Probably hitting Nicolae Ceausescu levels of low

Sorry, Swartson's last name got left out above.

Poverty can oppress, demoralize,, crush and destroy. Something else it often does is provide the fuel that drives revolutions.

Trump's teleprompter guy - by the way, when did teleprompters stop being tools of the devil for the Republican ignorami? - got zapped for predictive bets garnering him something south of a hundred grand. You can bury that story in laughter, considering the rampant insider trading Trunp and his entitled gang of suit-and-tie gangsters engage in as a normal part of their day: doing our business by doing us.

TWINPAC - I believe that was Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall.

Lindsey Graham's boundless enthusiasm for the wars he wanted others to fight marked him as a pathetic punk.

These "ethics probes" usually appear to go nowhere. The problem often seems to lie with the investigators, the old the foxes guarding the hen house problem. In order to get into Congress many of these folks are already so compromised that they are utterly incapable of carrying out that task in a legitimate fashion. It's like asking a mob of used car salesmen to police the used car industry. That said, every once in a while the pols realize they have to cut one of their own loose as a sacrifice so the game may go on.

Is yours available again?

In dog years?

#13 | POSTED BY VISITOR_ AT 2026-07-28 05:13 PM | FLAG: Riiiiiiiiiiight LOL

How many countries have you purchased gas/diesel in?
#68 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Retail gas/diesel, I mean.
#69 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I honestly don't know. But I bought some Paracetamol in the UK. And it was definitely at retail prices. Oh, and some stuff in Mexico: Enterovioform. Also at retail. Hope this helps with your research.

#19
Who knows, some of that may come about but one thing's for certain: it made for some hilarious reading. Thanks!

When elected to the presidency, no matter the margin of victory, a normal political figure comprehends the concept of serving as a leader for all the nation - not just the people and states that voted for him/her. But, no, the MAGA cult - its members night-sweating over fear of The Other - trapped in its sociopathic devotion to inflicting pain on those ... divergents ... are totally cool with "punishing" "Blue States" because an insufficient number of their inhabitants failed to demonstrate a sufficient degree of enthusiasm for and perform their obeisances to the object of cult members' robotic devotion: a six times bankrupt, thirty-four times convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, grifter, thief, and Jeffrey Epstein BFF.

That cannot be sustained in a functioning democratic republic.

In a small KS town in decline? Ridiculous. Oh, almost forgot: And desperate. But why?

Bad boys, bad boys
What you gonna do?
What you gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys
What you gonna do?
What you gonna do when they come for you?

I was a big fan of Ralph Nader....
#16 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Well, no, really, kid, bully for you. Point of clarification: Before, while, or after he was relevant?

Elon Musk evinces little interest or connection with real humans. Which can be a problem when you are attempting to connect with real people - specifically, consumers on whom you attempt to dump your products. I would love to see some of the market research Musk's drones performed in order to give this t#rd of a vehicle the go-ahead. Videos of the "team's" discussions could prove a real hoot.

#14
From your Ford Pinto remark it appears you're an enthusiastic supporter of deep, meaningful federal probes into possible "private industry" fookery. In that particular case, tip your chapeau to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation that led to 1.5 million road bombs being recalled. Without that? Kaboom and kablooey.

#12
What do you do with it? Wipe your a##?

Send a ketamine junky in to wreck the ability of any enforcement mechanisms the government has that might in any way adversely affect the interests of the well-connected, avaricious sociopaths who naturally bond to the Trump gang and ...

Fact is we've seen very tight elections over the years. According to the governor 6600 noncitizens recently registered to vote. That's a number that could swing a tight race with national implications. Even if it's just a state level race it matters.
#64 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Oh, you mean, like: "I just want [you] to find 11,780 votes"?

"There isn't enough talk about Kavanaugh Stops."
#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Amen to that, SNOOFY. Kavanaugh Stops have a nasty tendency to lead to Kavanaugh Killings. Basically, murder that goes uninvestigated because even if it was an oopsie the decedent fit some sort of un- or ill-defined color-chart profiling the regime uses to justify its rampant lawlessness.

"Matthew Goettsche, who'd been accused of defrauding investors of $722 million and describing his business model as built on the backs of idiots' ... "

Was he quoting Trump?
"With prejudice" - case closed, gone forever
Why? - No explanation

Ka-Ching!

You can almost feel this maladministration falling apart, its support eroding down to the societal bedrock where fanatics and their manipulators hunker. Here you find the reality-denying fanatics who form the ranks of the MAGA cult's "true believers" ( la Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements) and those who feed their fears and fantasies, providing bromides and farragoes sufficient to keep the rubes in line. I do not believe most of these folks are capable of working their way out of the psychological wilderness into which they've followed Trump. They will react to ongoing discrediting of the regime by the regime in the usual way: by whining and threatening and kicking and injuring and probably even killing - as they already have when their fantasies brush up against reality, e.g. Jan 6. They are not to be reasoned with, and if they had a shred of decency - considering the monumental damage they've inflicted on this nation and the world - they would do the right thing and just ------ off all on their own.