The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this hate and angst is coming from. It's not like the democrats are crying foul and whining about the results. (Although, I must say, there was something mighty fishy about Elon and his behavior.) Dems won't be storming the halls of power, and crying stolen election for the next four years. They are totally fine with sitting back and watching Mr. trump make a fool of himself while he destroys the country for a second time. Just look at his cabinet picks so far. The man is clearly not a serious actor.
Honestly, have you ever seen a bunch of less qualified people being selected to hold positions of power? How can these people cry DEI when they have all these "failing up" characters being picked by trump to be a part of his team? Pete Hegseth?! Seriously? Forget the fact that he is a scumbag and just a horrible human being, he is also clearly not qualified to do the job. The guy wrote a book about crushing the enemy, via an "American Crusade" for crying out loud! He writes about mocking, humiliating, and intimidating the American left (the enemy) and using the military to do it. The very military that Mr. trump picked him to lead. Yikes! And don't even get me started on Tulsi Gabbard. She has praised the Russians at every turn and is a huge fan of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator. Trump picked her to lead *checks notes* the intelligence department. I could go on, but you get the point. I'm not even going to get into Matt Gaetz, because, thankfully, his appointment was scuttled. Imagine a man being investigated for sex trafficking and having sex with a seventeen year old girl, being picked to lead the very agency that investigates such things. The guy should be sharing prison soap with Diddy, but he is a white male republican, so the same rules do not apply.
Trump feels embolden to pick these clowns based on fealty and not qualifications. He believes that he had this resounding mandate from the American people. On further review, he did not. As more election results come in, we can see that his margins are getting smaller and smaller, and he did not win a majority of the popular vote. 49.87% is not going to cut it. He won by a a couple of hundred thousand votes across key swing states, and had those totals been different we would be looking at quite a different outcome. I was guilty of overstating the level of Mr. trump's victory myself (see my previous post), and I was wrong. Sadly, like everything else with trump, perception became a false reality.
But take heart Harris supporters, If you voted for her you should be pretty relieved and chill right now. Just sit back and enjoy the trump train roll off the tracks. The next four years will be one wreck after another. You will get to say I told you so when it's all said and done.
Let's just hope , for all our sakes, that there will be someone left to say it to.
*Pic courtesy of Reuters via Yahoo.
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1 – 200 of 210 Newer› Newest»I have zero sympathy for any magat that voted for this clusterfuck. drumpf promised again to make deficits disappear just as he did the first time around. He nearly doubled national debt in just 4 short years.
I hope he takes away Obamacare from these useless idiots. Takes aweay their foodstamps and SS, too. Serves them right for failing to learn to read and comprehend.
The goddamn Republicans have pulled a massive switch-up on us Democrats, probably not even on purpose. The Democrats used to be the party that had liberals in it, and they used to be the ones who questioned the status quo (and got called commies for our trouble).
Some time ago, let's just say in the nineties when Newt the fuck Gingrich abandoned the idea of governing in favor of turning the government into a 24/7/365 campaign, that left the whole of the task of governing to us Democrats, both the liberal and conservative aspects of it, because of all of the people who are harmed when the government stops doing its job.
That's how the goddamn Republicans got us to take on the role of defenders of the status quo, and it's just hard to win elections that way, especially with the billions of dollars in right wing propaganda all singing the same "the government is the problem" hymn from the same "lower taxes for the filthy rich" hymnal.
All of Fergus' picks are sadly predictable: they are those who will defer to Fergus on all matters, who he thinks look good on TV, who piss off everyone who didn't vote for him, and who are capable of one thing above all else: damaging or outright destroying the agencies that they are tapped to lead.
A full on nuclear attack from Russia would likely be less damaging to the United States of America, given the hollowing out of the Russian military, and you know that Putin is quite pleased with the return on the hundred million dollar investment he made in trying to swing the election.
We will likely endure. We have seen adversity, some worse than what we seem to be facing. That said, not everyone will endure. Women will die of treatable pregnancy complications. Poor people will die from lack of access to healthcare. Immigrant families will be shipped off to countries they don't know anything about. All because a huge block of the American electorate operates under the luxury of not needing to know a damn thing about their government. You would think that a government that works well enough to facilitate that would be popular, but apparently the ignorance doesn't stop with the subject of the government.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“But take heart Harris supporters, If you voted for her you should be pretty relieved and chill right now. Just sit back and enjoy the trump train roll off the tracks. The next four years will be one wreck after another. You will get to say I told you so when it's all said and done.”
Sorry, but I’m not feeling super chill.
Right now we can live in denial, because it’s still the Biden administration for another two months.
But then the sh*tshow begins, and it’s going to be an endless series of infuriating, destructive moves from Trump and the Republicans after that, for the next two years at least (in the best case that these malevolent vandals don’t manage to dismantle our democracy so we CAN’T throw the bums out).
I can’t really enjoy laughing and pointing at Team Trump’s failures, since the country they are trashing is my own.
Was watching a movie from the 1950s recently, and while I know movies aren’t real life, the sense of optimism of that era was partly real. It’s hard to wrap my brain around how we got from then to now.
How did we get from that place — a country that tackled its problems and solved them — to being a country that now just throws massive, pointless collective temper tantrums, which is all that the movement around Trump boils down to? Brains switched off, rage cranked up to eleven, smashing things up while accomplishing nothing useful. How bad do things have to get before the tantrum comes to an end?
Welp, I'm not even gonna say I told them so. I'm just waiting to see if these fools actually try to deport millions of people who pick our crops and clean our hotel rooms. Say hello to $15 strawberries. Funny thing is the people who'll be most hurt are celebrating the loudest. I'll be fine, I have a good union job with benefits so enjoy your wins and MTG as a committee chair. LOL!
"the sense of optimism of that era was partly real" um, ok. Depends on how dark your tan was.
“‘the sense of optimism of that era was partly real’ um, ok. Depends on how dark your tan was.”
Actually, I don’t think even that’s true. Black folks had to be plenty optimistic back in the day to fight for civil rights! They had to believe that racism was a problem that could be solved, with enough effort and determination.
But I will say that in this current moment, the people who are lashing out and seeking irrational (non-)solutions to our national problems do seem to skew heavily white.
Bigger than Watergate!
https://x.com/JackStr42679640/status/1860793810915307982?t=UY7pRB6RLYCiXRQW8TGu2Q&s=01
Obamacare is a scam.
TDS
End Marxism and things will improve
Republicans supported and voted for the 1964/65 civil rights acts.
Not democrats.
TRUMP 2024!!
I voted for her but I can't sit back and enjoy the train wreck. I have too many dogs in this fight. First of all Global Warming, then Medicare, then all the other programs/agencies I agonize over.
“Republicans supported and voted for the 1964/65 civil rights acts.
Not democrats.”
You’re missing some context here.
1) Northern Democrats supported the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Only the Southern Democrats opposed it.
2) As a result of passing those laws being passed, white Southerners bailed out of the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party, who had begun running racist election campaigns to win them over. It’s the reason why the GOP now “owns” the South — because they are a pro-racism party.
3) You know all of this but are pretending not to, because you are a manipulative liar.
drumpf 2029 to life for felony convictions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jack-smith-files-drop-jan-6-charges-donald-trump-rcna181667
Not going to happen. Those illegal convictions WILL be overturned.
Marxist democrats fear the truth.
Lyre.
dropped with prejudice which means charges can be refiled when drumpf is out of office, if he can survive 4 years of the most corrupt potus ever on steroids.
fascist magats have no idea what truth is.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called the provision requiring women to sign up for the draft “insane.”
He accused the Biden administration of trying to implement a woke agenda at the Pentagon.
“There shouldn’t be women in the draft. They shouldn’t be forced to serve if they don’t want to,” he said on Fox News. He criticized Democrats for wanting to experiment with the military, saying “normal people are like, ‘Leave our daughters alone.’”
magat hypocrisy at it's finest. Don't force our daughters to serve if they don't want to but force them to carry a fetus to term whether they want to or not.
“normal people are like, ‘Leave our daughters alone.’”
Republicans want to fuck their own daughters, which would be more difficult if said daughters were drafted. On the other hand, if those daughters were armed, perhaps Republicans would fuck them less often.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Democrats shit the bed once again. Ukraine/Russia situation heating up. Dems want war before they leave the WH.
No, thats Joe Biden. Read his daughters book.
More horseshit.
Take more vaccine.
All the cases against DJT are blowing up and disappearing.
Team shit the bed[ joe and the ho] are getting us into ww3.
It is truth you magat drumpf dick sucker.
netanfuckface agrees to Lebanon ceasefire then steps up bom bing attackes before ceasefire takes place. Hope the ICC gets their mitts on him pretty pronto.
“netanfuckface agrees to Lebanon ceasefire then steps up bom bing attackes before ceasefire takes place. Hope the ICC gets their mitts on him pretty pronto.”
Doubtful that he’ll ever be arrested/prosecuted, but I’m enjoying Israeli discomfort at the world no longer ignoring their war crimes.
The damn fool is really gonna do it:
Art Candee 🍿🥤
@artcandee.bsky.social
Fruits that will get 25% more expensive thanks to Donald Trump's tariffs:
Avocado
Bananas
Grapes
Cranberries
Raspberries
Blackberries
Mulberries
Lemons
Limes
Pineapple
Guava
Mango
Mandarins
Tangerines
Watermelons
Strawberries
Melons
And when the threats of deportations drive undocumented workers underground, domestic produce prices will go through the roof. And speaking of roofs, better hope you don't need yours fixed or replaced for the next four years.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So I guess this means that Ted the fuck Nugent is gonna have to stop playing Gibsons?
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-backed-guitars-reportedly-spark-cease-desist-letter-rcna181836
-Doug in Sugar Pine
If there be something to be exploited for monetary gain, drumpf will b e doing the exploiting.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1861474491345342664?t=lHLoiZrs9s3xvw3TYT1AzA&s=01
Thats the biden crime family.
Plenty of legal fruit pickers with work visas.
Never happen,pure delusion.
that'sdrumpf (the most corrupt and convicted) POS potus and his family of criminals and dumbfucks.
"Plenty of legal fruit pickers with work visas."
Not really. Right around half of the agricultural workforce lacks legal status.
Which has fuck-all to do with the 25% all of those items are going to increase in price because of Fergus' stupid, stupid tariffs, which the president of Mexico has just vowed to retaliate against. Car prices? Car parts prices? All going up significantly.
If you voted for Fergus because you thought he would make your groceries less expensive, I have some very bad news for you.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
You know it's true, because Doug read dude he likes.
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anymoose fails again.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/is-she-drunk-kamala-harris-looks-rough-new/
TRUMP 2024
Truth
https://youtu.be/VXHtKqZVzLA?si=NsXSphQll6ZJ8vPj
Faker than drumpf dick sucking Fake Noize.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/harris-campaign-advisor-david-plouffe-accidently-exposes-how/
The left fears truth.
Nominee for Navy suckretary is an art dealer from Floriduh with no service qualificationsd. He does have a 38 million dollar house in Aspen, Colo and gave drumpf campaign over 800k in one shot.
CNN
—
President-elect Donald Trump’s team submitted an ethics plan guiding the conduct of its members throughout the transition period that does not appear to include provisions for one key member of the team: the president himself.
“There does not appear to be a provision addressing the requirement for the president-elect to address his conflicts of interest,” said Valerie Smith Boyd, director of the Center for Presidential Transition at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service.
CNN has asked the Trump transition for comment on why there is no provision addressing Trump’s potential conflicts of interest.
Beause drumpf has no ethics or morals, either.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188861/trump-finally-signs-transition-documents-catch
Pathological lying POS drumpf claims Mexico will effectively close our southern border because they had a phoe conversation. She says the exact opposite of what lying bastard drumpfuck says.
new ambassador to Ukraine and Russia drew up plan to force Ukraine to capitulate to Putey Pie or lose all US backing.
Happy Thanksgiving to all Field Hands except anymoose and thanks for the light dusting of snow today.
North Carolina magats are freaked out. They will lose super majority status in the net lege, but, will not be able to override Dem guv vetoes.
nagats lost all state government races except auditor, so scared magats took a bill written to improve dentistry, gutted it and changed state law to put auditor in charge of elections in order to control the gerrymanderinbg and other election shenanigans.
Happy Thanksgiving. There are still multitudes of reasons to be thankful, even in the dark times just ahead. We can't make it to our friends in Windsor again this year, so we're having lasagna.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
drumpf dick suckers claim ceasefire credit goes to drumpf's re-election forcing allsides to the table.
Of course drumpf is a pathological liar and so are his sickophants.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/24/dying-in-hell-palestinian-medics-jailed-by-israel
netanfuckface is a war criminal.
Best wishes for holidays by hater in chief drumpfuck.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GdeRLQLWYAAVgy7?format=jpg&name=small
Senator Bernie Sanders says Rl Mustelid and 2 other billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of the citizens in the USA.
"Actually, I don’t think even that’s true. Black folks had to be plenty optimistic back in the day to fight for civil rights!"
Hoping for better days is fine but at the time time getting killed for trying to vote or accidentally looking someone in the eye wasn't cause for optimism. Too busy in survival mode for the more nuanced emotions.
Welp, we can all look forward to 2026 and beyond. This proves to many that voting DOES in fact matter. Payback is a B. Hilarity will ensue if trump loses the senate and can't confirm anymore nutcases. Alright people, let's get our shit together now or project 2025 is coming and it won't be pretty.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-backed-guitars-reportedly-spark-cease-desist-letter-rcna181836
Well good, I just bought a Les and now I'm feeling even better about my choice. Nice job Gibson!!!!!!!!
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Vance in drag again.
Hogsbreath's true feelings about women...
https://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Toon19-2-300x221.png
Another likely drumpf voter with similar morals....
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/europe/norway-hoiby-second-rape-allegation-intl-scli/?dicbo=v2-Ht27cY6&hpt=ob_blogfooterold
Why hasn't anymoose or drumpfuck the dumbfuck kept us apprised of the n umber of Springfield pets eaten by Haiitian immigrants since the election?
Musk have been a lie along.
When the goddamn Nazis marched in Columbus, they were met with ordinary citizens pointing guns at them, pelting them with cans and vegetables, and pepper spraying them. Just because your orange asshole won the election does not mean we have to put up with your Nazi asses. Historically, the fascists always lose.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Lying, conspiracy theorist, climate change denier Canned Ass Ovens rejected by New Zealand for Visa because she was banned from Australia a few weeks ago for denying Nazis did medical exeriments on Jewish prisoners in WW2.
https://apnews.com/article/candace-owens-zealand-australia-visa-eedd9b2f77a289b44a517719008f9730
https://19thwardchicago.blogspot.com/2024/11/chaos-erupts-in-chicago-as-furious.html?m=1
Climate change is a hoax
TDS
He isnt.
Such delusion.
Nonsense
Fascist magats are the hoax.
I hope all of those white women who voted for Fergus enjoy their government full of boors and rapists:
Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women
November 29, 2024 at 11:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 74 Comments
“The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character,” the New York Times reports.
Wrote Penelope Hegseth: “On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself.”
She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women”
His own mom? Ouch. That’s gotta sting.
Get ready for an endless stream of scandals associated with the Trump cabinet members. They are a truly rotten bunch.
The abortion ban death count is up to five now (that we know of). Three of the five women killed by being denied medically necessary abortions were in Texas.
The benefits of living in the theocracy known as red-state America.
? If drumpf had a mandate would that not make him GAY!
Great news coming out of DOGE. magats claim tewy are vfoing after Medicare/Medicaid waste and the crooks that take money illegally. looks like Floriduh will need to replace crooked sinator Prick Scott.
It breaks my heart the PBS and NPR are on the chopping block. With Trump's hostility towards the press, even if we managed a nation-wide write-in to save both of them. I doubt he and Maga would shed a tear. Two of the last unbiased sources for news--stuff I trust more than most of the MSM.
"? If drumpf had a mandate would that not make him GAY!"
I have never met a gay man who would lower himself to fucking Fergus. I mean, they're out there, no doubt. James Guckert is probably one.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"The benefits of living in the theocracy known as red-state America."
Just wait til all lessons have to be biblically based and daily prayers. I guess we're just ignoring previous supreme court rulings?
"I guess we're just ignoring previous supreme court rulings?"
More like getting as many of them as possible in front of this SCOTUS to overturn them.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Only in Fascist America can a convicted felon nominate a convicted felon for dumbassador to France.
Trump’s global bully routine started this week, even though he isn’t even president yet. He’s already insulting and threatening other countries and possibly starting a trade war.
Really looking forward to the rest of the world hating all of us Americans again. That’s always fun.
“Only in Fascist America can a convicted felon nominate a convicted felon for dumbassador to France.”
Much less concerned about this than non-cop and slimy Trump flunky Kash Patel being chosen to lead the FBI.
More evidence that Trump intends to weaponize the DOJ against his enemies. He will justify this by claiming the Democrats weaponized the DOJ against him, but they didn’t — Trump is an actual crook.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/toni-preckwinkle-creates-a-dangerous-new-reality-for-chicago
TDS
NBC exec explains how phony drumpf on the Apprentice really was.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DYMJ9XE5PeI?feature=share
Looks like Joe has had enough of this bullshit ad is thinking of pardoning his son Hunter. Now to commute the sentences of all federal prisoners condemned to death to life without parole so Fergus can't go on an execution spree.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Looks like Joe has had enough of this bullshit ad is thinking of pardoning his son Hunter.”
He did it. I had suspected Joe’s promise not to pardon his son was one he was never going to keep.
And not only has he pardoned Hunter for the tax evasion and the (frankly ridiculous) gun charges. He preemptively blanket pardoned Hunter for any and all federal lawbreaking he could conceivably have committed in the last decade. If Hunter did it, it don’t count.
While this may seem extreme (hell, it is extreme), I do on some level understand it. It is highly likely that evil bastard Trump is going to weaponize the justice system against his perceived enemies, and he has already severely demonized Hunter in the right-wing press as some kind of monster. It is easy to see them fabricating additional, baseless federal charges to persecute Hunter, just to please Trump’s slavering, moronic fanbase.
Now, they can’t.
I have serious doubts that any pardon of Hunter Biden will prevent rabid drumpf sickophants from dragging Hunter Biden and his entire family tree through dog and pony show trials.
“I have serious doubts that any pardon of Hunter Biden will prevent rabid drumpf sickophants from dragging Hunter Biden and his entire family tree through dog and pony show trials.”
They can still hold some sort of childish congressional inquiry and throw insults at Hunter. But actual charges? No. Not unless Trump wants to devalue the power of a presidential pardon, which he has already used to protect his own associates from the consequences of their crimes.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/breaking-joe-biden-pardons-son-hunter-biden-gun/
TDS
TDS
Lying Biden!!!
TRUMP IS GREAT
https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/
TDS
tds = trump dick sucker
drumpf wins the liar championship, hands down. The only real championship he will ever have. The worst potus ever X 2.
TDS
Biden crime family covering their tracks.
Marxist left types fear truth.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/biden-discussed-pardoning-hunter-june-told-aides-he/
Apologizing for your filthy lies does not undo the harm they have caused:
The producer of a documentary that falsely accused a metro Atlanta man of committing election fraud during the 2020 election has issued an apology saying his depiction was based on “inaccurate information.” ... “I make this apology not under the terms of a settlement agreement or other duress, but because it is the right thing to do, given what we have now learned,” D’Souza wrote on his website over the weekend.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Fascist magats know not what truth is. No real truth is ever a lie and no real lie is ever the truth.
I will be taking a leave of absence starting Wednesday evening for the foreseeable future. Keep the faith
and fuck drumpf and anymoose.
Billionaires are snatching drumpf's crypto-currying favorency in order to curry favor from the convicted felon/adjudicated rapist/ anymoosie's idol.
Good luck, Mike.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Apologizing for your filthy lies does not undo the harm they have caused”
If this is Dinesh D’Souza, he needs to apologize for his entire career, because it’s all lies, from start to finish.
I, for one, am glad Biden pardoned Hunter. Trump had broadcast his intentions going after "the Biden Crime Family" once he got back into office. The only down-side I can see is that Trump will grab hold of this to justify the pardons he's promised the insurrectionists on his first day back. But justification or not, he's going to do that anyway. So Biden got Hunter out of the way.
What was that about starting world war three again?
Trump Threatens to Hit Hamas If Hostages Aren’t Released
December 2, 2024 at 3:52 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 489 Comments
President-elect Donald Trump called for all hostages in the Middle East be released before his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, seemingly referring to the more than 50 hostages believed to be still alive in Gaza, Semafor reports.
Trump said there will be “all hell to pay,” if they are not.
He added: “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America.”
New York Times: Trump threatens ‘hell to pay’ unless Gaza hostages are freed before inauguration.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“I, for one, am glad Biden pardoned Hunter. Trump had broadcast his intentions going after ‘the Biden Crime Family’ once he got back into office.”
The Democrats are probably going to be forced into making some uncomfortable U-turns in the near future.
In response to Trump’s lies about his being persecuted, they have acted like the party of institutionalism and law-and-order recently. Everything is: Trust the system. It is impartial and fair. Nothing is rigged.
But, suddenly, they will be sounding a lot like Trump. They will have to denounce the system as rigged. Because at that point, it actually will be rigged, for real, because Trump will have rigged it.
That is the context of Biden’s pardons. Maybe he wouldn’t have done it if he’d won a second term, or if (after he dropped out) Kamala Harris had won. But with Trump returning to the White House, all bets are off.
“Trump Threatens to Hit Hamas If Hostages Aren’t Released”
As if Trump has any more idea how to find Hamas than the Israelis do. So I guess he will act like the Israelis and bomb more Palestinian civilians? It hasn’t worked so far to get the hostages back, but hey, why not just continue with a failed plan? Sounds smart.
"In response to Trump’s lies about his being persecuted, they have acted like the party of institutionalism and law-and-order recently."
That's the switch the goddamn Republicans have brought for us over the last few decades. The Democratic party used to be the one with the liberals in it, and they used to be the ones questioning the status quo on a whole range of things.
After the goddamn Republicans just stopped governing and tried to turn the government into a 24/7/365 campaign, the Democrats, who actually care about the people harmed when the government doesn't do its job, had to do the job that the goddamn Republicans refused to do in order to keep those folks from that harm.
Politically, though, that put them in the position of having to stand up for the status quo, and you don't win elections that way, no matter how good of a job you have been doing.
And it pulled the focus of the party away from the issues it really cared about, giving it a feeling that voters pick up on that there are other priorities they care more about than the ones they are left to campaign for.
I don't know whether simply returning to our core values can win us future elections, but I think we have to do that anyway, and try to get those values associated with the repairs we will be called upon to do when Fergus' administration inevitably crashes and burns.
The question is how do we keep the electorate from wandering off and voting for the next snake oil salesman the minute they get their lives back.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"The question is how do we keep the electorate from wandering off and voting for the next snake oil salesman the minute they get their lives back."
There's the million dollar question. Republicans break shit, Dems have to be the adults and fix things and when things are back to normal we elect Repubs again. Rinse and repeat.
“And it pulled the focus of the party away from the issues it really cared about, giving it a feeling that voters pick up on that there are other priorities they care more about than the ones they are left to campaign for.”
I’m pretty skeptical that the Democrats can’t advocate for democracy and also simultaneously promote practical left-wing policies that would help people. This doesn’t seem that unfeasible (although to accomplish this, you will probably have to stop campaigning with Liz Cheney). So far, though, all of their warnings about Trump’s authoritarianism have fallen on deaf ears, and Republicans seem to incur no cost for their cheating.
So here’s the problem with that: If Republicans cheat constantly and shamelessly, but Democrats don’t, that confers an advantage to Republicans. If the Democrats don’t find some different advantage of their own that would somehow offset this, then they’re guaranteed to lose. Which is what’s been happening.
Eventually, Democrats will get tired of losing, tired of always bringing a banana to a gunfight, and so they’ll be forced to start cheating just as aggressively. And now nobody is maintaining any of the norms of democracy anymore, so it dies and everything spirals toward violence.
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/03/pete-hegseths-mother-begged-him-to-get-some-help---he-joined-a-misogynist-church-instead/
"So here’s the problem with that: If Republicans cheat constantly and shamelessly, but Democrats don’t, that confers an advantage to Republicans. If the Democrats don’t find some different advantage of their own that would somehow offset this, then they’re guaranteed to lose. Which is what’s been happening."
Pretty much our best shot is to get democracy reform passed right out of the gate the next time we get a backlash trifecta, like we tried to do last time but were stopped by Manchin and Sinema. Although getting the senate back will be hard (the maps aren't very favorable the next couple of cycles), and convincing a simple majority to bypass the goddamn filibuster to get it passed won't be easy.
It's been done multiple times for various bills, though, so it is not beyond the realm of possibility.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
What family members and associates will bidet pardon next???
Delusion
Pure bullshit
Giggle......
TDS
Nonsense
Incorrect
Take vaccine and boosters please.
Biden covering himself and family. He and Hunter will throw anyone else under the bus for stopping his 2nd term run.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/03/covid-select-subcommittee-releases-findings-vaccine-mandates-not-supported-by-science-mask-rules-useless/
“What family members and associates will bidet pardon next???”
The answer would be “none.” Hunter was the only Biden family member or associate that the right-wing-o-sphere turned into a hate object and spun conspiracy theories around.
It’s obviously not great that Hunter dodges sentencing for tax evasion (although he has now paid his back taxes plus a penalty), while most of the rest of us dutifully pay our taxes.
But on the other hand, it’s pretty satisfying that all the Biden Crime Family conspiracy theory clowns will never, ever get their imagined revenge on a dude who never harmed any of them, and will instead be told to sit down and STFU. That’s quite enjoyable, actually.
total magat bullshit. Them fuckers can't find their own butts with everyone's hands helping.
“https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/03/covid-select-subcommittee-releases-findings-vaccine-mandates-not-supported-by-science-mask-rules-useless/“
Oh, you mean the laughable coterie of anti-science Republican jackasses in the House? You want us to take public health advice from those dunces? Thanks, but no.
Just a cursory glance at this tells me everything I need to know about the commission’s ridiculous conclusions: 1) COVID is no big deal — just the flu, really — so absolutely nothing should have been done to protect Americans from it. COVID restrictions were such an inconvenience, guys! But also: 2) COVID WAS AN APOCALYPTIC HORROR AND A HISTORIC CRIME AND CHINA DID IT TO US, THE EVIL SLANTY-EYED BASTARDS! WE SHOULD NUKE THEM!
Never mind that these two conclusions are contradictory. Nothing has to make sense, if you’re a Republican.
Remember this?
https://youtu.be/GER3k6KFmiA?si=L3v06xJiE2qalSsa
Your facts are wrong as usual.
Quite a few pardons are coming. The left is always wrong about these things.
Joe lied,again. Has lied for 48 years.
The left fears truth.
Rumour has it anymoose split his tongue lengthwise to better lick both sides of drumpf's ass at the same time. Unfortunately it left the troll with only a forked tongue to spew lies and propaganda.
It might have looked better if Joe had waited for Hunter's case to be appealed to a pair of more competent judges, but he didn't have time for that.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Corruption:
Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun invested $30 million in President-elect Donald Trump’s crypto project three weeks after the election, helping Trump make a potentially hefty profit. Sun ... is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission on charges of fraud, market manipulation and other alleged violations. He announced the investment in Trump’s project Nov. 25 on X.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“It might have looked better if Joe had waited for Hunter's case to be appealed to a pair of more competent judges, but he didn't have time for that”
It might have looked better if he’d waited until Hunter was sentenced on the tax and gun charges in December (assuming that was still the schedule of events, and it actually went forward at that time). And if the sentences handed down were way outside of sentencing norms for those charges, he could then have maybe commuted them to something more reasonable.
But I think he was still always going to have to issue that blanket pardon covering any other possible crimes because, well, you don’t know what kind of vindictive, baseless, bananas charges the incoming Trump DOJ might decide to throw at Hunter next year. Crazy people are going to be running the government.
So in the end, Biden was going to have to either accept looking somewhat bad, or else just let Trump possibly judicially crucify his son solely for the entertainment of the neanderthal Fox News audience.
Baloney
Thats your job groomer.
The majority of Americans have had it with the marxist nonsense.
“Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun invested $30 million in President-elect Donald Trump’s crypto project three weeks after the election, helping Trump make a potentially hefty profit. Sun ... is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission on charges of fraud, market manipulation and other alleged violations. He announced the investment in Trump’s project Nov. 25 on X.”
Grifters helping grifters. The guiding principle of Trump administrations 1 and 2.
Justin Sun also ate a $6 million banana, just to show off how much money he has successfully grifted.
After Gibson's cease and desist letter, the company making Trump branded guitars has pulled its bastardization of a Les Paul from its offerings.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
drumpfuck sweet talked US Steel union workers into voting for him and now he has thrown them under the bus by vowing to block Nippon Steels 14+ billion dollar acquisition of US Steel. Union leader is not a happy camper.
Had he been paying any attention at all to drumpf's previous dealings he would have known drumpf doesn't give a shit about anyone, just their votes.
My last comment until at Least January. Keep the faith, Field Hands and fuck drumpf and anymoose.
Good luck Mike.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Ditto to that! Good luck Mike, we'll do our best to fight off the trolls until you can come back.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/village-people-may-perform-y-m-c-trump/
Apparently there were words written on the shell casings.
https://susiemadrak.com/2024/12/05/so-many-possible-suspects-in-shooting-death-of-serial-killer/
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Paul Krugman is retiring from the NY Times. That’s a major bummer, since he is a reliably sane voice on economic matters, and an enjoyable read as well.
He says he’s going to keep writing and is looking for more freedom to say whatever he likes than what is afforded under the Times editorial rules. Not sure what this means, exactly. Is he going to move to another media outlet, or just start a Substack?
Not surprising. I had a digital subscription to the NYFT just so I could read him. Years ago his newsletter wasn't behind the paywall, and you could read his column if you deleted your cookies first. Then they clamped down and offered a subscription for $4/mo. As of last year they raised it to $20 and so royally pissed me off that I cancelled and will never, ever give them another penny.
I would kick a few his way for a Substack. Not only do I find his writing worthwhile, but i discovered several of my favorite bands from the bottom of his newsletter.
And I would like to once again thank Bloviating Ignoramus
for gifting me those links to his column after I cancelled.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
He's on BlueSky.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Not surprising. I had a digital subscription to the NYFT just so I could read him. Years ago his newsletter wasn't behind the paywall, and you could read his column if you deleted your cookies first. Then they clamped down and offered a subscription for $4/mo. As of last year they raised it to $20 and so royally pissed me off that I cancelled and will never, ever give them another penny.”
Yeah, this sucks. At the moment, there’s not much alternative, though, since the bottom fell out of print advertising rates. Newspapers that have been able to put their stuff behind a paywall, like the Times, are surviving. The ones that aren’t popular enough to get people to pay for subscriptions are simply dying. It is highly destructive to not have good, in-depth news media. This trend is leaving the public pig ignorant about the way the world works, and wrecking our democracy.
Really, access to news should be free, or at least cheap. A new news-financing model is needed. Canada and Australia have proposed taxing tech giants to finance the news media, since the tech giants are the ones who gutted advertising rates and destroyed the old newspaper business model.
Could a tech tax work? Remains to be seen. But something has to be done. It is not acceptable to just have the public be brainwashed by lies on Twitter and Facebook.
" It is not acceptable to just have the public be brainwashed by lies on Twitter and Facebook."
Right. And the goddamn Republicans benefit from the mass distribution of lies, which is dirt cheap, while real verified facts are expensive and require support to arrive at and distribute.
Meanwhile it requires a certain acquired skill to sift through the information available and come up with anything real, and requiring that of the mass of the electorate is unrealistic.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Ice T has performed a fucking miracle. He got Roger the fuck Waters and David Gilmour to agree to let him do a rap version of Comfortably Numb, and have Gilmour play on it. Also, it kicks holy ass.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
You mean like men getting pregnant?
I've known men can't get pregnant since I was a small child. Didn't need to think too much about it.
Dropping in the say hello to everyone, Field, Pilot, Doug, Mike.
And it's officially Dr. Yisheng which if you know Chinese is redundant, LOL!!
Hi,Yisheng! Congratulations.
More than 800 goddamn Republican rapists and pedophiles:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub?pli=1
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Doug, where in the world did you discover this list? Which names names! OMG and all of that! Extraordinary!
I got it on Thomas Ten Bears' blog. He's an old outlaw like me and periodically posts a link to it. I try to repost it whenever I see it.
https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/
Today is 83 years since we were provoked into fighting the fascists. My dad and uncle would be appalled at their country's embrace of the enemy they fought to protect it from.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Holy crap. Bashar al-Assad is rumored to have fled Syria as the rebels have seized the nation’s capital city.
Assad is an evil monster, so most Americans would cheer for the toppling of his regime. Except for the fact that the rebels are apparently Islamic fanatics, so Syria might be about to turn from a secular dictatorship into a theocratic dictatorship. Which would be … not great.
Poor little Tulsi is probably crying.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Poor little Tulsi is probably crying.”
Tulsi’s friend Vladimir will also be having a sad today.
Trump has named eleven billionaires to serve in his cabinet or other key roles in his administration.
And yet, somehow, millions of working-class Americans have been conned into believing he is on their side, fighting against the “elites,” who are actually not terribly elite at all — “woke” college professors and activists and the like.
Make it make sense!
Din/Doug, many thanks for the Homeless link. A rich library of doom to explore! My steady diet of such stuff probably is a reason I often feel like my hair's on fire. I like the doubt and pushback on Tulsi, especially since Syria has exploded, but Trump continues to promote Hegseh, which is worrisome.
We can't know from here whether the new regime in Syria has an actual chance at succeeding, but a lot is riding on the question.
Beyond the lives of the people who live there now, there is also the question of the refugees in their millions who could possibly have a chance to return if a stable Syria were to emerge from this.
You know, the "migrants" that have been used by the right wingers in Europe to win elections for the last decade.
A lot of evil shit can't be undone, but there exists a chance to arrest its progress going forward.
Speculation, to be sure, but the situation does make Biden's support for Ukraine look even better in hindsight.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“We can't know from here whether the new regime in Syria has an actual chance at succeeding, but a lot is riding on the question.”
The rebels who deposed Assad are likely the next guys in charge. That the main group making up the rebels are described as “ex-al Qaeda” does not inspire confidence.
So, I certainly hope things get better in Syria, but I am managing my expectations.
Assad, President of Absolutely Nothing, is now chilling in Moscow.
Beth: He posts so many links that there aren't enough hours in the day to read them all. It's all I can do to just look at them and see what they are.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Looks like they caught the guy. Brings to mind my friend Jack's take on going up against the cops: "You may be able to take any of them on toe to toe, but they have more toes than you do and they work in shifts while you have to sleep sometime,"
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Each time, we always wonder whether it's one of us that finally lost our shit and turned to murder, and each time it never is:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/12/they-had-it-coming-alleged-shooter-uhc-ceo
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Daniel Penny not guilty!!!!
https://revolver.news/2024/12/dei-fbi-agent-convicted-of-robbing-people-blind-during-j6-home-raid/
“Each time, we always wonder whether it's one of us that finally lost our shit and turned to murder, and each time it never is:”
This statement from the article you linked is baffling:
“Mangione has retweeted Tucker Carlson and was an Elon Musk and Peter Thiel stan, but also had an ‘ill will toward corporate America,’ according to a 3-page document of the suspect's.”
So this guy recognizes the evils of capitalism as applied to healthcare, and to such an extent he’s willing to murder a healthcare exec. And he has “ill will toward corporate America,” but also admires … Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel? He thinks those millionaires and billionaires are, what, altruists? Marxists? WTF is going on?
We are a country of people who are angry, but somehow don’t know who to be angry at — including this Mangione dude, who appears to be a privately educated Ivy League grad! He’s furious at the greed of health insurance execs, but would probably vote against the politicians who would rein in their greed.
So many people in this country have nonsensical, incoherent views. Starting with the working-class people who voted for Trump and the Republicans, because they’re supposedly fighting the “elites.” Which is preposterous — those ARE the f*cking elites. The elites are the ultra-wealthy people who control how much you earn, not intellectuals who say stuff you maybe don’t agree with (or just plain don’t understand).
You have to figure that if they're turning to murder for their political statement, they haven't (or maybe can't) thought it all the way through. They're going to catch you. Even if you're smart, careful and clever, they will catch you, so unless that's part of your plan, there are certain flaws in your logic. Also, support for the goddamn Unabomber has been growing on the right, and that's one of your first clues.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Revolver news? 😖 no wonder trump won
“Also, support for the goddamn Unabomber has been growing on the right, and that's one of your first clues.”
Wasn’t the Unabomber just sort of insane? I don’t recall the details. My impression was he had a generalized hatred for technology, but his beliefs didn’t fall on the traditional left/right political spectrum. Mostly because they were too illogical to lead to any kind of policy agenda at all.
There’s certainly a weird thing now where right-wingers identify with scrappy underdogs in movies. For a while, there were some right-wingers adopting symbolism from the movie “V for Vendetta.” I would immediately think: Wait a minute, you know the right-wingers are the BAD GUYS in that movie, right?? The oppressive, fictional government are standard-issue fascists.
This is where these dumbass trumpers get their news. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/09/24/revolvernews-a-right-wing-website-endorsed-by-trump-calls-for-shooting-protestors/
Uh-oh, Doug has become unwound. Calm...Doug. it'll be alright.
From that article: '... If our nation wishes to stay happy, prosperous, and safe, rioters must be crushed completely with the full weight of the American justice system. Our civilization will only ever be as strong as our will and resolve to defend it. Let the shooting start.”
On January 6, 2021, the entire riot could have been put down by one platoon of Marines. That would have been it. No insurrection, no defiling of the Capitol, no dead or disabled cops. No largest investigation in the history of the DOJ, no federal charges against the sitting president.
But that is not what we do in America. Or at least it shouldn't be, and the reasons for that used to be obvious. I'm afraid now the goddamn Republican propaganda machine has far too many questioning why we shouldn't just shoot them before they get due process. They are entering the fuck around zone, though, and anyone with two functioning neurons to rub together knows what comes next.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Great news!!
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