Danny Bateman

I’m sure our resident right-leaning folks think this is no big deal. Besides, OLD MAN BAD! Also DEI! Have you even SEEN the border lately!?

Ummm, if I could take a brief detour from the very serious analysis of old man bad for just a second... Does anybody else have serious concerns about a private company posting almost $100M bond for a presidential candidate so he can continue appealing (and immediately continue defaming) the woman he raped? Once again, louder, for those in the back: A RAPIST is running for president, had his buddy's company post nearly $100M bond so he can appeal his defamation judgment (for attacking the woman he was found to have RAPED) and he lacks the impulse control to not immediately begin attacking her AGAIN. The CEO of the company was a political appointee of Trump's. They have not disclosed any collateral or where these funds are coming from. Isn't having a president that's bought and paid for by his rich buddies kind of an issue? What is this guy or Chubb Limited going to want in return? It's amazing so many Americans are now fine with lowering the bar so low for this piece of trash.

What do you all make of this story? I mean anyone right of center tends to dismiss out of hand concerns about right-wing Christian nationalism, but isn't that EXACTLY what this is? Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

It's incredible conservative American men., who pride themselves on their rugged nature and sheer masculinity, continue to look up to figures like Musk and Trump, who have proven time and time again they're petulant man-babies who completely implode at any type of criticism and lie constantly to maintain their fragile egos.

I saw this some time ago on the matter and whenever I remember it I always get a good chuckle.

Re-elected in 2022. He’s safe until 2028. Nice to see one of them who is presumably safe tell the truth about Trump.

Not to threadcrap, but who can forget this all time classic. This might be the coolest thing he ever did. And believe me I’m not one to foist complements upon Dubya.

Dana White's been offering $10 off UFC PPV events recently. Hopefully revenues are down, that guy sucks. I'm not forking one cent over to him so I sail the high seas. I mean, shoot. Joe's old. But so is Trump. And he's the fakest tough guy I've ever seen in my life. Compare their reactions at these two events. Trump's always makes me chuckle. That's the body language of a dude who's gonna fold up like a lawn chair the first time he gets popped in the mouth. Joe just kinda sit there and watches. I mean it helps like Jill boxed out like she was crashing the boards for a rebound.

Maybe I’m being way too generous but I would probably break this lot down into different buckets: 1. Single-issue pro-Palestine hardliners. Ain’t winning these folks. 2. Professional activists who want their attention and clout points. Ditto, and these are worse than 1 because they aren’t even principled, they’re just agitators for selfish reasons. 3. Naive folks whose hearts are largely in the right place but don’t understand or care about domestic politics. And thus don’t understand or care that the alternative makes things much worse. 4. Dumbass leftists who view themselves as perpetual Overton Window shifters on every issue. Again, not a fan because their politics aren’t principled, just leftist for the sake of being leftist. Hopefully 3 is the biggest group. They seem like the most likely to come home. I’m glad they’re pulling this stunt in the primary. Doing so now is more defensible even if I don’t agree with it. But in the general election, you’re definitely playing with fire and stand to get burned pretty badly. Saw today he was talking about Israel “finishing the problem” in Gaza. As usual his geopolitics is akin to an 8 year old’s playing with GI Joes- just say whatever he think sounds tough. But of course Trump is corrupt like Bibi is corrupt. Trump likes Bibi because he thinks they’re friends. Bibi likes Trump because he’s a vain, easily manipulated moron. So no one should be surprised.

What exactly did the expect to find in a diner in Texas?

And yet, even as the logically correct ruling, it sucks that it has the secondary effect of letting Trump pretend he did nothing wrong. He’s already touting it as such and his moronic followers lap it up. Also the Supreme Court issues an inordinate amount of rulings that rely on Congress not being hopelessly broken in order to address major issues. The end result is just a big game of passing the buck somewhere it’s going to sit and gather dust.

I thought about this on the ride to work this morning because they mentioned a renewed trade war with China and stiffer tariffs. I’m sure those policies will sell well to a lot of folks but polls results like this really just reinforce how financially illiterate most of the electorate is. Tariffs are a tax on Americans. Lol

Maybe those morons could learn to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.

If only there were a group of people tasked with working to create new rules and outline specific procedures and protocols that could restore order to this system and help it actually work how it’s supposed to for the betterment of the country and its citizens… But as far as I know nothing like that exists. I guess we’re just SOL.

God willing, if our legal system does it’s thing, he never will… That’s the plan I think. In the long run, the ruling is definitely good. Ruling the other way would’ve just been weaponized where both parties would’ve called anything they want an insurrection and used it to kick opponents they don’t like off ballots. As obviously guilty re: Jan 6th as this particular douche is. Sill sad to see how willing SCOTUS and the broader legal system is to enable his shenanigans. It’s a case study is how a person who has committed multitudes of extremely obvious crimes but has sufficient money behind them and/or friendly judges can just get off scot free. This is the two-tiered legal system cons b!^@h about. It just doesn’t cut the way the claim it does.

Did they finally reopen the Wichita glory hole?

We're discussing hypothetical policies that could save these lawless leftist hellscapes. I think Trump said it best: this current administration is simply orchestrating a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America. The lawlessness here is just a part of that!

I work in the medical field and have coworkers who openly talk about being skeptical of vaccinating themselves and their kids... COVID was incredibly damaging in terms of taking a relatively fringe movement and mainstreaming it for a lot of people. It made it pretty easy to ID the morons amongst us, though. Ole George had a pretty good take on this...

Amazing considering we lost a couple bats to the draft last year but our offense sure feels a lot more dynamic than last year already. That's with key guys like Gabe batting .067, Carey .205 and Anglim .227 before today's game. Obviously need to still find the power stroke but coming home should help. Super impressed with the pitching so far too. Canning Christy was the right choice - Childress is paying immediate dividends. Really enjoying things so far. Can't wait to get the home season kicked off next weekend.

Why limit yourself to what is realistic if we're just discussing hypotheticals? Good policy is good policy. Don't constrain your mind for the sake of appeasing the woke mob. These areas are clearly out of control, lawless crime beds. The only solution is to make people afraid of the legal system again. More force, not less. Make America scared again! Turning a blind eye to these scumbags isn't going to make the problem better. W e need to deal with them, harshly.

Why? I’m not about to run around worrying about people’s feelings. That kind of thinking is soft. If the goal is deterrence I want people TERRIFIED. In fact maybe draconian isn’t tough enough…

I mean if the discussion is crazy leftist policies, I think moving to embrace more draconian measures would be beneficial. Let's get some tougher deterrents to start cleaning up these hellholes. Or we could just continue with 24/7 crime and chaos.

I mean personally I think they should bring back the guillotine for this wanton criminals and gang bangers. I'm tired of half measures. And use it at the border too. Politicians today need to get tough and stop fooling around.

Honestly what a lot of MAGAs need is an honest sit down with Dean Wormer. Of course he'd have to slip the word "angry" in there.