Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Election thoughts.


 I'm going to write a few words about the two governor's races that everyone seemed to be watching yesterday. 

In Virginia, the republican candidate, Glen Youngkin, beat a man who is- let's just go on and say it- not the most likeable guy in the world, and he did it by distancing himself just enough from the former guy, and utilizing what I am calling the new Sothern Strategy to his advantage. Yes folks, in case you haven't been paying attention, critical race theory has become the Willie Horton of 2021 and beyond for right wing politicians. Let's just forget the fact that it's not even taught in high schools -or any other schools besides law schools and some advance college courses- but it is such a convenient tool to scare the right people if you know what I mean. And it worked.  Youngkin  styled himself as an approachable suburban dad.  He is worth 300 million, and this is his first political office. We will be watching where this goes. 

Meanwhile, across the bridge in New Jersey, it's still too close to call. Although the Democratic candidate, Phil Murphy, is looking more and more like he might squeak out a victory. National pundits will try to say that the fact that this race is this close is a big blow for democrats. But just remember this: The last time a democrat won back to back terms as governor of New Jersey was 1977. 

Finally, there were Judicial races here in  Pennsylvania, and Republican candidates won up and down the ballots for all the statewide Judicial seats. They did it because republican voters were motivated and came out to vote, and Democratic voters were not.  These races are important, too, because the courts will determine whether a lot of these new laws being pushed by Republican state legislatures are constitutional.  

On a personal note, a good friend of mine ran for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and she lost because her opponent went negative with false misleading ads leading up to the election. It's a shame, too, because Marie McLaughlin, when I practiced with her in the same division, was an excellent lawyer, and she has been a terrific Superior Court Judge during her tenure as well. She did not deserve the sleazy way her opponent dispatched her by way of negative and misleading ads. That's just not me saying this, the Pennsylvania Bar Association agrees with me.  But such is politics in modern day America. It's scorched earth, and it's tribal, and if you you take the "high road" you will be crushed. Even in a race for the highest judicial office in a great American state.

140 comments:

mike from iowa said...

Murphy wins New Jersey guvnorship. Funny how magats in Virginia aren't screaming for an audit.

Anonymous said...

The climate change fraud is the 3 card monte of the 21st century.

Anonymous said...

If negroes hate the police so much and call for their defunding....why do negroes dial 911 so much and ask for officers to come help them????

PilotX said...

Virginia is bi-polar. They now get to undo all the Democratic legislation and bring back confederate history month.🤷🏾‍♂️ Suburban moderates get to see modern Republican policies in action and they won’t like them but we gotta give the people what they want.

PilotX said...

I don’t hate the police, I dislike bad police officers. 🤷🏾‍♂️

PilotX said...

https://www.theroot.com/alvin-bragg-makes-history-as-1st-black-district-attorne-1847988465

PilotX said...

Shouldn’t we defund crap like this?

https://www.theroot.com/new-ronald-greene-autopsy-report-contradicts-louisiana-1847988156

Anonymous said...

Nupid stigger Henry Ruggs III made over $4 million/year but couldn't keep from driving 4x the speed limit and killing a 23-year-old woman in a RAV 4:

https://sports.yahoo.com/police-say-henry-ruggs-iii-was-driving-156-mph-this-wasnt-an-accident-it-was-an-inevitability-174854802.html

Do you still wonder why everyone else in the world hates nupid stiggers like YOU?  If you do, you're too stupid to have an opinion.

PilotX said...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/charlottesville-trial-virginia-white-supremacist-movement.amp

dinthebeast said...

This is the first election of a new president since Ronald Reagan when the newly elected president's party didn't lose both the Virginia and New Jersey governor's races the next year.
It sucked, especially down ballot, but it wasn't the Armageddon the beltway press is trying to make it out to be.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

PilotX said...

Stupid redneck kills LMPD detective while driving intoxicated.

https://www.wkyt.com/2021/11/03/roger-burdette-allowed-remain-home-incarceration/

Do you still wonder why everyone looks down on SPWT when they think they’re superior to ANYONE? If not you’re way too stupid to have any type of opinion or just an asshole.

PilotX said...

Global warming is a hoax. We know it's true because acclaimed atmospheric scientist trump says so. Case closed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7nU53ZK8Q

Anonymous said...

Journalists are engaging in "reading tea leaves" with regard to the Virginia election. Does it portend doom for congressional Democrats in 2022? Hard to say.

Midterm elections are usually not great for the party whose president occupies the White House. The actions of the sitting president will tend to outrage voters from the opposing party and help mobilize them to go the polls.

But there are other trends that are dragging down the Democrats in national polling right now. First, there's the economy. In some respects, the economy is doing well, rebounding robustly from the COVID-induced recession. But at the same time, it's not doing well. Supply of goods cannot rebound as quickly as demand for those goods, so there are shortages and skyrocketing prices. Also, a lot of the workers that left the workforce during the lockdowns have not yet re-entered it, so labor shortages are exacerbating the shortages of goods. There is frankly very little Biden can do to fix it, even though he is taking the blame right now. However, it is highly likely this will have mostly sorted itself out by the time the next elections roll around. The economy could look very different in a year.

More seriously, left-wing voters are becoming demoralized by congressional Democrats' inability to get anything done. They were told the Democrats were in control of Congress and great things were going to happen! This exciting lefty agenda was going to get passed! They failed to check the fine print, which says that the Democrats have the absolute barest minimum control of the Senate chamber, and given the antiquated Senate rules, that means that win isn't really much of a win.

Everything that Biden and the majority of Dem members of Congress want to spend money on is getting "SineManchin-ed." I don't really see what is going to break the logjam. Those two obstructionist senators don't appear amenable to compromise or negotiation, and at this point just seem like they're working for the other party. Will that situation have improved a year from now? I'm not getting my hopes up.

field negro said...

field negro said...

Somebody needs a hug. Poor thing.....

mike from iowa said...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/us/ahmaud-arbery-jury-what-we-know/index.html

Judge says there appears to be racism involved in jury selection, but allows trial to go on.

A bloc of 8 AA jurors were stricken basically because of skin color. There is, I believe, only one AA juror set to hear trial.

Anonymous said...

Negro Felon League player Henry Ruggs driving 156 mph seconds before fatal crash, police say
Henry Ruggs was released from the Las Vegas Raiders on Tuesday night.


https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/nfl-player-henry-ruggs-driving-156-mph-seconds/story?id=80957209

Anonymous said...

biden is a retard

PilotX said...

And another W. Virginia man charged with child related sex crimes. Let’s ignore that and focus on the football player speeding right?


https://www.wboy.com/news/crime/federal-grand-jury-indicts-philippi-man-on-child-porn-charges/

Will someone think about the children?????

the bewilderness said...

Women are faced with a choice of Republicans stripping them of their right to reproductive health care, and the criminalization of abortion whether spontaneous or induced, and Democrats endangering their daughters by making school's single sex changing rooms and toilets into mixed sex facilities. Studies clearly show that mixed sex facilities are more dangerous for women and girls, so we must conclude that the intent of the POTUS day one Executive Order directing gender identity beliefs be equated with biological sex in Title IX applications is intended to drive girls out of sports and schools. In the name of equality, of course.

dinthebeast said...

When they outlaw abortion, they're coming for birth control next.
Still, white women vote their color over their gender.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

When does Congress act in favor of the American people and end this constantly ballooning tyranny coming from the White House??

mike from iowa said...

https://www.rawstory.com/john-blanchard/

Wasicu pastor recently cleared of sexual assault on a young parishioner gets nabbed in an underage sting trying to have sex with underage girl.

Wizzy said...

Why can't something be done about Anonymous' thinly veiled reference to African-Americans as "stiggers"?? He should be banned from this site immediately!!!

Gambler2 said...

Anonymous said...

"If negroes hate the police so much and call for their defunding....why do negroes dial 911 so much and ask for officers to come help them????"

8:18 PM
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Why do rabid, racist idiots come to this blog and posting as Anonymous ask such stupid questions?

Gambler2 said...

Anonymous said...

"When does Congress act in favor of the American people and end this constantly ballooning tyranny coming from the White House??"

4:57 PM
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Of what tyranny do you speak? Could it be the same tyranny practiced by George Washington when he required all the troops to be vaccinate against small pox?

mike from iowa said...

Not just negroes, but, other POC and many whites are tired of the racism and brutality, general lawlessness of pigs all across America.

mike from iowa said...

Newly elected New Jersey sinator magat is a white scumacyst, a homophobe and anti-Muslim POS.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/11/newly-elected-gop-state-senators-social-media-accounts-contain-homophobic-anti-muslim-posts.html

dinthebeast said...

Turn around and put your hands behind you, Karen:

Capitol Rioter Insisted She Wouldn’t Go to Jail

November 4, 2021 at 11:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 97 Comments

Jenna Ryan, who tweeted that she’s “definitely not going to jail” after she stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced to 60 days in prison on Thursday, the HuffPost reports.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

"Newly elected New Jersey sinator magat is a white scumacyst, a homophobe and anti-Muslim POS.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/11/newly-elected-gop-state-senators-social-media-accounts-contain-homophobic-anti-muslim-posts.html"


From the article:
"Hours after Edward Durr seemingly solidified his stunning election victory over state Senate President Steve Sweeney, xenophobic and anti-Muslim social media messages have surfaced that were posted from his accounts."

Hmmm. Crazy idea, I know, but maybe this bozo's bigotry could have been highlighted BEFORE he got elected, instead of waiting until after he'd won?

I guess maybe nobody paid attention to him because he was a truck driver with no political experience and it was assumed he had no shot of getting elected. Still, what a screw-up by the campaign of his Democratic opponent.

This guy's underdog upset of the New Jersey Senate president (!) would almost be inspiring -- if he weren't such an ignorant, racist pile of garbage.

PilotX said...

“and Democrats endangering their daughters by making school's single sex changing rooms and toilets into mixed sex facilities“

if this is your concern you may want to get a hobby🤷🏾‍♂️

dinthebeast said...

So JFK Jr. didn't show up at the Rolling Stones concert...

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Gambler2 said...

the bewilderness said...

Studies clearly show that mixed sex facilities are more dangerous for women and girls,......"

3:00 PM
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What studies are you referring to? Would you please cite them for us, so I can look at their methodology?

dinthebeast said...

"Studies clearly show that mixed sex facilities are more dangerous for women and girls,......"

Those studies must not know the same women and girls that I know.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

PilotX said...

"Studies clearly show that mixed sex facilities are more dangerous for women and girls,......"


Who exactly is pushing for these mixed-sex facilities? I haven't seen one Dem run on this issue.

PilotX said...

"So JFK Jr. didn't show up at the Rolling Stones concert..."

Are you sure? Maybe it was an Undercover Boss type of situation.

anotherbozo said...

Someone said that Democrats spend all their focus on policy but stink at salesmanship, i.e., making those policies known to the public. Republicans are so thoroughly in bed with the 1% that it should be easy for Dems to define themselves and win elections. They need to dispatch the culture wars, too, of course, to mock an jeer at the latest thinly-disguised race baiting that is this latest bogey man, CRT. (How many times can racism be re-bottled and re-sold?) Democrats should have the wind at their backs, but they still sound apologetic and scared that their true nature will be somehow "found out." Of course part of the problem is that "liberal" and "fair and balanced" news networks are no corrolary for the total propaganda network that is Fox--but ADULT DISCUSSIONS should be a selling point for the Dems rather than something to hide from. The answer for the Dems is NOT to disguise or water down what they believe in but sell it proudly--we're for the TRUE benefit of the people, dammit, with the track record to prove it.

anotherbozo said...

this is a pretty convincing assessment:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/democrats-republicans-virginia-race.html

mike from iowa said...

What studies are you referring to? Would you please cite them for us, so I can look at their methodology?

Study was posted in 2018 London Times. You have to sign up to see the study, which I did not do. For more info on this (all from England) copy and paste this:

"Studies clearly show that mixed sex facilities are more dangerous for women and girls,

Gambler2 said...

Thanks, Mike.
I went to both websites that Google provided and found that correlation is being confused with causation. I'm not maintaining that the claims are not valid, but I would like to see more data on all the variables present in incidents of attacks.

We have had many unisex restrooms in California for several years and they do not seem to have caused any problems. As a woman, I have no fear or problems in using them.

Anonymous said...

"Our hospitals are under enormous pressure. This is the same in [the rest of Australia]. This has been something no one has ever seen before, the growth in demand in our hospitals, why it is is hard, hard to know… There is huge numbers of people coming through the door, so we’re doing everything we can to try to manage it."

— Mark McGowan, premier of Western Australia

And it's not COVID.  WA has a sky-high "vaccination" rate.

75 European athletes have died or had serious medical mishaps after being "vaccinated":

https://independentside.com/report-75-european-fully-vaccinated-athletes-have-died-or-became-seriously-ill-from-sudden-heart-attacks-in-the-past-5-months/

Anonymous said...

Your antivax whining days are drawing to a close. OSHA is releasing new mandate for all workers at all large US employers to get vaccinated by the end of the year or … “no jab, no job.”

Anonymous said...

DOJ is suing Texas over their attempts to stop Dems from voting.

I’m not hopeful this will succeed, given SCOTUS wingnuts’ shameless determination to take a dump on the Voting Rights Act and the 15th Amendment.

mike from iowa said...

Western Australia has a sky LOW vax rate, as of Nov 5th, 2021 and they have registered only 9 of the 1700+ covid deaths for all of Australia.

https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Western-Australia-sets-90-vaccination-target-for-16594243.php

mike from iowa said...

https://wgntv.com/news/two-teens-charged-with-murdering-high-school-spanish-teacher-in-iowa/

Wasicu wasteys seemed nice, not!

mike from iowa said...

https://www.rawstory.com/glenn-youngkin-son-vote/

Guv elect of Virginia's underage son tried to vote in the election. Fuckers learn to cheat early. Must be inbred.

Well, goddamnit, HRC had emails.

dinthebeast said...

Anotherbozo: We win when we run on our values. Sanity doesn't make headlines, but it is wildly popular.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

From Susie Madrak's blog:

Elie Mystal
@ElieNYC
ONE black juror in the trial of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, the judge literally says he sees INTENTIONAL discrimination in the selection process... but he lets the trial go forward ANYWAY.

Sounds. About. WHITE.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Richard Spencer didn't have a very good time facing reality as evidence while under oath at his trial.
His brilliant defense was to claim that he was a seven year old.
He may act somewhat like a seven year old, but having passed the age of majority a quarter century ago, he is responsible for his behavior in the eyes of the law.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Good news:

"The University of Florida is reversing its decision to bar three professors from serving as expert witnesses in a voting rights case against the state."

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

"Good news:

'The University of Florida is reversing its decision to bar three professors from serving as expert witnesses in a voting rights case against the state.'"


I guess we can expect Mini-Trump DeSantis to hold a press conference shortly, announcing budget cuts at University of Florida. He never passes up an opportunity to act like a thug.

dinthebeast said...

So I guess Josh Hawley is trying to lock in the incel vote?

-Doug in Sugar Pine

PilotX said...

"I’m not hopeful this will succeed, given SCOTUS wingnuts’ shameless determination to take a dump on the Voting Rights Act and the 15th Amendment."


I think this is Garland finally learning that Republicans don't care about policy or furthering democracy and throwing a bone to the people who elected Biden and allowed him to become AG. He saw his innocuous memo twisted into something cartoonishly grotesque. This is a signal to Dems that he is at least going to put up the good fight and an F.U. to the idiot senators and congressmen who turned his hearing into a farce.

Anonymous said...

"I think this is Garland finally learning that Republicans don't care about policy or furthering democracy and throwing a bone to the people who elected Biden and allowed him to become AG. He saw his innocuous memo twisted into something cartoonishly grotesque. This is a signal to Dems that he is at least going to put up the good fight and an F.U. to the idiot senators and congressmen who turned his hearing into a farce."

He's trying to do his part to try to stop the assault on voting rights. But the DOJ probably won't get anywhere with the right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court.

The only real option lies with Congress. But laws protecting voting rights can't advance in the Senate without jettisoning the filibuster. And jettisoning the filibuster can't happen because of the usual suspects, Sinema and Manchin.

It's a grim situation.

PilotX said...

"It's a grim situation."

Maybe not. If the Dems can take a hint, which they usually can't, and start trying hard to deliver on their promises it can energize their base and even pick off a few swing voters who for now have to choose between a party that is insane and a party that is all talk. There is always the law of unintended consequences. One of my favorite stories was my friend who traveled to Kenya and was talking to school-aged kids who were really studying hard because they wanted to one day become President of the United States. LOL! Had to thank Fox "News" for that one.

Anonymous said...

Pelosi has raised the white flag of surrender to Sinema and Manchin. She’s allowed the infrastructure bill to pass in the House, in the name of allowing the Dems to at least say they’ve gotten something done, but that means she’s lost all leverage to get the Senate to pass Biden’s Build Back Better bill. So the latter is probably dead, which will enrage left-wing Democratic voters.

And hey, who cares about climate change provisions in the BBB bill? It’s only the Earth that’s getting destroyed. What do we need that for, anyway?

mike from iowa said...

So Biden's daughter's apt gets burglarized and her diary is stolen, shortly before 2020 election. Then, pages of her diary appear in a right wing rag and O' Keefe ad his outfit are involved and got raided recently.

Investigation continues. magats are full o0f dirty tricks because they are scum.

Anonymous said...

”So Biden's daughter's apt gets burglarized and her diary is stolen, shortly before 2020 election. Then, pages of her diary appear in a right wing rag and O' Keefe ad his outfit are involved and got raided recently.”

Maybe O’Keefe will finally go to jail this time for accepting stolen property.

I still can’t quite believe he managed to stay out of jail after he attempted to illegally wiretap the office of a fucking US senator. He only got probation and community service for that little escapade.

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure whether this is a police brutality situation or not, but, um, well ...

New York man burst into flames after Taser used on him, police say

PilotX said...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3Vv0I8M6Y

Wow. A bipartisan bill. Will wonders ever cease?

PilotX said...

“which will enrage left-wing Democratic voters“

Well, the only way to get what you want is to put more progressives in office and not throw a tantrum and let Republicans take over. It’s not that difficult to understand.

dinthebeast said...

PX: It's infrastructure week, baby! I've seen that guy's videos in my YouTube feed and been reluctant to click on them. He sounds remarkably sane.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

“Well, the only way to get what you want is to put more progressives in office and not throw a tantrum and let Republicans take over. It’s not that difficult to understand.”

You’d think. But I’m still concerned that too many voters will conclude that congressional Dems “just aren’t trying,” when the problem is actually that there aren’t enough of them in the Senate and you need to vote more of them into office if you want to see meaningful results.

dinthebeast said...

People forget, or never knew, that FDR and LBJ had significant majorities in congress to pass the transformational legislation that they passed.
Also, the Republicans weren't as batshit crazy then as they are now.
Everyone is only blaming Manchin and Sinema and not saying jack about the fifty goddamn Republicans, each of whose votes are equally as important.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

PilotX said...

"You’d think. But I’m still concerned that too many voters will conclude that congressional Dems “just aren’t trying,” when the problem is actually that there aren’t enough of them in the Senate and you need to vote more of them into office if you want to see meaningful results."

I would have thought trump would have scared enough people but I guess the common thought is he was just a one off. But we also have to recognize that Youngkin got 1.63 million votes and McCauliffe got 1.59 million. 1.59 mil is nothing to sneeze at and their voices also need to be heard. I say if Youngkin wants to go the normal Republican route and bring back confederate history month and go hog wild on abortion restrictions and have gun giveaways then 1.6~ million people can get really loud.

PilotX said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZhW1k_m7OY

Interesting.

mike from iowa said...

Fired Fake Noize sexual predator, Ed Henry, finds a home at Bannon's blog co owned by John Solomon, writer of numerous erroneous Biden/Ukraine lies.

Slime attracts more slime.

mike from iowa said...

https://www.rawstory.com/us-navy-names-ship-after-assassinated-gay-rights-campaigner/

Navy names new ship after Harvey Milk. magat heads exploded. Magats don't discriminate. They hate everybody except wasicus.

dinthebeast said...

It's almost like he made it specially for them:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-54cfiYKrV1Q/YYc5XYE7ZcI/AAAAAAAAOR0/kjegrlfyBJwMJAn60c4pQ0iZi11m5NR6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/cartoon14-anderson-110421.jpg

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Damn, Zsuzs brought my Les Paul down to get it out of the way of some repairs she was doing, and I haven't played that fucker in way too long.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

PilotX said...

What kind of amp are you using?

Anonymous said...

These so called “vaccines” are doing what they were intended to do: depopulation. Consider that the driving force behind the global mandates consists of the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Both of these entities have been very vocal about climate change being the world’s biggest problem and population control as the solution. The actual mortality rate from Covid is extremely low and emergency use authorization for experimental mRNA injections was never justified. This is a global propaganda campaign by the world’s wealthiest people. Using Covid and the great reset, they plan to greatly reduce the population and enslave survivors under global communism. Prepare accordingly.

Anonymous said...

Marxist democrats pass 1 Trillion dollar debt package. Only 10% of it slated for infrastructure. I bet that money will disappear like Solyndra.

Anonymous said...

https://swprs.org/the-wef-and-the-pandemic/

Anonymous said...

Team Shit the Bed (biden/harris) struck again by first shitting his pants at the Vatican in front of The Holy Father.

Then dunder douche lets out a hippo fart in front of Royalty at the COP25 summit adding to green house gases.

Anonymous said...

The Secret Services code name for joe biden is Poopy Pants

Anonymous said...

If Covid-19 is so deadly? Why is the Congress and their staff exempt from the illegal vax mandate?????????

mike from iowa said...

Democratic lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have a 100% vaccination rate against Covid-19, a CNN survey of Capitol Hill found this ...

Congressional Democrats Are All Vaccinated. Their ...https://www.motherjones.com › politics › 2021/05 › co...
May 15, 2021 — In the Senate, 46 of 50 Republican senators said they were vaccinated, with two more reporting that they were not and the final two refusing to ...

Gambler2 said...

To Anonymous at 9:27 AM

Please dispatch your self to a right wing website. You bull shit isn't appreciated here. Communism? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Gambler2 said...

Anonymous said...

If Covid-19 is so deadly? Why is the Congress and their staff exempt from the illegal vax mandate?????????

11:19 AM
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Why do anonymous brain-dead people ask stupid questions?

Gambler2 said...

Anonymous said...

The Secret Services code name for joe biden is Poopy Pants

11:18 AM
And the Secret Services' code name for donald trumpp is Demon from Hell.

Anonymous said...

"’Anonymous said...

The Secret Services code name for joe biden is Poopy Pants’

11:18 AM
And the Secret Services' code name for donald trumpp is Demon from Hell.”


The actual Secret Service code names for the Trump family are:

Trump: Mogul
Melania: Muse
Ivanka: Marvel
Don Junior: Mountaineer
Eric: Marksman

Can you tell that they picked them themselves?

They picked them themselves, because they’re narcissistic, corrupt assholes. And because style and symbolism mattered 100% to them, and running the government competently didn’t matter at all.

Gambler2 said...

From politicalwire.com today:

A reader named Holms posted this from Ana Navarro on Twitter:

"MAGA Platform 2021:
Kamala’s laugh
Pete’s paternity leave
Your Body, Your Choice - but only for masks & vaccine
CRT (Creating Racial Tension)
Let’s Go Brandon
Attack Big Bird
Defend Masculinity
Attack Democracy
Make-Up Election Lies
Suck-Up to Trump
Defend Insurrectionists
Farts"

dinthebeast said...

"What kind of amp are you using?"

A Zoom pedal and some headphones. All of my amps are in a storage space in Rohnert Park. Which is OK, as I sounded horrible anyway. That will get better now, then maybe I can get loud again.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

mike from iowa said...

Why do magats think lets go Brandon is so cute when they are free to say Fuck Joe Biden and no one will do anything to them? Are they all fucking retarded? Mindless Zombies?

mike from iowa said...

Magat Can-cub-Am sinator from Texass with the ugly wife has started a Twitter war with Big Bird of Sesame Street and Big Bird is winning.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ted-cruz-big-bird/

What a fucking moron!

PilotX said...

"I sounded horrible anyway."

I doubt that.

PilotX said...

"because style and symbolism mattered 100% to them, and running the government competently didn’t matter at all."


I mean the are Republicans right?

Anonymous said...

“Magat Can-cub-Am sinator from Texass with the ugly wife has started a Twitter war with Big Bird of Sesame Street and Big Bird is winning.”

Hey, Republicans have already previously picked fights with “woke” Dr. Seuss and gender-neutral Mr. Potato Head (and before that, the dastardly, climate-change-acknowledging Spongebob Squarepants and Tinky-Winky the “gay” Teletubby), so why not Big Bird?

dinthebeast said...

Shit, Mitt Romney ran on cancelling Big Bird in 2012, but there I go remembering stuff again.
And yes, I did sound horrible last night. It was a bit better tonight, which is always how it goes when you haven't played in too long and the calluses are gone from your fingertips. Give me two weeks and I'll be digging out the converter to record shit to this laptop...

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

"Shit, Mitt Romney ran on cancelling Big Bird in 2012, but there I go remembering stuff again."

To be fair, Mitt wasn't actually anti-Big Bird, per se. He was anti-spending-tax-money-on-PBS because he was pro-cutting-rich-guys'-taxes. Which is an understandable position for him to take, as Romney's a rich guy who thinks everyone less rich than him is a bum.

This, however, was not as entertaining as when Jerry Falwell passionately denounced Tinky-Winky:
"He is purple - the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay-pride symbol ... As a Christian I feel that role modelling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children."

Personally, I suspect this was a sinister plot to murder all the liberals in America by causing them to die laughing.

The Purple Cow said...

Firstly, a pretty good Marxist (or Marxian, if you like) analysis of the financing of climate change initiatives.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/11/05/financing-the-climate/

Also worth a read is this from Samuel Moyn, Law Professor at Yale.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/08/if-democrats-return-to-centrism-they-are-doomed-to-lose-against-trump

mike from iowa said...

Reason 10 billion why I hate magats....

One Republican willing to run interference for killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is Representative Greg Jamison (R-12/Sioux Falls), who signals that he doesn’t want to get into impeaching public officials over a couple of piddly traffic violations:

Pollsters hired by South Dakota News Watch in October found that 66.8% of South Dakotans surveyed support removing Ravnsborg from office following his conviction of two misdemeanor traffic charges stemming from a crash that killed a pedestrian in September of 2020.

But neither of the charges now on Ravnsborg’s record — a lane violation and texting while driving — amounted to criminal culpability for Joseph Boever’s death. That’s why support for impeachment isn’t as resounding among some House members, who question whether two traffic tickets are grounds to oust South Dakota’s top prosecutor.

Fucking magats conveniently forget the POS AG struck and killed a pedestrian on the shoulder of the highway while texting.

Anonymous said...

“Pollsters hired by South Dakota News Watch in October found that 66.8% of South Dakotans surveyed support removing Ravnsborg from office …”

If true, this would suggest he is toast at the next election.

mike from iowa said...

South Dakota citizens have passed numerous ballot measures and initiatives and approved them in the general election only to have the embarrassingly red congress toss them out because they have the votes.

No magat is likely apt to lose an election for any crime.

Paul Gosar's anime video showing a character with his face and two swords kill a giant naked woman character with AOC's face and attacking Joe Biden's character. Magats won't say a bad word about him. Some are already defending him.

mike from iowa said...

Black man imprisoned for over four decades in Misery, found innocent and is about to be set free. Hope he sues for millions and wins.

dinthebeast said...

The latest batch of subpoenas from the 1/6 committee include Kayleigh McEnany and Stephen Miller.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

mike from iowa said...

Kellyanne Conwoman is back lying again. She claimed that during drumpf's presidency there were no supply chain shortages....except for them the pandemic caused for all of drumpf's residency in the WH.

Anonymous said...

“Kellyanne Conwoman is back lying again. She claimed that during drumpf's presidency there were no supply chain shortages.”

Yeah, you have to be the hardest of hardcore MAGA trash to even pretend to believe this. Nobody is going to forget the shortages of toilet paper and cleaning products in the spring of last year, or who was president at the time. This is a “the sky is green”-level whopper.

mike from iowa said...

Anymoose @ 9:29 AM.... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/08/lisa-mcclain/gop-lawmakers-pants-fire-claim-infrastructure-bill/

Yer 10% claim of infrastructure spending is pants on fire. Why not post yer real name so you can receive the derision your lies so richly deserve, huh?

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Anonymous said...

Well, it looks like this dude’s gonna die of starvation, cause the Senate is a hopeless pit of despair at the moment. At least he’s sacrificing himself for a good cause, I guess.

Radio host says he is going on hunger strike until Congress passes voting rights bill

Anonymous said...

DOJ is investigating an Alabama county for having such a bad, third-world sewage system that its African-American residents are basically living in poo.

dinthebeast said...

Poor little Fergus. A mean ol' judge said he couldn't use executive privilege to keep the evidence of his criming from congress.
She was such an old meanie, she said that he must believe that his executive privilege exists in perpetuity, but that we don't have kings here, we have presidents, and that he wasn't the president...

-Doug in Sugar Pine

mike from iowa said...

Anon @ 11"08 PM this story has been around for a couple years now. Thanks for the link.

88% of all South Duhkotans polled want Indian history and culture taught in schools. The brain dead guv, along with all red state loozers, want to erase any history that makes wasicus look bad, including civil rights.

mike from iowa said...

https://www.rawstory.com/monica-de-la-cruz/

Magat bitch accused of assaulting estranged hubby and daughter. Gangster family values, what?

mike from iowa said...

Fuuuuuck! I got beat out for sexiest man alive, again! Where is the justice in this world?

PilotX said...

"Fuuuuuck! I got beat out for sexiest man alive, again! Where is the justice in this world?"


Yup, as Ricky Bobby says "if you're not first, you're last".

PilotX said...

https://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/opinion/2021/10/29/joe-bidens-accomplishments-afghanistan-health-care-border-arrests/6190497001/

Anonymous said...

Team Shit the Bed is fucking up everyday by the numbers. Now they want to shut down another oil pipeline in the USA. Gas will be 10.00 by January 1st 2022.

Anonymous said...

Russian stores have more on the shelves than in America.

Anonymous said...

“Russian stores have more on the shelves than in America.”

How would you know? Did you see it on RT, the network that Putin owns, and which exists to tell everyone that Putin is great and America sucks?

mike from iowa said...

Georgia shit fer brains congress asshole, Massivecunt Cawthorn, videotaped attempting to do wheelies in FDR's wheelchair.

dinthebeast said...

From Carl Newman's Twitter feed:

A.R. Moxon
@JuliusGoat
·
13h
Police disappeared people into vans last year. A kid arrived at cop riots with a fully armed white supremacist militia, murdered people with a gun, and became a GOP hero. There was a coup. GOP reps issue death threats.

Media is platforming the debate: are colleges too "woke?"

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The negro son of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sentenced to six months in jail for stabbing a Southern California neighbor with a hunting knife during an argument over trash cans, prosecutors said Wednesday

Anonymous said...

and which exists to tell everyone America sucks?

4:56 PM

No, that is CNN, MSNBC, CNBC

Anonymous said...

Kyle Rittenhouse truth in 11 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Rqv2tIg4E

mike from iowa said...

https://www.rawstory.com/american-wins-global-teacher-prize-for-work-with-immigrants/

anyfuckingmoose, bet you'll never guess which color Black this teacher is. Hurts, donut? Wah, wah, wah!

mike from iowa said...

Rittenhouse judge's phone went off in court, the ringtone is the same as drumpf's rally theme song, Prowd to be an american.

https://www.rawstory.com/rittenhouse-judge/

PilotX said...

“Russian stores have more on the shelves than in America.“

So I now have to choose 900 different types of soap instead of 2,000?

Anonymous said...

"Rittenhouse judge's phone went off in court, the ringtone is the same as drumpf's rally theme song, Prowd to be an american."

Not sure what this proves, though. Trump doesn't own country music, and liking this song doesn't automatically make one a Trump fan.

mike from iowa said...

'll bet drumpf didn't ask permission or pay to use the song, either. He has been served papers by several artists for using their work without authorization, and Killer Kyle's judge seems prejudiced against the prosecution. magats swear this kid is a true blue patriot, although he lies like drumpf.

Anonymous said...

“… Killer Kyle's judge seems prejudiced against the prosecution.”

The prosecution has two big problems.

First, they want to present Rittenhouse as having gone to Kenosha with the goal of killing protesters simply for supporting a political cause Rittenhouse doesn’t like. They have no proof of this, and the judge won’t let them argue anything related to this.

Second, video footage and testimony suggest Rittenhouse was attacked by protesters. The prosecution was unable to present any evidence to prove he attacked the protesters first, so they were unable to knock down his self-defense claims.

dinthebeast said...

From "Armistice Day" by Paul Simon:

Oh, Congresswoman
Won’t you tell that congressman
I’ve waited such a long time
I’ve about waited all I can
Oh, Congresswoman
Won’t you tell that congressman

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

A federal judge has overturned Texas' ban on mask mandates in schools, but not the banning of books in those same schools.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

Who didn’t see this coming?

Manchin may delay Biden social spending plan over inflation

Now Manchin is claiming inflation — a short-term phenomenon — is a reason for torpedoing a long-term social spending and climate change remediation bill.

It isn’t. This is just an excuse. Manchin’s real motivation is that he is a Republocrat, and doesn’t want too much money spent on helping “undeserving” recipients, nor does he want anyone to stop burning that sweet, sweet West Virginia coal. And now that the House have passed the infrastructure bill, progressives have lost whatever minimal leverage they had over him, so at this point, Manchin doesn’t give a shit about anything anymore.

mike from iowa said...

Rittenkiller claimed he was hired to protect a used car lot, then he later claimed he was there to clean up grafitti, when all he managed to do was murder two and wound another. Looks like wounded paramedic had his hands in the air when he was shot by the killer.

I have no doubt he will get off on a technicality. The judge is bound and determined to abort this trial one way or another, imho. Rittenkiller will learn not to leave any victims alive to dispute his claims of self defense.

Anonymous said...

“Looks like wounded paramedic had his hands in the air when he was shot by the killer.”

Unfortunately, one of those hands was holding a pistol. Again, this is not great for the prosecution. Their witness’ testimony probably helped Rittenhouse.

mike from iowa said...

The pistol was not pointed at the killer. He essentially showed his intention was to de-escalate the situation. He got shot for his troubles.

mike from iowa said...

Federal appeals court steps in to save drumpf's ass once again. Must be the hundredth time this has happened. Remember when magats tried to limit death row appeals to one appeal within 30 days of sentencing to find exculpatory evidence, before the possibly innocent prisoners got fried?

Fucking unbelievable how many chances this master criminal gets.

PilotX said...

"Second, video footage and testimony suggest Rittenhouse was attacked by protesters. The prosecution was unable to present any evidence to prove he attacked the protesters first, so they were unable to knock down his self-defense claims."

Problem is he was out after curfew with an illegal weapon. He was there to find trouble and trouble found him.

PilotX said...

Never too late for righting wrongs.

https://www.theroot.com/democrat-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-help-black-wwii-ve-1848041147

Anonymous said...

"Problem is he was out after curfew with an illegal weapon. He was there to find trouble and trouble found him."

The problem for prosecutors is that neither being out after curfew nor his illegal possession of a weapon invalidates the legal right to self-defense.

And "looking for trouble" isn't an actual statutory offense, just a vague accusation.

PilotX said...

“And "looking for trouble" isn't an actual statutory offense, just a vague accusation.“

It was illegal for someone under 18 to possess a firearm in WI. He may be cleared of homicide charges but he did knowingly break the law.

PilotX said...

On another topic, I’m even more disappointed in DC metro and Capitol police as more video emerges. The guy, who is still at large, who was swinging a bat with a nail in it should be 6 feet under right now. This pulls back the curtain on 1/6 because if these people were expecting a “peaceful protest” why did so many have weapons? The FBI needs to put him on the 10 moat wanted list and all LEO’s need to be after this guy because he intended to mortally wound one of their own. Sad Republicans are downplaying this. Back the blue my ass.

Anonymous said...

"It was illegal for someone under 18 to possess a firearm in WI. He may be cleared of homicide charges but he did knowingly break the law."

He'll undoubtedly get convicted on the gun charge. But that's a misdemeanor, so the penalty will be, what, a couple months in juvie? Probation and community service?

That's definitely not going to satisfy the people who consider him a terrorist.

PilotX said...

"He'll undoubtedly get convicted on the gun charge. But that's a misdemeanor, so the penalty will be, what, a couple months in juvie? Probation and community service?"

None of us actually know what the verdict will be. You may be correct or not, we'll see.

dinthebeast said...

Yeah, that judge seems wingnutty as fuck, so I won't be surprised if they find the surviving victim guilty of hurting the goddamn little terrorist's feelings by not dying...

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Perhaps our schools could learn a few things about teaching our uncomfortable past from the Germans:

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-we-can-learn-from-germany-on.html

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

Yeah no I
would need proof what I mean
by that is I would need to see how
they did it. I'm just not going to take you're word for it
considering first of all if black people were able to do that all this
time than why do they keep making spears an not other diverse, variety
of weapons besides the spear and used a cows hide an turned it into a shield
not to mention a lot or most of them are and or were naked dancing around a fire
in grass skirts or the other way around a lot of them or most were naked. if they were
able to make busts, statues which they clearly didn't they wouldn't be living in huts
eating mud cookies, mosquito burgers an having famine also they would have been
able to built houses that are one, two, three or more stories high and a mansion to go
along with it. lets not forget if they are an or were able to do these things they will have
been able to build sky scrapers like you see every where in the world same goes for bridges
like the Manhattan bridge, Golden gate bridge but you don't. has anyone ever seen and all black
carpenters crew building a house or a mansion let alone both an all black construction crew building
sky scraper's, bridge's, infrastructure's, water pipe line system's, power plants yeah I don't think so because
if they were able to do all those things that I mentioned they wouldn't be complaining, grunting, groaning, moaning,
cherry picking, nit picking and blaming their actions, failures, issues on white people an pulling the race card or any
other card that is known, unknown to man for that matter and committing black on black crimes, black on white crimes,
black on yellow crimes, black on brown crimes nationally, internationally.