I see Mr. Congeniality made himself some more friends in (and out of) court today.
Doesn’t matter. He wasn’t trying to cozy up to Justice Arthur F. Engoron, or even the appellate court(s).
The Not-So-Great Pumpkin was aiming straight at the electorate, no doubt emboldened by recent polls of the dummies, feebs, and shut-ins who haven’t learned that you never answer the phone when a stranger calls. It can only end badly for you. The Nigerian prince is not your friend. Neither is this guy.
I’d like to think that somewhere in East Jesus one of his fartsniffers will be inspired to have a slurred and meandering go at the judge preparing to sentence him for his third DUI.
Alas, the Secret Service will not be there to stop the bailiff from feeding that fool his nightstick, tasing him in the nutsack for dessert, and dragging his ass off to the stripey hole for the better part of quite some time.
So many dummies. So little time.
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God damn I’m tired of the pampered treatment only this dickweed gets because his people might get angry. And his brats are irredeemable.
You and me both, Paddy me lad. I try to keep from rehashing the day-to-day nightmares out of the blog, but Tom Nichols of The Atlantic has some thoughts about where we might wind up thanks to the kid-gloves treatment and a “distracted and sullen American electorate” heavy on “voters who couldn’t be bothered to put aside their petty beefs and particularistic interests long enough to link arms at the ballot box and defend the American system of government.”
What is with this new little text box with all the whistles and bells. And yeah, I read Tom Nichols piece. And I have to keep remembering this bit of advice:
Looks like the WordPress engineers have been engineering again. I first saw the newest commenting arrangement over at Better Burque. I managed to comment there, but I’m still not sure how, and though I was logged into WP the comment appeared as “Anonymous.”
Where is Judge Roy Bean when you need him?
Yep. Old Bear wouldn’t mind a little pumpkin to add to his spartan south Texas diet.
I”m not convinced that the polling the media rams down our throat is worth anything-just scare tactics or the allure of car crashes and barn fires. Here in the Mitten State we threw out one Rethuglican after another for Gov, AG and other key posts. Legislature is tilted to Dem for first time in years. YET the media keeps crying “Biden behind in polls for 24” and other such shit. Who are they polling, where are they polling? If you look hard enough you can indeed find the polls come from suspicious entities. Or the question asked is slanted or the person answering it hasn’t voted in years.
I believe that media polls at this time have no direct correlation with the results that will occur. Similar polls conducted in the past at the same relative point during the election cycle are very different from the final outcome. If anything, perhaps the current polling puts a little more panic in those more receptive to influence from others and they might be a little more strident about their voter responsibilities.
But, I suppose upon viewing the repeated history of our alleged intelligent species, that I shouldn’t be surprised that a whole lot of people still support a buffoon.
If there is one thing true about the American electorate, it is that it has a short memory. Right now the Progressives are pitching fits about Sleepy Joe supporting Israel against Hamas. And no shit, urban warfare is a meat grinder for civilian and soldier alike. I don’t know what else to say except these people need to come up with a better solution than Israel being led by Bibi and Hamas being Hamas. Meanwhile, when you storm the border, kidnap grandma, rape the daughter, and shoot civilians, what does one expect? And yeah, the slow stealing of the West Bank is ugly too.
My hunch is by next fall, the same people who are taking a shit down Old Joe’s neck right now will be shitting their pants worrying about a second Trump term. But if the far left says home and we end up flying a Trump version of a nazi battle flag over the white house, we Donks will have no one to blame but the asshole in the mirror. And that does worry me because we are so fickle.
The Donks are afflicted with many diseases, chief among them being (a) “Fuck you, I’m next in line” and (2) “Support my Cause du Jour or else.”
(a) See Gore, Kerry, Hillary, et al.
(2) No marginally sane candidate could ever commit with a straight face to every single needle in the Donk haystack.
Taking “the correct side” on social issues apparently helped many a Donk yesterday, but yesterday wasn’t The Show. And there are enough single-issue nutters to kick the pins out from under Sleepy and the rest of the dwarves in 2024.
Meanwhile, the NYT offers this fascinating piece about why Hamas did what it did. Basically, it’s combat marketing. They felt the Palestinians were getting it from fore and aft (which they were, and are) and decided to return the world’s attention to The Cause.
And boy, did they ever succeed. Or so they seem to think.
What they don’t seem to think about is what happened and is still happening to Ali al-Lunchpail in Gaza:
Says Khalil al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’s top leadership body, from the safety of Doha, Qatar:
““We had to tell people that the Palestinian cause would not die.”
No, but a lot of Palestinians would. I have a feeling that this will be another case of razing the village in order to save it.
Good, albeit depressing article. Muchos tacos. I had not opened the Times yet; was finishing the People’s Daily up here in Fanta Se.
Sorry Khal considering your previous post about language, but fuck wordpress and fuck Israel. This shit started in 1948, not that long ago. As any sane person knows, conflict does not get better with age. Neither does a comment section that has a mind of its own.
Depressing indeed. We’re familiar with proxy war, but this is more like proxy suicide.
“Good news! We’re gonna kill a bunch of them so they can kill a bunch of you. Never fear, we’ll deliver a stirring eulogy on CNN from an undisclosed location that has not been pounded into smoking gravel along with our homes, livelihoods, friends, and families.”
And naturally Israel will want to maintain a “security presence” once the dust settles. Because that worked out so well in Northern Ireland.
Seems at times like Monty Python is writing the script for what is going on in the Middle East. Judean People’s Front Crack Suicide Squad and all.
Fickle is a great word but I don’t believe it would fit the circumstance. I believe ignorant would be a more appropriate description.
I wonder if we will have to begin work on the windmill again when ignorance trumps common sense?