The Deuce: These guys barely graduated from high school and are getting almost no training.

Week of August 11th politics thread - VIV August 11, 2025, 8:47:53

So no deal with Putin. Got it.* - Stu Yesterday, 18:04:15
- More importantly no secondary tariffs which was the whole point of the day. - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 23:46:10
- This is all Putin needed to do and now he knows he’ll have no resistance from the US. - OB25 Yesterday, 21:05:44
  - Lol, I haven't even been in your country, but you won by so much, Donald* - UofIL6 Yesterday, 21:08:06
- If Fox News says it went bad…… - Mrap24 Yesterday, 20:00:43
  - Germans? - complainant Yesterday, 20:15:26
- Trump’s handlers should know to keep him as far away from Putin as possible.* - Toonces Yesterday, 19:22:51
- Where is jj’s analysis of Trump’s fucking ‘magic’?* - Stu Yesterday, 19:15:56
- This quote is like an 11 year old explaining why he doesn’t have his homework done - ATL Yesterday, 18:53:25
  - ooo - AintHatin Yesterday, 19:18:08
    - LOL* - VIV Yesterday, 19:21:33
  - I think they might fire Jacquie Heinrich - ATL Yesterday, 18:55:25
    - Ihadn'tKWTI, but it's intriguing to learn that she's Brian Fitzpatrick's beard.* - complainant Yesterday, 19:03:21
- But if he were president, the war would be over in 24 hours* - UofIL6 Yesterday, 18:47:19
- Waste of everyone’s fucking time* - Stu Yesterday, 18:06:58
  - Fuck* - Tortillini Yesterday, 20:36:58
  - Not Putin’s.* - OB25 Yesterday, 19:13:33
  - making the Russian reporters sleep in a basketball gym was pretty funny though* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 18:13:19
    - Lewis, Gilbert and the boys made the best of it, though* - Sammich Yesterday, 18:44:52
  - Nonsense! I'm sure he was able to deliver something extremely top secret and treasonous.* - complainant Yesterday, 18:09:47
    - He made progress in one critical area - Stu Yesterday, 18:10:55
incredible - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 16:48:43
- "This sucks. Sounds like an honest mistake though....both times." - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 17:42:00
- The good news is that he won't have to vote a third time. Trump will just stay president.* - complainant Yesterday, 17:04:00
I’ll put this here. First time ever a sitting mayor of New Orleans is indicted - illini thunder Yesterday, 15:32:40
- I hope she has brothers name Tito and Jermaine* - ATL Yesterday, 15:34:04
  - or a rhinoplasty* - complainant Yesterday, 17:02:15
A long, but really good discussion on the history of genocide on the Ezra Klein podcast yesterday - snipes824 Yesterday, 9:55:30
I can't tell whether this is trolling. - doubledown Yesterday, 9:14:34
- West End? This isn’t London. - timmer Yesterday, 9:54:06
  - there’s a tiny little area north of GWU, east of grown that almost no one calls west end* - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:25:42
  - ooo - JeffFrank Yesterday, 11:45:05
I thought this was a fucking joke. Trump considering giving Putin Alaska's natural resources? - VIV Yesterday, 9:09:20
- as well as the Medicaid resources he promised Murkowski* - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:27:13
- Russia just purchased $10B of trump coin, I'm sure* - cpsteine Yesterday, 11:47:32
- Art of the deal* - Sounder Yesterday, 10:29:41
- Just working that magic* - RVA Yesterday, 9:52:56
- Who knew losing proxy wars has consequences.* - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 9:43:12
  - if this happens, are you cool with it?* - VIV Yesterday, 9:49:46
    - I'm not cool with losing territorial disputes or losing proxy wars. - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 9:56:44
      - This….makes no sense. * - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:30:12
        
        I'd be more concerned if you did understand it.* - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 15:37:30
        
        good one! Zing! - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:48:48
      - are you counting giving them access to alaskan resources in the last bit?* - VIV Yesterday, 10:04:31
        
        That's the territorial dispute.* - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 10:10:28
        
        that wouldn't appear to be a dispute at all* - VIV Yesterday, 10:11:11
        
        I guess it's just being thrown in for fun then. Hasn't been a lingering issue for 35 years at all.* - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 10:21:37
        
        At least Trump keeping his campaign promises to Putin, right?* - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:31:42
        
        "fun" or "trump is an easily-conned idiot"* - VIV Yesterday, 11:16:20
        
        He's an idiot for agreeing to a meeting when that is the best card he has to play. - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 11:22:35
        
        Just like he told Zelensky- he has no fucking cards. * - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:32:36
        
        So maybe we should stop putting money in the pot and fold.* - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 15:34:15
        
        He thinks he can draw a straight with two twos - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:39:34
- Was there ever any doubt that Trump is a Russian asset?* - Stu Yesterday, 9:16:44
  - And like fellow Russian asset Matt Taibbi, he's a pedophile - ATL Yesterday, 9:21:19
  - I still believe in the pee tape* - OrangeSox Yesterday, 9:19:01
    - None of the allegations of the Steele dossier was ever disproven - Stu Yesterday, 9:20:17
      - Everything he says is fake is actually true. * - doubledown Yesterday, 9:38:12
        
        He is actually paying them off to get his own copies of the pee tapes - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:33:50
- Give your counterparty everything they ask for, and then more. --Art of the Deal * - doubledown Yesterday, 9:16:17
“Netanyahu isn’t killing anyone. Do your research!” My new fave crazy pants response on FB* - PapaDels Yesterday, 8:17:48
- my favorite ones are the "we should be siding with putin" posts. - VIV Yesterday, 8:55:42
  - hE liTeRalLy WanTs tO RefOrM tHe UsSr - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 9:20:55
    - yeah, the former KGB spy just wants a "sphere of influence" in all former soviet countries - VIV Yesterday, 9:35:46
      - He invades sovereign countries and overthrows their governments and installs ones that are pro his - Chuck Woodaby Yesterday, 9:42:29
        
        Wait, Al-Qaeda is running our country? - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:36:56
        
        you're really barking up the wrong tree now* - VIV Yesterday, 9:44:58
- My new working assumption for all social media is to just assume that all unknown accounts are - doubledown Yesterday, 8:28:54
  - I also love how “do your research” has become code for “I found one thing that agreed with me”* - PapaDels Yesterday, 8:31:38
    - “I had a C average in high school”* - ATL Yesterday, 8:54:44
    - I'm too lazy to look anything up on my own* - KCWildcat Yesterday, 8:36:52
    - Or, knowing that it's become that, used for rage bait. * - doubledown Yesterday, 8:34:34
      - And the bastardization of the word research. You’re just looking shit up on the internet * - PapaDels Yesterday, 8:39:51
        
        They’re not looking anything up. It’s being fed to them. * - doubledown Yesterday, 8:55:20
Sandwich guy released* - KCWildcat August 14, 2025, 21:16:25
- Sandwich “appeared to have salami” according to witness who filmed the video* - Tortillini August 14, 2025, 21:44:08
  - Is his name Haid D’Salaami?: - JeffFrank Yesterday, 11:57:17
  - He just threw the gabagool ovah heah.* - SurfTheBoneyard Yesterday, 6:44:39
- Air Force veteran* - ECEIllinois August 14, 2025, 21:19:26
I’m really looking forward to the Alaska summit tomorrow. Maybe Trump can work a little of his magic - jjlocke923 August 14, 2025, 20:46:52
- Tomorrow's Headline, Today: "Trump Gives Putin All His Secrets. Russia to File Bankruptcy"* - illini222 Yesterday, 6:43:36
- We’ll be lucky to keep the state. * - doubledown August 14, 2025, 22:42:05
  - Had the same thought. If he gives away Alaska - WhitmansFolly August 14, 2025, 22:43:53
    - I hope he does it. Lose 2 Republican Senators. * - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 15:49:51
- I just hope Putin can keep a straight face.* - Chuck Woodaby August 14, 2025, 20:53:08
  - Will be especially difficult as he climaxes* - Herman Blume August 14, 2025, 21:42:44
DC grand jury refuses to indict a woman who allegedly assaulted ICE thugs - ATL August 14, 2025, 19:51:49
Border patrol agents interrupt Newsom’s press conference. * - MC August 14, 2025, 15:26:09
- These dipshits are going to start experiencing more and more violent resistance. - doubledown August 14, 2025, 15:49:42
  - problem with that is they're just itching for more pretext to crack down further - Sammich August 14, 2025, 16:11:31
    - yeah, that's it.* - cpsteine August 14, 2025, 17:02:42
    - ooo - assassin August 14, 2025, 16:21:12
    - These guys barely graduated from high school and are getting almost no training. - doubledown August 14, 2025, 16:20:30
ICE deported three citizen children, including one suffering from stage four kidney cancer, to - gvibes August 14, 2025, 14:35:21
- Trump voter says he was racially profiled by ICE, joining lawsuit against Feds - ECEIllinois August 14, 2025, 15:09:39
  - still gonna vote Trump in 28* - assassin August 14, 2025, 15:36:21
    - "This sucks. Sounds like an honest mistake though."* - KingTalkyTiki August 14, 2025, 16:50:11
    - Too bad his ass wasn't sent to El Salvador. ICE FAIL.* - Warrin'_Illini August 14, 2025, 15:39:45
- no no it's fine says DHS because they were given the option to leave their 4 year olds behind - John Coctostan August 14, 2025, 14:40:42
  - it's also fine because the children are not US citizens in the eyes of anyone who matters right now* - Sammich August 14, 2025, 14:47:30
    - and despite GMAW's confidence, I think there's a reasonable chance that they won't be citizens much - CoronaTheirAss August 14, 2025, 14:48:21
Meta hired Robby Starbuck to advise on AI bias? JFC* - UofIL6 August 14, 2025, 8:57:41
- Zuck has no shame* - CWR10 August 14, 2025, 9:38:07
- ^ First read this as Mets and was medium confused. * - illini August 14, 2025, 9:37:16
- Starbucks hires Robby Meta to advise on coffee tariffs* - Sounder August 14, 2025, 9:00:47
Inflation in the wholesale level picking up steam, who’s getting fired today? - Mrap24 August 14, 2025, 8:23:17
- wholesale prices of vegetables rose almost 40% in July. oof. - assassin August 14, 2025, 12:28:02
  - that chart is wild. why do they swing so much even in 'normal' times?* - John Coctostan August 14, 2025, 14:41:48
    - yeah, that chart doesn't convince me of anything* - ghost_of_clt August 14, 2025, 15:56:21
  - Poor Scott Lincicome. I may disagree with him on a lot of things, but he is at least - gvibes August 14, 2025, 14:36:10
- just about time to find a new head of the BLS* - VIV August 14, 2025, 9:13:25
- ooo - ATL August 14, 2025, 8:59:50
  - Sir, this is a Wendy's and still Joe Biden's economy.* - Warrin'_Illini August 14, 2025, 9:30:44
    - TOB thinks you've lost your mind. You should post this thought there, so they know you're "sane."* - complainant August 14, 2025, 11:23:59
I’m an old fart who’s been driving in DC since the Marion Barry years - Tortillini August 13, 2025, 22:25:39
- I'm hoping the DC police does the right thing and - CoronaTheirAss August 14, 2025, 8:07:45
  - Well, he’s not black so low chance of that happening - ATL August 14, 2025, 9:08:22
- ooo - snipes824 August 14, 2025, 7:59:31
- Evergreen - Jersey August 14, 2025, 7:54:07
  - YOUTHS!!!!!!!!!* - VIV August 14, 2025, 9:15:05
    - Are you the CRIMINALS?!? From the STATISTICS?!?* - Sammich August 14, 2025, 9:40:32
    - "What is a Ute?"* - ATL August 14, 2025, 9:23:58
- Apparently he’s a huge yssup* - Mrap24 August 14, 2025, 7:18:46
- The lengths of the lies that they’ll tell is so very sad - TarheelIllini August 14, 2025, 7:01:07
- Ooo - Herman Blume August 13, 2025, 23:00:03
- Well Markwayne is notoriously chickenshit, so.... - KingTalkyTiki August 13, 2025, 22:41:14
  - The Napoleon Complex can only do so much.* - complainant August 14, 2025, 0:22:57
BLS Job Description: Need to have experience: A) Fudging numbers B) Storming Capitol - UofIL6 August 13, 2025, 20:47:28
Kids on the street, kids on the beat, BEAT KIDS! - OB25 August 13, 2025, 19:38:34
- "TEENS RUN WILD IN DC STREETS"* - VIV August 14, 2025, 9:16:35
Shocking/unsurprising: every single VA medical center in America is severely understaffed - complainant August 13, 2025, 17:37:34
- VA going full MAGA. - illinijohn August 13, 2025, 18:07:47
- It’s a damn disgrace. * - VIV August 13, 2025, 17:53:34
  - Elections have consequences. Film at 11.* - voiceofreason August 13, 2025, 23:11:35
  - It’s what republicans want. Metallica had it: Disposable Heroes.* - ATL August 13, 2025, 20:41:37
Fvck it. Let’s go with 300 basis point cuts* - timmer August 13, 2025, 16:11:28
- nm* - timmer August 13, 2025, 17:54:06
- Hell yes!* - Warrin'_Illini August 13, 2025, 16:54:24
  - Send it IN Jerome!* - Tortillini August 13, 2025, 19:29:46
  - But we added eleventy billion new jobs* - timmer August 13, 2025, 17:54:45
Stephen Miller, mayovore - Tortillini August 12, 2025, 18:41:51
- Does that make her an Elonvore?* - SurfTheBoneyard August 13, 2025, 18:48:40
My neighbor owns a local grocery chain. He says that they are eating all tariffs ATM, but... - Stu August 12, 2025, 16:29:44
- never go ATM* - Sammich August 12, 2025, 16:32:44
  - Those fees. It’s like getting tariffed twice!* - timmer August 12, 2025, 16:33:44
    - I don't think that's the acronym he had in mind* - Sounder August 12, 2025, 16:34:30
      - This place has gravitated more and more toward old man humor* - Stu August 12, 2025, 16:49:16
- they're eating the dogs, they're eating the tariffs* - Sounder August 12, 2025, 16:31:46
I love that Grok vacillates so wildly between Mechahitler and truth teller - ATL August 12, 2025, 15:36:25
kind of weird to hang an artwork of a Nazi battleship behind you - ECEIllinois August 12, 2025, 15:03:18
- It's the fucking Bismark. - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2025, 16:23:51
  - 3500 Royal Navy sailors lost too. What a Nazi asshole.* - SurfTheBoneyard August 13, 2025, 19:28:40
  - Never forget. * - doubledown August 12, 2025, 18:11:50
- "Antoni"? That sounds a bit...ethnic.* - Sammich August 12, 2025, 16:18:06
  - So does "Mussolini."* - complainant August 12, 2025, 18:15:05
    - Yeah, and look what happened to him as soon as he was no longer useful!* - Sammich August 12, 2025, 21:37:19
- It’s not that weird if you remember that he works at the Heritage Foundation. * - doubledown August 12, 2025, 15:06:06
15 year old special needs student put in cuffs at gunpoint for going to High School orientation - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2025, 13:18:14
- That sucks. Sounds like an honest mistake though * - jjlocke923 August 12, 2025, 14:05:21
  - Your parents choice to not abort you was an honest mistake* - Sounder August 12, 2025, 15:05:30
    - (nm) * - jjlocke923 August 12, 2025, 15:11:48
  - But they are intentionally negligent and don’t bother trying to avoid mistakes - DT August 12, 2025, 14:53:28
  - Do you ever gag - doubledown August 12, 2025, 14:49:36
  - Who can be expected to tell those people apart, right?* - ATL August 12, 2025, 14:19:20
Donnie gonna sue Powell? - Mrap24 August 12, 2025, 12:37:52
- it's the only tool in his belt* - Sammich August 12, 2025, 12:47:13
Federal agents sweeping through black neighborhoods asking for papers and - doubledown August 12, 2025, 11:57:31
- The fact that you aren’t a fan of him shows why Democrats will probably lose again* - JeffFrank August 12, 2025, 12:16:58
  - A fan of who? * - haighter August 12, 2025, 12:20:01
    - That was supposed to be in response to Turki on Newsom* - JeffFrank August 12, 2025, 13:17:25
    - David Duke* - Herman Blume August 12, 2025, 12:44:08
      - or this guy - ATL August 12, 2025, 12:54:18
        
        Does this guy have thoughts on Ambient World Disorder...and who might be the cause of that?* - LWillhite August 12, 2025, 13:14:50
        
        Expressing full throated support for broken windows policing in 2025 is quite a choice. - doubledown August 12, 2025, 13:13:38
        
        Bring back community policing. Baltimore has its lowest homicide rate in 50 years thanks to it. - ATL August 12, 2025, 13:18:29
        
        Why can't we have both? - complainant August 12, 2025, 17:01:06
        
        "The people who cross the street to avoid black men are right, actually. - Sammich August 12, 2025, 13:07:51
- all so these seissup can feel safe - ATL August 12, 2025, 12:01:50
how come no well-known artists are making protest music right now? - Sammich August 12, 2025, 11:56:47
- Been big on Jesse Welles lately. - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2025, 13:15:17
- My buddy Mike is doing it with Run the Jewels* - longsnapper August 12, 2025, 12:40:27
- Tyler Childers kinda is. Jason Isbell is too busy getting divorced but did during the first Trump - ATL August 12, 2025, 12:19:14
No fan of Gavin Newsom... - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2025, 11:17:59
- We know why you aren’t a fan* - JeffFrank August 12, 2025, 13:21:29
- It's really fantastic* - UofIL6 August 12, 2025, 11:38:37
  - Hope they keep it up... - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2025, 13:33:53
- He's doing the Lord's work right now* - Sounder August 12, 2025, 11:26:48
Don’t like the facts, just stop reporting them - Mrap24 August 12, 2025, 11:17:55
- Quarterly makes sense. The revisions have been ridiculous* - JeffFrank August 12, 2025, 12:17:48
- can't find the tweet, but saw someone say he looks like a shitty magician at a kids bday party - John Coctostan August 12, 2025, 11:41:34
  - EJ the Magnificent* - ECEIllinois August 12, 2025, 15:36:06
- they don't gotta cook the books, they just remove 'em* - Sammich August 12, 2025, 11:35:50
- I can't wait for the next report - Sounder August 12, 2025, 11:27:51
  - But also the economy is bad and the Fed needs to cut rates* - gvibes August 12, 2025, 11:39:04
    - What makes you say that? - ghost_of_clt August 12, 2025, 12:20:28
      - gvibes is referring to Trump's vacillation/flip-flopping/ignorance - Sammich August 12, 2025, 12:50:02
        
        oh, yeah, I missed the Trump font * - ghost_of_clt August 12, 2025, 14:56:26
      - Except if you’re looking for work - TarheelIllini August 12, 2025, 12:40:12
  - It will be the biggest joke in the history of jokes* - Mrap24 August 12, 2025, 11:36:43
  - Plus revisions to previous month(s)* - timmer August 12, 2025, 11:35:59
- ...but of course. - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2025, 11:19:39
That is some screen name - UofIL6 August 12, 2025, 11:08:59
Grok suspended for calling Gaza a genocide. - complainant August 11, 2025, 23:35:30
DC folks, do you feel safer now?* - PapaDels August 11, 2025, 20:25:46
- I’d feel a lot safer if the feds unleashed Manimal - Tortillini August 11, 2025, 22:39:58
- The gentrification of NE should be near completion, I would think.* - complainant August 11, 2025, 21:26:14
- I drove around NW Saturday evening. - timmer August 11, 2025, 20:47:55
  - Thank goodness the national guard is there for you now * - PapaDels August 11, 2025, 20:57:00
    - Naturally, violent crime will now rise because of this* - timmer August 11, 2025, 21:20:44
New head of BLS is an NIU grad (hey timmer)* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2025, 20:04:03
- Apparently he has gotten dunked constantly on twitter for being wrong about everything* - gvibes August 12, 2025, 8:49:48
- The August jobs reports is going to be the biggest joke of all jokes - Mrap24 August 11, 2025, 22:11:28
  - Good jobs report bad for mortgage rates* - JeffFrank August 11, 2025, 23:50:50
  - A billion jobs created! * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 23:00:50
- An economist I know from my think tank days holds him in high regard. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 20:22:32
  - That’s about right for someone from NIU* - timmer August 11, 2025, 20:51:35
- Why doesn’t he list his bachelor degree on LinkedIn? - timmer August 11, 2025, 20:13:06
  - Only wanted to list the most prestigious institutions he attended probably* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2025, 20:16:44
Caption Fun - ATL August 11, 2025, 19:50:47
- Bondi cuts the cheese.* - complainant August 11, 2025, 22:08:02
- And now, Dead Inside!* - PapaDels August 11, 2025, 20:08:02
- Number 1, could you sing the opening to, “I Want It That Way”?* - timmer August 11, 2025, 19:59:40
In the latest episode of weird things that the right wing obsesses about - Sounder August 11, 2025, 17:15:50
It's amazing to see a us potus who isn't even attempting to do a good job. It's 100% grievance, - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 16:39:23
- I have to say, it's been quite a bit worse than my very low expectations - Sounder August 11, 2025, 17:08:10
  - Same—I was a scare-mongerer and it’s been a lot worse than I thought it would be.* - DT August 11, 2025, 19:04:19
    - He just does whatever the fuck he wants, and there's no rational adults - Sounder August 11, 2025, 19:13:06
      - I can’t believe people like us are surprised - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:24:12
        
        A lot of the attacks on rights and erosion of democracy I expected - DT August 11, 2025, 19:35:44
        
        I'm not necessarily "surprised" - Sounder August 11, 2025, 19:27:07
        
        Everyone else expected pretty much exactly this. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:29:24
        
        Knew from the jump it was going to be so much worse. - KingTalkyTiki August 11, 2025, 21:45:58
        
        Throwsize! * - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 22:14:36
        
        I think all of that was expected - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:29:22
        
        he is going to do so much long term, possibly even permanent damage - Sounder August 12, 2025, 10:44:52
        
        It’s only gonna get worse until either his heart gives out or he tries to take Stalingrad. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:31:02
        
        Not much will change if Trump dies. The Project 2025 guys are doing most of the damage. Maybe JD - Orangeillini August 12, 2025, 8:26:27
        
        I don’t think the coalition holds together if Trump dies - DT August 12, 2025, 8:59:15
        
        Trump is MAGA, MAGA is Trump - Sounder August 12, 2025, 12:33:49
- Elites vs. everyone else = revolution bro* - Jackie August 11, 2025, 16:58:27
  - We're too spread out and disorganized. Culture war has won, people who are having - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 17:11:18
    - I understand the despondency, but there are many more of us than there are of them - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:27:34
      - Support for the Nazis in Germany is estimated to have been as low as 35%. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:41:06
        
        And most Nazis were still Nazis in 1946 and 1950 and 1955. They just didn’t talk about it. - DT August 11, 2025, 19:44:12
        
        The only thing that will change their mind is the eventual loss of blood pressure resulting from - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:52:38
    - OOO - Sounder August 11, 2025, 17:11:57
To no one’s surprise, looks like they’re coming for same sex marriage next. - Toonces August 11, 2025, 15:30:07
- zero chance they actually take the case* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2025, 16:56:07
- Noo! Really? - KingTalkyTiki August 11, 2025, 16:43:05
  - Who is “they”? - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 17:53:07
    - Actual Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for one* - Jackie August 11, 2025, 18:47:07
      - It was pretty next level when he listed a bunch of laws he'd like to overturn - Sounder August 11, 2025, 19:00:06
      - And……? - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 18:58:02
        
        And Thomas wrote a separate concurrence specifically saying otherwise - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:13:37
        
        Thanks for schooling his deeply unserious and insincere ass on my behalf Jackie. - KingTalkyTiki August 11, 2025, 21:41:23
        
        Maybe you should take a shot at it. Who is “they”? * - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 21:45:55
        
        Yeah but he’s a lying sack of shit. * - ATL August 11, 2025, 19:05:54
        
        If I had a nickel for every time Alito was intellectually honest rather than a partisan hack… - DT August 11, 2025, 19:16:26
        
        Not in this economy!* - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:24:41
- I think this is part of the lawsuit by the Kentucky county clerk that refused a same-sex marriage - ghost_of_clt August 11, 2025, 16:21:04
  - now there's someone who should be sent to South Sudan* - assassin August 11, 2025, 16:24:42
- Both members of "Gays for Trump" are probably having a bad day.* - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 15:45:31
  - Gay Republicans crack me up - Sounder August 11, 2025, 15:48:52
    - And you're all out of bubble gum. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 15:59:38
    - new signature unlocked* - VIV August 11, 2025, 15:55:00
- I can't imagine they're going to allow bureaucrats to determine on their own which laws to follow. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 15:45:30
- feel like Roberts and ACB, and maybe Kavanaugh, wouldn't be on board for that. perhaps I'm naive* - cpsteine August 11, 2025, 15:40:20
90 day China tariff extension. TACO - Mrap24 August 11, 2025, 14:13:32
Aren’t all trumpers afraid of going to cities? Not sure Donny thought this through.* - Toonces August 11, 2025, 12:31:11
Local pedophile confuses Russia with Alaska - ATL August 11, 2025, 11:55:26
- Putin thinks it's Russia, he's just following suit* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:01:48
Mentally ill man has thoughts on things that didn’t happen - assassin August 11, 2025, 11:48:10
- Charlie Cale where art thou* - Sammich August 11, 2025, 12:45:42
- Is he conflating the national guard/ICE stuff with the wildfires?* - ATL August 11, 2025, 11:54:15
  - Not really, I think his lizard stream of consciousness brain just combined the two - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:02:55
    - What do you think conflate means?* - ATL August 11, 2025, 12:05:46
      - LOL, I thought it meant mixing up the two - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:20:09
        
        we got double digit conflation * - memyselfandillini August 11, 2025, 16:16:16
- "let the water come down"* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 11:51:02
- If Trump has dementia, how would we know?* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 11:49:52
WSJ: "President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever - ATL August 11, 2025, 9:00:08
- The CCP isn’t really a good comparison - DT August 11, 2025, 9:16:08
- Party of limited government* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 9:03:31
  - It’s no longer that - TarheelIllini August 11, 2025, 12:11:53
  - That's been mostly bullshit since at least the 60s. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 9:05:46
    - never let the truth get in the way of a good story* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:03:13
Between today’s federalized police state - Sounder August 11, 2025, 8:54:10
- The GOP is out of new ideas - Sounder August 11, 2025, 9:00:27
  - Dots - TarheelIllini August 11, 2025, 9:11:07
  - And the dumb people will fall for it. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 9:02:25
Nancy was willing to do whatever it took to stop Joe Biden from becoming potus.* - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 8:50:03
- Trump’s Pelosi truth was pretty messed up - Sounder August 11, 2025, 8:58:24
  - Trump is against the ban on insider trading, so... * - ghost_of_clt August 11, 2025, 9:23:57
    - there must be an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind - Sammich August 11, 2025, 9:27:03

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