Sadly, These Are Not Serious People

[jfish26]

the billions are nothing these days. the way uncle is tossing the money around. all over the globe.

we used to talk about millions(ho hum). now it's billions(yawn). get back to me when we start talking about whatever comes after billions.





how much has uncle so graciously spread around the globe these last few years. make 26.8 look like chump change.

DO you understand how stupid it is to be pounding the table over spending money when your solution costs TWICE AS MUCH? It's peak GOP performance art with zero actual attempt to govern.

The "run the government like a business" crowd sometimes does not like the government to be run like a business; "fuck my A/R people, tired of spending money trying to collect on invoices."

[KUTradition]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

[jhawks99]

Do these people think of anything else?

Geebus.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

Something tells me when Jack was 17 (coincidently named Jack Johnson - Middle name Off?) he sat in his bedroom alone at night and did something worse than looking at porn.

You know, something such as fetishizing about guns and ...... ??????



















Maybe his little brother did/does too?

[jfish26]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

I mean, YES, it's hilarious.

But I would think the elected leader of the Party of Hillary's Emailzzz and Hunter's Laptop from HELL and Ban the CCP's TikTok - you know, the Party of Serious People - would be a little more thoughtful on cyber security than to install a tracking app that is designed to tell third parties what's on your phone

[twocoach]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

I mean, YES, it's hilarious.

But I would think the elected leader of the Party of Hillary's Emailzzz and Hunter's Laptop from HELL and Ban the CCP's TikTok - you know, the Party of Serious People - would be a little more thoughtful on cyber security than to install a tracking app that is designed to tell third parties what's on your phone

When that kid hits college and is out from under those parents, he is going to LET LOOSE. Yikes, look out, world.

[jfish26]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

I mean, YES, it's hilarious.

But I would think the elected leader of the Party of Hillary's Emailzzz and Hunter's Laptop from HELL and Ban the CCP's TikTok - you know, the Party of Serious People - would be a little more thoughtful on cyber security than to install a tracking app that is designed to tell third parties what's on your phone

When that kid hits college and is out from under those parents, he is going to LET LOOSE. Yikes, look out, world.

Or, worse - he won't.

[Shirley]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

Speaking of "creepy".

For years in the context of republicans banning abortion, and at times contraception, I've commented all over social media: "The white male republican obsession with controlling America's vaginas is creepy beyond description".

Turns out, affirmation this creepy, isn't all that satisfying.

[jfish26]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11 ... enant-eyes

Speaking of "creepy".

For years in the context of republicans banning abortion, and at times contraception, I've commented all over social media: "The white male republican obsession with controlling America's vaginas is creepy beyond description".

Turns out, affirmation this creepy, isn't all that satisfying.

A MAGA friend of mine posted this morning that pro-Palestinian protesters vandalizing a couple posts on the White House walls was "far worse than J6."

Which relates to your post at the highest and most big-picture-significant level.

There is a craving inside all of us, for money and power and dominion and sex. There's a fear inside all of us, of losing those things, and of change and of people that don't look like us.

And in WAY WAY WAY too many of us, that craving, and that fear, together not just obscure or overtake but obliterate the good, the rational, that is also inside all of us.

It is literally disorder - and those who will take the stage tomorrow night are knowingly weaponizing (yes, "weaponizing") or at least taking advantage that disorder in their own pursuits of money and power and dominion and sex. (The notably-absent guy is of course doing so as well, while ALSO being a victim of the disorder.)

[Shirley]

In the event any of you are worried that Speaker Mike Johnson has chosen to adjourn the House for a long weekend only a week before yet another republican plan to shut the government down, again, take heart! Because

Republican Rep. Troy Nehls, of Texas said that he would pray for the new speaker.

Nehls went on to say: "I don't think the Lord Jesus himself could manage this group,"

"We’re still dealing with the same divisions we always have had," said another House Republican. "We’re ungovernable."

This shows that republicans, as dysfunctional as they might appear to be, have insight, which is so, so hopeful!

Steady as she goes you small government, fiscally conservative, institutionalist, republicans, you!

[japhy]

Nothing says "Happy Thanksgiving", "Merry Christmas", "God Bless America" AND brings the holiday cheer like cutting off the money millions of our citizens need to provide food and shelter for themselves and their loved ones.

Sure there will be some civilian casualties, but damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead, Heil Trump!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8pIIB8q8g

[Shirley]

Today In: WhoTF votes for these people?

Republican Senator tries to FIGHT WITNESS during Senate hearing...McCarthy elbows republican rep who voted against him in the kidneys, rep chases after him.

[jfish26]

Today In: WhoTF votes for these people?

Republican Senator tries to FIGHT WITNESS during Senate hearing...McCarthy elbows republican rep who voted against him in the kidneys, rep chases after him.

In far too great a percentage, the answer is people who can only conceive of politics as a team sport, and do not feel that anything that happens in Washington has any actual meaning to their lives.

[jfish26]

To which I would add - I think Trump’s recent decloseting (he’s now living out as a fascist) presents an ideal opportunity for the Dems to make a unity deal that >8 R reps cannot refuse. Use THIS moment, this moment where the presumptive R candidate is TELLING YOU OUT LOUD that a vote for him is a vote for autocracy dressed up as theocracy, to crystallize for voters that one side is a party interested in governing for the people, and the other is a party interested in dominating them.

[Shirley]

To which I would add - I think Trump’s recent decloseting (he’s now living out as a fascist) presents an ideal opportunity for the Dems to make a unity deal that >8 R reps cannot refuse. Use THIS moment, this moment where the presumptive R candidate is TELLING YOU OUT LOUD that a vote for him is a vote for autocracy dressed up as theocracy, to crystallize for voters that one side is a party interested in governing for the people, and the other is a party interested in dominating them.

Sadly, according to Mitt Romney's book, there might not be > 8 R reps willing to risk the "I am your retribution..."

[jfish26]

To which I would add - I think Trump’s recent decloseting (he’s now living out as a fascist) presents an ideal opportunity for the Dems to make a unity deal that >8 R reps cannot refuse. Use THIS moment, this moment where the presumptive R candidate is TELLING YOU OUT LOUD that a vote for him is a vote for autocracy dressed up as theocracy, to crystallize for voters that one side is a party interested in governing for the people, and the other is a party interested in dominating them.

Sadly, according to Mitt Romney's book, there might not be > 8 R reps willing to risk the "I am your retribution..."

Turns out the Dems more or less did what I hoped they’d do, at least at a small scale!

I am ALL in favor of Biden and the Dems simply doing the job, and letting that be attractive enough.

[Shirley]

To which I would add - I think Trump’s recent decloseting (he’s now living out as a fascist) presents an ideal opportunity for the Dems to make a unity deal that >8 R reps cannot refuse. Use THIS moment, this moment where the presumptive R candidate is TELLING YOU OUT LOUD that a vote for him is a vote for autocracy dressed up as theocracy, to crystallize for voters that one side is a party interested in governing for the people, and the other is a party interested in dominating them.

Sadly, according to Mitt Romney's book, there might not be > 8 R reps willing to risk the "I am your retribution..."

Turns out the Dems more or less did what I hoped they’d do, at least at a small scale!

I am ALL in favor of Biden and the Dems simply doing the job, and letting that be attractive enough.

What?! BORING!

Pro tip: A political party that isn't on fire, isn't news!

(Can't believe I have to tell you that.)

The Dems need to step up their game, and attract more media attention!

Republicans are running circles around us in attracting eyes!

Last time on: As The GOP Burns...

Elbowmania!

[jfish26]

Sadly, according to Mitt Romney's book, there might not be > 8 R reps willing to risk the "I am your retribution..."

Turns out the Dems more or less did what I hoped they’d do, at least at a small scale!

I am ALL in favor of Biden and the Dems simply doing the job, and letting that be attractive enough.

What?! BORING!

Pro tip: A political party that isn't on fire, isn't news!

(Can't believe I have to tell you that.)

The Dems need to step up their game, and attract more media attention!

Republicans are running circles around us in attracting eyes!

Last time on: As The GOP Burns...

Elbowmania!

The media orgs tempted to lean into the chaos for sugar-rush ratings purposes would do well to take Trump at his word - that they're out of business (if not in the DOJ's crosshairs) the moment Trump's hand burns through the bible.

[japhy]

I know a lot of people in Oklahoma, never heard of this version of Oklahoma values. But they do talk about "guys with two first names", and it usually isn't complementary.

Senator Markwayne Mullin is apparently out for blood in his ongoing feud with a union boss.

The freshman congressman has taken to conservative political talk shows, refusing to give up a fight he had sparked with International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, a Senate committee witness, during a Tuesday hearing.

On one show, Mullin claimed that he “wasn’t afraid of biting” O’Brien if the moment called for it.

“I’ll bite 100 percent. In a fight, I’m gonna bite. I’ll do anything. I’m not above it. And I don’t care where I bite by the way,” Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter, told podcast host Kyle Thompson on Wednesday’s episode of Undaunted.Life.

From Mullin’s perspective, these alterations are a part of representing the people of Oklahoma. In an interview with Fox’s Hannity on Tuesday evening, Mullin claimed his constituents would be “pretty upset” with him for failing to represent “Oklahoma values.”

While consensual fighting, also known as mutual combat, is a legal pathway for conflict resolution in some areas of the country like Texas and Washington state, it’s not in D.C., where Mullin and O’Brien would more likely be charged with assault and battery. It’s also a strange method of conflict resolution in the middle of a Senate hearing.

Mullin hasn’t given up hope that there might still be precedent on Capitol Hill, however.

“We looked into the rules. You used to be able to cane. You gotta remember, President Andrew Jackson challenged nine guys to a duel and won nine times,” Mullin told Newsmax’s Carl Higbie.

“And so at the end of the day, there is presence [sic] for it, if that’s what someone wants to do,” Mullin added.

The fight began Tuesday during a Senate committee hearing, when Mullin read aloud social media posts that O’Brien had made about the Oklahoma Republican online, including snubbing him as a “clown” and a “fraud,” though the initial confrontation ended abruptly after Senator Bernie Sanders scolded the pair.

Most middle school boys would know this was a stupid idea, but not a Senator with performative "Oklahoma values".

[KUTradition]

them Okies must be so very proud