Danny Bateman

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

Notice...they really NEVER show his crowds.  There is a reason

Cousin humpers don’t tend to make for good TV?

Two-tiered justice system, witch hunt, abolish the DOJ, etc.

Well, I’ve now heard Republicans argue both that Trump shouldn’t be convicted during impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors because that’s what elections are for and that we should now elect Trump again because he hasn’t been  convicted of any crimes.

Well played, douchebags.

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Of the issues I pointed out I have a problem with, what makes changing them some bastion of strict conservative ideology?   
 

Give me a good reason why border encounters have to average 5,000 not even including a good portion of the people coming in order to close the border to illegals coming over?   Why can’t that number be 2,000 ( a number even Obama and his HHS Secretary thought was too high). 
 

Why can only the most Liberal judicial circuit hear legal challenges?  
 

Why do the toughest provisions Sunset after three years?  Why do the toughest provisions have a limited number of days a year they can be used and decline in the subsequent years?  
 

Why does the proposed law have to get watered down over time? 
 

The proposed amnesty solution is almost as liberal as one can make it.  Nice work  ra

I don’t really care to argue the nitty gritty with you. I get your shtick and I’m not interested. Maybe someoene else is; if you knock yourself out.

My actual gripe is that one of the two parties who actually get to run things here has a completely dysfunctional, f#&%ed-up idea of how our political system should work. Rank dishonesty, incompetence, zero accountability and utter subservience to their completely f#&%ed-up standard bearer. 
 

All while gaslighting anybody halfway normal into thinking it’s all completely normal, appropriate behavior.

It would be great if we could stop pretending it’s normal business as usual and start to acknowledge and address the tremendous damage it’s doing to our political system and our broader society.

This whole thread has just devolved into reverse engineering reasons Republicans are ACTUALLY being the reasonable, responsible ones here.

Instead of demanding specific stuff in the bill, getting what they wanted included. And then spiking the bill anyway.

So now if we’d all just grow up and accept a MORE conservative bill we could pass it and move on.

I’m sorry, no. The Republican Party is a bunch of extremist weirdos on pretty much any given topic. And their elected officials are spineless, craven bootlickers so scared of the leader of their own party they buckle and bow to his every whim without so much as a glancing independent thought.

Screw them. They don’t get to take the border hostage.

“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you."

- Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator from South Carolina

For goodness sakes can we stop pretending like we have to treat Tucker Carlson like a legitimate journalist? None of the people TV personalities from Fox News are. They’re professional mouthpieces who get paid gobs and gobs of many to be the faces of the right-wing propaganda machine.

The framing for the purpose of the “interview” is idiotic and gives the game away. It’s a scripted stunt. You think a dictator like Putin sits down and gets challenged by real journalists with real questions? Hell, our leaders here in the free world barely do that. No way in hell Putin does. He disappears people who look at him wrong.

Tucker is there to serve his purpose and dance his little puppet dance.

Pretending otherwise is laughable.

On 1/31/2024 at 12:19 AM, Moiraine said:

I can't believe I posted this before Covid

Did COVID hasten your nerdification?

Morons just failed their Mayorkas impeachment vote.

Apparently one Democrat they didn’t expect to vote showed up and tipped the scales to no.

What an absolute clown show of a party. I can’t believe there are actually people who expect these idiots to be able to trip over their own dicks long enough for to do anything useful for the country.

GOP: “IT’S A CRISIS CLOSE THE BORDER!”

Dems: “Ok here’s a bill so we can close the border.”

GOP: “NO NOT LIKE THAT!”

Imagine ten years ago someone told you a border security bill that Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden and the Border Patrol themselves had endorsed would fail because Donald Trump and the GOP rank and file would claim it’s not sufficiently conservative.

You’d probably ask if they needed medical attention.

Boy if they’re too scared to lead the pack on killing DST, you guys back home can probably look forward to legal pot a day or two before the sun finally craps out.

35 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Yeah…..we should make these kids pay for their own legal fees. 
 

Thats the America I want to live in. 
 

 

These clowns probably want more taxpayer funds funneled towards paying for golf trips or hotel/resort stays for their corrupt orange Messiah.

18 minutes ago, commando said:

 

Has anyone told the Border Patrol that they’re a bunch of RINO cucks? 
 

Obviously they want this to fail so they can just keep living on Easy Street.

1 hour ago, DevoHusker said:

 

 

 

RFK Jr. says Russia ‘acting in good faith’ in Ukraine invasion, US in part to blame for war

Pretty sure Bobby Junior can sit this one out. 

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

What are you even talking about? This isn’t a safari

 

Take the number from 5,000 and put it at 2,000 ALL INCLUDED with automatic triggers that only a bipartisan commission (equal party representation) can override and not a president.  
Allow all Federal Jurisdictions to hear cases and not just the DC Jurisdiction 

Amnesty…must have been documented to be denied amnesty from a contingent country before applying to US and remain in Mexico if Amnesty cases reach over 1,000 a day.   
Equal amount of funding for Southern Border as any funding for Ukraine and Israel security.  
No sunset on the enforcement provisions. 
 

Keep the rest of the Democrat wish list in the bill and call it good.   That wasn’t too hard 

If they thought that would get 60 votes that would be the bill.

Republicans don’t have the leverage you think they do and they just handed Biden a stick to beat them with. Bang up job.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Uhhhh Chris knows no one is talking about commerce/trade when the words “close the border”  is discussed in this immigration reform bill.   Chris knows it’s in reference to closings incoming illegal or asylum seeking immigrants from entering.   But Chris now knows the mistake he let out of the bag and is not trying to cover said mistake by gaslighting and goal post moving.

Funny to hear Republicans complain about moving the goalposts on immigration reform. 
 

Hilarious, even.
 

10 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

I think most points of the bill will work, and it is bipartisan. I think they actually did try to work out points that address a lot of the issues. And, for the record, I am for securing the border, then INCREASing legal entry. 

 

Just don't tie it in with another $75 billion in funding to Ukraine and Isreal. 

There once was a time when you could rely on the GOP to not just roll over for the Ruskies attacking our allies.

Sadly, that time has passed and is gone, so now we have to use cute little tricks like this to drag them along with beating back the commies.

Shame so many of them grew to idolize Putin, truly.

1 hour ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

I do admit, it's pretty funny to see the Republican Party on the cusp of one of their biggest policy victories in 20 years, winning the battle against Democrats who've opposed these kinds of immigration restrictions since the 1990s, only to deem them not restrictive enough because the Orange Cult Leader wants to win an election to avoid going to prison.

 

They're going to torpedo one of the few policy goals they have all in the name of one of Felon-to-be-Trump. A form of self immolation that is hilarious. The border issue will never be addressed beyond this point. Republicans will never get 60 votes next year to pass even more restrictive policy. 

 

But hey, why fix problems when you can win elections? 

Makes a lot more sense when you remember Republicans don’t care about actually solving problems. They care about propagating their worldview, much of which they can already accomplish through the courts. They certainly don’t want to legislate.

They view their job as winning elections. They want power simply for the sake of power. They want to remain in Washington as long as possible to reap the benefits for themselves while trying to break the government, making it as dysfunctional as possible, with a thin veneer of being serious people trying to do the job they were sent there to do.

Also, of course they complain current enforcement isn’t enough. They don’t care “tougher enforcement” means toothless, unconstitutional EOs, directives already ruled illegal or abject cruelty. The modern GOP doesn’t give two rips about the Constitution. They want their way, they want it now and they simply want to pin this issue on Biden; see the “craven power hungry twats” excerpt above.

I see the GOP talking points got sent out to the usual suspects for why the bill just isn’t actually good without delay. 
 

“We want 100% of our wishlist or we’ll take our ball and go home. Yes it’s a crisis. Yes it’s out of control. No we don’t care. This is how politics actually works. We’re a serious party and demand to be taken seriously.”

What a hoot.

1 hour ago, ZRod said:

He just had the Kick of Destiny commercials coming out with Gronk too... 

Dammit I knew I recognized him but I wasn’t sure it was actually him.

RIP, some really iconic roles. 

5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

My God….I never thought I would see the day that Republicans hope America fails.  
 

 

What a miserable prick.

Sure it won’t bother him in his tailored suit with his expensive shoes in his lavishly furnished office, though.

4 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I was just about to post this story.

Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources

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Special counsel Jack Smith's team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called "hidden room" inside former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn't check while searching the estate in August 2022, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

 

As described to ABC News, the line of questioning in several interviews ahead of Trump's indictment last year on classified document charges suggests that -- long after the FBI seized dozens of boxes and more than 100 documents marked classified from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate -- Smith's team was trying to determine if there might still be more classified documents there.

 

According to sources, some investigators involved in the case came to later believe that the closet, which was locked on the day of the search, should have been opened and checked.

 

As investigators would later learn, Trump allegedly had the closet's lock changed while his attorney was in Mar-a-Lago's basement, searching for classified documents in a storage room that he was told would have all such documents. Trump's alleged efforts to conceal classified documents from both the FBI and his own attorney are a key part of Smith's indictment against Trump in Florida.

 

Bolded is my emphasis. That just screams innocence.
 

Seems like an nice exit ramp for his attorneys, honestly.

I mean certainly I made my thoughts known in the Shed, but I think part of the issue here is just the weird amount of deference you’re paying to the current lead of the party whose politics you support on this matter while simultaneously remaining skeptical of his accuser.

So the guy who:

-Frequently swaps wives for a younger, hotter model

-Was busted cheating on said wives with a pornstar and paid her hush money to silence her

-Frequently alludes to wanting to bang his daughter

-Visited the changing room of the UNDERAGE girls in his beauty pageants because he could

-Likely chose his lawyer in said legal case on the basis of her looks (certainly not her legal prowess!); this is a pattern for him and almost all the women of prominence in his orbit

-“Grab em by the pu&&y”

-Was good friends with Epstein

You find it hard to believe THAT GUY is a sexual predator? And if so, good lord, why?

Wouldn’t it be easier to just admit you like his politics but you admit he’s by and large the worst human being of any political consequence in any of our lifetimes? 
 

And I’m fairly sure I say that without hyperbole in spite of the fact people like David Duke and Dennis Hastert exist.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Have no desire to fix anything. 
 

 

Isn’t that exactly what Trump tried to do with the COVID-19 checks?