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Mr. Nice! posted:The $130k was already fined. New fines will be levied because of this (lawyers will have to submit the bill etc). He has to pay the old fines and new ones or face even more sanctions in the form of stripping his ability to present evidence or a defense to mitigate damages. Not surprising to learn that Rudy is a terrible lawyer / has terrible lawyers representing him
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facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again: At what point does it cross over from a geriatric who refuses to give up power, to the aides or others committing elder abuse? Jeez.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:55
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/HannahPThomas/status/1696936240040321474?t=QdKoAjOEmI372GbpN8IBGQ&s=19 Before you feel any sympathy just remember what an absolute irreconcilable rear end in a top hat this piece of poo poo has been. I hope he's scared the whole time.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:01
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Arrath posted:At what point does it cross over from a geriatric who refuses to give up power, to the aides or others committing elder abuse? Jeez. Ask Feinstein and Thurmond. McConnell can get hosed tho.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:11
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facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again: At this point it will soon be a Weekend at Bernies type thing.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:14
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ASAPI posted:At this point it will soon be a Weekend at Bernies type thing. "Just vote 'NO'."
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Midjack posted:Ask Feinstein and Thurmond. McConnell can get hosed tho. They all can, fuckin dinosaurs. Do wish my dad had decked thurmond when he had the chance.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:22
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bird food bathtub posted:Ah, so another completely ambiguous lone wolf killer whose agenda we will never understand and by the way he might be an antifa super soldier transgender fed plant really makes you think huh? Yup. He sent a manifesto to the police department detailing his hatred of black people and admiration for apartheid South Africa, but these are obviously the ramblings of a madman and show no insight into his motives.
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The trans private school shooter, on the other hand... (Despite the fact that there was no "manifesto", only a collection of private writings. A manifesto is by definition published, released, or in some way disseminated to draw others to your political views.)
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Aug 30, 2023 19:31
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facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again: Looks like ol' Mickey C got that look of terror in his eyes, wondering if this is it, if he's gonna stroke out and die on camera or if he's gonna be trapped inside his own body never to use language again.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:40
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: ( Your senator ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info and then we'll restart for you.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:44
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not caring here posted:Looks like ol' Mickey C got that look of terror in his eyes, wondering if this is it, if he's gonna stroke out and die on camera or if he's gonna be trapped inside his own body never to use language again. Inshallah
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Aug 30, 2023 19:45
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facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again: This really isn't a laughing matter. Turtles only do this when they're extremely distressed. quote:NYT still refused to use "racist" even with the swastikas on the gun and pro-rhodesia comments, plus how he originally tried to shoot up the nearby HBCU but got denied. The NYT really is just incredible garbage these days.
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facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again:
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pantslesswithwolves posted:There's definitely a surge going on right now. There's a new "variant of concern" called Eris that apparently has the potential for even more immune evasion than other Omicron variants, although it doesn't appear to be more virulent than its counterparts. That said, I know several people who never got COVID from 2020 onward who have gotten this one, so basically you have an infinitely more likely chance of successfully participating in the Eris world tour than you do the Eras tour. Eris is boring. Pirola (BA.2.86) is the one to watch. It’s got a tremendous number of mutations in the spike protein. Totally different set of puns though.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:00
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facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again: LOL "does anyone else have a question, please speak up" because the problem was definitely just that he couldn't hear the question.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but once strokes start manifesting don’t they tend to reoccur with ever greater rapidity and severity until you’re dead? Something about the ol’ brain tubes weakening
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Tiny Timbs posted:Correct me if I’m wrong but once strokes start manifesting don’t they tend to reoccur with ever greater rapidity and severity until you’re dead? Depends. If something threw one clot, it's decently likely to throw more. If it's a hemorrhagic stroke from cerebral blood vessels turning to mush, same thing.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Correct me if I’m wrong but once strokes start manifesting don’t they tend to reoccur with ever greater rapidity and severity until you’re dead? My wife's grandfather had a pretty severe stroke about 10 years before he passed away, and then he routinely had mini strokes, and they basically reduced his brain to swiss cheese by the time he went. He basically had the mental capacity and demeanor of a 9 year old boy.
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Soylent Pudding posted:Hopefully it's a saving grace that so much of the Big Bend coast is still wetlands, mangroves, and swamps that can protect the more inhabited inland areas from the storm surge. Somebody has some church to attend: https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1696928506909786613?t=xxGg9NJ0Hvaa_XJdewfq-A&s=19 Unless you'd like to go double or nothing and wish some ill on another Florida republican. facialimpediment posted:McConnell malfunctioned again: I shouldn't laugh at this, but that little grin he gets as if to say "I done pooped myself". CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Aug 30, 2023 22:04
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I'll laugh for you, then, I hope every waking moment of Mitch's life is spent in agony. gently caress that rear end in a top hat for everything he's done.
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Aug 30, 2023 22:14
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Tiny Timbs posted:Correct me if I’m wrong but once strokes start manifesting don’t they tend to reoccur with ever greater rapidity and severity until you’re dead? The problem that McConnel is trapped in is that he was most likely on blood thinners like 6 months a year ago or whatever when he fell and had a "minor" incident that meant for some strange reason he spent months in the hospital not talking to anyone at all. Well being crypt keeper old + prone to falling + blood thinners = really bad poo poo with one wrong step. However, going off those blood thinners while having ever more frequent mini-strokes after a fall event is also really bad poo poo. There's no good solution and the evil fucker is gonna pop his clogs pretty soon I'd say. I have my bottle of mead lined up to crack open in celebration already.
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Zamujasa posted:I'll laugh for you, then, I hope every waking moment of Mitch's life is spent in agony. gently caress that rear end in a top hat for everything he's done.
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Zamujasa posted:I'll laugh for you, then, I hope every waking moment of Mitch's life is spent in agony. gently caress that rear end in a top hat for everything he's done. I guess there's only the faintest hint of sympathy because my dad had one of those "I can only get four words out before things turn to gibberish" TIAs in March 2022. But yes, gently caress Foghorn Leghorn.
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Mitch McConnell very, very likely doesn’t even have the capacity to make his own medical decisions any longer. I guarantee it. And he’s a loving senator. The lack of moral courage on the right is just astounding to me. I really feel like there was a turning point after Jan 6th when for a split second nearly every republican was rallying around condemning and even hopping on the impeachment of Trump. Then Fox News, lobbyists, and Lindsey Graham convinced them they’d never recover from damning their own president, even though they knew it was the right thing to do. Hell, wasn’t there even back room recordings of this? When they made the decision to flip, and keep supporting him… I feel like they all lost every ounce of moral courage right then and there. And they knew it. They can’t exercise an ounce of it, even now, when Mitch McConnell should absolutely be forced to retire. Pre-Trump, Mitch would have been out of office after his first whiteout. Now they won’t, can’t, lift a finger to do the right thing. There are two types of republicans in Congress now. There are the performance actors like Boebert who are loud as hell, and all the rest who are dead silent about everything, won’t even comment on all the Trump indictments. One group never had moral courage to begin with, but the other is shucked into silence by the shame from losing it.
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Oh yeah that was when their moral convictions left them, sure
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The only moral compass the GOP has is "gently caress everyone not us".
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Honestly I think the last shred of it was McCain voting no.
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Lol at the notion that J.6 was a turning point. Republican have been morally bankrupt my entire lifetime. They basically abandoned any pretention towards good governance with the moral majority poo poo in the 1980s
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CBJSprague24 posted:Somebody has some church to attend: Well, guess I should have specified the aim a bit more precisely. Is it too late for a double or nothing on Idalia looping back to Mar-a-largo?
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Grip it and rip it posted:Lol at the notion that J.6 was a turning point. Republican have been morally bankrupt my entire lifetime. They basically abandoned any pretention towards good governance with the moral majority poo poo in the 1980s I have to think it was throwing in with Nixon that really turned them from the party of Ward Cleaver to the party of Eddie Haskell.
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The Republican party became who they were starting with Grant's cabinet and solidified with allowing Reconstruction to end. TR and Eisenhower were anomalies.
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A.o.D. posted:The Republican party became who they were starting with Grant's cabinet and solidified with allowing Reconstruction to end. TR and Eisenhower were anomalies. I'm not sure you can assign the Republican party all of the blame for the compromise of 1877
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The "100 fetuses in my basement" lady from a long while back and her 4 friends just got convicted of blockading a DC clinic back in 2020. What makes things post-worthy besides that is what happened at the conviction: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...89-726e319edf6d quote:In a move that caught defense attorneys off-guard, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered all five defendants remanded into custody while they await sentencing because they had been convicted of a crime of violence. Kollar-Kotelly cited a federal statute that says judges “shall order” defendants convicted of serious felony crimes of violence held after conviction unless they believe they have a substantial likelihood of winning a motion for acquittal or a new trial or the government recommends a sentence without prison time. So on a technicality, these chucklefucks went right to the slammer with no getting affairs in order. And if you even feel slightly bad, note that these fuckers love to invade clinics and she's had 30 and 45 day sentences before from states for similar chucklefucklery. I allow myself to have some giggles for when technicalities every now and then turn out beneficial.
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facialimpediment posted:The "100 fetuses in my basement" lady from a long while back and her 4 friends just got convicted of blockading a DC clinic back in 2020. What makes things post-worthy besides that is what happened at the conviction: lmao fukkin rekt
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Grip it and rip it posted:I'm not sure you can assign the Republican party all of the blame for the compromise of 1877 You're right. They deserve credit for all the effort they put into restoring rights after that event.
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Grip it and rip it posted:Lol at the notion that J.6 was a turning point. Republican have been morally bankrupt my entire lifetime. They basically abandoned any pretention towards good governance with the moral majority poo poo in the 1980s That was the point that the entire world watched it on display live at the Capitol.
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I mean, I know the GOP has been morally bankrupt for a long while, but the days after January 6th were rock bottom. It made my head spin. Immediately after the riots even Mitch was on the Senate floor condemning trump, nearly every single one of them (except the circus performer crew) was. Not even 24hrs later they had all collectively flipped to defending trump and supporting the idea of a stolen election. All for 30% of their base who were rabid with brain worms. I'm sure they imagined if they didn't support trump they'd lose the midterms. Funny how they basically did anyway. And they're now hitched to having a convicted felon as a candidate in a general election, they stand to lose a hell of a lot harder.
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Blind Rasputin posted:All for 30% of their base who were rabid with brain worms. I've always thought it's closer to 60-70% (and 30% of the country), which makes the rest fall into place. Donnie's thing is that he served up the straight-up, unmasked racism and white grievance that was always winked at and nudged at by his predecessors. And a lot of those senators correctly assume that the remainder of their base is at least brainworm-curious. Once the current crop of old Republican senators retire, hoo boy their replacements are going to be chuddy as hell.
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probably depends a bit about where you draw the line between republicans in general and the whole white grievance bigotry poo poo, but die-hard trump supporters iirc represent ~30-40% of the gop. trump's death grip over the party is because he causes a ton of people to turn out who otherwise do not show up for elections and otherwise the often slender margins the gop is working with just don't really math out with those people staying home. even for those that hate trump, they're basically in a deal with the devil for short-medium term continued political relevance. post 1/6 you could see that there was some genuine appetite to get rid of trump, but also the understanding rapidly spread that the gop without trump supporters isn't really a nationally viable party (at least not before some significant realignment that would effectively trade the most insane trump wing for more appeal to the center/independents, except that the gop in 2023 is even farther from than they were in 2020) and so willingness to do anything about trump evaporated as they hoped that maybe someone would pull a magic solution out of the hat before the situation blows up on them. At the moment it does not appear that they've found a solution beyond hoping that one of the prosecutions will succeed. it's a hell of a clusterfuck to be clear btw, I'm not suggesting that is some 'the end of the republican party' thing, because so long as there are 100,000,000 conservatives or w/e in this country there will be a party representing them that will continue to be relevant
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