Occasionally a clown, but an important figure in late-20th-century America.

Religion applied to politics can work.

RIP.

each and every one of them has the emotional maturity of a twelve-year-old, and they all believe they deserve all the attention, all the accolades . . . all the time.

they're bratty, self-entitled preteens who get bent out of shape over the pettiest ------- ----.

#7 | Posted by A_Friend

A few Retorters come to mind.

She made a simple mistake. She meant to say, "the wrong people" and "the wrong leaders."

As someone who has done this very thing, I always laugh when the outlets, which are run much like a manic sales floor, call themselves plasma donation centers, like people are going to get an altruism award with their $35 Visa gift card.

It is not 1099 income, though. Yet.

Vexatious litigant.

Nephi. A Mormon?

Kushner has been a slimy, weasly POS since day one.

If he heard Yiddish in his house instead of German, he'd know the phrase shanda fur de goyim.

A shame in front of the Gentiles. Exactly what he is.

Then again, I presumed Trump was Jewish, until his presidential run. To me, as a NYC Jew, he always seemed kinda Jewy. Definitely not Presbyterian. Maybe Episcopalian.

It's one young woman sharing her experience. And it's a cautionary tale.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger

Then put quotes around it. Not hard.

Yes, words matter. And who they come from.

Punctuation is a helluva drug.

". . . 'Well, all this white stuff on my arm is LSD.'

"He immediately grabbed my arm and began slurping it up. I wondered, How low have I fallen? Would I dare to suck a sleeve?"

paraphrased from memory, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Boaz, aside from them being Muslim and Arabs, what do you have against Iran?

Were you better before or after, Bellringer?

I worked on a book years ago on exorcism that detailed what was expressed from a French cleric's butt. Very interesting collection, pens were a favorite. Couldn't say how they got there.

Y'all wont post it, but I will.

#1 | Posted by boaz

Yes, there are reasons you will post it and "we" will not. Very good ones that you won't acknowledge.

No charge for the apostrophe in y'all, Mr. Confused Southerner.

How about the Central Park Five?

Epstein is alive and well. Stop talking about him in the past tense.

#34 | Posted by NerfHerder

Just like Elvis. The misspelling of his middle name on his Graceland tombstone gives it away.

So it appears that Putin was using Epstein to accumulate kompromat on everyone he could, which given many people's sikf()ckery wasn't hard.

Someone described here a few months ago what happens on Capitol Hill. Find out each representative's weakness, make it available to them in quantity, then hang it over their head.

Aside from government, does Wayne LaPierre appear in the files? Jerry Falwell Jr.? Steven Seagal?

There is one poster here who will never get a response from me. They know who they are. Now I'm adding you.
Don't waste your time with me. Ever.
Be gone....

#259 | Posted by BillJohnson

BJ's next response to Snoofy coming in 3, 2, 1 . . .

We keep overlooking the good things Trump is doing for America.

--Boaz

My father always told me my great aunts and uncles all died in the camps. I found out much later in life they were in northern New Jersey. Take your pick.

Damn. I was hoping to be one of the volunteers on the Mars shot for people who knew they'd never come back.

More Not Boaz:

Are you aware that many, if not most, of the people being rounded up by ICE are actually here legally going through the process to gain legal status?
Are you aware that many, if not most, of the undocumented people who are described as being here illegally, are actually asylum seekers?
Semantics with words. They are all illegal first. A breaking of our laws. We have a way to enter our nation BEFORE they break our laws.
Do you believe that there should be a formal, impartial process to determine who is here legally including identifying those people whose asylum claims are legitimate?
I am curious as to your commitment to one of the basic things that makes America exceptional-due process before the law.
The due process is the process laid out lawfully that doesnt include coming as a vacationer and just staying, then claiming asylum.

#30 | Posted by boaz

Pathetic hack. Punching far above his weight every day he comes here. Except maybe to FortFisher.

We keep pretending this is just another rough chapter in American politics, but deep down everyone knows that's a lie. This isn't disagreement anymore. This is disillusion. This is two completely different nations trapped inside the same borders, pretending we share values when we don't.
The Declaration of Independence admitted they could no longer coexist under a system that no longer represented them. That same feeling is back, whether people want to admit it or not. We don't argue over tax rates or road funding anymore.
We argue over reality itself. Over biology. Over speech. Over history. Over whether borders matter. Over whether personal responsibility even exists.
One side believes the country should be preserved, protected, and handed down stronger to the next generation.
The other believes it should be dismantled.
You cannot reconcile those worldviews. You can only delay the inevitable by pretending compromise still exists inside them.

#19 | Posted by boaz

C&P'd from the Web. Instagram, Facebook . . .

Boaz just can't think for himself, he can't even write for himself.

You can smell his plagiarism a mile away. Because he has no original thoughts and couldn't express them logically if he did. No matter. I'd be horrified to know what they are.

Boaz, please don't ever leave the Retort. You're some low-hanging and strange fruit, and I don't think you'll get the reference. It's got nothing to do with truck stops, like your blow buddies here on the Retort might imagine.

7:

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Dealing firearms? Interesting angle.

I lived in the Ninth Congressional District for a quarter-century, the southwestern one they are keeping. Morgan Griffith (R) is a complete clown, and he can shave about as well as Yassir Arafat.

Then again, I was at the town hall when Rick Boucher--the incumbent Dem in 2008 (I believe), who had held things together for a long time--asked about what became Obamacare, he literally said he'd do whatever the hospitals told him to do.

Got booed by his own constituents.

Got booted from Congress that fall.

And Morgan Griffith, who started out as just a tea-party jag-off, now falls in line with Gohmert et al.

I Heart Coal . . . and Trump. While I lived there, people would ask, "Where are all the Black people?" The ones who are there keep pretty quiet.

Damn. Something got cut, and it wasn't what I was expecting. I forget what I even said. . . .