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Dave Chappelle Claims to ‘Feel Better’ Remembering the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
the thing with this is there was no joke humor… I mean yeah sure dark humor can work if it an actual joke but there wasn’t one.
He is worried that woke 2.0 will come for him.
no, he is just a cunt
Yep.
Sell out.
Sold out to the group that already hated him. Wise move.
Yeah… I don’t think he was joking.
Well, he’s Muslim, and they are generally quite pleased when outspoken Christians get killed.
What an ingrate asshole.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2119439465097691511/photo/1
Well that sucks. I used to be a Chappelle fan.
It wasn’t even a bad joke.
Keeping It Real went to far.
*too
(I make that mistake to often.)
I am beginning to worry that a significant number of people want us dead. I say us because libertarians in the public consciousness are often portrayed as “far right”. I have a coworker that said if they had a gun and a chance to kill Bezos they would use it. In shocked horror, I asked why and they mumbled something about how he bought a super yacht instead of helping the poors. Seeing my horror they seemed a bit chastened but only a bit.
Scary times.
You should have asked him whether it would be OK if someone below him on the economic ladder raped and murdered his wife.
People are so used to talking shit online that they’re doing it in real life now? What could possibly go wrong?
“I am beginning to worry that a significant number of people want us dead. I say us because libertarians in the public consciousness are often portrayed as “far right”.”
To these Maoists anyone not far to the left of Mao, is the far right. Especially if you show any kind of love of the country or disdain for bigger government.
A good coworker/friend of mine who is a Democrat(blue dog old school type, not even a far lefty) who is not a gun fan said if he had the chance he would buy a gun and shoot OMB. It shook me that such a mild milquetoast dem would have such hatred for one man.
Charlie was a Christian apologist.
Dave prays to a rock five times a day.
They want guys like me to be beheaded.
Ron DeSantis Calls Out Republicans over ‘Crony Capitalism’
as long as there is honest graft not dishonest graft.
I was already convinced that enough RINOs will side with Dems on the upcoming craziness but I didn’t expect the President to side with them too.
Immigration was the one thing that the exit polls showed Trump and the R party being viewed positively by the public. The entire R base that gave a middle finger to the party in this last election will just be just completely lost at that point.
Completely doesn’t make sense. Elevate basically the architect of the immigration policy to Chief of Staff and then immediately cut his legs off.
Its almost like its 2018 all over again.
Trump has been talking about not deporting immigrants working in certain businesses for a long time.
Deportation is the kind option. If they don’t leave, their fate should be worse.
Then you’re part of the problem.
Effing Christ. The one thing he got right, and he’s going to trash it. I guess the TACO jibe is true.
With any luck, Miller will walk out over this. I know this will destroy the Republicans in 2028, and after the Dems sweep the board then, I don’t think we’ll need to worry about the Republicans any more. Possibly they’ll continue as a purely decorative “opposition”, I suppose.
So, the usual.
Back in 2016, I had told a friend that Trump was a plant for Hillary when he was still in the primary stage. Now I’m wondering if I wasn’t far off…
The Republicans will exist as pretend opposition as long as the Democrats want to maintain the illusion of two party government. At some point, they will decide they no longer need a fake opponent and the GOP will follow the Whigs down the drain.
Doc exactly why I didn’t vote for him in 2016
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Democrats ran through a gun control bill and Trump signs it.
He’s worthless.
“Look at this great deal I made with them!”
I can already see it.
I got to shoot a buddy’s silenced .308 this weekend. With subsonic ammo, all you hear is the firing pin and the bullet hitting the steel target.
I NEED ONE BEFORE THE BLUE WAVE MAKES THEM ILLEGAL.
Just put a bullet in the Republican Party
This kind of violent rhetoric should not be on a family friendly site.
Site slow? Taking forever to load.
I blame lack of sufficient date centers.
Date center for Pie
I blame the TEAM BLUE takeover.
I blame Dave Chapelle.
At his peak
I see limp-wristed so-called conservatives saying “but we mustn’t cancel him for this”.
Fuck that. Cancellation is one way a society polices itself. Celebrating the assassination of someone* should get your ass cancelled in polite society.
*certain politicians excepted, of course
I’m starting to think that the only reason Trump ran in 2024 was to prove he could win and satisfy his ego. Once he’d accomplished that he didn’t seem to much care.
Good morning Raven!
The Gateway Pundit types having a hissy fit after the New Zealand special votes are counted is going to be obnoxious.
The concern trolling over the overhang MPs necessitating extra spending is also obnoxious.
The overhang is kind of stupid but they’re only freaking out because it went to the wrong party.
Plenty of people lose their logic ability in their late 70s and revert to the sorts of tantrums and decision making they had as a child.
So Georgia insurance companies will have to treat everyone like they live in the hood. Or leave the state. Some will do the first, some the second.
Medicare supplements wave goodbye in MN
https://tcbmag.com/medicare-advantage-exits-six-minnesota-counties-2027/
I was never impressed with the “Advantage” plans, but I suppose they serve some folks needs.
No Silver Sneakers in MN?
There’s an advantage alright but the plan is for insurance companies to make money.
Isn’t all of Georgia the hood?
“Diamond says she needs to see them as part of her attempt to collect more child support through a case she brought against Chris. She says the singer has an estimated net worth of $50 million … but is only paying her around $7K a month … which she thinks should be much higher…
Diamond said it’s hard for her to figure out his true income … and needs to see his records to get an accurate idea of what he makes and what he can afford to pay in child support. She said she only has $10K to her name and believes Chris should pay at least $30K per month in child support.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/11/09/chris-brown-baby-mama-diamond-wants-to-see-his-bank-records/
You can’t raise a child on $84K a year?
off course not you need at least 500k
360K raises better kids.
I’m guessing delivery service similar to Amazon, only faster.
That’s the sticking your dick in crazy tax is all.
“Bear Grylls is speaking out on Russell Brand’s rape conviction two years after he baptized the comedian.
He continued, “It is right that justice has now been served. I can’t imagine how hard this time has been for the victims, the heroes of the day.””
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bear-grylls-addresses-russell-brands-baptism-calls-victims-heroes-day-after-verdict
CWAA
So, Bear Grylls is an idiot who thinks people’s lives should be destroyed based on accusations without evidence.
That’s alleged rapist Bear Grylls who masterminded paki rape gangs.*
*I have no evidence either.
Bear always came across to me as a pussy.
“A nonprofit that rakes in tens of millions in taxpayer dough was accused of fueling sex trafficking in the city’s notorious “Market of Sweethearts” by handing out condoms right outside of brothels.
Locals spotted an AIDS Center of Queens County van parked outside a residential block on 41st Avenue and fumed as workers handed out condoms to prostitutes coming in and out of the sleazy joints along the troubled Roosevelt Avenue corridor….
The nonprofit has more than $40 million in active contracts — at least $34 million with the city and $10 million with the state — to provide supportive housing, prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases and adolescent pregnancy, and offer syringe exchange to drug abusers and other health care programs.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/09/us-news/critics-claim-taxpayer-funded-nyc-group-is-handing-out-condoms-outside-of-brothel/
They can’t afford to buy their own condoms?
Not with the inflation of the last 4+ years.
You’re not supposed to inflate them, they’re not balloons.
Most condoms need to be inflated to accommodate my girth.
They can’t afford to buy their own condoms?
Keeping downtown prices competitive!
Why is the “AIDS Center of Queens County” providing “supportive housing”?
They have contracts to do that.
Not the same as actually doing it.
Fulbright: Connecting Americans and Romanians for 80 Years
By Darryl Nirenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Romania
https://ro.usembassy.gov/fulbright-connecting-americans-and-romanians-for-80-years/
As Ambassador, I often discuss defense, commerce, and diplomacy. These are essential parts of the U.S.-Romania partnership—a partnership that has never been stronger or more important.
But what gives that partnership lasting strength is people: the friendships they build, the ideas they share, and the problems they solve together.
For decades, the Fulbright Program has helped build those connections around the world, including here in Romania.
Eighty years ago, President Harry S. Truman signed the law creating the Fulbright Program. Its author, Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, later chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I had the honor of serving as counsel to that same committee.
Senator Fulbright’s goal was simple: help people from different countries learn from one another and build a more peaceful world. In the weeks after World War II ended, he proposed using proceeds from overseas sales of surplus U.S. military equipment and supplies to fund educational exchanges. His idea turned the tools of war into an investment in peace.
Romania’s Fulbright story began in 1960. Even during the Cold War, academic exchanges gave Americans and Romanians a chance to learn from one another despite tensions between our countries.
In 1993, our governments established the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission. We fund and manage it together. It reflects a shared belief: both countries benefit when our citizens learn together.
Macron’s secret escape plan if rioters storm the Élysée
Intelligence services simulating riots, sabotage and cyber attacks before the 2027 presidential election, book claims
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/11/06/macron-secret-escape-plan-rioters-storm-lyse-palace/
Just cancel the elections to be on the safe side.
What if he cannot figure out the puzzles in the escape room though?
Mrs Mac has forgotten the password…
It’s not so secret if it’s on the internet.
He was going to dress as a woman to escape detection?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Varennes#The_flight_attempt
Works for his wife.
“Philadelphia’s branch of the Democratic Socialists of America is claiming that the anti-Israel movement is being repressed because of the backlash against another group’s Sunday boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in the City of Brotherly Love….
“From the Senator Fetterman and Congressman Boyle to Governor Shapiro, Mayor Parker, and Council President Johnson, politicians have joined a chorus of bad-faith and dangerous conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and invoking comparisons of the Kristallnacht that trivialize trauma and suppress political speech,” the group said in a statement.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/philly-dsa-claims-counter-protest-is-repression/
CWABOA
Heh I was just thinking how long before articles come out that the Jews in the city were the baddies for standing up against this.
“Help, help, I’m be repressed!!!”
Stupid, dirty wankers.
dangerous conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism – is every single Jew a zionist? If yes anti zionism is fairly equivalent with anti semitism. If not I am not certain all these boycotts know how each and every person stands.
Its theoretically possible to be anti-Zionist (the Jews should have no homeland) and not anti-semitic (the Jews should live here with us). Its kind of hard to imagine that someone who believes the Jews shouldn’t live where they belong, also believes they should live right next door.
In practice, though, the way to bet is that anyone claiming to be anti-Zionist is also anti-semitic.
Such people would take issue with your use of the word “belong”, conveniently ignoring those Jews living before the Balfour Declaration in what is now the pre-1967 borders.
It’s like the opposition of foreign aid to Israel. All for stopping it wholesale but these guys begin and end with only stoping aid to Israel.
I’m pro-Islam, with the caveat that Mecca and Medina shall be forcefully surrendered to the United States, bulldozed, and replaced with AI data centers.
So that the Saudis can get the California score?
Don’t forget the pro Zionist anti semites RC,
Get them all in one place so it’s easier to kill then all.
roughly 80% of Jews are Zionist, so it is a safe bet that anti-Zionist is anti-Semetic
“Some of my best friends are Jews.”
““The most radical thing we can do is make divorce boring. Make it normal. Make it accessible,” the message, originally posted by clinical hypnotherapist Olivia Howell, read.
“Because the system thrives on confusion and stigma, on making you believe you’re the first one to ever walk this road,” Howell’s quote added. “But when divorce becomes just another life transition — like a wedding, like a graduation — the patriarchy loses one of its most effective weapons.””
https://pagesix.com/2026/11/09/celebrity-news/amanda-seyfried-cuddles-estranged-husband-thomas-sadoski-as-she-shares-insight-into-their-boring-divorce/
que?
Meh. Some people actually can divorce and remain friends.
This writer or hypnotherapist is just trying to cash in
” Some people actually can divorce and remain friends”
Not me. I divorced the whole family except for one SIL-BIL.
I don’t wanna hear about “the patriarchy” when it comes to divorce and settlements.
Exactly what the patriarchy would say
But it’s hard to be strong and independent when someone’s not footing the bill.
divorce is incredibly common.
Yeah, at least in the West there hasn’t been any “stigma” around it for decades.
Which is why it’s so common.
Is this the opposite of celebrating your abortion?
No, it’s part and parcel of celebrating your abortion. Both involve a women asserting full control over “her” life.
Take it to the hoop, Ev and all. Hoping to get 400 titles today.
Onward, all. Hope ya kick ass today. Esp Derp. Good vibes your way.
Trump says post-war Ukraine will have a ‘different shape’ ahead of Abu Dhabi talks
https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/09/trump-says-post-war-ukraine-will-have-a-different-shape-ahead-of-abu-dhabi-talks
No, no, NO! No country can ever have its borders changed. The order is established and can never be disturbed. It’s all part of the end of history!!!
Now do American states.
Et tu, Jensen?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nvidia-investigates-ceo-jensen-huangs-relationship-with-alleged-chinese-spy/ar-AA2h0c7y?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Taking this at face value – man has extramarital affair, unfortunatley with a suspected spy. Blinken was already on CNBC screeching about “what did the administration know” and “he was on Air Force One!!”
“President Trump defended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as an “honorable guy” after his multi-trillion-dollar AI company began investigating his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.
Huang’s mistress, Alice Huang — no relation — was allegedly recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), according to a months-old secret memo from the State Department. However, Huang has remained an influential figure in the president’s orbit influencing US AI policy.
“He’s done an amazing job for our country,” the president told reporters Sunday night, calling the billionaire tech boss an “honorable guy” and a “fine person.””
https://nypost.com/2026/11/09/us-news/trump-defends-honorable-nvidia-boss-after-explosive-affair-with-chinese-spy-revealed/
She looks way different without all the filters.
Why does Trump have to run his yap about this at all?
I should make that a macro to save the keystrokes.
“Let Trump be Trump” is the appropriate saying is it not?
What kind of dipshit in that position has an affair with a Chinese woman? They are most likely honeypots. If these dudes insist on stepping out, then they need to bang a ginger.
Irish spies!
If Blinken reads any newspapers at all, he’d know that the administration has known for several months, did a full assessment, and determined that no damage was done.
Jensen Huang has the restraint of Tiger Woods, but fortunately, it doesn’t matter.
“Brutal Lame Duck Session”
Senate Republicans could pass the SAVE Act today if they were so inclined.
They’re not so inclined.
I want the SAVE Act passed but this requires more votes than a simple majority. Of course, Thune could have fired and replaced the parliamentarian and challenged that (although I tend to agree with her in this rare case).
There’s no reason at all that you can’t go back to the historical filibuster – your side can work the votes as long as you can hold the floor, but you can’t block legislation indefinitely just by raising a finger and muttering “filibuster”.
Oh no! Nothing is going to change?!?
The more things don’t change the more they stay the same. Also no.
American media is burying the story – Iraq rejected American requests to use their country to stage a ground invasion of Iran.
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/iraq-rejects-use-of-its-territories-to-attack-neighbors/ar-AA2gU4k1
Nothing in that article states America requested such a thing though…
But Drake *wants* it to be true!
I know – but I’d get crap for linking the foreign media stories. Here’s the AI answer
https://search.brave.com/ask?q=iraq+rejects+u.s.+invasion+plan&source=web&conversation=09c899c5b04b2365cdb34707180806d671a4
I am sure that foreign media gets to say some things our media won’t, but this argument that the US wants to put boots on the ground in Iran is beyond ridiculously stupid. Especially since there is no need to do this to crush Iran. Without cash, and imports paid for with that cash, that cabal of barbarians there will lose power when the people really get hit hard. And there is a quick way to make that happen that these Iranian thugs did all on their own…
An even vaguely competent Department of War should every country with a land border with Iran for permission to stage troops there, even and especially if there is no intention of making use of that land. What part of “make Iran spread their defenses everywhere” sounds like a bad plan?
I would really, really be cautious of what a cabal of ex military asshats that spent 20 years losing conflicts, wasting American treasure and young lives, and are now kicked out by Hegseth for being DEI supporting scum, tell you about what is needed to win a conflict or not. While even a broken clock is right twice a day, these assholes hate that they have finally been sidelined for their failures. After al, the old cadre rewarded them for being losers as long as they were more willing to create a force that could be used against the American people when the new maoist revolution happens, than to fight and win wars for the country.
Keep that factor in mid when listening to the people continuously telling you about how this is a failure or that you need boots on the ground to win this. No, wars are won by killing the fuckers and breaking their shit until they cry uncle. And we have not fought a war like that since WW2 (or is is eleven?).
that cabal of barbarians there will lose power when the people really get hit hard
Clap your hands or Tinkerbell will die! You just gotta believe!!!
People become real dangerous when they are not able to eat, and they are already close to that, with it getting much worse, but that seems to escape you, JI.
I wish people would just answer my emails.
*blocked as spam
::Sad Robot::
…and I hope/wish they won’t answer mine, I don’t like being insulted.
“Political commentator Samantha Karlin told The Post last week that the president’s immigration crackdown may have led Latinos to vote against the GOP.
“There’s a profound difference between supporting border security and watching people who look like you, your family, and your neighbors being targeted by aggressive immigration enforcement,” she said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/trump-backs-away-from-hardline-immigration-policy-after-midterms-blowout-i-think-it-was-too-tough/
It has nothing to do with “people who look like you”. It’s the difference between deporting criminals and people who just got here, and deporting people who have been here for years —sometimes decades — that are working, paying taxes, raising families, etc. over what they see as bullshit paperwork that seems unfairly administered. Cries of “but they are illegal” just ring hollow.
It’s also because of sanctuary cities and states. Back when Obama was deporting, localities were cooperating with ICE. So ERO did not have to go into neighborhoods, and there wasn’t all this chaos, with groups of crazy white people interfering with that and getting their dumb asses shot. Cops don’t make the law. I’m not a Constitutional scholar, but whether the blame falls on Congress or the courts, the Supremacy Clause was not being enforced.
All that being said, Trump did a much better job that Kamala would have done, just by closing the border.
This. The entire point was to make it impossible to go after anyone. It’s almost like they wanted the chaos.
Then there is Texas… all those Latinos who were against illegals and voted for Donald two years ago suddenly flipped to support that weirdo Talarico? Who inspired more votes than any previous Democrat there in decades? I hope DataRepublican is crunching the numbers because that is sus AF.
Of course they wanted the chaos, they just successfully ran their campaigns on the chaos and won bigly.
ICE has been just as effective and efficient as we would expect from any governmental agency, no?
Good morning!
Shoutout to Mexi for the delightful podcast episode.
Weekend entertainment reports:
-WoW Forever is very much what I remember WoW being, which does not fit how I live my life these days. It brought back the old complexities (weapons skills, spirit being a stat for starters) and removed many of the ease of play options (no area looting; no highlights or visual indicator for quest objects; quest objects, resource nodes and mobs are all competitive) and very much a scarcity-based economy (paying to train your abilities requires more currency than is generated by the levelling process). Elite quest mobs (Hogger, Princess) are back to being far more than you can solo on-level. Questing refinements/simplification are all gone. Instead areas have a mix of level difficulty/impossibility and Quest levels are scatters across areas. There will be much more travel, and travel has been slowed. No mounts until 40, and undoubtedly for those who (like me) aren’t savvy auctioneers, the resources to buy a mount and the training for it will undoubtedly be like it was back in the day meaning closer to 60. One thing that is different and also makes things slower is that instead of servers, the game packs people in to maximize player density. Remember how I mentioned that access to nodes, mobs, and quest items is competitive. Yeah. Now this also boosts mob density/respawn rate which means if you’re in a cave waiting for your quest objective to respawn, the odds of you getting overwhelmed into a never endling cycle of corpserunning is HIGH. This would be a great game to play while you’re having a conversation with friends who are playing it with you but for soloists/non-obsessivists like me, retail is a much better option.
-Terminal List Season 2. Terminal List season one was a basic “murder everyone who has wronged you” revenge fantasy. The prequel series was more interesting but still operator porn. In the first episode of season 2 there was no murdering. WTF? Episode 2 had murdering, but of poachers. At this point I’m panicking that this is going to turn into a Present Day virtue signaling fest like so many other series. Fortunately episode 3 turned into heroes tactically murdering bad guys with style. Unfortunately for the operator porn part of the series, bullets have plot-driven lethality. Spoiler: Heroic cute Asian journalist gets her concealed carry permit, gets jumped by an assassin, both shoot simultaneously and fall to the concrete. Assassin is DRT, HCAJ gets back up, engages in running gunfight with Backup Assassin, runs out of ammo, runs away, gets shot in the back by Backup Assassin, falls but lives long enough for Luther/Space Boy/Number 1 to come in and rescue her. Also Ukrainians are Super Good Guys so far, though I can see a rugpull happen.
RE: Wow
Does this mean all my old lvl 90 toons are gone and I’d have to start over?
WoW Forever is a separate “gameplay mode.” Anything you have on other modes still exists in those modes, but doesn’t interact. I’ve never played any of the classic or hardcore modes so I don’t know if there’s any crossover between those and retail possible there.
No crossover. WoW Forever is its own game.
“The couple that allegedly recorded and leaked a video of a shirtless Bill Belichick outside of an Airbnb property three years ago is now being sued by Jordon Hudson.
Court documents obtained by the California Post show Hudson filed the explosive lawsuit against Elise McDevitt and Craig Nolan on Friday in Massachusetts on Friday after she claimed they “egregiously” violated her rights to privacy by sharing footage of a topless Belichick from their stay at the duo’s rental place in 2023.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/09/sports/jordon-hudson-files-explosive-lawsuit-over-shirtless-bill-belichick-video/
Wasn’t he out in public?
Speaking of Ring cameras….
“A now-viral video appears to show several white University of Mississippi coeds making racist sounds outside an apartment shared by three black students, sparking online fury and a school probe.
The ring-doorbell-camera footage shared on TikTok by Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf captured the female offenders walking past her apartment and pausing to make monkey noises Friday, the woman said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/ring-camera-catches-white-ole-miss-coeds-making-monkey-noises-outside-black-students-apartment/
Gee, I wonder if alcohol was involved….
Current Year does not allow one to merely monkey around.
“Bethany Joyy, one of the girls living in the apartment, wrote on Facebook that the girls claimed they were ‘stimming’ and ‘after they apologized, one of the first things that was asked was about if the video was going to be deleted or not'”
What’s “stimming”?
Notice how the DM blurs their faces, but the post doesn’t?
I hate that I had to look this up:
That doesn’t make much sense in context. They had to make monkey noises because autism?
How dare you question the lived experiences of the autistic!
“Breaking:Russell Brand is jailed for ten years and six months
Russell Brand has been jailed for ten years and six months at Southwark Crown Court by Mr Justice Bennathan this afternoon.
He will serve two thirds of that sentence.”
https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16272131/Russell-Brand-sentencing-live-rape-sexual-assault.html
Jesus Christ. Super harsh sentence. Meanwhile, what is the average sentence for a non-British rapist?
And who was demonstrably guilty?
Two tiered system, the 3rdworlders get a slap on the wrist while the native Brits get a heavy handed beatdown.
They are telling the natives, and especially those that are thorn in their side, bend the knee and accept the criminal shit we elite are doing to you, or else.
RJ and Wizzleteats get 5 years each for implying that third worlders who arrived last week are any less British than native Brits.
Political punishment.
Trump and immigration: He’s putting out feelers to the Dems to try to avoid impeachment apparently. The man’s a damn fool turncoat and a fucking idiot.
His VP is JD Vance. Dems will impeach him for show. They’ll never remove him.
They would need 2/3 of the senate to remove him. That isn’t going to happen.
The Dems are the Evil Party but they tend to engage in feeding frenzies. They might actually be that stupid, I hope so anyway.
If the Dems can get enough Repubs to roll over and get rid of Donald, then getting rid of Vance will be no problem. I wonder what the prediction markets are saying about the odds of Mad King Donald getting deposed by the Senate.
And Hegseth, for that matter. Apparently they’re going after him because one of the main things a color revolution needs is the military to at least sit it out, so they need a lackey as SecWar.
Trump’s damaged goods at this point and there’s plenty of corruption this time to go after for real and to provide cover for the Republicans to vote to convict. I wouldn’t mind seeing that happen to be honest.
Why would the prospect of President Vance stop them? These people do not care about the normal consequences and would have the scalp of Donald to parade through the streets. If JD gets uppity, it will be President Hakeem.
there’s plenty of corruption this time to go after for real
I keep seeing this talking point, but what specifically?
I hope they blow all their good luck on impeachment theater but fear that they’re also ready and waiting with a long wish-list of legislation that will crater the economy and impose the 20 side of every 80/20 issue with enough votes to overcome any veto attempts.
They might get 2/3 the House, but not the Senate. They need both to override a veto.
They need, what, 13 Repub Senators to roll over? That’s still a fair number.
Honestly, I wonder if its even worth the effort, though. Mad King Donald will be gone in a couple of years, anyway.
That’s 10 RINOs that need to flip. Not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
Its good to note that veto override requires 2/3rd present and voting and minimum quorum is met.
Quorum Rules:
219 for House
51 for Senate.
Then comes abstentions that can lower the bar even more as they try and distance themselves from Trump even more.
The override is a doable path with their numbers
*218
Good reminder, OBE. Getting to a supermajority of a quorum is a new dimension to the game.
Question:
Does that mean that you can get 51 senators in a room and declare the Senate in session? Seems incredibly ripe for abuse.
WTF: People who invest and make money are icky. Unfortunately, the Dems didn’t strip the Trump family of all their money and business holdings the last round so they have wisely invested and made money.
Haha, suckers!
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the incoming majority would make tackling high prices a priority come January. “It was a tremendous victory for the American people and a strong rebuke of MAGA extremism, which has made life more expensive for everyday Americans despite their promises to lower the high cost of living on day one,” he told NPR on Friday.
The question is how Democrats will do that with President Trump still in the Oval Office, willing to wield his veto pen. Senate Democrats won’t have a filibuster-proof majority, and Trump may have little appetite to roll back his signature tariffs or reverse course on the Iran war, two of the main causes of high food prices.
Lael Brainard, who leads a public policy group called The Kitchen Table Project, said Americans are nevertheless expecting relief from Washington — and quickly.
They won’t get it.
Wow, two stolen bases in a row. Impressive.
Of course, Trump’s hands are also dirty when it comes to the main cause of high prices.
a strong rebuke of MAGA extremism
What does that even mean? A lefty friend on facederp made a remark about “extreme MAGA” and I asked what that even means. No answer was forthcoming.
We’re gonna make you repent sinner!
There would be one way to cause many illegal immigrants to self deport and it doesn’t involve ICE raids with cosplaying federal cops in all the latest tacticool gear our tax dollars can buy. It involves a bunch of briefcases going into the businesses that hire illegals and fining the ever loving fuck out of them. I see very little enforcement on that end and that is what is causing a large part of the problem. My second minor kid’s identity was stolen this year when we filed our taxes. Somehow it’s not a red flag to the government when an 11 year old’s social security number is working at a factory in the Midwest. I doubt that Trump or the Republicans actually have the balls to enforce illegal immigration that way, but it would be a damn good response to the socialist fucks getting elected. Let’s see them protest that.
There are 2 things that would immediately stop illegal immigration. Punish – severely – those employing them, and make it criminal for the illegals to get any kind of social services not coming from charity.
You won’t even have to worry about a border.
Absolutely. That is where the focus should have been, along with arresting criminals coming out of jails and at courthouses. If the Repubs were actually smart and wanted to win in 28 that is where the pivot should be right now. But we all know that is unlikely to happen.
Here nonprofit charity, have a bunch of government grants for social services for helping illegals get housing, education, food, cell phones….
Not sure how to accomplish that at state and local levels.
arresting criminals coming out of jails and at courthouses
The Dems, and their media lapdogs, were decrying this as well. There is no illegal removal policy that the Dems will support now. Even the “they should go after employers” is a lie, just like the “I’d vote for a Republican if they were a
centristleftist”“Not sure how to accomplish that at state and local levels.”
If I recall correctly, more than half of every state’s welfare programs cost is covered by federal subsidies. Cut those? You know, like Trump did to a few of them deep blue states? Now if the states want to rip off their tax payers and pay for it all on their own, that is fine. Stupid people deserve the abuse from those they elect. Sooner than later there will be zero support for giving illegals what Americans don’t get.
Especially when it comes to healthcare. I bring up that Obamacare forced every legal citizen to get crappy expensive coverage, or pay a penalty if they got no healthcare. Then these same people gave illegals FREE (meaning we pay for it) healthcare. When you explain this to the most ardent illegal invasion supporters, you quickly see them lose their support for the illegal hordes. Leftist only like causes other people pay for, after all.
I’m not so certain of that. It has been widely reported even in the MSM that many illegals are getting a free ride and it hasn’t seemed to change any minds at all.
“I’m not so certain of that. It has been widely reported even in the MSM that many illegals are getting a free ride and it hasn’t seemed to change any minds at all.”
That’s because most of them do not feel they are paying for the illegals. However, the moment that the Feds stopped giving their subsidies, and the blue state governments decided to fight it and mentioned using funds from other sources or raising taxes, many of these supporters suddenly lost their gusto. Especially when they felt it was going to be them paying for it.
I regularly mention the Obamacare conundrum, point out we all pay way more for healthcare, have seen a decline in quality, but that the same democrats that gave us that give free healthcare to illegals, and when it registers, the reaction is quite fun to observe..
Yep, fine, move to only violent illegals and then send in the G-Men like you said to businesses small and large alike.
We used to have some seriousness in this counrty.
No they won’t bother because it will be rejected by every Democrat and at least half the Republicans.
It would be a good play if Trump would get them all on record that they favored businesses being able to hire illegals immigrants to pay them less and give them less benefits. Hammer that idea into people’s heads that the Dems and their Republican friends want the lower end of the wage scale to remain as low as possible.
The Republicans including Trump won’t do anything meaningful because they don’t want to remove an issue that gets them votes and, more importantly, they don’t really want deportations any more than the Democrats do. It’s all theater for the rubes.
“It involves a bunch of briefcases going into the businesses that hire illegals and fining the ever loving fuck out of them.”
Opposite of what the corporate donors want.
Yeah, this.
Trump backed off already when illegal crackdowns affected businesses. He’s a squish when it comes to employers.
The IRS told me that one of my deductions had been disallowed because somebody had already claimed one of my children. They wouldn’t tell me who claimed him. They wouldn’t tell me which child.
I filed a police report, and they would not tell the police which child, and would not even confirm with them that a crime occurred.
I jumped through hoops for months. Eventually, a supervisor told me that the “system had flagged me”, and there was no identity theft. The thing that I was “flagged” for: making a much larger amount of money in the prior tax year than in the filing year. They just wanted more money.
So: there’s a good chance that you’re being lied to. Or not, as the case may be. The IRS just wants money.
“The IRS told me that one of my deductions had been disallowed because somebody had already claimed one of my children. They wouldn’t tell me who claimed him. They wouldn’t tell me which child.”
wow
Hurt employers? Are YOU crazy??? /Repubs
Another in an endless series of circle jerks
Many of the issues with the power to torpedo global climate goals are being debated on the margins of the talks, in what’s known as the “action agenda.” Themes such as methane, AI, sustainable cooling and fossil fuels are all getting name-checked there.
Supporters say the growing use of this process can make the talks more nimble by avoiding the stringent consensus requirements of formal COP decisions. They point to the action agenda as an example of how the talks have progressed from setting new rules to a focus on delivery.
“We’ve seen this emerging for the past couple of COPs … I think that’s also an interesting development for this COP in particular, where we’re seeing this increased attention on the action agenda, which I think is really a positive development,” said Mattias Frumerie, Sweden’s climate ambassador. “It becomes this space where there really is action, where we see various results highlighted.”
The downside, critics say, is that pledges borne of the action agenda lack the pressure or accountability that comes with signing onto an international agreement.
Important people get to feel good about themselves.
Let me fix that for you…
Self important people get to jerk each other off.
I’m pretty sure they have
whorespeople for that.So, if nothing happens to prevent illegals, long ladders and/or back hoes will soon be deployed on the south side of the border. I can foresee a jillion new arrivals lined up and counting down the days ’til the gates open.
There was a reason multiple ‘caravans’ suddenly popped up a month ago…
Yep.
“There’s one obvious downside: On the ground, classical education is often conservative and Christian. The schools assign household-name Western canon greats—Homer, Dickens, Dostoyevsky—that I’d love my daughter to read one day. More kids having access to great literature and complicated philosophy would sound great if it weren’t for the fact that, although there are educators inside the movement pushing for diversification, it’s these famous, mostly-white-male authors and the constant callbacks to the idea of the Western canon that constitute the movement’s brand.
Thanks to the movement to allow parents to divert funding from public schools and enroll their children in private or charter schools, more kids are able to access this way of learning. But which families will choose it? When the Post asked the then acting head of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation why kids enroll in classical schools, he mentioned parental opposition to teaching about race and gender and concern over policies supporting transgender students. I love the liberal arts. Do I really need to sign on to this vision of education to end up with a daughter who does too?”
https://slate.com/life/2026/11/classic-learning-test-education-conservative-christian-charter-school.html
OFFS!
Western civilization will come to an end, its just the messy part and the outcome that is yet to be determined.
In many far-left states there are myriad private school options. Most of the right-wing states have only religious private schools – so this is a real issue. Unfortunately, too many people are late to see how bad public schools really are and in the midwest still are living under the illusions that their public education is some of “the best” in the country (see Iowa, Minnesota).
But which families will choose it?
Wrongthinkers, right?
It’s almost like the left hates Western culture or something.
Deals between countries and companies on the sidelines of the talks could have a meaningful impact on decarbonization and electrification, but they’ll struggle against one of the biggest barriers to addressing climate change: politics.
Politics, or objective reality?
You’re never going to get enough political or military power to impose the global socialist dictatorship required to completely destroy the world economy.
In case you wonder why the left is obsessed with getting rid of Hegseth, let me give you a quick hint. Hegseth has wiped a decade of effort to turn the US military into a woke force, full of DEI dogma and a belief the world’s biggest problem is the US and energy capitalism, so our military could be used during the left’s marxist revolution, in but 2 years. There is no chance to coup Trump in the next 2 years without a military controlled by leftist dogma.
He needs to go back three decades because it was woke when I was in and the word woke didn’t exist.
Random rant: The normal teenage girl drama confined to one’s high school and crashes into reality as soon as they graduate has turned into first-world-wide decades-long psychosis and the collective very narrow-focused delusion that reality can be argued with, and that everything that happens because reality exists is a personal attack and also toxic and also evil and also, that you are evil for pointing it out.
The world’s largest open air asylum.
“‘Here,’ said Wonko the Sane, ‘we are outside the Asylum.’ He pointed again at the rough brickwork, the pointing, and the gutters. ‘Go through that door’ — he pointed at the first door through which they had originally entered — ‘and you go into the Asylum. I’ve tried to decorate it nicely to keep the inmates happy, but there’s very little one can do. I never go in there myself. If I ever am tempted, which these days I rarely am, I simply look at the sign written over the door and I shy away.'”
“Time to fight back: five leading thinkers on what Democrats should do post-midterms
Robert Reich, Wajahat Ali, Katie Phang, Judd Legum and Charles Blow”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/08/time-to-fight-back
No.
4 of 5 are channeling their Judas Priest. Only one of them is saying Team Blue shouldn’t consider their victory a mandate for sweeping change. Who let that heretic have an opinion?
is it just me, or did Alton Brown change his aged eggnog recipe? I don’t recall it having two stages before. I thought I had printed it out a few years ago, but I’m not sure where I put it.
Try again.
Yeah, that is different from his original.
Here’s the original aged eggnog recipe
Looks like the same ingredients in the same amounts, just split into a two-stage method.
A pound of sugar?
Also, using milk, heavy cream, and half and half, doesn’t make much sense to me.
Just clowning around
The president then appeared to reference either his original announcement or a cartoon video he posted to Truth Social earlier Sunday, which featured White and a number of UFC fighters in the White House briefing room. The video depicts the fighters attacking reporters.
“Of course, I was kidding. And you can see that, because they put all of the great fighters as his assistants, that they’re all going to come with them. But it was, it was just a little fun,” Trump added, before noting that White would be arriving in Washington, D.C., on Monday and planned to speak with the president about the role.
He announced White’s job offer in a Saturday Truth Social post, writing, “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States.”
What a riot.
We will never know if it is true but I see that there is a theory that this Dana White was suggested by someone and Donnie Two Scoops misunderstood and ran with it.
The East will rise again!
LOL – wasn’t expecting that image.
“Black women and girls make up about four percent of the population in the LA region, but represent an outsized share of female homicide victims.
Local and state leaders said they heard their calls. They put together a $115,000 reward for information, and the city commissioned a report to better understand why Black women are killed more often than women of other races.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/09/black-women-girls-los-angeles-homicides-violence
It’s a mystery.
Knives, rites of passage, etc?
“At the same time, some of the root causes of this violence, including misogyny and long-held stereotypes about Black women and girls, can’t be legislated or policed away. So Black women in LA are doing it themselves, using taskforces, rallies, summer programs and podcasts to share their stories. Doing this, they say, can grow the number of people who are looking out for them – which is particularly important right now after the Trump administration cut millions in federal funds for gun violence prevention.”
Guns are racist and misogynist.
Nope. They capitalized black.
I’m open to journalism of all flavors , but I’m not spending another second on low-IQ activism.
Black women and girls make up about four percent of the population in the LA region, but represent an outsized share of female homicide victims.
Starting off by doubling the denominator in one of your metrics? Totally an honest thing to do.
Most homicide victims are men.
Wait til you hear what they do with WHERE the murders take place
Democrats should use their mandate to be Democrats again. That means taking on concentrated wealth and economic power – the oligarchy – with a wealth tax on multimillionaires and billionaires. Campaign finance reforms to get big money out of our democracy. Labor law reforms to make it easier for workers to form unions and harder for employers to fire them for doing so. And tough new anti-monopoly laws to give government authority to bust up concentrations of economic power, especially in tech.
– Robert Reich, former US secretary of labor and a Guardian US columnist
Stalin knew how to deal with the pillagers of society.
We must strive to build the one true monopoly of the worker state, administered by a ruthless yet benevolent core of ideologues.
The Soros and Singham families laugh their asses off.
five leading thinkers on what Democrats should do
Purge and exterminate their political enemies, in the name of democracy.
What this country needs is a secure national identity registration system and strict control of work permissions and approved job categories.
Wasn’t it in “Grapes of Wrath” where Grandpa had to pick peaches or oranges or something? I’m
guessing you’ll see me in the raspberry plantations.