational opportunities available Fishpud.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 12:49 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY, newsworthy by Angrydad, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

And no I don't sleep peacefully knowing my country is executing Venezuelans in my name and without evidence of a crime or any due process whatsoever.

#73 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 12:37 PM | Reply | Flag:
(Choose)

And you think there was no evidence whatsoever? And you call others stupid.

Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-05 12:42 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf."

Been there done that. But while I was standing Watch on the Wall I never felt the need to commit violence for violence sake. And I wasn't interested in doing evil on anyone's behalf.

And no I don't sleep peacefully knowing my country is executing Venezuelans in my name and without evidence of a crime or any due process whatsoever.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 12:37 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by mattm, newsworthy by Angrydad, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

And to back up just a bit the US Navy should not even been involved in chasing criminals on the high seas. I believe that's the Coast Guards job. They generally do not blow up their suspects.
The Coast Guard normally treats maritime drug smuggling as a law enforcement issue, focusing on interdiction, arrest, and prosecution.
Again. Are you a stupid person?

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 11:35 AM | Reply

You're the one saying these are innocent fisherman who got blown up for no reason. I'll trust US intelligence over you . For decades we had the coast guard try and do the job and it didn't work. Not the coast guard's fault, just didn't deter the smugglers. This deters the smugglers. Interesting that the Dems are pro illegal border crossing and pro drug smuggling. That's what advanced TDS does to people. Donner, there is therapy available.

Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-05 12:35 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

It was still floating. In my world, that means it's not destroyed.

#56 | Posted by madbomber

And here I am questioning the sanity of your world.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-05 12:22 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

#42

I can maybe answer your question, based on previous experience.

These boats were not going to the US. They were going to somewhere like San Andres, or other Island in the Caribbean. From there the drugs would be put on another boat and taken to Gracias a Dios in Honduras, where it would be moved by land west, mostly by people carrying backpacks, until it could be loaded into vehicles who would then use the Pan-American highway to move it into the US. If you're a smuggler, launching a boat from Venezuela with the intent on having it reach the US would be almost impossible, and probably not worth the overhead cost. Especially when you consider that maritime smuggling is the easiest to detect.

Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-05 12:13 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Kristi Noem claims '50%' of Minnesota visas are fraudulent

FTA-Noem goes on to call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz "wacko", stating he "either is an idiot or did it on purpose," when talking about the alleged fraudulent visas. She continued by saying she believes Walz is "both."

Didn't know states were in the business of issuing or monitoring VISAs. Can't blame the Biden administration as most have been here for years.

Posted by mattm at 2025-12-05 12:10 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

These seamen are more like the dudes driving oil trucks for ISIS.

#35 | Posted by madbomber

If they survived the destruction of their truck, would you make it a point to go back and kill them?

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-05 12:02 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

its wild how upset you get over a gun death, but could careless about 100,000 narco deaths.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut

It's wild how ignorant and stupid Commie Spyboy is.

Trumpy just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernndez, a convicted drug smuggler who was convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into America.

GFY with your hateful Commie Spyboy nonsense.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 12:01 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend, newsworthy by Angrydad, funny by Angrydad

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

Yes, a JAG officer determined they were still "combatants".

POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You mean a JAGOFF officer don't you?

That's what Whiskey Pete calls them.

The JAG officers were fired and replaced with Trumpy loyalists.

Once again. Nothing that comes from this administration can be trusted or believed unless or until verified by at least 2 RELIABLE sources.

They were obviously not "combants" while floating helplessly in the ocean.

I don't care what Whiskey Pete's JAGOFF says.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 11:50 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Whatsleft, newsworthy by Angrydad, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"To target distressed seamen is a war crime. To achieve the desired effect on a valid military target is not"

LOL.

Hiding murder behind a technicality.

The Navy could have picked up those seamen and then destroyed the pathetic remains of their boat.

Or the Coast Guard/Navy could have just intercepted this boat in the first place and detained the occupants, as they usually do.

In the latter case, we'd now know if we were even dealing with "bad guys".

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-05 11:42 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

Yes, innocent "shipwrecked" sailors. Clinging to a bucket of cocaine.

Show me the cocaine. The evidence has been destroyed. Another crime.

No one said they were innocent. They were helpless. Big difference.

What's the issue Donner? You afraid your crack shipment will be delayed?

I don't like war crimes. Do you?

The "issue" is war crime or murder?

And how does the left know that they didn't have communication devices? Because they didn't get the call?

#15 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

What a stupid question. "Are you a stupid person?" "You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person."

It would it have much been easier to pull them from the sea than to try and Trumpsplain this for the next couple years.

We don't know anything. Neither do you. Because the evidence has been conveniently destroyed. (Another crime) But we do know a crime was committed because we have the video. Also in case you are not woke to it the Navy also has signals intelligence capabilities. Calling for help make with the U.S. Navy right there?

And to back up just a bit the US Navy should not even been involved in chasing criminals on the high seas. I believe that's the Coast Guards job. They generally do not blow up their suspects.

The Coast Guard normally treats maritime drug smuggling as a law enforcement issue, focusing on interdiction, arrest, and prosecution.

Again. Are you a stupid person?

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 11:35 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad, newsworthy by A_Friend

Layoffs Top 1.1 Million This Year, the Most Since 2020 Pandemic

For some reason supporters of pedo 47 are avoiding his abysmal numbers.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-05 11:21 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Ronnie68, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"Especially shipwrecked sailors. Killing shipwrecked sailors is such a Nazis thing to do."#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 10:35 AM | Reply

Yes, innocent "shipwrecked" sailors. Clinging to a bucket of cocaine.

What's the issue Donner? You afraid your crack shipment will be delayed?

And how does the left know that they didn't have communication devices? Because they didn't get the call?

Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-05 11:10 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

Layoffs Top 1.1 Million This Year, the Most Since 2020 Pandemic

I'm a traitor for creating a thread about Biden?

Mostly just an idiot.

Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-05 10:49 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

Heckuva job, PEDO

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-05 10:32 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by Ronnie68, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

"....said the mindless drone..."

IKYABWAI! ...said Peewee Herman.

It's sad that some people can't comprehend that not everything is about oil. It's an oversimplification, at best.

Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-05 09:47 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad, funny by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

I also leave room for, if Donald is truly cornered, that he does what other tyrants with his sickness have done: kill himself, like Hitler or Nero.

Of course, there's always the Mussolini scenario: Attempting to escape, he's captured, killed, and hanged upside down by an enraged citizenry,

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-05 09:05 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by OCUser, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

Where's the blood and guts conservatives?

Where's MSgt and Boaz and GracieAmazed dancing on the watery graves of unarmed civilians?

You're telling me Megan Kelly is swinging bigger than Boaz?

"I really do kind of not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer," Kelly said before sharing a twisted fantasy of how she'd like to see President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth handle alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers.

"I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little," Kelly said.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-05 09:05 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by A_Friend

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

If I were Trump, I would be planning on 'retiring' from the Presidency so President Vance could pardon me

#4 | Posted by Hughmass

I agree that this is a possibility, except for two things--

1) Donald's sick, sick pride might keep him from humiliating himself by passing power on to Vance.

2) Donald, his family, and his cult have committed countless crimes in various States, and Vance's pardons would touch those.

No, I think that it's more likely that Donald will---

1) Attempt to flee the country and go into exile. Although this, too, would be an affront to his pride.

2) Do some Gotterdamerung thing and try to pull the house down with him.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-05 08:58 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Whatsleft, newsworthy by OCUser, newsworthy by A_Friend

Trump's Cratering Job Market

Trump will do a national tour to convince unemployed people that they are working.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-05 08:49 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by AMERICANUNITY

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

#5
....said the mindless drone...

Posted by Wardog at 2025-12-05 08:25 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy, funny by donnerboy, newsworthy by Angrydad

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

it's
a
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slope
on
the
way
to
admitting
it's
all
about
OIL

Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-12-05 08:03 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by sentinel, newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by OCUser

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

Capitalism and democracy are not partners, they are opponents, and sooner or later great wealth accumulates into fewer and fewer greedy palms, and one person, one vote democracy is replaced with one dollar, one vote capitalistic pretend democracy. Musk bought the WH for Trump, pure and simple.

Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-05 07:48 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

Cannot have American troops, heavily armed, patrolling American streets, without a danger from "terrorists", and narco terrorists fill the bill. I would expect the midterms to be full of blood and drama, because if Trump really were to lose both the House and the Senate, he and his family would be in court, pretty much all the time. It seems that influence peddling is an actual crime.
If I were Trump, I would be planning on 'retiring' from the Presidency so President Vance could pardon me, my family, and my entire gang of cultists, and if he loses the midterms, I would expect him to seriously consider such an action soon after.
Nixon walked away free and clear, thanks to the Republican Party rigging things with President Ford.

Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-05 07:44 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by Whatsleft

Trump to slash Biden CAFE rules

Corky,
You need to lighten up. You shouldn't be this angry.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-05 12:08 AM | Reply | Flag

Someone needs to be angry. This country is ------ up and getting worse by the day.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-05 03:28 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Zed

Survivors Clinging to Capsized Boat Didn't Radio Backup

the changing stories that have been issued to substantiate what occurred.

Indeed. Wasn't eliminating a "hazard to navigation" the first story?

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-05 12:31 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy

JPW @ #3

"Remember when the idiot righties claimed Putin was afraid of Trump? "

Trump probably thought so too, up until Helsinki.

Trump has been trying to keep up the charade ever since.

Posted by Twinpac at 2025-12-05 12:03 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

- there's more to talk about than just Trump.

Your claims that talking about Biden is as or more important than talking about what Trump is doing to this country NOW are ludicrous at best.

And they show to be a sniveling coward and traitor along with your Cult Leader.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 11:45 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by schmanch, newsworthy by A_Friend

lil jeffy only reads national review opinion pieces.

That's why he thinks Obama was in charge for Biden's four years.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-04 11:03 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Wardog

#30

He's not a Cultist, you are... and he's not 'distracting' from Trump.

Are you seriously THIS stupid? Perhaps you should actually read the article.

People like Rick Wilson and Liz Cheney are at least patriotic Republicans; you and your ilk love your criminal traitor President.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 11:01 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by A_Friend

Lose elections.

Good to see you acknowledge that SCOTUS is elected.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-04 10:44 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by South_American

'Tis almost like no one bothered reading the article.

The knee-jerk reaction was over the title, A Blue Wave Revolution is Coming ...

... without once bothering to read the article where Rick Wilson lays all this at the feet of the Trump & Republicans:

When your entire brand is "I alone can fix it" and things feel more broken, it becomes very easy for voters to decide that you, in fact, cannot.

The GOP is already on demographic thin ice. Trump's affordability fiasco is the kind of slow-burning anger that melts what remains of their suburban support among moderates and independents, many of whom held their nose in 2024 solely because Trump promised to reduce grocery and gas prices. It accelerates the erosion with younger voters who have now lived through two Trump eras and a housing market that looks like a hostage situation.

They signed up for the myth of the businessman president. They got the guy who bankrupted casinos and decided the solution for a hurting country was to blow up the economy for a jacked-up economic theory from the 17th century, build a ballroom, and hide the books.

None of the culture war crap, the performative yelping about the Deep State, the liberal media, or whatever else tickles MAGA Twitter's happy place will work when America is locked in a deep recession caused by their Golden God.

In 2026, Republicans will discover the oldest rule in politics and business: eventually, the mark realizes he has been conned. And when that happens, it is not just the con man who pays the price. It is everyone foolish enough to stand next to him when the lights come up, and the check arrives.

Trump is too old to pay that bill ... and doesn't pay his bills in any case.

But the MAGA GOP sure as hell will. That sound they hear in the distance is a mob, hungry and furious, approaching their palace.

The article I posted here is NOT about the Democrats.

It is not about pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

It is not about if Democrats are (or are not) up to the job.

That is not what Rick Wilson was saying in the article I posted.

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-04 10:05 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog

By my count 17 threads on the back age are topics not related to Trump. Are those all "distractions" too?

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-04 09:39 PM | Reply

Yeppers pretty much so.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-04 10:05 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by sentinel

How many of the-------------------'s 1500 J6 pardons were signed by autopen?

Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 09:28 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by LegallyYourDead

Are Republicans so dumb they think Biden has to personally push the Autopen button, or it doesn't count?
#58 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

What do you mean by "push"?

If it doesn't know he's signing it, then WTF is the point of having a President.

Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-04 09:26 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead

"Blue states gamed the 2020 census."
By doing what, counting everybody?

"Time to purge the enemy within."
Finally, let's get this party started!
What day should I pencil in for The Day Of The Rope?

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-04 09:01 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by South_American, newsworthy by Yodagirl

@#12 ... Cali did it. ...

California did not do what Texas did.

California put the issue to a popular vote.

Did Texas put the issue to a popular vote?

Let's start with that.

Yer up.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-04 08:29 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

Who was president during the 2020 census --------?

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-04 08:27 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

Cali did it only because TX did it first.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 08:24 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

" What's our "preferred narrative" regarding that again?
#49 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2025-12-04 07:26 PM | FLAG: "

That Biden was sharp as a tack and in complete control.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-04 08:07 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by fortfisher

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 07:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

STFU Raetard

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-04 08:06 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by fortfisher

How does this ruling violate the Constitution?

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-04 07:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

It doesn't, it's a bullchit ruling of the remedial left...

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-04 08:00 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead, funny by Yodagirl

I urge Virginia to retaliate.

It would be foolish should she not.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 07:54 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by e1g1, newsworthy by DarkVader

Oh this is big one.

Wonder who gets the tip/donation/$500,000 vacation to Indonesia/Mercedes/college tuition/rent free home for this one?

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 07:32 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by e1g1, newsworthy by REDIAL, newsworthy by Yodagirl

" All 3 branches of our government are officially constitution hating s^%#.

#1 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-12-04 07:06 PM | FLAG: "

How does this ruling violate the Constitution?

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-04 07:25 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead, funny by DarkVader

Conservatives are so corrupt these days.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-04 07:22 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by lfthndthrds

All 3 branches of our government are officially constitution hating s^%#.

Posted by jpw at 2025-12-04 07:06 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by lfthndthrds, newsworthy by Yodagirl

@#2 ... Nobody puts together a 28-point peace plan between two countries if they want to be taken seriously. ...

Those 28-points seem to be ...

1) in part, a google translation from Russian to English

2) made without the input of the sovereign country (US ally!) defending itself from an unprovoked invasion from an invader.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-04 07:01 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by South_American, newsworthy by Whatsleft, newsworthy by Yodagirl

Trump Backs Monsanto in Roundup Litigation

" The author cites hard numbers."

Sure he does.

Sorry if I cannot take his or your word about anything you accuse Biden of.

Where are his source documents? It's a serious allegation.

Where is the tally and list of Trump's use of the autopen for comparison ?

What was Biden's response to the allegations?

This is nothing but an attempted hatchet job by a biased partisan against a former US President who had broken no laws and is an honorable man.

You should ashamed ... if you had any shame.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 06:35 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by truthhurts

The other states should absolutely fight back and force the companies to remove such label to sell in their state.

#21 | Posted by THEBULL

"We want poison! We want poison!"

-maga cult

Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-12-04 06:31 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by cbob

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

#13

A generalized description lacking any argument at all... must be Eberly; or Visitor or THEBULL.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 06:29 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad

Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug

#17

It's not an Argument, it's a poorly attempted Distraction from the Fact that talking about Trump in a positive light is REALLY, REALY Hard Werk.

He's murdering fishermen; hell, he murdered over 600,000 people this year, 2/3rds of them children this year. His Economy is an eyesore. He' got NO Healthcare Plan.

His Most Ever in History Number of Billionaires By Far in a President's Cabinet is a really bad joke. He's extorting countries around the World and taking Bribes from the Highest Bidders Worldwide.

He looks more like a Pedophile Pimp's Best Friend each and every day... he uses all sorts of Distractions from that. He says ICE isn't tough enough on brown people. He Pardons Cocaine Kings while bombing fisherman and sending out his ICE Terrorist Thugs into the streets.

I could go on, but libs already know all this, and rwingers believe Trump's lies instead. Because they are in a Cult.

People who post :But, but, What About Biden?!" threads are some the worst cultists around.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 06:25 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy, newsworthy by snoofy

re: #14 Sit_Goodboy

People losing their healthcare and dying warrants a sarcastic "the sky is falling!" remark???

Posted by hamburglar at 2025-12-04 06:24 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader

Trump Backs Monsanto in Roundup Litigation

It turns out the testing required in the law costs too much so instead of testing everything, or anything, they just slap that stupid label on everything so the government of California will shut up.

The other states should absolutely fight back and force the companies to remove such label to sell in their state.

Posted by THEBULL at 2025-12-04 06:20 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by donnerboy

Trump Hands Multi-Million Dollar Deal to Son's Company

The Federalist Papers : No. 75
avalon.law.yale.edu

... However proper or safe it may be in governments where the executive magistrate is an hereditary monarch, to commit to him the entire power of making treaties, it would be utterly unsafe and improper to intrust that power to an elective magistrate of four years' duration.

It has been remarked, upon another occasion, and the remark is unquestionably just, that an hereditary monarch, though often the oppressor of his people, has personally too much stake in the government to be in any material danger of being corrupted by foreign powers.

But a man raised from the station of a private citizen to the rank of chief magistrate, possessed of a moderate or slender fortune, and looking forward to a period not very remote when he may probably be obliged to return to the station from which he was taken, might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand.

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents.

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States. ...

[emphasis mine]

Published by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-04 06:16 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Corky, newsworthy by snoofy

Is the argument here that stuff got signed that Biden didn't want?

Or is there not really an argument at all?

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-04 06:05 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Zed

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

It requires me to sign up after about three paragraphs.

So no.

#23 | POSTED BY JPW

See post 10

I know I said it was for eb but you can use the link, too.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 06:04 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Wardog

Hard to believe you have the courage to keep showing your ignorance.

You truly don't know jack ---- about this.

Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 05:53 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

Trump and Infantino - too close for comfort?

I'm surprised that FIFA players are willing to come to the Fourth Reich next year after seeing all the ICE abuse flooding the internet.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 05:28 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by snoofy

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

You're an -------

Biden is still alive dumbass

has he ever refuted that he signed or authorized the signature of anything'

You're a ------- horrible person

Carrying President Piggy's pisswater so you can troll us

Go ---- off ----

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-04 05:18 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by donnerboy

This scheme will help poor Americans saddled with 50-year home mortgages, no affordable health insurance, and zero educational grants for college.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 05:12 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

Trump Hands Multi-Million Dollar Deal to Son's Company

Trump is who Republicans have always been.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-04 05:03 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by South_American

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

"Biden's hard turn left"

Nobody's buying what you're selling.
Biden has been a Centrist and an Incrementalist his whole life.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-04 05:00 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

#10

It overturned parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 and the 2002 Supreme Court ruling in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which had banned corporations and unions from using their own money for independent political expenditures.

This decision allows corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on political ads and other communications.

Which allowed the Elite to fund media ads for politicians who would then write laws that benefit the Elite. I would spell this out for you in Braille if I thought it would help.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 04:57 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad

Trump Hands Multi-Million Dollar Deal to Son's Company

The sad thing is, this kind of corruption doesn't even ring the bell at the carnival anymore.

Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-04 04:35 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by snoofy, newsworthy by hamburglar, newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by South_American

IMO, those are very very very small victories.

#14 | Posted by eberly

Yup. It should be viewed as good signs that the environment is ripe for effective change...if the Dems don't f*&^ it up.

This happened before and, as I said, it resulted in the Dems performing better than historical norms but not nearly as well as you would have predicted from all the talk.

en.wikipedia.org

Posted by jpw at 2025-12-04 04:29 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Whatsleft

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

What a garbage pile thread. Wouldn't you know it Jeff is the author of said thread.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-04 04:25 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

#10 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar

There's absolutely nothing "nice" about it.

It's 100% horse manure:

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Children

Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-04 03:49 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Ronnie68

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

comes to $1,635.89 after 18 years

#6 | Posted by catdog

It can grow to over $2 million dollars by the time they're 18! If the parents contribute $2 million dollars.

Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-12-04 03:36 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by AMERICANUNITY

Hegseth in 2016: US troops 'won't follow unlawful orders'

This comment from 2016 doesn't count--Pete was drunk at the time...

Posted by catdog at 2025-12-04 03:17 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by mattm

Man Unexpectedly Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant

Good news for JPW. His customers won't have to wear comdons anymore. Suck away you effin ----.

Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-04 02:55 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by lfthndthrds

King Dotard Is KEI Friendly

A "shiny new object" caught the Dotard-in-Chief's eye while he was awake and so sycophantic Sean Duffy will jump through hoops for the Dark Lord.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 02:26 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by TFDNihilist

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Kids

Here's the original report: www.gatesfoundation.org

Thanks for dismantling USAID and destroying millions of dollars of food, medicine, and contraceptives, Marco Rubella and Dummkopf Trumpf!

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 02:11 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Kids

Here's the-------------------'s gift to kids:
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024

"Pro Life"

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 01:19 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

Raccoon Breaks Into Liquor Store, Gets Drunk, Passes Out

broke into a liquor store, ransacked several shelves, and passed out in the bathroom.

Sounds like Hegseth.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 01:01 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by C0RI0LANUS

Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug

but the guys that tried to assassinate Trump

23 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Maybe as soon as after next November there will be television shows by illusionists showing how the first "assassination attempt" was done.

The second "assassination attempt" was a man hiding behind a fence who didn't get within a mile of His Orangeness.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 12:57 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by e1g1

" set to expire -by biden admin"

Means nothing.

The trillions in tax giveaways were set to expire as well. Republicans had no problem renewing them.

This is the tax code Republicans WANTED.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-04 12:55 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by hamburglar

US Army Increases Counterintelligence Posture

Years ago, a Soldier might report a suspicious incident to the local CI activity at his/her base.

Now, all incidents must be reported directly to Fort Meade, MD, within 24 hours.

This unprecedented step by US Army CI was a direct result of foreign adversaries immediately reaching out to Soldiers who went to food banks because of Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party government shutdown.

The shutdown created a pool of potential traitors motivated by revenge, the need for money, or frustration.

"We have met the enemy and it is us."

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 12:55 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Ronnie68

The pipe bomb guy put one at the RNC and the DNC.
Trying to say this guy is a democrat is stupid, even for you fishpaw...

#9 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-04 11:30 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Sure, but the guys that tried to assassinate Trump and the one that assassinated Kirk are hard core MAGAs according to you.

Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-04 12:44 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by lfthndthrds

US Cancels Citizenship Ceremonies for Migrants from Travel Ban Countries

#16 Did they ever find D.B. Cooper?

#18 | Posted by A_Friend

Isn't he Ted Cruz' father?

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-04 12:23 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by donnerboy, funny by A_Friend

--- off we're full

Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-04 12:20 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by boaz

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Kids

Here's the-------------------'s gift to kids:

For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024

www.wsj.com

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 12:17 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Corky, newsworthy by C0RI0LANUS, newsworthy by Yodagirl

Man Unexpectedly Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant

They are your party's voters.

#7 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Many individuals who were involved in the January 6 Capitol attack, particularly those who received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump in January 2025, have since been arrested again for separate crimes.

At least ten pardoned individuals have faced new or pending criminal charges, including serious offenses such as:

Threatening a member of Congress

Conspiracy to murder FBI agents

Kidnapping and aggravated assault

Unlawful firearm possession

Burglary and vandalism

Reckless homicide

Those are YOUR party's maga voters my sick friend.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 12:15 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by hamburglar

#1, #5 They weren't embryonic cells your knee jerk (or just plain jerk) reactions are imbecilic.

Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-04 12:13 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by lfthndthrds

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

The are going to Florida next to ~~launder more money~~ continue the peace process.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-04 12:13 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader

America is circling the bowl right now.

Elysium is coming closer and closer.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 12:12 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by C0RI0LANUS

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

The 1% will tell you the poor child in school getting a baloney sandwich for lunch is the problem with society while they systematically hoard all the wealth created by other peoples labor.

The 1% are the cancer that is killing the American dream.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 12:10 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by C0RI0LANUS

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Kids

This is the Epsteinth time Putin has teabagged pedo 47 in the last month.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 12:08 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, funny by South_American, funny by RightisTrite, funny by MBlue

They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren't falling apart.

The goal has always been to destroy the public infrastructure so that private corporations can skim off the top and provide a fraction of the services for twice the price.

Kill public education so teachers that were making $75000 per year can be replaced with ones making $40000 per year and the $35000 can flow upwards to the owners of the school. At the same time they are killing off services that give disabled children a small sense of normalcy because we all know it is only the healthy kids that deserve to learn.

There is no profit to be made off of government spending so naturally the billionaires and their puppets in Washington hate it.

Children didn't need government savings accounts before the capitalist greed of outsourcing, turning pensions into 401k accounts and shifting the burden of health care insurance onto the backs of workers became popular.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 12:08 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl

Layoffs Top 1.1 Million This Year, the Most Since 2020 Pandemic

Putrefied orange Hoover is just getting started.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 11:58 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by Ronnie68

Layoffs Top 1.1 Million This Year, the Most Since 2020 Pandemic

Anyone who thought a petulant business failure "billionaire" would be good for working people is a special kind of stupid.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 11:56 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by Whatsleft, newsworthy by Ronnie68

Shapiro: Kamala told blatant lies to try to sell books

You have to remember fishpud is the moron who blamed Ray Epps for the orange pedo's insurrection.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 11:53 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by hamburglar

"and just about all authors are self-serving ego whores."

Sadly true. I kinda hated going to writing workshops back in the day. Other writers piss me off.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-04 11:48 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Dbt2

Shapiro: Kamala told blatant lies to try to sell books

Kamala: Not a great candidate, and just about all authors are self-serving ego whores. They'll do a lot to sell books.

News flash:

"Sentient Beings Worldwide: Trump Tells Blatant Lies Daily to Try to Run a Country (into the Ground)."

I'd be all for Kamala Harris fading from public view. No problem at all.

Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-04 11:46 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Alexandrite, newsworthy by C0RI0LANUS

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Kids

More: The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they're so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren't falling apart.

The applause is the point. When billionaires are cast as heroes, no one has to admit that the system has collapsed so thoroughly that private charity is now doing the work of the state. This is how the social contract dies without anyone calling it what it is. People look at the $250 and say at least it's something. They say maybe it'll grow. They say maybe it'll help someday. They don't say what's obvious. They don't say the quiet part. They don't say that America now expects the financial markets to raise children because the country has decided it won't.

There's also the quiet financialization happening underneath. These accounts invest in index funds. That means millions of new dollars flowing into the same corporate structures that already dominate the economy. Kids become passive capital generators before they can read. Their "gift" enriches the very companies that helped create the inequality this program is pretending to solve. It's a perfect loop. The wealthy get to look generous while reinforcing the machine that made them wealthy. The public gets a story about hope. The corporations get the money.

Posted by qcp at 2025-12-04 11:45 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Yodagirl, newsworthy by Angrydad

Rich is the appropriate word. Don't you know only poor people can be criminals? Unless they're democrats, of course...

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-04 11:43 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend, newsworthy by hamburglar

Fishpud wants to believe that a democrat would want to disrupt the certification of the vote for Biden.

Sheesh that is pretty stupid.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 11:39 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog

Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug

The pipe bomb guy put one at the RNC and the DNC.

Trying to say this guy is a democrat is stupid, even for you fishpaw...

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-04 11:30 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Nixon, newsworthy by hamburglar

That's not what Obama and the Dems told us..

Yup. Because that's what republicans told you.

It was so bad the government needed to come in and subsidize it.

Thanks to republicans. This is what republicans have been working so hard towards. To see OBAMAcare struggle and hopefully fail.

How many times have republicans attempted to destroy or undermine it ... 70 times? Not once did they vote to fix any problems.

You don't get to criticize OBAMAcare after doing nothing to make it work have no alternative and then attempting to destroy it ~70 times. Because that's what Dear Leader wanted.

No one knew how to make it work until they tried. Republicans not only did not try. They actively tried to undermine or destroy it with NO ALTERNATIVE.

Seriously friend. GFY with your sick maga lies.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 11:30 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend, newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY

#6. Actually that is what you are hoping for. You would rather have criminals running around. They are your party's voters.

Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-04 11:23 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead

Right, we should trust Biden's FBI and CIA who found the guy in the 4 years they were in charge.

#5 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Funny Dat.

And you believe this administration without question!

I'll believe they actually "found the guy" when he is indicted and convicted by a jury of his peers.

Has this been verified by at least two RELIABLE sources?

Nothing coming from this Administration can be believed or trusted until verified.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 11:16 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by e1g1, newsworthy by hamburglar, newsworthy by Twinpac

Can Kash Patel be trusted with anything?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 09:44 AM | Reply | Flag:

Right, we should trust Biden's FBI and CIA who found the guy in the 4 years they were in charge.

Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-04 11:12 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by donnerboy, funny by LegallyYourDead, funny by DarkVader

Revolution 1
Song by The Beatles 1968

You say you want a Revolution
Well, you know
We all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all wanna change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright
Alright

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We are doing what we can

But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait ...

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 11:11 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by shane

#11 Come on, Eb. You know exactly what that adds up to.

You said, and I quote, "...there has been a buildup of confidence in a "blue wave" in the past and it never materialized."

I provide you with multiple examples of very recent Democratic Party blue wave victories, and you claim you don't know what that adds up to?

Really?

Or how about 2022, when there was a Democrat in the White House (but not on the ticket). Was that a red wave, as would be expected in an off-year election?

Or perhaps 2020? How'd that election turn out for the Democrats?

Or 2019, 2018, 2017?

bell boi keeps using the phrase "self-inflicted." I keep repeating back to him that what he's doing is actually self-fulfilling for a pre-determined outcome.

Is that what you're doing, Eb?

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-04 10:40 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy

I'm not arguing with anybody.

Put your purse down. Or you're gonna get hit with it.

Not sure what that adds up to. Those are not big victories. School boards? I was shocked to learn the school board in Wichita wasn't 7-0 democrat in the first place. That entire school district is pretty liberal. Regardless.......maybe it's evidence of what's to come....but by itself it doesn't really blow my skirt up.

Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 10:32 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead

They found a patsy to take the fall for Madge.

Posted by a_monson at 2025-12-04 10:28 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy, newsworthy by hamburglar, newsworthy by DarkVader

I'm surprised that idiot Kash hasn't tweeted out jury pool tainting stuff yet.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-04 10:28 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by donnerboy, newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by Nixon, newsworthy by OCUser, newsworthy by hamburglar

Layoffs Top 1.1 Million This Year, the Most Since 2020 Pandemic

#6 Or this happened just this week:

Tennessee special election results: What we know about Matt Van Epps's win
Republican Van Epps manages to defeat his Democratic challenger by a narrow margin.

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-04 10:21 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by LegallyYourDead, newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY

Reality is a Democratic hoax

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-04 10:19 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by DarkVader, funny by Ronnie68

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

#6 Yeah!

It is almost as if this never happened - just a month ago:

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats"the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

->Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-04 10:18 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by LegallyYourDead, newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY

-CU allowed the writing of laws paid for in bribes, er, donations from Elitists, which is why I said many other (laws).

What laws? What laws (meaning legislation) were passed after the CU decision?

Didn't CU open the floodgates all by itself?

Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 10:17 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by Corky, funny by Angrydad

Layoffs Top 1.1 Million This Year, the Most Since 2020 Pandemic

Layoffs are a Democrat Hoax.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 10:16 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by DarkVader, funny by Ronnie68

No question there are many issues that are not positives for the GOP including the ballroom.

Not sure if it will matter come next election or not. I certainly hope so.

Similar to JPW's point.....there has been a buildup of confidence in a "blue wave" in the past and it never materialized.

I can't read the article.....my server is blocking it. I'll glance at it on my phone later.

Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 10:08 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead

Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug

This again?

Last time there was an imminent "blue wave" it wasn't anywhere near what was expected (while still a pretty heavy loss for the Repubs) and maybe could have been better had there not been such a surety that the outcome was inevitable.

I feel like the Dems fall victim to this constantly.

Posted by jpw at 2025-12-04 09:06 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Whatsleft

They were never going to do anything about the subsidies.

Health care is only a privilege for the wealthy. The rest of society can die drowning in medical debt.

Tax cuts for billionaires are more important.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 08:46 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

Helpful? Yes. Very helpful, and a big impact on some young person's life? Nopenopenope...

That is always been the SOP for the GOP....pass something...talk it up as life changing when in reality it is nothing more than empty platitudes.

Then they will do something that will hurt more than help like taking career programs like
Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

and call them non-professional so they can stop funding them.

I can tell you that right now there are shortages of CPA's in my area, this will only make the problem worse.

But this was all the goal of Project 2025...to cut education funding so that only the very well off can afford to go into a professional career and force the rest into manual labor that used to be done by now deported immigrants.

Posted by nixon at 2025-12-04 08:44 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by hamburglar

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

Scrooge McDuck tosses dimes..oh wait, was that one of the Rockefeller's?

Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-04 08:40 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by hamburglar

Republican Predicts Threats of Violence as GOP Approval Dives

If this were World War II, then I'd say that we are in teh second phase. The one where the allies are hitting back hard, but the issue is still in doubt.

Someone said, in relationship to the current fascism, that they were "scared to be brave" when opposing it.

I well understand.

But it's endure a little fear now, or endure years of intense horror for years as Trump and his kleptofascists consolidate power.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 08:22 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by TrueBlue

Republican Predicts Threats of Violence as GOP Approval Dives

Predictions of threats?

They've been threatening us all along.

Donald Trump himself threatens us with something virtually every day.

Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 08:19 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Whatsleft, newsworthy by Wardog

San Francisco Sues Kraft, Mondelez over Ultraprocessed Food

The FDA was for it before they were against it. Approved until no longer approved.

Just like the CDC, another stamp of approval until the product that was safe, isnt.

Posted by Petrous at 2025-12-04 07:55 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by lfthndthrds

Republican Predicts Threats of Violence as GOP Approval Dives

via GIPHY

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 07:13 AM | Reply | Flagged funny by C0RI0LANUS

Magats are feral domestic terrorist scum.

1/6 proved that.

Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 07:05 AM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by TrueBlue, newsworthy by A_Friend, newsworthy by Yodagirl

Raccoon Breaks Into Liquor Store, Gets Drunk, Passes Out

You know what cats are good for, right?

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-03 09:11 PM | Reply | Flag: "Take that!"

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-03 11:05 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Yodagirl

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As 'Professional' by Trump Admin

And what, pray tell, will be the 'profession' of that young male gammerstang staring awkwardly into space?

Trying to outrun a lifetime of fully paid-for humiliation.

Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-03 11:00 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by C0RI0LANUS

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As 'Professional' by Trump Admin

Why this matters

That said, the occupations not deemed professional among the health care space include nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists and audiologists, according to the education news outlet Inside Higher Ed.

Per the outlet, other professions not included are architects, accountants, educators, and social workers"which sector representatives pushed to be included in the list, given that they are high-demand occupations.

to get higher degrees in these and many other professions you will no longer be eligible for loans to cover tuition and living expenses.

This means a likely decrease in the number of people obtaining these degrees.

So, yeah, yet another area that the Piggy administration is screwing out country's future

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-03 10:09 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by C0RI0LANUS, newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY, newsworthy by schmanch

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

#1
2.3125B federal funds redirected per personal preference. WTF/YW.

Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-03 10:01 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad, funny by hamburglar

Raccoon Breaks Into Liquor Store, Gets Drunk, Passes Out

You know what cats are good for, right?

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-03 09:11 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Yodagirl

US Cancels Citizenship Ceremonies for Migrants from Travel Ban Countries

Now this is the racism Trumpers voted for.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-03 09:02 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by hamburglar

Raccoon Breaks Into Liquor Store, Gets Drunk, Passes Out

Trash Pandas will replace dogs and cats within 25 years. Mark My Word!

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-03 06:49 PM | Reply | Flag: Leave My Cats Alone!

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-03 07:06 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Yodagirl

Raccoon Breaks Into Liquor Store, Gets Drunk, Passes Out

Trash Pandas will replace dogs and cats within 25 years. Mark My Word!

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-03 06:49 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by censored, funny by Yodagirl

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

CU allowed the writing of laws paid for in bribes, er, donations from Elitists, which is why I said many other (laws).

Rogers doesn't require you to post when you add nothing to the conversation.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 05:16 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Angrydad

Trump Pardoning Yet Another Big Time Financial Criminal

Cuellar and his wife, both dirty, are precisely the sort of compromised lowlifes to whom Trump.relates.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-03 04:52 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Corky, newsworthy by LampLighter, newsworthy by DarkVader

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

"Why not?"

Well, we wouldn't be blowing $150,000,000,000 to have ICE reduce GDP by a percent or so, for example.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-03 04:48 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Nixon

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

"the People's politicians to write laws such as CU"

really?

Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 04:48 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by Angrydad

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households."

Fifty years of income inequality almost exclusively enriching the top 20% is why the bottom 80% of America is circling the drain.

Republicans think more tax cuts for the rich will help.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-03 04:42 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Corky, newsworthy by Nixon

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

- which would be the case if Harris was the president.

The Elites would still have the upwards flow, but it wouldn't be quite as bad.

Better isn't great, it's just better.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 04:42 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by lfthndthrds

Subsidizing Billionaires to Help Ruin the Environment

"Yes, overgrazing contributed to the Dust Bowl by destroying the native prairie grasses that held the soil in place. Combined with over-plowing and a severe drought, this left the land exposed, allowing strong winds to easily whip topsoil into massive dust storms."

www.google.com

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 04:38 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by A_Friend

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

Rwing Populists and Lwing Populists mostly agree way more than half of the time on what are most of the country's problems, and most often who's to blame for them, the Elites.

What they disagree on is how to fix them.

www.google.com

www.idea.int

Real problem is that both have already had their vote countered by the Elites who have purchased the People's politicians to write laws such as CU, and many others now, for them.

Libs want Laws that constrain the Elite, rwingers (not conservatives any longer) listen to the Elite/Media when told the problems are really mostly outsiders, foreigners, other countries, but not the Elite.

Which is not believable at this point

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 04:27 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by Angrydad

Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

snip ...

You saw Donald Trump's 18th iteration of his affordability message yesterday, when he said of affordability, "It doesn't mean anything to anybody ... The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats."

The vibe is late Bourbon decadence and indifference, King Donald the Corpulent in his palace, while the peasantry starves. I'm going long on pitchforks and tumbrels.

At the precise moment when Americans are standing in the cereal aisle doing battlefield math over whether the kids get brand-name or generic Wheat-os, Donald J. Trump is obsessing over chandeliers, parquet floors, and the sightlines in his new, ever-expanding plan for a White House ballroom with the square footage of a large Costco.

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-03 04:12 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by South_American, newsworthy by AMERICANUNITY

Hmmm. Imagine if we could compel billionaires to do something like this yearly.. Like, on April 15th..

Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-03 04:05 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Wardog, newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by hamburglar

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

Throughout my life, I have been through many many rural towns that are run down as hell. Rebel flags flying, MAGA signs, etc..in front of very nasty homes occupied by folks who couldn't care less what it looks like.

I've been in urban areas afflicted with some horrible blight. No desire to clean anything up, or show any pride in where they live. Absolutely dismal and hopeless.

Trashy and immoral are pretty good descriptions of it all.

But what I'm seeing isn't based on a vote they cast...but rather a compilation of dozens and dozens of very bad life decisions.

Now, I realize you're focused on a group of folks based entirely on who they voted for....and calling them trashy and immoral for a vote.

I see trashy and immoral differently........it's not a label based on a single vote that I disagree with....but rather on a lifetime spent on very bad choices.

Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 03:57 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by LegallyYourDead, funny by DarkVader, funny by Angrydad

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

What's sad is that this is what about 33% of population want.

What does that say about how trashy and immoral they are?

Posted by jpw at 2025-12-03 03:28 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by schmanch, newsworthy by Whatsleft, newsworthy by MBlue

Trump Hands Multi-Million Dollar Deal to Son's Company

Trump's is the most corrupt administration in US history... and they are just getting started.

Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 03:13 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by SpeakSoftly, newsworthy by snoofy, newsworthy by hamburglar, newsworthy by Zed, newsworthy by South_American, newsworthy by Twinpac

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

Remember when the idiot righties claimed Putin was afraid of Trump? LOL

Posted by jpw at 2025-12-03 02:58 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by Nixon, newsworthy by DarkVader, newsworthy by RightisTrite, newsworthy by Whatsleft

And before one of u ----- try and bothsides this ----. If Harris was president the big -------- bill would not have been passed

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-03 02:46 PM | Reply | Flagged funny by lfthndthrds