Danny Bateman

Stop hating on teach for being a proud investor in Vietnamese currency!

This is his version of... errr, male insecurity, isn't it?

No one is as they age. It's normal age-related cognitive decline. There's a difference between that and all the dishonest armchair MDs that accuse him of having DeMeNTiA. Our political system also generally rewards us with a ton of really old elected officials. It's a stupid quirk of the system.

Maybe an unpopular opinion here, but the race I was most happy to see go the way it does was the Pennsylvania Senate race. Screw Dr. Oz. That guy is an unscrupulous piece of crap who hocked stuff he knew was at best useless and at worse harmful to morons just to make a buck and then carpetbagged his way all the way to some random state because he got bored on TV and wanted power just cuz. Conversely, Fetterman is just the type of candidate Democrats should be running. He's a well-known, well-liked brand in his state and despite his flaws, seems extremely authentic, which is a nice contrast with Oz. And he outperformed Biden in his home state. Running candidates who are well-liked in their state running on popular local issues instead of relying on whoever can kiss the party leader's butt the most seems like smart politics.

You don’t go party with them like DeSantis do you?

They have a much more diverse electorate with positions that are much less homogenous. That makes it a lot harder to stitch together electorally. Well that, and the radicalization of much of the electorate at the hands of religious institutions and right-wing news obviously isn’t doing them any favors.

They’re not not learning. One major party is fine with armed weirdos staking out ballot drop boxes. One can only surmise why.

True to form, this Texan did not even waste a beer on Cruz. I just saw a story that claimed it was a White Claw! (obligatory we should not try to attack politicians)

Did you appreciate his "To independent-minded voters [let me tell you who to vote for]" shtick?

I like this analogy because I was going to point out no one has mentioned that Megamind has all the understanding of what free speech actually is of an edgy middle school civics student after the first day of their Intro to American Government class.

I don’t know if taking legal advice from Tom Fitton is like taking your Christmas advice from the Grinch. He’s about as far as you could get from a neutral party. He, like Musk, have been trapped huffing a pure, unadulterated supply of their own farts long enough, that this kind of dreck starts to sound plausible instead of the ridiculous fascist crap it is.

Can confirm. Am Democrat and these were all very popular at the latest monthly meeting. We are also looking very strongly at ways to expedite immigrant caravans, burn more American flags, kill God, kick more puppies and encourage more common use of the word “moist” in everyday conversation.

Oh, another political candidate attacked in their home. Hmmm, what parallels could we draw between this and the Pelosi attack. Gee, I wonder.

Curious why the OP has his weight as 190. All three recruiting sites I checked showed from 220-225. I know there's some fudging of numbers there a lot of the time but he looks thicker than 190. He'd be the biggest RB on the roster only behind Yant. Who just isn't that great. We could use a future thumper.

9/11 boost.

Well this just stands to reason. Look what horrifying effects the Devil's Lettuce is having on people!

I understand how this sounds good to voters, but it's just absurd. There's no way you can A) reduce funding and downsize the IRS and B) make it work better for people. Pick one. Republicans care a lot more about A than B. They just pretend to also want B. The reason it's been staffed up is because it takes money and manpower to actually enforce tax law against tax cheats, who disproportionately skew wealthy and/or corporative. Republicans do not care about that and are willing to lie to people about it for votes.

Now you watch it buddy. I’ve never known elected Republicans to lie to anyone or distort the truth in any way before. And I will not stand for slander of their good name, sir. They stand to gain absolutely nothing from keeping people terrified all of the time.

Triggered name calling of who, exactly? At the time I had no idea who I was responding to. Thanks for the explanation, I guess. If you don't see how your party and their decisions have radicalized people like this weirdo, well, I can't help you.

I think they’re absolutely related in that these kind of terrible rulings, not recusing from blatant conflict of interest cases (since his wife is an election denier), etc. will continue until there’s accountability for SCOTUS. The dog and pony show that is the confirmation hearings doesn’t count. From that point on, zero accountability. Some would argue that’s by design, but how long will people be OK with that if rulings continue to stray further from mainstream opininon?

How long until Republicans are convinced electing Dr. Phil (R - OK) is a good idea because “America needs to GET REAL?”

Clarence Thomas (and by extension, his insane wife) doing what they are doing is exhibit A in the case for SCOTUS term limits.

Man politics as a whole are mind-numbingly dumb, but anyone not willing to admit the GOP just doing more and more damage to normal society doesn’t have two brain cells to slap together to recognize their a$$ from a hole in the ground.