I'm linking to that to give you a place to talk about it. I don't see the need to talk right now, but the media are doing Trump's bidding, making something that works well for his political purposes the center of attention all day today. I'll pay attention when he makes the announcement.
Such theater! But that's what Trump does. He's the showman, and the haters can't help amplifying him and making the show ever bigger.
And they know they're doing that. They just have to do it anyway, because it works for them too.
Which is what makes Trump's showmanship particularly great. And he frequently brags about this: The media are doing well for themselves with their anti-Trumpism.
It's the best kind of deal, when self-interest for everyone is mutually reinforcing and everyone, even natural antagonists, end up working earnestly and diligently in the same direction.
Such theater! But that's what Trump does. He's the showman, and the haters can't help amplifying him and making the show ever bigger.
And they know they're doing that. They just have to do it anyway, because it works for them too.
Which is what makes Trump's showmanship particularly great. And he frequently brags about this: The media are doing well for themselves with their anti-Trumpism.
It's the best kind of deal, when self-interest for everyone is mutually reinforcing and everyone, even natural antagonists, end up working earnestly and diligently in the same direction.
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“It'll be interesting to find out who won't be able to dine out undisturbed for the foreseeable future.”
Why limit it to the nominee?
Why not anyone on the shortlist?
Why not anyone on any potential list, for that matter?
“You woulda taken the job if’n it’d been offered to ya, so yer jest as guilty as the rest of ‘em.”
“You woulda taken the job if’n it’d been offered to ya, so yer jest as guilty as the rest of ‘em.”
Impossible to read this without saying it out loud. I'm using my most menacing Festus Haggin voice. Chilling.
Oh boy! 25 more years of judicially enforced old-timey 1950s (if not 1880s) Americana and the American neck being stomped by the corporate boot. Can't wait.
What makes a Justice into a great Justice? It’s not weaving legal fictions to please the Harvard snobs and get Congress out of their duties.
Like all great Judges it is the courage to support the truth. And the source of that is a sincere Christian faith.
PPPT: "Oh boy! 25 more years of judicially enforced old-timey 1950s (if not 1880s) Americana and the American neck being stomped by the corporate boot. Can't wait"
You'll have to...since none of your addled delusions really ever come to pass.
I especially liked how Trump was sure to destroy the economy!
Some guys just can't catch a break.
Hang in there tiger.
I especially liked how Trump was sure to destroy the economy!
He's still coasting off the juiced up tax cuts and economic foundations of the same global economy that has also been doing well and that Obama had built, but give him some time. It only took his Republican predecessor 8 years to do it. Republicans are always amazed at how long it takes them to wreck the ship of state. Like a heroin addict, they don't seem to understand how low the crash goes after getting by for some time off of the initial highs.
Republicans really do govern and think like heroin addicts, and crack whores. They're on cocaine! They're untouchable! Invincible! Don't you lecture them, Mr. Economist, Scientist or Medical Doctor! The patient knows his own drug the best!
I've been reading up-
No matter who Trump chooses, back alley, rusty coat hanger abortions are here to stay.
Tattooed obese lesbians with 40 lbs. of steel hanging out of their face seem to be hardest hit.
I wish them well in their endeavor to find the America they love.
"Oh boy! 25 more years of judicially enforced old-timey 1950s (if not 1880s) Americana and the American neck being stomped by the corporate boot. Can't wait"
You'll have to...since none of your addled delusions really ever come to pass.
Are you saying you don't want to give corporations more power over the American worker and consumer?
What kind of pretend pseudo-conservative capitalist corporatist are you anyway?
Since policy eludes you, let me know about what Ajit Pai's trashing of net neutrality is designed to do... aside from giving the useless telecoms more power that they don't need over everyone's internet use. This is a policy opposed by the vast majority of the public, and any thinking person. Of course, if you actually cared what Americans think you wouldn't be a faithfully blind Trump hanger-on.
PPPT: "He's still coasting off the juiced up tax cuts and economic foundations of the same global economy that has also been doing well and that Obama had built,..."
LOL
Now the insane lefties are giving obama credit for the global economy!!
No matter how over the top the lunatic left can be in praising obama and the rest of their lords and masters, there really is no limit to how much more over the top they can be when giving praise to their earthbound messiahs.
Simply amazing.
How is it even possible that obama didn't get an additional Nobel or two for economics, one wonders!
Of course, PPPT is the same guy who asserted forcefully that nice homes in the midwest were partially responsible for human feces on San Francisco streets, so maybe we shouldn't take his ravings too seriously.
I suppose if I had seven kids I'd want to get out of the house, too!
Have fun at your Supreme Court Selection Party tonight PPPT!
“It'll be interesting to find out who won't be able to dine out undisturbed for the foreseeable future.”
Apparently it's not just politicians and their families anymore.
Recently, the family of a sick child tweeted out a Thank You to Eric Trump for a large donation to St. Jude's. Cue the wave of hate...
"we won't have to listen to "Slow Joe" Biden" But we will have to listen to my senior
senator the unctuous toad Durbin...
I have to say, I have personally enjoyed the degree to which Dick Durbin, the guy LLR Chuck claims is so very very very competent and effective, has embarrassed himself today. Even more than usual!
#SoMuchWinning
"Recently, the family of a sick child tweeted out a Thank You to Eric Trump for a large donation to St. Jude's. Cue the wave of hate..."
Attacking children is sort of a thing on the left. I think it is part and parcel of being a leftist along with Online Gynecology Expertise.
Dan Bongino
Verified account @dbongino
Every liberal’s twitter account “drafts” folder right now:
“Supreme Court nominee ________
doesn’t like women, minorities, immigrants, LGBT Americans, or anyone else. Go harass some Republicans to convince them to drop their support for ________.”
How is it even possible that obama didn't get an additional Nobel or two for economics, one wonders!
He simply did the same thing that's worked for mainstream Keyenesian economic advisors ever since ending the same Great Depression that your party gave us. Obviously, it worked - as it always does. The question is why, in good economic times, Trump wants to further indebt you and all the actual Americans to the Chinese by a trillion $ more each year?
Now the insane lefties are giving obama credit for the global economy!!
Never realized Obama built a wall around the American economy and the wonderful recovery that he presided over and that Trump is simply coasting off of. (While handing away goodies to the "winners" he chose in the marketplace - and plenty of "losers"... i.e. coal, the armed forces, etc. so that he can give the Chinese $1 trillion more each year).
Have fun at your Supreme Court Selection Party tonight PPPT!
Since I am not a conservative phony, I actually have a life and better things to do with it tonight, as much as that annoys the typical conservative phony loser like you. Oh, if only you could return us to 1950s and 1880s social norms. Maybe put that one on your Christmas wish list. Make everyone live like they did 70 to 140 years ago. Wouldn't it be wonderful? We could all be as boring and uptight and out of date and regressive and paranoid as you.
It's taking motormouth Drago longer to unleash the wrath of his forked tongue on me than usual.
Perhaps he is busily deploying it in the service of licking someone's boot.
Another loser in the marketplace that Trump tried to rescue: Baby formula manufacturers. Apparently it offended him that healthy breastfeeding was being promoted at the WHO so he did his best to wreck their resolution and remind the world that although filthy greedy old toupee-wearing bald men, cannot breast feed, but they sure can take your money with their inferior formula and take that momma's breast right out of your baby's mouth!
Trump feeds the world lies, greed and male inferiority complex but the world didn't buy it. Russia stepped in and put an end to this latest dick-headed move of his.
Looks like someone has lost his p****-hat.
I think you can order another one.
Trump is anti-titty. At least when it comes to titties that produce milk. His old man Vlad Putin's bare-chested titties are fine for Don to suck off of, though.
..and another thread ruined. Which of course is the point.....
Awww poor Gathrie.
No, your mind was already ruined. I just reminded you of it.
What's Trump got against the titties, Gahrie? Do you hate titties, too?
Is it a conservative white male thing?
Trump totally hates titties.
He grew up with a silver nipple in his mouth.
I see the human scroll bar is back.
I see chuck is getting national recognition.
In the media world, they dominate everything. I mean, you look at newspapers that don't have a single columnist to represent the average Republican voter, even though the average Republican voter elected the president who is in charge of a lot of stuff."
"These people get a lot of prominence for a pretty minority opinion and they seem to be praised by people in the media," Hemingway concluded.
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Every blog needs a permanent human scrollbar.
Jon Ericson - the only individual known to mankind who is capable of bragging at length about the lengths he needs to go to to censor what he can read.
"Since I am not a conservative phony, I actually have a life and better things to do with it tonight,"
Since I am not a lunatic lefty, I have a full and happy life.
I worked hard, went to college and graduate school, became a professional, was careful with my money, and now I am retired and reasonably well off. America is amazing. I came from dire circumstances and became a success. I love America!
As my Scottish forebears (related to William Wallace and from the Stewart clan) might have cried out .... FREEEEEEDOM!
Give me a SCOTUS judge who values individual freedom above all else. The rest is bullshit!
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said late Monday that he had spoken with Trump and did not think Barrett was the choice. Indeed, she was seen still at her home in Indiana.
FWIW - Ben Shapiro saying it is Kavanaugh.
Jon,
You're missing some fine entertainment.
Just raise the plexi and enjoy.
Words never spoken in the English language:
"'Jon Ericson' won't read what I've written. How will I go on? Life will just never be the same."
"I might as well forget my NYT book review."
Francisco D Are you enjoying the monsoon ?
I saw somewhere (maybe ABC) saying Kavanaugh was taken from the US Courthouse in a secret service caravan.
Maybe that's true maybe not. Maybe it's just Trump trolling the press. We'll know soon enough.
I trust Trump so I'll be happy with his choice.
Kethledge confirmed at home.
Since I am not a lunatic lefty, I have a full and happy life.
I worked hard, went to college and graduate school, became a professional, was careful with my money, and now I am retired and reasonably well off. America is amazing. I came from dire circumstances and became a success. I love America!
As my Scottish forebears (related to William Wallace and from the Stewart clan) might have cried out .... FREEEEEEDOM!
Give me a SCOTUS judge who values individual freedom above all else. The rest is bullshit!
I've read your comments. Your life is far from "full and happy." "Full and happy" people don't aspire to Hannibal Lecter simulations.
The SCOTUS does not value "individual freedom." They think that corporations should have more power over ordinary Americans. If you think that telecoms should be given more power over what you can read, say and download/upload online, you are not someone who "values individual freedom."
No, you just like to cry out. About what? You're not sure. As long as it accrues to the bidding of someone way richer than you. That's whose power you value - it has nothing to do with your "freedom."
Francisco D values his freedom to lick the corporate boot.
"Oh boy! 25 more years of judicially enforced old-timey 1950s (if not 1880s) Americana and the American neck being stomped by the corporate boot. Can't wait"
40.
Surely, Althouse will start a new thread.
Surely this knat will be barred.
Bill, Republic of Texas: "I saw somewhere (maybe ABC) saying Kavanaugh was taken from the US Courthouse in a secret service caravan"
Very wise.
There's quite a few Bernie Bro's with weapons who would like to keep the SC in lefty hands, if you know what I mean.
Regardless of which candidate is selected, the Secret Service is going to have to be on high alert for the inevitable "They Go Low We Go High" lefty violence.
The question is not who Trump nominates to the Supreme Court.
The question is whose family will no longer be allowed to eat in public.
Darn, I'm soon about to board a plane, will miss the announcement. I was hoping it would leak by now. However, when LeBron moved to Miami 9 years ago - that didn't leak either.
Where are the freaking leakers when you really need them?
Guildofcannonballs said...
Does any member of the senate have the balls and courage to pull a Ted Kennedy and smear/besmirch the character of the nominee, then insult said nominee in the ultimate form by saying "nothing personal," like that fat ugly cunt Kennedy did to Judge Bork?
If not, shouldn't the Leftists get the win via passionate emotions? They have proven at least they give a shit, whereas righties don't, hence deserving their perpetual acceptance of continual loss. At least the sell-outs got paid, unlike the stupid/loser voters of the GOP.
The fact asshole Kennedy was projecting means nothing to law professors, who actually do believe America is so racist and evil that only racist evil legislated and confirmed by courts can atone. They believe this because they know they and their colleagues are indeed the racist anti-Americans they falsely denounce, every single chance they can make to do so.
3/16/16, 10:35 AM
Tonight on Nightline, @TerryMoran reports on the controversial Supreme Court Justice pick and the possible implications for the country.
-4:23 PM - 9 Jul 2018
"controversial"
How will the media work in a "Republican's pounce" theme?
Obama, noted for his modesty ( only two autobiographies before he was 50) was kind and crafty enough to time his meteoric stock market rise, spike in GDP growth, record low unemployment rates for black and Hispanic workers until the very day after Trump was elected. Amazing man, incredible.
Wow, great find Browndog. Pre-controversial. Hilarious.
"Francisco D Are you enjoying the monsoon ?"
Last night was amazing. The Catalina Foothills are to the east (front of the house) and we sat in the outdoor foyer and watched the storms over the mountains. The Tortolitas are in the west (I think) and we have 16" glass doors there. There is always something to see, even better with the bird feeders up.
It sure beats Chicago. I should have left the Midwest a long time ago.
KAVANAUGH.
The president and his fish mouth do not look well. Eck.
Uh oh. Kavanaugh has 2 daughters.
No more trips to the grocery store or restaurants for them.
Not to mention the rape "jokes" the lefty comedians will be launching.
I'll bet Biden is really regretting not running for President now, what with those young girls on stage just waiting for a shoulder rub from creepy "Uncle Joe".
Hey where did the plane with Amy Coney Barrett and her family go?
World Ends. Women and LGBT Community Hardest Hit.
I believe I will now light up a Bolivar Belicoso Fino. Cuban. A strong and tasty smoke to celebrate a good choice. He will be good for forty years or more. The lefties are sorting out their talking points for distribution, having had one for each prospect. We will hear them within the hour.
Hey where did the plane with Amy Coney Barrett and her family go?
Disneyland
I guess I was wrong about Joan Larsen. Ah, well.
Glenn Reynolds put it right: “With a narrow majority, Trump goes for a safe pick. Of course, he’ll still be Hitler. Because whoever the nominee was, he or she was going to be Hitler.”
Drago said...
I have to say, I have personally enjoyed the degree to which Dick Durbin, the guy LLR Chuck claims is so very very very competent and effective, has embarrassed himself today. Even more than usual!
I never said that about Durbin, you lying sack of shit.
What I said about Durbin is that I never aligned with him on much of anything. Until Trump denied having uttered the phrase "shithole countries." And on that, Trump's credibility is even less than Durbin's. Dick Durbin's credibility is a low bar. A low bar that Trump can't even clear.
it's all over. the handmaid's tale is real!
Should be a very special edition of Hannity.
Hannity, who was pushing hard for Barrett this weekend. But of course Hannity knows who the boss is.
when does the fascism begin? I made popcorn.
Dickin'Bimbos@Home said... "it's all over. the handmaid's tale is real!"
Yes, realer than with Gorsuch. Realer than with . . . well, the last time Trump hiccupped.
I'm watching MSNBC to see if Brett Kavanaugh gets Rachel Maddow's support. SUSPENSEFUL!
--Ann Coulter
WE wanted a girl judge for the simple fact that it would make the collective rage-filled left rage over a girl judge. oh well.
I'll take a constitutionalist of any gender.
Hitler! He nominated Hilter!
*just trying to get a head start on the talking points.
Darrell said...
I'm watching MSNBC to see if Brett Kavanaugh gets Rachel Maddow's support. SUSPENSEFUL!
--Ann Coulter
btw; Ann Coulter came out emphatically in favor of Kavanaugh before the 4th of July, and she caught hell for it from her Trumpist fans who for whatever reason had latched onto the idea of nominating Amy Coney Barrett.
Well, now that I know my life is either destroyed, or unaffected, I'm going to watch baseball.
Tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court!
--President Donald Trump
Good luck red state Dems voting against this guy. Actually, I think the correct words are good bye.
Even dumb lefties know that Hitler cannot nominate Hitler to the Supreme Court. Try Roland Freisler. That's it. He is fucking Roland Freisler. Actually.
“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
― Tom Wolfe
Until now, Tom. (/lib)
It sure beats Chicago. I should have left the Midwest a long time ago.
Gorgeous and cool tonight. The temp on my patio thermometer dropped 20 degrees when the rain hit.
Lots of lightning strikes last night behind us. We are on the Tucson side of the mountains.
It's a strange thing, but most of us here will be dead and this Justice will still be deciding laws for our progeney.
I doubt leftists know who Roland Freisler is.
“The president and his fish mouth do not look well.”
Yes, he looked off tonight, odd.
Piss Ant- The Toothless Revolutionary said...
I take the red pill every day on gender and identity politics. It didn't take me long into college and then the work world to realize that American women hate their bodies and will take that out on American men ..
The only women I date are either not from America or are closet freaks - (the good kind). But then sometimes even the freaks aren't also open about all the other things. But not hating yourself sexually is a good start.
HaHAHA,, foriegn Freaks, Hahahaha Thai "girls" ?
Piss Any-Ritmo Brasileiro said...
It's good to know that the stupidest threads are just ripe for the threadjacking. I'll be sure to leave a trail of turds on every one of the brain droppings here that suit my fancy. 3/-/2013
LOL Still crazy, after all these years.
I'm sure it is a good list; and part of what made it a good list was the representation of women and minorities on it because that is what we all have to do these days. I know that some of the listed names were no serious, but I don't think I had any objection to any of them "on conservative principles."
Thanks for the reply Chuck. Now that Trump has made his choice, do you have any objections?
Actually Gunther grass came up with that line, I thought it was Jean Jacques revel
Thanks for the reply Chuck. Now that Trump has made his choice, do you have any objections?
On the new thread he is shitting all over Trump....
It's neverending, it's only institution that.
Well, the only great Justice, of all time, will be around.
Can you see?
This is not good for Jews.
I give "full throttle" permission to consider this anti-.
You heard it hear middle, like I told you you would here.
cubanbob said...
I'm sure it is a good list; and part of what made it a good list was the representation of women and minorities on it because that is what we all have to do these days. I know that some of the listed names were no serious, but I don't think I had any objection to any of them "on conservative principles."
Thanks for the reply Chuck. Now that Trump has made his choice, do you have any objections?
Brett Kavanaugh was my A-Number-One choice from about 30 seconds after the news broke that Kennedy had retired.
Brett Kavanaugh was my A-Number-One choice from about 30 seconds after the news broke that Kennedy had retired.
But you still found a way to shit all over Trump for picking him anyways.....
LLR Chuck: "Brett Kavanaugh was my A-Number-One choice from about 30 seconds after the news broke that Kennedy had retired"
Literally absolutely no one cared.
Gahrie: "On the new thread he is shitting all over Trump..."
Of course Chuck is.
Chuck can never deviate too far from the lefty position on any issue.
Every now and then LLR Chuck will play conservative on issues that have already been lost for the dems, but he will always try to salvage something for his lefty operational allies.
Not lost but found in thought.
Fair enough.
Justice.
I had thought, "oh hey, 70,000,000 o' us takin' o'er.
Guess I was wrong.
@Drago said...
I noticed that "The Poor Man's LLR Chuck" gadfly popped in to provide additional incoherent and zero logic posts.
So suddenly your boring insults are interesting and coherent? Making up Chuck quotations followed by "LOL" is not coherent but might possibly be described as a mindless adventure into the existentialism of Trumplessness. Someone has to do the lying for our despot when his mind wanders as it did at the SCOTUS announcement. He was obviously up past his bedtime.
But for my "hater" allies enlightened about Trump, which obviously doesn't include our hostess, Trumplessness would be a dream come true.
The Poor Man's LLR Chuck: "Making up Chuck quotations...."
LOL
Post one made up quote.
Just one will do.
We'll wait while you realize your incoherent and logic-free error.
Why would you engage with someone who is using an annoying and useless pest as its avatar?
FullMoon said -
"My wife rolls her eyes at me. I'm boring, shallow, stupid and pretty repressed!" (But apparently still sex-obsessed)
Don't worry, Full Moon. Just because your wife won't have sex with you doesn't mean it's your fault.
LOL!!!
Gahrie said...
Why would you engage with someone who is using an annoying and useless pest as its avatar?
7/9/18, 10:39 PM
Call me a boor, but how is one supposed to recognize these busts as the person they depict? It's not like there are file photos of Homer or Aristotle to compare them to.
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